Re: Anyone know of any high end computer peripherals from the late 90s?

Posted on 2018-12-28, 20:50

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by tincup

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

cyclone3d wrote: Would the Thrustmaster FCS Mark II and WCS and pedals be considered late 90s? I think the Thrustmaster FLCS stick and TQS throttle were the hot setup by the late 90's - probably with TM or CH pedals.

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Re: Cirrus Logic GD5428 Help Upgrading Ram From 1MB to 2MB

Posted on 2018-12-11, 14:24

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by tincup

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I cannibalized old cheap cards for the free ram and did exactly the same thing with my CL5428. Running W95 and was pleased with the result. Also filling empty slots scratches the old retro itch...

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Re: Voodoo 1 Causes Screen "Static"?

Posted on 2018-12-01, 23:37

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by tincup

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Hi guys, sorry for resurrecting an old thread, but I just wanted to contribute this: I recently bought a Voodoo1 card (generic 3dfx) and hooked it up to my 24 inch LG LCD panel (that still has a DSUB port). After playing with some 3dfx demos, I immediately noticed that there were dark vertical …

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Re: MiG Alley

Posted on 2018-11-19, 23:06

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by tincup

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+1 It would be awesome to get this underapprciated gem flying again properly in W10 with dgV2! After migrating to W10 recently I finally got it running under a W95 daum dosbox build but you're limited to orignal res and filtering and no widescreen, and also under DXwnd with some options fiddling - …

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Re: Doom 3 timedemo shootout with period correct hardware.

Posted on 2018-11-07, 21:51

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by tincup

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Let my new build have a crack at at this - no special system prep: 499.9 FPS W10 Home i5/8400 6gb GTX 1060 SC (little guy with 1 fan) 16gb DDR4 2400 Onboard audio Asrock H370 Pro4 mATX just a bit less than twice as fast as my previous FX8350 rig..

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Re: W10 alternative to MagicDisc?

Posted on 2018-10-23, 20:51

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by tincup

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W10 plays very much nicer with older games of the early DX era than W7 did - as much as I loved W7. Coupled with the various D3D/DX wrappers floating around I'm getting really good looking results on games that have been shaky runners for quite some time - probably looking better than they ever did. …

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Re: W10 alternative to MagicDisc?

Posted on 2018-10-22, 20:28

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by tincup

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....For ISO creation I just use Imageburn which is free and lightweight. Work fine in Windows 10, so far. I just gave ImgBurn a whirl - nice... works fine but not quite as fast and nifty as MagicDisc's routine. Thanks for the heads up... Guess I'm set now, well except for a Plex Media Server …

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Re: W10 alternative to MagicDisc?

Posted on 2018-10-22, 19:30

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by tincup

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....Yeah, I still continue to use MagicDisc and didn't find anything better as its replacement. Yes, MagicDisc is a really handly tool in that it works with and creates lots of image types. While iso is the norm, bin/cue is essential, and uif and others have their place in the menagerie. I like the …

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W10 alternative to MagicDisc?

Posted on 2018-10-22, 15:31

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by tincup

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I just migrated to W10 a few days ago and very pleased with the system''s ability to run older games with less issue than W7. One of the few hicups has been the loss of MagicDisc which doesn't seem to run under W10. MD was an awesome little utility; easily setup virtual drives and make images all in …

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Re: Looking for a WW2 planes/dogfight game for WinXp

Posted on 2018-08-23, 15:10

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by tincup

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.....MiG Alley. It's a deeply flawed sim, but still oh-so-good... I agree it's an awesome game - but *deeply* flawed? How so? Other than general bugginess I never have would have considered it a "diamond in the rough". Probablly a Top-8 flyer for me - great dogfights! It's generally buggy, just …

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Re: Looking for a WW2 planes/dogfight game for WinXp

Posted on 2018-08-23, 01:10

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by tincup

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KT7AGuy wrote: .....MiG Alley. It's a deeply flawed sim, but still oh-so-good... I agree it's an awesome game - but *deeply* flawed? How so? Other than general bugginess I never have would have considered it a "diamond in the rough". Probablly a Top-8 flyer for me - great dogfights!

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

Posted on 2018-08-08, 17:39

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by tincup

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Oooffff! Tossed out a garbage bag of third rate unused/broken parts; dead drives, crappy office machine grade mobos, tons of canabalized office machine parts I'll never actually use, crappy sound cards, fans/sinks, all manner of minor parts and accessories that that will never see the inside of a …

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

Posted on 2018-08-07, 23:08

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by tincup

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Oooffff! Tossed out a garbage bag of third rate unused/broken parts; dead drives, crappy office machine grade mobos, tons of canabalized office machine parts I'll never actually use, crappy sound cards, fans/sinks, all manner of minor parts and accessories that that will never see the inside of a …

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Re: Weird issue in DOS with ATAPI ZIP

Posted on 2018-07-18, 15:14

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by tincup

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Under the category of "unhelpful suggestions" Zip drives drove me/us crazy back in the day. My solution - wait for it - was to toss all my zip gear. Again, an unhelpful suggestion but even after all these years a zip rant flows effortlessly... Not finding files on Zip rives happened *all* the time. …

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Re: anyone running win95/98 games on 486 machine?

Posted on 2018-07-01, 18:06

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by tincup

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Vanilla W95a on a 486 here. HD in a 5.25" slot caddy for easy removal and off-rig file/data transfer & setup.

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Re: Recommended bike racing games

Posted on 2018-05-10, 01:03

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by tincup

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+1 for GP500. It's a Microprose classic and a real benchmark of bike simulation design.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-05-10, 00:58

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by tincup

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@jimpqfly Prepare to be disappointed. These cards were designed to boost poor performing hard drives, specifically in situations where there are a lot of read/writes happening often. Such as, but not limited to, heavy multi tasking. Its still damn cool, but Its practicality is zero. Yup, if you use …

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Panzer Commander on Win7 64-bit

Posted on 2018-01-07, 22:14

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by tincup

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I have Panzer Commander installed and running on my W7 64-bit PC. Stock runs fine with any one of a few modded DDraw.dll's out there. It even patches to v1.1 without issue. But that's as far as I can get without encountering serious graphic issues; what works for v1 and v11 doesn't work with the v12 …

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Re: Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II - 3D acceleration in XP?

Posted on 2018-01-03, 15:05

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by tincup

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in Marvin \ Software

Not the most technically elegant solution but Jedi Knight DK2 is available on GOG for 6 clams American and claims to run under XP. I know it works with Win7 because I bought it - but can't vouch for XP. I was aware of this, but even at $6, it bugs me that I should have to pay for something I …

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Re: Flying Corps Gold - D3D

Posted on 2018-01-03, 02:42

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by tincup

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Day 4 and I found something: DDrawCompat by a certain Narzoul (2017) available on GitHub. A single ddraw.dll, no configurator, but runs FCG in D3D smooth as silk and even solves severe mouse lag. Only issue so far is gauges do don't always display or display properly. The compass is a must! But even …

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