Re: Old hardware giveaway thread.

Posted on 2017-07-26, 02:10

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Next giveaway. Same rules. ONE guess per 30 minutes. I am thinking of a number between 1 and 60. Winner gets the card below. This one has been fully tested with Windows 98SE and is working great. It's a MSI NVidia GeForce 6200 AGP, but I don't remember if its 128MB or 256MB video memory.

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Re: Old hardware giveaway thread.

Posted on 2017-07-26, 01:31

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Arctic wrote: I like this game 😀 My guess is 47! We have a winner! PM me your address and it will ship out tomorrow! Congrats! That was quick.

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Re: Any Commodore 64 or Amiga fans here at Vogons?

Posted on 2017-07-26, 01:22

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The original Amiga's 1000/500 had 32 colors on screen at once out of 4096 colors for games, excluding HAM mode which could not be used for anything useful other than stills. In the early days of VGA I remember many games just used the default 256 color palette and could look very drab and ugly if …

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Re: Old hardware giveaway thread.

Posted on 2017-07-26, 01:07

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So keep guessing people. 16 & 32 are not the correct answer. I tested this card with Sega's Typing Of The Dead in Windows 98SE and it handled it with ease. This GeForce 4 MX 420 PCI card has 64MB on-board video memory. It's very clean and in excellent cosmetic condition.

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Re: Old hardware giveaway thread.

Posted on 2017-07-26, 01:01

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Next giveaway. Same rules. ONE guess per 30 minutes. I am thinking of a number between 1 and 60. Winner gets the card below. This one has been fully tested with Windows 98SE and is working great. 32! Also, if someone wins something, are they eligible to win something else if they also guess that …

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Re: Old hardware giveaway thread.

Posted on 2017-07-26, 00:37

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Next giveaway. Same rules. ONE guess per 30 minutes. I am thinking of a number between 1 and 60. Winner gets the card below. This one has been fully tested with Windows 98SE and is working great.

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Re: Any Commodore 64 or Amiga fans here at Vogons?

Posted on 2017-07-26, 00:15

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Checking here it seems the Amiga 500 only had 32 colors on screen at once but could fake 64 colors using 32 colors at half brightness. True, but Amiga had a huge palette to choose from, 4096 colors, and VGA did not. So depending on the game, there were titles that looked better on the Amiga. Also, …

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Re: Old hardware giveaway thread.

Posted on 2017-07-25, 21:47

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emosun wrote: 27 I'll also guess 6 because why not You got it. 27. 6 is invalid as u get one guess every 30 min, but since 27 was your first number... PM me your address and I will get it out tomorrow.

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2017-07-25, 20:24

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That sounds like a really interesting card! As a matter of fact someone is selling a bare Cardinal SnapPlus on Ebay., but it's useless (other than as a working ISA SVGA card), because it does not have the included video overlay software or any of the special cables that came with the package. It …

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Re: Old hardware giveaway thread.

Posted on 2017-07-25, 19:54

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By the way, I threw this card in my old Gateway 450 machine and it posts and boots into Windows 98. Did not download/install the driver, but it works.

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Re: Old hardware giveaway thread.

Posted on 2017-07-25, 19:53

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keropi wrote: basically no trading is allowed on VOGONS but this guessing game was too intense to pass 🤣 🤣 🤣 Is this considered trading?

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2017-07-25, 19:50

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Screen Shot 2017-07-25 at 1.13.00 AM.png i found this card, seems to be a matrox video capture card, no use for this and no cables, but interesting anyways. I think these are very interesting reliques, even though they are basically useless. I still got my IBM/Intel ActionMedia II card. It's …

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Re: Old hardware giveaway thread.

Posted on 2017-07-25, 19:04

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senrew wrote: Good luck with longevity on this thread. I did a big giveaway a few years ago and the mods "strongly suggested" I shut it down. Did they give a reason why?

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Re: Old hardware giveaway thread.

Posted on 2017-07-25, 18:37

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Good point. I cover shipping.

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2017-07-25, 18:34

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You know what, I'll wait and see. Maybe I am wrong, but the odds of this being the same machine are lottery unlikely.

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Re: Old hardware giveaway thread.

Posted on 2017-07-25, 18:13

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I put Deep Thought into it. It is not 42 nor any others previously mentioned. Keep going.

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Old hardware giveaway thread.

Posted on 2017-07-25, 17:04

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by liqmat

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After my disastrous Amiga/C64 Forever giveaway in the Milliways topic area that I pulled the plug on since I thought there was no interest (I was dead wrong) I thought I would try to make it up to my friends here at Vogons. The rules are this. You can guess only once every 30 minutes and don't use …

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2017-07-25, 16:50

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No I defiantly had it or one just like it. The more I think of it I do recall being told the hdd was replaced and that's when the date stamp was put on it. Yeah I know its not a date stamp, that's just what I was told. Your story keeps changing man, but let me let you off the hook. I called the …

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Re: Journey to find Biohazard

Posted on 2017-07-25, 16:12

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Ok.. Trying this again since no one likes "please help", wonderful like noone likes to be left out in the dark or on fire ether. I'm a huge Capcom fan! I'm a huge Resident Evil fan! Mostly I play a lot of Japanese games from the 90's because I'm old and fuckin' nerdy. Ok, with that said. I'm …

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2017-07-25, 15:57

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No I defiantly had it or one just like it. The more I think of it I do recall being told the hdd was replaced and that's when the date stamp was put on it. Yeah I know its not a date stamp, that's just what I was told. Your story keeps changing man, but let me let you off the hook. I called the …

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