Re: Post pics of your CRT monitors

Posted on 2014-02-01, 00:31

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I don't know....I remember being told a number of times never to open a CRT unless one knows exactly what he is doing... I can take apart and sort out a PC or a console quite easily, a CRT Im not so sure about.

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Re: Post pics of your CRT monitors

Posted on 2014-01-31, 23:33

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one would think so , but obviously no , the distance it traveled was about 400 miles , and it was well packed ,which only leads me to the conclusion that UPS were using it as a football. if anyone has an idea of how to fix this, I would be happy to hear it, since otherwise its actually a pretty good …

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Re: Post pics of your CRT monitors

Posted on 2014-01-31, 22:59

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the good news is that I finally managed to find a decent monitor that I could get shipped to me , a 17inch Mitsubishi diamond 750SB. bad news is that I suspect its been damaged during shipping (Thanks UPS, Im hoping the football game this was used for was fun), due to the small cracks in the shell , …

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Re: A discarded 386DX-40 gets some love

Posted on 2014-01-24, 00:24

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awesome machine , I imagine this would be perfect for games like Wing Commander or the Lucasarts/Sierra Adventure games, Wolf3D & Dune2 should also be quite nice on this too. strange how I never find stuff like this lying around...

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Re: Post pics of your CRT monitors

Posted on 2014-01-23, 09:40

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Had a LG Studioworks 775N back in the day. Great mojnitor, shadowmask. Now I have two aperture grille monitors which I don't like, especially when playing old games like caesar iii. I think all the CRTs I ever owed were shadowmask , is one type supposed to be better for some things than the other? …

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Re: Post pics of your CRT monitors

Posted on 2014-01-18, 22:23

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by decent I obviously mean something that was higher end at the time, if I looked I could probably find a Dell or some other low end CRT Of course, you know that some Dell CRT's used Sony Trinitron tubes right? Some Dell CRT's were a little on the "higher end" in terms of quality. (I have 4 21" …

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Re: Post pics of your CRT monitors

Posted on 2014-01-18, 10:18

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sadly I have not been able to find a decent quality CRT locally, and obviously most people will not ship a CRT via courier. worse yet , my old LCD broke down recently leaving me to use my modern HD LCD (an ASUS VH242H), which does have a few advantages such as high resolutions and low response times …

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Re: Sound Blaster Live!: a tale of woe... sort of

Posted on 2014-01-05, 16:09

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interestingly I recently tried the Hercules Game Theater XP in my Win98 machine, just to see if there are any improvements over my SBLive CT4760 card (the gamer edition 5.1) , it gave me a bunch of issues , at first there was no sound at all , eventually I got the sound to work , but then every game …

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Re: Socket 7 build

Posted on 2013-12-27, 23:14

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sadly changing the FSB back to normal didn't solve or reduce it, Descent sadly has the same issue, the AGP version didn't suffer from that. the only odd part about this PC (other than the V3+GF2 setup) is that Im using a 700Mhz Coppermine in an Abit BX6 rev1 motherboard that officially only supports …

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Re: Socket 7 build

Posted on 2013-12-27, 22:39

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with me its not an LCD , while I am using one, I was also using it with the AGP V3 which didn't have that issue. I am overclocking the FSB slightly, so I will check that

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Re: Socket 7 build

Posted on 2013-12-27, 22:27

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d1stortion wrote: Does the stuff you are talking about look like this: download/file.php?id=11165 yes, it looks like this, what's causing it?

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Re: Socket 7 build

Posted on 2013-12-27, 19:35

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interference might be one way of describing it , faint flickering white lines in the center of the screen , its also not affected by either slowing down the CPU, or running the games in DOS. like I said its no big deal since most games are fine, and they work fine on the GF2, but I wonder if its …

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Re: Socket 7 build

Posted on 2013-12-26, 19:00

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surprisingly my Hercules branded GF2Ti has pretty decent quality 2D at 1027X768 , although I will say the Voodoo3 PCI does have a somewhat less pixelated picture. on the other hand, some DOS games dislike the V3 , which cause the image to flicker (the Lion King and Warcraft 1 are two games that do …

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Re: Socket 7 build

Posted on 2013-12-26, 00:10

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but its not happening with the GF2, so I don't think its a CPU issue.

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Re: Socket 7 build

Posted on 2013-12-25, 20:09

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surprisingly my Hercules branded GF2Ti has pretty decent quality 2D at 1027X768 , although I will say the Voodoo3 PCI does have a somewhat less pixelated picture. on the other hand, some DOS games dislike the V3 , which cause the image to flicker (the Lion King and Warcraft 1 are two games that do …

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Re: Simple XP rig

Posted on 2013-12-18, 00:00

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that looks more like a Win98 machine to me..... it won't run WinXP era games well at all (even the earliest ones like RTCW or Warcraft 3 needed a 600Mhz+ PIII to run well) and frankly the games this would run , would be better on Win98.

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Re: My Ultimate Windows 98 Machine

Posted on 2013-12-17, 23:54

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now it might be due to me using a Radeon 6870 Ah... when I said "newer hardware," I was thinking more along the lines of my Radeon X850 XT PE :-D (Incidentally, even that card has issues with Max Payne 1.) I guess I've given up on gaming with truly modern hardware, to be honest. It got to be such a …

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Re: My Ultimate Windows 98 Machine

Posted on 2013-12-17, 22:25

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I eventually got Max Payne 2 to work by simply waiting for newer drivers (although sometimes new drivers fix older issues while creating new ones obviously) , but Max 1 still has issues. fortunately my Win98 machine has the horsepower to run Max Payne smoothly at high settings and res, so its ok on …

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Re: I just bought my first retro computer

Posted on 2013-12-17, 22:16

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if you can add in a Voodoo 1 or 2 , it should be a good PC to play games like Quake , Hexen II , Grim Fandango , Diablo , Starcraft, Tiberian Sun , maybe even some later stuff like Zeus Master of Olympus. Quake 2 , Half Life , Unreal or above would be too sluggish, as those games kind of require a …

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Re: My Ultimate Windows 98 Machine

Posted on 2013-12-17, 20:32

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thats a pretty kickass machine, I really like the case. Thanks! I wonder if a Geforce3 or 4 would be a better choice for that CPU , in my mind a GF2 is better for a 600-1Ghz CPU, some of the later DX8 games could really benefit from that. Agreed, the Geforce2 and PIII 1400S are mismatched. However, …

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