Re: Compaq armada 1750
Posted on 2024-03-22, 12:43
boby wrote on 2024-03-20, 08:27: Any of you guys with spare laptops, have an extra caddy for sale? 😀 I will om you a link wher you can buy one.
Re: Compaq armada 1750
Posted on 2024-03-21, 06:42
I have two of these for a long time, one is a spare. This was my laptop from 2001 till 2010. The Armada uses a BX chipset with the MMC-2 CPU form factor. A long time ago I upgraded it to a Pentium 3 600, which runs at 500 and you have to enable the L2 cache with cpumsr, It's max is 320mb ram, (but …
Re: 2024 - End of the era of Retro Computing Youtube channels?
Posted on 2024-03-17, 17:19
Usually it just feels cringe, like that ai pizza commercial that floated around: https://youtu.be/qSewd6Iaj6I?si=Y9bc86y8cyBugU6M
Re: Which is the best and most memory efficient CD-driver?
Posted on 2024-03-17, 09:33
I use the teac driver just because it lets you reduce the cd rom speed. Old games tend to read often and high speed CD Roms are disturbingly loud. Maybe not optimal memory wise but it works for me.
Re: 2024 - End of the era of Retro Computing Youtube channels?
Posted on 2024-03-16, 21:21
Speaking of AI and youtube videos, have you seen Saxon's latest joint? :lol: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tfca2Kz4064 Watched a minute, the ai generation is 'ok' as far as ai goes, but it just feels lifeless, like a power point presentation. When you watch it something just feels off, cheap and …
Re: What game are you playing now?
Posted on 2024-03-06, 19:56
Playing some Tomb Raider II. Have not played it in ages. I remember it being more action oriented than 1&3 and it is. It is also kind of easy to get lost, maybe that is the puzzle part...
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2024-03-01, 15:14
Recapped my first motherboard (successfully)! The board is a EPOX EP-BX3. I also tried one of the voodoo 2s i have in the build and it works, albeit some image distortion/flickering. I will clean the contacts and see if it solves it. I'm happy though as I thought the voodoo was not working at all. …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2024-02-25, 09:04
Noooo, you're letting the secret out, the 0-$20 cards that substitute the mostly very spendy DX8 cards. Let ppl keep going on about how much they suck lol Hmm..! I guess the very much higher 3d mark score has to do with the fact that the gf3 does not run the nature demo, but the FPS is clearly …
Re: Pentium III - Best clockspeed for the money?
Posted on 2024-02-25, 07:05
Clockspeed ain't going to help Quake3's texture thrashing (which is especially bad on 3dfx cards with less than 16MB - such as the Velocity 100). Your video card is the bottleneck, and this must change if you expect to hit 40fps with the presented gamut of 1999-2001 games. Perhaps a Geforce2MX is …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2024-02-24, 16:09
That's totally fixable and you can use some the mojo utility to find out which part is bad. Since all 3 are now bad you should probably look at how these are being stored - the QFP (quad flat pack) chips on the Voodoo 1/2/Rush cards have lots of pins with pretty weak solder and that's getting worse …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2024-02-24, 13:13
I was going to fix the missing caps on my 8 mb voodoo 2 I got years ago. Did not get it to work. Gets stuck on 3dfx logo. So I put an other voodoo 12 mb in there instead. It did not work either... Had a look at it and yeah it also has a missing cap otherwise it looks fine. Sadly I don't have that …
Re: Adventure remakes
Posted on 2024-02-23, 07:00
I remember these typing games fondly. Like KQ1 on our Amstrad we had in the late 80s. But it's not something I would like to play today. I learned English from games like this. They were very educational to adventure hungry kids.
Re: Tell about your country
Posted on 2024-02-22, 16:04
I heard only the good about the Nordics, and the places. Tell me something that outsiders must take care of, the places they should look to live in, how to merge with the locals, places for local food, ways to not get scammed, etc (Others have replied to the thread, I would like to engage with …
Re: Tie Fighter - Black screen when starting mission
Posted on 2024-02-21, 18:23
Here is a thread where vlb and tie fighter is mentioned. CL Mode VESA driver
Re: Tell about your country
Posted on 2024-02-21, 17:18
I speak for the Swedish. Ask me anything. I will answer truly. Fascinated by mooses. Do you see them often? I hear they're a danger to drivers. Yes we have moose. They are giants, we refer to them as kings of the forest. Sweden is a very tall country, and in the northern parts where i often visit …
Re: What are people's thoughts on 16:10 monitors for retro PC gaming?
Posted on 2024-02-20, 19:33
I personally like my pixels they way they ought to look. Some laptops with high res lets you shrink the picture, is this a feature of some 16x10s or would it need hardware support? I also prefer a square picture generally but I have no problems with black borders. (Screens used to be tiny anyway.)
Re: Tell about your country
Posted on 2024-02-20, 19:21
Re: Help repairing 440bx
Posted on 2024-02-18, 22:06
I got the tip to poke around and measure resistance on capacitors. I found two caps with the same values close to the ram slot that measured differently. Removed them from the board and one of them had failed closed. Maybe it is the reason, maybe it's nothing but I will try to replace these two and …
Re: CPU & GPU for first retro build
Posted on 2024-02-18, 21:56
Its not s huge deal but there is something called 8-bit paletted textures that fx was the last card to support.
Re: CPU & GPU for first retro build
Posted on 2024-02-18, 21:49
I personally would no go past fx for a sub win 98 build. Especially if you also have an xp system.
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