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

Posted on 2017-11-06, 01:50

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^^ on that note: http://www.usedvictoria.com/classified-ad/MOVING-HAS-TO-BE-GONE-BY-NOV-8_30846870 Actual quotes from the ad: "the tower does not have a mother board since I couldn't get into the computer so I destroyed it." "It's going to be recycled unless someone would like it." ...and then he …

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Re: QBasic games.

Posted on 2017-11-04, 21:14

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Doo de doo. https://porta2note.itch.io/gridfighter-3d

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

Posted on 2017-11-01, 21:18

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^^ on that note: http://www.usedvictoria.com/classified-ad/MOVING-HAS-TO-BE-GONE-BY-NOV-8_30846870 Actual quotes from the ad: "the tower does not have a mother board since I couldn't get into the computer so I destroyed it." "It's going to be recycled unless someone would like it." ...and then he …

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Re: Is CRT dead?

Posted on 2017-10-31, 02:05

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Funny, I *just* swapped a 19" LCD in my setup for a same-sized CRT. The reason was, it was sitting on an elevated platform above my desk and when sitting with my chair leaned back, my eye level was below the monitor. Even fully modern LCDs aren't that great when viewed from below , but this was an …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-10-27, 09:34

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http://image.bolterandchainsword.com/uploads/gallery/album_11505/med_gallery_60983_11505_152340.jpg An MSI 694T Tualatin/ISA board. I was planning on doing my Tualatin build with a GA-6OXT but now that I have an ISA board that will change the plans. Now that I've had time to examine the board, I …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-10-25, 06:56

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My dad actually found this cute Mac Mini in a thrift shop for $15 and excitedly called me asking if I wanted it. Sure did! mini1.jpg To my surprise it even had its HDD and RAM intact & booted to a fresh Snow Leopard install straight away; looks like somebody had tried to set it up for XBMC. …

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Re: Guess the game!!

Posted on 2017-10-22, 07:48

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I'm gonna guess this out of left field. That dash & pop-up lights sure look like an AE86 (used to own one 😀 ) and a lot of late-'90s/early-2000s arcade games used 3DFX hardware. Soooo... Initial D, Arcade Stage?

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Re: PcChips sucks!

Posted on 2017-10-18, 22:26

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I had an M919 for a long time and IIRC NEVER got EDO to work in it. They claimed it supported EDO but I don't think it actually did. PC Chips liked to claim a lot of things back in the day, like "this board has 256kB cache!" or "hay guys we're totally not these three other shill companies selling …

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Re: MMX/3DNow!/SSE usage

Posted on 2017-10-18, 22:15

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Impulse Tracker uses MMX for real-time resonant filters that can be applied to any track or instrument independently. A nice DAW-like feature for such an oldschool tracker. I use the hell out of those filters. 😀

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-10-17, 03:39

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^^ Nice card, but who the hell thought naming something "X1900XTX" was a good idea? Not to mention ATI's infantile strategy of shoving 3D rendered booth babes onto all their products. I wish somebody had "cross-fired" their marketing team (sorry 😜 ) back then.

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Can you force a dual-head card into mirrored-mode in DOS?

Posted on 2017-10-12, 22:54

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As the title says. Specific card is a Quadro 2 (GeForce 2 GTS) with DVI & VGA. I'd like to mirror everything on one output to the other (text mode, VGA modes, VESA, etc.) in a pure DOS session without starting any GUI-type OS. I don't suppose this is as simple as writing bytes to some register in …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-10-10, 18:55

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Scores from a few different thrift shops over the last couple weeks, mostly on discount days. I'm well under $20 into this lot. fps.jpg The PS/2 to USB is an 'active' converter that will get a Mac Mini with no PS/2 support onto my KVM. It's also nice to finally replace my dead Playstation 2, well …

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Re: PCMCIA Sound Cards

Posted on 2017-10-08, 17:23

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^^ Nice looking card. Any idea what chipset's in it?

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

Posted on 2017-10-08, 08:59

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Just a couple years ago I bought one on eBay and paid something like 30 bucks. I felt I overpaid because I had often seen them sell for under $20. I can't believe that current bid. I like my midiman board, but I wouldn't buy one for I've half a grand. IDK What the fuck is happening with prices in …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-10-08, 08:26

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Yikes... I just bought a motherload of mother boards . For $135 shipped I'll be getting... 18 (yes, eighteen) Asus TUV4X boards in good condition with no apparent capacitor plague 8 other older Socket 7 boards, some with Pentiums installed The TUV4X supports Pentium 3 Tualatin-S 1.4Ghz CPUs, 4xAGP …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-10-04, 18:35

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^^ Just had to google that too... Apparently they also made a QUAD Savage 4 version. Madness! Does it appear as multiple separate video cards to the system?

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Re: Finding an IA-32 CPU most like the MIPS R3000A

Posted on 2017-09-29, 21:10

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The PS1's strength wasn't its integer or floating point power, it was its graphics co-processor & specialized instruction set. You might find a 486 with a 3D card is closer to what you're thinking.

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Re: DIY: FPGA MDA/EGA/CGA to VGA Converter :D

Posted on 2017-09-28, 21:08

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You should talk to Trixter (MobyGamer on here IIRC) who's done a significant amount of work towards getting reference digital captures out of CGA. He knows its quirks inside & out. Impressive project so far!

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Re: Cyrix appreciation thread

Posted on 2017-09-28, 06:30

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^^ Not all of us are strictly gamers. I can appreciate the tech that went into these chips - and the fact that unlike AMD, Cyrix learned to do x86 the hard way (clean room) and did a commendable job. Their original FasMath 387 co-processors beat the pants off Intel's, the Cx5x86/120 is by far the …

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Re: Turtle Beach Tropez Plus + 30 other OPL3 isa cards

Posted on 2017-09-28, 05:05

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^^ That Turtle Beach is a nice looking card. What's it compatible with? I wish I knew where my PAS16 ended up. Or my AudioTrix Pro for that matter. They "should" still be around in a box somewhere, but you think I can find the damn things? Good on you for being more organized than me, apparently. 😁 …

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