Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

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IMG_0392.JPEG FIC VA-503+ - Bought it as an untested item on eBay for a little over $20. At first I thought it wasn't working, but it turns out the sheer number of jumpers was my downfall and it's actually working great. :) A quick test makes it seem quite a bit faster than my GA-5AX, much more …

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Re: Easy Win-95 era gaming PC.

Posted on 2023-02-04, 15:53

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Are you ready for some Football ? This is a Rock Solid High Performance period correct Win-95 computer build. Perfect for playing high impact demanding games. This is what a high performance gaming computer build looked like back in Windows 95 era.

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Re: AT Form Factor Cases with separate side panels?

Posted on 2023-02-03, 09:48

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I have one on my 486 build See my post: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=71265&hilit=486+dream+build Techmedia was a computer builder company from Silicon Valley back in 1990’s This case I think is actually for a 1st gen pentium motherboard but I am using it for my 486 build. Techmedia …

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Re: Road to Super Bowl LVll

Posted on 2023-01-29, 18:20

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Maximus, Maximus, Maximus…..

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Road to Super Bowl LVll

Posted on 2023-01-24, 18:06

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Toughest Road in America. Arizona or Bust.

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2023-01-20, 11:48

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I am going to build a Nice home server to store all my stuff. I need to clean up all my Single drive NAS stuff and consolidate. I am going to build a Nice Server for about $400 not including hard drives which will be another $300 So in total about $700 for a Xeon server with 32gb ram and 48tb of …

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Re: Building a 486 DX-4: the Compatibility Machine

Posted on 2023-01-20, 07:11

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The “PCI S3 trio64 DX 3D” is a card with more DOS game compatibility. Should be able to play 95% of DOS with good quality and performance. Use with Win95 and DOS

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Does anyone know of a CDROM Image loaded with Benchmark tools for Windows 95 ?…..

Posted on 2023-01-18, 19:19

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Or where can I download benchmark tools for Win95 and what are some good ones ?

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Re: Bought these (retro) software/OS today

Posted on 2023-01-17, 17:41

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Some software from 1990’s

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Re: Battle of the Made in U.S.A 486 computers.

Posted on 2023-01-12, 19:07

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The IBM PS/1 Model 2155 Is the Clear Winner for the Best PC of 1993/94 at retail price of $2,699 As for the Mac Side the “Macintosh Color Classic” of 1993 would be the Winner at retail price of $1,08o Both had internet capabilities. The IBM came with a dial up modem and Ethernet card. The Mac could …

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Re: 486 Multimedia dream build ( 1993/94 ).

Posted on 2023-01-11, 02:26

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Cool Screen Savers for Windows 3x or Mac. “After Dark 3.2” Includes 29 screen savers. Very Nice. Including Flying Toilets. Link: https://archive.org/search.php?query=AFTER+DARK+3.2&sin=

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Re: Tell me what it's like to own a GUS

Posted on 2023-01-09, 18:55

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I use a Sound Blaster Pro 2.0 Sound Blaster 16 Media Vision PAS-16 Turtle beach Monte Carlo In my 386 and 486 and 586 computers and they work fine. Some make a little noise on boot up but not much. Most don’t make noise and produce clear audio.

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Re: Happy New Year 2023

Posted on 2023-01-09, 15:05

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Is your Computer Y2K compliment ?…..

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Re: Great collectors of Vogons! What's missing in your collections? :P

Posted on 2023-01-08, 13:24

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Orpheus ISA sound card Dream blaster X2gs A “Dream Blaster X2” with SD card that holds multiple sound font libraries that allows for Swapping font libraries in Windows. “Built it and Take my MONEY” 😉

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Re: "Madness", One retro PC to rule them all :)

Posted on 2023-01-08, 03:39

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"Madness" : One Retro PC to rule them all. Sound Blaster live can be made to work with all those operating systems. I like the idea of just using pen drives for OS and Boot drives. Not sure what video chips you can use or Network cards. You should be able to get it to work if you use CF cards, Pen …

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Re: Orpheus Soundcard: a new DOS soundcard with SPDIF/OPL3/MPU support

Posted on 2023-01-07, 12:24

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by Intel486dx33

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Is this card out of stock ?

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Re: Tell me what it's like to own a GUS

Posted on 2023-01-07, 11:57

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I will tell what it’s like NOT to own one cause I don’t. I had an opportunity to purchase a used one some years back at the cost of $200 but I did not buy one. What I really want is an Orpheus and Wave table X2-GS. So I would rather spend my money on that. At least it’s NEW. I have a Sound Blaster …

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Re: Easy Win-95 era gaming PC.

Posted on 2023-01-06, 01:58

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I feel the Need, The Need for Speed.

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Re: 486 Multimedia dream build ( 1993/94 ).

Posted on 2023-01-05, 09:18

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by Intel486dx33

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Screen Savers.

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Re: Easy Win-95 era gaming PC.

Posted on 2023-01-05, 08:59

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Going to install Office 95.

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