Re: Pentium 4 vs. Pentium D performance

Posted on 2015-01-24, 23:35

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by smeezekitty

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I'm not a big fan of the Pentium D. They work well as space heaters though. XD Pretty much describes all P4s They aren't bad alternatives to the Pentium 4, as they'll still have SSE3 support, high clocks, and generally are compatible with any board that can work with Prescott. They also tend to run …

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Re: Repacking PopCap game mods to a "PAK" file

Posted on 2015-01-24, 23:34

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by smeezekitty

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I know that SourceForge link, And? The sourceforge download contains poppak.exe Its in osframework\tools

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Re: Qemu doesnt find the dos disk?

Posted on 2015-01-24, 23:32

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Nic-93 wrote: smeezekitty wrote: What host OS? Are you tying it to a physical floppy drive? Or using disk images? The VM has been asigned to be a dos system and its a disk image. How are you switching disk images? Through the qemu console?

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Re: Retro main pc: Athlon 1000 vs XP 2000+

Posted on 2015-01-24, 23:06

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by smeezekitty

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This is what I've heard as well. I haven't looked into hosts file-based blocking on my PC, but I have a utility for it on my phone called AdAway. Found it on F-Droid, but you need a rooted phone to use it. http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm No substantial performance hit overall, and on many …

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Re: Qemu doesnt find the dos disk?

Posted on 2015-01-24, 22:12

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by smeezekitty

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What host OS? Are you tying it to a physical floppy drive? Or using disk images?

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Re: Pentium 4 vs. Pentium D performance

Posted on 2015-01-24, 21:25

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by smeezekitty

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I'm not a big fan of the Pentium D. They work well as space heaters though. XD Pretty much describes all P4s They aren't bad alternatives to the Pentium 4, as they'll still have SSE3 support, high clocks, and generally are compatible with any board that can work with Prescott. They also tend to run …

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Re: Programming... Would appreciate some advice from the experts and ideas for a simple DOS tool.

Posted on 2015-01-24, 19:41

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One reason to shy away from C# is poor portability

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Re: Programming... Would appreciate some advice from the experts and ideas for a simple DOS tool.

Posted on 2015-01-24, 16:51

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snorg wrote: Maybe consider command-line Unix stuff instead of just DOS? Unix and C/C++ go together like peas and carrots. Many or most DOS programs are developed in C

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Re: Programming... Would appreciate some advice from the experts and ideas for a simple DOS tool.

Posted on 2015-01-24, 07:21

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I was specially happy with myself because everyone disliked pointers so much and i absolutely love them, and my program uses them extensively. I That's pretty funny. It seems like most people always struggle with pointers but I picked them up pretty quick. Anyway, if there is something needed, it …

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Re: Athlon 1000 vs XP 2000+

Posted on 2015-01-24, 05:08

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Do note: I've avoided the actual "AdBlock" software because it can cause compatibility problems, and has instituted a pay-to-play program where anonymous advertisers can buy their way out of blocking (and at that point, what's the point?). You can opt out of that. And besides their program never …

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

Posted on 2015-01-24, 02:39

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by smeezekitty

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This afternoon I visited an e-recycling company. They asked me to provide some training on vintage computers. They had 12 desktops/mini towers. Mostly 386/486 clones. Also one IBM PS/2 Model 55 and 3 Epson Equity's. CT1740s with ASP, Thunder Board and Tandy CM-11. I will be back in touch with them. …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-01-23, 22:50

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My Latitude CP M233ST, with its P233 MMX, is more than quick enough for office usage. The only issue is that having only 64MB of RAM in Windows 98 can cause it to chug a little bit at times. I usually use Office 2010, which does have a few useful improvements over the old versions, such as Office …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-01-23, 21:17

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That's what I was aiming at. YT used to be lightweight and ran smoothly on anything, but somehow they managed to make it choke even new machines now. If it weren't for youtube, all this web-2.0 stuff, and browsers that need "updates" twice a week, I think even a Pentium 2 would still make a decent …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-01-23, 20:10

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Picked up a couple EGA? monitors yesterday...Packard Bell and a Princeton Graphic Systems HX-12 RGB (the Princeton CRT is missing a knob). Is it me or is the green channel out?

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Re: Video cards and 2d acceleration

Posted on 2015-01-23, 18:57

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by smeezekitty

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I had the same feelings with the R300 based cards. It's difficult to see differences with such advanced cards even less when they connected trough the dvi. But surely I can see big differences in the late 90 years when from an S3 Virge to a Mystique or to a Riva128 the differences where huge in …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-01-22, 22:16

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you can't watch youtube videos at higer resolutions than 360p, due to the lack of flashplayer for PPC, so you have to watch them using html5 which is too heavy for this Mac, other than that everything works fine. It's incredible if you think about it, how youtube/flash has become the definite all- …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-01-22, 18:25

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vmunix wrote: http://i59.tinypic.com/o7j76a.jpg […] Show full quote Lubuntu Nice. Is that a PPC machine? How slow is it?

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Re: Athlon 1000 vs XP 2000+

Posted on 2015-01-22, 17:30

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Modern websites are horrendously inefficient, and it makes me wonder why they are coded in such a way with the proliferation of lower-power devices like tablets and smartphones. If anything, I think web developers should be trying harder to make their sites work on low-power devices, rather than …

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Re: Video cards and 2d acceleration

Posted on 2015-01-22, 01:58

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by smeezekitty

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And Windows 8 toned down the visual sparklies. I like that a lot. They had to lighten things up so it could run on gimpy tablets and not wolf down the battery by powering up the GPU excessively. I've seen a lot of whining from people who apparently miss Aero though. Can't please everyone. It is …

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Re: Athlon 1000 vs XP 2000+

Posted on 2015-01-22, 01:48

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I'm not sure SSE matters, but SSE2 is becoming a requirement for web related software to even run. And that means Athlon 64 or P4. I haven't experienced that much. Chrome, Flash and Silverlight require SSE2 IIRC. Another thing is HD video acceleration features of various video cards requires SSE2. …

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