Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2020-10-17, 01:49
Exactly. The grey/silver parts. I ruined the case. I was so pissed at myself. Lesson learned.
Re: Post pics of your CRT monitors
Posted on 2020-10-15, 15:46
Latest additions to my collection :lol: 22" ViewSonic P227f 17" Sony G200 https://i.imgur.com/OuoOzdG.jpg https://i.imgur.com/OuoOzdGl.jpg Just wondering, does your ViewSonic give out a loud 'bang' every time it is turned on ? Mine does, and have done that since I bought it brand new in box... Not …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2020-10-14, 16:02
Hi all, This weekend managed to save from the jaws of the recycle a gorgeous Gateway E4100 (black with silver face). It's a Pentium 4 Prescott @3.4 Ghz. Gateway_e4100.jpg Being an Intel D865GLC motherboard I had to convert this to a Win98se battleship of sorts... It didn't had a dedicated gpu, so I …
Re: Is anyone excited for the Nvidia 3000 series cards
Posted on 2020-10-11, 16:10
Now that the Xbox and PS are going to have ray tracing cross platform games (all the major 1st party games) will support it and it will increasingly become a reason to buy a card with Ray tracing capabilities. Also when AMD gets their implementation out most of the fanboys will stop putting it down …
Re: List of Currently Free Games
Posted on 2020-10-09, 09:00
The 'Nam: Vietnam Combat Operations Interesting article on a free Vietnam War strategy game (17 years in the making) using the Tiberian Sun engine. https://sea.ign.com/thenam/164704/news/pinoy-finally-completes-vietnam-war-game-after-17-years-and-its-getting-good-reviews Download: https://app.box. …
Re: Metaltech: Earthsiege intro problem?
Posted on 2020-10-08, 19:10
Once you're at the D: prompt type "dir". Gives you a directory listing. Type "intsall" to install the game to your mounted C: drive. Once installed and you configure the sound card go to your C: drive and then the folder you installed it into. Command "cd" changes directory. So if Earthsiege is …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2020-10-08, 16:32
TB_Pinnacle_Studio.jpg I had looked out for a while, and this just arrived on my desk. Soon you'll be jamming out like that guy on the box. Let's get some Japanese retro computing up in here'! Won a very nice condition PC9821-CE2 on YA, for a decent price. Certainly cheap enough to makeup for the …
Re: Old SCSI drives very loud.
Posted on 2020-10-07, 16:12
quovadis11 wrote on 2020-10-07, 16:06: 21c SCSI hdds usually used in Server machines, so that loud sounds doesn't concerned. I think 15k RPM SCSI hdds even more and more loud 🙁 Yes and the 15K variety also ran very hot hence lots of noisy server fans. We had racks of those when I did datacenter …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2020-10-07, 15:44
Gigabyte is still considered good. These days they are known for top notch servers. Glad to hear it, I am out of touch with Ryzen/Epyc stuff. Sorry I mean it to come across more like they were putting others to shame back then :) I don't miss my ECS KS75A.. although it was good value. Yeah. Every …
Re: Metaltech: Earthsiege intro problem?
Posted on 2020-10-07, 14:00
The entire Earthsiege/Starsiege universe is free, for the most part, the original post wasn't a link to a Hi Rez site and likely was a broken CD rip.... I figured it was something like that. I just wanted to help him find it by legal means and get that intro going. Earthsiege 1 is still a tad wonky …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2020-10-07, 13:39
Here's the newest addition to my collection... The second Slot A motherboard I own alongside with Asus K7M... But this one is special! Brand new and never used... Boxed but without CD, I/O backplate and manual. GA-7IXE Nice! Nothing like a shiny new mobo. If those motherboards came from a company …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2020-10-05, 15:26
Like those stickers.
Re: Metaltech: Earthsiege intro problem?
Posted on 2020-10-05, 14:13
I am having a similar problem to this thread: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=14308 I want to play Earthsiege 1 but my intro is showing just the slide and nothing else. I got the game from some websites and all versions seem to have just the slide intro while one copy is allegedly even …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2020-10-04, 21:37
Speaking of professional level stuff I used to render 3D logos a bit in the mid 1990s with a 3D text rendering package from Pixar called Typestry. It ran under Windows for Workgroups 3.11 (there was also a Mac version) and it was quite powerful for its time. Fired it up in Windows 7 64 and amazingly …
Super Wolfenstein HD (2014) - Wolfenstein 3D remake.
Posted on 2020-10-04, 19:23
Re: Wolfenstein 3D remake Two can play at the bad remakes game. Super Wolfenstein HD (2014) - Wolfenstein 3D remake https://gamejolt.com/games/super-wolfenstein- … c-physics/39194
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2020-10-04, 13:21
As for what I am up to, I decided that I am going to be putting together a Socket 7 system soonish, and realized that, assuming I can find a good ATX board, I can totally build it using parts that I already have sitting around. I really just need a board, and maybe a secondary PS/2 connector so …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2020-10-03, 21:16
wiretap wrote on 2020-10-03, 19:39: Picked up this with my Ebay bucks today. […] Show full quote Picked up this with my Ebay bucks today. I had one of those in my Amiga 2000HD in the late 1990s. Perfect for my FTP needs.
Re: The great Pentium Pro haul of 2018 - ALR 6x6 Server Related
Posted on 2020-09-30, 13:45
To those of you who collect drivers, system software, etc. this might be of some interest to you. Since we picked up those ALR 6x6 servers in this haul LB and I had zero software for the systems. Luckily in the ALR sub channel I started over at Discord we got some Vogons members that had ALR …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2020-09-29, 17:05
That Matrox card makes me MOIST. I desire one. Heh... There is a NIB 2MB on on eBay for the low low price of $299.99 OBO. Just search for matrox ultima Did a bit of digging and these cards are supposed to be horrid in DOS performance-wise. I know on the very early Matrox Ultima Plus PCI video card …
Re: post up pics of your "computing area"
Posted on 2020-09-28, 19:06
Nice setup.
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