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Re: Building a SBC system

Posted on Today, 13:06

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

NT4 is a good choice for the Socket 5 system but wouldn't waste the voodoo on it. the Cirrus Logic will probably be enough. You also have NT3.5, kinda interesting as its got the 3.11 feel drivers are the main problem BeOS, OS2, Netware also support 2 CPU's

Re: Office 486SLC retro game machine

Posted on Today, 12:51

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

I wanna job where you work!

Re: Asus P2B-DS dual CPU

Posted on 2020-02-18, 12:19

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yes 2K, XP, 03, any OS that supports ACPI. Motherboards rev 1.12 and later had the issue fixed if your lucky enough to have one of those.

Re: CD audio vs Roland & General Midi

Posted on 2020-02-18, 12:10

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

But then I was blown away by C&C's CD audio soundtrack. While C&C and Red Alert had great sounding music, they didn't use redbook CD audio. IIRC, the music was was in some sort of compressed PCM format. The files were stored on the CD but they weren't standard 16-bit 44.1 kHz stereo redbook audio …

Windows 2000 20th Anniversary Client/server build

Posted on 2020-02-18, 12:05

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

According to Wiki Windows 2000 just turned 20! So to celebrate I figured I would create an entire Win2k Network Windows 2000 came right in the prime of my interest in computers. We had upgraded our 486/66 to a P2 400 in 1998 so had hardware powerful enough to play around with newer OS’s. I was …

Re: Asus P2B-DS dual CPU

Posted on 2020-02-18, 11:42

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

WinXP is doable but wont make much of a gaming rig even with duel 600's I would go with Win2k. Just about all Win9x games still work and it crashes far less. Once you do get 2 CPU's you'll need to specify the machine type as "Standard MPS" due to the buggy ACPI implementation on that revision of the …

Re: Win98SE Dos gaming and sound

Posted on 2020-02-18, 11:05

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yes the Audigy will have cleaner sound. but IMHO not enough to justify the hassle of setting it up, and doubt you'll notice much difference in dos at all Not saying don't use it. I've a 2 ZS in just about all my 98 builds. But I would wait till next rebuild if everything is working fine currently.

Re: CD audio vs Roland & General Midi

Posted on 2020-02-18, 10:58

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Both have their charm. Loved the music in Raptor Call of the Shadow's, and back then I was just a SB16 and crappy speakers no fancy setups in my teens. But then I was blown away by C&C's CD audio soundtrack. Midi had a major benifit. Games could jump to mid track of a song to better match the game …

Re: When did General Midi and Sound Canvas support fall off for big budget releases?

Posted on 2020-02-18, 10:17

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Age of Empires 2 had both CD and midi soundtracks which is 2000 if you count the expansion. I think Empire Earth may of as well which will stretch you out to 2002 with it's expansion

Re: Change language on Italian Packard Bell Windows 95 PC

Posted on 2020-02-10, 16:23

in Windows

in Windows

I doubt you'll have much luck depending how much your looking to change, The language has always been hard coded into the install files. Windows 2000 was the first OS to support multiple languages with MUI (Multi language User Interface) and the amount translated improved with each release of …

Re: Matching / Selecting sound cards for different builds

Posted on 2020-02-10, 16:09

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Not to mention only an issue if using the same card for both sound and midi. Even the worst cards will behave with 2 sound cards installed, one for sound one acting as a MPU card

Re: 1998 rebuild of a Pentium II with Voodoo 2 SLI

Posted on 2020-02-10, 16:02

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Brings back memories :) Very simialr to my PC back in 98 P2 400 64MB Ram, Upgraded to 128MB in 99 16MB TNT, V2 was also an option but the TNT was better deal back then Soundblaster 64 PCI SB16 ISA 10GB HDD 32x CD-ROM, added a DVD drive in 99 or 2000 though. Realtek 100MB nic Played loads of NFS3,4 …

Re: What are your favorite in-game soundtracks (arcade, PC, NES)?

Posted on 2020-02-10, 14:24

in Milliways

in Milliways

Alot of mine are already mentioned, and it is licence music not original but Vice City needs a special mention as well!

Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2020-02-10, 14:21

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Always ask your IT dept! I'm an outsourced IT techie so have it both ways. Bosses are usually happy to offer hardware to employees, Saves them cosy of disposing if nothing else. Bit different for me as I'm external but still the answer is rarely no, Worst case they want something that they can send …

Re: My cool 486 EISA tower

Posted on 2020-02-10, 14:07

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

It's not so much WIn95 will improve your performance, just explorer.exe Win98 and later (and also IE4 in WIn95) integrated explorer and IE and performance took a noticeable hit. It's why 98lite was "invented" Not saying it will be lighting fast, it is a 486 class PC all! but may make it more usable …

Re: Gateway 2000 G5-200

Posted on 2020-02-10, 13:50

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

noticeably slower would depend on what you run. Benchmarks you may see a difference actual game play. maybe/maybe not. Give it a go you've nothing to loose! set it up for a bit of network gaming? Even if its just with yourself can be fun, or run doom in 3 screen mode

Re: Gateway 2000 G5-200

Posted on 2020-02-04, 10:01

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Not the biggest fan of the design of the faceplate but it is very late 90's. Hiding the floppy behind a labia as someone called it here. I preferred the next GP6 design which is actaully the same case just with a different front, you can check it out in this random vid I'll also need to watch when …

Re: Control exclusive access to audio hardware under Windows 98?

Posted on 2020-02-04, 09:39

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

I thought I remember enabling full duplex on my SB16 allowed me to play MP3's in Winamp 2.9x while playing Age of Empires back in the day? But maybe it was a PCI64 and maybe I did mess around with Direct sound Output. Out of Winamp 2.95 is definitely the version of you want . It was the most widely …

Re: My Socket LGA775 Build

Posted on 2020-02-02, 23:30

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Very Nice but maybe thats becoause it's very close to my daily PC! M/B: Asus P5N-D (750 SLI) CPU: Xeon x3320 2.50Ghz with Noctua NH-U14S heatsink RAM: 2x Crucial Ballistix Tracer 800MHz 4-4-4 (I like flashy lights) GPU: 2x ASUS GeForce GTX590 Sound: SB X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Champion (Also with the …

Re: My cool 486 EISA tower

Posted on 2020-02-02, 23:04

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Nothing but the earliest Win95 games will be much fun on a 486 either. I'd say even Win98 is pushing the hardware unless its using the Win95 explorer aka Win98 lite. Win9x does make for a good file management and networking OS though on a 486

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