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What speaker setup are you using on your vintage machine?

Posted on 2012-07-20, 05:33

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I picked up the following set of Cambridge Soundworks 2.1 speakers the other day - second hand off gumtree - and it got me to wondering what other vogoners are using. I've been using an almost identical set of these Cambridge ones since 2004, when FarCry rekindled my interest in video games after …

Re: buying/building

Posted on 2012-07-17, 22:41

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If I wanted a new PC with minimal research, etc I'd just head to a medium sized computer store (big enough that they will still exist in 6 months if something dies, but not so big that they just sell name brands) and buy their pre-built budget gaming machine. I assume you only need the box, in which …

Re: is a 486 really worth it

Posted on 2012-07-12, 23:03

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That's the board being discussed in this thread: What's this 486 freak show worth? Note that the keyboard I bought from that bloke is broken - he's digging this stuff out of his shed and not testing it.

Re: dumpster

Posted on 2012-07-12, 22:59

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I recently took a Pentium 2 to the recycling center and now I regret it! It's impossible to know what you're going to start valuing next with this crazy hobby. From now on I'll only toss it if I have one already.

Re: It's really old!!!

Posted on 2012-07-12, 22:56

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🤣, that's a familiar story. I've gotten very sceptical about people's "old computers". In most people's mind anything more than 5 years old is obsolete. A sad state of affairs!

Re: is a 486 really worth it

Posted on 2012-07-10, 22:44

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For me the question comes down to "are you more interested in the software, or the hardware". I started out thinking I was more interested in playing games, so I got myself a nice P1 233MMX - a great machine for most DOS games. But I was bored with it in quick time. Now that I've accepted that it's …

Re: 486 System Revised

Posted on 2012-07-10, 06:11

You bought the case new ey? How did you manage that? Looks very nice, and I like the dual size floppy drive, I need me one of those. It would be particularly handy in a desktop because it's hard to get the floppy cable to reach b/w the 5 1/4 drive bays and the vertical 3.5 bay. All told a very nice …

Re: What's this 486 freak show worth?

Posted on 2012-07-05, 23:05

I told the bloke selling it that those eBay prices he's quoting are bollocks, he's going to list it anyway apparently. I'll be interested to see how it goes. In the mean time the keyboard I bought from him has shown up and it's busted, so I have no faith in him now anyway. artifact_systems is a good …

Re: Picking the right soundcards

Posted on 2012-07-05, 03:36

Oh man I got caught up in this frustrating quest for the right sound card(s), it was fun for a while but got old after trying 5 or six different combos. There's ALWAYS a down side to every card. The CMI8330 3D media thing mentioned above nearly did it for me but the joy stick port had to be …

What's this 486 freak show worth?

Posted on 2012-07-03, 22:48

I've offered a guy 30 bucks (AUD which are on par with USD) for this motherboard, and he said no, citing eBay listings as evidence that it's worth more. As we know eBay is no guide, a lot of that stuff sits there for months. But this thing does have VLB + PCI, that unusual cache setup (pipeline …

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