Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-03-17, 20:12

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by PowerPie5000

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Managed to find one of those old Commodore branded ATX cases when they had a go at selling gaming PCs (around 2007 I think). It's one of the Eve Online variants... I'll be using this for my socket 754 Win98/XP rig.

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Re: Worst fastest early 3D cards questions

Posted on 2024-03-16, 18:13

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by PowerPie5000

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What about one of the Number Nine cards? I remember the "Ticket to Ride 3D Revolution" was meant to be quite bad.

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Re: Favorite old OS

Posted on 2013-07-22, 21:53

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by PowerPie5000

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Classic Amiga Workbench 😎

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Re: Intel AL440LX

Posted on 2013-07-05, 22:54

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by PowerPie5000

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I swear that there was a version of the SE440BX that had a similar Yamaha chipset, which would do faster CPUs. I have a SE440BX but it has craptabulous Crystal Audio. :disapproving: Some SE440BX2 boards were shipped with a Yamaha DS-XG audio chip (YMF740C)... Mine didn't have the optional audio, so …

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Re: PIII Laptop

Posted on 2013-07-03, 21:58

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by PowerPie5000

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Toshiba 2804-s503 http://www.cnet.com/laptops/toshiba-satellite-2805-s503/4507-3121_7-6749687.html Has worked great for me weather it be early 2000s or early 90s games. has dos sound support. EDIT: even though it's 16mb vram it can it JUST handle GTA VC. Looks good for what i want it for (i won't …

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Re: Powerleap iP3/T Guide...

Posted on 2013-07-03, 12:14

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by PowerPie5000

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Yep that's me. I am using a PIII 600 at the moment so it should be quite a good speed boost.:) You'll definitely notice a good speed boost 8). It would be interesting to see what your motherboard detects the CPU as... My Intel SE440BX2 detected it as a 'Pentium Pro 1200MHz' on the bootup/POST …

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Re: PIII Laptop

Posted on 2013-07-03, 12:04

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by PowerPie5000

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Crappy screen? Plug in a nice CRT VGA monitor, or an LCD if you don't have CRT. I did this with our Pentium 133 Mhz laptop. I stripped my big bulky retro rig as it was taking up space and hardly being used (selling some of the bits over at Amibay)... I want something small that i can tuck away when …

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PIII Laptop

Posted on 2013-07-01, 23:51

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by PowerPie5000

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Can anyone recommend a good PIII, Celeron (or AMD equivalent) laptop for Win98/DOS use? I've been looking at a couple but i want to make sure DOS audio is adequate (it'll probably be emulated though). I have a P233 MMX laptop, but i can't get used to the crappy screen! A 3D video chip would also be …

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Re: Powerleap iP3/T Guide...

Posted on 2013-07-01, 23:38

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by PowerPie5000

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Thanks guys, just bought this from Amibay. Look forward to trying this out. :cool: I think you bought it from me (Hawkins?)... I also sold another on Amibay fairly recently :). It's definitely a worthwhile upgrade for slot-1 users and it was a nice improvement over my previous 850MHz PIII …

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Re: Powerleap iP3/T Guide...

Posted on 2013-07-01, 11:10

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by PowerPie5000

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Thanks very much, all sorted now (the guide is for the new owner). Cheers 😎

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Re: Powerleap iP3/T Guide...

Posted on 2013-06-30, 23:25

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by PowerPie5000

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Allow me to assist. ;) http://web.archive.org/web/20020408064722/http://powerleap.com/Products/iP3T.htm http://web.archive.org/web/20021122174912/http://www.powerleap.com/downloads/PL-iP3%20v3%20Instructions%20.PDF Thanks! The only thing missing are the voltage jumper options which appear on the …

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Powerleap iP3/T Guide...

Posted on 2013-06-30, 21:02

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by PowerPie5000

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Does anyone have a PDF or the original guide for the Powerleap iP3/T adapter? I've just noticed their website no longer exists (it was there not long ago) and i've misplaced my original instruction guide. A scanned copy or PDF is appreciated. Cheers 😀.

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Re: Picking the best DOS Sound Blaster(s)

Posted on 2013-05-11, 23:33

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by PowerPie5000

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'm sticking with my PCI Yamaha YMF724 based card :happy:. It's been great so far with Win 95/98 and DOS games. The PC/PCI (aka SB-Link) cable is very handy when it comes to DOS support, but only a few motherboards actually have the SB-link header (you can use distributed DMA mode instead). It …

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Re: Geforce FX Pixel Shader Issues...

Posted on 2013-05-11, 22:29

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by PowerPie5000

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It sticks out mostly with Morrowind and the pixel shader tests with 3Dmark (especially the advanced pixel shader test with 3DMark 2001)... I'll test it with others when i get the chance. So far the moving dots only seem to affect pixel shaded water for some reason 😒.

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Geforce FX Pixel Shader Issues...

Posted on 2013-05-11, 22:14

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by PowerPie5000

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I've noticed that i get strobing dotted lines in games that have pixel shaded water... I'm not sure if it's a hardware or driver issue though? The card is a 128MB Gainward Geforce FX5700 and it's using the latest/last v81.98 drivers for Windows 98se. The card works perfectly fine with all other …

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Re: New Computer Built and Working!

Posted on 2013-05-09, 10:25

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by PowerPie5000

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What are the specs? I might invest in another SSD soon seeing as the prices are getting lower and they should last a bit longer now. I've had an SSD drive from OCZ and Corsair and both were crap (fast, but failed too quickly for my liking considering how much they cost!). It seems Samsung and Intel …

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Re: Mainboard ID: Found this 486 at work! Biostar with VLB?

Posted on 2013-05-07, 11:36

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by PowerPie5000

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Biostar? I see Bioteq on the stickers. Bioteq is Biostar :wink:... I think it's still called 'Bioteq Technologies' in China, but it's known as Biostar everywhere else. The quality of their boards used to be a bit iffy some years ago, but now they're quite competitive when it comes to budget, …

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Re: What OS for PII 266 96/97 Rig?

Posted on 2013-05-05, 00:05

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by PowerPie5000

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'd just go ahead and install Win98se along with one of the unofficial service packs... There's really no need to use Win95 imo (unless your using a 386/486 or early Pentium).

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Re: Amiga emulator on Ms-Dos

Posted on 2013-05-04, 23:55

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by PowerPie5000

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I used to mess around with Fellow (aka DOSFellow) years ago and i remember it being a decent enough Amiga emulator for DOS... Although it's nothing compared to UAE these days (a bit basic in comparison). I think Fellow could only emulate OCS and maybe ECS hardware though.

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Re: Nvidia's framerate limiter

Posted on 2013-05-02, 11:03

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by PowerPie5000

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Often the whine actually comes from the PSU. But yea it's quite annoying. I had a very bad case and swapped the card out at the shop because of this. You can get coil whine with some PSUs if they're pushed, but i find more often it's the GPU or in some cases the CPU VRMs on the motherboard... I've …

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