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

Posted on 2020-09-26, 23:52

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I managed most of the cabling within my general purpose 98SE/Late-DOS/W2k system, freeing up some extra resources that can eventually find their way in to a Pentium/S7 build I want to eventually do. I can still work a little more to make it completely clean, but I'm good for now. image0.jpg Hi! …

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

Posted on 2020-09-21, 03:53

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I managed most of the cabling within my general purpose 98SE/Late-DOS/W2k system, freeing up some extra resources that can eventually find their way in to a Pentium/S7 build I want to eventually do. I can still work a little more to make it completely clean, but I'm good for now. A little messy. …

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

Posted on 2020-09-20, 07:13

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I managed most of the cabling within my general purpose 98SE/Late-DOS/W2k system, freeing up some extra resources that can eventually find their way in to a Pentium/S7 build I want to eventually do. I can still work a little more to make it completely clean, but I'm good for now. Filename image0. …

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Re: Microsoft Flight Simulator

Posted on 2020-09-05, 09:12

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http://www.drzewiecki-design.net/images/Products/MOS_MSFS/MoscowLandmarks_28.jpg There's more than a few well made landmarks scattered around the world, but there's also a smeared texture on a hill for Mt. Rushmore. I have about 40 flight hours, and have been using a TBM 930 to fly from LAX to, …

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Re: Dull signal and horizontal smearing

Posted on 2020-08-27, 18:23

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The Serpent Rider wrote on 2020-08-27, 14:33: Maybe baking? What temps would be proper for that? would using a hot-air station work as well?

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Re: Dull signal and horizontal smearing

Posted on 2020-08-22, 23:14

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darry wrote on 2020-08-22, 03:57: Sorry, I somehow missed the fact that it was a V770 and I never had one of those, but the V550 I did own at some point had great VGA, AFAICR . That's fine, thanks for trying to help, regardless.

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Re: Dull signal and horizontal smearing

Posted on 2020-08-22, 03:51

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As per my post in the "what did you buy" thread, I managed to spend $5 on a RIVA TNT 2 earlier, and while it doesn't appear to be internally damaged, it definitely has a problem. The signal being received by the monitor is dull, and improperly aligned on my CRT, and when I actually get past the …

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Dull signal and horizontal smearing

Posted on 2020-08-22, 01:28

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As per my post in the "what did you buy" thread, I managed to spend $5 on a RIVA TNT 2 earlier, and while it doesn't appear to be internally damaged, it definitely has a problem. The signal being received by the monitor is dull, and improperly aligned on my CRT, and when I actually get past the BIOS …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-08-21, 23:16

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So I managed to pick up an optical PS/2 Mouse. Yeah, that's totally why I'm posting in this thread. TNT 2.jpg As you can probably tell, these are the actual reasons I'm posting. I managed to snag myself a Diamond Viper 770, which seems to be in good condition, even if the picture that comes out of …

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

Posted on 2020-08-21, 00:31

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So I managed to get productively bored earlier while listening to lectures that ultimately were just the professor reading the syllabus. D7162FAA-9399-4ED4-BF94-83DB9FCB7E83.jpeg I decided that my second, three screw copy of Top Gun would be a nice external case for a free floating 320GB SATA drive. …

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HMI SOS games require something to use MIDI before functioning

Posted on 2020-08-15, 22:56

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As per the title, I have encountered a rather odd issue, in which I cannot get the Bethesda Games that use Human Machine Interfaces Sound Operating System (Daggerfall, FS/Skynet) working without running some other game that also uses the General MIDI/Sound Canvas. If I just try to run them from a …

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

Posted on 2020-08-14, 22:43

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I managed to lubricate and internally clean my Microsoft Sidewinder 3D Pro. Disassembling it also seems to have brought the spring back in to the spring, since it seems to gladly center its self instead of moving back to center, if that makes sense. image0.jpg If you were quick on the look, you …

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

Posted on 2020-08-14, 22:17

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I managed to lubricate and internally clean my Microsoft Sidewinder 3D Pro. Disassembling it also seems to have brought the spring back in to the spring, since it seems to gladly center its self instead of moving back to center, if that makes sense. image0.jpg If you were quick on the look, you …

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Re: things you don't do with a retro PC

Posted on 2020-08-13, 00:06

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Stretch - try to load windows 10 on a P2 or try Windows 98 on a quad core You say that as if it isn't fun to do dumb things like that :P Seriously, though, that kind of thing is a great source for day-projects. It's led to me doing absolutely dumb things like learning that Mac OSX Server 1.0 …

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

Posted on 2020-08-08, 16:11

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I spent the better part of two hours getting windows 2000 installed and finding a third party Voodoo 3 driver so that I could, of all things, get Jedi Outcast running on my 98 machine. Needless to say, with the drivers that have amiga in the name, I was able to get the game running. Now it’s time to …

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Re: Apple is getting off Intel CPU’s ?

Posted on 2020-08-05, 01:32

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There's a "new" iMac refresh today for 21.5 and 27 inch iMacs as well as a little refresh for the iMac Pro. Considering that the 10th gen Intel is just a rebadged 9th gen refresh, and that this may be the last Intel iMac Pro... better stick with the current machines. Technically, they're just a …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-08-04, 23:42

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I managed to find one of those old, now kinda-rare Sonnet PATA cards. Filename image0.jpg File size 1.39 MiB Views 1371 views Thanks to this, my SSD Equipped G3 will now be appreciably faster, even if OS9 doesn't actually need to be faster in my setup.

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Re: what SSD for XP ?

Posted on 2020-08-03, 23:46

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Technically speaking, is fretting over TRIM all that important if you’re not doing constant writing to the drives? Wouldn’t making sure that you have an aligned partition be more important for performance?

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Re: Apple is getting off Intel CPU’s ?

Posted on 2020-07-28, 23:50

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iPhone 11 x iPhone SE 2 x iPhone X: https://www.apple.com/iphone/compare/?device1=iphone11&device2=iphoneSE2ndgen&device3=iphoneX iPhone 11 x iPhone SE2 x iPhone XR: https://www.apple.com/iphone/compare/?device1=iphone11&device2=iphoneSE2ndgen&device3=iphoneXR The upcoming iPhone 12 better be …

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Re: Apple is getting off Intel CPU’s ?

Posted on 2020-07-28, 13:45

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appiah4 wrote on 2020-07-28, 09:06: Is there a decent SE sized phone on the market? I loved my Galaxy Alpha (similar size and form factor) and the 7S I am currently using is a bit too big for my hands (I'm a small guy). The new SE isn't too big, and there seems to be a next gen iPhone of that size …

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