Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2025-02-05, 09:18

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by Greywolf1

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Managed to get this haul from Facebook marketplace for £20 got my work cut out for me sifting through it. Seven monitors, 2 dells, 1 hp/compaq 8300 crate full of hdd sata/ide, dvd drives, millions of keyboards mice and cables.

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Re: Unreal 1 - What is your opinion about it?

Posted on 2025-02-03, 19:18

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by Greywolf1

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Tbh I’ve had this games for decades and I’m pretty sure I’ve never played it until last week as to test my new win98 rig. I’ve got it up and running nicely getting used to the controls still beginning kinda confusing getting weapons and armor and health and paranoid about the jump scare.

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Re: Dell dimension 3000 finally working!

Posted on 2025-02-03, 09:23

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by Greywolf1

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in Marvin \ System Specs

Either f8 at boot up or restart from win98 Also I disabled legacy sound in bios so I could install audigy 2zs drivers without conflict. Reading up on things I think part of my problem is that my cd/dvd drive is assigned E: and I’m unable to force it to D: as the second hdd is locked to it

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Dell dimension 3000 finally working!

Posted on 2025-02-02, 16:49

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by Greywolf1

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in Marvin \ System Specs

Got my dell dimension 3000 finally working with win98 Specs. 865gv GHz 3 .0 512mb ram Hdd 30gb, 40gb DVD/cd GeForce fx 5500 256mb Audigy 2 zs While I got the system working with good graphics and sound and even usb I’ve had to still use ps/2 mouse and keyboard. I’ve tried a batch of games and the …

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Re: Your idea of the perfect game

Posted on 2025-01-29, 17:19

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by Greywolf1

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I quite like games that have consequence's for your actions like in might and magic and Baldur’s gate and elder scrolls having a reputation affect gameplay. Games also used to be basement businesses with their particular humour and art styles.

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Re: How hard is it to find retro/vintage computer hardware where you live?

Posted on 2025-01-29, 08:45

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by Greywolf1

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Yeah I’ve done some technical management to acquire working parts and additional memory for my non working ones

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Re: Looking for retro gaming laptop and for messing around with old OS

Posted on 2025-01-28, 16:25

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by Greywolf1

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I’ve got an old acre aspire timeline that I’ve down graded from vista to xp 32 bit it’s alright for generic xp games but no good for the higher end range games but I got this laptop for free as it used to belong to my mother in law. And I’ve got a dell inspiron win7 64bit i5 if you’re wanting win7 …

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Re: Looking for retro gaming laptop and for messing around with old OS

Posted on 2025-01-28, 13:53

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by Greywolf1

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

If you have the budget get 2 laptops one for the earlier stuff and one for the later stuff I hear that a good core 2 duo can cover xp/vista/win7 with 4 gb mem

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Re: How hard is it to find retro/vintage computer hardware where you live?

Posted on 2025-01-28, 08:35

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by Greywolf1

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I had an annoying opportunity several months ago at work they were doing a clear out at our depot with lots of vintage computers and screens had my eye on 2 towers and two screens I enquired if I could have them or purchase them the depot manager couldn’t sign off on it and told me to contact the IT …

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Re: DOS games that require windows to play?

Posted on 2025-01-27, 07:15

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by Greywolf1

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I’ve had games throw a hissy fit when emulators runs in windowed mode you sort of get the effect of a windowed games running in a windowed emulator.

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Re: Is this copy of Wolfenstein 3D shareware?

Posted on 2025-01-23, 09:48

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by Greywolf1

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I also remember some shareware were as good as full games as there were still open to lvl editors so you could play fan made levels or maps

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Re: Is this copy of Wolfenstein 3D shareware?

Posted on 2025-01-22, 21:49

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by Greywolf1

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In my opinion from experience I used to get shareware bundles usually half dozen to dozen games mostly popular games with some full version lame games depending on software publishers which would bring some money in for the flops and encourage buying full versions of the shareware. I usually ended …

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Re: How to have fun

Posted on 2025-01-22, 20:10

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by Greywolf1

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Massive manuals also remind me of dragon wars and dungeon master and elder scrolls arena

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Re: How to have fun

Posted on 2025-01-22, 09:11

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by Greywolf1

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The issue I had most of the games I own are from the early 90s to mid 2000s and little did I know that down sizing to a 64bit laptop and getting rid of the tower I would never be able to play them again my collection of enjoyment was rendered useless with one purchase and getting a tower back again …

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Re: What does your significant other think of your retro pc hobby?

Posted on 2025-01-15, 18:08

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by Greywolf1

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have not found a happy solution to indulge in my hobby tho my wife has unrestricted access and funding to hers with minimal complaint.

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Re: Signs Your an Old Geek

Posted on 2025-01-15, 17:08

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by Greywolf1

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

It’s what I find with a lot of technical things nowadays too growing up you would fix things either yourself or pay someone and now you need experts or throw it away same with new computers it’s so complicated now that even with an idiot guide you’re still unable to fix it unlike in the past an …

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Re: Signs Your an Old Geek

Posted on 2025-01-15, 15:32

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by Greywolf1

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Cartoons I used to watch was the hannabarbara club on Sunday mornings and they used to smoke gamble drink and do drugs in them until that stuff got phased out with informative messages at the end of the show and road runner and Tom and Jerry nearly got cancelled for being too violent. Gi joe used to …

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Re: Brand NEW nVidia Geforce FX5500 256MB

Posted on 2025-01-12, 18:08

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by Greywolf1

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Yeah like one of the ports isn’t real the pictures aren’t exactly high res will have to see when/if the card arrives 🤣

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Re: Brand NEW nVidia Geforce FX5500 256MB

Posted on 2025-01-12, 16:42

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by Greywolf1

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Had a look at the pictures tho that doesn’t mean anything for Chinese sellers the caps say fp tho I think one of connections is a dummy vga port as well.

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Re: Brand NEW nVidia Geforce FX5500 256MB

Posted on 2025-01-12, 14:08

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by Greywolf1

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Good to know

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