So I grabbed this potential beauty today! It's a InWin A500 case with Pentium 120, HOT 557 motherboard, 32mb sdram, S3 Virge DX 4mb and a Sound Blaster 16 Prelude (Yuck!!). IMG_4917.jpg IMG_4918.jpg IMG_4920.jpg I'll clean and retrobrite the case, but most of the work will be inside... Of course I …

Hi All, In the process of building my retro 98/XP rig and all going well. 98 and XP installed.. Running without BSODs / crashes, devices working ok but... I noticed some of the capacitors were bulging, fortunately without any obvious leakages. The only ones bulging are 1000uF 6.3V caps so I've …

I'm awaiting my picoGUS and want to know can I run it alongside with my ESS 1868 soundcard? My idea is ESS for gameport and SB compatibility, picoGUS for GUS stuff (CMS, AdLib maybe). Theoretically I will, but want to know experience from practice. yeah i run mine in parallel to another sound card. …

I ordered mine yesterday... So freakin excited!

I don’t remember the early 2000s being such an AGP nightmare. I think graphic cards and systems were evolving so quickly that it... didn't really matter. No one was thinking of reusing a 3 year old graphics card... this is an era when a $50 GF4 MX was better or equivalent to a GeForce 2 GTS from... …

Your P3 board doesnt happen to be AT or AT/ATX combo? Might need a 3.3V mod where you solder a wire from ATX 3.3V pin directly to AGP power. Of course this only works if - the problem was AGP power, it often is with Voodoo3 - onboard 3.3V regulator is really producing 3.3V and not 3.4V or 3.5V like …

The plot thickens… I tried the 3dfx flashing tool and it says “there is no build information for the selected hardware”. EEPROM is dead or corrupt? BTW it’s a V3 3000 from Dell… EDIT: it's not... I just reflashed the eeprom. No dice! EDIT 2: has anyone witnessed a miracle where a GPU comes back from …

I have acquired a Voodoo 3 3000 AGP and having problems confirming it is in working order... Although I own a P3 board with the correct AGP version (1.0 with 3.3v), it only works with my TNT2 and NO OTHER AGP card (subject for another discussion perhaps). The closest machine I have available to test …

I just noticed it’s a 1.5v AGP slot even though it’s an AGP pro one. So it’s a no go with a Voodoo! I don’t remember the early 2000s being such an AGP nightmare.

Strangely enough, I have a problem where I got my hands on a Voodoo 3 3000 AGP gpu, but have no machine to put around it... While I was looking for another Pentium 3 machine, I stumbled on a "meh" looking Dell Precision 530 workstation with dual Xeon 1.7ghz, AGP Pro slot and 1GB of RAM. An overkill, …

This is a life saver! I found another use case for it: connecting the motherboard's internal speaker to a SB LIVE. Because I wanted to have the internal speaker sound (mono) output on both speakers, I had to use the TAD connector that does just that... Going through any other "in" connectors would …

Good to know!! I was holding on to my Audigy 4 until I could find a SB Live! (SB0100) for my Win98 build without knowing it would actually work... Cuz yeah, I too have an Audigy 2 ZS (in another build). Thank you good sir!

I believe the diskette version of X-Wing does... There is Hardball III also.

Any reason why you are preferring WinQuake to GLQuake? The later runs much better... I too have a PIII with Windows 98... I will give it a try to see how it runs and report back. What GPU are you using? UPDATE: I clocked down my PIII to 533 and ran Half-Life at 800x600 with EAX and A3D enabled …

Did anyone try to attach a CD-ROM to the PnP IDE interface on the sondcard (initialized with Unisound) ? I have an issue with the ESS1868 cards. However, the Сrystal CX4237 card works fine (with the same software and CD-ROM). 1) Working card: Сrystal CX4237, CD-ROM DRIVE, UNISOND, DEVLOAD, VIDE-CDD …