Re: Bought 2 motherboards, both do exactly the same (nothing)
Posted on Today, 14:14
amadeus777999 wrote on Today, 14:03: Connect a speaker & use a diagnose card. Listen to this man. He speaks the true true.
Re: I'm looking for a videocard with good Win9x and Early XP compatibility
Posted on Today, 14:13
GeForce 4 Ti4600 should do the job unless you need DX9 but that is really not early Windows XP stuff.
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on Today, 14:07
oh ffs... seriously?! hardware36_19.jpg WHO DOES THAT there is tape all over the box, and the DHL label is glued on the box too, pretty sure the plastic wrap was added by my forwarder after the fact seeing as it's over the original label and only their label is on it. I'm mildly angry. idk how to …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on Today, 06:41
Hahhhaaaa just the bracket is upside down. WOW Deczor did you do that ? OFFS. How the shit did I not notice that? Fuck, I'm an idiot. Yes, I did that when I was cleaning up the brackets. I guess it'll actually be a problem if I ever find a case for this thing. The old one is scummy as hell, so was …
Re: CPU Cache disabling software?
Posted on Yesterday, 14:02
Wait, you are trying this on a Laptop, which means you don't have a K6-2 CPU but rather a K6-2P (Mobile) CPU. SetMul does not affect L1 for these CPUs IIRC, but you can disable L2. Try that.
Re: Bought these games today
Posted on Yesterday, 13:44
Color copiers made it to market in the late 70's and were widely in use in even the 1980's. They weren't comnon things in my childhood and certainly not the kind of stuff you could get game manuals etc. photocopied on pocket allowance which was barely enough to get a couple pirated games every …
Re: Bought these games today
Posted on Yesterday, 12:12
Black on Red was problematic for uncracked copies at the time. Another game that did this was Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, IIRC it had the grail diary painted black over red or something. I think it only works on b&w copies which was the norm back then, but you could still as easily get …
Re: Simmconn AWE64 Adapter
Posted on Yesterday, 11:32
The Gold card has better stereo separation and slightly lower SNR but yeah it would be more or less the same.
Re: Compact Flash Card Help (sorry, I've looked and looked)
Posted on Yesterday, 11:16
I just copied files onto a FAT16 formatted CF card in Windows 10. The CF Card may have been formatted using a different geometry than the LBA geometry Windows 10 detects, is my guess.
Re: CPU Cache disabling software?
Posted on Yesterday, 11:09
Do a search on VOGONS for SETMUL, newer versions should support disabling L1 on these..
Re: Simmconn AWE64 Adapter
Posted on Yesterday, 04:55
I'd like to buy one! Is it around €49 I just home my country doesn't go full retard and close the borders to imports. I'm specially interested because I heard an AWE64 with good soundfonts, and it doesn't sound that far off from the Roland-55! Which is a good thing, if I'm on a budget! There is a …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on Yesterday, 04:47
AWE Synthesis is useful in a fraction of games that a 486 can run (admittadly it is more relevant for a DX2 and onwards) and a ES1868’s ESFM is a much better ‘clone’ than an AWE64’s CQM. I tend to go for the former and use an external MIDI device (my Munt-Pi3 usually) for Socket3/5/7 DOS builds. …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2020-02-18, 13:42
I try to keep my hardware at a certain inventory level; I have around 3-4 motherboards for 386, 486, 586, Socket 7, Slot 1, Socket 370 and Socket/Slot-A platforms, and then around 5-10 CPUs for each socket type. I try to limit my collection to roughly 5-10 graphics cards and 20-30 sound cards per …
Re: Bought these games today
Posted on 2020-02-18, 12:45
antrad wrote on 2020-02-18, 12:38: 🤣, copy-protection for copy-protection. And people say Ubisoft and others are crazy today with its 2-3 layers they have today, Steam+Uplay+Denuvo. So what, don't we all use three condoms at once?
Re: Bought these games today
Posted on 2020-02-18, 11:52
also notice the literal (photo-)copying protection they added to the MI2 wheel, black text on red background ^^ Did these actually slow the pirating in any way? I remember copy shops pricing A4 full color copies at around 20c each. Black on Red was problematic for uncracked copies at the time. …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2020-02-18, 08:13
I'm looking at some of those ebay scrap piles you people get to bid on, and I can't help but envy the choice and abundance you have.. I don't quite envy the prices you pay though 😁
Re: SetMul - Multiplier control for VIA C3 / AMD K6+7+8 Mobile / Cyrix 5x86
Posted on 2020-02-18, 08:05
Aren't all Socket A processors multiplier locked?
Re: Any ISA sound card sound as good as the Gravis Ultrasound ?
Posted on 2020-02-18, 05:56
Unless I stumble across one at a local scrapper I have zero intentions of buying a GUS. Even if I stumble across one I would trade it for something else most likely.
Re: Tube Time: Announcing The Snark Barker, a 100% Compatible SB 1.0 Replica!
Posted on 2020-02-17, 14:24
Ooohh.. Nifty 😁
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2020-02-17, 13:22
[...] Yeah, from what I can tell it is a Model 2168 of some sort. Motherboard jumper settings on Statson has some weird PSU connectors apart from the AT connector, but I'm not sure if these are actually used or not. Regardless, if I can just find a way to mount a 3.5" floppy drive on there, it will …
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