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

Posted on 2020-04-25, 22:14

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Today I tested some old hardware I have since a long time. Good news: 4 video cards I thought were nothing but scrap, worked fine after a through cleaning of their contacts. Yay! Bad news: the video cards are just: 2x 32MB nvidia TNT2 M64 AGP 1x 1MB trident 9440 PCI 1x 1MB ATi Mach32 GraphicsWonder …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-04-25, 16:17

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

3DFX Voodoo - PowerColor MultiMedia 3Dfx Voodoo 4MB PCI (NIB) (1997) [IMG=https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1024x768q90/922/UqkIpf.jpg][/IMG] [IMG=https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1024x768q90/924/kRyLJW.jpg][/IMG] [IMG=https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1024x768q90/922/tOJkfo.jpg][/IMG] 3DFX …

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

Posted on 2020-04-25, 16:02

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Today I tested some old hardware I have since a long time. Good news: 4 video cards I thought were nothing but scrap, worked fine after a through cleaning of their contacts. Yay! Bad news: the video cards are just: 2x 32MB nvidia TNT2 M64 AGP 1x 1MB trident 9440 PCI 1x 1MB ATi Mach32 GraphicsWonder …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-04-25, 15:08

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Received my first Super Socket 7 mainboard a few days ago, an EPOX EP58-MVP3C-M, which I decided to test today. It came with RAM, Pentium MMX 233MHz CPU and CL5446 PCI VGA. I fired it up and it worked just fine. Booted from a floppy disk. I had already downloaded the manual and the latest BIOS for …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-04-25, 04:49

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Received my first Super Socket 7 mainboard a few days ago, an EPOX EP58-MVP3C-M, which I decided to test today. It came with RAM, Pentium MMX 233MHz CPU and CL5446 PCI VGA. I fired it up and it worked just fine. Booted from a floppy disk. I had already downloaded the manual and the latest BIOS for …

Re: I want to understand Compaq Presario and their BOMID Restore cd system.

Posted on 2020-04-22, 19:46

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hi all I have an old pentium 120mhz system that is a compaq presario. The computer was given to me with wintows98 but im sure it was formated because none of the compaq tools and themes were found on the hard drive. from what i have been reading, Compaq implemented something called BOMID... written …

Re: What is your oldest working Brand name computer ? - ( Challenge ).

Posted on 2020-04-22, 02:08

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

My oldest is an IBM Thinkpad 360Ce: 486DX-2 50MHz, 20MB RAM, 380MB HDD, 12" color screen, 1MB WD video adapter. The battery does not even last a second unfortunately. It would be great for DOS games if only had a soundcard :(. The laptop got to my home in 1994 running Win 3.11 and IBM's DOS 5.0 IIRC …

Re: NFS High Stakes D3D6 mode

Posted on 2020-04-21, 20:04

in Windows

in Windows

Currently there are no better ways to run the NFS games on Windows 10 than using the ports. They are decent, not perfect by any means but they work. Trying to run the original binaries will most likely not work on modern Windows, since they require old (20 year+) libraries, 32 bits, some APIs may no …

Re: NFS High Stakes D3D6 mode

Posted on 2020-04-21, 16:35

in Windows

in Windows

When I install High Stakes on my pc and run it in. D3D6 mode, it crashes to desktop. What should I do? I don't want to use any external unofficial patches which replace the d3da.dll. The game works fine on WinXP without issues. Which Windows version are you installing it in? if it works on winXP, …

Re: NFS High Stakes D3D6 mode

Posted on 2020-04-21, 13:14

in Windows

in Windows

When I install High Stakes on my pc and run it in. D3D6 mode, it crashes to desktop. What should I do? I don't want to use any external unofficial patches which replace the d3da.dll. The game works fine on WinXP without issues. Which Windows version are you installing it in? if it works on winXP, …

Re: Need help and advice with hdd's

Posted on 2020-04-20, 19:43

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

1 P100 1 P2 - 450 1 P3- 800 1 P3 - 1000 Btw in some forums says that the compact flash are slower than microsd (class 10) and the compact flash cards cannot be fixed drive anymore. Is that right? AFAIK, industrial grade CF cards are identified as a fixed hard drive. And it's correct: a good microSD …

Re: Need help and advice with hdd's

Posted on 2020-04-20, 18:57

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hello all, I have 4 retro computers all with ide interfaces. I live in Turkey and I'm having hard times replacing my old ide hdds so I need someting else for using instead of hdds. I read some articles that suggest compact flash cards but here in a topic its not suggested. So what are the …

Re: Need help and advice with hdd's

Posted on 2020-04-20, 15:44

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hello all, I have 4 retro computers all with ide interfaces. I live in Turkey and I'm having hard times replacing my old ide hdds so I need someting else for using instead of hdds. I read some articles that suggest compact flash cards but here in a topic its not suggested. So what are the …

Re: BIOS Flashing on a Compaq Presario 5284

Posted on 2020-04-20, 02:23

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

brian105 wrote on 2020-04-20, 02:15: Damn you Compaq and your crappy OEM parts. Thanks anyways! It's not exclusive to Compaq, most big brands (IBM, HP, Compaq, Lenovo, Dell) do the same, they build their PCs with custom OEM parts.

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

Posted on 2020-04-19, 21:01

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

At first glance it performs almost the same as with Voodoo 2. Just the image looks cleaner and sharper. A bit of a disappointment What were you expecting? I've read several times that the performance of the V3 is about the same as two V2 in SLI, so maybe the expectation was for the V3 to be about …

Re: Problem with Need for Speed 2 SE and Xbox 360 controller on Win98SE

Posted on 2020-04-19, 20:58

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Please let us know if you find anything with an analogue stick which works in Win98 (I'm sure DOS support is out of the picture though...). I just can't deal with the Gravis ultrapad or gamepad pro (or whatever it's called). It's literally one of the worst controllers I've ever used (and I've used …

Re: A bit of a late wekend puzzle (crashes, disk detection, video artefacts)

Posted on 2020-04-19, 20:55

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

In my experience, when several parts of the PC start acting up at about the same time, the power supply is usually the culprit. Try using a different one when doing your testing. Also, having a backup of the hard drive would be good, just in case 😀

Re: Problem with Need for Speed 2 SE and Xbox 360 controller on Win98SE

Posted on 2020-04-19, 02:30

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

I use one of these gamepads, they support dinput and xinput, switchable by keeping start pressed couple seconds: http://retro-bit.com/sega-genesis-8-button-ar … clear-blue.html

Re: Non-working CD drive on Compaq Presario 2100 desktop

Posted on 2020-04-18, 05:34

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Well, the problem with not turning on could be the power supply, maybe it has dirt, or the capacitors are dying or something, but it could also be the motherboard of the PC, or the CPU, hard to tell. Try checking again the connections of the PS to the motherboard and reseating them. Unfortunately, …

Re: Non-working CD drive on Compaq Presario 2100 desktop

Posted on 2020-04-18, 04:50

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I've checked all over the damn thing for 45 minutes and nothing. It seems permanently attached to the chassis. Removed all the screws I could near it, pushed or pulled, doesn't move at all. I managed to find the model though: Wearnes CDD-620. EDIT: found one on a website with jumper pics. https:// …

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