Just been mucking around with networking in windows 3.1 in Standard Mode on the old girl. Turns out the ftp and telnet clients bundled with the tcpip32b package for wfw 3.11 appear to function just fine on it. I was expecting them to be 386ehn only applications.

I had a retro lan yesterday.

Computers ranging from Pentium 2 400MHz up to Pentium 4 2.66GHz. The majority of the machines were Pentium 3s running Windows 98, with a single Athlon 1.2GHz.

11 computers/players in total.

We played: UT, Q3A, Tribes, AOE2 and RA2.

It was great fun 😁

tried WinNT4 on my P133/64MB machine on a spare hard drive.

It ran brilliantly, stable, fast, however it was obviously pretty limited game wise (since I couldn't find any Diamond Monster 3D drivers specifically for WINNT4 I had to use the generic 3DFX ones, not as fast as they should be), not to mention some of the Windows games this thing can run not even wanting to install.

could be useful as a dual boot with Win95 though.

I build a new retro system 😁
Just a quick preview, I will open a separate Thread

Pentium III-S Tualatin 1400MHz
512MB (2x256MB) PC133 SDRAM 2-3-2-7
ASUS TUSL2-C
Compaq Voodoo 3 3500C AGP 16MB
Terratec Aureon 5.1 Fun
Allied Telesyn ATX-2700 PCI

CPU 28-32*C

Reworked my Disney Sound Source emulator (basically took the prototype apart and made a nicer looking one on perfboard) and confirmed it to be working with the autodetect routine of Dungeon Master (doesn't work in DOSBox due to a higher level of emulation) - also checked out that both chip variants for my circuit can be mixed.

just built a system out of scratch using spare parts, figured it would be a bit of a challenge.

Dell Dimension 4100 S370 motherboard (dont have the case, but I do have the PSU)
1GHz PIII Coppermine (133Mhz FSB)
512MB SDRAM
120GB IDE HDD
Radeon 9550 256Mb (budget card thats a few years newer, but an ok fit for a system like this until I decide to get something more fitting)
SBLive 5.1
Win98SE

the system wont be for personal use, more of trying to put a case Ive got to use.

I've been meaning to master the art of de-soldering chips. Previously I've used a dremel to cut the chip off and from there it's easy to remove the legs individually, but obviously that kills the chip. A project on my C64 required a chip to be replaced, but I didn't want to destroy the original chip, so I bought myself some de-soldering braid and practiced on a dead board first, and then tackled the real thing.

With a hot, clean iron, and a well placed section of unused braid, it went very well. The solder around some pins was stubborn for whatever reason and needed some new solder added to loosen it up, but with patience the chip came out cleanly.

Iam trying to find drivers on the almost gone years old manufacturer websites.. And trying to save what i can.. The drivers i will also upload to vogonsdrivers. Because this is the only real working resource for now.
What i really hate is the clean up on old websites what google is doing on this moment.

Today I won the Oldskool demo compo at Revision 2015: http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=65371

Scali wrote:

Today I won the Oldskool demo compo at Revision 2015: http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=65371

Mind-blowing!

No way! You wrote that!? I just watched that on youtube yesterday and that is freaking cool as hell!

King_Corduroy wrote:

No way! You wrote that!? I just watched that on youtube yesterday and that is freaking cool as hell!

Yup, together with Trixter, reenigne and Vile Rancour.
Thanks!

Scali wrote:

Today I won the Oldskool demo compo at Revision 2015: http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=65371

Awesome!

Some people's coding skillz on that old of equipment is just insane. 😎

Now I want to run this on an actual machine oO

Congrats on winning the Revision oldskool compo guys! This is no small feat considering it went up against several good entries on platforms which had strong scene support for decades (C64/Amiga). It's rather hard to understand the technical implications of using a bare IBM PC with CGA.

Scali wrote:

Today I won the Oldskool demo compo at Revision 2015: http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=65371

Very slick. Well done and congratulations!

Scali wrote:

Today I won the Oldskool demo compo at Revision 2015: http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=65371

Amazing job on this guys... and thanks for the VOGONS shoutouts! 😁

Indeed, this is what the scene is supposed to be about, it's not about being pretentious and artsy... It's about throwing the instructions in the bin, writing your own before ignoring those too and coding to the point that it practically becomes an art form by itself.

Tonight I attempted to delid a Pentium 4 670. Word of advise, do not attempt this. The die is stuck to the IHS and WILL shatter

Dismantled my 486 to have the RTC chip replaced/repaired. That's beyond my skill 😀