Re: What retro computing gadget that doesn't exist would you like to have?

Posted on 2014-09-30, 02:46

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And what do you intend to drive this with? :lol: Ha, good reaction :) I did a write up on this a while ago - see here . TL;DR: newer machines could output 1080p, and it would look perfect because each image pixel would be a 4x4 block of screen pixels. Older machines could output 1024x768 or …

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Re: Archive.org hosting warez?

Posted on 2014-09-30, 01:36

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The way I see it, old games like Doom and Duke3D have reached the end of their commercial lives. The original devs have long moved on, and any money the copyright holders make at this point is a bonus and ultimately insignificant. ( Computer Chronicles host Stewart Cheifet expressed a similar view …

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Re: What retro computing gadget that doesn't exist would you like to have?

Posted on 2014-09-30, 01:22

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1) 27" 8K OLED monitor that matches the best CRTs in every way... or, failing that, a new line of affordable 19"-ish CRTs 2) Voodoo5 6000 reissue made by Nvidia, available in AGP and PCI-e flavors. Modern fab technologies would allow for a massive die shrink on the VSA-100 chips, which I imagine …

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Re: A8N-SLI Premium w/ bad caps: recap or toss?

Posted on 2014-09-06, 01:35

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I'll never understand why people are so fast to just throw everything away even when they are very easy to fix Same here. I hate to throw anything away, but I also hate to put time/effort/money into something that ends up being unsalvageable. I'm optimistic in this case, though. plus these higher …

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A8N-SLI Premium w/ bad caps: recap or toss?

Posted on 2014-09-05, 23:29

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I picked up an Asus A8N-SLI Premium from a local seller for $10 yesterday. He said it was untested, so I was skeptical from the start. Couldn't say no to that price, though. When I got the board home, I noticed it had one leaking capacitor and a number of bulging ones. I was surprised to see the …

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CT4670, CT4760, SB0060: compare and contrast

Posted on 2014-09-02, 22:43

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Of those three Sound Blaster Live! cards, I own only the SB0060, which I bought primarily for the pain-free driver install on Windows 98 (Creative's official driver pack just works for a change). However, I'm wondering if I should check out one of the older generations. Anybody care to share their …

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Best / latest AGP motherboard?

Posted on 2014-08-28, 03:54

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I already have a few, not really looking for another right now... just curious what everyone's thoughts are on this topic. Seems like high-end motherboards went to PCIe fairly quickly, so later AGP motherboards would probably be oddball or low-end models. That or AGP + PCIe combos like my ASRock ( …

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FireGL and Quadro cards: any good for gaming?

Posted on 2014-08-24, 21:52

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Older workstation GPUs will occasionally pop up in my eBay search results, often for reasonable prices. I wonder... could these cards be used for retro gaming? Do professional cards hold any real advantage over their mainstream counterparts? (Outside the world of CAD, that is?) More generally, what …

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Re: Age of Empires performance issues

Posted on 2014-08-24, 21:19

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I figured out what the problem was: PowerStrip was running in the background and making everything slow. Duh... should have figured that out sooner. AOE runs nicely now on the PII.

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Re: The Continuing Misadventures of YouTube... Again

Posted on 2014-08-23, 21:54

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Mau1wurf1977 wrote: Very nice! I really like the way you write, very easy to read and to the point 😀 Thank you! Maybe I'll get around to writing more one of these days.

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Re: The Continuing Misadventures of YouTube... Again

Posted on 2014-08-23, 16:57

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This is really terrible to read. I was thinking about doing a series of video reviews a while ago, but the more I learned about YouTube and its copyright policies, the less I wanted to do it. I ended up building a website instead. It's probably not as fun as a video series, but I've had to deal with …

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Force custom refresh rates without PowerStrip

Posted on 2014-08-21, 05:52

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Can it be done on Windows 98? PowerStrip is great for this, but it causes problems when left running in the background (crashes Quake III on my system, for instance.) Hz Tool lets me key in custom refresh rates (e.g., 83 Hz), but when I try to set the new mode, it reverts to a standard refresh rate. …

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DirectX Media killed Windows Media Player

Posted on 2014-08-17, 01:02

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I recently installed Civilization: Call to Power on one of my Windows 98 machines, and with it came something called DirectX Media. After the install, I found that Windows Media Player 9 would no longer launch. It told me I needed to reinstall, which I tried, and the installer repeatedly fails when …

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Re: Age of Empires performance issues

Posted on 2014-08-15, 04:16

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I ran those games on earlier hardware and they ran just fine (going from memory). This is more in line with my expectations, given that the system requirements are a 90 MHz Pentium and 16 megs of ram. However, I've seen the games perform poorly on a 200 MHz Pentium Overdrive, a 233 MHz Pentium MMX, …

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Re: Age of Empires performance issues

Posted on 2014-08-15, 03:00

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collector wrote: You should ask Windows game questions in the Windows forum. You're right, I forgot we had that 😀 Moderators - feel free to move this thread.

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Age of Empires performance issues

Posted on 2014-08-14, 22:46

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I'm always surprised by how poorly the original Age of Empires runs on period hardware. For example, I'm playing it on a Pentium II 450 at the moment, and the game gets very choppy with only a handful of units on the map. Both the original executable and the Rise of Rome version have this problem. …

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Re: "Isle of Morg" NVidia technology demo?

Posted on 2014-08-12, 18:42

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Thank you, sir. Into my archive it goes.

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Re: "Isle of Morg" NVidia technology demo?

Posted on 2014-08-11, 03:35

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I suggest just making a Mediafire account and sharing files. It has worked well for me for years. I actually got halfway through opening a Mediafire account, then I realized it was the Dagoth Moor demo I have, not Isle of Morg... d'oh! I'm sure there is someone on these forums who has a copy of …

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Re: Does DOSBox also help accomodate DOS Apps?

Posted on 2014-08-11, 00:10

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A crash issue that wipes out your application's data may be extraordinarily unlikely, but not impossible. P The likelihood of this happening on an authentic DOS rig is probably far higher :P Seriously, though, I've played around with DOS applications like QuickBASIC, Word 5.5, and Borland C, and …

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Re: "Isle of Morg" NVidia technology demo?

Posted on 2014-08-11, 00:01

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I have also been looking for "Isle of Morg" for quite some time. It would actually be incredibly helpful if VOGONS maintained its own FTP to store hard-to-find files such as this one.

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