Re: Building yet another Windows 98 SE Box

Posted on 2016-07-05, 01:33

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I ran 3DMark 2000 and figured you'd like to see how your system compares. P4 1.8ghz; 2x256mb at 266mhz; gf4 ti 4200 128mb at 250/500 11690 3dMarks Seems like even without dedicated CPU tests there is a clear advantage, i doubt 25mhz GPU clock would make for such a big difference on their own. My …

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

Posted on 2016-07-05, 01:20

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Nobody hand solders lead-free unless held at gunpoint 😵 , 60/40 (and 63/37) are very much still the gold standard.

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

Posted on 2016-07-04, 06:49

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Replaced all the Nichicon HM and HN series capacitors on a Intel D865GLC Motherboard, they were all bulged or had already vented. Nichicon messed up in the early 2000s by overfilling the entire series and thus they all fail. Curiously the board still ran perfectly fine regardless. Major pain in in …

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Re: What's your favorite thermal compound?

Posted on 2016-07-04, 03:22

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Arctic MX-4 for low mounting pressure and Gelid GC-Extreme for high mounting pressure. MX-4 is pretty good for general use and very easy to work with, i'd recommend it.

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Re: Building yet another Windows 98 SE Box

Posted on 2016-07-03, 04:42

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I remember there being some desktop boards supporting core solo and core duo processors, those might take the cake if an atom isn't fast enough.

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Re: Building yet another Windows 98 SE Box

Posted on 2016-07-03, 02:47

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I blame you for getting me into all this to begin with Phil, otherwise i wouldn't have known how criminally cheap this 478 era stuff is. The Dreamblaster S1 is on you too :happy: Late 2000 is about the furthest i've gone in terms of games for now, Starlancer and NOLF being notable. Still plenty of …

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Re: Building yet another Windows 98 SE Box

Posted on 2016-07-03, 02:26

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Looks like that Celeron is more of less half a Core2Duo, pretty fast. I've been running a 1.8 P4 Northwood alongside a GF4 ti 4200 and the obligatory vortex 2 and have yet to hit its limit. Probably just running the wrong games. :dead: The Aureal software wavetable sounds surprisingly good, …

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Re: What is the best way to handle multiple soundcards in Windows 98

Posted on 2016-07-02, 10:22

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Tempting idea, with Thief and Thief 2 having no real A3D support and the EAX reverb being quite suited to its catacombs i might just... Would this negatively affect the vortex card in dos mode? Edit: already snagged a CT4620 for an acceptable price, ready for an adventure

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Re: GLquake & Geforce3

Posted on 2016-06-24, 21:00

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As said in the other thread, do not use nglide. The CD image is included with the gog release. Delete the opengl32.dll, that's just for old voodoo drivers that didn't have full opengl support yet. glquake should run just fine on your gf3 but you may want to use something like fitzquake 0.75 (newer …

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Re: Quake GOG trials

Posted on 2016-06-23, 20:02

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Yes it's a cue/bin image, the cue already points to "game.gog" so you just need to burn/mount the cue and all's good. So you don't have to time-correct the cue sheet as described here? https://www.gog.com/forum/quake_series/quake_the_offering_incorrect_cue_sheets/post15 You may have to, its been a …

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Re: Quake GOG trials

Posted on 2016-06-23, 19:44

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Yes it's a cue/bin image, the cue already points to "game.gog" so you just need to burn/mount the cue and all's good.

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Re: Quake GOG trials

Posted on 2016-06-23, 17:48

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Why are you using nglide? Just start glquake.exe normally and it should run just fine. (it's opengl not glide) For resolution you just add parameters to a shortcut of glquake.exe, for example "-width 1024 -height 768 -bpp 32". The gog version of quake also includes retail disc images for quake and …

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Re: Retro Gaming PC (1998)

Posted on 2016-06-22, 19:44

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The animations in Quake/GLQuake are normal like that, they just used few animation frames since the game was originally software rendered. Some newer source ports interpolate the animations to make them smooth, Fitzquake is a good example. Fitzquake 0.75 seems to work best on my 98 machine but i …

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Re: Best PCI sound card for XP

Posted on 2016-06-22, 15:56

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yea that was the big problem, the codecs where good but they still had bad motherboard interernace and improper shielding. Funnily enough i still get those problems with my fancy X99 system AND the Asus PCIe cards i tried (don't remember which), while the output may be clean the microphone is …

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Re: Aureal Vortex 2

Posted on 2016-06-19, 11:51

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The DOS driver comes with the windows one, you just need to load high au30dos.com and set the setblaster variable, it might actually add that automatically on installation. I had set up phils dos mode starter pack beforehand so i had to add both of these lines myself, i got it to work having last …

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Re: Aureal Vortex 2

Posted on 2016-06-19, 05:50

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And if you get an error about PCI something grab the INF tweaks and use the one that disables bus detection. Just replace it in the driver folder and install them again. AFAIK Aureal never released NT drivers so in 2k and XP all you get is basic audio but no A3D or other hardware acceleration.

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Re: Anyone here knows or owns a MEDION GEFORCE 4 ti4200?

Posted on 2016-06-18, 12:08

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A lot of Medion branded mainboards and graphics cards were manufactured by MSI, should be a good card if you don't need a DVI port.

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Re: Voodoo 5 5500 missing SMD caps

Posted on 2016-06-12, 23:20

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Measuring capacitors in-circuit just doesn't work generally, gotta take em out first.

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Re: Makeshift Dialup Internet Server - Advice?

Posted on 2016-06-08, 18:43

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The Dreamcast community has indeed done quite a bit of work on this, the most advanced being "DreamPI" which runs on a raspberry pi. I'd encourage you to do a google search for "pc to dc server" and play around with that. The line voltage situation heavily depends on the modems used but really all …

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Re: Modded Voodoo4

Posted on 2016-06-06, 18:56

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Meanwhile on german ebay (finished auctions) http://i.imgur.com/BukEjhX.png Almost makes this look like a bargain 😵 Sounds like a cool novelty to have at any rate, just not very useful.

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