Re: Welcome to the updated VOGONS

Posted on 2020-05-07, 05:04

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https://colormax.org/color-blind-test/ It took me 30 seconds to score 100% on that test. But this new scheme hurts my eyes a ton. I found posts about the legacy color options and that's helped a bit. Check out my avatar, example of transparency interference on the scheme. Cursor changes? Keep It …

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Re: Huge Laptops/TFT Monitors scaling comparison thread

Posted on 2019-12-27, 11:35

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>VGA native: yes/no NN scaling only: yes/no All of the samples which answer yes to both look terrible regardless of their character. Are any of these 1024x768? 800x600 with a centered image is better than NN imho. btw homm2 is still one of my favorite games :happy: I still search around to see if …

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Re: Vaio PCV-RX450 Driver Issues

Posted on 2019-12-23, 08:50

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Already tried that one unfortunately, no dice. :( But did you extract it and use the files in its WIN98 dir? The "the driver isn't designed for this machine" message is from the Sony wrapper. Inside are all of the drivers for 95, 98, ME as well as all of SiS's video utilities. Version 1.08 for VEN_ …

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Re: 4GB SD cards may not work in SDHC devices

Posted on 2019-12-18, 14:40

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2 and 4GB SD cards are strange. You'll have to use software that will report and describe a card's CSD registers. There's probably a few for each OS. That will let you know what to predict when trying it in an older device. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SD_card#SDSC_cards_above_1_GB - 12-bit storage …

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Re: Vaio PCV-RX450 Driver Issues

Posted on 2019-12-18, 13:25

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Vendors like to wrap up driver files up into their own bundle to both brand and not back support older OSes. SIDVID-00106608-US.EXE is a Wise Solutions installer archive. 7z, cmd switches, and unshield did not work for me. But installing Universal Extractor on a windows machine will extract this. …

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Re: A 286 computer, is it totally useless?

Posted on 2019-12-03, 07:18

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x86 computers were much more expensive than the Z80 and 68k home PCs at that time. Folks were gaming on Atari, Commodore, Radio Shack, and Apple II's. The IBM PC-compatible revolution came in around the mid-eighties, and by 1990, most of the gaming culture swung over to the affordable 386 and 486 …

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Re: IBM Thinkpad 755CD Restore ?

Posted on 2019-11-26, 16:02

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by Auzner

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Did you try Fn+F7 with the external monitor?

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Re: Networking Windows 95

Posted on 2019-11-26, 15:45

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It appears it was not such a great ethernet card. Trying to set up Linksys Ether16 LAN Card Non-PNP - set full duplex - isa bus clock - ne2000.com dos config - gave up

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Re: ATX2AT Smart Converter - Soon on Kickstarter!

Posted on 2019-11-25, 07:16

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by Auzner

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Cool stuff! Glad to see mounting holes made it in later. For the cable harness, why not do 10 screw terminals? Is there a serial interface to repeat out the data the OLED presents? where people are getting $2 or $3 passive adapters! I used a 20 to 24 ATX adapter to get the socket then spliced in AT …

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Re: FAst XP gaming PCs - socket 1155, 1156, 1366?

Posted on 2019-11-25, 04:02

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i7 920 was an extremely popular processor 10 years ago. Folks were running Vista with that already. 1366 has some advantages on the higher end of things, but 1155 gets newer processor archs and is generally a lot cheaper. X58 stuff did not have built in USB3 and some revs had serious SATA controller …

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Re: Intel to remove all BIOS updates on November 22nd, 2019 from their website

Posted on 2019-11-24, 07:21

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Re: List of S7/ SS7/ S8/ Slot1 ATX mobo with +4 ISA slots

Posted on 2019-11-23, 06:31

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by Auzner

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A riser card like the Dell 16068 3-slot ISA riser board 486-P might be easier to find if you're up for case modding. Then you could even go past slot1 to A and 478. EATX or a bottom/dual mount PSU case would fit.

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Re: Intel to remove all BIOS updates on November 22nd, 2019 from their website

Posted on 2019-11-23, 06:04

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Re: Intel to remove all BIOS updates on November 22nd, 2019 from their website

Posted on 2019-11-22, 08:00

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Re: Intel to remove all BIOS updates on November 22nd, 2019 from their website

Posted on 2019-11-21, 07:03

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Re: Intel to remove all BIOS updates on November 22nd, 2019 from their website

Posted on 2019-11-20, 05:13

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Re: Intel to remove all BIOS updates on November 22nd, 2019 from their website

Posted on 2019-11-20, 01:36

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Re: Ethernet to USB 1.1 - speed?

Posted on 2019-11-19, 05:11

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by Auzner

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Go for it. That's like a 10X CD-ROM, so better than nothing. The trick is finding one with drivers for your OS. Win9X I remember it not being an automatic device class driver.

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Re: Intel to remove all BIOS updates on November 22nd, 2019 from their website

Posted on 2019-11-19, 03:16

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Re: Trying to install Photoshop 3.0 on Windows 3.1 using DOSBox is impossible

Posted on 2019-11-18, 04:31

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DOSBox IS NOT SUITED TO RUN YOUR NON-GAMING DOS APPLICATION https://www.virtualbox.org/ https://www.gimp.org/

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