That's cool!

Doing ground work for another video to do with a Retro Gaming PC with a Voodoo 3.

Cool so you can actually get to capture some of the test patterns here in this Q3 UI mod so I can perfect that filter 😀

leileilol wrote:

Cool so you can actually get to capture some of the test patterns here in this Q3 UI mod so I can perfect that filter 😀

Did I reply the last time? What you wrote went over my head / too technical. Give me something I can run, take a video / screenshot and no worries. But I had no idea what you wanted the last time 😵 Oh and I believe the AVerMedia doesn't capture in RGB but some other, lesser, colour space.

Today I played Duke Nukem 3D. I can only play an hour every couple of days. The music and aliens get to me after a while. I also played Wings of Fury (sinking ships with torpedos is cool) and Defender of the Crown. One of my fondest games from the 1980s. I remember playing it on my cousin's Wang PC with CGA CRT back in the 1980s.

Today I went over to my Cyrix 6X86-P166 and replaced it with a Pentium MMX 133MHz. Then I proceeded to load up some classic titles from the early 90s to the late mid. X-Wing & Tie FIghter, Doom 1 & 2, Heretic, Duke Nukem 3D, and loaded up some old TSR SSI games. For the past few days I've been reading through old Computer Gaming Weekly's from that time period and those SSI ads got me hooked. Seems the games with the lowest graphics had the best cover art.

Today I built a Windows 98 SE retro rig. I received an old Compaq DeskPro Celeron 600 yesterday, and today I installed SB Audigy and ATI Radeon 9000 Pro in it. I have to say I was really surprised to see how easy it was to get everything running,

Hopefully things will get as smooth on the DOS 6.22 side when I move my Pentium MMX 233 SBC and Soundblasters from Amiga 2000 to my new industrial PC... 😀

I have cleaned the front panel and the hood of my Laser 8086 system. Also received the new floppy drive.

Ran Simcity 3000 on a 486: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0DrzaaMw9U

Yesterday I got a new Sound Blaster 16 sound card. It's a CT2910 with OPL on board and it sounds freaking amazing, I installed it in my Packard Bell Platinum 55 and made a quick video of it playing Handel's Watermusic - Air from a mid file.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zSlHgRWxIk&feature=youtu.be

Got a new Winbond I/O controller chip for the semi-revived P3B-F. Just before replacing it I decided to give it another quick test. Well guess what... Now, it doesn't do anything anymore. Just like the P3B-F with the smoked ISA slot, the supply voltages come up but it doesn't POST. Even the POST card stays blank. There's no signal on any bus, nothing.

So now the only "working" P3B-F I have is the one I found in scrap earlier this week, which only works properly for about 10 minutes before crashing. I now suspect bad caps are the primary cause though, since some of them run really hot on this board.

Now I don't know what to do with the new I/O chip. I could replace it, see if it helps, but I'm afraid that would just waste a $8 chip.

With slot 1 boards I had good luck with AOpen. They fitted Japanese caps.

philscomputerlab wrote:

With slot 1 boards I had good luck with AOpen. They fitted Japanese caps.

But AOpen boards tend to be really boring. No interesting features, not much overclocking capability, 3 RAM slots max, etc. The P3B-F is one of the best slot 1 boards feature-wise, but if they're all as unstable as the boards I have, I might just hold on to this P2B for a little longer... or see if I can get one of those mighty cool Abit boards...

The caps used on P3B-F are Sanyo and Rubycon, by the way 😉

Never had a problem with p3b-f boards. I have one working nicely and a good one for backup (and had one back in the day, new).

I do not overclock these boards because they are old (and probably have had a life full of overclocking before, since they were flagship enthousiasts items).

I did however get one DOA not too long ago. Seller said it was working but after a lot of attemps i had to trash it: absolutely dead.

My retro activity today: Making some room....

I have to sell some stuff because i have way too much parts 😐

This hobby started just to get my 3dfx cards working and i just bought way to much along the way 😎

Since i have more than enough systems, parts, backup parts and backups for the backups etc. it is time to cut it down to what i really want AND use. It's a SAD day but some things have to be done....

I have to become a collector again and stop beeing a hoarder 🤣

Today i made some big steps, tomorrow i will finish it.

I think we all know that feeling...

Haha! I'm sure....

Isn't there a clinic for people like us? 🤣

meljor wrote:

Haha! I'm sure....

Isn't there a clinic for people like us? 🤣

I thought vogons.org is the clinic. 🤣 You will cure if you sell your stuff to us. 😵

I feel a lot less like a hoarder after organising my piles of computer hardware into plastic bins and antistatic bags. My collection doesn't take up as much room anymore and I know where everything is. My hardware collection is nowhere near as bad as my games collection tho. I end up buying multiple copies of games simply because I forget I already own the game.

Having my hardware organised does make me feel more like a collector, but I don't think it'll last long. I'll sure I'll start to feel like a hoarder again in a few months when I have to buy more and bigger bins for my stuff.

At least this hobby isn't too expensive. I spend less money on this hobby than some of my friends spend on lunch. 😀

Yea I also have storage boxes and anti static bags 😀

But I ran out of shelf space somewhat 🤣

Hooked up my C64 to make sure it was still working after taking it apart to see which SID chip was in it, (6581 R4AR).