Re: Gigabyte GA-Z77M-D3H 1.1, Intel Core i7 3770K, MSI GeForce 960

Posted on 2020-02-15, 20:21

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There is one problem to use Ivy as retro PC. Such PC should work for longer than common. While those CPU have thermopaste under the cover (unlike 2xxx) which dry out, and the temperature should rise in performance tasks as games. Ivy is not significantly better in the performance, so 2600/2600k …

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Re: Gigabyte GA-Z77M-D3H 1.1, Intel Core i7 3770K, MSI GeForce 960

Posted on 2020-02-11, 22:04

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I remember having one of these cards back in the day! It was very reliable and worked quite well under Linux and XP. Must have lost it somewhere unfortunately.

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Gigabyte GA-Z77M-D3H 1.1, Intel Core i7 3770K, MSI GeForce 960

Posted on 2020-02-09, 14:24

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After building a retro PC for the purpose of compatibility with games from a large period (late 80s to early 2000s) using the Abit KT7A (see /viewtopic.php?f=25&t=67476 ) I wanted to build an equivalent PC for the purpose of playing games from the early 2000s to ~2016 in a compact form factor (micro …

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Re: Abit KT7A (KT133A/VIA686B), Athlon XP Mobile 2500+, ESS AudioDrive ES1868F, GeForce 6800 GT

Posted on 2020-02-09, 10:51

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So legacycollector.org is no longer available (apparently the maintainer received threats). Anyhow I'm posting here the latest versions of uBlock and noscript that work with older versions of Firefox, so that it may be useful to other people. In addition I've updated the first post with new …

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Re: Welcome to the updated VOGONS

Posted on 2020-01-19, 09:10

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a website overloading the default system mouse cursor strikes me as a feature on par with background MIDI and spinning wordart gifs but tbh I didn't even notice it until people got all fired up about it, so I don't actually care I personally don't care either, but I can understand how it would make …

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Re: Preventing bad caps

Posted on 2020-01-18, 16:40

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Just received and repaired a KT7A (using a kit from badcaps.net). Strangely all the JACKCON were completely fine, however there were a bunch of "JPCON" that went bad. I changed them all just in case. The board is not fully working, even after the repair. In particular the keyboard PS/2 port and the …

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Re: BLASTERBOARD : A new SB 2.0-compatible ISA sound card

Posted on 2020-01-10, 13:22

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Thanks Eugene. I retried yesterday with IRQ 5 and this time it worked just fine! About the CD-in RGL connector: can I take male-female dupont cables and connect this way my current RGGL cable to this RGL layout?

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Re: BLASTERBOARD : A new SB 2.0-compatible ISA sound card

Posted on 2020-01-08, 21:19

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I have received my pre-assembled BLASTERBOARD and it is working extremely well! Very satisfied with this card, it looks really beautiful. Expensive but worth it :-) I did have to change the IRQ from 5 to 7 however: do you know what the reason would be? I'm using a KT7A (VIA VT686B). Even when I …

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Re: Why don’t PC parts work in a Mac ?

Posted on 2020-01-08, 13:22

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Apple's hardware is nothing special. It is just run-of-the-mill PC hardware. OSX is also just a custom version of Linux. They just choose to support a very limited range of hardware. Sorry to nitpick, but MacOS (aka OS X) is not based on the Linux kernel. It may contain though some GNU tools such …

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Re: Welcome to the updated VOGONS

Posted on 2020-01-03, 15:50

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At least on Linux, web browsers don’t respect the system font antialiasing settings, in my experience. In Debian 10, this is what I do to get back a familiar experience of pixel-aligned fonts in all applications, including browsers: - add FREETYPE_PROPERTIES=truetype:interpreter-version=35 to /etc/ …

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Re: New forum suggestions/Feedback

Posted on 2020-01-02, 18:59

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So essentially, it's too complicated and not worth the effort. I know theming in CSS can be a donating task to undertake on the surface but I have a hard time believing that when others have made their own changes with nothing more then a few lines of code. As Snover explained above, I believe him …

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Re: New forum suggestions/Feedback

Posted on 2020-01-02, 18:11

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It still seems to me that the simple solution here is to add some extra themes that people can choose from in their global settings once logged in. "Flat Style" is a great looking modern theme. ProSilver for retro. Adding more themes is NOT a simple solution, Snover explained this already. This is …

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Re: Welcome to the updated VOGONS

Posted on 2020-01-01, 16:40

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Snover already replied in this thread or another why more themes are not feasibly. That's too bad. High-contrast themes such as black on white or light grey on black can be really useful for people with visual disabilities. Do you have such a disability and aren't there other ways to fix that on …

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Re: advice for DOS / Win3.11 / Win9x / WinXP multiboot

Posted on 2020-01-01, 15:17

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There is a trick you can use to prevent Windows 98 / XP from messing up your DOS 6.22 partition with LFN. Change the partition type to 0x60 and at offset 4E610 from the beginning of the partition edit the following: 74 06 26 80 3F *06* 75 06 0A F6 74 3A FE CE 83 C3 becomes 74 06 26 80 3F *60* 75 06 …

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Re: Welcome to the updated VOGONS

Posted on 2020-01-01, 15:03

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Snover already replied in this thread or another why more themes are not feasibly. That's too bad. High-contrast themes such as black on white or light grey on black can be really useful for people with visual disabilities. What OS are you running? Maybe we can recommend an alternate non-sse2 …

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Re: Welcome to the updated VOGONS

Posted on 2020-01-01, 11:27

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I can't login to the site with Firefox 38.8. It says "The submitted form was invalid. Try submitting again" even though the login/password is correct (had no such problem with the old site). I even allowed vogons.org to execute in NoScript but to no avail. I don’t know why that would be happening. …

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Re: Very New VOGONS on Old Systems: using the 2020 era forums on retro PCs

Posted on 2020-01-01, 11:22

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DosFreak wrote on 2019-12-30, 21:47: security.ssl3.ecdhe_ecdsa_aes_128_gcm_sha256 security.ssl3.ecdhe_rsa_aes_128_gcm_sha256 I have both ciphers enabled (Firefox 38.8.0) and yet the login page (ucp.php?mode=login) does not actually log me in.

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Re: New forum suggestions/Feedback

Posted on 2019-12-30, 13:06

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Suggestion: Either choose a background color scheme that is more comfortable and friendly to the users, or how about making the background color a user choice? With the old (and new) vogons site I use a Firefox extension call "Toggle Darkmode" that provides black text on white background by default …

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Re: New forum suggestions/Feedback

Posted on 2019-12-30, 13:03

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I have vision issues and purple color does not do well with my eyesight. If there was a mobile app around for this, that'd be great, even adding a theme to change between the old site and new one. I'd personally like to have two more color themes available: - black on white (useful in sunlight) - …

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Re: Welcome to the updated VOGONS

Posted on 2019-12-30, 11:45

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OK, I added this link for logged out users. It’s always named “new posts” to try to reduce confusion (i.e. “why is this suddenly gone?” when logged in), following the logic that they’re both new posts lists and it just happens to be more tailored when you are logged in because the system has better …

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