Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-05-11, 16:28

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by iraito

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Today i finally got in my hands a decent KVM (Aten CS-84A) which was pretty much required between the work PC, the old one for general use and the retro one; The keyboard and mouse emulation finally solves my issues at boot. Also this thing is built like a tank.

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Re: Need help to improve the support of 486/586/686 class CPUs in CPU-Z

Posted on 2023-05-10, 14:06

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by iraito

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I tried using the vintage version of CPU-z on my pentium 4 systems (willamette etc.) but it tells me that the system is too recent, this with WinME as operating system, it strikes me as weird since i was able to use it on XP and with an athlon XP.

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Re: Aureal Vortex vs Vortex 2

Posted on 2023-05-09, 06:31

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by iraito

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Everybody knows about the MX300 so that is the card people look for. A few companies used the Aureal chipset to make their own cards and I have a few models that mostly differ in whether they use coax or optical for digital out. And those cards are using the actual AU8830 chip? because i searched …

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Re: Aureal Vortex vs Vortex 2

Posted on 2023-05-09, 06:24

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by iraito

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theyre not that rare but for some reason the diamond cards prices are usually jacked but I've seen a lot of OEM Aureal cards and cards of other brands like turtle beach and I think DELL and the like at reasonable to cheap not to long ago. I checked a bit into it and i think that's because of the …

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Re: Aureal Vortex vs Vortex 2

Posted on 2023-05-09, 04:23

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by iraito

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It's one of the best known Aureal 2 cards. How much are you looking to pay for one? Locally I have an indefinite supply of these for about $17 a piece. Sorry to necro this thread but I do not have the ability to PM yet and was wondering if you still had a source for MX300 cards and if I could buy …

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Re: Win XP and DualShock 4

Posted on 2023-04-28, 11:27

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by iraito

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Yeah that sounds fair. Can't say I know of any tools to specifically disable/hide single buttons... Next best thing that comes to mind would be to use something like Xpadder or x360ce to define a virtual second controller, making a clone of the DS4's inputs while omitting the misconfigured ones. I …

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Re: Win XP and DualShock 4

Posted on 2023-04-28, 07:22

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by iraito

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For some reason they appear auto assigned in prince of Persia sands of time, if it was me i would like to fix them.

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Win XP and DualShock 4

Posted on 2023-04-27, 16:28

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by iraito

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The controller works pretty well, the only problem is the X\Y rotation stuck on always pressed even after calibration, is there a way to disable specific buttons in XP or some old softwares for gamepads customization?

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Re: nostalgia midlife crisis

Posted on 2023-04-14, 07:59

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by iraito

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the expense of others (not to mention the planet) Yeah, this part bothered me too. Admittedly it can be difficult to find the "best" way to dispose of things you longer want, especially if you don't have a lot of time. However, books and CDs for example may be accepted as donations by thrift stores …

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Re: nostalgia midlife crisis

Posted on 2023-04-13, 10:13

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by iraito

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I guess this is the fruit of a utilitarian society... I build, repair, play etc. not because i have some sense of utility attached to these objects (i have to keep them alive for this, for that...), i don't even care about the items in their material form that much, i care about the essence or …

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Re: Win ME and audigy SB0090 Freeze guaranteed

Posted on 2023-04-04, 15:34

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by iraito

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It was daemontools, apparently on winME 3.47 usually ends up crashing the OS on startup, version 3.44 is recommended. I thought you were experimenting on a clean freshly installed system... I'm so accustomed to install daemon on a freshly formatted system my brain just accepted it as a fact of life …

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Re: Win ME and audigy SB0090 Freeze guaranteed

Posted on 2023-04-04, 13:52

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by iraito

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It was daemontools, apparently on winME 3.47 usually ends up crashing the OS on startup, version 3.44 is recommended.

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Re: Do you replace old case and PSU fans?

Posted on 2023-04-01, 21:17

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by iraito

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It depends on the fans and how much airflow is actually needed through the case to keep the case temps within 1-2C of the ambient temps. And when I do replace fans, I will either use working ones I already have or buy and use high quality fans. High quality fans are not cheap unless you find them …

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Re: Do you replace old PC and PSU fans?

Posted on 2023-04-01, 20:54

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by iraito

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I do, i usually want the coolest possible case for any old or new PC i have, so i usually swap fans and improve the airflow of the case itself while also adding multiple fans, it's worth it, my x1900xtx in the Core 2 duo build got 20C cooler after i optimized the case airflow, i was still puzzled by …

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Re: What are the best Vga to hdmi scalers or peripherals for MS-DOS games ?

Posted on 2023-03-23, 17:12

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by iraito

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I use a vga to hdmi converter for the capture card, the capture card is used to record my games and for streaming, you can omit both and just use vga.

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Re: Retro game servers for vintage hardware (Quake, UT etc..)

Posted on 2023-03-23, 15:33

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by iraito

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I like the idea, wouldn't be a bad idea to make it a thing here on vogons, so you have a retro server with retro machines playing on it.

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Re: What are the best Vga to hdmi scalers or peripherals for MS-DOS games ?

Posted on 2023-03-23, 14:39

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by iraito

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Out of interest what is your setup? And in particular what graphic card are you using? My setup is: Retro PC ---> VGA splitter ---> VGA to VGA2SCART sync converter ---> GBS-C ---> VGA with sync converter and upscale to HDMI ---> HDMI to capture card --->OBS That's only for DOS and 640x480 (from …

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Re: Matrox G200 for DOS?

Posted on 2023-03-23, 14:17

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by iraito

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I use a G200 on my MMX build and i did not encounter any of the issues noted on the matrix BUT that only after using 136 in 1 to slowdown my CPU to a 386\486 etc. personally after slowing down matrox cards work pretty damn smooth.

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Win ME and audigy SB0090 Freeze guaranteed

Posted on 2023-03-17, 16:35

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by iraito

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I'm trying to install any driver wdm or vxd, from original discs and what not, the moment the card gets recognized the system freezes. Any suggestion? Besides changing OS, for now i want to see if i can solve this on ME.

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Re: Fan restoration on early 2000's graphics cards

Posted on 2023-03-15, 09:15

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by iraito

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Putas wrote on 2023-03-15, 07:35: How can you tell whether a card died due to heat? When it's artifacting but still working for a while and then completely goes out during a long period in summer, it kinda hints at a heat issue.

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