Re: [Win98SE] Notepad display corrupted when scrolling
Posted on 2024-08-12, 11:15
Hah, I had this problem too, changing to 24bit colour mode fixed it. Must be a driver or hardware bug in the 3dfx banshee.
Re: Old HDD not working
Posted on 2024-06-04, 13:48
I should make sure my ST-157A still runs. You probably need to manually manipulate the stepper back and forth a bit. It is probably just stuck due to disuse. Chips might be getting hot trying to feed enough current into the stepper motor to get it to shift. If you are brave, take the circuit board …
Re: Problems with installing Windows 98 on motherboard with chipset via
Posted on 2024-06-04, 13:42
I run a sata SSD and it's fine? I don't get what the issue is with that. Optical drive I can see there being issues. I run a sata SSD via an IDE to SATA (reversed) and no issues there either. I'm not going to say it is impossible to run windows 98 with a SATA SSD or Hard drive ... because you can …
Re: Problems with installing Windows 98 on motherboard with chipset via
Posted on 2024-06-03, 11:08
Some general advice: Use an IDE hard drive / CD drive, not SATA. Your RAM should not exceed 1 GB. Better don't install chipset drivers! Unless you really need it (only if the device has a yellow exclamation mark in the Device Manager). Actually, windows 98 starts having problems with more than …
Re: Have you opened your SC-55 to check the battery inside?
Posted on 2024-05-18, 14:01
It seems prudent for all midi modules to fetch out and replace or remove the original battery. Grabbed a Yamaha MU80 recently off ebay. It also had a coin cell battery. Seller attempted to replace soldering in battery with another, trying to solder a wire to the top of it. As can be expected, it …
Re: About 720K 3.5" drives for PC
Posted on 2023-11-05, 02:57
For 3.5inch floppy drives, typically you can just plug a 1.44meg drive into an XT class computer (or any other computer with only a DD controller) and it will work perfectly as a 720kb drive. So it is kinda redundant to go out and buy a 720kb DD drive just for this purpose. 3.5inch DD floppies have …
Re: Retro confessions. What are yours?
Posted on 2022-12-24, 23:45
I also know that I can just send it back but it's a PITA and there are often no immediate replacements available. I'm winning the bid, get the item and feel like a kid with a new toy then BAM! It's not working, no life, it's shit no matter how much hardware or time I throw at it so I have to …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2022-08-11, 12:59
DerBaum wrote on 2022-08-11, 12:41: I have heard that some people are really triggered from storing cards without antistatic bags. So i bought even smaller bins and put even more cards inside. 😏 Yeah, but everyone has a huge stack of Live! cards ..... Do that with a huge stack of voodoo 1 cards and …
Re: What video card for an authentic 2009/2010 system?
Posted on 2022-06-22, 15:01
ildonaldo wrote on 2022-06-22, 13:32: I've just got the GTX 460 Hawk but I suspect it is a 1st gen ., if you know what I mean ... - any hint how to update the bios and where to get the "latest" bios for this card. Just curious, what is wrong that it actually needs a BIOS update.
Re: Reasons to hate modern games
Posted on 2022-06-21, 14:38
I don't have much energy today but I feel like contributing. I'm going to mention some things I don't like in a short style, hopefully it will contain enough for people to recognize what I'm saying. Open World Design: Or as I like to call it, lazy game design. To me video games are a series of …
Re: Reasons to hate modern games
Posted on 2022-06-19, 11:53
There are many amazing modern games. But they are not made by many of the big names anymore. If you are only allowed to play games released by EA, Blizard/Activision or the handful of other major scummy publishers ... then yes, your selection is limited. However, there are more games than just that …
Re: What video card for an authentic 2009/2010 system?
Posted on 2022-06-16, 13:14
Awww, I have a real soft spot for the HD 5850, as I owned one myself back in the day and was quite impressed with it. I even found one and have put it into my XP retro rig, after redoing the thermal paste. It also taught me to be much more careful repasting GPUs ... as the Artic Silver 5 I was using …
Re: Yet another 286 build.
Posted on 2022-06-16, 13:02
Edit: You may think that 4MB were luxury for a 286.. I can understand that. However, it's no luxury for Windows 3.1x. With just a meager Megabyte, Windows will run out of memory quickly. You can barely do anything with that. I know, because I tried. Running Visual Basic or any other development …
Re: Yet another 286 build.
Posted on 2022-06-16, 13:00
- By the way, perhaps I was a bit to harsh in that old thread. My apologies for that. 😔 And I was definitely being too old and grumpity. Hence for my edit to add humor! It just seemed back in the actual day, things like EMS, UMB and shadow memory didn't actually exist for us until the 386 came out …
Re: Yet another 286 build.
Posted on 2022-06-16, 12:12
Since when has UMBs been a thing for 8088/286's? Never saw anything like that back in the old days when these machines were current. 4meg of ram was a luxury for a 286 machine (1meg was more common) and shadow memory also didn't really become a thing until 386s. You would be lucky to have a MFM hard …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2022-06-12, 15:47
Nice !! I have only one Slot A board, they are fun to play with :) Yep, PD2JK has it easy though, I had replace most 0f the PCI slots in my Asus Slot A board! Well considering the age caps are always possible but PCI slots ? Must have had some bad corrosion or damage. My K7M has worked flawless w/o …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2022-06-12, 15:46
I vote Geforce 4 MX-SE version. There are some truely inspiringly slow Geforce 4 MX cards with the SE naming!
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2022-06-11, 23:40
Crappy seller pic, but I spotted some leaking caps, so it will need some work. Weak spot for Slot A stuff ... EPoX EP-7KXA rev 0.4 with an Athlon 600 and some memory. Nice !! I have only one Slot A board, they are fun to play with :) Yep, PD2JK has it easy though, I had replace most 0f the PCI …
Re: Playing ON vs WITH retro hardware (and hardware preservation)
Posted on 2022-06-07, 22:25
So over the past year I had a few video cards die (all in separate machines... so it's not like a single bad power supply killed them). My childhood Radeon 9700 started artifacting (I understand this is common). The Radeon 9800 Pro I replaced it with then started crashing/artifacting a few months …
Re: Ultimate* Pentium 4 build (* within reason)
Posted on 2022-06-05, 04:21
Can you explain more about why this is the case with Windows XP? I’ve never heard this about XP and SSD’s previously. Does the same apply to Windows 98 on an SSD? SSDs have internal write blocks of 4kb. And windows XP generally read/writes in blocks of at least 4kb. If the partition on your SSD is …
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