Beegle wrote:

mbbrutman wrote:

brassicGamer wrote:

The only GIFs I had on floppy disk in the 90s were pornographic...

Thanks for sharing?

I found it pretty funny.

I got two lots of floppies recently for free (it was either that or going to the dump), and in both lots, at least 5 or 6 floppies contained retro porn. Either gifs, or DOS programs from early 90s.

I just won this lot, who knows what I will find. 😀

Its supposed to be 200 floppys but I wanted the very large diskette box just as much. The front seems to be loose but not broken, in worst case I will fix it with some super glue.

Did the Retr0bright with my own formulation today. Works fantastic. I used GLYCERIN to hold in the water moisture of the hydrogen peroxide (20%), mixed with my own carbopol gel with 20% water (i work in a lab, have access to this). I added in EDTA to see if that would help, but I doubt it had much effect.

I used this on an old 386 case that had yellowed horribly. I wish I did before/after photos, because it went from a dark yellow "pee" stain look to a nice new looking light beige.

dogchainx wrote:

Did the Retr0bright with my own formulation today. Works fantastic. I used GLYCERIN to hold in the water moisture of the hydrogen peroxide (20%), mixed with my own carbopol gel with 20% water (i work in a lab, have access to this). I added in EDTA to see if that would help, but I doubt it had much effect.

I used this on an old 386 case that had yellowed horribly. I wish I did before/after photos, because it went from a dark yellow "pee" stain look to a nice new looking light beige.

Can you describe it in greater detail? Also, was the case's yellowing even?

alexanrs wrote:

dogchainx wrote:

Did the Retr0bright with my own formulation today. Works fantastic. I used GLYCERIN to hold in the water moisture of the hydrogen peroxide (20%), mixed with my own carbopol gel with 20% water (i work in a lab, have access to this). I added in EDTA to see if that would help, but I doubt it had much effect.

I used this on an old 386 case that had yellowed horribly. I wish I did before/after photos, because it went from a dark yellow "pee" stain look to a nice new looking light beige.

Can you describe it in greater detail? Also, was the case's yellowing even?

Yellow was not even, it was bad all over and looked like an uneven stain of yellow.

I started with 35% hydrogen peroxide solution (lab reagent), added in caborpol (carbomer) gel and trolamine (gels the carbopol), added in glycerin and water to dilute the hydrogen peroxide. Once the hydrogen peroxide breaks down in the sun into water and oxygen, the carbopol gel and glycerin form a "foam", allowing the peroxide to stay on longer without the water drying out quickly.

The bleaching was very even, and I couldn't tell of any "halo" affects that others have complained about. The case looks great. I'll take a photo of it tomorrow and update this post.

Received a AT to ATX converter the other day so tried a number of "unknown" socket 7 motherboards. Most booted up straight away without any issues.

I choose the Abit PX5 (i82430TX) in the end. Its a decent board with a CPU soft menu, allowing me to move up and down the CPU speed quickly.
I had a Cyrix 6x86mx-pr166 which was the real reason for the build.

Cyrix 6x86mx-PR166 (Currently running at pr133)
Abit AB-PX5 AT Motherboard
32mb PC100 RAM
4mb ATi Rage II PCI
Seagate 4.3Gb Hard Drive
ESS Autodrive ISA Sound Card
48x CD-ROM Drive
Cheapy case 😢
Installing DOS6 & Windows 3.11 shortly
DELL Branded ATX 250w PSU

I had to cut some of the case away inside for the top right of the board to fit, then tapped it up with some electrical tape. I also mounted the hard drive using rails due to the space at the bottom. The case is very shallow.

So why did I build it? I've got at least two machines (Pentium MMX & K6-2) which would run everything in this time era... No idea! Just love building it all up and having a play 🤣

foey wrote:

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Received a AT to ATX converter the other day so tried a number of "unknown" socket 7 motherboards. Most booted up straight away without any issues.

I choose the Abit PX5 (i82430TX) in the end. Its a decent board with a CPU soft menu, allowing me to move up and down the CPU speed quickly.
I had a Cyrix 6x86mx-pr166 which was the real reason for the build.

