Re: What's your absolute favorite piece of retro hardware?

Posted on 2023-05-24, 18:42

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I have a few interesting things like Voodoo3 3000, MT-32, and a 1Ghz Slot-A CPU. The first one. My favorite though is the Alaris Cougar motherboard with it's weird IBM Blue Lightning triple-clocked 75mhz 386 that runs 486 instructions. It's an odd bird, and I love it. It has 2-pin fan header, a 486 …

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Re: Where do you get your old games from?

Posted on 2023-03-06, 20:50

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Very rarely do I see physical games for sale anymore, so I'm mostly relegated to trolling ebay for auctions that are ending soon or new listings at lower than market average price. It's gotten much harder the past 3-4 years though.

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Re: What is the best Thin Client for Windows 98 (SE)

Posted on 2023-03-06, 20:44

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Neoware CA2 is probably the closest you'll get for wide compatibility. It's only 800mhz, but it has a socketed CPU and you could CONCEIVABLY modify it for a faster processor and better heatsink/fan. The motherboard even has populated fan headers. The iGPU is a crappy S3 job, but it's actually quite …

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Re: Were you ever hurt by a computer?

Posted on 2023-03-06, 20:17

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It isn't a completed computer until it has had it's blood sacrifice... Indeed. We all make our sacrifices to the machine spirit. If I had a nickel for every time I'd received a small cut from unfinished metal edges on a cheap case, I'd have enough to buy a 3080ti, probably. The only major injury …

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Re: List of motherboards with SB-link (PC/PCI) header

Posted on 2022-11-21, 15:17

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If anyone has a 6M815E motherboard and has been having problems getting SB-Link to work, I've discovered that the motherboard SB-Link header swaps the GNT/REQ lines on pins 2 and 4. Running the ICH2 modified SetupDS with a regular cable will result in it being unable to find a usable DMA, but swap …

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Re: Legend of Kyrandia 1 crashes after playing voice clips.

Posted on 2022-11-21, 08:25

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I ran into this problem today and I noticed there is a brief flash of "Divide error" before the crash if that helps anyone.

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Re: Orpheus II soundcard thread

Posted on 2022-07-26, 19:25

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Well, I'm very interested in this then. The Orpheus 1 is good for my Alaris Cougar since it's mostly DOS, this looks like the best possible sound card for my K6 build.

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Re: Orpheus II soundcard thread

Posted on 2022-07-21, 07:13

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Is the Windows 9x functionality being ported to the older version of the Orpheus as well, or is that impossible?

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Re: Please Help! 386 Motherboard fix

Posted on 2022-07-07, 19:34

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If you can, definitely desolder the non-socketed chips around that area and check for more corrosion. It tends to get under them quite badly. Continuity check on anything that has corrosion on it, and check that the first ISA slot has continuity to the last one. I had a 286 board that had a sneaky …

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Re: Failing SMD solder on old devices (pins of VGA chipsets etc. getting loose), how common is that?

Posted on 2022-07-07, 19:17

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Any number of things can contribute to that over time, but usually the root cause is just insufficient solder or a poor quality soldering job. The age of the parts plays a part, as does where the part is in relation to forces exerted on the card when one inserts and removes it. For example, lots of …

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Re: What are the best Vga to hdmi scalers or peripherals for MS-DOS games ?

Posted on 2022-07-06, 04:59

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yeah, tried that. 10 seems to be the best result. It just might be a very noisy video card causing it. My Alaris Cougar doesn't seem to have it nearly as bad, but it has a higher quality vesa video card with a better ramdac.

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Re: VGA Capture Thread

Posted on 2022-07-05, 14:20

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There are Windows 10/8 and Linux drivers for DVI2PCIe... Try capturing video and audio at the same time with it in Windows 10. The video freezes. They advertise it as being able to capture both, and it CAN, but only in Windows 7. Oh, and don't buy their expensive audio/sd video breakout boards. …

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Re: VGA Capture Thread

Posted on 2022-07-05, 04:25

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I found two more cards which might or might not have any potential. Anyone got experience with Epiphan DVI2PCIe? https://www.epiphan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/epiphan-dvi2pcie-brochure.pdf And then Cards by "Foresight" e.g. FORESIGHT IMAGING I-RGB 165: https://www.fi-llc.com/boards/Products/ …

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Re: What are the best Vga to hdmi scalers or peripherals for MS-DOS games ?

Posted on 2022-07-05, 04:22

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This and the VGA capture thread convinced me to get the 300A, and It's pretty decent once I manually dialed in the resolution, but I'm still seeing these vertical wiggly pixel lines Any advice on how to fix those?

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Re: GET OFF MY LAWN (the YouTube channel)

Posted on 2022-07-03, 09:42

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I'd love to see you do a video on the classic Sierra adventure game nobody remembers, Conquest of the Longbow. You can find it on GOG, and it's a really excellent game. The intro song is actually timed perfectly to the lyrics of the bard's song as well, like they had planned a talkie version from …

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Re: See if you can spot what's wrong.....

Posted on 2022-07-03, 06:26

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high refresh rate monitors are a blurse as well. Yes, you get buttery smooth motion, but your GPU actually needs to be able to render those extra frames. Or you can just play older games at 144hz! Or you could have a G-Sync or FreeSync monitor and use variable refresh rate. Works a treat so if your …

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Re: Finding a Low Profile GPU for 250w Power Supply

Posted on 2022-07-02, 20:15

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Actually aiming for Windows XP, potentially as something that can sit on my desk with a monitor on top. https://manualzz.com/doc/2577566/fujitsu-esprimo-e5710-datasheet So, the absolute BEST low profile video card you can get for this kind of build with Windows XP support is going to be a Quadro …

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Re: Reasons to hate modern games

Posted on 2022-06-30, 20:10

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Could you give some examples of what you mean with washed up old developers releasing endless nostalgia-bait remakes? Mighty Number Nine was Keiji Inafune's clear nostalgia-bait re-imagining of Mega Man. Super Mario 3D All-Stars, a bare bones port released at full price Warcraft III Reforged. Nuff …

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Re: See if you can spot what's wrong.....

Posted on 2022-06-30, 16:49

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high refresh rate monitors are a blurse as well. Yes, you get buttery smooth motion, but your GPU actually needs to be able to render those extra frames. Or you can just play older games at 144hz!

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Re: Reasons to hate modern games

Posted on 2022-06-30, 14:38

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appiah4 wrote on 2022-06-30, 14:27: I never said I didn't want opinions. I just said you are stating your opinions as if they were objective facts. You're going to have to explain to me how my language there gave you the impression that I was spouting gospel and not my personal opinions, because …

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