Re: What Piece of PC Hardware Have You Owned Longest

Posted on 2015-09-20, 03:50

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by Sune Salminen

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I still have a Realtek RTL 8139A PCI NIC, from 2001 or so. Possibly earlier than that. It's been used in 4 or 5 different PCs over the years. The last time it was in service was in a Pentium 4 Hackintosh, which had an Intel on-board network chip that was incompatible with OS X. I was sharing an …

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Re: Favourite games / programs for Commodore 64?

Posted on 2015-08-31, 02:57

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Wizball - still great fun in co-op mode - you're a wizard charged with bringing back colors to the world - with the help of your cat Dropzone - frantic Defender clone, great gameplay. Thrust - zip in, steal the pod and escape the defense system while grooving to some of the best music ever …

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Re: Asus P2B-DS Build

Posted on 2015-05-21, 05:39

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by Sune Salminen

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obobskivich wrote: Is there an Audigy 2 ZS in there? Or is the front-bay just in the case? It's in the second PCI slot. If you look carefully you can spot the black cable that connects to the drive bay thing.

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Re: NVidia Demo Dawn Ultra Texture Bug

Posted on 2015-03-17, 04:05

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I don't see the "body divided in two parts" thing here. 64-bit Windows 7, 344.75 driver, GTX 660. Ultra model, shaders and config files are part of the Dawn demo that I downloaded. I don't know how to invoke it though, there is only one executable. Maybe it depends on video card Device ID. There's …

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Re: Video cards not recognized, detected as standard VGA adapters

Posted on 2015-02-16, 01:00

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Obviously you will not be able to even search for the correct driver for it until you know what make and model it is. Tell your friend to download and run this http://www.pci-z.com/ it will show a list of all devices on the PC's PCI bus, including the video card. If you don't know what to do with …

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Re: Help finding a scaler for arcade resolutions to feed capture card

Posted on 2014-08-11, 00:51

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by Sune Salminen

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Take a look at this: http://junkerhq.net/xrgb/index.php/XRGB-mini_FRAMEMEISTER

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Re: os9 games on a Mac mini ppc

Posted on 2014-08-09, 05:55

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by Sune Salminen

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See post #5 Seem to be rather extreme issues for such an old game but there you go, I never had problems with dosbox playing anything so massive slowdowns like this are new to me - if it was a game that needed a G3 400 I wouldn't have been surprised, but something from 68k/earlyPPC days? Oh... could …

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Re: How fast can your machine emulate Ridge Racer via Mame?

Posted on 2014-05-26, 03:59

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by Sune Salminen

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I used a default .153 .ini generated with mame64 -cc, no settings were changed. It's no secret that MAME favors Intel but the gap is too big here I think. There's something wrong on your end if you're seeing less than 100% CPU use, but I don't know what it is.

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Re: How fast can your machine emulate Ridge Racer via Mame?

Posted on 2014-05-26, 02:40

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mame64 ridgera2 -bench 90 Average speed: 270.48% (89 seconds) Windows 7, 64-bit MAME .153 Core i5-3570k. All four cores maxed out during the benchmark @ 4.2 GHz. Running unthrottled, the lowest I've seen it go is 130% during the attract mode night scene.

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Re: a good motherboard/CPU for windows XP

Posted on 2014-01-21, 03:14

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I am more interested in running my camera software... canon digital photo studio. That requires XP and the NET framework. If you get Windows 7 Professional or Ultimate, you can use "Windows XP mode", it's Microsoft Virtual PC + a free copy of Windows XP: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/ …

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Re: Game Pads

Posted on 2013-12-17, 04:26

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by Sune Salminen

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It depends on what you use it for. The d-pad is great for weapon selection or whatever in modern games. Try playing Mr. Driller in MAME with the d-pad. All out gamer-rage guaranteed, even if you haven't felt that since you were 14 years old. I can promise that you will want to punch a hole in the …

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Re: Game Pads

Posted on 2013-12-12, 23:01

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I have two 360 pads, and they are great for modern games, but in my opinion the d-pad is absolutely useless for retro gaming. It's way too easy to accidentally hit a diagonal, it's "squishy". This causes your character to get stuck in games that don't support diagonal movement, or move in the wrong …

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Re: Unified for TNT2 M64?

Posted on 2013-11-18, 01:03

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The unified driver worked fine on my 16Mb TNT back in the day, at least with Carmageddon II. It's funny how memory works, I clearly remember that Carmageddon II had fog in 3dfx mode when using this driver on the TNT, but I can't remember if I tried any other titles.

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Re: a good motherboard/CPU for windows XP

Posted on 2013-10-26, 16:59

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by Sune Salminen

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Gigabyte EP45 or ASUS P5Q series (ICH10/ICH10R + P45 Express) with a Core 2 Duo E8500 and a 2x1GB Kingston Hyper-X 1024MHz RAM kit.

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Re: SDI/broadcast CRTs

Posted on 2013-10-22, 17:42

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by Sune Salminen

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Cool. Post a photo!

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Re: People who call their entire computer a "CPU"...

Posted on 2013-09-22, 23:43

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by Sune Salminen

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Yeah there's that, and then there's "My PC hangs up..." No it doesn't. People hang up on you, on the phone. Your PC hangs. "hang up" the phone, that's a stone age expression too. Nobody has that kind of phone anymore where the receiver actually hangs on a hook.

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Re: People who call their entire computer a "CPU"...

Posted on 2013-09-21, 22:09

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PATA drives being described as IDE drives - as in "Is it a SATA drive? No, it's an IDE drive". SATA drives are also IDE drives. You're talking about the interface, not the drive, and the interface is PATA.

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Re: Gaming On A Mac QS 733Mhz

Posted on 2013-09-18, 22:10

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by Sune Salminen

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MESS is great for 68k Mac emulation, almost the entire line of 68k Macs are emulated. A handful of Apple monitors and nubus expansion cards are emulated too. Some files and info in this thread: http://www.emaculation.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6563 The MESS wiki has some mac emulation specific help …

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Re: "Other" MIDI Synths for gaming?

Posted on 2013-09-18, 21:49

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by Sune Salminen

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The Seinfeld theme has many sounds from the Wavestation, including the characteristic slap-bass. I read an interview with a musician in the advertising business lamenting the fact that he could never use that sound in anything because it would make people immediately think of Seinfeld.

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Re: SDI/broadcast CRTs

Posted on 2013-09-18, 19:19

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by Sune Salminen

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Try to find out if there's a hidden service menu where you can make adjustments. Most of the time these can be reached by holding down a certain combination of buttons while switching on the monitor. It's possible that the BVM is too old to have that kind of menu though. Maybe there are trimpots …

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