Re: Old Hardware in Movies

Posted on 2018-07-10, 14:25

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by MartinC

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gca wrote: Depends on what time period the film is supposed to be set in I guess. Would look even stranger if the film was set when Win95 was current and they were running Win10. Yeah they had Netflix, iPad's, drones and cars from 2010's so looks to me like it wasn't set in the past

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Old Hardware in Movies

Posted on 2018-07-10, 13:13

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by MartinC

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Not sure if anyone else will have anything to share here but I'm just now rewatching Gone Girl and found it funny and nostalgic to see Windows 98 on a movie from 2014 😁

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Re: POLL: What is your favorite vintage processor?

Posted on 2014-05-12, 13:41

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Sounds simialr to the Compaq machine that I had. 533mhz K6-2 and integrated S3 Trio3D AGP video and no AGP slot.The last video card I ran in that was a GeForce 4MX 440 PCI. It was way past time to buy a new system so I stopped upgrading it and bought a Compaq Evo W4000 2.4ghz Northwood machine and …

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Re: POLL: What is your favorite vintage processor?

Posted on 2014-05-11, 10:39

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Advanced Micro Devices K 6 - II 3D Now ! With a title like that it can't be beat! Seriously though the price/performance of this chip was great, only to be beaten by the Celeron 300A Back when I bought my first K6-II 3DNow! (TM), the cost of a decent slot 1 motherboards was almost twice that of a …

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Re: Back to the Future: Upgrading a 90's PC - The Modern Web

Posted on 2014-05-11, 10:11

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Maybe if we combine forces to find out the untapped regions and the complexity of the underlying factors, something might come out positive though I doubt it. All the best to all of us with P3 systems. I'll do my best! I just picked up my system from my mum's and it's sweet....I also added a …

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Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on 2014-05-10, 13:38

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Hi all! I New here. And wish to show my upcoming Retro Rig Station. Its 80% completed. http://img594.imageshack.us/img594/3226/19u4.jpg Corsair Vengeance C70 case White Edition SuperMicro P6DGU (Made in USA) 2x Pentium III 650/256 4x 512mb Kingston ECC 2x Voodoo II 12mb (Sli) NVidia FX 5950 Ultra ( …

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Re: POLL: What is your favorite vintage processor?

Posted on 2014-05-10, 10:27

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Advanced Micro Devices K 6 - II 3D Now ! With a title like that it can't be beat! Seriously though the price/performance of this chip was great, only to be beaten by the Celeron 300A

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Re: Back to the Future: Upgrading a 90's PC - The Modern Web

Posted on 2014-05-10, 03:34

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With Win 98 and depending on the games you are running you may have to go back as early as the lastest detonator drivers to actually get the games to run without problems. This means the FX series is the last generation of NVidia cards that you can run on 98 and run all games without issues. I …

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Re: Back to the Future: Upgrading a 90's PC - The Modern Web

Posted on 2014-05-09, 14:44

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Your prerequisites are really tough for a usable modern internet experience considering your setup. Geforce 6 series don't seem to have much support for hardware acceleration for video playback let alone flash videos. If you move to Geforce 8 series or newer which may have better acceleration …

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Re: Posting this on my 286

Posted on 2014-05-09, 12:32

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Impressive! How long did it take to post on the 286? I am curious. Also good job fixing the corroded traces. My first 486 board is ruined from the Varta barrel battery destroying the keyboard interface. He is using a text based browser so it would be near instant, I wonder how well you would be …

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Back to the Future: Upgrading a 90's PC - The Modern Web

Posted on 2014-05-09, 11:02

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After a 3 year stint as an IT technician I now have time for actually enjoying computers again so I’m back to my dream machine! I’m looking to make this machine usable in the modern Internet while retaining it’s vintage feel and hardware (where possible) What I want to keep: - Windows 98 SE as the …

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Re: 1999 - Dream Machine

Posted on 2011-12-18, 04:45

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Hey guys!!! I have not booted up this rig in a year, it's at my mum's (mom) house 1500KM away but I did a few more finishing touches to it, I can say it's probably a perfect reflection of what would have been a dream machine in the late 90's I changed the case to something more reminiscent of the …

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Re: DOSBox in Ubuntu 8.10 - Sound Glitchy

Posted on 2009-12-24, 06:49

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Resolved this but setting output freq. to 44,100 KHz in DOSBox .conf file, Ubuntu 9.10. Think you have to match your system output.

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Re: DEC HiNote Ultra II Laptop

Posted on 2009-12-02, 01:32

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I suggest you upgrade the HDD (depending on what you plan on playing) and the best way of communicating is using the Network card, if using DOS you might have to dig for the software but through Windows it's not very difficult. That way you can easily upload from your main PC to the Laptop like an …

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Re: 486 system I'm building

Posted on 2009-12-01, 02:32

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That hardware is for a purpose, a purpose that no one here is trying to achieve. People here are using these computers as memories of old fun, to do specific audio editing, play loved games as they where meant to be played. Some are just here to learn. I have to say lots of times I find my old Win98 …

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Re: post up pics of your "computing area"

Posted on 2009-12-01, 01:38

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Love this thread, waiting for someone with a cave & 286 system running ONLY, hehe, that would be cool & NO LCD's 😁

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Re: 1999 - Dream Machine

Posted on 2009-10-09, 00:54

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http://cgi.ebay.com.au/PENTIUM-3-1GHZ-100FSB- … id=p3286.c0.m14

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Re: 1999 - Dream Machine

Posted on 2009-10-07, 23:48

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If you hunt around in eBay you can find a 1GHz Slot-1 CPU for about the price of 370 + adapter. I got mine for like AU$10 + shipping. You can also get a hacked BIOS to support the PIII-S processors if you want to go with a 370 & the 1.4GHz's are cheap on eBay.

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Re: 1999 - Dream Machine

Posted on 2009-10-07, 22:17

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MartinC, I notice you are using this hardware: GA-6BXC Slot-1 440BX with a 1GHz P3 CPU. I'm currently testing a GA-6BXC (PCB Rev 2.0), with a 800MHz P3 CPU, code SL3XR. I think my board's dip-switches can accomodate a CPU speed of up to 950MHz, but I've not been able to find a P3 CPU with a speed …

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Re: Ensoniq Soundscape resources (manuals, files, links, photos)

Posted on 2009-10-05, 02:47

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Amazing, I have been looking everywhere for these drivers & they where right at home!!!

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