Re: Retro confessions. What are yours?

Posted on 2022-12-24, 23:45

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I also know that I can just send it back but it's a PITA and there are often no immediate replacements available. I'm winning the bid, get the item and feel like a kid with a new toy then BAM! It's not working, no life, it's shit no matter how much hardware or time I throw at it so I have to …

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

Posted on 2022-08-11, 12:59

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DerBaum wrote on 2022-08-11, 12:41: I have heard that some people are really triggered from storing cards without antistatic bags. So i bought even smaller bins and put even more cards inside. 😏 Yeah, but everyone has a huge stack of Live! cards ..... Do that with a huge stack of voodoo 1 cards and …

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Re: What video card for an authentic 2009/2010 system?

Posted on 2022-06-22, 15:01

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ildonaldo wrote on 2022-06-22, 13:32: I've just got the GTX 460 Hawk but I suspect it is a 1st gen ., if you know what I mean ... - any hint how to update the bios and where to get the "latest" bios for this card. Just curious, what is wrong that it actually needs a BIOS update.

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Re: Reasons to hate modern games

Posted on 2022-06-21, 14:38

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I don't have much energy today but I feel like contributing. I'm going to mention some things I don't like in a short style, hopefully it will contain enough for people to recognize what I'm saying. Open World Design: Or as I like to call it, lazy game design. To me video games are a series of …

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Re: Reasons to hate modern games

Posted on 2022-06-19, 11:53

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There are many amazing modern games. But they are not made by many of the big names anymore. If you are only allowed to play games released by EA, Blizard/Activision or the handful of other major scummy publishers ... then yes, your selection is limited. However, there are more games than just that …

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Re: What video card for an authentic 2009/2010 system?

Posted on 2022-06-16, 13:14

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Awww, I have a real soft spot for the HD 5850, as I owned one myself back in the day and was quite impressed with it. I even found one and have put it into my XP retro rig, after redoing the thermal paste. It also taught me to be much more careful repasting GPUs ... as the Artic Silver 5 I was using …

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Re: Yet another 286 build.

Posted on 2022-06-16, 13:02

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by canthearu

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Edit: You may think that 4MB were luxury for a 286.. I can understand that. However, it's no luxury for Windows 3.1x. With just a meager Megabyte, Windows will run out of memory quickly. You can barely do anything with that. I know, because I tried. Running Visual Basic or any other development …

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Re: Yet another 286 build.

Posted on 2022-06-16, 13:00

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- By the way, perhaps I was a bit to harsh in that old thread. My apologies for that. 😔 And I was definitely being too old and grumpity. Hence for my edit to add humor! It just seemed back in the actual day, things like EMS, UMB and shadow memory didn't actually exist for us until the 386 came out …

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Re: Yet another 286 build.

Posted on 2022-06-16, 12:12

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Since when has UMBs been a thing for 8088/286's? Never saw anything like that back in the old days when these machines were current. 4meg of ram was a luxury for a 286 machine (1meg was more common) and shadow memory also didn't really become a thing until 386s. You would be lucky to have a MFM hard …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-06-12, 15:47

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Nice !! I have only one Slot A board, they are fun to play with :) Yep, PD2JK has it easy though, I had replace most 0f the PCI slots in my Asus Slot A board! Well considering the age caps are always possible but PCI slots ? Must have had some bad corrosion or damage. My K7M has worked flawless w/o …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-06-12, 15:46

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I vote Geforce 4 MX-SE version. There are some truely inspiringly slow Geforce 4 MX cards with the SE naming!

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-06-11, 23:40

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Crappy seller pic, but I spotted some leaking caps, so it will need some work. Weak spot for Slot A stuff ... EPoX EP-7KXA rev 0.4 with an Athlon 600 and some memory. Nice !! I have only one Slot A board, they are fun to play with :) Yep, PD2JK has it easy though, I had replace most 0f the PCI …

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Re: Playing ON vs WITH retro hardware (and hardware preservation)

Posted on 2022-06-07, 22:25

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by canthearu

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So over the past year I had a few video cards die (all in separate machines... so it's not like a single bad power supply killed them). My childhood Radeon 9700 started artifacting (I understand this is common). The Radeon 9800 Pro I replaced it with then started crashing/artifacting a few months …

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Re: Ultimate* Pentium 4 build (* within reason)

Posted on 2022-06-05, 04:21

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Can you explain more about why this is the case with Windows XP? I’ve never heard this about XP and SSD’s previously. Does the same apply to Windows 98 on an SSD? SSDs have internal write blocks of 4kb. And windows XP generally read/writes in blocks of at least 4kb. If the partition on your SSD is …

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

Posted on 2022-06-05, 02:25

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I completely fixed a ThinkPad A30p. It had some broken fuses on the mainboard because of a mangled USB connector and a loose connection on the LCD that went to the CCFL. I replaced the USB connector with hot air and replaced the fuses and now it works flawlessly. 🥰 That is awesome! I love hearing …

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Re: Ultimate* Pentium 4 build (* within reason)

Posted on 2022-06-04, 02:38

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Well, another option, if you want to go overpowered video, is the GTX 260/275 cards. They are almost like cockroaches (everywhere) and most have a blower design. From what I remember, the 200 series was much like the 8 and 9 series, but faster.

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Re: Ultimate* Pentium 4 build (* within reason)

Posted on 2022-06-04, 01:23

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My partner is a huge fan of Windows XP, and also really loves the Pentium 4. Lol, there is no accounting for taste :-P I'd normally say stick with the E8500 CPU, it is a whole lot faster than any P4 you could get. I see your getting one of the Cedar Mill varieties of P4 ... they seem to have gotten …

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Re: Geforce 4 TI 4200 or 5600 FX for a pentium 3 733 build?

Posted on 2022-06-03, 23:57

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I think both GPUs are probably a bit fast for this machine. My 700mhz class P3 uses a Geforce 4 MX 440 (full speed version) and it performs fine. I'd choose the 4200ti between those 2 options though.

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Re: Most advanced game to run on Voodoo 5

Posted on 2022-06-03, 23:55

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Dolenc wrote on 2022-06-03, 23:27: The human eye cant hear more than 24fps anyway I don't know if what you did here was intended ... but it epic.

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

Posted on 2022-06-03, 11:46

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A work in progress, the damaged PCB could make for some cool wall art in future. :) This was soundcard #1 back in the day. These days I already have an SB 2.0 clone, but these things are getting a bit rare now and it's a fun challenge. Wait, what? You actually desoldered everything from the board? …

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