Re: Anyone in Brazil/Brasil help me out?

Posted on 2018-05-03, 22:27

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by bregolin

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Have you gotten progress on this yet? Let me know if you need help translating it. I think Mercado Livre does not handle international shipping, which means you won't have any guarantees of this making it across the ocean to you, not from Mercado Livre's perspective of course. One thing you could do …

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

Posted on 2018-03-17, 20:39

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by bregolin

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

@bregolin: How cool is that? I'm planning on scanning the box art from games that my dad got brand new in the 1990's, make them as posters, frame them, and hang them up in my back room after clearing it out some more above my computer collection. It is awesome, I guarantee you'll enjoy have them up …

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

Posted on 2018-03-16, 22:40

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by bregolin

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Classic games box art on a frame? Yes please 😀 I have bought more frames than I have printed posters; Duke Nukem 3D and a Mortal Kombat. Then I'll be done (for now).

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-03-02, 11:31

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by bregolin

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Now, what if I told you that one of the cards on this lot was a very rare PowerColor Evilking IV 3dfx Voodoo 4 4500 AGP card? Yep. My heart stopped a bit when I opened the package (arrived today). Just be careful with that card, even thought it has universal AGP connector, it's 3.3V card only! …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-03-02, 01:13

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by bregolin

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Bit of a rant, but I got an ABIT KV8-MAX3 board off of ebay, and the seller shipped it wrapped in TINFOIL! And they did not even get a free priority mail box from USPS, they wrapped it up in old cardboard and duct tape. I cannot test it until the weekend, but I hope it will work. Similar situation …

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Re: DOS Game Club

Posted on 2018-02-21, 18:23

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by bregolin

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Epic web page design 😀 I'll join in the fun as well, especially as Duke3D will be the next game and I recently played it all over again

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Re: Choppy sound on 486

Posted on 2018-01-26, 13:36

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by bregolin

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hardware conflicts on resources maybe? Also, if you are sharing an IRQ with the sound cards, I'd recommend you change the IRQ for either sound card or conflicting resource, whatever is easier/possible.

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Re: AC97 codecs and DOS mixers

Posted on 2018-01-26, 11:18

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by bregolin

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'm not sure what you mean- are you refering to a mixer for an AC97 compliant codec, or the Sound Blaster emulation present on the AC97? My understanding is that there are no mixers for DOS when it comes to AC97 compliant codecs unless it includes some sort of Sound Blaster emulation.

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Re: Toshiba Satellite 220CDS would not turn on

Posted on 2018-01-26, 11:12

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by bregolin

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I had a similar experience with a Toshiba Tecra couple of years ago, but I gave up on trying to troubleshoot what the issue was and just thrased it. Have you checked the service manual for it to see what the blinking lights mean? This could help indiciate where the issue is.

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Re: Vanilla / Dos Doom in 3 screen mode. I finally did it!

Posted on 2018-01-23, 16:41

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by bregolin

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in Marvin \ Software

Mind. Blown.

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Re: 2 retro systems in 1 case - anyone tried that yet?

Posted on 2018-01-19, 19:50

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by bregolin

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Thank you! And I apologize for taking so long to respond, I was having problems with my K6 mobos so I decided to box everything and only recently unboxed things :) I thought about this better and I'll probably stick to pico PSUs and replace HDs with CF or SD to IDE adapters and make a custom acrylic …

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Re: Windows ME build

Posted on 2018-01-19, 17:52

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by bregolin

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in Marvin \ System Specs

It's a convenience thing - more stuff integrated (USB, Zip Folders, it seems to not need the install disk nearly as often as 98SE) and so the setup and day-to-day livability is better, at least for me. Right on. I've done the same with my Compaq n1000v - does not support Win98/ME officially ( …

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Re: Most frustrating part of working on old computers?

Posted on 2018-01-19, 15:32

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by bregolin

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

turning ON...and wont post turning ON again...and it posts turning ON with a videocard installed...wont post using another motherboard with same video card..and it posts. Ah... yes. Definitely. Old hardware tends to be more picky about anything, really. I got a K6-2 from a friend and it came with …

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Re: Screamer SVGA mode unstable?

Posted on 2018-01-19, 12:41

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by bregolin

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Screamer SVGA is quite buggy. In fact, in order for you to complete one of the tracks (which I don't remember the name) you have to either fallback to VGA or replace the highres texture file with the corresponding lowres one, otherwise it would always crash on the same spot.

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2 retro systems in 1 case - anyone tried that yet?

Posted on 2017-08-04, 17:18

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by bregolin

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So I currently have a P4 2.8 that I use for some more modern Win98/XP games, and a K6-2 for real mode DOS gaming (ISA AWE32, that's why)- I've been thinking of ways that I could stick both systems in the same case/tower, and have them share the same PSU, DVD drive and hard disk. I could use the same …

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Re: SIS chipset? What are your experiences?

Posted on 2017-04-10, 00:25

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by bregolin

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I've had multiple mothearboards with SiS chipsets over the years, no complaints whatsoever. Most recently, my DOS rig has been running a PCCHIPS M598LMR motherboard which has the SiS 530 chipset, and a K6-2 CXT running stock 550mhz. Despite being a low budget motherboard (it was pretty much …

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Re: Toshiba Tecra 750cdm turns off 13~ seconds after power on

Posted on 2016-12-31, 16:31

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by bregolin

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Thanks guys, and sorry for posting in the wrong forum. When I got up this morning I tried turning it on again just to see what would happen- nothing came on the screen and then it shut itself off after 15 seconds, so it must have had a bad night of sleep. By then I was certain it was the power …

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Re: Anyone use a Toshiba NoteDock II port replicator?

Posted on 2016-12-30, 23:25

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by bregolin

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I just got my Toshiba Tecra and I was able to check the BIOS (before it stopped working, unfortunately) and there's no settings for the game port in it- I would give it a go if you own the port replicator.

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Toshiba Tecra 750cdm turns off 13~ seconds after power on

Posted on 2016-12-30, 23:23

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by bregolin

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Not sure if anyone has seen anything like this before- I have bought a second hand Toshiba Tecra 750cdm (a Pentium MMX 233mhz, 160mb RAM, 4gb HD, Yamaha OPL-SAx, S3 ViRGE MX) and after using it for about 4-5 hours nonstop, it powered off by itself when I was booting to the Ultimate Boot CD to run …

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Re: Anyone use a Toshiba NoteDock II port replicator?

Posted on 2016-12-29, 22:51

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by bregolin

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have recently bought a Toshiba Tecra 750CDM and am waiting anxiously for it to arrive- I don't have the port replicator, but I assume that as long as you configure the game/MIDI port in BIOS, it should be accessible directly from DOS without any need for driver, as usually the software you'll be …

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