Re: Creating a CD with freeware DOS games - Any game suggestions?

Posted on 2021-04-13, 03:03

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Inner Worlds was originally released as Shareware. But was subsequently made available for FREE as the game was really written for DOS, and very few machines still run DOS. The game does run under Windows (usually) in DOS mode on most computers. Unfortunately, after we decided to make the game …

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Re: Voodoo 2 sli board, real or fake?

Posted on 2021-04-12, 18:51

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Someone overbid my friend online... for this gem tofay. What do you guys think? Worth the money? Screenshot_20210412-195249_eBay.jpg As an investment, it's questionable. There might come a time when the next generation the Gen Z kids don't give a shit about it so your return investment might not be …

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Re: What causes mobile CPU dies to crack?

Posted on 2021-04-12, 04:19

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might be the cause of the thermal compound used? Did you use IC diamond? or something like that?

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Re: Ultimate Dosbox

Posted on 2021-04-12, 00:50

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Either just do what everyone else does, or do your own thing and be different. You seem smart enough to figure it out. If you have a legit question I'm here to help.

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Re: Golden age of computing for personal computers

Posted on 2021-04-11, 23:57

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Probably now is the time to hoard Radeon X1800/1900/1950 and Geforce 7800/7900/8800 series graphics cards. Even among those the 7950GX2 8800 Ultra and HD2900 series are already fetch a good price. And lately it seems to me the more budget oriented cards (anything above 9600GT) are also slowly …

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Re: Quick Voodoo 3 2000 question.

Posted on 2021-04-10, 02:59

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I use a slot fan with no mounting that's also an option. Just measure the heat sink with a metric ruler or a digital caliper, then see what fan would fit on it. Otherwise you can use a much bigger fan but you will have to rig it on there with rubberbands or something creative.

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Re: 4Mx9 70ns 30-pin SIMM

Posted on 2021-04-10, 02:39

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I heard the gold tin thing as well,and its common knowledge based on science. However to this day no one that I have seen has ever been able to demonstrate connector corrosion even after all of these years. Despite it being in books like A+I've never seen a real world example of it. It's not just …

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Re: Best LGA 775 Motherboard with AGP and DDR400?

Posted on 2021-04-10, 02:19

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If you haven't already you might consider removing the NB heatsink and applying some proper thermal paste. 1m super PI is not reliable. 2M or higher for proper test.

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Re: Best LGA 775 Motherboard with AGP and DDR400?

Posted on 2021-04-10, 02:12

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I was using super PI. You shouldn't have any problem getting to DDR 533 on decent ram. You might have to loosen the timings to 3-3-3-8 which would be spec for DDR2 even though you are using DDR1, Id reccomend de clocking the CPU to make sure your errors are not the cause of the CPU being to far …

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Re: post up pics of your "computing area"

Posted on 2021-04-10, 01:21

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I have that exact keyboard tray. I rather like it.

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Re: Why is Amiga so popular with retro community ?

Posted on 2021-04-10, 01:20

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Team Beige what about those guys.

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Re: Samsung KS82C614A "Double Dragon" 3D Accelerator

Posted on 2021-04-10, 01:13

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I wonder if it exists by some other name.

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Re: Help Identifying UMC 486 SBC Motherboard

Posted on 2021-04-09, 22:50

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Sick, those headers are for modules, theres probably seperate lan and cache modules. I looked everywhere, I tried searching for the VGA part number and came up with nothing as well. Searching for PTP MV-1 I get alot of results. So I guess PTP is the manufacturer of the PCB anyways.

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Re: Creating a CD with freeware DOS games - Any game suggestions?

Posted on 2021-04-09, 22:35

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usually means you may not modify the game in anyway, you may freely distribute unmodified game. if packaging the game with other games in no way modify the game and its freely distributed than I see no issue. Id be down for a DVD or CD with all the games on that wiki site. Save me a lot of time. …

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Re: The quest for the perfect retro laptop: a saga

Posted on 2021-04-09, 19:49

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First of all, this thread was not about the perfect DOS gaming laptop. Somehow it turned into this focus on playing games Ok bro The title of the thread may read perfect retro laptop, but several of the "contingencies" on page one by the author are as follows 1. Perfect or near-perfect DOS video/ …

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Re: Newly made PCMCIA sound card

Posted on 2021-04-09, 19:20

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Same theres no reason to stop that project but the two do not necessarily need to be the same. theres been products around made by Magma that are pcmcia to PC I am no engineers but Id think just a simple PCMCIA card to 2 port external PCMCIA would be even simpler than pcmcia to PCI.

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Re: Bare 3Dfx Voodoo 2 board pictures

Posted on 2021-04-09, 18:57

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you can buy working ones for 150 if I check sold listings people have bought working ones for around 100. I assume you could find a broken one for less than 50. In all honesty to have PCBs made, get all the chips to go on one, you are looking at more than 150 dollars that way, but I could be wrong. …

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Re: Bare 3Dfx Voodoo 2 board pictures

Posted on 2021-04-09, 18:33

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I've never seen one alternately you could buy a broken voodoo 2 and use some hotair to remove all the components then you can check traces. Id think more info could be learned from that than looking at a picture assuming one exists in the quality you want.

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Re: Datalight ROM-DOS 7.1

Posted on 2021-04-09, 14:53

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At one time before they got aquired they were giving away single user for free if you registered on the site. I still have the 7.1 main disk but I cannot find the sockets or SDK disk for the life of me and I know for a fact I had both. Maybe If someone could tell me the file name of the 2nd disk it …

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Re: The quest for the perfect retro laptop: a saga

Posted on 2021-04-09, 05:15

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Second of all, there's only 1 entry for Chips and Technology (65554) and one for Neomagic, which is a Neomagic 256AV. That's a gen2 Neomagic GPU. There are 3 families from the PCI based NM2097/NM2160c (Gen 1), the AGP NM2200/2300 series (Gen 2), and the 2380 (Gen 3 with a very rudimentary 3D …

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