Re: Screen resolution on OLD retro laptops

Posted on 2018-05-15, 19:08

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by Ozzuneoj

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No fixes exist outside using a monitor on the VGA output (if present at all), you either live with the small box in the middle of screen or ugly badly scaled full screen image. This is not always true. A user here provided a TSR that fixed this very problem on my 720CDT: https://www.vogons.org/ …

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Re: PS/2 Ball Mouse smoothness?

Posted on 2018-05-15, 13:30

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by Ozzuneoj

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I'd be interested to try one of the original Razer ball mice. I haven't seen one since reading about them back when optical mice were too slow for competitive gaming... that's a long time ago.

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Re: Video Card: FX 5xxx for Coppermine 800 - Need input

Posted on 2018-05-14, 03:26

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by Ozzuneoj

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I'm still curious which card would pair best with a coppermine though. I expect it would significantly bottleneck the 5900 as it is. I havent found much in the way of benchmarks. i have to check the rails on the power supply, it's about 12 years old but most likely heavy on the 12v as standard …

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Restoring a trashed Quantum3D Raven PCI...

Posted on 2018-05-13, 21:48

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by Ozzuneoj

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I spotted this card laying on top of a heap in a scrap lot listed online and purchased it along with several other cards. It was a really nice lot, except for the physical condition of the cards. The Raven PCI looked bad... I mean, REALLY bad. I could tell in the seller's picture that the back plate …

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Re: Anyone here uses SD to IDE adapters? (for notebooks and Desktops)

Posted on 2018-05-13, 21:04

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by Ozzuneoj

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Another option for cloning it is to create a virtual hard disk (in Windows) by going to Disk Management > Action > Create VHD. Tell it where you want to store the file on your computer. Make it roughly the size of your SD card. Once it is mounted, you can use something like Minitool Partition Wizard …

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

Posted on 2018-05-13, 20:25

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by Ozzuneoj

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Today I installed Hercules Stingray 128 / 3D from the 3Dfx Voodoo Rush family and flashed a newer bios into it. Tried an absurd number of reference drivers and played the first level of Tomb Raider countless time trying to iron out the kinks. Getting that son-of-a-gun working properly was a CHORE. …

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Re: ESS AudioDrive (ES1868) - a surprisingly good ISA sound card

Posted on 2018-05-12, 03:14

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by Ozzuneoj

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JSO wrote: My 688F is on the attached photo and has many jumpers! And CD-ROM works perfectly on the 386 build! That LS-212 chip sure looks a lot like a YMF262. 😀

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Re: Dell XPS, Half Life 1, TNT1 confusion

Posted on 2018-05-12, 03:10

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by Ozzuneoj

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For what its worth, my first PC was a Gateway G6-400 with a PII 400Mhz and an integrated Velocity 128 (Riva 128), and I had no idea that it would even provide hardware acceleration until a few years later when I repurposed the system and installed the OS and updated drivers. Absolutely nothing I ran …

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Re: ATX2AT Smart Converter: Need Your Advice!

Posted on 2018-05-09, 20:41

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by Ozzuneoj

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I would totally use one of those for testing. Seems like a great idea, especially if it's inexpensive. Its also simple enough that I would attempt to build my own if I could purchase a PCB and the parts. :) If you can solder them by yourself, I'll be glad to provide a bare PCB. They're not as cheap …

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Re: Retro Hardware Adventures in Shenzhen, China

Posted on 2018-05-09, 20:38

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by Ozzuneoj

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Wow... sorry to hear about your pics being lost, but that is quite a haul! Can't wait to see what else you found. I know retro computing isn't in the top 10 most popular hobbies or anything, but I'm amazed that there is so much of that stuff still sitting around, even in China. Voodoo 5s have been …

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Re: ATX2AT Smart Converter: Need Your Advice!

Posted on 2018-05-09, 19:51

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by Ozzuneoj

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I would totally use one of those for testing. Seems like a great idea, especially if it's inexpensive. Its also simple enough that I would attempt to build my own if I could purchase a PCB and the parts. 😀

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Re: Timelines of CD\DVD-RW write speeds ?

Posted on 2018-05-09, 19:35

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by Ozzuneoj

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Hello ( History of re-writable optical discs ) Are there timelines for different CD-RW and DVD-RW speeds appearing to mainstream ? I have some older ones which have these "starter" speeds: CD-RW 1-2x DVD-RW 1-2x Burning an old 1pc DVD-RW 1-2x disc took me about 30mins today :happy: I have one 1998 …

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2018-05-09, 19:32

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by Ozzuneoj

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Once you enter the park, you aren't allowed to take anything since the company owns it from then on. It's considered as theft then and I guess the fine isn't worth the haul :p "I dropped this PC off here earlier and just forgot to wipe the harddrive! So sorry! I'll bring it back when I've cleared …

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Re: ATI cards for retro builds... any benefits?

Posted on 2018-05-09, 18:14

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by Ozzuneoj

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Tbh, this applies to almost any retro stuff. These days you get AMD, nVidia or Intel and it just works, with only differences being performance or price. But back before the boring days, even when titles used abstraction layers like OpenGL, early DirectX or WinG, you saw big image differences …

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Re: ATI cards for retro builds... any benefits?

Posted on 2018-05-08, 21:18

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by Ozzuneoj

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Thanks for all the input, this is exactly the kind of information I was looking for. The experiences mentioned here definitely sound like what I remember about ATI cards in those days: competitive performance and some nice image quality features, but success with them is highly dependent on what …

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Re: Youtube vid of V5 5500 playing ut2004?

Posted on 2018-05-08, 00:36

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by Ozzuneoj

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Pretty impressive graphics and performance for such an old card... especially one that was behind the times already when it was released. This makes me really want to get the Voodoo 5 5500 PCI and Vortex 2 SQ2500 installed in my main rig for some Windows 10 + Windows 98SE dual-boot action... been …

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ATI cards for retro builds... any benefits?

Posted on 2018-05-07, 23:31

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by Ozzuneoj

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So, my collection has been growing over the past couple years and I've started to accumulate a significant number of ATI cards. I posted a thread here a few months back trying to make sense of the various ATI Rage models I have laying around, and it certainly helped to see where they ranked when it …

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Re: What recent hardware has the best chance of becoming "retro" in the future?

Posted on 2018-05-04, 05:01

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by Ozzuneoj

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I don’t think we’ll every look at today’s hardware in the same way we look at pre 2000 hardware. It’s just not the same and it’ll never match up, nor could it truly be called “retro”. In 20 years I’ll still be able to install Windows 98 on any of my pre-2000 hardware, but try installing Windows 10 …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-05-04, 03:22

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by Ozzuneoj

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I know it is RARE but that was expensive. Who cares?? Why do some of you guys insist on commenting on other peoples spending habits? I can't get my head around how you consider it any of your business! Do you do that to people in real life? If there was a place where everyone gathered together …

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Re: Tandy 4000 - Puff of smoke

Posted on 2018-05-03, 03:49

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by Ozzuneoj

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Just curious, how long had it been since this system was last powered on and how often was it used? Generally, people say that tantalums are actually incredibly reliable if they are used regularly, with most failures of this kind occurring after 20+ years of being unpowered. I'm always interested to …

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