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

Posted on 2020-12-03, 15:12

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Went through another Dark Forces mission. I'm currently at mission 9: Nar Shaddaa. This game has been so far really funny, however I had to patch it to support mouselook, since I can't play with keyboard only anymore. I started playing a few months ago and got frustrated with the (seemingly) …

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

Posted on 2020-12-03, 02:54

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Went through another Dark Forces mission. I'm currently at mission 9: Nar Shaddaa. This game has been so far really funny, however I had to patch it to support mouselook, since I can't play with keyboard only anymore.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-12-02, 02:28

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- Voodoo 3 3000 AGP, nothing special here but for a good price could not miss. A sentence that has words nothing special and Voodoo doesn't exits. :-) Funny, I have a voodoo 3 2000 PCI and I also think it's nothing special. IMO, the special voodoo cards are the 1 and 2, which seem to be compatible …

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Re: Gravis Stinger Gamepad in Windows 98SE

Posted on 2020-12-01, 16:25

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Have you tried the "Add/remove hardware" wizard from Win98?

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Re: Compaq Armada 7360DT

Posted on 2020-12-01, 15:27

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This adapter available at eBay: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Compaq-Computer-AC-Adapter-Cord-Part-341809-101-V18-85-60hz-45W/333589739143 Hi, thank you. I know I can buy it on ebay, but shipping is crazy :( 7USD for the adapter si OK, but 32UDS for the shipping...too much... So the pinout of the …

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Re: Power supply recommendations for athlon 64 build

Posted on 2020-12-01, 15:01

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I got a Corsair 550W for a build similar to yours. It works perfectly so far. I think so much power is a bit overkill, but better safe than sorry.

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Re: Missing Pins on 3.5 Floppy Connector on old Gateway machine?

Posted on 2020-11-30, 04:00

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According to the 3.5" floppy pinout on the PC (https://www.chzsoft.de/site/hardware/preserving-a-floppy-disk-with-a-logic-analyzer/) you are only missing two "not connected" and a ground pin. Considering all odd-numbered pins on the floppy interface are ground, I'd say your motherboard should work …

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

Posted on 2020-11-30, 03:31

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Connected again my WinME machine, then played some "Slave Zero", "Crimsonland", "Hexen II", "Serious Sam: the second encounter" "Dark Forces" and then installed "Jedi Knight II: Mysteries of the Sith". I find it interesting to use Windows ME. I never used it back in the day, but so far I've had no …

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Re: How does one setup booting from LAN exactly?

Posted on 2020-11-25, 04:36

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The network card would require to have a BIOS. If you check old ISA network cards, many of them have an empty socket, which can be populated with an EPROM containing the boot BIOS image. However, you would also need to have an environment for the machine to boot. I don't know how that was done in …

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Re: How to retrieve the content of an old backup made of 4 rar files

Posted on 2020-11-25, 04:31

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I would try copying the files to a linux machine and running all of them through the "file" command, to get a guess of what they really are.

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Re: Let's run Windows 98 on a really fast computer

Posted on 2020-11-22, 04:36

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kolderman wrote on 2020-11-21, 20:45: 256MB is fine for Win98. It really depends on what the machine will be used for. For some of us, 64MB is enough for Win98 😀

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Re: AT to PS/2 to USB?

Posted on 2020-11-21, 15:11

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USB keyboards use a protocol to communicate over USB port. Some USB keyboards, also support PS/2 protocol (completely different from the one used for USB), which is used to communicate over PS/2 ports, when using the adapter. The adapter is completely passive, all it does is connect the PS/2 port …

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Re: Volo's Gamepad to PS/2 Adapter. Device discussion (official thread) (11.00.2020 SITREP)

Posted on 2020-11-18, 04:29

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Hi! I had not seen the update to the first post of this thread. Still interested in this. PM sent.

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Re: Mitsumi CD-ROM Drive Not Being Recognized

Posted on 2020-11-18, 04:00

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Well after getting home and running the setup program with the correct I/O and IRQ values I've "upgraded" from a CD-ROM drive that isn't being detected at all...to one that doesn't work at all. It's not even trying to work because I don't hear it spin the CD up, it just kinda sits there and does …

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Re: Fixing eMachines Case

Posted on 2020-11-18, 02:58

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In the upper hinge of your door there seems to be space for a spring like this one, taken from a Dell machine: Can you point to the place you mean? I was not able to find what you mean.. Sorry, after a more careful review of the pic, it seems I mistakenly thought the mechanism used to press teh …

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Re: SB LIVE! SB0100 refuses to install VXD drivers in 98SE

Posted on 2020-11-17, 03:39

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I use these VXD drivers for SB0100 on Win98/ME: https://www.philscomputerlab.com/sound-blaster-live.html

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Re: Sony Playstation Classic gamepad works perfect on WIN98!!!

Posted on 2020-11-15, 05:03

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peke12 wrote on 2020-11-12, 19:01: I'm looking for the same thing. How did you find a USB PS controller? Or do you use a PS/USB converter? The Playstation Classic comes with two USB gamepads. Those are original sony-made so good quality.

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Re: can a digital joystick get detected on win98se?

Posted on 2020-11-12, 04:30

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I have two Gravis Xterminator Digital Gamepads (one for gameport only, the other works with gameport or USB port) and both work perfectly from Win95 upto Windows XP. they are not detected at all on DOS, though.

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Re: Fixing eMachines Case

Posted on 2020-11-10, 17:21

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anetanel wrote on 2020-11-10, 09:16: Thanks. Indeed it is a different mechanism. I don't see any place a spring could be placed on my door :\ In the upper hinge of your door there seems to be space for a spring like this one, taken from a Dell machine:

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Re: Spots on a retro laptop display.

Posted on 2020-11-10, 05:21

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Maybe a picture would help understand what you are seeing, however if it is the same I see on one of my laptops, then it's a physical damage on the LCD screen, maybe it was hit/pressed too hard and it got damaged. No way to fix it AFAIK, only replace it with a good one. Regards.

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