Re: The Natural Evolution of the Retrogamer.

Posted on 2013-02-16, 05:32

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d1stortion wrote: I mean, recently someone paid almost 100 bucks for an AWE64 Gold... I think this actually defines a type of retrogamer, the one who has more money than sense. Personally, I somewhat fall into this category having paid way too much for some of my sound card devices in the past!

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Re: Bulding retro PC with pics !! :P

Posted on 2013-02-08, 22:13

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Drop the barrel battery too before its too late

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Re: Don't Buy This Board

Posted on 2013-02-02, 08:52

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Crisis averted! *PhewwwW*

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Re: Sound Blaster AWE64 Gold Reverb and Chorus comparison YT Video

Posted on 2013-01-29, 11:09

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by dacow

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I can see Mau1wurf1977 making another video soon 😀 I never really used the chorus/reverb until I saw the amazing difference it made with the PC speaker! Nice vid as always Mau1wurf!

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Re: Bought these games today

Posted on 2013-01-29, 08:15

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Finally got myself Secret of Monkey Island! Which also came with the first edition of The Adventurer!

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Re: Bought these games today

Posted on 2013-01-27, 07:50

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Bought this a couple of weeks ago, keep forgetting to post it

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Re: ISA VGA Card?

Posted on 2013-01-27, 07:38

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by dacow

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silentwulf wrote: Looks like the card I purchased is faulty 🙁 At least it means you can go buy another one 😀

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Re: Bought these games today

Posted on 2013-01-26, 13:10

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badmofo wrote: I think maybe it has VGA support, and adlib? Did a bit of checking and yes it has VGA support as well as both 16 color and 64 color EGA. I remember this because when I bought the game, I only had an EGA graphics 😀

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Re: ISA VGA Card?

Posted on 2013-01-26, 11:19

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by dacow

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I've circled the area that looks to be the problem here

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Re: ISA VGA Card?

Posted on 2013-01-26, 10:29

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by dacow

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On this image http://imageshack.us/f/708/dsc01486nf.jpg, is it just me or do some of the traces look cut to the ET4000AX chip? Near the C22 capacitor on the right hand side of the pic, about half way down.

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Re: Fibrechannel 15k RPM harddrives

Posted on 2013-01-23, 07:15

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Anyone have any experience with these kind of harddrives? Since most enterprises are moving towards SAS drives, these should be a dime a dozen. But gotta also remember that they've probably been running 24/7 for god knows how long, so unless you're planning on running a RAID setup I wouldn't bother …

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Re: Bought these games today

Posted on 2013-01-22, 10:47

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Comanche CD, also brand new. Includes the expansion, etc. Yay! Thats Comanche Maximum Overkill yeah? I owned that game but never really got the hang of it back in high school! Ironman, super off road racer. I have fond memories of my brother and I playing this on my father’s 386. How good was this …

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Re: dial-up modems

Posted on 2013-01-07, 11:24

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I wouldn't use them anymore, but I must say I do miss the BBS days with Bluewave Offline Mail reader, running my own BBS and being forced to learn all the various AT initialisation strings with the Hayes AT command set. Learning the AT Hayes command set was what got me my first job in an ISP! Just …

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Re: What happened to my 486?!

Posted on 2013-01-07, 09:35

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by dacow

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The two "cacheable" settings should refer to using shadow RAM to cache the video BIOS or main (system) BIOS. There is the Video BIOS Shadow settings under the second BIOS option named "BIOS FEATURES SETUP" Then under the "CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP", there is the "System Shadow" and "Video Shadow" …

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Re: What happened to my 486?!

Posted on 2013-01-06, 10:11

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I managed to purchase some new cache chips 8 x 64k and a new TAG chip 32k. I've put them, set the cache jumpers to 512kb cache. :edit: the system now seems to work successfully at 512kb cache. I need to tweak some of the BIOS settings because the system hung after booting DOS when I turned it on the …

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Re: Hardware you wish you'd never bought.

Posted on 2012-12-21, 03:28

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A 386 SX-16 motherboard with 1MB ram which could never run at it's full speed because it kept crashing. I think it had some dodgey DRAM which couldn't run at the full speed so most of the time I had to run with it's Turbo off. Being such a young todler, I was too scared to take it back to the shop …

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Re: What happened to my 486?!

Posted on 2012-12-07, 00:54

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I may have inadvertently plugged the cache chips the wrong way around :) I'll give it another go this evening. Incidently, how do you guys get the cache chips out? I have a bank of chips which are right next to each other. So you can get the chip puller hooked in on one side, but the inner side …

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Re: What happened to my 486?!

Posted on 2012-12-06, 11:39

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Right this is just weird. So I put the UMC486SX33 in @ 40mhz and I now have a 13.1 3dBench. I then plugged in the 128KB cache and nothing happened except a nice burning smell. I touched the cache chips and they were burning. I pulled all the cache chips out and the tag chip. Plugged it all back in …

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Re: What happened to my 486?!

Posted on 2012-12-05, 21:37

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Did you get HDD controller failure error at some point? I have been experiencing this one quite often on my old machines. Nope, I got system instability from the CF card not plugged in correctly (system hanging, reporting sectors missing). But once I figured out the problem she's been fine since, …

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What happened to my 486?!

Posted on 2012-12-05, 12:23

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For those of you who like a bit of a challenge, something seems to have happened to my 486 this evening and I'm not exactly sure whats gone wrong. Any help would be good :) Motherboard = Freetech 486F38 (massive 0kb cache!! :o) CPU = 486SX33 Video= Genoa 8500 VL (Cirrus 5428) 1MB HDD= CF 4GB.. Sound …

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