Re: Finally Finished my 386sx!

Posted on 2015-01-07, 17:42

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by Sutekh94

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Or, at the very least, downsize your pictures before posting them here on the forums to avoid them clipping off. Also, orienting them the right way up would be nice. 😵 On topic: IIRC, the system requirements for Wolf3D are a 286, so you should be fine playing it on your 386SX.

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Re: How many PC compatibles do you guys own?

Posted on 2015-01-07, 02:10

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Not counting the ones I don't really care about or are not in regular service at the moment. Toshiba T2150CDT (486 DX4 75MHz) IBM Thinkpad 755CD (486 DX4 100MHz) Packard Bell Legend 300CD (Pentium 60MHz) Compaq Prolinea 5100e (Pentium 100MHz) Dell Optiplex GXi (Pentium 200MHz) Gateway 2000 G6-200 ( …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-01-05, 22:58

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by Sutekh94

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I spy an NV1 among those video cards.

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Re: My new 99 build. (picture heavy)

Posted on 2015-01-05, 16:39

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Very nice! Should play Unreal Tournament flawlessly. I'm kinda curious as to why you used RDRAM in this build, though.

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Re: SCSI CD ROM Laser beeping???

Posted on 2015-01-05, 16:36

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by Sutekh94

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Yeah, you're probably better off just buying another CD-ROM drive instead of trying to fix that one.

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Re: Humour Thread: Outrageously priced retro gear for sale online

Posted on 2015-01-04, 17:51

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I don't know what this laptop is, but it's apparently worth $5000.

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Re: vinyl making a comeback?

Posted on 2015-01-03, 20:38

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Actually, it's not as good an idea to store records horizontally. Especially if you value your records. Not only is it harder to look through a stack of records and get the one you want to play, but the records towards the bottom are more likely to become damaged due to the weight of the ones above. …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2015-01-03, 00:07

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Needed a way to test out my new PCMCIA gameport cards.

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Re: vinyl making a comeback?

Posted on 2015-01-03, 00:01

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Incoming vinyl collector! Yeah, vinyl's been making a comeback since around 2008 or so. The quality of vinyl is just unbelievable compared to something like an MP3 or any other lossy audio format for that matter. Plus, new releases on vinyl are becoming more and more common, i.e. Judas Priest's …

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Re: The speed of the tech industries (or what is retro/vintage for the general man)

Posted on 2015-01-02, 18:31

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by Sutekh94

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You could just slow down the CPU and/or disable cache to slow the system down.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-01-02, 16:09

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dexter311 wrote: That's one kickarse looking Sun case. 😎

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Re: The speed of the tech industries (or what is retro/vintage for the general man)

Posted on 2015-01-02, 16:01

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Personally, I tend to focus more on stuff like Pentium and Pentium II machines, since that's what I mainly grew up with, either in my own house or throughout middle school and early high school. 486 machines are also pretty interesting to me, since, technically, the first comp I ever laid hands on …

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

Posted on 2015-01-02, 15:23

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by Sutekh94

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Hoping to get my PCMCIA gameport cards in today, so I'm able to play stuff like Star Wars X-Wing. Also, not retro, but the first of the parts for my upgraded main comp should also be in today.

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Re: Old Laser 486 - Treasure or Trash?

Posted on 2015-01-02, 15:19

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by Sutekh94

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AT power supplies tend to be cheap on eBay, with the cheapest ranging from $10-$30, not factoring shipping. Heck, Newegg sells new AT power supplies ! Also, you are very lucky that the battery leakage didn't happen because of a failed NiCD battery soldered onto the motherboard. If that was the case, …

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Re: Any of you guys know about this?

Posted on 2015-01-02, 07:33

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by Sutekh94

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Yeah, I don't remember anything like this happening when I had an Asus P5B-SE as my main mobo. Then again, I used SATA exclusively, so I wouldn't have encountered this issue.

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Re: Quake on an oscilloscope

Posted on 2015-01-01, 03:01

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Gemini000 wrote: *tries reading the comments on the video* AUGH!! MY EYES!! IT BURNS!! x_x;;; YouTube comments in a nutshell. 🤣

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Re: Just curious..what is your oldest computer still in daily use for actual work?

Posted on 2014-12-31, 21:37

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I'd say my workshop computer is my oldest daily-use system. It's a circa 2005 Dell Dimension 4700. Pentium 4 2.8GHz HT (775) 2GB DDR2-400 RAM 160GB Samsung SATA HDD ASUS GeForce 210 Silent video card, 1GB VRAM Windows 7 Pro 32-bit http://i.imgur.com/L8N5YN3l.jpg Of course, my main rig is still my …

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Re: VL/EISA Pentium (turbocharged)

Posted on 2014-12-31, 03:16

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by Sutekh94

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Heh, I was messing with my Packard Bell Legend 300CD earlier and the CPU really doesn't get that warm, for it only having a passive heatsink. Though to be fair, there is also a case fan also cooling it.

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Re: what hardware were you using in 1999?

Posted on 2014-12-30, 19:11

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Hmmm... I think our family upgraded to a K6-233 by the end of '99, the computer that stayed the family PC until mid-2005: AMD K6-233 32 or 64 MB of RAM Dunno about the motherboard Dunno about the HDD Crappy Trident 3D AGP video card Dunno about the sound card US Robotics 56k modem Windows 98SE All …

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Re: Pentium Pro Socket 8 computers?

Posted on 2014-12-29, 15:50

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by Sutekh94

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DON'T THROW IT AWAY!!! Pentium Pro machines are quite interesting to mess around with; you'd probably get at least $50-60 from selling that system alone, if not more since the CPUs themselves are quite valuable. EDIT: Also, I'd try booting that thing up to a boot floppy.

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