Re: Lots of cheap Rage XL PCI graphics cards for Socket 7 on eBay and Aliexpress

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If I had to make a guess, it would be that the chips are coming off noughties P4 class Xeon server boards. Therefore I would be trying drivers intended for those if no others were working.

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Powerline/Homeplug 1.0 vs 1.0 Turbo, any experience mixing?

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Hi dudes and dudettes, So I am using at present a couple of homeplug 1.0 turbo adapters to get interwebnet into the wrangling zone. I just picked up an additional adapter for a couple of bucks, which turns out to be a plain jane 1.0 capable unit. 14mbps theoretical vs 85mbps theoretical (but get …

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Re: Market value for popular or rare classic computer hardware

Posted on Yesterday, 02:21

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I kept a load of stuff over the years because I thought it was underappreciated and it was a waste for it to go to landfill, so in some respects I'm happy to see high $$$ value as an appreciation score. I bet a lot of guys though are just selling the one thing at inflated price and buying something …

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Re: games I should play on dual cpu servers

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Server 2003 is basically XP for Workgroups 3.11 ;) ... if there's something CPU intensive (for XP era), but doesn't need too hefty graphics, and is multithreaded, then the powerwedgie might run that okay. (Sorry, I have this irresistible urge to screw up the name of Dell products, much be since I …

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Re: Any games a Pentium 4 PC can play that a modern PC can't?

Posted on 2021-09-20, 23:47

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There was a bit of a rough patch where single core mhz meant a P4 3.6 could do better in some games than the affordable initial crop of core duos around 2ghz, despite them being generally faster, but that was gone by next core shrink, and c2d optimisations and low end being 2.4 or so by then. …

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Re: Voodoo 3 bought second hand - dead or not?

Posted on 2021-09-20, 21:59

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I had my V3 2000 PCI running with a 60mm on it, ran great to 190/190, artifacted after a few mins on higher, I was excited mid noughties to get my hands on a V3 3000 AGP for a couple of bucks to really see what a V3 could do, similar fan went on it.... it went to 175/175 :( I was a tad disappointed …

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Re: Keyboard crashes on old 386 motherboard

Posted on 2021-09-20, 21:45

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Try it with typematic rate setting and Fast Gate A20 settings on and off.

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

Posted on 2021-09-20, 21:34

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Plugged a dollar store "gaming mouse" into my main laptop, I have hammered a Verbatim cheapy to death over 3 or 4 years, and got fed up with it's glitchy buttons. It's the Dollarama "Tech 1" brand. Initial impression is that it was very light, but that's not entirely a bad thing for strain in long …

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Re: Market value for popular or rare classic computer hardware

Posted on 2021-09-20, 17:38

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It's like panning for gold in the local classifieds, you start with a huge handful of dirt, and pan and pan, and eventually there is gold, but you gotta stick your hands in the dirt first, it won't just jump in your lap. If you want gold without the work, you go and pay thousands of dollars an …

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Re: Recommend CRT monitor size for Windows 98 gaming.

Posted on 2021-09-20, 17:07

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There's also the fact that the UI for most Win9x games was designed around 640x480 or 800x600 resolutions. Going much higher than that tends to make UI elements too tiny and unreadable in many games. ^ this is also mainly my point of view. It all depends on the content you're running. Secondary …

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Re: Market value for popular or rare classic computer hardware

Posted on 2021-09-20, 16:21

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I dunno, 5 years ago you had a $10 PC, now it's $50 to $100 maybe, 5x00 series are getting known for backwards compatibility. I am currently resisting the temptation to fill the very few remaining nooks and crannies in my house with $10 C2D systems 🤣

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Re: Help gathering parts for more period correct 98se build

Posted on 2021-09-20, 16:17

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There's some NLX format video cards have the VGA hole high on the bracket... they have a long bottom bracket to pcb, but you can cut that off short and drill it if it meets the hole on the voodoo. What I usually steal brackets off are modems, the hole is a bit too big side to side, but it makes it …

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Re: Market value for popular or rare classic computer hardware

Posted on 2021-09-20, 01:19

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Is it me or did the price of Voodoo Banshees just explode, I got one last month and thought, "cool I got a $40 card for cheap" now I don't see any NEAR that price... they gone jumped to where V3s were.

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Re: Upgrade CPU Gateway P5-75?

Posted on 2021-09-20, 01:12

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If you want then... Also there's this horrendously overpriced option called the Intel Overdrive, which for merely the price of a Super 7 board , K6-2-400 and 64MB SDRAM, and an AGP card, will make your system into a halfassed Pentium MMX

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Re: Looking for a config manager for DOSBOX

Posted on 2021-09-19, 21:05

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I just use this https://dbgl.org/ then I've got it set up in ideal config per game, but you can just set up an item to have it launch to command prompt in desired config with appropriate directory mounted to C i.e. your games directory root or something so you can just thrash around the file system …

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Re: PCI Resolution not selectable when paired with AGP Card

Posted on 2021-09-19, 19:35

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Did you install the monitor for the voodoo? i.e. it's not stuck on "standard VGA" and you've at least got PnP monitor or standard SVGA showing.

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Re: DOSBox-X branch

Posted on 2021-09-19, 17:29

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An urgent messhage needsh to be conveyed to the yousher? Thish shounds like a job for 007 ... the ASCII character, BEL. Dunno why windows needs an API for that.

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Re: Games that specifically need a 486 (not faster/not slower) to run properly

Posted on 2021-09-19, 15:37

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Titus the Fox I'm fairly sure I've run on pentiums, with no other issue than the key repeat rate being higher and thus a bit twitchy on the controls, music worked on SBPro 2.0 compatibles. However, many soundcards tend to tweak out on much higher than 10Mhz ISA buses in my experience, so if you're …

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Re: Upgrade CPU Gateway P5-75?

Posted on 2021-09-19, 15:24

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That sounds like the Intel 430FX chipset motherboard that was socket 5 up to P120 (The early one was 430NX with a riser eww, and only did P75 and P90)

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-09-19, 14:39

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Robert B wrote on 2021-09-19, 12:09: ECS K755A with a mistery pink ceramic CPU Fun stuff for that when you've recapped it http://www.lejabeach.com/ECS/ez.html I know some of the thunderbirds and morgans could get from grey to very purplish looking ceramic packaging but never heard of an actual pink …

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