Re: Sound Blaster Pro 2 and SB 16's dying on me

Posted on 2012-03-07, 22:16

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by keropi

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

it's the fate of old hardware, it just dies... it could die just sitting in an anti-static bag in the cupboard... had many failures with amiga hardware (and most of them REALLY expensive) for no reason too, it's one of the things that made me sell everything related and not keeping locked money in …

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Re: Ivy Bridge and what has happened to progress compared to the Pentium days...

Posted on 2012-03-07, 20:27

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by keropi

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^ I believe so, those 22nm really help with scrolling, something to do with caching of EGA registers I have heard from a guy that has a friend whose uncle works on retail carrot marketing.... 🤣

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Re: PC compatibility cards

Posted on 2012-03-07, 15:12

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by keropi

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

yeah, those were nice little buggers that leeched on the 68000 socket 😁 you can get one now to heal that "wound" though! 😁

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Re: Ivy Bridge and what has happened to progress compared to the Pentium days...

Posted on 2012-03-07, 14:55

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by keropi

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IMHO the point of ivybridge for now is the 22nm manufacturing process, it's a milestone on it's own (I would love one but I can't afford to be so greedy as to change my 2600K... LOL) It won't be long before intel makes some 22nm 6 or 8 real cores cpus ... that's were 22nm will start paying off :cool …

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Re: PC compatibility cards

Posted on 2012-03-07, 14:52

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by keropi

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yeah the first commodore ones where 4.77mhz XT ones, then 286 and finally 386sx/20 ... The German GoldenGate cards were more advanced and were 386sx/25 , 486slc/25 and 486slc2/50 . They even had an extra monitor switch where you would change inputs via keyboard shortcuts. They actually worked pretty …

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Re: Yet Another 486 Build

Posted on 2012-03-07, 12:54

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by keropi

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in Marvin \ System Specs

reminds me myself when I was bothering with 486 machines some years ago... I was trying to get a good mobo (with a ps2 mouseport because I hate serial mice) and I ended up coughing ~90eu r for an eBay NOS Soyo SY-4SAW2 mobo ... tried a bunch of high speed 486/5x86 on it and then migrated to p1... …

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Re: Yet Another 486 Build

Posted on 2012-03-07, 08:25

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by keropi

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in Marvin \ System Specs

and here is the answer! SquallStrife put some jade jewelry next to the mobo to fix it's chi , protect and heal it, that would work! (sorry couldn't resist 🤣)

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Re: 3D Accelerator Video Captures

Posted on 2012-03-07, 08:19

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by keropi

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

^ I had similar results with my Diamond Stealth 3D-2000 , I believe swaaye used a card with the 325 chipset

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Re: 3D Accelerator Video Captures

Posted on 2012-03-07, 07:51

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by keropi

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

AWESOME VIDEOS, thanks man!!!!

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Re: PC compatibility cards

Posted on 2012-03-07, 00:31

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by keropi

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

yeah those "bridge" cards were just awesome! I had a couple of GoldenGate 486slc cards for my amigas (DK is right, all big-box amigas -except the A1000 - had ISA slots too that were connected only to power and nothing more... by adding a bridgeboard then ISA slots would be connected to the …

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Re: Best AGP Card for Old Win9x Games in XP?

Posted on 2012-03-06, 21:43

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by keropi

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in Milliways

sliderider's CRT is awesome 😀

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Re: Yet Another 486 Build

Posted on 2012-03-05, 23:35

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by keropi

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in Marvin \ System Specs

Why put a Vortex/Live on this pimped 486? Personally I would forget Live immediately as it has issues on newer mobos, I tremble to think what kind for probs it will cause to a 486-PCI machine... From your choices I would go with the ES1868. Post a good pic of the mobo, maybe someone here recognizes …

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Re: Labway xwave-6000

Posted on 2012-03-05, 23:25

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by keropi

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LOOOOL I had one of these certificates, it came with my WaveForce 192XG ! thanks for the pic, I lost mine ages ago

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Re: freeware paint/image editing program? (like jasc paintshop pro)

Posted on 2012-03-05, 21:15

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by keropi

in Milliways

in Milliways

I use PSP7 and paint.net ...

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Re: Ireland enacts SOPA!

Posted on 2012-03-05, 15:27

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by keropi

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Don't you just love it when corporations rule instead of governments ? meh

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Re: My Pentium 4 Retro Build

Posted on 2012-03-05, 15:12

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by keropi

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in Marvin \ System Specs

IMHO anything that needs a 2nd core is not retro enough LOL might as well use a core2duo/quad based machine (for this reason I am not going to ever give my Q9300/Asus P5Q machine, investing in the future LOL) The cooler I have on my p4 is pretty much silent all the time... the fan is constant …

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Re: My Pentium 4 Retro Build

Posted on 2012-03-05, 13:11

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by keropi

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I completely missed the p4 era since I was using Athlons and AthlonsXP at the time... the reason I am not using them today is because they need a good cooler and all I have are VERY noisy. The 2 good coolers I have atm are both s478 so it was an easy choice to make... not to mention the lack of a …

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Re: My Pentium 4 Retro Build

Posted on 2012-03-05, 11:25

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by keropi

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in Marvin \ System Specs

🤣 yeah most ppl think we are insane indeed, but who cares? as long they donate their "useless junk" I am happy 🤣 but on a more serious note, it's just a hobby and as insane as stamps collecting for example in my view... whatever floats your boat as they say 😀

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Re: My Pentium 4 Retro Build

Posted on 2012-03-05, 09:56

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by keropi

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in Marvin \ System Specs

Nice find! I just love to discover that stuff once thought as crap are actually good parts 🤣 I was recently donated a 2.4 northwood machine with a very nice gigabyte mobo (agp-pro and sata 🤣) and made it a win9x machine with a 6800GT

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Re: Retro 98SE Gaming PC

Posted on 2012-03-04, 22:23

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by keropi

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you can use drives bigger than 136GB provided your BIOS supports them and you apply some unofficial patches as Aideka mentioned. here is the thread for the win patches: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/78592-enable48bitlba-break-the-137gb-barrier/ I have a similar setup, 1.4ghz p3/v5500 agp , I am …

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