Re: Most beautiful Dos-Games for a 486...what are your favorites?

Posted on 2020-08-02, 03:15

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One of my favourites for art & music direction (particularly if you have an MT-32) is the original Dune, although it doesn't match OP's requirements for gameplay style. I think the original Dune (as well as the other Dune, ie DUNE II) sound much better in OPL3 than MT-32. There's a thread derailing …

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Re: Most beautiful Dos-Games for a 486...what are your favorites?

Posted on 2020-08-01, 08:14

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I guess Jazz Jackrabbit is way too obvious to mention? Consider it mentioned. Someone in my recent thread about gamepad games for DOS put me onto Vinyl Goddess, which is a very nicely presented platformer. One of my favourites for art & music direction (particularly if you have an MT-32) is the …

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Re: What's the dumbest retro mistake you've made?

Posted on 2020-07-31, 03:05

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Here's a fresh one. Small form factor case, and a CF-IDE adapter installed too close to a drive bracket. I guess it made contact when I closed the case up. Luckily this cable adapter took all the damage, and things are still working fine. For now.

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Re: Sidewinder gamepads any good?

Posted on 2020-07-30, 01:28

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If d-pad gaming is the goal, I can recommend the Quickshot Command Pad.

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Re: Making a midi device tower

Posted on 2020-07-29, 12:34

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by Pierre32

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What a nice sight 😀

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Re: The VOGONS Experience

Posted on 2020-07-28, 21:54

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26. Of course, by this point you have been impulsively buying and hoarding retro PC hardware that you had no use for and likely will never use.. but who cares, you have 100 ISA sound cards! 27. By this point you are having serious issues with storing your junk without pissing off your S/O so you …

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Re: Retro builds with modern conveniences

Posted on 2020-07-22, 10:15

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yall got me wanting to follow on with an idea i trashed a while ago. recent (2016-2020) routers have the option to become an SMB NAS when you plug in a hard drive into the USB ports on them. I wanted to build a NAS that only my retro PCs can access via their own switch. the one catch is that some …

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Re: Creative Labs Port Blaster

Posted on 2020-07-21, 06:52

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Never went to market apparently: https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1215392114407723008 See comment from Dave Compton in the comments of this video: https://youtu.be/z3DU2mNBa6M Wow - flashback city. Back in around '93 when I was working for Creative Labs, the Port Blaster (parallel port Sound Blaster …

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Re: The Ultimate Hardware 2019 project- a new, modern TH99

Posted on 2020-07-21, 06:48

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It's time for an update! We've been working hard in the last month on the motherboard database, adding photos of our own boards, adding BIOS images and manuals, fixing the many mistakes in TH99 (yes, there were lots of mistakes). With the help of mr_Slug, we've been able to implement a chipset …

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Re: Ultimate 386 system?

Posted on 2020-07-21, 06:02

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How does Falcon 3 compare with and without the FPU? That's a great question. You've given me some homework. So it seems that setting the FPU to 'not present' in BIOS makes no difference; if it's installed it's installed. Falcon 3.0 delivers the same options and performance regardless of BIOS …

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Re: Ultimate 386 system?

Posted on 2020-07-21, 01:39

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Can confirm that even the excellent FastDoom is quite a compromised experience on the 386: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=74886 The hardware is brilliant for platformers & pinball of course. Jazz Jackrabbit tests the limits in places with the occasional slowdown, solved by turning the …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-07-20, 12:51

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I purchased a Compaq Armada 7792DMT laptop the other week. It was listed as spare/not working but the picture showed it powered on to Windows 95 and it was very reasonable priced. The laptop arrived today and overall its a really nice example, although its going to be a project as not everything is …

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Re: Ultimate 386 system?

Posted on 2020-07-20, 10:34

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I should clarify - Doom is playable, it's just a lower framerate than I would prefer. Which wouldn't have bothered me back in the day, but these days I also have a K6 system to run that kind of thing nice and fast!

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Re: Ultimate 386 system?

Posted on 2020-07-20, 09:02

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Can confirm that even the excellent FastDoom is quite a compromised experience on the 386: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=74886 The hardware is brilliant for platformers & pinball of course. Jazz Jackrabbit tests the limits in places with the occasional slowdown, solved by turning the …

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Re: Ultimate 386 system?

Posted on 2020-07-20, 07:35

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Not trying to hijack, but since ISA-386C boards came up, I might as well dump my specs. Some might consider this an ultimate build. In truth, they were just the parts the universe threw at me! Tseng ET4000AX - listing this first because it started the whole mess. I saw it on FB for pennies, so I …

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Re: Ultimate 386 system?

Posted on 2020-07-19, 00:39

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Horun wrote on 2020-07-19, 00:09: Yes it is early Asus, the ISA-386c was there first according to Asus themselves: https://www.asus.com/Microsite/mb/ASUSMB1st/index.aspx If you have one then you are one of Three here at Vogons that I know do own one. Checking in!

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Re: Installing Windows on Libretto 50CT

Posted on 2020-07-18, 03:02

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Good work @trueno. I faced this scenario for the first time last night too. I had picked up a small form factor Aptiva that lacked HDD & ODD along with the brackets to hold them, but I still had the floppy and a CF adaptor. Win98 installed without a hitch! Who needs those lumpy old drives.

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Re: Aptiva 2196-20A power supply information?

Posted on 2020-07-16, 22:55

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Cheers for the responses. I actually found my answer a few minutes ago! (I have a couple of SFX units handy, and that's a no go). The answer: Flex ATX. That's not technically what the stock unit is, but dimension wise, a Flex ATX will drop in here.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-07-16, 11:11

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Picked up this Aptiva 2196-20A for pocket change. It's a K6-2+ 550, and needs a HDD & optical drive. Also needs a low profile PCI video card. I'll be on the lookout for an FX5500 at a non-silly price. Nice one! This must be one of the last Aptivas before switching to the NetVista models? I guess …

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Re: Top 10 DOS Games of 1988

Posted on 2020-07-16, 05:38

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A few almost-forgotten memories here, and a few I will need to try! I remember my XT clone chugging on some of these back in the day, so I'm definitely going to take them for a spin on my new powerhouse 386. Great content and presentation. Subbed.

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