Re: Mac SE/30 with parallel printer? With modern printer?

Posted on 2023-09-05, 22:32

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by VivienM

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First, I would suggest asking for help on a vintage Mac forum instead... Second, back in the day, there were people who sold Mac serial to parallel adapters along with Mac drivers for a range of printers you might want to use. I remember reading about those in Mac magazines in the early 1990s - you …

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Re: Pentium 4 (Northwood) period correct build suggestions

Posted on 2023-09-05, 11:50

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by VivienM

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Now, which graphics card do you recommend? Something that is around 2010~2013ish. (I just pulled another system that has an i5 (year 2012), and a RADEON HD4350, but I would like to replace this video card based on your recommendations) May I ask why? Correct me if I were wrong, but it seems that …

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Re: Pentium 4 (Northwood) period correct build suggestions

Posted on 2023-09-05, 02:53

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by VivienM

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Now, which graphics card do you recommend? Something that is around 2010~2013ish. (I just pulled another system that has an i5 (year 2012), and a RADEON HD4350, but I would like to replace this video card based on your recommendations) Just to confirm, for a PCI-E system, or a Northwood? (I am …

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Re: Calling out to Windows 98/P4 driver detectives

Posted on 2023-09-04, 21:14

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by VivienM

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ElectroSoldier wrote on 2023-09-04, 18:21: Can you give me a clue on where to start? I looked in the MSI site for an 865 based board but that didnt offer up any help for Win98, only Win2k+ These boards aint really my thing, Im more at home with Xeon based systems. https://www.asrock.com/mb/intel/ …

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Re: Pentium 4 (Northwood) period correct build suggestions

Posted on 2023-09-04, 20:35

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by VivienM

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Its the same with LCDs. What is true of one is true for the other. I remember there were OEMs here in the UK that offered cheap monitors with cheap systems and the more you spent the better you got. Those OEMs did serve a useful purpose, in this country it was Time and Tiny. There were others but …

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Re: Pentium 4 (Northwood) period correct build suggestions

Posted on 2023-09-04, 18:52

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by VivienM

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Doesnt surprise me. I think a lot of people, especially retro gamers actually, forget just how good the late CRTs were. They were big sure, but the image quality really was amazing, and the flat tubes were stunning! And when LCDs took off in popularity the prices dropped like a stone. I still have …

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Re: Calling out to Windows 98/P4 driver detectives

Posted on 2023-09-04, 18:00

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by VivienM

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Have you tried looking at the web sites of other motherboard manufacturers that sold i865G boards, e.g. Asrock, with Windows 98 drivers? I would think they would have at least the chipset/graphics drivers... Do you know for sure that there's a driver for the audio chip and the gigabit Ethernet chip …

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Re: Pentium 4 (Northwood) period correct build suggestions

Posted on 2023-09-04, 17:40

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by VivienM

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But my recollection is that at least non-gamers were moving towards small 15-17" LCDs around 2004-5ish... This. It was definitely non-gamers and businesses that started the transition around that time. Friend I mentioned was only a casual gamer and mostly bought the monitor and computer for general …

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Re: Pentium 4 (Northwood) period correct build suggestions

Posted on 2023-09-04, 17:03

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by VivienM

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Is a 17" CRT really period-correct for a Prescott system and a game from ~2004? I would have said the glory days of 17" CRTs were around... 1996-1998. By 2000, I think many people had moved on to the 19" CRTs at, typically, 1280x1024 at least outside games. That is definitely not the case. LCD …

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Re: Pentium 4 (Northwood) period correct build suggestions

Posted on 2023-09-04, 16:27

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by VivienM

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That's exactly what I am doing now, finished installing XP on Dell OptiPLex 170L (Prescott 3.0GHz) with 2GB DDR, and PNY GeForce 6200 (256MB, PCI) So far, Half-Life 2 runs great on my period correct 17" ViewSonic CRT (1024x768, yes I love pixellated, jaggy edges, and Anti-aliasing is doing a good …

