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

Posted on Today, 08:43

I talked myself out of installing a 3dfx Voodoo card to my 1997 budget OS/2 PC after learning its launch price. I will install FixPack 15 and SNAP drivers to my OS/2 Warp 4 installation later in the day.

Re: What was the SRP and street price of the 3dfx Voodoo Graphics at launch?

Posted on Today, 08:39

by appiah4

in Marvin \ Video

OK that confirms $299 1997 price as far as I'm concerned. No 3dfx for my 1997 budget PC 😁

What was the SRP and street price of the 3dfx Voodoo Graphics at launch?

Posted on Yesterday, 20:47

by appiah4

in Marvin \ Video

I can't seem to find accurate information on either the SRP or street price of 3dfx Voodoo Graphics at launch, does anyone have a source?

Re: Coronavirus chatter

Posted on 2020-03-29, 10:03

by appiah4

in Milliways

COVID is as related to Hepatitis as Ebola is related to Measles. I have no idea what Sonica's information source is but he should stop reading it.

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-03-29, 08:55

by appiah4

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Artex posts and I hate life. The usual stuff.

Re: Coronavirus chatter

Posted on 2020-03-27, 18:59

by appiah4

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Intel486dx33 wrote on 2020-03-27, 16:38: Any computer games about bio warfare ? Plague Inc. Kind of..

Re: Coronavirus chatter

Posted on 2020-03-27, 13:08

by appiah4

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you do realize that the Chinese government likely imposed drastic measures to get things under control? I can only imagine what people worried about government control in the USA would say if the same measures were imposed on american citizens. 🤔😱 Interestingly, South Korea didn't. China had to …

Re: Coronavirus chatter

Posted on 2020-03-26, 13:01

by appiah4

in Milliways

Just wondering how many of us think the pandemic is a very serious problem, but that our lifes will eventually get back to same old, and how many understand this could be a paradigm shift event. It will change the world fundamentally and for good, anyone who doesn't see that coming will be in for …

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

Posted on 2020-03-26, 07:48

by appiah4

in Marvin \ Sound

Phil is hardly a hardware guru.. But to be honest lack of an oscillator is not an issue for 18xx cards as long as your motherboard ISA clockspeed signal is clean - this would only be a problem for older boards that don't really like a PnP card like this to begin with. I have the same card and it has …

Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2020-03-25, 22:58

by appiah4

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I started playing Divinity: Original Sin EE; I wanted to see what it was like prior to buying Baldur's Gate III. I have mixed feelings about it, two hours it, but I will reserve judgement until the story picks up a bit. To be honest, I feel like moving on to Tides of Numenera or Tyranny already..

Re: Coronavirus chatter

Posted on 2020-03-25, 20:39

by appiah4

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robertmo wrote on 2020-03-25, 19:52: In Wuhan, China some buses started to work again That's nothing, they never stopped working in Milano.. /sarcasm

Re: Where to get standard ATX I/O shields ? (Pentium 1/II/III era)

Posted on 2020-03-25, 20:37

by appiah4

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

That's not the same, because you have no shielding to discharge any electric charge between the PC and the device you plug in when using a plastic i/o shield. But just as with ESD, people tend not to listen. It's just a word of warning. You are free to use a 3d-printed i/o shield if you don't care. …

Re: Where to get standard ATX I/O shields ? (Pentium 1/II/III era)

Posted on 2020-03-25, 17:38

by appiah4

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The ports must be grounded - that is, connected to the casing via the i/o shield. I would not use a 3d-printed one as anything else than a temporary solution. With the ports not being grounded, there's a high risk to cause damage whenever you plug in or unplug a device. So better do it right from …

Re: Where to get standard ATX I/O shields ? (Pentium 1/II/III era)

Posted on 2020-03-25, 13:10

by appiah4

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

There was a fantastic thread on VOGONS with 3d models for most common retro atx io shields, if you can locate that you can download the model from that and have it printed on grey plastic.

Re: Coronavirus chatter

Posted on 2020-03-25, 09:26

by appiah4

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matze79 wrote on 2020-03-25, 08:54: Just rest a minute for the poor people in africa, india 😒 most of them live together in small rooms. No way they could do social distancing.. Africa will be a massacre unfortunately.. It will start in a month or so 🙁 South America, India and Pakistan will be no …

Re: Coronavirus chatter

Posted on 2020-03-25, 08:48

by appiah4

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Don't hold your breath for even an experimental vaccine in less than a year unless scores of thousands of people start dying overnight.

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

Posted on 2020-03-25, 08:43

by appiah4

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I installed OS/2 Warp 4 on my 1997 budget workstation build. I thought about dedicating one of my retro boxes to OS/2 as well, so yesterday I gave it a try in a VirtualBox VM, which worked out surprisingly well. Having never used that OS before, I wonder which version to install. Plain OS/2 Warp 4 …

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

Posted on 2020-03-24, 08:08

by appiah4

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Bruninho wrote on 2020-03-24, 01:13: appiah4 wrote on 2020-03-23, 20:58: I installed OS/2 Warp 4 on my 1997 budget workstation build. The eyes of my dad had nostalgia tears when he saw that. hahaha! Oh sweet. How old is he? What is his experience with OS/2? So curious!