Re: Calculating pi -- looking for two programs which have disappeared
Posted on 2022-01-30, 05:04
Didn't Roy Longbottom's benchmark page or thandor.net have PiFast?
Re: How far back do you have to go for a graphics card not selling for an inflated price?
Posted on 2022-01-30, 05:01
SLI 960s in a 6th gen i7 for under $500, does that sound alright? Might be an off the wall way to do that, xeon blade servers with similar to i7 cores and mezzanine Quadro m3000 SE cards... lots of booby traps in getting the right config together, but general idea seems plausible. Quad SLI might be …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2022-01-30, 03:51
My theory is, they shipped industrial control systems for dozens of kilobucks and guaranteed parts availability for 20 years.
Re: Impractical Computing and Retrocomputing Ideas (Humour)
Posted on 2022-01-30, 03:13
I am threadjacking my own thread, on behalf of the Ministry of Silly Ideas, that is, stuff you could make work, but it's a bit pointless, it's just fun to think of, or to actually make work for troll value... Today, I grabbed some mini DVDR in a box lot deal, they probably cost me around a quarter …
Re: Info / Locate: Sound Blaster Creative Discovery AWE 64 [Costco Bundle?] / Creative Infra 2400 16x Cd-Rom [MK4143]
Posted on 2022-01-30, 02:39
Well it's Costco, so keep diving their dumpster, some cheeky bugger is bound to return one sooner or later. lol I think i maybe saw one of those about 4 years ago in a Value Village, but at the time their pricer was looking at the highest BIN on eBay for this kinda crap so it was insanity priced, …
Re: Pentium mmx 233 aiming for the stars
Posted on 2022-01-30, 02:17
It's a battle between driver overhead crippling the card from feeding the GPU fast enough and the actual capability of the GPU architecture... Spoiler Fastest AGP video card for Super socket 7 platform?
Re: QEMM/DOS doesn't work on Win98SE system
Posted on 2022-01-30, 00:48
The love of the halflings leaf has dulled your mind *cough* sorry, wrong canon, ahem, starting over... If you'd taken a time out from being Longbottom's decoy, you could have brownnosed Slughorn and gotten access to the restricted section of the library... https://www.betaarchive.com/wiki/index.php? …
Re: Cannot believe I bought this "time capsule" PC, wondering what's inside !!
Posted on 2022-01-29, 23:07
There was some early ATX with 430HX, socket 7, probably a 233MMX on them... (Because cheapskates stayed AT) ... I'll say it's got a Rage in the AGP slot a Diamond Monster II 8mb, ESS soundcard, 128MB of EDO SIMMs, just to make a complete and different guess (Or to jinx you depending how you see it …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2022-01-29, 22:09
Got a new toy, hardware to attack my retro hardware with... a newish multimeter... a local biz that deals in returns and misdirected freight was having a clearance sale and I went for a look see, this was only $5 CDN so I grabbed it. Thought, "Yah it's not a Fluke or anything but got some features …
Re: What game are you playing now?
Posted on 2022-01-29, 21:25
It's a pointless hope, but I wish such QoL mods were designed to run in native environments. It must be a LOT more difficult and constrained to do so, compared with the modern niceties of coding for Windows and current hardware, Some particularly egregious examples where the original fit on a 360k …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2022-01-29, 20:39
Thumb wiggle all the SIMMs and scrunch all the socketed chips down and give her another whirl, that one's a little cutie. ... In general unless you got super unlucky that model of HDD lasts and lasts. edit: speeling, English muckerfother, do you speak it?
Re: what Vintage items are you looking for?
Posted on 2022-01-29, 20:35
I'm close to 60, and men in my family tend to die in their mid-60s. :( Dang, did you have grandpeeps at the opening of Tutankhamen's tomb or something? Me, I was being extra careful of all the known family conditions and ailments and got blindsided by something nobody in the family either side has …
Re: (K6-2+/3+ OWNERS SEE THIS) possible Cheap k6 3+ 570 chips.
Posted on 2022-01-29, 20:23
Better start eyeballing those scrap listings real close... beware though some of the bulk bulk lots "kilogram of CPU" etc only have sample pics, not what you're actually getting.
Re: How far back do you have to go for a graphics card not selling for an inflated price?
Posted on 2022-01-29, 16:58
AMD strategy... 😉
Re: Methods to enhance retro-flexibility on Pentium 4 class hardware...
Posted on 2022-01-29, 15:02
Methods to get table fog on Radeon 9000 appearing in the thread I branched from Re: GeForce4 vs. GeForce FX? don't know if it works for others like 9200, 9250, or even the low end of the Xhundreds.
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2022-01-29, 04:29
It's the highest speed 400fsb P4 I thought, 3Ghz Northwood.
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2022-01-29, 03:19
Ah yes, insert SL74Q, show the superiority of RAMBUS...... bahahahaaa, I couldn't keep a straight face.
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2022-01-29, 03:00
Except for this bit, sure do wish I could find a pinout / datasheet for this chip - that last pin is completely ripped off and the trace it goes to is under the chip :D 3D128-BestData3.jpg Yes, would be nice if it's duplicated or non-essential, but if you're real determined, there's this approach …
Re: ISA bus: and modern hardware: Non-transparent bridge to qemu?
Posted on 2022-01-29, 02:54
Yah, and if you've only got a serial port, you could use a serial to PS/2, PS/2 to USB and then the USB to parallel adapter 😉
Re: How far back do you have to go for a graphics card not selling for an inflated price?
Posted on 2022-01-28, 21:40
Its not that they are in vogue ... Thinking about it though, in true "Perfect Storm" fashion, just as crypto demand peaked, plague disruption hit, guess who was getting big into PC gaming after it was almost looking like dying out... Gen Z... all that Fortnite, LoL, Rocket League type stuff. Now …
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