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

Posted on 2020-03-03, 04:55

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by Shagittarius

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I added a new piece of hardware to my Amiga600 today. Tested it this evening. The CF2IDE+ adaptor that I ordered some time ago. Arived in the mail today, and I have installed it. Amazing little space saving thing. The best thing is that it is a tight solution, and nothing rattle around. I am going …

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Re: BFG Nvidia FX 5950 Ultra Build

Posted on 2020-02-26, 15:10

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by Shagittarius

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Didn't the 5950 drop palettized texture support? I thought the 5900 Ultra was the last to support this, is that incorrect?

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

Posted on 2020-02-26, 15:00

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by Shagittarius

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As for me, I have begun looking into the HST-WB installer package for Amiga. Using AmigaOS 3.1.4 as the package supports that. It should give me boot-menu, arcade game launcher (or what it is called) and some other neat stuff. Basically. It is a bunch of installer scripts and software, that will …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-02-23, 18:19

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by Shagittarius

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A 68030 is fine as well. My main A1200 has an ACA1233n-40 as well, which is fast enough for most stuff. If you are going for MP3 or web-browsing however, anything below a 060 won't get you far. Yeah, I'll wait for the V4 standalone to see what a blown out modern interpretation of the amiga can do. …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-02-23, 17:15

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by Shagittarius

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Better save for a Blizzard 1260, a Warp 1260, or an ACA1260. The Vampire might be a masterpeice to some, but it's an FPGA clone of a large part of the Amiga hardware and still has many quirks and drawbacks. What you have in the end is no longer a real Amiga. If at all, wait for the stand-alone …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-02-23, 04:15

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by Shagittarius

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Ok, I dug it out. Here it is, doesn't look too bad though some of the keys have started to yellow a bit: https://www.vogons.org/download/file.php?mode=view&id=77503 I think I'm going to have to start a new thread for Amigas since I haven't used mine since I was in High School about 28 years ago. …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-02-23, 00:58

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by Shagittarius

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Congrats.... That is a clean looking old lady. What are the plans with it? Any upgrades that you are planning on? I will likely just do a memory expansion and Gotek. If I come across an accelerator card for cheap, I'll do that along with a Workbench upgrade. Nice. May I recommend a scandoubler as …

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Re: What is the best old IBM computer for playing old games?

Posted on 2020-02-21, 15:04

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by Shagittarius

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If you want it for the oldest games that were designed to run on a 4.77 Mhz 8088 then you should just get a 5150 and 5153 monitor. If you are not just talking about games designed to be played at 4.77 Mhz then you may want to consider a 5170 with an EGA or VGA card and 640k expanded ram. I think …

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Re: What is your oldest OEM computer ? - ( Challenge ).

Posted on 2020-02-21, 15:00

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by Shagittarius

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I had a fully working stock IBM 5170 but I added a new bios and modern storage: CF card and 1.44 & 1.2MB HD Floppy, + SCSI Controller and external SCSI CD-ROM, 384k Ram Expansion card, as well as a TSENG 4000 and SoundbBlaster 2.0. I could however return all the original parts, 20MB HDD, IBM CGA …

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Re: High resolution textures for Dungeon Siege (2002)

Posted on 2020-02-18, 15:07

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by Shagittarius

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Looks great, very cool, will try this out soon. Do you know how much video ram the new textures require? I can give it a try on my retro machine regardless, just curious.

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Re: ~20 Windows 98 SE Installs later....STILL isn't 100%, ever

Posted on 2020-02-18, 14:52

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by Shagittarius

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My ram also passed hours of testing with no errors, it wasn't until I was in windows and attempting to install updates that it had problems...I still maintain the RAM and the HDD are your best bets for where the issue lies. Do you suggest that Windows 9x is "harder" on RAM than DOS-based Memtest …

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Re: ~20 Windows 98 SE Installs later....STILL isn't 100%, ever

Posted on 2020-02-18, 05:58

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by Shagittarius

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I had ram that was being run too hard and it had similar results, if you can I would try underclocking the ram. I ran 2x DOS based hardware tests and the RAM tested fine during those tests. It did tell me they're two different brands (I though they were the same), so I picked up 3x sticks (this MB …

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Re: ~20 Windows 98 SE Installs later....STILL isn't 100%, ever

Posted on 2020-02-16, 23:10

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by Shagittarius

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I had ram that was being run too hard and it had similar results, if you can I would try underclocking the ram.

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Re: ~20 Windows 98 SE Installs later....STILL isn't 100%, ever

Posted on 2020-02-16, 06:19

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by Shagittarius

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When I had some of the problems you are describing, it was a failing HDD. Am I right that you have used only one IDE HDD? I don't use SSD (didn't even know this was possible with 98SE), CF, or SD with 98SE -- just old fashioned IDE HDD. I would source another one rather than use the solid state …

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Re: ~20 Windows 98 SE Installs later....STILL isn't 100%, ever

Posted on 2020-02-16, 06:02

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by Shagittarius

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It's strange how certain problems seem to follow people through the years no matter how much time has passed or how many different machines they try things on. It won't be much comfort to you but I've never had such problems with any Win 9x install I've attempted. The first thing I would attempt to …

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Re: Best imaging software for old operating systems

Posted on 2020-02-14, 05:47

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by Shagittarius

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I use Acronis True Image 2019 for my XP/Win 10 Machine. It's the last version to support XP, but it long ago lost Win 9x functionality. For my 98/XP Machine I use Norton Ghost 9.0. I have an older version of Ghost that runs on a floppy but I think that's only good up to 9x.

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Re: Some guys opinion about DOSBox

Posted on 2020-02-10, 15:04

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by Shagittarius

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If you're running dosbox on linux you should have both the ability and time required to learn how to use dosbox properly. As I once heard, "Linux is only free if your time is worthless."

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Re: 286/386/486 - How slow can you go ?

Posted on 2020-02-07, 20:25

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by Shagittarius

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I run an IBM AT and a Pentium 90. Even with the AT at 6Mhz there are still some games that run too fast as they were meant for an 8088.

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Re: Lithtech game performance

Posted on 2020-02-02, 20:19

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Just checked out the performance of NOLF and SHOGO on 2 of my machines: Win98 Xeon 3230 w/ Radeon 9800 Pro & Win XP Xeon 5690 w/GTX 780ti. Both games run smooth at over 60FPS with no stuttering no matter what is going on onscreen. I did notice that some minor frame dropping on the XP machine …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-02-02, 01:37

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by Shagittarius

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When the corona virus wipes out 99.9% of people on the planet I will search for the legendary stash of Artex! How big can Milwaukee be...

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