Re: Nirvana

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Some say that 1991 was one the best years in terms of important albums releases. Guns N’ Roses, Ozzy, Primal Scream, Massive Attack, R.E.M, Pearl Jam, KLF in another genre, Hole, Metallica, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Smashing Pumpkins, Queen...

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Re: Schneider Euro PC

Posted on 2021-09-16, 14:38

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Jo22 wrote on 2021-09-16, 12:51: It wasn't exactly wrong, though. Long ago, IDE HDDs were also called AT-Bus HDDs/Fixed Disks. That's where ATAPI and ATA comes f […] Show full quote It wasn't exactly wrong, though. Long ago, IDE HDDs were also called AT-Bus HDDs/Fixed Disks. That's where ATAPI and …

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Re: Schneider Euro PC

Posted on 2021-09-16, 06:42

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Jinxter wrote on 2021-09-15, 19:32: konc wrote on 2021-09-15, 06:45: Uhm, which IDE slot first of all? Sorry i meant the ISA slot. Ah alright, this makes sense!

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Re: Favorite forgotten games

Posted on 2021-09-15, 11:23

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I played around a bit with the sound settings in that game and felt like the "DAC on LPT1" (which I gather is Covox Speech Thing or somesuch) gives the best sound/music quality. If you like Boulder Dash clones, you might want to check out Digger (not to be confused with the Windmill Software …

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Re: Schneider Euro PC

Posted on 2021-09-15, 06:45

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Uhm, which IDE slot first of all?

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Re: Schneider Euro PC

Posted on 2021-09-14, 13:50

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If I have a HD20 from Schneider. Do you see a chance of using it with bigger CF card/Adapter-Solution, so that the ISA-Slot could remein free? Or is it "hardwired" 8Bit IDE for XT-Drives which means 20-30MB and a real spinning and noisy harddisk? I strongly doubt it. It's definitely not IDE, how …

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Re: Favorite forgotten games

Posted on 2021-09-12, 18:40

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A really nice thread, I got to know Heartlight thanks to it. It's a favorite genre (slow paced relaxed puzzle that you can leave idle for a while) but I'd never heard of it until now. PC speaker music is impressive too, check it out! I'm sure more gems will appear.

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Re: soundswitch

Posted on 2021-09-10, 18:01

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Yes and it's perfect, I'll probably get one as well!

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Re: Can someone explain to me about the capacity of old hard drives?

Posted on 2021-09-09, 07:13

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The disturbing part is not the misunderstanding of the label, but that you "used this a lot for many years, with several hds, to accommodate content downloaded via p2p". No, you didn't 😀

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Re: COVID converter any good? Does anybody have manuals/schematics?

Posted on 2021-09-09, 07:07

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What an unfortunate time to search about something that contains "covid" in its name

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Re: A defrag for dos 7 do it even exist?

Posted on 2021-09-08, 12:10

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As for freedos defrag, that options aren't greyed out if used in a fat16 unit, it's probably an implementation issue with fat32 and the freedos defrag. True, if you try to use for example the /F switch it'll tell you that this method is not valid on FAT32. But I wanted to make sure it's clear that …

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Re: A defrag for dos 7 do it even exist?

Posted on 2021-09-08, 09:51

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OK so it runs. I don't know about the greyed-out options, I always thought that they aren't implemented yet. But it doesn't "just sort the files", it defrags them. It just doesn't move everything to fill the gaps from the beginning of the disk, like the "Full Optimization" would do.

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Re: A defrag for dos 7 do it even exist?

Posted on 2021-09-08, 08:56

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Defrag from freedos definitely works. You need to run lock beforehand and then it runs. I'll check what version I have, maybe it's older or newer that yours but I've been using it for years.

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Re: Can someone explain to me about the capacity of old hard drives?

Posted on 2021-09-08, 08:52

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In the past, hard drives had settings printed on their labels that allowed you to "turn" a 3GB hard drive into a 10GB hard drive at the cost of lower performance. No, they didn't. The only thing close to that are MFM drives formatted with an RLL controller. So a 40MB drive could become 60MB AND …

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Re: "Cold" Vanta

Posted on 2021-09-07, 15:16

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I had the idea that the "Tnt2 M64" and the "Vanta", besides having both a 64bit bus, are not exactly the same card (the former outperforming the latter)... I believe you are correct, well, depending on how one interprets "same card". From what I remember the Vanta was 16MB and both core and memory …

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Re: The worse placement of capacitors on motherboards

Posted on 2021-09-05, 08:54

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Probably someone higher up the management who had never seen the actual motherboards and couldn't understand design documents, decided to use these sockets because they were .000001 cheaper AND green. He got a promotion because of that and when his son showed him the flaw of the final product he …

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Re: Can't make Compact Flash work on Intel SE440BX2

Posted on 2021-09-04, 18:05

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pentotark wrote on 2021-09-04, 17:25: What I think I was missing was the fdisk /mbr command that changed everything. Before, I was getting all kinds of errors during the installation process. Almost certain. Great news, enjoy it!

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Re: Can't make Compact Flash work on Intel SE440BX2

Posted on 2021-09-02, 11:04

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Yes of course, the motherboard is not to blame for this. A few generic tips since you're saying you haven't done it again: -Make sure the capacity is recognized by the bios. For example make sure you're not using a 64GB card while the BIOS cannot recognize hard disks larger than 32GB -Always start …

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Re: Help to set up a NAS server

Posted on 2021-08-31, 13:57

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You can use the network for your modern needs and plain old ftp to connect from retro machines. Have an ftp server running on the notebook and you can connect from any retro pc no matter the OS, without going through the hassle of networking very old windows versions.

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Re: Networking in Win 98SE: cannot get a DHCP lease

Posted on 2021-08-27, 09:45

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To set a static ip to the pc you go to Control Panel-> Network-> Select the TCP/IP entry and then click Properties-> fill in the ip/dns/gateway tabs. Another thing to try is to tell the router to always assign a specific ip to that PC's MAC. I know it still is DHCP and doesn't make sense but I've …

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