Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-09-02, 11:09

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Got a IBM Thinkpad 235, working quite well and even had the surprise that it game with an ESS soundchip plus you can underclock it during normal usage :D Since I got all the original cds and stuff, I plan to make a backup one day (when I get a CF adapter for sd card since I have no modern ways of …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-08-31, 13:30

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by ibm5155

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Got a IBM Thinkpad 235, working quite well and even had the surprise that it game with an ESS soundchip plus you can underclock it during normal usage :D Since I got all the original cds and stuff, I plan to make a backup one day (when I get a CF adapter for sd card since I have no modern ways of …

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Re: Need Help with my Toshiba Satellite 330CDT

Posted on 2022-08-31, 13:20

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by ibm5155

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hell yeah... I found a 400 pages manual that described that there were a tool for testing the system (and guess what it tests? the FAN!!!) but it was really a pain in the ass to find the diagnostics program. but Lucky, I found a filed called fan.exe, it doesnt even have 1KB!!, and it wasnt for that …

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Re: YouTube translator for retro systems

Posted on 2021-08-29, 21:20

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Cool project! I gave it a try and I'm doing some fine-tuning on it for a Pentium MMX and so far it's playing videos smoothly. So far my only issue was that things get glitchy over time if you try to open a live stream from youtube (VLC starts to create new channels for some reason) I also tried to …

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Re: Maxi Sound Game Theater 64 User Manual.

Posted on 2017-12-06, 21:24

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by ibm5155

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Ok it took some time but I made an iso file from the original install cd and also scanned the software install guide.

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Re: ESS sound card woes - BTC 1859 and Guillemot Maxi Sound 64

Posted on 2017-12-06, 15:24

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Hm this card looks almost the same as as Game Theater 64

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Re: Requesting some testing from 386/486 users

Posted on 2017-09-20, 18:36

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rofl, well, the "" only shows when the image file was not found. the menu stuff is inside the main .exe file and the rest of the art is inside of the others sub folders, so some mess may happened during the copy of the game. Hmm, so indeed some software (or maybe its the default of some gpus) …

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Re: Requesting some testing from 386/486 users

Posted on 2017-09-20, 18:21

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Hmm so I'll indeed need to load a new palette when the game start, for now I'm Just using what's inside the default vga palette colors and in a special test I also suffered from strange colors (It was related to some msdos software that for some reason changed the default colors from the vga so the …

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Re: Requesting some testing from 386/486 users

Posted on 2017-09-20, 17:08

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

What happens if you press the options menu? ;) It's not implemented so it'll enter into an endless loop. @konc Your system has a FPU? that may be the cause about why the craft is not on screen and the fps being weird. In this case I added another .exe file for people without fpu called (astnofpu), …

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Re: Requesting some testing from 386/486 users

Posted on 2017-09-20, 15:24

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Weird, idk why vogons or me screwed with the link... Here's the fixed link http://www.mediafire.com/file/orjy1b9ioryu5ei … eroid_TEST2.zip

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Requesting some testing from 386/486 users

Posted on 2017-09-20, 12:59

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by ibm5155

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Hey guys, could you test my engine that I'm working on? The results that I want is from people using MS-DOS or windows 9X running on a 386 486 or Pentium I. What I want is to know how much fps this test game is doing on such old processors (it shows the fps on screen and when you close it also makes …

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Re: Mplayer.. is it possible today?

Posted on 2017-06-23, 03:40

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I wish there were a P2P software that allows you to play IPX games over the internet :depressed: that doesn't require a server to run. Kali is still a thing I think. But it's P2P or does it send the data to the server and later to the other guy? I'm saying that because hell, starcraft 1 had almost …

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Re: Mplayer.. is it possible today?

Posted on 2017-06-21, 12:39

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I wish there were a P2P software that allows you to play IPX games over the internet 😢 that doesn't require a server to run.

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Re: Need for Speed II and III problem

Posted on 2017-06-20, 17:16

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by ibm5155

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Thanks to my main computer I found that ALL my files are infected with W9X_CIH D:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::;; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrnWFAx5vJg That explain why the more I tried to repair the machine the worse it was becoming

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Need for Speed II and III problem

Posted on 2017-06-20, 01:35

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=Both games are demo. -Both are running at software render. Idk what the heck is going on, Need for speed III used to work but now I try to open it and nothing shows up, on the nfs2 case it shows the game menu, but when I try to run a race, it says on console "Illegal intruction at 00000017" SOS D: …

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Re: Is that PSU Ok for this system?

Posted on 2017-01-05, 00:13

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HELL Well let me update the stuff: -First, the motherboard is 20 pin and the psu 24 know only, so I cut some of the wires and voala it fits... -And the worst part, the system doesn't even boot, the cpu cooler is a bit weak and it takes 10 seconds to turn it off. -from many of my tries, only two …

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Re: Is that PSU Ok for this system?

Posted on 2016-12-31, 00:17

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Thanks, I'm going to get this one so (even with the lack of molex, I'm just gonna get some adapters and gg). I was afraid about the lack of -5v because I saw some testing vídeos and some isa sound cards are affected by not having it (so the fm sound sounds quite wrong).

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Is that PSU Ok for this system?

Posted on 2016-12-29, 21:52

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by ibm5155

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The System: -AMD K6-III+ 400MHz (and sometimes 500MHz) -3DFX VOODOO 3 3000 AGP -128MB SDRAM -5 PORTS USB 2.0 PCI -ETHERNET -ISA SOUND CARD (The size of a baby at motherboard) - IDE HDD - IDE DVD-RW -Floppy disk The sound card has all the connectors, but it looks like the -5V part is not connected to …

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Re: Toshiba Satellite 330CDT

Posted on 2016-11-02, 16:28

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in Marvin \ System Specs

It's the function key with the water faucet on it. No idea why. Yeah this one, this key changes the power settings from the bios's battery save mode, on mine you can only have 3 presets, for the cpu, you can only set it to HIGH and LOW performance, idk what it does but it lowers the clock by 133MHz …

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Toshiba Satellite 330CDT

Posted on 2016-11-02, 01:30

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by ibm5155

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in Marvin \ System Specs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Vca_HOPWNk some screenshots I got this monster for almost nothing, it's almost in new condition, cooler Works, HDD/Floppy/CD drive Works,... Hardware: Pentium MMX 266MHz + 512KB L2 cache. (This one is a special mmx version where their development size was decreased …

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