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Re: Pentium 4 (Northwood) period correct build suggestions

Posted on 2023-09-03, 22:46

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by VivienM

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But getting back to the comparison of equals. Looking back as we now can how do the equals compare to each other now nearly 20 years later? I guess the more important question is, does it really matter 20 years later? Neither Bartons, nor Northwoods, nor Preshots are contenders for the ultimate- …

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Re: Pentium 4 (Northwood) period correct build suggestions

Posted on 2023-09-03, 21:32

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by VivienM

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Apart from the mental block people have over computers as space heaters. Can show me that an Atlon XP will beat the equal P4? Because from what I remember it was all about the Athlon XP being able to beat the Pentium 4 because of its price point compared to its performance. Like you needed a 2400+ …

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Re: Pentium 4 (Northwood) period correct build suggestions

Posted on 2023-09-03, 20:00

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by VivienM

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If you are considering an "early XP" system, by which I mean XP > XP SP1a then an Athlon XP shouldnt be dismissed as easily as all that. The 64bit CPUs I consider the next era so I wont mention them much beyond saying that they are the next era. I'm as big an Intel fanboy as anyone, but even I …

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Re: Pentium 4 (Northwood) period correct build suggestions

Posted on 2023-09-03, 18:21

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by VivienM

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Since P4 Northwoods is underpowered for these games, what games / period should I consider installing on this machine then? On a Northwood running XP? Probably... the same games you'd play on a 98SE machine. 1) I mean if I have to compromise for a 2000~2003 era, wouldn't a powerfull PIII (which I …

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Re: Pentium 4 (Northwood) period correct build suggestions

Posted on 2023-09-03, 16:04

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by VivienM

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Install XP onto a PIII 450 - 933 with 128Mb RAM and an old 8.4 - 20Gb EIDE hard disk and you will see the problems, not with itself but it relation to how that hardware runs 98. 128 megs of RAM is the problem for sure. I remember my aunt and uncle got a Celeron/Deleron Dell running XP with 128 megs …

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Re: Pentium 4 (Northwood) period correct build suggestions

Posted on 2023-09-03, 14:48

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by VivienM

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Personally I like that hardware era for Windows 98. Not that it was the last of the line for 98, there are many "ultimate 98" machines on here that show the end of the line for it, but it is certainly the hardware era that represents when 98 was relivent in the minds of the masses as it was at that …

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Re: Pentium 4 (Northwood) period correct build suggestions

Posted on 2023-09-03, 13:10

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by VivienM

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Sounds like you want two things - build retro system based on P4 - play some retro games Optimal course of action is: 1 build retro system based on P4 2 play some retro games on your current Windows 10/11 computer/laptop. Yes, all of them will fork just fine. Yes, building "retro winXP rig" doesnt …

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Re: Pentium 4 (Northwood) period correct build suggestions

Posted on 2023-09-03, 12:40

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by VivienM

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Why would you call EA, a company which released such great hits like Battlefield 2042, Anthem, SimCity 2013 and Dungeon Keeper 2014, provided us the innovative surprise mechanics with FIFA Ultimate Team packs and streamlined their game development by "retiring" a few unknown game developers like …

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Re: Pentium 4 (Northwood) period correct build suggestions

Posted on 2023-09-03, 11:51

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by VivienM

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Half Life 2 Soldier of Fortune II Doom III Fear Halo Far Cry Command and Conquer 3, and 4 Red Alert 3 As others have said, at least some of those games are going to be a disaster on machines that old. Back in the day, I could never get Doom 3 working correctly on a 1..9GHz Willamette P4 with a …

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Re: Pentium 4 (Northwood) period correct build suggestions

Posted on 2023-09-03, 11:41

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by VivienM

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Also C&C4 totally does not exist, no need to even look it up. Really? How come I still own a physical copy in my library? It is called Command & Conquer 4 Tiberian Twilight https://www.ea.com/games/command-and-conquer/command-and-conquer-4-tiberian-twilight Must be some kind of prank, no way could …

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