Re: Shitty HP P4 machine. What can I do to it?

Posted on 2012-03-14, 17:45

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by jaqie

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only having PCI slots (no pcie and no agp) severely limits what that machine can do. Personally if I were you I would sell that one on craigslist and then find one someone else is selling with an AGP slot or pcie slots. You could also find a p4 compatible motherboard that can take those parts in …

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Re: Need help building dos/win95 games machine...please!

Posted on 2012-03-14, 16:36

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by jaqie

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So jaqui.... I know it's not a much famed asus,gigabyte Msi or abit... But a basic intel SE440 BX-2 motherboard maxed out with an 800mhz CPU should be enough ya thunk? Atleast then I've got an agp for the main graphics card to piggy back the two voodoo 2 pci cards as well as an ISA slot for my …

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Re: Voodoo2 SLI only reporting half the memory it should.

Posted on 2012-03-14, 05:41

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by jaqie

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I would suggest a modern atx psu and then adding an isolated 5v switching power supply and wiring it in inverse for -5v. Some of the better USB hub power bricks would be suitable.

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Re: Blue lobster out of service?

Posted on 2012-03-14, 05:23

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by jaqie

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shoestring? I own a dot com and dot org through godaddy and it costs under $20 a year. You can forward those to a dyndns name easily. There is no real financial excuse to host a site intended for the public without your own site name. Pro hosting, yes, that costs $7+ a month for a reliable one ( …

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Re: Need help building dos/win95 games machine...please!

Posted on 2012-03-13, 16:05

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by jaqie

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Back in the day, a lot of old motherboards maxed out at 66 fsb and no jumper settings beyond 2x were not uncommon. As for video, I myself am using an agp ati rage128 in my p2 450 with dual voodoo2. Motherboards with the intel BX chip and slot 1 are a dime a dozen if you do some looking around, and …

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Re: Humour Thread: Outrageously priced retro gear for sale online

Posted on 2012-03-13, 07:34

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by jaqie

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It may have something to do with keropi's location, which seems to be Greece.

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Re: lookit the stuff I just got for $20 shipped!! (p2 era stuff)

Posted on 2012-03-13, 07:30

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by jaqie

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clumsy. THAT'S ME! >.>

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Re: Need help building dos/win95 games machine...please!

Posted on 2012-03-13, 06:43

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by jaqie

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Im finishing up my build for voodoo2 sli cards, and it's a pentium II 450MHz. P3 1GHz would be about right for a voodoo3 AGP, IMO and a bit too new for a pair of voodoo2, however there are going to be a lot of people saying "to get full use out of those cards you need xyz"... to me it's about …

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Re: I'm building a Socket 7 PC

Posted on 2012-03-13, 05:54

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by jaqie

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Don't get me wrong, it's a very basic sound card, and it was modest stats-wise even when it came out. It's simply the most reliable and ubiquitous sound card out there for classic systems, and it has very good clean output, too. If it had 64 bit windows drivers I would have one in my newer PCs too, …

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Re: I'm building a Socket 7 PC

Posted on 2012-03-13, 05:50

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by jaqie

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Thats an ensoniq AudioPCI. one of the best PCI sound cards ever made, IMO. I have a collection of about 5 of them, and I would sincerely like about 50 more.

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Re: I'm building a Socket 7 PC

Posted on 2012-03-13, 05:35

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by jaqie

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for the love of all that is good in the universe don't use the live or audigy, find an ess isa card or a sb16...or ensoniq audiopci...

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Re: Best video card with Dos / Win 3.11 / Win 98 support

Posted on 2012-03-12, 21:30

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by jaqie

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You could always go for a radeon 7000 pci, since you only have pci slots - I have one here I keep to test things with, it has DVI and VGA out and is PCI is why it works so well for a tester card. They can be had dirt cheap all day long on ebay. http://compare.ebay.com/like/310385591118?var=lv<yp= …

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Re: Best video card with Dos / Win 3.11 / Win 98 support

Posted on 2012-03-12, 20:58

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by jaqie

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ATi rage 128? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATI_Rage#RAGE_128

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Re: More mods to my GLide PC (see inside)

Posted on 2012-03-12, 20:41

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by jaqie

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in Marvin \ System Specs

that's actually factory spec for some. It also helps cool more evenly, and cuts down on dust impagnation into the heatsink.

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Re: Retro 98SE Gaming PC

Posted on 2012-03-12, 03:58

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Jorpho is dead on here. I know SCSI quite well and have for years, but when I saw your question and tried to form a quick but concise answer, I went whoooooaaaa.... I forgot just how much stuff there is to SCSI cuz I'm so used to it... and there's so many things you can get wrong and thus cause all …

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Re: lookit the stuff I just got for $20 shipped!! (p2 era stuff)

Posted on 2012-03-11, 23:33

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by jaqie

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I only use intel nics, I already have an intel PRO/100 S in this. I'll play with mTCP later. 😀

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Re: lookit the stuff I just got for $20 shipped!! (p2 era stuff)

Posted on 2012-03-11, 23:24

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by jaqie

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Thank you both for the suggestions and help <3 but I think I will still just do what I was originally planning, dropping a zip100 into a newer system with pata ports and network sharing it so I can use it as if it was in my primary pc.

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Re: lookit the stuff I just got for $20 shipped!! (p2 era stuff)

Posted on 2012-03-11, 23:02

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by jaqie

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hmph. I guess I'll cave in and dump XP and 95c onto it. such a pain.

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Re: lookit the stuff I just got for $20 shipped!! (p2 era stuff)

Posted on 2012-03-11, 22:59

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by jaqie

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So, there's some sort of TSR FTP host for DOS?

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Re: lookit the stuff I just got for $20 shipped!! (p2 era stuff)

Posted on 2012-03-11, 22:58

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by jaqie

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I've been using CDRWs, that's how I got my stuff on there so far, but that is such a PITA compared to just copying files. As for using an IDE CF adapter? um... that would be the same as dumping the HDD onto one of my usb2 ATA adapters, it would require me powering down the DOS computer, yanking out …

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