Re: Halo CE on a Dell Dimension 4600

Posted on 2012-05-23, 02:02

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Do you have any spare Pentium/PIII/Athlon coolers laying around? Something like that would be more than adequate, if you can rig up some way to attach it to the card (and don't mind losing use of a PCI slot or two). I was actually thinking of that idea myself. :D I have a cooler from a socket 7 …

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Re: Halo CE on a Dell Dimension 4600

Posted on 2012-05-22, 23:30

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I was just looking through the pile of stuff I brought back from the recycling center (I've visited multiple times in the last week), and I happened across a Radeon All In Wonder 9800 Pro! :shocked: It's in great shape, but it's missing its heatsink, and I need to find a DVI to VGA converter. XD ( …

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Re: Halo CE on a Dell Dimension 4600

Posted on 2012-05-22, 18:42

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If it's the original Dell FX5200, there's a good chance it's one of the crappy, low-clocked 64-bit versions. Though the regular FX5200 wasn't particularly great, the 64-bit versions were absolute garbage... 4200 in 3dMark01 would be about right for one of those. I think you're right. I'm well aware …

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Halo CE on a Dell Dimension 4600

Posted on 2012-05-22, 17:33

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About a week ago, just for shits and giggles I picked up an old Dell Dimension 4600 from the local recycling center and decided to "restore" it so that it would be my "early XP era guinea pig". XD It came with little more than the case, the board, the cooling system, a 2.8GHz Prescott HT, and 512MB …

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Re: What are the BEST (retro) system specs for running a wide range of old DOS games?

Posted on 2012-05-13, 07:38

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I'll definitely have to do that. 😁 As well, going a bit off topic here, I also recently picked up a circa-1998 iMac G3 in awesome condition, and once I get it going I'll take some pics of that as well. 😁

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Re: What are the BEST (retro) system specs for running a wide range of old DOS games?

Posted on 2012-05-12, 20:18

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lowering the multiplier at the minimum on the k6-2 would have a significant effect on the equivalent speed or not? Nope it doesn't. Same goes for the other chips. Doesn't matter if your Pentium is running at 133 or at 200. that's a pity. there are always slowdown utilities for anything further than …

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Re: What are the BEST (retro) system specs for running a wide range of old DOS games?

Posted on 2012-05-12, 19:15

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So I picked up a 333MHz AMD K6-2 box at the local recycling center the other day, and it seems like it should work well for my purposes. :D I don't know the exact specs on it, but I know that it's an old Packard Bell with an onboard ESS Audiodrive soundcard, 128MB of ram, a SiS chipset of some sort, …

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Re: DOSBox-X branch

Posted on 2012-05-08, 22:54

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I just wonder though, will this work with Win98? I don't actually have a copy of 95. 🤣 I know that 95 will probably work better, but I'm just wondering.

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Re: DOSBox-X branch

Posted on 2012-05-07, 05:54

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I can't wait to try this out! 😁

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Re: Emulating Monochrome/VGA Multi-Screen setup?

Posted on 2012-05-03, 01:53

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Gamecollector wrote: Well, the MDA is the text only, so - can the DosBox status window be used as the output? That's actually a pretty good idea. 😁

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Re: DOSBox-X branch

Posted on 2012-04-20, 22:53

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Bochs is just the standard recommendation if you require a better hardware emulation than Dosbox provides. Except the gaming relevant stuff like graphics card and soundblaster of course (as you wrote) ;) CPU stuff is supposed to be more accurate with Bochs AFAIK. I wouldn't mind a working CD …

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Re: DOSBox-X branch

Posted on 2012-04-19, 06:39

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Don't bother with IDE emulation. That would be double work as that has been written before. The tools you are writing sound pretty interesting. Too late already started :) I've written low-level C and ASM code to work with IDE controllers before, so I have a fairly accurate idea what I/O and …

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Re: DOSBox-X branch

Posted on 2012-03-28, 06:20

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the features you've mentioned sound awesome. 😁 if you found a way to do IDE/ATAPI emulation and simulate different CPUs/clockspeeds as well, then it would be perfect! 😁 (no, I don't expect these features to make it into the main version of DosBox, though they would be beneficial for gaming IMO 🤣)

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Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2012-03-11, 23:23

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I actually own a legit full copy of Seek and Destroy. 😁 I got it from a local thrift store for free along with a boxed SNES copy of Zombies Ate My Neighbors and an old Bon Jovi cassette when my dad and I dropped off a bunch of stuff there a few years ago. 🤣

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Re: Best wide screen monitor / TV for old games?

Posted on 2012-03-10, 02:45

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I have an awesome 32 inch Sony Bravia from around 2008-2009 that does excellent 4:3 scaling (there's even a button for it on the remote!), but its maximum resolution is only 1366x768 (or 1024x768 in 4:3 mode) 😜

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Re: Today's Thrift Store Score (TM)...

Posted on 2012-03-10, 02:08

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That keyboard looks just like the one I got with my very first machine. 🤣

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Re: The Return of the BEIGE! (Pentium II Inside)

Posted on 2012-03-09, 02:24

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that's a sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet build. 😁

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Re: Old games, old gamer, new computer

Posted on 2012-03-07, 05:26

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I've used flash drives through USB with the free Virtualbox distro. I've also run both Alice, and Soldier of Fortune 2 through the Direct X addons they offer for virtualbox. It all worked pretty well for that stuff. That's because the VMs only support modern DirectX versions ATM and only on XP/ …

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Re: Unique controllers! (SpaceOrb, P5 Glove, what else?)

Posted on 2012-03-05, 04:47

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sliderider wrote: Logitech Trackman stationary mouse […] Show full quote Logitech Trackman stationary mouse I used to have one of those. 😁 The X-axis roller on it was screwed up and I couldn't move the mouse cursor to the right unless I put a lot of effort into it. 🤣

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Re: games with FM/OPL sound effects?

Posted on 2012-03-05, 04:25

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emote wrote: Adding a soundblaster brings a couple of extra sounds like a loud grating noise when the doors open. Not to mention all of the hilarious sounds the guards make. AIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! 🤣 They did a much better job of actually giving them legible speech in the Apple IIGS version.

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