Re: Good value Win98 Graphic Card

Posted on 2021-12-28, 08:11

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retrogamerguy1997 wrote on 2021-12-27, 16:15: I found an MX440 AGP 8x card within my budget, but my motherboard has a 4x slot EDIT: found another listing with one for a 4x slot. AGP 8x is 4x compatible.

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2021-12-28, 06:28

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Hey Joseph_Joestar, Did you play Sands of Time with a controller or M/KB? I only ask because I've tried playing this game multiple times on different systems over the years and have always found the mouse handling in this game to be terrible no matter what mouse I used. It's like the game doesn't …

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Re: 🧟 Frankenstein's Radeon 9700 Pro - Help needed for indentification

Posted on 2021-12-25, 05:05

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Speaking of 9700s, anyone know a good cooler (even chinese will do!) that can fit it? The card is a Prophet 3D 9700 Pro. I have some DeepCool and random chinese cooler but both HSFs have the spacing for later cards like X1650/Geforce FX5900/6600GT. Considering how big the core is, I'm worried that …

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Help needed repairing Radeon 9250 PCI

Posted on 2021-12-24, 16:01

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I had this thing in my stash for quite a while now. It's a useful card for me, fairly fast for PCI, but this specimen does not work. The most obvious physical issue I see is a missing SMD component near one of the RAM chips. Radeon 9250 PCI Missing SMD.jpg This looks like it should be a capacitor. …

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

Posted on 2021-12-24, 10:21

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Looks like that AIW connected you to the Matrix.

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Re: Suggestions for which build should get which of these sound cards

Posted on 2021-12-24, 09:51

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Impossible without knowing the exact AWE32 model number, but here are my recommendations anyhow. They may come across as unconventional so bear with me and read the explanations please. 486-DX4-100: SB AWE64 Gold This is your slowest PC and the one most likely to play DOS games for pre-486 systems. …

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Re: X2GS : Waveblaster board with dual soundbank support, official Dream/Roland licensed GS bank

Posted on 2021-12-24, 08:30

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Neither of the X2BOX or X3MA are designed to act like a host computer controlling the Roland cable. Ok, the latter part is outright wrong. I have both an X3MA and an X3MB and both can act as a host computer controlling the Roland cable, ie you can connect a DIN-5 or DB-15 MIDI port to it with the …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2021-12-24, 08:25

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Wait what? My whole life I thought the game was called Pandora Detective 🤣!

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2021-12-23, 20:34

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Shagittarius wrote on 2021-12-23, 18:13: I just noticed something I'm suspicious about from another conversation on here and I'm curious If I can tell if you are anything younger than Gen. X by how you answer this question. No cheating. What do you call the sounds a modem makes when connecting to …

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Re: Slow P133 computer

Posted on 2021-12-23, 20:31

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Well I found it…it’s embarrassing but it actually was the turbo switch!! Just had to turn it on and presto! I always thought the turbo button was something from the pre pentium machines. Thanks for all your input here but it’s not done yet because I have another machine with problems. But that’ll …

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Re: PCI sound cards and Chipsets from various manufacturers...

Posted on 2021-12-23, 20:31

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I am realy lost trying to get dos sound with my terratec ess solo-1, my Southbridge is a VIA VT8237A and the board is an Asus K8V-VM. I have tried multipal windows drivers and different dos drivers but no matter what i try i am unable to get the card detected in dos, it works fine in windows. I …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2021-12-23, 13:25

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Sorry if it came across as offensive I meant it merely as a joke. Atent we all sad boomers here anyway?

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Re: Is it just me or has Firefox gotten progressively worse every major release?

Posted on 2021-12-23, 12:19

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You do realize that the current version is 95 and 68 is from July 2019 right? 52 is even worse, that must be from, what, early 2017? I mean, how can you even judge the software's current state based on a release from almost 3 years ago? That's true but someone might ask himself/herself if that time …

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Re: Slow P133 computer

Posted on 2021-12-23, 12:13

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Sounds like you may have the turbo button plugged in the wrong way and throttling the CPU as such? I didn’t think those worked on any of the pentium motherboards though some had the plugs for them they were non functional They do on many Pentium motherboards I have. Most just change FSB to 50, …

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Re: ( 1993 ) 486 Build.

Posted on 2021-12-23, 12:01

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Dude, nobody bought or built ISA only 486 PCs in 1993. ESPECIALLY not for multimedia. If you could afford a CD-ROM in 1993 you could afford a VLB.

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Re: Slow P133 computer

Posted on 2021-12-23, 11:56

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by appiah4

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Sounds like you may have the turbo button plugged in the wrong way and throttling the CPU as such?

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-12-23, 11:48

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I really would love a Maestro 32/96 boxed or not..

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Re: YOUR favorate game era.

Posted on 2021-12-23, 11:39

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Wall of text incoming, but TLDR; version is: "1995-2000" Long version: My knee jerk reaction to this question is to yell "486 days!" (1990-1994) then wonder whether I am doing the Amiga days a disservice more or not. However, when I sit down and actually start making a list of retro games I really …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2021-12-23, 11:23

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OK, you guys sound like boomers who need one of these controllers:

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

Posted on 2021-12-23, 11:20

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That philosophy kept my old stereo amplifier constantly on for several years :lol: How did that go for you? It worked for 20 years, before passing it on to a mate. Had to have its potentiometers cleaned, though. But TBH the last 10'ish years it saw very little action and was rarely powered on ... …

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