Re: nostalgia midlife crisis

Posted on 2023-04-16, 14:27

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My kids are around age 25-30, nowadays they either have old consoles or mostly emulators for various Nintedo/Sony/Dreamcast. Some buy or otherwise obtain old PC games on steam or whatever (not gog so much). But they have zero interest in my old computing gear, even when it was stuff they played on …

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Re: The PC parts market is weird sometimes

Posted on 2023-04-06, 13:47

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We are in the process of a big clear-out before moving internationally. Coming back to AU? I did a big clear out recently because we moved interstate - probs 90% of my collection sold off / given away. It felt great to clear out all of that stuff and no regrets with my decisions... yet. All the …

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Re: Soundblaster AWE32 CT3670 One Channel problem

Posted on 2023-03-29, 00:09

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I swapped the 4053 IC with one from a working Awe64 value as its donor with no success at all. In my case, the problem is not that the left channel will not output ANY audio at all, but rather that PCM audio outputs perfectly on both channels, whereas OPL3 and emu8000 both output clear sound on the …

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Re: Market value for popular or rare classic computer hardware

Posted on 2023-03-07, 02:38

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Hokay, why do Rendition Verite cards seem to be beating Banshees and headed into Voodoo3 territory ???? Because the good V2200 ones are stupidly rare...only ones I can find are 4mb versions, still waiting on a 8mb v2200 I do have an 8mb QDI Vision V2200 AGP (datecode 1999 or so) but I do warn you …

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Re: DOS Glide 2.4x Mod for Voodoo2

Posted on 2023-01-27, 04:30

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Hey, Gmlb. Seems like I spoke too soon. I managed to install your hacked OVL driver and gave the game another go. I dialed the FSB down to 100 and 133 and the game works a treat. My specs are the ones on my second cpu-z verification sig. I have yet to see a fatal crash with this driver. It will also …

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Re: Issues with some games on a Voodoo 3

Posted on 2023-01-27, 04:23

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Also, note that static linked Glide games I'm not well versed in glide. How can I check if a game is static linked? Those are DOS games that doesn't require an external GLIDE2X.OVL file to run. Additional note that isn't yet mentioned on this thread: Earlier Windows games that uses the Glide …

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Re: Most disappointing games?

Posted on 2023-01-26, 17:31

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To me, the main strength of Half-Life 1 always relied on the fun weapon mechanics, the varied stock maps and the chaos and mayhem that can be found on multiplayer.

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Re: How many people run Plus! or Theme's on their retro rigs

Posted on 2023-01-24, 10:06

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I'm using Michelangelo Engineer to switch all the system icons to use cool.dll under win98 for that nice Plus! 256 color look.

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Re: DOS Glide 2.4x Mod for Voodoo2

Posted on 2023-01-21, 13:22

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Hiya guys. I have a Quantum3D 200SBi (Voodoo2 SLI on a single pcb) and apparently the card is hardwired to have SLI always ON. Some games like Screamer 2 3Dfx will constantly refuse to run unless I can set SST_SLIDETECT= to 0 (only on vanilla V2 cards). Others though, like Carma 3Dfx (with the …

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Re: Reflashing the BIOS of a bricked Adaptec 29160?

Posted on 2023-01-08, 04:12

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That is great and Thanks ! I wonder if it will work on a Dell OEM Adaptec 2940U (with a eeprom) that the Adaptec flasher says No too. Is exact same as my other 2940U that I did flash. Will have to give it a try one of these days because BIOS 1.23 for that card does not support > 8.4GB HD's and the …

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Re: Year 2038 bug?

Posted on 2022-10-02, 14:41

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leileilol wrote on 2022-09-25, 02:57: There's been quite a few malformed dates on files back in the day that seemed to work fine, apart from making binary patchers and sync/backup utilities upset. 24/12/1996?

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Re: How exactly do I find a mouse that only requests a 125 hz polling rate?

Posted on 2022-09-03, 19:44

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She might want a mouse that can have good tracking @ 1000hz without installing custom drivers yet can switch back to 125hz for use on a old PMMX or similar.

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Re: 3d accelerators on other platforms not PC

Posted on 2022-09-02, 07:24

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Given Namco's earlier very capable and very fast Namco System 22 hardware I doubt they'd license PowerVR PCX1 up for 23 especially as that chip can barely pull 30fps. Even MAME doesn't mention any PowerVR involvement for their source in that. If you do think it's PowerVR though, try to get a still …

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Re: How exactly do I find a mouse that only requests a 125 hz polling rate?

Posted on 2022-09-02, 02:14

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I heard the original black version of the FK1 is out of production, but you can still find very similar models to this one. The differences are mostly on the shape and weight (to accommodate different hand sizes) but functionality wise they're still the same. The new versions come with an extra …

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Re: How exactly do I find a mouse that only requests a 125 hz polling rate?

Posted on 2022-09-01, 14:01

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On the plus side, it's not a heavy mouse, there's no rubber coating and ergonomics are great, with a shape very similar to that of the classic WMO.

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Re: How exactly do I find a mouse that only requests a 125 hz polling rate?

Posted on 2022-09-01, 13:59

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Zowie mice don't have any software and can switch polling rate by holding one or both side buttons while plugging in the mouse to a port. I have one of the FK1 series mice and they've been troublefree for me at @ 125hz.

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Re: Unreal 1.0 crashes on VooDoo 3

Posted on 2022-08-06, 06:29

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Sorry, I Not have Win98, because it is not need. I wonder why People buy extreme Rare and expensive Win98 Hardware, when all this Games also work on XP with cheap Hardware. WinXP's NT-based, and NT wasn't a support focus for many of those games in the 90s as that was primarily a business …

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Re: Retro Facebook groups, what do you think of them?

Posted on 2022-07-21, 21:28

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It's not easy to get reasonable answers to a technical question. There's a next to useless search function. It suffers from the "How did I do? look what I found at the thrift store today ! ! !" Reddit syndrome.

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Re: When PC became soulless for you?

Posted on 2022-07-18, 19:28

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Of course they can't help it. A business is not a charity. The main objective of a company is to generate and maximize profits. If mindless customers keep on buying, what can they be blamed for?

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Re: When PC became soulless for you?

Posted on 2022-07-17, 15:20

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Companies and shareholders try to bet their money on where they think most people are heading towards. If they see people buying gimped graphics cards full of rgb lights at 1249 usd then the company will divert some of their resources into perfecting the sales strategy that made the 1249 usd card …

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