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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2021-02-24, 18:52

in Milliways

in Milliways

I just binge watched The Witcher show and was totally underwhelmed by it. It still gave me the urge to try The Withcer out for the third time, and I was absolutely totally underwhelmed by it a third time as well. Now I don't even dare touch the books. The tv series jumped around too much, didn't …

Re: Any others given up on the hobby?

Posted on 2021-02-24, 18:48

in Milliways

in Milliways

I have to say that after four years of active hoarding and trying my hand at building anything from a 386 to an LGA775 I feel like the thrill has worn off considerably. I'm not burned out of the hobby or anything yet, but there isn't as much that excites me as it used to, at least with regards to …

Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2021-02-24, 07:30

in Milliways

in Milliways

I just binge watched The Witcher show and was totally underwhelmed by it. It still gave me the urge to try The Withcer out for the third time, and I was absolutely totally underwhelmed by it a third time as well. Now I don't even dare touch the books.

Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2021-02-16, 10:17

in Milliways

in Milliways

Just finished Quake 4 on my 6800 Ultra ! I was having so much fun. After work today I will start a new playthrough of Doom 3 can't get enough of id Tech 4 I actually own this game and never played it beyond the first two levels; maybe I should? I loved DOOM 3 and expansion but this did not really …

Re: E-Wave : an ESS based waveblaster card

Posted on 2021-02-16, 10:17

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

1541 wrote on 2021-02-16, 09:11: Wavetable header cleaned and waiting... 😀 terratec.jpg Ahh, Terratec Gold 16/96 Eh? Great card. 😀 I have YucatanFX on mine which turns it basically into a Maestro 32 😁

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

Posted on 2021-02-16, 08:15

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

xcomcmdr wrote on 2021-02-16, 07:25: Yesterday I finally fixed a CRT wobble problem by putting two and two together and put the oldschool cordless land-line phone far away from the screen. Problem fixed. Heh. Haha I remember how wonky they would get when mine would ring near a CRT.

Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2021-02-16, 07:05

in Milliways

in Milliways

Just finished Quake 4 on my 6800 Ultra ! I was having so much fun. After work today I will start a new playthrough of Doom 3 can't get enough of id Tech 4 I actually own this game and never played it beyond the first two levels; maybe I should? I loved DOOM 3 and expansion but this did not really …

Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2021-02-15, 06:31

in Milliways

in Milliways

The first (not actually first, as they were developed at the same time) Dune by EIDOS is a fantastic and very faithful adaptation of the book, I absolutely love it. Dune II was one of my first PC gaming darlings, and I got around to playing the first game not until a few years later, but once I …

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

Posted on 2021-02-15, 06:28

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Ordered a new 400W OK-ish quality PSU by Aerocool for my LGA775. I was using a 15 year old OEM model built by FSP, but it had bulging caps. Yesterday it started making crackling noises, and then while running 3DMark the system just shut down. The PSU had bulging caps in it, so I guess that's …

Re: Fit a Socket A cooler also on Socket7 mount?

Posted on 2021-02-11, 13:36

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

They are cross compatible but most Socket A coolers require clearance around the socket that Socket 7 motherboards do not have, so test fit in advance.

Re: Win98SE and SATA Optical Drives

Posted on 2021-02-11, 11:39

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Think the soundcard will need to use the wdm rather then vxd drivers for redbook audio unless you have one of those rare sata drives that also have a cd audio cable. I may be wrong as don't have this setup This indeed, and unfortunately, true. I will be using a Terratec 128i ESS Solo-1 which has …

Re: Unable to install VIA HyperionPro drivers on Windows 98 (P4M890 LGA755)

Posted on 2021-02-11, 11:11

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have found that HyperionPro drivers released after v5.21 are absolutely borked for Windows 98, at least on my machine. v5.21 and earlier installs fine.

Re: Unable to install VIA HyperionPro drivers on Windows 98 (P4M890 LGA755)

Posted on 2021-02-11, 08:56

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

InstMsiA.exe is also included as part of the driver and the setup script executes it prior to the installation. I have also manually installed it to no effect. A footnote: Regardless of setup failure upon subsequent boot the system actually detects a LOT of VIA devices and installs most basic …

Unable to install VIA HyperionPro drivers on Windows 98 (P4M890 LGA755)

Posted on 2021-02-11, 08:36

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'm trying to build a PCIe Win98 box with 2GB RAM and Loew's PATCHMEM patch. After a clean install Windows complains about IDE Controller drivers at boot, and it it instructs me that the system will revert to compatibility drivers and I need to obtain 32-bit drivers for the controllers myself. This …

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

Posted on 2021-02-11, 07:41

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I replaced an E4600 with an E6600.. only to find that my system wouldn't POST with it. Now, I'm a total absolute newbie to LGA775, I never messed around with it before. I have been an AMD guy ever since Socket 370 so I was kind of blindsided by the reason: The E6600 I got was actually a Pentium Dual …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-02-10, 09:32

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I bought an ATI FireGL V7100 PCIe as a backup for the X850PRO PCIe I currently have in my LGA775. In theory it should be faster but I am too lazy to replace it for now.

Re: Orpheus Soundcard: a new DOS soundcard with SPDIF/OPL3/MPU support

Posted on 2021-02-10, 06:35

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Great job keropi.

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

Posted on 2021-02-09, 20:09

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

My brain just melted watching my LGA775 system blitz through 3DMark99 at 400+ fps on Windows 98SE.. I'm not sure your setup is doing everything it should be or if its a limitation with 3DMark 99. Here are my results with my Xeon3230 @ Stock with an AGP Radeon 9800 Pro: 3dmark99_x3230W- …

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

Posted on 2021-02-09, 11:53

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

My brain just melted watching my LGA775 system blitz through 3DMark99 at 400+ fps on Windows 98SE..

Re: If we were to accept 15 years ago as retro....

Posted on 2021-02-09, 10:43

in Milliways

in Milliways

Regardless of how old it may be the Core2 architecture is anything but retro. It is more or less the same thing as Intel 10th Gen Core CPUs with less cores and clockspeed. An E6600 from 2006 runs Windows 10 just fine today. I know, because I am setting up a Win98/Win7 dual boot on an E6600 these …

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