Re: Tester(s) needed with a 8086/8088 or a NEC v20 or v30 PC and a Serdaco S2P GM MIDI parallel port synth

Posted on 2021-11-06, 08:07

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Pretty cool how you got that midi working on the HP Palmtop 😀 I do own a few XT class machines but not a S2P. I've got several MIDI devices such as the MT32 and SC88, in case you need testing for those.

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Re: Behold the VGR - My Pentium III 1GHz Vintage Gaming Rig

Posted on 2021-10-10, 06:50

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Lovely system and I really dig the golden fan grills. It gives the case a little edge, but not as much to make it tacky. Great job! Pretty cool to see a GeForce 3 instead of those common GF2's and GF4's.

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Re: Newly made Retro styled AT/Baby AT Case

Posted on 2021-10-03, 08:45

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For small scale manufacturing, ideally modifying Micro ATX cases - it's within the realms of possibility. I made a 3D printed facia for YY-A200 - A210 cases here: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=901783#p901783 I can share files if anyone needs them. The LED light diffuser / guide can be …

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Re: Newly made Retro styled AT/Baby AT Case

Posted on 2021-10-02, 12:24

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I think nobody has made one (like on kickstarter) because it would cost far more than just buying an original one off eBay for $60-150. True, but this thread is more of a brainstorm about what the perfect case could be like. Although, if someone could create a such a case there would possibly be an …

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Newly made Retro styled AT/Baby AT Case

Posted on 2021-10-02, 09:38

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Over the years there have been great new products from the community to replace aging, broken or hard to obtain parts. Even entirely new cases like the Checkmate A1500 Plus for the Amiga. This made me think: What about the PC side of things? There was a long period of time in the 80's and 90's where …

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Re: Wiring up Turbo LCD display

Posted on 2021-09-26, 13:14

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The turbo function on the motherboard has only two phases: turbo on or turbo off and only needs two wires coming from the turbo button. The display has three connections that correspond with the turbo button's 'double action': when the turbo button is pressed in the T is connected with Ground and …

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Wiring up Turbo LCD display

Posted on 2021-09-26, 12:01

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I've got this LCD display (note that the LCD display did NOT come with the motherboard or AT case that I'm currently using!) https://i.imgur.com/BTUv960.jpg The problem I'm facing is that my motherboard has a 2-pin header for the Turbo Switch and a 2-pin header for the Turbo LED. As you can see from …

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

Posted on 2021-09-18, 19:36

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OK it works! I did the following in case someone else runs into the issue: - first installed a PCI 2D card (Matrox Mystique) without Voodoo 3 - set BIOS to run from PCI first - installed drivers for 2D card (you might think this is optional but until I did, the next steps didn't work - maybe it's …

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Re: Recommend CRT monitor size for Windows 98 gaming.

Posted on 2021-09-18, 09:20

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I would recommend 19" as 17" is too small nowadays. 19" CRTs are able to display resolution up to 1600x1200. There are also 17" CRTs that can do that, but they are rare. 19" CRT can display 1280x960 at 85Hz or 1024x768 at 100Hz. It depends on which games one wants to prioritize. For DOS games which …

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

Posted on 2021-09-18, 08:39

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If you insert both PCI and AGP video cards, check your motherboard BIOS if there is a setting that disables one or the other bus. Or else you won't be able to detect it. I'm not sure if win98 will detect dual video cards but the 3dfx bios Flash utility can detect the card: https://3dfxbios.cl-rahden …

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Re: My maxed-out IBM PC/AT 5170 with EGA

Posted on 2021-09-16, 05:34

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That's a lovely machine, especially with the original hdd still running. You've got really lucky there for 10 USD. 200 for the monitor seems quite steep, though.

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Re: Home made arcade machine

Posted on 2021-09-13, 09:01

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Very impressive!:)

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Re: Analyzing videos from origin DOS game

Posted on 2021-09-11, 11:14

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Not sure if the converter exists, but you could probably capture the screen in Dosbox and thus create your own avi.

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Re: GTA on Pentium MMX 233 + Voodoo2, unplayable?

Posted on 2021-09-08, 09:57

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Downloaded the demo and deleted the GLIDE2X.OVL from the game directory and it worked flawlessly. Note that I disabled the 3Dfx splash screen through an environment variable (FX_GLIDE_NO_SPLASH) and the GLIDE2X.OVL file that I'm using for DOS dates from Apr 3rd 1998 and comes from an early …

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Re: Retro confessions. What are yours?

Posted on 2021-09-08, 09:51

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pixelatedscraps wrote on 2021-09-06, 13:01: I literally just had to watch a YouTube video on how to remove a Slot 1 CPU. I don't blame you. Those things are annoying to get out.

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Re: ReBuild Voodoo 5 Card

Posted on 2021-09-05, 07:49

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This has been all over the retro community news. There's probably thread about it here too. Iirc it's what the v5 6000 could have been, redesigned by some Russian guys. They were selling it for 1500 dollars, not sure if they still are. https://www.tomshardware.com/news/3dfx-voodoo-5-6000-comes-back- …

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486 PCI/ISA Motherboard (EXP8049 Ver 1.1A)

Posted on 2021-09-04, 18:52

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I've had this 486 DX4 100mhz for a while. It's a EXP8049 rev. 1.1a by DATAEXPERT and supports pretty much all 486 CPUs, 64MB RAM and 512k cache. A pretty good board, but I've failed to get any CF card working nor any regular drives over 500mb. Only with the use of OnTrack I was able to use a 4gb hdd …

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Re: A dream came true - my ultimate Pentium 1 build covering the 90's

Posted on 2021-09-03, 17:29

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Great build! I really love that era of gaming and I'm also a proud owner of a 233mmx 😀

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Re: Favorite forgotten games

Posted on 2021-09-03, 14:30

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Die by the Sword was awesome, especially the arena mode in multiplayer. Let's dive deeper into obscurity with Crusher from 1991: https://youtu.be/51EofwnlrnM

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Re: MSI D.O.T. overclocking claims. What does it even mean?

Posted on 2021-09-02, 06:10

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Sadly, I've seen that happen often.. Also those overclocking profiles are just dumb.. 2% increments except for the General tier that's suddenly 1%. Using military ranks for it is such a 2000s thing to do.

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