Re: Why is Amiga so popular with retro community ?

Posted on 2019-05-13, 14:55

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by appiah4

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I find the people who don't 'get' why the Amiga was so special very, very peculiar.. The prices of 486s really started dropping in late 1992, and that's when I got my first PC, a 486DX-33, with 4MB, a 210MB HDD and a 14" Trinitron display for $2000USD. That was still a lot of money, but super cheap …

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Re: Post screenshots from your retro rig

Posted on 2019-05-13, 13:21

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Here are a few from me: Dell Dimension XPS D333 https://i.postimg.cc/VSX39PNs/Dell-D333-System-Desktop-v2.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/JsWXk6Q1/Dell-D333-System-3-DMark99-Voodoo2.jpg K6-2 Voodoo2 SLI Build https://i.postimg.cc/FffhZFDJ/K6-2-6.jpg Compaq Deskpro EN-SFF https://i.postimg.cc/8JZwLNq6/ …

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Re: DOS game sound in Windows 9x

Posted on 2019-05-13, 13:15

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by appiah4

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Windows 9x is for all intents and purposes a GUI on top of MS-DOS 7.x, if you have an ISA sound card with sound blaster compatibility in the system and the corresponding drivers for Windows 9x installed, it will behave pretty much identical to how it would in true MS-DOS.

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Re: De-yellowing of plastics by only leaving them under the sun

Posted on 2019-05-12, 22:36

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by appiah4

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One thing that I didn't understand: can I keep stuff behind a window under a direct sunlight, or does it only work outdoors? I don't have a garden/pool area, I only have a windowed balcony. Depends on whether your window glass has UV filtering or not, and whether the room is air conditioned or not. …

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Re: What is better for pure Dos and Win98-Super socket 7(K6-III) or Slot 1/Socket 370 (PII/ PIII)? Where are differences?

Posted on 2019-05-12, 20:48

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by appiah4

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Look at this thread for 3d printable atx/at backplates: ATX I/O shield models for 3D printing

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-05-12, 20:45

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Edit: Got my new toys working today https://tweakers.net/ext/f/dour551yetUAUFoJOK9bmXg8/full.jpg Puretek PT-2037, aka UMC UM85C418F-GP VLB board. Replaces my crappy UM85C408AF ISA VGA board in my UMC build. So far so good, it improves 3DBench scoers from 26.3 to 37.0. No FDD though, so I still need …

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Re: Does anyone else prefer ME over 98?

Posted on 2019-05-12, 20:44

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by appiah4

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Vista was OK but its GUI had a very unrealistic performance target for a mainstream OS.

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Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on 2019-05-12, 20:42

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There's no 24.4K modem, it's either 28.8K or 14.4K. Oh, the memories..

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Re: Quake III Arena Benchmark Thread

Posted on 2019-05-10, 06:59

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cxm717 wrote: One thing I need to do is test different drivers on the G450PCI, to see if maybe some of the older ones run quake2 better. A G450 ICD driver that has no issues with Quake 2 would be very interesting for me..

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Re: Does anyone else prefer ME over 98?

Posted on 2019-05-10, 05:15

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dr_st wrote: Server 2003 is XP, not 2000. XP is technically 2000 with a shitty GUI, so..

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Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on 2019-05-10, 05:13

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by appiah4

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Is there any specific reason you are using the PCI version on a perfectly fine AGP motherboard?

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Re: Quake III Arena Benchmark Thread

Posted on 2019-05-09, 14:32

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Here are some stock and OC results on my G400Max. Both running the 555 driver with the 1.3 TurboGL. The G400 at stock clocks: g400sys.png g40032.png and OCed: g400ocsys.png g400oc32.png Is the 1.3 TurboGL included in the 5.55 driver? Is that the final driver with TurboGL? How does the TurboGL …

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Re: Remember those early-mid 2000s gaming cases? Here's an Ultra Wizard Sleeper Build

Posted on 2019-05-09, 14:29

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by appiah4

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A sleeper build is putting modern guts into an older computer or tower... This might be teetering on the line of older towers but I'd say 14+ year old case is there. Also it was NIB! Which is awesome. I think these look pretty good and I've always liked these cleaner designs as opposed to stuff …

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Re: ITT: You pick the parts and I build the 1990-1992 486

Posted on 2019-05-09, 06:44

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by appiah4

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Oh, and if you decide to go PCI motherboard, and hey, why not, go Ark logic for the VGA, those things are super quick with no weirdness like matrox or tseng. My 486 uses a tomato 4DPS motherboard with PCI and I found the ark worked just dandy. But I do tend to have a taste for the weirder more …

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Re: Does anyone else prefer ME over 98?

Posted on 2019-05-08, 16:26

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I have Me installed on my Tualatin build and 98 installed on my K6-2 (as well as several OEMs). To be honest, Me has nothing over 98 aside from universal USB storage drivers (which can be added to Win98) and System Restore, and most people disable that so at that point it's just 98 without …

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Re: ITT: You pick the parts and I build the 1990-1992 486

Posted on 2019-05-08, 14:56

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Just curious, but what were the other systems you (OP) build in the last 2 years...? They are in my signature below (except the 486 of course). I also refurbished and upgraded a Dell Dimension XPS D333, Dell Optiplex GX110 (which actually died a few months ago, still troubleshooting), a Compaq …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-05-08, 13:39

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I guess 64-bit and MPEG Acceleration could be useful for Socket 5 or thereabouts but for 486SX/DX/DX2 I'd bet they are essentially useless..

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Re: ITT: You pick the parts and I build the 1990-1992 486

Posted on 2019-05-08, 12:15

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I do have an ARK1000... That just might not be a bad idea, after all.. Use the DataExpert motherboard and try weird things like the ARK1000, MX86200 vs CL and CHIPS VLB cards..

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Re: ITT: You pick the parts and I build the 1990-1992 486

Posted on 2019-05-08, 11:15

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I'm also keen on the Octek HIPPO-VL+, it's indeed an interesting board. It has no cache, but I don't know how much DCA helps with that, or whether the 8MB 30-pin RAM that came on it is actual EDRAM or just regular FPM. It would be interesting to test. The board's chipset is Headland HT340 and it …

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Re: What is better for pure Dos and Win98-Super socket 7(K6-III) or Slot 1/Socket 370 (PII/ PIII)? Where are differences?

Posted on 2019-05-08, 10:53

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by appiah4

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Native Tualatin support with ISA is rare, but it certainly exists and there have been many threads here on Vogons dedicated to them. Less natively, you can use a lot of later BX boards with Tualatin CPUs with an FC-PGA2 (or modded FC-PGA) slocket with ISA galore. I prefer VIA 694T boards for these …

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