Re: Best CF Cards for DOS?

Posted on 2013-08-12, 19:57

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by chinny22

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Got the card from work, ended up being an 8GB Transcend CF160 Industrial, 486 still did the same thing as before but disk manager in XP picked it up as a fixed disk not removable as before... hmm lets have another go. Chucked it back in the 486 and rather than letting post auto detect each time, I …

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Re: Best CF Cards for DOS?

Posted on 2013-08-08, 14:19

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by chinny22

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Tried a USB stick with Mac OS 10.6.8 and it could see all 3 partitions. Not that I care, still don't like Apple, sorry. I've managed to get a Fixed disk CF card through work supplier for a bit extra then a standard card (If anyone asks my 486 is a POS terminal) Sadly its a 1 off discount as is for …

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Re: Favorite old OS

Posted on 2013-08-08, 14:08

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by chinny22

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Retro: Win98SE, I may have said dos but Dos 7.1 is counts as a dos in my books. Work: WinXP Pro, simple unlike Vista and above, and just the right amount of features to make it useful out of the box but not bloated full of useless crap (apart from movie maker)

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Re: Best CF Cards for DOS?

Posted on 2013-08-06, 14:50

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by chinny22

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

PCI SATA card is not an option due to the 1st 3 letters PCI, VLB or SCSI is an option but I'm back to using old drives again. Besides I like working to the motherboard limits, for better or worse. After the CPU its what defines the PC who she is. Bestemor, yes tried dos fdisk, in fact I still my …

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Best CF Cards for DOS?

Posted on 2013-08-05, 01:17

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by chinny22

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I've got a question about Fixed disk CF cards if anyone can help After my games HDD in the 486 died awhile back I thought I would give CF cards a try. I went and got my self a fancy Sandisk Extreme 60MB/s like below as they were on special. http://img.ebyrcdn.net/438427-451799-290.jpg After messing …

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Re: New 486 - Wading Into New Waters...

Posted on 2013-07-10, 12:07

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by chinny22

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Ahh the VW's another one of my loves. Mum has had one since new (74) that's even longer then she's known my father! Been all round Oz, taught 2 sons to drive and still going strong. (but that's for another forum) I've just ordered 2 backplate mounted CF card readers. Got a 800MB HDD for the system. …

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Re: There are tons of genres in music, how do I identity each of them?

Posted on 2013-07-10, 11:50

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by chinny22

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EASY! good, bad, ok, and ok when drunk

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Re: New 486 - Wading Into New Waters...

Posted on 2013-07-09, 16:23

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by chinny22

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The dX2 66 was a legendary machine, for years it was listed in the system requirements... ok maybe in the minimum requirements which is the wrong side of the scale but it was also the family’s first and only PC till 98 so It will always be special. It’s still sitting in the garage at home and have …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2013-07-08, 22:05

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by chinny22

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Got this for £20 by mistake Thought it was a 4MB Stealth 3d Pro, so got a bit over excited. Still, having fun with Terminal Velocity in S3d, long term it'll replace the TGUI9440-1 in the 486

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Re: Fun with windows 3.1

Posted on 2013-04-12, 12:40

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by chinny22

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I found a copy of office 4.3 (last version natively supported in 3.x) while clearing out the server room, that was enough reason to install it. Only load windows to copy files across the Lan, and even this can be done in dos really but I needed an excuse to keep it on.

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Re: Quality Gameport Racing Wheels?

Posted on 2013-03-26, 12:17

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by chinny22

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Not sure how/if it would work with Dos games (maybe disable the force feedback 1st) but the original Logitech Formula Force used a gameport. although I've only used the Gameport to USB adaptor that shipped with it. The build quality was really good, much better then the Formula Force GP and Momo …

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Re: When is hardware "retro"? Your personal rules

Posted on 2013-03-08, 13:27

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by chinny22

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I think the key thing is difference between old and retro. I’m building a Socket 478 XP based PC for old games a lot of the parts from redundant hardware from business’s, the fact that they are still chucking the last of this era stuff out means it can’t be retro, just old. It needs a few more years …

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Re: Modern PC cases

Posted on 2013-03-04, 15:37

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by chinny22

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Holding out buying decent cases till I stop moving round, but your Lian-Li case is on my very short list. Something elegant not flashy although for me the Fractal is a bit boring. Never went in for the LED’s, Windows, etc although now I’d quite like a case with both just a bit of back lighting to …

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Re: Just signed up!

Posted on 2013-02-21, 16:15

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by chinny22

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Cant really remember, would have been machines I came accross roughly between 2003-2006ish? Some may have been older but still in use. All I really rmember was being surprised at the difference in quality.

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Re: Old but not vintage Laptops

Posted on 2013-02-21, 16:00

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by chinny22

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My longest serving versatile laptop was a P4 Generation Toshiba Satellite. My laptop died just before doing a ski season in Canada in 2010 so grabbed this off the parts shelf at work (figured it was my going away present) Not grateful about being pulled out of retirement, within the 1st week the …

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Re: Just signed up!

Posted on 2013-02-14, 23:29

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by chinny22

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The Deskpro 2000 was a brilliant PC! Looked good, built well and reliable as a rock. My 1st site when I got into the IT support industry still had roughly half dozen or so 2000 and the closely related 4000’s running Win9? and only thing that ever failed was 1 HDD. In the end it was only when we …

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Re: Voodoo 2 Temperatures

Posted on 2013-02-13, 12:33

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by chinny22

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Zalman bracket comes from a flower heat sink I'm not using. It is a really good design I'm surprised no one ever did a cheap knockoff. Not sure on the TMU's yet, would be interesting to find out in the future but focused on the supposed hottest running chip first.

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Voodoo 2 Temperatures

Posted on 2013-02-11, 14:50

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by chinny22

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

While there is a lot on the internet about how voodoo 2’s run hot, different methods of cooling them and how P4’s and above cook them nowhere actually gave specific temperatures! Over the past 3 months when home I have taken a few measurements. It is by no means a conclusive test. But gives an idea …

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Re: Multiplayer Gaming on 20th Century Hardware

Posted on 2013-02-10, 12:57

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by chinny22

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Never got into online play but all my retro PC’s are setup for Lan play in DOS, and where particle the 9x and XP PC’s can play with each other Networking is what really kicked off my interest in computing and seeing a 2nd human player never lost its coolness for me. I don’t really have many computer …

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Re: Which Operating System to go for?

Posted on 2013-01-25, 00:09

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by chinny22

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To get the motherboard and USB working properly and you’ll need to download the chipset drivers, most easy is direct from Intel, quick search I found this. There may be a later one. It is called the “inf update utility” if you want to have more of a look http://developer.intel.com/design/software/ …

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