Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-10-20, 15:25

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Gor offered these for 3 bucks a piece.. The S370 is passable but is the dual slot 1 motherboard with weird power connectors worth buying and wth is that Rage 3D / adaptec scsi hybrid card?

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-10-20, 12:18

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by appiah4

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Last Poster: Batyra Click on thread expecting a wonderful sound card, and of course I'm not disappointed. I have a feeling we don't see many good sound cards around anymore because you are hoarding a couple thousand of them.

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Re: Duke 3D (on Win98) GM vs AWE32

Posted on 2017-10-20, 10:58

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You can only select General MIDI in a game if you enable GM emulation with AWEUTIL, and that works for real-mode games only. My memory tells me that this is not true for AWE64 and I doubt it's true for AWE32, in Win9x there should be a MIDI device for AWE32's MIDI Synth and if you pick that as …

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Re: PcChips sucks!

Posted on 2017-10-20, 04:21

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by appiah4

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I used a PC Chips A101 V1.4 and had zero problems with it, with an unofficial BIOS update it could even boot up to 32GB IDE HDDs.. It was my first retro PC board when I got into the hobby, in fact.

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Re: Any Commodore 64 or Amiga fans here at Vogons?

Posted on 2017-10-20, 03:56

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by appiah4

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WinUAE has much better support for mounting real removable hard drives as Amiga disks, formatting and preparing them so it wins by default.

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Re: U5SX 486-33F Build

Posted on 2017-10-20, 03:54

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So what might be going on, is that the motherboard doesn't have enough refresh line capability to supply a refresh for more than a handful of RAM chips. Now in some BIOSes, there is a cryptically named refresh strength setting in the advanced chipset setup, maybe playing with that might get you …

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

Posted on 2017-10-19, 20:47

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by appiah4

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That case reminds me of the one I had for my PII and later my PIII system, I love it. I wish I could find more cases like that hereabouts..

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Re: U5SX 486-33F Build

Posted on 2017-10-19, 20:46

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by appiah4

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Well, I have some answers for my own second question, as I had some time to tinker with the system tonight. The SIMM I originally had in it was 1Mx64 8MB FPM with 16 TMS444000J-70 chips. To test compatibility I popped in two more pieces of RAM. First, I tried an 1Mx64 8MB EDO with 4 VG2618165BJ-6 …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-10-19, 13:24

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Vegge wrote: badmojo wrote: Vegge wrote: Got this in a trade the day before yesterday 😀 Wow what did you trade, your soul?! That's a nice score, congrats! An old Honda mt5 moped 😎 You've done good. Who needs to go anywhere when they have an Amiga 500 and an IBM XT to play with.

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Re: List the CPUs you owned when they were new

Posted on 2017-10-19, 12:48

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by appiah4

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My experience is that the K6-II is a better CPU than the MMX, and the later K6-2 models and K6-III are faster than the Pentium II overall, but the Pentium III really basically stomps it. But then, there is Athlon which also stomps the Pentium III so..

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Re: Bought these games today

Posted on 2017-10-19, 12:45

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by appiah4

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Wow, such a nice bundle. Do any of you have a similar pain as I do? I buy and collect these games but have no room to display them so they get stored in IKEA boxes.. It's such a big pain. Hopefully we get to move to a larger home one day and I get to have a study room of my own (read: man cave..)

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Re: VOGONS Driver Library

Posted on 2017-10-19, 10:42

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by appiah4

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I've come to be in posession of an AWE64 Value Installation CD. I know the Gold CD is on Vogonsdrivers (and actually works with the Value card) but if anyone would want me to upload it somewhere let me know. EDIT: You can download it here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1qYExwo_A- …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-10-19, 07:55

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by appiah4

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Oooooh an Amiga 500! My favorite system of all time, good times :) Enjoy! I found a bunch of stuff in a junkyard sale. I'll admit that this was the first time I actually washed a piece of hardware with dishwashing soap and scrubbed it - the VGA card had every kind of dirt on it including rat piss. I …

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Re: Technically impressive FM synth music

Posted on 2017-10-19, 04:29

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by appiah4

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It probably and hopefully was mentioned in a million posts above but I LOVE alloyrun..

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Re: U5SX 486-33F Build

Posted on 2017-10-18, 21:10

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OK, so the new PSU is in, and it lives. Although there are issues, so case shots will have to wait.. http://image.bolterandchainsword.com/uploads/gallery/album_11505/med_gallery_60983_11505_114176.jpg It POSTs, so we are onto something! http://image.bolterandchainsword.com/uploads/gallery/album_ …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-10-18, 15:23

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by appiah4

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Bought seven (that is 7 in numerals) brand new in box Radeon 9800s for a criminally low price.. not sure what to do with them likely keep one or two and sell the rest.

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Re: CL-GD5401-42QC-Bvs TVGA-9000B ISA

Posted on 2017-10-18, 08:12

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by appiah4

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derSammler wrote: http://www.ebay.de/itm/332410436479 Not sure if that is cheap... 😉 Why are you looking for an ISA card, actually? Are you using a 486 mainboard that has neither PCI nor VLB slots? That is exactly the reason, no VLB or ISA on my 486 board. 25 EUR isn't cheap in my book 🙁

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Re: List the CPUs you owned when they were new

Posted on 2017-10-18, 07:44

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1987--MOS Technology 6502 (Atari 800 XL) 1989--Intel 8086 (IBM PC Compatible clone) 1990--Motorola 68000 (Amiga 500) 1993--Intel 80486 DX-33 1995--Intel 80486 DX4-100 1998--Intel Pentium II 300 2000--Intel Pentium III 866 2002--AMD AthlonXP 1800+ 2002--AMD AthlonXP 2000+ (I fried the former chip …

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Re: CL-GD5401-42QC-Bvs TVGA-9000B ISA

Posted on 2017-10-18, 07:22

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by appiah4

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derSammler wrote: The 9000i has the RAMDAC integrated, on the 9000B it is external. I'm using a TVGA9000 in one of my 286 PCs as well. They are totally sufficient for anything below a 386DX. Good luck to me with a 486 then I guess. Damn I need to find a decent 16-bit ISA card for cheap 🙁

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-10-18, 05:27

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Two new old stock 230W AT PSUs for my U5SX-33 and future Pentium 100 builds. http://image.bolterandchainsword.com/uploads/gallery/album_11505/med_gallery_60983_11505_112730.jpg This may be a stupid question but I genuinely have no idea despite owning several. What is the reversed 3 pin port on AT …

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