Re: Can't find a 40mm fan with "mini" 3 pin connector!

Posted on 2009-08-28, 12:23

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... Anyway, here is the Texas eTailer who has a decent selection: http://www.directron.com/gpucoolers.html or just the fans: http://www.directron.com/vichfa.html I have seen in the past that Directron did ship to some non-USA addresses in the past, although I think that the shipping cost was …

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Re: Can't find a 40mm fan with "mini" 3 pin connector!

Posted on 2009-08-28, 04:25

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Stateside, we have several sources for the right fans with the correct mini- molex; therefore, I suspect that you should have at least one there in Britain. When such a fan isn't dead yet, I usually expect to have the time to use eBay, and pay substantially less, even after adding shipping costs. …

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Re: AdLib Music Synthesizer Card pictures?

Posted on 2009-08-27, 01:53

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I can't help you; I remember that the earliest Soundblaster I had came with an amplifier, and could be used with unamplified speakers, while the adlib was unable to do that, which meant a slightly higher investment first going into PC sound (I had used some sort of software emulation of an adlib …

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Re: Where is any combined general information / FAQ type article about some local site tool references

Posted on 2009-08-24, 12:08

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From that, given no previous familiarity with NTVDM, after a jump out to Google & Wikipedia, it sounds like the NT 32 bit versions of Windows uses that when a user starts a 16 bit process from the RUN command, and perhaps also to emulate the DOS prompt ("Command Prompt")?

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Where is any combined general information / FAQ type article about some local site tool references

Posted on 2009-08-24, 11:34

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Where can a (realtively) new member of the Vogons community find out (easily) what some of the tools discussed here are all about? GLiDOS is used where and when? OpenGLide, same thing (?) VDMSound, what is it? It seems to function like DOSbox; what can it do that DOSbox cannot? That's just for …

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Re: Voodoo Banshee + SB16 problem!

Posted on 2009-08-23, 23:51

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Personally, I wasn't running games in 1997/1999 that required very fast screen rendering, and at the time, the VooDoo cards were more expensive than anything else you could buy for video. I have built the two oldie PCs, not from any branded product, but the basics started out mostly from my own …

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Re: Voodoo Banshee + SB16 problem!

Posted on 2009-08-23, 21:38

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Hi Kiwi. Well, I'll think I'll have to go for a PCI card anyway: I opened up the PC and apparently it doesn't have an AGP slot, only PCI slots. I found an auction for a cheap Voodoo3 on ebay: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260465446191&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT Would that one …

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Re: Voodoo Banshee + SB16 problem!

Posted on 2009-08-23, 02:03

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Hi all. I know that I'm kind of reviving this thread but as the matter of fact, I'm trying to do kind of the same thing as powerpie was in June. I got this Compaq DeskPro 4000 (133mHz). It has a video card installed: a Cirrus Logic 5446 with 2MB of memory. I would want to know if it is possible to …

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Re: Freespace not getting closer to ready to be played . .

Posted on 2009-08-21, 01:43

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Locutus wrote: You mention Privateer Deluxe. By that, do you mean the sequel "The Darkenning" or is there really a Windows version of the first game? Instead of "Deluxe", it was the "GOLD" edition: http://www3.shopping.com/xPO-Wing-Commander-P … er-Gold-Edition

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Re: Freespace not getting closer to ready to be played . .

Posted on 2009-08-20, 23:37

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I was always, first and foremost, a fan of turn-based, party oriented, PC Role Play games. I don't know which one I played first for certain, nor even what early computer platform it ran on. But the only times I've tried other types, such as strategy or simulation, has been when there were no CRPGs …

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Re: Freespace not getting closer to ready to be played . .

Posted on 2009-08-20, 17:03

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On modern hardware, I play Fallout 3 some, and NWN2's Storm of Zehir. Half the fun I expect to be having with 1998 games is playing them on hardware no more than a couple of years newer than the games. I will eventually do as you suggest, of course. I never played Starlancer or Freelancer or …

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Re: Freespace not getting closer to ready to be played . .

Posted on 2009-08-19, 01:47

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That might be a fun option, but you have to understand that I am what you must realize my own age-mates consider an aberration. I've never met a fellow PC game player in my age group. I've never met a PC system builder hobbyist in my age group. Occasionally, I run across some middle aged people (my …

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Re: Freespace not getting closer to ready to be played . .

Posted on 2009-08-17, 13:23

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I have a system that I've been playing Arcanum on that has a 900 MHz Duron, which is supposed to equate roughly to a 750 Athlon. If the slower "Retro" machine turns out to be too slow, I can use that one instead. I've never set up any joystick on that system, but I can't imagine it will be that much …

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Freespace not getting closer to ready to be played . .

Posted on 2009-08-17, 03:05

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I want to ask whether anyone here has any recollection of any hardware foibles for this game. I have on hand a rather wide range of possible PC components for whatever system(s) I run the game on. Last spring, or maybe it was last winter, I bought the game and started to set up a vintage (Windows32) …

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Re: PalOmino faster than a Thoroughbred?

Posted on 2009-08-17, 01:47

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From time to time, a game comes along that is so much fun to play that you play it again and again. Bard's Tale was like that, but on the C64, the stock C64 disk drive was so bad, I waited until the port to the PC before I replayed. I don't remember whether I played Curse of the Azure Bonds first on …

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Re: Palamino faster than a Thoroughbred?

Posted on 2009-08-16, 22:32

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I have owned a couple of each of those, and still have a PCX 5900 in a basic utility box I use for prepping drives, copying CDs / DVDs, making streamed CDs, stuff like that. With the various software it has aboard, I imagine that SecureROM would have a hissy, but I never tried one game on it. I did …

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Re: Sapphire Launches Radeon HD 4650 AGP

Posted on 2009-08-15, 02:37

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Actually, AFAIK, Newegg has been selling HD 4650 AGPs for a couple of weeks or more. The announcement they were coming goes back maybe 3-4 months, though, so they certainly weren't in a hurry! TTBOMK, the price premium is only truly justified in the case of the motherboards, for which AGP actually …

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Re: Palamino faster than a Thoroughbred?

Posted on 2009-08-13, 13:07

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The most telling difference between the two is/was better efficiency -- and there were two Thoroughbreds, an A and a B. (I'm quite certain that the Barton was on much different silicon than anything before it, coming out as it did, after the K8s were released.) I recall a Palomino 2100 needing a …

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Re: 486DX-33 vs 386DX-33

Posted on 2009-08-13, 07:44

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The included APU makes a world of difference, so is that particular addition the one you are most interested in seeing what changes it affords? If not, you should specify that the 386DX has its matching 387 with it.

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Re: Closet find Texas TI-99 4A

Posted on 2009-08-13, 06:39

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Search for documentation and look up the specs on the brick. It'll probably be something you can find at Radio Shack. One of my kids had one, but all of the add-ons were priced far too dearly, and he just wasn't that technically inclined.

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