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Re: Floppy disks: emulator or not?

Posted on 2020-05-31, 22:14

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have lived were I do now for over 30 years, and unfortunately I live down a dusty gravel road that has a fair amount of traffic on it, floppies don't live very long were I live, the very fine silt like dust gets into them and causes scratches and that kills the floppies, I "might" get 5 or 10 …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-05-31, 20:45

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Scrap lot for $25. Can't really see what all is in it, but I'm sure there might be at least $25 worth of stuff, lol. If anything, I can use it for salvaging ports, connectors, SMD components, memory chips, etc. Lot was listed as: 16 motherboards, 5 hard drives, 41 sticks of RAM, 13 processors, 7 …

Re: In search of two components

Posted on 2020-05-31, 17:51

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

You can convert HD Audio headers on the case to connect to a AC97 sound card header. I did it with my Voodoo II SLI build that I put in a new Silverstone Raven case. I think I got the adapter from MOD DIY or eBay for around $3 - $5. Also, you can get cable adapters for the weird 1x10 Sound Blaster …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-05-29, 03:02

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

For $6 shipped, I found a Targus carrying case and foldable keyboard for my iPAQ. This should make playing Doom a little easier.

Re: Possible to put Tualatin in a 440BX with Slocket?

Posted on 2020-05-27, 12:18

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have two of the Upgradeware Slot-T adapters.. currently searching for a compatible or semi-compatible motherboard for dual processors. (obviously I would take the celeron's out of mine and put PIII's in there) It looks like it can be done according to the Upgradeware website, and one or two builds …

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

Posted on 2020-05-27, 02:58

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

It's quite a bit long, and maybe I should have used a ribbon cable, but I can shorten it later, and it should work just fine. For the curious among you, it's straight-through, meaning that both the connectors are identical If I recall, this cable can be used for SB-link. https://www.amazon.com/dp/ …

Re: Tell us about your 3DFX collection

Posted on 2020-05-25, 21:15

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Garrett W wrote on 2020-05-25, 19:31: Dude... Do you have a thread showcasing this? It looks great! I think I've posted it in a few threads here, but never dedicated a thread to it. When I get some time, I'll take some more pictures and do some benchmarks. 😀

Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2020-05-24, 18:58

in Milliways

in Milliways

I always buy datacenter scrap parts whenever I do a new home server or network related build. The longevity is pretty astounding. I've even taken home scrapped parts from work that previously ran 24/7/365 for 8 years straight, then ran them for another 5 years at home (again 24/7/365) without having …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-05-24, 17:22

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The iPAQ will for sure need a new battery, but they can no longer be purchased and have a proprietary connector. Highly recommend the Pocket PC version of Marble Madness for that platform if you can find it. It's an almost arcade perfect version and fun to play with the stylus. I have a huge …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-05-24, 13:24

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Latest eBay purchases.. $5 each for the boards, $15 for the PDA. The iPAQ will for sure need a new battery, but they can no longer be purchased and have a proprietary connector. I'll have to buy a generic 1S LiPO and solder the special connector on. Otherwise, it is in 9/10 shape with just a few …

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

Posted on 2020-05-23, 11:47

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Got two versions of the NX Pro: non-16 and 16. Both have Covox Speech Things, Disney Sound Source, supports multiple CD-ROM drives (Mitsumi CRMC-LU005S, Panasonic/Matshita CR-52X, or CR-56X, SCSI*, and early 34-pin Sony*), and are basically PnP (only jumpers that control the parallel port are the …

Re: Tell us about your 3DFX collection

Posted on 2020-05-22, 21:38

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Had a Creative Voodoo Banshee PCI back in the day, got it for Christmas in middle school. Unfortunately it died around the year 2000 and I tossed it back then. (bad artifacting) Now I own: - 1x Voodoo 5 5500 64MB AGP - 2x Voodoo 3 3000 16MB AGP - 1x Voodoo 3 3000 16MB PCI - 1x Voodoo Banshee 16MB …

Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on 2020-05-22, 12:47

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Played some Descent last night.

Re: The Total Hardware 1999 Reborn project

Posted on 2020-05-22, 12:38

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Awesome project. A few ideas: - User uploadable content and comments section. This would allow better real images of the boards, retail boxes, PDF user manuals, BIOS files, BIOS or boot screenshots, drivers, software disk images, links to wayback machine archived sites, Vogons threads, YouTube …

Re: Post up Pics of your game collections and how the funk should I organize/display my games?

Posted on 2020-05-21, 18:30

in Milliways

in Milliways

austinham wrote on 2020-05-21, 18:25: wow that sure is mint. How people find things like that amaze me. Of all places, I found it on eBay from a UK seller. (I'm in the US) It made it across the pond in a bubble mailer and got crammed in my mailbox without damage too. 🤣

Re: Post up Pics of your game collections and how the funk should I organize/display my games?

Posted on 2020-05-21, 18:10

in Milliways

in Milliways

liqmat wrote on 2020-05-21, 16:50: Oh wow, nice collection. Like that mint Ocean Jurassic Park box. Thanks! Here's some better pix of it. With the cover off. 😀 https://imgur.com/a/aJ6T3qD

Re: Post up Pics of your game collections and how the funk should I organize/display my games?

Posted on 2020-05-21, 16:04

in Milliways

in Milliways

I have mine on a book case and shelves. All games are ripped/imaged to my file server so I don't have to keep opening boxes every time I need to install one. A simple Excel spreadsheet keeps track of what I have, and the game keys as appropriate. https://imgur.com/0139uKT.jpg https://imgur.com/ …

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

Posted on 2020-05-21, 11:16

in Milliways

in Milliways

Getting my $69 Windows 7 gaming build started. So far.. - Asus Maximus VIII Gene ($39 ebay, open box new) - Intel i5 6500 (scrapped at work out of a Dell) - 8GB (2x4GB) Samsung DDR4-2133 (scrapped at work out of a Dell) - 256GB Samsung PM871 M.2 SSD (scrapped at work out of a Dell laptop) - …

Re: Rant: please stop linking to "Stason .org" for Total Hardware 1999 (TH99) pages

Posted on 2020-05-21, 09:22

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Caluser2000 wrote on 2020-05-21, 04:59: Personally don't give a toss where my info comes from as long as it is correct. +1.. and as long as the site doesn't have spyware it tries to load 🤣

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

Posted on 2020-05-20, 12:26

in Milliways

in Milliways

Getting my $69 Windows 7 gaming build started. So far.. - Asus Maximus VIII Gene ($39 ebay, open box new) - Intel i5 6500 (scrapped at work out of a Dell) - 8GB (2x4GB) Samsung DDR4-2133 (scrapped at work out of a Dell) - 256GB Samsung PM871 M.2 SSD (scrapped at work out of a Dell laptop) - …

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