Re: What modern activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2021-05-07, 14:47
No, it's giant. Here it is compared to a medium sized cat If you don't have a medium sized cat yourself, here it is next to a dvd case:
Re: What modern activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2021-05-07, 14:09
I bought an AMD 7990. I'm going to pair it with my i7 860 to see how much modern gaming an 11 year old CPU and 10 year old GPU can do!
Can I do anything fun with Windows CE and an Ankya 920 ARM CPU
Posted on 2021-05-04, 17:09
I've always liked little netbooks and I've come across a 7" netbook that has an Ankya 920 ARM CPU and can only use Windows CE (apparently). Can I do anything interesting or fun with this? Are many games designed for ARM? Could I install Android on it or something?
Re: Vogons Video Announcement Thread
Posted on 2021-05-01, 17:30
I made a video for the first time. It was a trial to see if I had fun and I did have a little bit of fun making it. I also tested out my capture card and enjoyed capturing video from Windows and DOS. Here is the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35ijCgb9VhY
Re: Dumb question of the day - Back up Disk from A: to B:
Posted on 2021-04-30, 18:00
Thanks, I knew it would be a dumb question!
Dumb question of the day - Back up Disk from A: to B:
Posted on 2021-04-30, 17:46
I bought a few games today. I want to back up from the 3.5" disks in B: to my Gotek in A:. I could just copy the visible contents of the disks to A: but is there a way I can make an "image" of the disk as I think this is better when installing software? Ideally how can I do this in DOS 6.22 so I …
Re: Organ piano software for CMS / Game blaster
Posted on 2021-04-23, 22:02
Yeah it's part of the CMS software package. The music player is part of that package and works fine on my Sb2.0 so not sure why the organ wouldn't. When I run CMSDRV it says it's already installed though (even though the music works fine) Edit - that's because I ran CMSDRV earlier, whoops. The …
Organ piano software for CMS / Game blaster
Posted on 2021-04-23, 21:44
I want to mess around with my Sb2.0 which has the CMS chips installed. I've tried the built in organ software but I am struggling to get it to make any sound at all! The card works great in games and the music player but just not the organ! What other music software is out there that will use the …
Q6600 or e8500 or Athlon II X3 450
Posted on 2021-04-22, 08:24
I'm unsure where to go for my next Windows 7 build. I've had the e8500 running XP for a while but fancy using 7 for a bit and play some games that are on Steam that don't like modern hardware or don't support 4:3 like MOH airborne and Brothers in Arms and Condemned. I'm turn between these CPUs and …
Re: Determining how much to spend on this hobby
Posted on 2021-04-21, 07:25
I consider the money I spend on retro parts to be spending money only (after mortgage, all bills, savings, etc) and don't try to rationalise it as an investment or anything. I spend spending money on items but I also increase my spending money by selling my PC parts too. I don't set an arbitrary …
Re: Another ultra modern not exactly retro yet build
Posted on 2021-04-21, 06:59
That's a very solid Windows XP system. I alternate between a Q6600 and E8500 for my "just for gaming" XP systems and I have no interest in period correctness so I have an 850GB SSD and new, quiet power supply. I have a 7950GT, 8600GT, GT 340 and ATI 4830 that I use (all perform quite similarly) but …
Re: What is your unconscious motive for retro hardware ?
Posted on 2021-04-18, 07:36
My unconscious reason was my mum had just died and I sort of threw myself into retro gaming perhaps more than I would have otherwise done. But the reason for building W98 and older PCs wasn't really nostalgia. My "best years" were at college and university and those games are generally available on …
Re: Can you feel the speed difference ?
Posted on 2021-04-18, 07:30
I definitely could tell the difference between my i7 860 and 3700X when not gaming. It wasn't a huge difference but it was there. Less so for my 4770K and 3700X when just faffing on the desktop. It's also storage related. One had an SATA3 SSD and one had an NVMe SSD.
Re: recommend a CPU upgrade for my 486 (and RAM)
Posted on 2021-04-12, 17:23
Thanks I forgot all about the EDO memory thing! To be honest there doesn't seem to be much that is expensive (for how much fun I will have with it over my AMD DX2-80). Will a AMD DX4-100 offer much of a performance increase beyond the MHz (e.g. cache).
recommend a CPU upgrade for my 486 (and RAM)
Posted on 2021-04-12, 08:43
I have a tomatoboard 4DPS rev 2.11 with a DX2 80 that runs at 100MHz . I want to upgrade the CPU but I am not sure what is faster. The board supports Socket 3: INTEL 80486SX,80486DX/DX2/DX4,P24D,P24T CYRIX CX486DX/DX2(M7),DX4,5x86, AMD AM486DX/DX2/DX4,Enhanced AMD 486DX4 With a 'FSB' speed of 25/33/ …
What PS2 or Dreamcast display cabinet demo?
Posted on 2021-04-10, 17:18
I remember going to my local Game shop in 2000 to 2001 and remember seeing a display cabinet showing a demo of some game, I think Dreamcast but it could have been for a PS2. All I really remember is an image of long waving grass from a first person perspective / head height, or perhaps it was …
Re: VGA Capture Thread
Posted on 2021-04-10, 17:16
Has anyone tried any of these three? https://www.amazon.co.uk/TRIPP-LITE-Audio-Converter-Scaler-White/dp/B013FD6OS0/ref=sr_1_6?dchild=1&keywords=vga+scaler&qid=1618074092&sr=8-6 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Just-Buy-Converter-Adapter-Support-black/dp/B073WTZB8N/ref=sr_1_12?dchild=1&keywords=vga+scaler& …
Re: My First(ish) Socket 370 build.
Posted on 2021-04-04, 22:15
I completed the Unreal expansion Return to Na Pali on the PC and it handled it really well. I'm beginning to really like it and haven't turned on my XP PC for a day or two now! The wireless mouse (shares one usb receiver with the keyboard) has mysteriously started working so it's a fully "modern" …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2021-04-03, 20:45
Today I realised that modern Windows Media Player with its play speed settings can slow down MIDI files without the huge reduction in quality you would get from MP3s or whatever. I've been trying to get my head around Golden Brown by the Stranglers and this has sort of helped!
Re: My First(ish) Socket 370 build.
Posted on 2021-04-03, 17:18
But it's still a nice build =) I am on the hunt for a 478 M-ATX board with a SIS chipset - I had one before and it worked great. I bought a 2GHz Northwood a while back that is 50 watts or so, and the CPU (or perhaps more importantly the board VRMs?) don't actually get that hot on my ATX 478 board. …
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