Re: Segmented (Turbo MHz LED) Display Reproductions

Posted on 2020-04-10, 22:57

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@peg - That's the same display as mine! I'm looking to stick with the original design of this board without having to invest time in programming and utilizing a microcontroller I second this. Not everybody has the gear and knowledge to program a microelectronic, and price is a factor as well. The …

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Re: Segmented (Turbo MHz LED) Display Reproductions

Posted on 2020-04-05, 23:36

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I'd love to be able to buy or make 3 digit MHZ displays. I've seen pictures of cases with 3 digit mhz displays but I've never seen one IRL.

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Re: Pentium 4/Socket 478 Dual-Boot Windows 98 & Windows XP Gaming Setup

Posted on 2020-04-05, 23:34

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One alternative nobody seemed to mention is a socket 754/939 built. An AMD64 3200+ and a VIA K8T800 motherboard will work great with win98. It does not need a strong 5v rail and socket 754/939 motherboards are quite common. I really like your current build, but I do advise you replace the 6200 with …

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Re: Build Advice - Best All Rounder Retro PC for the first 2.5 eras of gaming

Posted on 2020-04-04, 23:12

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In my experience, trying to get a tualatin chip to run in a 440bx board is expensive and not worth the trouble. You need a slotket adapter that supports tualatin core chips, and even then you're stuck at 100mhz for the FSB. 133MHz means overclocking the AGP bus (i440 boards only support 2/3 and 1/1 …

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Re: Rounding out the collection..

Posted on 2020-03-16, 21:04

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Out of all my retro PCs, most of the time I only use 3 machines: 1) 12MHz 286 with 1 MB of ram, 256kb Paradise VGA card and SB PRO 2 CT 1600 - I use this little guy to play most of my older dos games - Dyna, Cannon Fodder, Golden Axe, Shadow Knights (Ninja), Supaplex, Commander Keen, Duke Nukem 1&2 …

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Re: Best laptop for DOS/Win9x gaming?

Posted on 2020-02-21, 23:26

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Dell Inspiron 8000/8100 or 8200. The 8000 and 8100 are pentium III machines and comes with either a Geforce 2 GO or a Geforce 4 GO. Apparently there is even a version with a radeon 7500 in select markets. The 8200 is a pentium 4 mobile machine and come with either a Geforce 4 go or a Radeon 9000 ( …

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Re: A 286 computer, is it totally useless?

Posted on 2019-12-03, 19:37

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I use my 286 to run XT games and some late 80's and early 90's dos games. My machine has a 12mhz soldered CPU branded "headland" (probably a rebranded AMD 286), 1MB of ram, a 256kb Paradise PVGA2 graphics card, a sound blaster pro 2.0 and a 800MB disk drive. The turbo button halves the frequency to …

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Re: best mb from epox, qdi, abit and dfi

Posted on 2019-11-13, 20:19

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Out of all of them I'm partial to Abit. My favorite boards are the ABIT AN7 (socket A Nforce2), BE6-II (i440BX slot 1) and the ST6 (i815 with tualatin support)

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Re: The Retro Gaming Laptop specs / buying guide thread

Posted on 2019-11-11, 12:36

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I have always wanted to know which notebooks have the best displays. What about the Macbook G3 and G4 and Sony Vaio PCG-xxx I wouldn't know... I have no experience with macbooks, and I don't plan on getty on in the near future since the games I'm interested require dos/win98. I am however curious …

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Re: The Retro Gaming Laptop specs / buying guide thread

Posted on 2019-11-09, 23:29

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+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++ Pentium 3/4/M Windows 98 / XP Gaming Laptops +++ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++ Dell Inspiron 8200 +++ inspiron 8200.jpg CPU: 1.5-2.4GHz Pentium 4 mobile (willamette or northwood) Video card: Geforce 2 GO 32MB, …

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The Retro Gaming Laptop specs / buying guide thread

Posted on 2019-11-09, 23:12

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Hi everyone. After having to store most of my retro machine collection due to turning my office into a nursery, I've been researching and using old laptops for my retro gaming needs. There's very few info online about this topic, so I decided to open a thread about it. So far I've focused mainly on …

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Re: History of Intel graphics card

Posted on 2019-11-03, 18:33

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None of the pictures work... 🙁

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Re: Help identify hardware.

Posted on 2019-10-27, 13:18

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CPU looks like a de-lidded AMD K6 or K6-II.

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Re: Athlon XP Socket A system for 98/XP gaming?

Posted on 2019-07-07, 10:01

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If you insist on dual-booting XP and 98, my advice is to get a faster socket 754 or 939 setup. I built my sister a dedicated retro gaming rig out of a single core Athlon XP 3800+, 1GB of ram and a VIA K8T800 mainboard, along with a Radeon X800XT. THe K8T800 chipset has excelent win9x support - much …

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Re: Athlon XP Socket A system for 98/XP gaming?

Posted on 2019-07-07, 09:36

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Socket A and 478 machines make great win98 gaming PCs. You can run any win9x games as well as late dos games (under windows or dos mode) perfectly well. As for windows XP, I don't really see the point in installing it alongside 98 - any game that will run well on this configuration will run better …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-06-24, 11:22

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Benetton93 wrote: Unlike standard FX5200, this thing is not quite common Very uncommon I'd say. Used to have one back in the day, but I've never seen another since (5200 ultra that is). Nice find!

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Re: What is better for pure Dos and Win98 -Super socket 7(K6-III) or Slot 1/Socket 370 (PII/ PIII)? Where are differences?

Posted on 2019-06-14, 23:04

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Anything will do for pure dos, and it doesn't have to be fast. Socket 7 / super 7 advantages: + CPU speed can be set up by jumpers. You can run a 400MHz K6-2 at 100Mhz if you wanted to. That + disabling L2 cache emulates a 486 pretty well. + Some boards / chipsets have funky undocumented jumper …

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Re: Weird Cooling Problem with Q9550 on P5K SE

Posted on 2019-06-08, 22:52

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I've now ascertained that I should probably dump the 'ol Freezer 7. What coolers would you guys recommend to use, given the following two variables: 1) The cooler must have been available to purchase from June 10th 2008 to June 20th 2008. 2 ) The cooler would be preferred be found on 2008 newegg, …

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Re: Weird Cooling Problem with Q9550 on P5K SE

Posted on 2019-06-08, 16:19

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Your temps are perfectly fine considering the hardware you're using. The AC Freezer 7 is a pretty weak cooler, so 50C idle is to be expected for a Q9550 (depending on case model and case ventilation of course). My Q9550 machine idles at 40C and tops out at 67C, and I'm using a Tuniq Tower 120 witch …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-05-11, 22:33

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Picked up a bunch of PCI sound cards today, but managed to find these four ISA sound cards. The top one I am unfamiliar with. It has a memory slot much like the AWE cards, but does this allow it to use Soundfonts as well? Maybe some of you are familiar with this model. Cheers. sound.jpg Update: …

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