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

Posted on Yesterday, 23:55

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by TechieDude

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DosFreak wrote on Yesterday, 23:25: Testing of mbf and duke3d on windows xp 32bit with videprt proxy on 980ti. Could you elaborate on what videprt proxy is? It sounds interesting.

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

Posted on Yesterday, 23:43

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I replaced the analog stick on my PSP because it had way too serious drifting AND ghost movements at once. At the time I got it back in August, it was only mildly noticeable that something was off, to the point I could beat Maverick Hunter X, NFS Carbon OTC and GTA CW without difficulty (save for …

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Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on Yesterday, 15:09

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My Current Work In Progress Pentium III Tualatin 1400-S System Intel Pentium III Tualatin 1400-S @ 1.47ghz (140x10.5) DFI GCB60-BX1/C1 Intel BX Motherboard 512MB CL2 Ram (2x256) Winfast A250 Ultra Nvidia Geforce 4 Ti4600 Zalman Passive Cooled Adaptec NEC USB 2.0 Card Sound Blaster Audigy Turtle …

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Re: Slot 1 vs Super Socket 7

Posted on 2020-10-17, 19:27

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Before you go ahead and buy a PSU, do you have any other PSUs to test on your motherboard or other motherboards to test with the same PSU?

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Re: Slot 1 vs Super Socket 7

Posted on 2020-10-16, 22:41

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The VIA C3 just arrived so I put it in since the board supports it. No ticking noise now, but still no POST, and no beeps even when there is no RAM. Nothing on the POST diagnostic card either. I don't have another PSU unfortunately, but I have plenty of RAM, video cards, sound cards, etc. Total …

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Re: Drivers doing stuff on their own and other horror stories

Posted on 2020-10-16, 10:57

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For discrete controllers (NEC/Renesas, ASMedia, Via, Fresco Logic) there are. For Intel's chipset-integrated USB3.0, there aren't official drivers, since Intel was late to the game and by the time their controllers were out, they didn't feel like supplying drivers for what was already seen as " …

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Re: Drivers doing stuff on their own and other horror stories

Posted on 2020-10-15, 23:08

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by TechieDude

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I really hate printers with a burning passion. They don't even count the ink! They always ask for new cartridges before the old ones are actually empty! Their drivers are also horrible, like already stated here. On an unrelated note, there's really no reason Vista or even XP shouldn't be able to …

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Re: UNISOUND - Universal ISA PnP Sound Card Driver for DOS v0.75e

Posted on 2020-10-15, 10:55

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Actually, that gave me a bit of an idea. Could UNISOUND support PCI sound cards that are also connected via SB-Link, like YMF7x4 cards or the very rare AWE64D? Sorry if it's a stupid question.

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

Posted on 2020-10-14, 23:45

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I installed Devuan 3 on my old Toshiba NB200 that for the last 6 months, and for some reason I can't figure out, was way slower than even its specs would imply, no matter what OS I tried (antiX, Mint XFCE, NetBSD, FreeBSD, WinXP, Win7 etc.), what RAM it had, what HDD or even SSD it had! I even …

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Re: Slot 1 vs Super Socket 7

Posted on 2020-10-14, 22:51

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I presume you have at least 2 S370 CPUs in your possesion. In that case, test the other one to see if it works. It's very unlikely the CPU is causing the system to not even power on, but not impossible if it somehow managed to short itself. Another possibility (again, VERY unlikely) is that the PSU, …

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

Posted on 2020-10-12, 21:29

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Transferred files from my modern computer to my old computer via USB 1.0 and waited ridiculous long times. xD You could use a USB 2.0 card as well. Those with NEC chipsets work nicely. As do VIA ones in my experience. For some reason, my VIA card didn't quite work out. It always threw "File not …

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Re: Collecting rants

Posted on 2020-10-12, 01:40

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That's interesting. These are machines you probably didn't have much (or any) contact with when they were new, and people I know that are into this hobby are usually older and had these machines growing up, so what's it like looking at these machines that are older than you? It's actually quite …

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

Posted on 2020-10-12, 00:34

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Dosboxxer wrote on 2020-10-11, 22:52: Transferred files from my modern computer to my old computer via USB 1.0 and waited ridiculous long times. xD You could use a USB 2.0 card as well. Those with NEC chipsets work nicely.

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

Posted on 2020-10-11, 19:32

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Cloudschatze wrote on 2020-10-08, 04:00: And... the full-color/resolution version of the active Windows wallpaper is now displayed in-place when launching an application that leverages the Tandy graphics chipset. Why, I'm practically a shoo-in for the "Worlds Biggest Dork" award! That's something …

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Re: Collecting rants

Posted on 2020-09-21, 14:55

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I started in September 2014, being 17 at the time, not knowing the difference between PCI and PCIe, quite a bit late, I know, but I was also lucky to have a wacky, but friendly neighbour who likes to collect old junk of all kinds, that decided the computer stuff would be better off in my hands. I …

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Re: Collecting rants

Posted on 2020-09-20, 20:23

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Can't we all just accept that people who willingly pay very high prices for stuff are also part of the problem?

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

Posted on 2020-09-18, 23:51

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I decided to see (or rather hear) for myself just how bad CQM really is compared to OPL3, since I have a Sound Blaster Vibra 16 CT4170 that I bought dirt cheap about 4 years ago. So I installed it in my Win98SE Tualeron Voodoo 3 Rig, disabled it in Device Manager since I only wanted it in DOS Mode, …

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

Posted on 2020-09-18, 21:49

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We've recently moved again, and I finally have space to get the retro stuff out of totes and storage, organized, and hopefully tested and put to use. The storage shelves are getting pretty full, albeit not terribly well organized and not 100% retro: IMG_20200917_214636.jpg I'm planning to move the …

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Re: Need help to improve the support of 486/586/686 class CPUs in CPU-Z

Posted on 2020-09-03, 13:45

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CuPid wrote on 2020-09-03, 13:29: TechieDude wrote on 2020-09-03, 11:27: It doesn't show any L2 cache either. Thanks for the feedback. Can you please post a TXT report ? I was just referring to the screenshot. I don't even have any Socket 4 hardware to test unfortunately. Sorry.

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Re: Need help to improve the support of 486/586/686 class CPUs in CPU-Z

Posted on 2020-09-03, 11:27

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Camtheman wrote on 2020-08-19, 23:14: IBM PS/2 Server 95/A with P66 […] Show full quote IBM PS/2 Server 95/A with P66 It can't identify the mainboard, funny 🤣. It doesn't show any L2 cache either.

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