Re: Bought these games today
Posted on 2014-06-29, 09:21
Wasteland & Fallout are available on GOG for a few dollars but fully appreciate that it's not the same as a physical copy.
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2014-06-27, 07:30
Yep, no problem. I should get a chance early next week. Guilty as charged on the eBaying 😀 Seems like UK only items go for less than EU-wide.
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2014-06-26, 14:56
Wanted to move my DB50XG from the Socket 7 machine to the MX300 in my Socket A machine... that removes the reason to have the YMF card in there. Plus it's another card to test with SoftMPU and was relatively cheap... £20ish.
Re: Dual sound cards
Posted on 2014-06-26, 13:26
The only resource that can be shared is the FM port (default 388). Everything else will need to be different. I would disable the joystick port on the second card. Good luck 😀
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2014-06-26, 13:01
Voyetra V-4000 intelligent MPU-401 interface. Looks like the IRQ is configurable but the port is hardwired to 330.
Re: Personal dilemma - going on holiday
Posted on 2014-06-26, 12:45
We were burgled earlier this year and all they took was a ring. My retro PCs and MIDI setup was untouched thankfully! Pretty sure most burglars just want cash, jewellry and car keys. TVs and consumer electronics are worth peanuts these days.
Re: Bought these games today
Posted on 2014-06-26, 12:16
Never seen a retro PC shop here :lol: consoles perhaps. British people don't like throwing working things away (at least that's what I like to believe) so there's some interesting computer things that pop up on eBay and at car boot sales from time to time. Amibay.com has a fairly active British …
Re: Athlon Thunderbird Win98 Build
Posted on 2014-06-26, 09:20
Played some Blood and System Shock 2 on this last night. The Vortex DOS emulation works surprisingly well, although I had to move it manually to IRQ 7 to avoid a crash caused by conflicts with the onboard USB at IRQ 5. Also had to upgrade the Detonators back to a 45.x series driver as I was getting …
Re: Athlon Thunderbird Win98 Build
Posted on 2014-06-25, 19:57
Swapped the DDR in and got the following 3DMark scores: 3DMark 2000: 8305 3DMark 2001: 5978 No idea if these are any good 😎
Re: Compaq Presario 2232 Cyrix MediaGX
Posted on 2014-06-25, 09:37
To save time I'd boot from a DOS 7.10 floppy and run fdisk from there. Delete any existing partitions, create a small partition, set active, format /u /s, fdisk /MBR. Then if that works you can install Win9x on the existing partition, perhaps try expanding it later once 98 is booting.
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2014-06-25, 09:12
Wow, if you even use one of those KVMs fully you'll have a lot of PCs. I can't imagine all 3 chained together 🤣
Re: Athlon Thunderbird Win98 Build
Posted on 2014-06-25, 09:03
Installed the 2041 Aureal drivers which fixed the crashes in 3DMark. Also downgraded to the 4072 Detonators which added a few hundred to the score. Shaping up to be a nice little system now. I have a stick of DDR on the way and a larger HDD (current one is only 13GB), then it'll be put into a nice …
Re: Athlon Thunderbird Win98 Build
Posted on 2014-06-24, 08:58
This board has both DDR and SDR sockets. Made some good progress on the build, glad I build it outside the box to start with because it's been a challenge to get it stable. The Vortex 2 seems to be causing crashes in 3DMark. I'm running the official Diamond drivers, will try some reference Aureal …
Re: Bought these games today
Posted on 2014-06-24, 08:42
carlostex wrote: Plus in about one week now i'll be moving to the UK, so i'm gonna pack and seal all my precious retro stuff for when i return some 5 to 10 years later. Best of luck with your move, what part of the UK are you going to? I think you'll find some interesting retro stuff on UK eBay too …
Re: SoftMPU project needs your help! (game & sound card testing)
Posted on 2014-06-23, 15:53
Thanks for your feedback. I also notice that Princess Maker 2 doesn't work with a YMF718 card. Not sure why, it works OK with my AWE64 Gold. It's true that the music tempo can be slightly off. I couldn't get it perfect without increasing the timing frequency, which would in turn cause CPU slowdown. …
Athlon Thunderbird Win98 Build
Posted on 2014-06-23, 10:06
Just getting round to this build now. Athlon TBird 1200/133 http://i.imgur.com/A2v3Xl1l.jpg ECS K7VMM, yes it's everyone's favourite motherboard manufacturer! At least the caps on this one look good, which is saying something for a Socket A board. http://i.imgur.com/sWccN55l.jpg Maxtor 300GB PATA …
Re: Project MPU (bringing MPU-401 BOBs back to life)
Posted on 2014-06-23, 09:23
Great job. Nice to see someone taking a project through to completion. Out of interest what's the total materials & assembly cost per card in your current small production run?
Re: New DOS System - Is it safe??
Posted on 2014-06-21, 18:06
AT layout is challenging, but you can definitely improve the cabling. Here's my packed AT machine
Re: What game are you playing now?
Posted on 2014-06-20, 12:08
Re: What game are you playing now?
Posted on 2014-06-20, 09:25
Finished The Ultimate Doom maps on Brutal Doom and now playing through Brutal Doom II. It's really well done and perhaps even the way Doom was always meant to be, had technology allowed. I do however agree with John Romero's comment that if they had released Brutal Doom originally, it would have …
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