Re: Leak of Windows 11

Posted on 2021-06-17, 14:24

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Anecdotes aside. Windows 10 updates are mostly stable, otherwise you would see more companies switching away from Windows 10. only as long as you don't use anything special, windows 10 broke compatibility after updates with hardware AND software I was using that worked perfectly fine for years at …

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Re: Leak of Windows 11

Posted on 2021-06-17, 12:50

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the start menu is something I haven't really used much in a very long time outside of typing something using the search well, that's because they made it pretty useless to be used it for anything else, while requiring you to use the search to be even able to find anything. remember those times …

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Re: Voodoo 1 with a 16-bit ISA VGA card? Dolch LPAC-486.

Posted on 2021-06-16, 14:24

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the voodoo card is not going to be bottlenecked by the card, but you won't have any picture from it on the LCD, when the voodoo card is used it outputs it's own signal on the VGA out (hence the passthrough if not using it). so yeah, if you want any picture from the voodoo on the internal LCD easiest …

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Re: Advice on socket 7 choice?

Posted on 2021-06-09, 14:49

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PC Chips is perfectly fine. They were just a design firm which made several kinds of chips, everything from EGA/VGA controllers to SOCs to PC chipsets to DACs and memory. There's nothing inherently wrong with their designs, in fact many of them are quite innovative for their time. The OEM that put …

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Re: AT PSU Keying

Posted on 2021-06-08, 15:44

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nobody has "keyed" it, some of the tabs simply broke off cause someone probably yanked on the connector :p as said, all the pins have slots for those tabs.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-06-08, 12:11

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center negative is also a very important information in that case ^^ yawetaG wrote on 2021-06-08, 05:02: Can you image the CD-ROMs please? I see your card comes with something from eMagic (special version of Soundiver?) I'll have a look ^^ there were also two burned CDs with stuff included iirc.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-06-08, 00:53

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it's in essence a MU100 sound module on a PCI card, it's more of a workstation card, but you can just use it like an external MIDI module in another PC and feed MIDI into it if you feel like it.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-06-07, 21:51

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mhh stuff :3 iomega clik! drives, and a nice NEC cd-rom hardware40_37.jpg two nos IBM PS/2 mice hardware40_38.jpg fully boxed Yamaha SW1000XG and XGworks software hardware40_39.jpg CH Mach I and some other goodies hardware40_40.jpg nice Aztech card with ICS WaveFront and an ALS100 with CS9233 …

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Re: What's your favorite retro computing PC platform?

Posted on 2021-06-06, 02:05

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386, while I do love a lot of games from the mid to late 90s from a pure hardware standpoint and pure nostalgia 386 is my favorite.

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Re: max system on pico PSU (and pico PSU problems)

Posted on 2021-06-05, 18:07

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pico PSUs usually do less than 10A on 5V, that's simply not enough, like said later systems that rely on 12V are better suited, but if you're not using HDDs or other power hungry drives they also work really nicely for lower tier systems like 486 and below.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-06-04, 21:58

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Another one of these SCSI external CD-ROMs.. this time it came with the ridiculously hard to find PCMCIA cable. Only $15 too! Now I can use it with my old laptops,or use a HD50 to DB25 cable for my other retro computers that have SCSI. https://i.imgur.com/pvVd7TFh.jpg can't these just work with any …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-05-31, 17:02

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that's the second trashed presario I received in 2 months... Man, this post is haunting me and I keep thinking about it every day ever since I saw it, it is breaking my heart, as would any Presario 460 owner... How badly damaged was the first one? see: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=955939# …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-05-28, 13:52

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I'm so sad... and mildly angry... I'll spare you the rest of the horrific pictures, this one should tell enough. p460_dmg08.jpg angry because I wrote the seller a long essay on how to properly pack it... and they replied in a manner that made me assume they heeded my advice... only they didn't. …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-05-26, 16:20

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great find indeed, and with the cable too ^^ Great find! Do you know what's the use case? I suppose it can't be used on Windows 3.1 or DOS but on NT/ other systems? I mean, the usecase is right there on the box ^^ it all depends on the software, DOS can do multiple screens as well if the software …

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Re: Can I safely assume that IBM-branded *Windows* keyboards are nothing special?

Posted on 2021-05-19, 22:41

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they're pretty solid rubberdome keyboards, good for the bench/workshop or just everyday keyboard if you just need to have a keyboard handy... no they're not anything "special" but they're not "crap" either, they sure are better than the common generic dell/hp keyboards.

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Re: Chia cryptocurrency - Mining on HDD and SSD

Posted on 2021-05-19, 15:07

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appiah4 wrote on 2021-05-19, 15:00: I guess we will probably see droves of used graphics cards in the market soon. *fist pump* everybody would hope that, but probably not so fast unfortunately, the more the scamcoins get traded the more "miners" profit from it, with the current volatility that …

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Re: Any suggestions for replacing a tiny power supply in an AT computer?

Posted on 2021-05-19, 13:20

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you could just get a low profile industrial open frame PSU that outputs the correct voltages, or just use a pico PSU

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Re: Case Badges

Posted on 2021-05-17, 13:02

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thanks again :3

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Re: Case Badges

Posted on 2021-05-16, 11:08

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thank you, if you wanna save them uncompressed you should try using .png ^^ that reduces the filesize from 400MB+ to just 48MB I know this is a lot to ask ^^ but having them aligned straight before scanning will make working with them a lot easier, especially with the artifacting that the scanner …

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Re: Case Badges

Posted on 2021-05-15, 21:39

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awesome, thank you :3

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