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Reply 60 of 27171, by Solarstorm

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Today i recorded a video for Youtube where i show how to update the Firmware of one of my CM-32L.
But since CamStudio is a pain in the ass and i lost the programming part i don't have a complete video.
Now i will record it next saturday... perhaps. -_-

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Reply 61 of 27171, by AlphaWing

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Sorta retro since the mobo has a post date of 2004, but testing it today, and simply amazed at how well, my freshly restored Socket 939 a64 machine is running modern games under Steam os beta.

Reply 63 of 27171, by Mau1wurf1977

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Recorded all the sound menu songs from the PC version of Turrican II: http://www.philscomputerlab.com/turrican-ii.html

At least with Chrome it will play them straight away, no need for download.

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Reply 64 of 27171, by tayyare

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Called my mother using my antique Nokia..😁

GA-6VTXE PIII 1.4+512MB
Geforce4 Ti 4200 64MB
Diamond Monster 3D 12MB SLI
SB AWE64 PNP+32MB
120GB IDE Samsung/80GB IDE Seagate/146GB SCSI Compaq/73GB SCSI IBM
Adaptec AHA29160
3com 3C905B-TX
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MSDOS 6.22+Win 3.11/95 OSR2.1/98SE/ME/2000

Reply 65 of 27171, by elianda

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Tested an old Sanyo 2x and Teac 4x SCSI CD-ROM drive from 1994. The drives are able to read current CD-Rs with the latest AZO layers which were somewhat surprising since most old drives do not.
Retested a 5.25" SCSI Fujitsu M2266S-A and a Fujitsu M2266S-B HDD drive. One works flawless, the other one reports media defects.
Just to give an impression:
The drive is from 1992 and was produced since 1990. There is some blog where it was covered recently:
http://goughlui.com/?p=8779

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Reply 66 of 27171, by jwt27

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My two younger cousins from Canada came over and stayed here last week. We've been gaming most of all, I showed them some older games and cool hardware and they introduced me to some new stuff (like Nitronic Rush, which is an AWESOME freeware game)
They seemed most impressed by the 160Hz CRT I use. Actual quote: "OMG this is like real life!" 🤣
I could finally practice my English speaking skills too 😀

Reply 68 of 27171, by Mau1wurf1977

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Played around with the GOG.com version of Privateer 2 and got it going on my Pentium time machine. Details in the DOS section 😀

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Reply 70 of 27171, by joacim

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You can never have enough floppy drives. I have only one, and I suspect it is kinda bad. I thought it would be a good idea to throw out all my old floppy drives (and AT power supplies) 5 years ago.

Reply 72 of 27171, by King_Corduroy

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Always try blowing them out with an air compressor, oil up the worm gear and clean the read write heads. I've fixed drives I had assumed dead before by doing this.

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Reply 73 of 27171, by mwenek

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Bought this to straighten the pins on my next project.

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Win98SE Box: PIII 850, 128MB, 8 GB HDD, CL Live!, ATI 9600XT, 2x Diamond Voodoo 2 8MB
DOS Box: Intel 80 Mhz P24T Socket 3 OD, 16MB, 128MB CF Drive, Number 9 VLB, SiiG VLB IDE, SoundBlaster 16 ISA/WaveBlaster

Reply 74 of 27171, by Sammy

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Not Hardware, only Software, but Retro:

Installed Win95C on various Dosbox versions, with 3DFX, Network, etc...

Now i found a combination to play Colin McRae Rally with Hardware Acceleration,no Graphic Bugs and Networkplay, between to Virtual Machines in Dosbox.

Tomorrow i will test if i can connect the Game running in Dosbox with a Game running on real Hardware.

Reply 76 of 27171, by Mau1wurf1977

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Long overdue so finally I got around to testing my Gigabyte 586ATX Socket 7 motherboard.

Tested with a Pentium 200 at 100 MHz to compare it with Vetz's results:

Socket 5 & 7 Motherboard VGA Benchmark comparison

Right up there with the top motherboard 😀

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Reply 77 of 27171, by JaNoZ

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mwenek wrote:

Bought this to straighten the pins on my next project.

Use a Potato knife, much cheaper, very effective.

Btw what overdrive is that, Socket 4 to ? P133?

Reply 78 of 27171, by Stiletto

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JaNoZ wrote:
mwenek wrote:

Bought this to straighten the pins on my next project.

Use a Potato knife, much cheaper, very effective.

Depending on the CPU, a mechanical pencil with the "lead" removed, and steady hands. Even cheaper. However, works better for P4 and above though (maybe P3) depending on the gauge wire used for the CPU.

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do the Fandango!" - Queen

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Reply 79 of 27171, by Logistics

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Realizing I still have an empty Redline Networks T|X 2U chassis, which I should convert to a home-theater system as it would look beautiful amongst the stereo equipment.