Re: Jump from P1 to P4?

Posted on 2015-01-28, 15:31

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I was wondering this same question. :) So glad you asked it. To add to it though, why would someone want to go for XP over 98? What games were made for XP that couldn't run on 98 that don't run on current hardware? I see the opposite being a problem, games made for 95/98 that may not run on XP. …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-01-22, 15:50

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Very pretty!

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CRT Monitors - What to look for?

Posted on 2015-01-22, 01:54

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I found a CRT at work for free and man am I in love with it. This is my first CRT since changing to LCD panels looooong ago. However an annoying thing is needing to move the horizontal and vertical around whenever I change resolutions. Are there some CRTs that remember their settings per resolution? …

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Re: DOS 6.22 with NE2000 ISA network card how to load driver

Posted on 2015-01-21, 18:54

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Run nicscan (http://www.georgpotthast.de/sioux/packet.htm) and see if it gives you any other information.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-01-21, 18:38

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Nabbed this Toshiba Satellite Pro 435CDS at a thrift store. It said "for parts" on the tag but the contents looked in such great condition I couldn't see what would be wrong with it that wouldn't be easily fixable. Nothing was wrong with it apart from a line through the middle of the screen and its …

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Re: Modern sound cards, what's all the fuss?

Posted on 2015-01-15, 21:26

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You end up with corrupted hard drives? 😒 You may have other problems besides OS choice.

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Re: Identify this case for me? (aluminum tower, side panel window)

Posted on 2015-01-15, 21:21

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I have one very similar sitting in my garage waiting to go to the recyclers.. I can when I get home.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-01-15, 21:19

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Grabbed this gateway mmx 200 from ebay. Talked the buy it now down :D Don't know how to resize pictures.. You can't be serious This is the smart phone generation. 3196 pixels wide... kithylin will be furious :D I bet the phones resize the pictures automaticly for easy viewing ;) I wouldnt know …

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Re: Is there a project that converts dosgames to diskimages?

Posted on 2015-01-15, 20:49

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Flux imaging is probably the best way to go at this point.. I've been archiving my giant collection for awhile now (on and off) using http://www.cbmstuff.com/proddetail.php?prod=SCP Works good and replicates crazy copy protection schemes no problem. I first verify the floppy has no errors on a real …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-01-09, 20:51

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Grabbed this gateway mmx 200 from ebay. Talked the buy it now down :D Seems barely used. I love sideways cases, especially small ones, and this one takes a full ATX mobo which is cool. However one bad thing with it. I cannot put in my AWE 32 with mem exp because apparently soundblaster thought it …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2014-11-17, 22:51

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Never posted in this thread before.. so here goes :) Got this 486 bad boy off of ebay for about $20 shipped. It looks and feels brand new. Slight battery corrosion, but nothing major. Going to do my first coin battery replacement on it. I'm putting him in a gateway 2000 486 case that I've had …

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

Posted on 2014-10-20, 16:30

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Just got back from Portland Retro Gaming Expo. It was only kind-of retro, and it was 98.6 percent console retro. Did find a cheap no-box copy of Planescape Torment though, and attended some good panels. It was good to meet Pat the NES Punk, especially since I contribute videos to his website ( …

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Re: AWE64 tinkering

Posted on 2014-10-19, 19:41

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I've never delved into the sound area much, but I have been lately. If you were to use the AWE64 for midi stuff, and another card for normal audio, how would you hook them all up to the same speaker? OUT one card and IN the other?

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Re: Modern DOS games

Posted on 2014-10-18, 15:58

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Agreed, the colors, fonts, and borders of the site is awesome.

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Re: Modern DOS games

Posted on 2014-10-18, 06:20

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Its too bad the modern dos dev community isn't as big as the retro Nintendo dev community. Cool website idea 😀

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Re: Which boxes to build?

Posted on 2014-10-17, 06:13

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Because this is a discussion forum? 😉 Nah I just want to explore all my options. 😀 For example, I don't have a socket 3 PCI board, but I have a few P1 PCI/ISA boards. I may start looking for a socket 3 PCI based on this discussion but I don't know yet...

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Re: What resolution did you use in your games and desktop back in 2001?

Posted on 2014-10-17, 05:39

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1024 x 768. It's still my favourite retro resolution. Enough detail, pretty much every game supports it, GUI elements are not too small, not too big and graphics cards usually have enough performance to handle it. This. Of course, depending on the game I would have to lower my resolution. One game …

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Re: Which boxes to build?

Posted on 2014-10-17, 05:30

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Is there any benefit from using a powerful MMX chip over a P1 166 for example? What games would benefit from it that I wouldn't be able to play on the alternative P2/P3 machine?

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IDE port blew out my HD? Ever happen to you?

Posted on 2014-10-17, 04:59

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I have an Ali5 chipset board (P1 MMX) and I was working on it. I turned it off, did some things, turned it on and it said the HD wasn't detected. I tried another port nothing. I pulled a HD from a machine in storage that I remember to be working, it wasn't detected either. To start ruling things out …

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Re: Which boxes to build?

Posted on 2014-10-15, 00:15

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Can you tweak the MMX to work fine with the old speed sensitive 486? I have a ali5 mobo with agp, PCI, Isa, and 266 MMX. Should I just use that as my 486?

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