Re: Is this a little off the wall? (Intel Atom)

Posted on 2015-02-09, 08:16

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by dexter311

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I've been using Atom N270 netbook as a student, back when the netbook thing was new and popular. To my experience, it was somewhere near average P4 performance-wise. It is a nice platform for older games; I have completed Max Payne on it. Games like Heroes III, Fallout 1-2 work and look great, much …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-01-29, 16:06

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by dexter311

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UDMA-100 VS UDMA-133 doesnt make much differents.. An older harddisk from that area never would fill up UDMA-133.. If you are lucky the harddisk will do about 50 -60 MB/sec Later hard drives like the Maxtor Diamondmax Plus 8 show appreciable speed bumps when they're attached to ATA133. When …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2015-01-13, 12:26

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by dexter311

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

You haven't tried that before Phil? As long as you have a well-supported NIC like a Realtek, accessing network shares on Win98SE is entirely painless. It's even more painless if your network share is a Linux box running SMB! These days, the only drivers I have on physical media are for my NICs so I …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-01-12, 20:23

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by dexter311

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That PS/1 is so super cool! Nice pickup, looks to be in great nick.

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2015-01-09, 09:01

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by dexter311

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I finally got around to working out the pinout for the 5-pin PS/2 mouse header on my Lucky Star 5MVP3 mobo last night. I searched for weeks and couldn't find any pinout that worked. So I bit the bullet and went about it the long and systematic way - first I attached the VCC and GND pins of my port …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-01-08, 22:30

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by dexter311

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Would these KVMs support wireless keyboard+mouse combos that use a single dongle? They have separate USB ports for keyboard and mouse, and I don't have such a combo to test it out unfortunately. That said, I just tested it with my Apple keyboard with a wireless USB mouse plugged into one of the USB …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-01-08, 20:47

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by dexter311

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Not retro per se, but I got my 4-port KVM in the mail today. It's an Aten CS84U , which does dual-mode USB and PS/2 - it's actually quite impressive the way it converts my USB keyboard and USB mouse on-the-fly into PS/2! Controllable through keyboard shortcuts too. Ex-demonstrator model, cables are …

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Re: Anything special about AWE64?

Posted on 2015-01-08, 13:15

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by dexter311

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Besides that. Well. If the choice is between AWE32 and AWE64-Gold, then the gold wins. Eh... that's not really the case for me. I have a CT3900 AWE32 and an AWE64 Gold and I like my CT3900 better for reasons that I can't explain. Nowadays the CT3900 lives in my pure DOS rig and the AWE64 Gold is …

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Re: Anything special about AWE64?

Posted on 2015-01-07, 18:44

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by dexter311

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

That's not that true, either... :happy: OWC still has them brand new for 9.29 USD each (well, at least if you live in US and not paying much for shipment, anyway: shipment 27.58 USD to Turkey for 4 sticks :blush: ). Well... it's certainly cheaper to get a SIMMconn for $15 plus $7 postage to Germany …

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Re: GOG.com might be locking down their installers

Posted on 2015-01-07, 18:39

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by dexter311

in Milliways

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http://www.gog.com/forum/general/on_gnulinux_has_anyone_be_able_to_extract_the_rar_innosetup_installers/post470 It's good to finally see an official response - hopefully GOG can come up with something a bit more elegant. Reddit tends to overblow almost everything that happens anywhere, so I posted …

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Re: GOG.com might be locking down their installers

Posted on 2015-01-07, 10:11

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by dexter311

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it doesn't matter if their TOS says you can or cannot reverse engineer their stuff; it isn't legal to circumvent DRM schemes in the US. So if they're going to DRM their archives, from the law's perspective they're locked. Not until they remove "100% DRM FREE" from the front page of their website - …

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Re: Anything special about AWE64?

Posted on 2015-01-07, 08:33

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by dexter311

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AWE64's proprietary RAMs is not a big issue, since SIMMCONN is still available (an adapter which enables you to use 72 pin standard SIMMs). Exactly. I would say that it's indeed the other way around - the AWE64 is cheap and easy to max out, while the 30-pin SIMMs that you need for the AWE32 are …

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GOG.com might be locking down their installers

Posted on 2015-01-07, 00:50

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by dexter311

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http://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/2riv7y/gog_plan_to_change_tos_forbidding_reverse/ What does everyone think? Considering GOG.com continually tout their DRM-free philosophy, this is a backwards step for them IMO. The wording in the TOS isn't all that damning, but combining that with the recent …

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Re: Phil's YouTube and Website updates (philscomputerlab)

Posted on 2015-01-03, 21:47

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by dexter311

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Just watched your video on GOG.com games - very useful, cheers for that! As for the registry files, surely there's a way of transposing the Inno script files into REG files? REG files are human-readable text files and look very similar to the Inno script notation . Maybe someone out there with …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-01-02, 08:41

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by dexter311

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

That's one kickarse looking Sun case. 😎

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Re: Post your 'current' PC

Posted on 2014-12-31, 09:48

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by dexter311

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in Marvin \ System Specs

Here's an album of my current desktop: https://imgur.com/a/x5qgy https://i.imgur.com/C1KKYuF.jpg Specs: - Intel Core i5-3470 @ 3.2GHz (Ivy Bridge) - AsRock B75 Pro3-M - 8GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3 CL9 - Sapphire Radeon HD 7950 Boost 3GB - Be Quiet! Dark Rock 3 - Samsung 840 Series 120GB SSD - WD …

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Re: Building Retro DOS/Glide Gaming Windows 98 SE Rig #2 (Final Phase)

Posted on 2014-12-30, 16:59

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by dexter311

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Any mixer with enough channels to handle all your sources would be more than adequate. Behringer make a decent line of value mixers, like the 10-channel Xenyx 1002 (about 60-70eur here in Germany). But really, any mixer would do the job as long as it has enough channels. As for the external modules, …

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Re: Building Retro DOS/Glide Gaming Windows 98 SE Rig #2 (Final Phase)

Posted on 2014-12-30, 13:41

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by dexter311

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Ah, the P3B-F only has 2 ISA slots... well if you have to choose between the two, take the GUS and the AWE64. The AWE64 is compatible with SoftMPU if you need it for an MT-32 module, and supports the SC-55 out of the box in MPU-401 UART mode. Not sure what that'll do with the AWE64's onboard …

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Re: Building Retro DOS/Glide Gaming Windows 98 SE Rig #2 (Final Phase)

Posted on 2014-12-30, 13:16

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by dexter311

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Many thx pal! Do I need MPU-401 capable card for Sound canvas? Yes, but you don't need Intelligent Mode. Most newer ISA cards have MPU-401 compatibility and work fine with the SC55. In my DOS machine I have an AWE32 and a Terratec TT1816 - the SC55 could be attached to the AWE32 no problems, but I …

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Re: Building Retro DOS/Glide Gaming Windows 98 SE Rig #2 (Final Phase)

Posted on 2014-12-30, 12:57

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by dexter311

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So all the variants are the same when it comes to most components except for sound cards, optical drive and 3.5" floppy drive? You could probably condense that info quite a bit into a list of components common to all in order to make comparing the variants a ton easier. Either way, all of those …

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