Cyrix 6x86mx-PR166 (Currently running at pr133)
Abit AB-PX5 AT Motherboard
32mb PC100 RAM
4mb ATi Rage II PCI
Seagate 4.3Gb Hard Drive
ESS Autodrive ISA Sound Card
48x CD-ROM Drive
Cheapy case 😢
Installing DOS6 & Windows 3.11 shortly
DELL Branded ATX 250w PSU

I had to cut some of the case away inside for the top right of the board to fit, then tapped it up with some electrical tape. I also mounted the hard drive using rails due to the space at the bottom. The case is very shallow.

So why did I build it? I've got at least two machines (Pentium MMX & K6-2) which would run everything in this time era... No idea! Just love building it all up and having a play 🤣

What a fun looking little machine. Good job on the build.

I finished yesterday my new old gaming computer and so far seems to work well. I had to solder new wires for power on button, front leds and attach a PC speaker to the chassis. Space Quest 4 gives unable to initialize audio hardware error and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade gives Divide error on startup, but many other games seems to work.

Chassis HP Vectra with HP branded PSU
Motherboard Abit AB-BM6
CPU Intel Celeron 400 MHz
RAM 128 MB
Sound Blaster 16 CT2980
S3 Trio 3D/2X
120 GB IDE hard drive
CD-Writer Plus 9300 series

markot - Look great, nice touch with the HP branded CD-RW drive as well 😀

foey wrote:

markot - Look great, nice touch with the HP branded CD-RW drive as well 😀

This chassis had originally another CD-ROM drive, but it was in bad condition so had to replace it. So I had another one that is suitable for this chassis. I also had some LG drives, but thought this would be better. There are some scratches on the chassis and if I had a better workplace, I would like to spray paint it.

Beegle wrote:

I got two lots of floppies recently for free (it was either that or going to the dump), and in both lots, at least 5 or 6 floppies contained retro porn. Either gifs, or DOS programs from early 90s.

You just reminded me, this is how I got my first computer virus. Could it be called a sexually transmitted infection? 😉

Hi guys. I´m new here !
Yesterday evening I decided to push my 386 setup to the next level.

Running Quake 2 with 640x480 SW rendering on this setup :

Mainboard HOT307H w 128kB cache
Amd 386DX40 CPU + ULSI 40MHz FPU
8MB SIMM RAM
ISA Tseng Labs ET4000AX / 1MB
16GB CF Card as HDD

Here is Video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YHewKqEQvM

Nice Day !

diyhw wrote:

Here is Video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YHewKqEQvM

Nice Day !

Welcome to the boards and thanks for sharing. I'd be interested in seeing a wider shot of your workbench. However, I'd like back the 2 minutes I just spent watching Quake 2 load considering the results once it finished. Nice rig though. Does it run Doom any better?

I'll admit, I was expecting a fake video like that old "Quake on a 386" one (which now seems to be gone?).

I was pleasantly surprised. Good effort man! 😀

Nothing much... Just a simple test-setup to play with.

Asus P5A.
K6-II-500.
Kingston 128mb Ram.
Asus TNT2-Pro 32mb AGP.
Creative Vibra-S CT:2890 (OPL-Chip)
Then just some random storage.

Now THAT is a test bench 🤣

Yeah....
This exact combo is running stable. Not fast by any means. Just stable.
It gives 3220 in 3D-Mark99. Next stop, is to see how well a V1 is running in this setup.

brostenen wrote:

Yeah....
This exact combo is running stable. Not fast by any means. Just stable.
It gives 3220 in 3D-Mark99. Next stop, is to see how well a V1 is running in this setup.

Here is a new project I've started. Pentium 4 3.06 GHz with universal AGP slot. Planning on doing a series of video cards reviews for my channel / massive benchmarking charts.

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Here is a new project I've started. Pentium 4 3.06 GHz with universal AGP slot. Planning on doing a series of video cards reviews for my channel / massive benchmarking charts.

Nice... 😀

Now I am going to swap the mobo for this setup. The P5A has some wierd issues with the Righteous V1.
It just crashes. Well... Never mind. Checking the PA-2013 out on this.

I'm surfing the web with a:

5AGM2 MVP3 chipset
Pentium 133Mhz
384Mb PC100@66mhz
Cirrus Logic GD5430 1MB PCI
NE2000 compatible

Incredibly fast if I've to say considering the CPU.

Surfing these pages with a:
Am386DX-40
16MB 60ns simms
ATI 28800-5 1MB
107MB HD

Oh yeah that's it tablets. 😁