Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-10-06, 02:04

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The 7950GT is the fastest AGP card that nVidia released and it is quite hard to find. Meanwhile, the fastest AGP card period is a good few generations newer, performs significantly better in all games, and goes for $30-60 all day long. It just doesn't have the "N" magic green pixie dust all over it …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-10-05, 05:43

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Another thrift score. I spotted this "combo" CD/DVD/HDD media player thing for $19.99. Doesn't look too interesting from the front: CameraZOOM-20191004155724823.jpg But around back, there's a suspicious looking arrangement of ports... CameraZOOM-20191004155835834.jpg Sure enough, it's a mini-ITX PC …

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Re: Early 2000s tat-off: let's see your colored translucent plastic things

Posted on 2019-10-05, 01:04

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Haha, nice. I have the same thing, but for CDs. It's "just" clear though so I didn't post it. @SirNickity: I love the Green/Halo Xboxes so much. All mine are standard black (I have three now?! Why do I have three?) but I'm sure one will pop up locally soon... I kind of regret flogging my G4 cube too …

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Dual video cards & Win98: avoiding "driver hell"

Posted on 2019-10-04, 20:06

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I'd like to swap my PCI Rage LT Pro into my K6-2 machine, which already has an AGP Voodoo3, essentially combining these two systems and saving me a bunch of floor space. I know you can switch whether it uses the PCI or AGP card in the BIOS, so that's not an issue. What I'm wondering about is how to …

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Re: Old game and demoscene demo captures on real hardware

Posted on 2019-10-04, 07:12

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Satori - Singularity (1999) demoscene demo on retro PC This was pretty nice! Satori were always good at psychedelia. Feels like it should be a lot newer than 1999. The superbly-mixed music by Lackluster helps a lot, really hard to believe that huge sound is coming from a 97k tracker file. I'm gonna …

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Re: LCD monitor VGA compatibility database

Posted on 2019-10-04, 06:30

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Another Dell model from the same-ish lineup, this time the budget-oriented E177FPb. I'm pretty surprised with how differently all these perform; I was expecting them to behave more-or-less the same, but there's fairly significant changes in the DSP code and processing. Note that this monitor is VGA …

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Re: LCD monitor VGA compatibility database

Posted on 2019-10-02, 19:34

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Monitor: Dell P190S Rev.A00 , mfgd. March 2010 Native res: 1280x1024 Scaling: Reasonably nice. All 4:3 modes scaled full-screen to 5:4. Aspect rto: 5:4 Machine: Thinkpad 365ED, MS-DOS 7.0 (Win95 OSR2) Video card: Chips & Tech. 65545 1MB UniVBE: No Tested by: xjas OVERALL COMPATIBILITY RATING: 10.5 / …

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Re: LCD monitor VGA compatibility database

Posted on 2019-10-02, 09:47

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I finally got my hands on a Dell 2007FPb (20", 1600x1200, VGA/DVI/15kHz composite & s-video), so here's the results. I was expecting it to do a little better than this, to be honest, given how well the earlier 2001FPs do. It's a gorgeous display but I'd really recommend it for a Win98 or later …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-10-01, 21:22

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Good stuff! I have an almost exactly the same [AMD K5] chip in my collection. I believe this is the early version which had branch prediction unit disabled. So it performs a bit worse than K5 branded chips. But still should be a little faster than Intel P75. Interesting... I don't particularly need …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-10-01, 08:47

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Update: the K5 works (in this .) CameraZOOM-20191001010910545.jpg CameraZOOM-20191001013018996.jpg CameraZOOM-20191001013431649.jpg I think I've got the basis for an interesting build in this setup. Coming soon... I've been eying these German Army surplus "luggables" that popped up on eBay. Finally …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-10-01, 07:05

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Look what I found hanging on the "wall of crap" at one of my usual haunts today: CameraZOOM-20190930165952856.jpg A bag of retro CPUs! Whaaaaaat?! Of course I bought it. Here are the goods: CameraZOOM-20190930233108624.jpg An Intel SX/33, an Intel DX/50 ( not DX-2!), an Intel DX/33, an AMD DX/40, a …

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Re: Intresting Motherboard

Posted on 2019-09-30, 19:53

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@Warlord: that's a pretty nice layout; not often you see a SS7 board with a FULL compliment of 4xPCI and 4xISA slots, which is the maximum the format supports. My P5A-B only has 3 PCI & 2 ISA which is really limiting. Although I imagine the PSU+IDE+FDD+AGP pile-up in the top left could be a big pain …

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Re: Old game and demoscene demo captures on real hardware

Posted on 2019-09-29, 08:30

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I have a request: MFX - Transgression 2, but on an overpowered machine (1GHz+) with extremely high values for the -rmin and -rmax parameters (see INTRO.NFO for explanation. ;)) I tried -rmin 4096 -rmax 16384 on DOSbox, but it gets pretty slow with that many rays. It'd be amazing to see this running …

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Re: Early 2000s tat-off: let's see your colored translucent plastic things

Posted on 2019-09-29, 04:42

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@Tiido: I love everything about that. I didn't even know they made a translucent DC shell. Your LED mods look great, too. My Dreamcast is yellow, but not because it was originally built that way. 😜 What's on the 240p test suite disc?

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Re: Early 2000s tat-off: let's see your colored translucent plastic things

Posted on 2019-09-28, 22:54

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Nice, I love that acrylic case with the green & blue CCFL stuff inside. Makes me want to go to a psytrance rave. There was one of those (cases, empty) for sale locally not long ago, I should've bought it. Props for the ATI tape measure too. Classic swag is always a win in my book.

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Re: Early 2000s tat-off: let's see your colored translucent plastic things

Posted on 2019-09-28, 22:50

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Eh, I'd take this over the contemporaneous design fad for rubberised plastic. I've got an old Flip video camera that looks like I store it in a vaccum cleaner bag. I'll take 2000s colored plastic any day over 2010s "tactical"/truck/meat-head design language, but thankfully that seems to have died …

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Re: Posting Challenge-Oldest Browser, OS and hardware.

Posted on 2019-09-28, 20:26

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Thoroughly enjoying the chunky Thinkpad love in this thread. Was nice to get mine back out. 😀

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Early 2000s tat-off: let's see your colored translucent plastic things

Posted on 2019-09-28, 20:21

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As the title says. You know you love this stuff. Filename CameraZOOM-20190928124001097.jpg File size 219.49 KiB Views 1493 views Filename CameraZOOM-20190928124034727.jpg File size 91.6 KiB Views 1493 views Filename CameraZOOM-20190928125820012.jpg File size 209.38 KiB Views 1493 views Filename …

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Re: What's the cheapest way to get a MIDI output for a 386 PC (ISA / VLB)?

Posted on 2019-09-27, 09:50

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That port carries the MIDI signal too. You need a so-called "Gameport MIDI cable", which can be found in all kinds of places for a few bucks. Like this: http://i.iinfo.cz/urs/pc_50_08-123557960172560.jpg As for which sound card on a 386, anything that has MPU-401 compatibility would do fine. Any …

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

Posted on 2019-09-26, 22:23

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Don't think I've ever seen that. Quite sexy if you ask me. It's a product of its time, but in such a good way. It'd make a great case badge IMHO. I've always wanted to test this version. Can you take some video footage of it running by any chance? I was thinking of recording a playthrough when I …

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