Re: What makes something Retro

Posted on 2016-10-31, 02:22

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We use the term Retro somewhat differently here than is conventional - "retro music" or "retro fashion" are things created now in the spirit of a "passé" style trend. Our use of retro is closer to "vintage" in the sense it refers to products or creations that are themselves old and growing older …

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Re: Did Iomega Ever Make RELIABLE Storage Options?

Posted on 2016-10-30, 20:21

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by tincup

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Some time ago I threw out a shoe box full of Zip 100's - at least 1/3 were bad or going, maybe more. Hard to tell since the 4 or 5 internal Zip drives were all unreliable to begin with. My personal experience with them at home and work was abysmal. Work colleagues faired no better. I'm actually …

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Re: Pulling out my hair over windows 98 SE install troubles

Posted on 2016-10-27, 21:27

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I do the same as well. W98 on a 1gb C:\ partition, the rest of the drive allocated to D for games/data. I keep only system related stuff and system utilities on C, along with a small handful of useful vanilla apps like Word etc., and find 1gb more than enough. In the day I when drive space was at a …

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Re: Best OS for each below build

Posted on 2016-10-11, 21:27

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DOS W98se W98se XP XP W95c

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Re: Build your XP Time Machines Now

Posted on 2016-10-05, 02:12

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...GOG is the way to go. A shame they don't have many games, but I haven't bought anything from Steam in a long time because I know that one day we will be out of luck. Same - I avoid the online drm scene with rare exception. With luck more and more XP era games will migrate to GOG as they loose …

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Re: My Ongoing Retro Rig Project - Xeon Prime

Posted on 2016-09-15, 16:19

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by tincup

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Whatever it takes XO!

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Re: boot/Maximum PC Dream Machines 1996-2004

Posted on 2016-09-07, 00:19

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by tincup

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The 97/98 rigs need their 3dfx cards moved down to the "Secondary Videocard" box...

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Re: Doom 3 performance

Posted on 2016-08-24, 02:36

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@ bakcom - Which version of D3 are you running? On modern rigs v1 can confer a 10-15% (or more) frame boost over the 1.2 and 1.3+ patches. Thread on the ongoing D3 benchmark extravaganza here: Doom 3 timedemo shootout with period correct hardware.

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Re: Best sata to IDE converter.

Posted on 2016-08-16, 05:26

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by tincup

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I prefer sata/ide adapters that have a master/slave jumper. A few times I had to set the jumper one way or the other in order to operate properly when more than 1 hard drive was connected to the ide cable. I'm not sure of the real cause but having the jumper gives you more flexibility.

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Re: Retro items that you regret throwing away

Posted on 2016-08-12, 01:39

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Not too much - a little pile of Sound Blaster AWE32 and 64 Gold I'd amassed from salvaged rigs in the late 90's. A Voodoo 5 I tossed at some point because one of the big capacitors near the power plug had sheared off - (luckily I found a replacement for less than 30USD which shows how long ago that …

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Re: My Pentium with Voodoo 3 & Voodoo 2

Posted on 2016-08-11, 18:48

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From my experience compatibility issues between different Voodoo cards was most pronounced between the V1 and V2 as a fair number of early accelerated games were statically linked to the V1 and didn't always work on a v2 or later card out of the box. On the other hand adding appropriate …

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Re: Post your 'current' PC

Posted on 2016-08-08, 13:09

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The majority of my hardware collection are dual-socket and workstation/enterprise grade boards. It was time for my desktop to take a... Impressive! - you should post a Doom 3 timedemo score in the "Anything Goes" category. If you haven't been following that thread: http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic. …

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Re: Retro flight sim room

Posted on 2016-08-07, 22:13

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EDIT : The best part of these games is the landing! The excitement and tension is even more than the encounters themselves! As a pilot I can tell you in real life, landing is still one of the most exciting parts (and the one hardest to do learn in school)! There is a lot of satisfaction coming with …

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Re: Retro flight sim room

Posted on 2016-08-07, 22:07

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I've had the good fortune of flying a few of times in a 4-seater and got to ride and take the controls during portions of the flights, turns, banks, a few figure eights, navigation adjustments etc.. Totally *amazing* experience. But landing is by far the most demanding part of the trip - even as a …

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Re: Retro flight sim room

Posted on 2016-08-06, 20:18

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I'd say my top 2 flight sims from the 90's are European Air War and Mig Alley. Jane's Longbow 2 and Apache vs Havoc are great, Jane's WW-2 Fighters, Hornet 3.0, A-10 Cuba!, Jane's FA-18 are up there. For good old games I reach for Aces Over Europe, Aces Of The Pacific, 1942 Pacific Air War, and the …

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Re: Retro flight sim room

Posted on 2016-08-05, 23:33

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Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman wrote: Anyone remember this? 😀 flight_068.png Knights Of The Sky I think - though I never really played it I have a copy installed and running under doxbox..

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Re: Retro flight sim room

Posted on 2016-08-02, 18:09

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So you're the one who put together that cool mission fly-through for AV8B Harrier Assault - thanks for posting! So much stuff to look through now...

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Re: Aureal Vortex: What was the last and/ or the most demanding game for it?

Posted on 2016-07-29, 00:19

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That's hardware, not games. In any case yes NWN has an /insane/ amount of supported sound stuff. The list is absolutely huge, I think it covers everything from EAX 1-4 (maybe just 3) and A3D 1 and 2. As well as software based stuff. Ah yes you're right - but the hardware recommendations are a nice …

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Re: Aureal Vortex: What was the last and/ or the most demanding game for it?

Posted on 2016-07-28, 00:07

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Cutoff was about 2000 to maybe 2002 (as you know, they went dodo in late 2000, making support for newer games largely irrelevant for developers then). So building a maxed up Win9x rig will take care of all these A3D games too. As boring as it sounds you'll come to the same oft-repeated late win9x …

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Re: What parts do I need?

Posted on 2016-07-27, 23:54

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Yeah - keep us posted... A 1999 build basically defines the point *just before* everything went hog wild performance wise.

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