Re: FYI: Steam drops Win7/8/8.1 in 2024

Posted on 2023-03-28, 06:46

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A very bad decision from Valve. One's gaming library is essentially banned from working on older OSes. Reminder - windows 10 goes EOL in 2025. After the XP client debacle, I have stopped buying games on Steam.

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Re: New(ish) LED monitors for DOS? Any good (criteria for 'good' specified in post)?

Posted on 2023-03-20, 23:08

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The Serpent Rider wrote on 2023-03-13, 02:11: Technically, you can also bypass 70Hz requirement on old Nvidia card via DVD-D. It will always display 60hz. hi, any pointers on where this workaround is explained? could not find it - thanks.

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Re: dISAppointment - LPC to ISA adapter - ISA on modern motherboards

Posted on 2023-03-19, 15:10

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This is great. Please consider offering it for sale as well, for those who cannot build their own adapter.

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Re: New(ish) LED monitors for DOS? Any good (criteria for 'good' specified in post)?

Posted on 2023-03-12, 22:07

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I have an older 15'' NEC monitor, also 1024x768. The scaling is good enough, thus I can't imagine newer monitors being worse. If you are thinking about integer scaling - I understand such scaling works on Windows 7+ with modern GPUs. I like the NEC monitor - the hardware calibration is a huge plus …

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Re: New(ish) LED monitors for DOS? Any good (criteria for 'good' specified in post)?

Posted on 2023-03-12, 09:53

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This is a niche monitor, good for retro gaming, not daily use, IMO: Philips 152B1 - https://www.philips.co.uk/c-p/152B1TFL_00/open-frame-touch-screen-monitor Pros: - 15'', 1024x768 (4:3), 75Hz. - LED - VGA, DVI, HDMI, DP. - available new (in EU at least). Cons - 15'' (too small for some) - expensive …

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Re: Dell Ultrasharp 2001FP = Perfect LCD for retro PCs. How can I keep it alive and healthy?

Posted on 2023-02-23, 12:28

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Personally - no. All 2007FPs i’ve seen had the ‘b’. However, all 2007FPs I’ve seen were surplus or liquidations, sold by 2nd hand resellers. I always assumed the ‘b’ stands for ‘business’. Reading owner threads / reviews from the 2007 period, no one ever referenced any FPb models, only FP.

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Re: Dell Ultrasharp 2001FP = Perfect LCD for retro PCs. How can I keep it alive and healthy?

Posted on 2023-02-23, 11:00

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I looked up ALL of the monitors that mihai said were better than the 2001FP and the HP LP2065 is the only one that is remotely affordable and available. Don't get me wrong... they all look like nice monitors, but most of them are completely unavailable in the USA or don't even have VGA. In case of …

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Re: Dell Ultrasharp 2001FP = Perfect LCD for retro PCs. How can I keep it alive and healthy?

Posted on 2023-02-22, 18:30

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2001FP is an ok-ish monitor. It has a CCFL screen, so it will grow dimmer in time. There are definitely better 4:3 LCD monitors out there, such as: Dell 2007FP, EIZO S2100 / S2133, NEC 2090uxi and P212, HP LP2065, Philips 200P4. There are also 16x12 medical monitors available, which are highly …

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Re: Hardware recommendations to recreate Phils Computer Lab's 136 in 1 Build

Posted on 2023-02-03, 10:24

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This is news to me: so can we have resolutions like 320 x 240 at 85Hz in DOS mode? In my previous attempts I could only get resolutions higher than 640x480 with increased refresh rates, ie 85 / 100 Hz.

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Re: Snappy Driver Installer - Thoughts?

Posted on 2022-12-15, 20:59

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in my experience, it is very good - no issues at all.

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Re: Sam & Max Sound Canvas Soundtrack (FLAC)

Posted on 2022-12-12, 23:20

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mp3s are available online for download. Flacs don't seem to be publicly available anymore. alternatively, you may contact logicdeluxe directly to ask him if the files are still available for distribution.

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Re: feedback needed about few PCI sound cards

Posted on 2022-12-06, 21:37

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Via Envy 24 are reasonable cards for music audition, for XP -> Vista, maybe w7. Nothing more. The ES1970 cards are supported on windows 9x/nt, I am not aware drivers for win2k and up. Such cards offer basic eax / a3d / sensaura. i would skip all of them for practical use.

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Re: 4:3 vs. 5:4

Posted on 2022-12-06, 18:54

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my EIZO 1933 allows scaling options in the OSD (1:1, aspect ratio, full screen). I just bought an Eizo S1933 because of your comment, and I can't find any scaling options in the OSD. Maybe I'm blind, but where do I find those settings? Edit: I can't find anything about scaling in the manual either. …

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Re: Retro Styled Modular IPS Display for old and new systems

Posted on 2022-11-24, 21:59

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Being a small manufacturer, Checkmate cannot get custom LCD panels built. They will get whatever panels are readily available in small volumes at a reasonable cost. Panels with resolutions such as 1920x1920, 2048x1536, 2560 x 2880 are expensive and uneconomical for such low production runs. To my …

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Re: Windows XP how much people still use for MAIN OS?

Posted on 2022-11-21, 23:24

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I did use XP to go online in the past year; I used roytam's build of Basilisk - http://rtfreesoft.blogspot.com/ If you are behind a NAT / properly configured firewall, there should be no issues for light browsing on reputable sites. However, I would never use XP as main OS. Windows 7 32 bit does …

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Re: Retro Styled Modular IPS Display for old and new systems

Posted on 2022-11-19, 22:31

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I like the concept, they are trying to provide an all-in-one LED monitor for retro purposes, without needing several adapters / monitors. My only question mark is the panel used - ie only 1280x1024, but I guess it is for cost reasons, as such panels are still widely available. A panel with 1600x1200 …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-11-19, 21:36

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I got an XFX 7950GT PCIE for USD 10. I am starting to like the Geforce 7 series a lot: reasonable performance, one slot cooler, not very noisy. The card works quite well, 45K points in 3d mark 01 and 23.000 points in 3d mark 03.

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2022-11-19, 21:33

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I tried to install Windows 98 on a B75 motherboard. I thought it would be easy, but boy, was I wrong! I tried all the tricks I knew about, trying to limit memory, etc - no luck. The installer crashes in the same spot, when detecting hardware. Could be ACPI related, but there is nothing in the BIOS …

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Re: Need help with a Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi SB0670

Posted on 2022-11-03, 22:35

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0460 is XtremeMusic and it should work with these drivers: https://danielkawakami.blogspot.com/ or with retail drivers. I have no other ideas on how to remotely troubleshoot the issue, maybe it would be good to know the complete Hardware ID.

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Re: Need help with a Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi SB0670

Posted on 2022-11-03, 14:09

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Oops, it is an HP OEM card; I was under the impression that daniel k's drivers work with all cards. Unpack daniel k's driver, go to Audio\Setup\ and replace support.cab with the one from the archive below. Alternatively, you may try HP drivers. source: https://web.archive.org/web/20090602091512/ …

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