Re: How many Retro PCs do you have in your house?

Posted on 2019-09-27, 05:37

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by foil_fresh

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4, and thinking about a 5th. got myself a socket 7 p166mmx/voodoo banshee with win98se for dos and early windows 3d games. still thinking about win95 but only so i can install my Seinfeld screensaver CD from archive.org lol then i got a p3 667 / voodoo 3 (win98se again) to cover 98/99 as well as the …

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Re: Syndicate crash before misson

Posted on 2019-09-20, 19:15

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by foil_fresh

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terrornoize wrote: I have 16mb of ram. @foil_fresh, there is no option to choose just one or the other. and it's worked fine for me with 128mb ram and another computer with 512 so dont worry about that bit

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Re: Syndicate crash before misson

Posted on 2019-09-20, 19:14

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by foil_fresh

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disabling motherboard resources like unused com ports or usb can free up resources in case it's some sort of conflict i once fixed inconsistent audio in some games by moving the card to a new slot so you could try that too

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Re: Syndicate crash before misson

Posted on 2019-09-18, 10:14

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by foil_fresh

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but it works if you choose a different sound option? what happens if you set it to soundblaster fx only or fm music only?

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Re: Looking for games bundled with Sound/3D Blasters

Posted on 2019-09-17, 09:36

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by foil_fresh

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piggybacking on this thread with a related topic - the game cds that came with a 94/95 creative multimedia kit, it was either the cd-blaster package or the multimedia-blaster (i think?) pack. it came with a quad speed cd rom drive, a soundblaster 16, creative speakers and a whole mess of CDs with …

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Re: My Super Socket 7 DOS/Win98 build

Posted on 2019-09-04, 04:21

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by foil_fresh

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ShovelKnight wrote: The CPU that was delivered to a wrong address unexpectedly turned up today -- the box has a lot of handwriting indicating that it bounced all over Ireland! So it seems I will have the choice between K6-2+ 500 MHz and K6-III+ 400 MHz. overclock them both and give us some juicy …

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Re: My Super Socket 7 DOS/Win98 build

Posted on 2019-09-04, 04:19

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by foil_fresh

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You did well by buying that FIC -- if I remember correctly, AnandTech claimed it was simply the fastest SS7 motherboard on the market. Edit: Yes! Found the review: https://www.anandtech.com/show/152 When dealing with performance, the VA-503+ is the name to beat. Benching in at the top of all charts …

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Re: My Super Socket 7 DOS/Win98 build

Posted on 2019-08-30, 06:52

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by foil_fresh

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Thanks, still waiting for the motherboard to arrive... ah, the agony! i bought my hot591p in february this year, only this week did i get it working completely (it was up and running but the ps/2 port was holding me back) so i know the pain of waiting :p i should have been patient and kept calm …

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Re: My Super Socket 7 DOS/Win98 build

Posted on 2019-08-30, 05:32

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by foil_fresh

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Found another motherboard — Shuttle HOT-597. I like that it’s ATX and as far as I understand, it was considered one of the fastest SS7 motherboards at the time. Also bought a K6-3+ CPU to go with it. nice dude. what a mess, dealing with that broken-as-hell 591p. must feel good to have the one that …

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Re: question about socket 370 pentium 3

Posted on 2019-08-16, 10:12

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by foil_fresh

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This is an So370 FC-PGA board, which electrically can support PPGA (Celeron Mendocino) and FC-PGA (P3 & Celeron Coppermine) CPUs. Without modification (of socket and very likely BIOS) it can't support FC-PGA2 Tualatin CPUs. Now, within the Coppermine family you have three potential limitations: - …

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question about socket 370 pentium 3

Posted on 2019-08-16, 07:34

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by foil_fresh

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hi all i recently picked up a "lucky-dip" P3 computer I saw on ebay. no info about what it was but i saw it had a Creative CD rom (wanted one for another beige box project) and what seemed to be a socket 370 board. it came with a Pentium 3 667mhz and the board is a Soyo SY-7VBA. The documentation …

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Re: New sound card project: AWE64 Legacy

Posted on 2019-08-13, 07:31

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by foil_fresh

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Will you still be able to run the OPL3 through the EMU8k's effects processor? The goal is to have an ability to choose from CQM or OPL for FM synthesis. CQM is active by default, but you can disable or move it to another address if you prefer generic Yamaha OPL3 sound. damn. i'll definitely be …

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Re: My Super Socket 7 DOS/Win98 build

Posted on 2019-08-07, 04:20

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by foil_fresh

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NPlanned configuration: - AMD K6-2+ 500 MHz CPU - Shuttle HOT-591P motherboard - 256 MB PC133 SDRAM - ESS ISA sound card + DreamBlaster S2 wavetable daughterboard - Voodoo 3 2000 AGP GPU do you plan on using the PS/2 mouse header? Let me know if it works... i'm using a serial laser mouse which only …

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Re: 1440p monitors and scaling lower resolutions

Posted on 2019-08-06, 07:36

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by foil_fresh

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i play a lot of dos games (at 320 x 200) on an AOC 24.5" 240hz screen, using the hardware scaling preset mode of 22" 16:10 is very neat as 320x200 = 16:10. cant fault it, all of the games i've played so far look great. there's no 5:4 mode sadly! :depressed: its fairly sharp at 1024 x 768 or 1280 x …

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Re: Retro places to visit in Hong Kong/Taiwan/Singapore

Posted on 2019-07-19, 06:47

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by foil_fresh

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man, good luck. i was in vietnam for 3 weeks and the oldest pcs i could see for sale 2nd hand were core2. i asked around through some people to see if the could source some ISA based hardware... most of the people have never seen the older pcs let alone know what a soundblaster was. i can only …

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Re: 486dx4-100, LS-486, SB AWE64

Posted on 2019-06-20, 07:22

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by foil_fresh

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How can I make this better ? It's pretty much perfect - but if it was me i'd be trying to find a suitable AT case.

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Re: 2001/2 retro pc

Posted on 2019-06-20, 00:15

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by foil_fresh

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in 02 I built an Athlon pc with the epox 8kha+, athlon XP 1800+, maybe 256mb ram, using my gf2 mx200 I got in 2001, with an 8gb (I think) hdd. onboard sound was a cost saver so I just used that. a few months later I had enough cash from my first job to upgrade to a 20gb hdd and a sony CD-RW drive. i …

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Re: My old Socket A systems

Posted on 2019-06-20, 00:06

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by foil_fresh

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treeman wrote: I clicked here only to look at pictures its a wild world out there

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Re: What would be the fastest XP Setup with XP Era Hardware ?

Posted on 2019-06-19, 05:29

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by foil_fresh

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I got a gtx980 and 2 gtx570s and a 1155 board (gigabyte UD z77) with an i5 2500k laying around. I'm thinking of making an XP rig, would the 2500k and the gtx980 be good for this? I know the 980 is overkill but I don't mind maxing out AA/AF on my games. i'd be playing anything from '05 to '09, would …

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Re: Fastest pc you have win98 on? (besides emulation)

Posted on 2019-06-18, 07:24

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by foil_fresh

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I just picked up a 9600XT (it was advertised as 9800XT for 20 bucks, I enquired, they corrected the ad and then I got the 9600XT for $15AUD, decent deal imo!) so my overkill W98 rig is: Soltek SL-75FRN2-L (Nforce 2) Athlon XP 2200+ 512MB DDR Gecube Radeon 9600XT 128MB SB Live! (but thinking about …

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