Re: Only good browser for XP is MyPal

Posted on 2019-07-15, 09:57

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derSammler wrote: No offence, but anyone accessing the Web with XP or older should be flogged. No matter which browser, that's just irresponsible. No offense, but I'll flog you right back for your insolence. It's a great OS that deserves support. -Posted with Firefox 52 ESR, XP SP3.

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Floppy transfer problems

Posted on 2019-07-15, 09:51

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I got a computer at an estate sale, and I was trying to transfer a few things to it with a floppy. But seemingly this just isn't happening. What I write on the source computer can't be read on the destination. I checked and it does read at the source system. I was having issues with it (I/O device …

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Re: Found the vintage PC motherlode...

Posted on 2019-07-15, 09:44

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*drool* Such nice stuff in some people's warehouses... 😢

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Re: Moving data between an old computer and a new one

Posted on 2019-07-15, 09:28

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Not that I know what I'm doing (bakemono apparently does), but, what I do is connect a CD-RW and I can load lots of files to it. It is tedious. If my systems were in the same room I would prefer to network them. Pro tip, don't reformat, just write multiple sessions. If you have PCI and Windows 98 I …

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Re: Dell / Sony CRT

Posted on 2019-07-15, 09:19

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I have a Dell (Sony) monitor. Put it into storage a year or two, tested it and it went really dim. So the picture is there, but there's no brightness at all. Very capacitor sounding. However, the case is in such poor condition I don't think there's much to be done with it.

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Re: Heavily corroded PCChips M912 motherboard

Posted on 2019-07-14, 14:58

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This just makes me sad. Even if it was a counterfeit POS. You know there's other wonderful stuff going to technology heaven.

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Re: "Pidgen.vbe" - what the hell?

Posted on 2019-07-11, 11:13

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derSammler wrote: The different spelling is a play on the word "pigeon" No, it's not. It's the word, pidgin.

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Re: Looking for BIOS for IBM PS/Valuepoint 6384 486 33 DX

Posted on 2019-07-11, 00:40

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I have a complete 6384/X-70. (This has an S3 805). No idea what you have or if they share the same BIOS, look it up: https://web.archive.org/web/20110930123108/http://www.lenovo.com/psref/pdf/vpbook.pdf Once you know that, allegedly, this seems to be a mirror of IBM's Valuepoint files from FTP. …

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Re: GPU Duels of 2000 - 2005 Video Cards

Posted on 2019-07-10, 15:58

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appiah4 wrote: GeForce 2 Ti I loved that card. It hit above its price and...very special to me.

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Re: Utility for making exact hard drive clones?

Posted on 2019-07-10, 15:25

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What is the best way to upgrade an WinXP hard-drive ? OS = WinXP Original drive = 20gb SATA NEW drive = 80gb SATA Laptop = WinXP era Sony Vaio PCG with USB. I have an external usb drive I can same the image too. But I don’t think the USB port is bootable. I can boot from cdrom or floppy. I want to …

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Re: Serial Mouse Scrolling Issues

Posted on 2019-07-10, 15:14

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I had a bad horizontal scrolling issue with a serial mouse the other day. Mice are very simple. Cleaning it didn't help. I opened it, got a wet cotton swab and carefully cleaned the infared wheels, sensors, emitters. Then I connected it and gave the rollers a good whirl with my finger. Could be dust …

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Re: RetroPC paint job Failure.

Posted on 2019-07-10, 15:03

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I've never tried to paint a case, though surely the day cometh. One issue I noted is that of textured paint (for instance, a 5150, but cases frequently have some kind of textured finish on them). For this reason, I suspect touching up is less invasive than repainting, but I don't know much about …

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Re: So EIDE is not compatible with IDE...

Posted on 2019-07-10, 14:51

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Well, I used the same two old IDE cables. Connected the CDROM to the IDE1 as master and the CF card to IDE0 as master... and it found the CDROM. But with both on IDE0 with the CDROM as slave... no joy. I connected the CDROM to IDE0 as master... found the drive. This makes me think my old K6-2 board …

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Re: Using DOSBox for old Accounting Software with parallel port printing and writing to floppy drive...

Posted on 2019-07-09, 04:12

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Awful lot of trouble and workarounds to get this working. I assume it was the hard drive that failed. If he doesn't do backups, he should do RAID 1. But seeing as you bought a whole computer (not sure why) rather than install Windows 95 on a new disk, I'm not even confident it was the hard drive. …

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Re: How to Run Anachronox on XP

Posted on 2019-07-09, 03:54

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...retail version doesn't have the transparency bug?

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Re: 3D Accelerated Games List (Proprietary APIs - No 3DFX/Direct3D)

Posted on 2019-07-09, 03:48

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by hwh

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Those dropbox links in the first post are all dead.

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Re: Intrest in new ISA cards?

Posted on 2019-07-09, 03:17

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by hwh

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Someone in China already put together an ISA USB card, here is a report. http://www.toughdev.com/content/2018/04/usb-flash-drives-on-8-bit-isa-bus-using-ch375-isb-to-usb-adapter/ Of course, there are 999 limitations. He had it going at 8KBps @12Mhz, (not really sure what you expect with that kind of …

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Re: SIS chipset? What are your experiences?

Posted on 2019-07-07, 16:29

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Ah, I had the illustrious ECS K7S5A (SiS 735). I bought it because it supported SDRAM and DDR, and it just happened to be a great system. Fast and cheap! Those were the days! On the other hand, that awful, awful 305 integrated graphics chip (on a different board). Or was it the 315? *vomit* It was …

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Re: Utility for making exact hard drive clones?

Posted on 2019-07-07, 16:12

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I use AOMEI. It's free. Just get in there (Windows GUI), order a partition copy (it sort of resembles disk management in Windows), apply, and it's like a batch file that runs when you restart. Very easy. And since it's a partition tool you can do whatever the hell you want with partitions right …

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Re: Post your Packard Bell computers here!

Posted on 2019-07-07, 16:05

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Ah, a thread about Packard Bell POS. Right. I have a 25Mhz 386 Axcel. 3MB memory. They were so cheap they didn't include sockets for the several other memory pads. So that's like 1MB integrated, then 2 sockets. Graphics - ugh. That's also integrated. Unfortunately they're wavy/staticky. And there is …

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