Re: My upcoming builds...help appreciated!

Posted on 2022-01-18, 16:23

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by chinny22

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in Marvin \ System Specs

Speed depends on what games you want to play. Late dos will appreciate the extra speed but may break compatibility, but then a patch may exist like the "pascal 200 mhz patch" Best way is to simply to start playing games and work out if you need to change anything. Video cards for pure dos rigs I …

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Re: Any problems using Pentium III with Win 95?

Posted on 2022-01-18, 16:10

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by chinny22

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

My P2 400 duel booted Win95c and NT4 for the first year I had it, This is back in late 98 when drivers weren't so mature as well.

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Re: CRT nostalgia vs the 15KHz monitor whine

Posted on 2022-01-18, 15:51

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by chinny22

in Milliways

in Milliways

My Mac G4 has some real bad coil whine which drove me mad in the last house when my computers lived in the bedroom. Now that they live in the front room with lots of background noise I hardly hear it. Can't say that slight CRT buzz ever bothered me. Sad thing is I actually hear a very similar sound …

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Re: Is there a no-CD patch/crack for Need For Speed II SE?

Posted on 2022-01-18, 14:33

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by chinny22

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in Marvin \ Software

Man I've been looking for this for so long! I remember hex editing "something" to the original Need for Speed (non SE edition) back in the day but couldn't remember what file and values. Of course I now have SE and a slowly dying but original Creative CD drive in my dos rig but can't bring myself to …

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Re: eax 3 on sound blaster live & windows xp

Posted on 2022-01-18, 14:21

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by chinny22

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

EAX 3 requires at least the EMU10K2 chip which was introduced on the original Audigy and I guess the Audigy Vale and it's CA0106 software based equivalent. As the SB Live! only has a a EMU10K1 EAX2 is as good as your going to get. You can go newer of course. Audigy 2 ZS is the last card that …

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Re: Windows 10 & 11 like it’s 199x

Posted on 2022-01-18, 13:56

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by chinny22

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They originally released it back in 2019 for Win10 Guess it's been updated for Win11 now which is kind of surprising in a way. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/windows-file-manager/9p7vbbbc49rb#activetab=pivot:overviewtab I install it on my work PC's that run Win10, don't actually use it but nice …

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Re: Windows XP sound card that supports A3D and EAX?

Posted on 2022-01-18, 13:47

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by chinny22

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in Marvin \ Sound

Titanium HD dropped WinXP support, the other "Titanium" branded cards are fine though.

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Re: Acer Acros Model 4309 (P433D)

Posted on 2022-01-18, 13:40

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by chinny22

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'm not Acer expert, but the motherboard 55.40401.0612490074D seesm to have also been used in the ACROS 4655 if you find any info on that? Do you know what RAM is currently installed? Fast Page, EDO, Parity. Some motherbaords can be kinda picky and demand say Fast Page Parity sticks for example But …

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Re: Wikipedia deleted its "List of games with EAX support" page

Posted on 2022-01-18, 12:57

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by chinny22

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in Marvin \ Sound

That sucks, more then a few times I've linked to that wiki article. It may not be 100% accurate but good for a quick reference, especially for newbie's. Still crisis averted, thanks dr_st (and Joseph_Joestar for pointing it out)

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Re: Dual socket X58 motherboard with CrossfireX support?

Posted on 2022-01-18, 12:47

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by chinny22

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I know how you feel. I have a pair of GTX590's but only in a single socket board. One day I want to get dual socket Asus Z10PE board, but prices are still too high for something with 0 practical use. Then I have this freak but think one of the HD7990 cards is on the way out and the build is a bit " …

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Re: [SOLVED] C&C more than 4 LAN Players & DOS/Win9x ?

Posted on 2022-01-18, 12:40

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by chinny22

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in DOS

looks like its just modifying game.exe (should speed up "installing" on all 8 PC's 😉

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Re: Jumpy platform games

Posted on 2022-01-18, 12:34

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by chinny22

in DOS

in DOS

What video card do you have? the below link covers PCI/AGP so may at the very least give you an idea of different options https://gona.mactar.hu/DOS_TESTS/ and if we are talking PCIE then your idea of old is different to mine 😉

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Re: Are there careers that is related with vintage computers?

Posted on 2022-01-18, 12:27

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by chinny22

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Industrial machines are a good bet. as an example few years ago I work at a industrial printing firm They had a few printers the size of a cars were attached to XP PC's running LGA775 industrial boards with ISA slots. The Printer size of a bus was still running OS/2 Warp, not sure on what hardware. …

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Re: anyone gaming with NT 4.0?

Posted on 2022-01-18, 11:16

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by chinny22

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in Marvin \ Software

I've a soft spot for NT4. I've a Dual Slot 1 Compaq Prolent 600 NT4 "retro" file server and a Dual S604 Dell Precision 650 running the full backoffice suite just to mess around with. But for gaming I just find it too limiting...

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Re: Good starting point to learn about retro pc technology?

Posted on 2022-01-18, 11:08

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by chinny22

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Redhill was popular on vogons few years back as it was written "back in the day" https://www.redhill.net.au/ig.html But best thing is experience. You say you have some upgrades planned so no doubt you'll start researching best card to suit X and before you know it you'll know alot about what you've …

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Re: Are we opening sealed copies of old games?

Posted on 2022-01-18, 11:03

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by chinny22

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Don't collect games so down own anything sealed but if I came across an old sealed one I'd probably keep it and find a copy of the game to download. I'm missing 1/2 the boxes of the games I do have. I don't really wan't the boxes of the ones I do still have but cant bring myself to throw them out. …

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Re: No space in your room to store old PC?

Posted on 2022-01-18, 10:52

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by chinny22

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Miphee wrote on 2021-12-08, 07:22: start selling something eventually. Why sell when you can buy? Time to get a bigger house 😉

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Re: KVM Switches and 1 Keyboard/Mouse to rule them all

Posted on 2022-01-18, 10:43

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by chinny22

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

PC side I can recommend going down the PS/2 KVM route Native PS/2 or AT rigs are no problem but as Plasma said the Ps/2 to USB adapter is the tricky part. I've an old no name adapter that came with generic wireless keyboard I think? works fantastic shame I cant find more to buy. Cheap modern …

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Re: Is there Anyone "Overpaying" for Hardware and Proud of it? Well, maybe not Proud, but...

Posted on 2022-01-18, 09:29

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by chinny22

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I paid £20 for a 12 MB Diamond Monster Voodoo2 about 10 years ago off some random website where as the other one only cost £4.20 on ebay. I knew it wasn't a good deal but was fairly new to the hobby and didn't know how often this exact card showed up. I also figured it would only go up in price. I'm …

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Re: Motherboards with good onboard graphics cards?

Posted on 2021-12-30, 10:11

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by chinny22

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Even before VLB many OEM Boards that appeared to be “ISA ONLY” had some sort of local bus graphics, even occasionally the IDE was local bus My AST had “onboard OPTI local bus graphics” Before VLB was common it was possible to include local bus graphics soldered right to the mainboard no slot needed …

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