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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2015-07-10, 21:32

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

That looks incredibly similar to Turbolinux (but i guess they all did back then).. What is the latest version of netscape you've got to work? I could only manage 5or 6 I believe. The kernel could technically run 9, but the dependancies are where I failed at... Trying to get old versions of pre- …

Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2015-07-08, 18:23

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Heh, this is the first time I'm using internet over my oldschool build :D -pentium mmx233, 128mb ram, win 98 and a voodoo 3 3000. Actually not bad, ie5 runs fine but many websites are not working, I'm testing for now the firefox 2, it's much more smooth than opera, and works fine with new pages ( …

Re: New member, first build Dual Pentium Pro

Posted on 2015-07-06, 18:31

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

144 would be sweet enough 😵

Re: New member, first build Dual Pentium Pro

Posted on 2015-07-06, 13:33

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Amazing!!! So jealous!! How does such a system stand up to modern use? Ie Win XP + youtube/video playing? 😈 😈

Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2015-07-04, 11:28

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Today even browsing VOGONS is a retro activity as Im trying out a 10 year old DELL ultra light notebook with a Pentium-M CPU. Its perhaps not old enough to be retro but it sure was slow enough before I freed it from its malware shackles. Now browsing works perfectly and Youtube 480P runs fine. The …

Re: Bought these games today

Posted on 2015-06-25, 20:08

in Milliways

in Milliways

dexter311 wrote: Games OOoooh the non-standard box sizes. I love it! Don't you just like trying to jigsaw them onto your shelf 😊 😊

Re: Post your 'current' PC

Posted on 2015-06-13, 10:51

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

and still fast. I love it when people say this. It's such a rediculous concept that a PC wouldn't be as fast now as it was when you first built it. Sure you will get a slight decrease as variables wear, but even now with solid capacitors it's even more of a odd thing to say. Computers don't age, …

Re: 800MB barrier for VLB drive controllers? (Or an incompatibility?)

Posted on 2015-06-09, 19:18

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

My 425mb drive gets detected as 405mb on my 486 (VLB controller). I just live with it. Though it is pretty annoying. Free space is little enough after installing win95 and components, drivers, and whatever extras you might require.

Re: Games that PC and Mac can play together on LAN

Posted on 2015-06-09, 19:18

in Windows

in Windows

Call of Duty.

Re: post up pics of your "computing area"

Posted on 2015-06-09, 19:07

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Been working to get power and lighting into my garden shed, this will be an area where I can work and leave my crap out in the warmer months. The work surface used to be an island unit in our kitchen until it was replaced with a dining table. http://i.imgur.com/rm4XJukl.jpg Do you have any spare …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-06-09, 10:26

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I've a GA-5AX that I got as a whole system. What I find cool about it is the fact that it had the capability of taking a 256mb stick of ram (and therefore presumably it could take three 256mb's) bringing the total max to 768mb. Quite substantial over the 384mb of competitor boards at the time!!

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-06-08, 10:02

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Watch that the toy is not covering the cooling vents! Cool wallpaper!

Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2015-06-07, 11:48

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

My mind and resources are totally focused on my XT computer build. I have an XT-IDE board to assemble and to test on my Juko XT motherboard. The XT-IDE board will be flashed with XT-IDE BIOS for NECV20, for better speed, and will have an additional 8Kb BIOS ROM extension for 1.44MB floppy support. …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-06-04, 18:54

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

8086-ProGamer wrote: My catch yesterday: Nicey nice! What case is that btw?

Re: How much computer is enough?

Posted on 2015-06-01, 18:35

in Milliways

in Milliways

TELEPACMAN wrote: the assembler puts together the most outdated parts he have around and, voila, it is ok. It's fine for the average user. Too right!! I worked in a computer shop and that is true.

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-05-27, 20:03

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

They're using old english.. Before U and J and Z were in the alphabet 😊 😊

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-05-26, 20:10

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Amazing how hardware this old, can look so new. Most times, passive coolers this age can have scuff-marks. Maybe it was installed just the once or twice and never thouched thereafter. Or indeed, maybe it hasn't even been used at all.. Or it was soon upgraded upon and swapped out and kept in a bag …

Re: Jumper settings needed for ACER M5105 IDE/COM/LPT Multi-I/O board...

Posted on 2015-05-25, 12:59

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The problem with all the generic cards of this era is the poor documentation. 😠

Re: Trying to use my SS7 era specific system

Posted on 2015-05-24, 16:15

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Right. I've got a little further as to my diagnosis. After putting the Radeon VE into my Gigabyte GA-5AX board, I powered up both midtown madness and desperados which were suprisingly smooth considering the board was using my AMD K6 @ 233Mhz. I decided to switch boards.. then realised after the …

Re: The Witcher 3

Posted on 2015-05-23, 18:01

in Release Announcements

in Release Announcements

philscomputerlab wrote: You got a 960, right? I'm still on a 660 😒 Better than a 260 😵 😵 😵

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