Re: MicroProse Resurrected!
Posted on 2020-05-18, 02:18
Me: BRING ON TRANSPORT TYCOON II! My Brain: Let's remember Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 and all the other post Microprose RCTs. Do we want to do that again?
Re: Radeon X800 XT vs FireGL X3-256, any concerns for Win9X
Posted on 2020-05-11, 04:30
Have you tried unlocking your x800 pro, some would unlock with Riva tuner to 16pp, my x850xt was originally an x850 pro sapphire that was modded into an x850 XT, the x800 Pro and x850 pro vivo cards all unlock Looked into it, this one is 100% laser cut. There's no software way to restore it. It's a …
Re: Radeon X800 XT vs FireGL X3-256, any concerns for Win9X
Posted on 2020-05-10, 16:02
FX series fully supported Win98. 6 series did not. And Radeons have poor compatibility with early directx titles. They are too weak for XP, too new for 98, and die hard and often. I avoid them like the coronavirus. I've been been having no major issues with my X800 Pro, but I am also largely …
Re: Radeon X800 XT vs FireGL X3-256, any concerns for Win9X
Posted on 2020-05-10, 03:12
Board compatibility can be an issue with the X800 series under Windows 9x . I was never able to install the drivers for mine on my Pentium 3 board . Geforce FX 5900 and Geforce 6600/6600GT allowed drivers to be installed (Geforce 6 series have been reported to have stability issues under Windows 9x …
Re: Radeon X800 XT vs FireGL X3-256, any concerns for Win9X
Posted on 2020-05-10, 00:01
You probably wont be very happy with the OpenGL performance, if the game even runs. The professional OpenGL drivers are different from the consumer ones. Also, the X3 is actually a cut down version of the X800 XT, similar to a Pro but with less ROPs. Here is an example: https://www.anandtech.com/ …
Re: The market for socket 5/7 CPUs is big enough for there to be some "interesting" products coming out of China (video)
Posted on 2020-05-09, 22:23
That this could be done does not surprise, but that there is actually a commercial incentive to do it is mind blowing . Testing & Teardown of China Faked Pentium 133MHz Socket 7 CPU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-GbiiuiCBY I wonder if this is about turn key legacy systems. There's a lot of …
Radeon X800 XT vs FireGL X3-256, any concerns for Win9X
Posted on 2020-05-09, 22:13
My 'overkill WinME Machine' is currently sporting an AGP X800 Pro that I got for free after an eBay seller sold me an X800 XT, shipped me a Pro, and refunded me. While I am in no hurry to upgrade right away, I have been eyeballing an XT model of some sort. I noticed that the FireGL X3-256 is just an …
Re: What NAS are you using ?
Posted on 2020-05-02, 19:36
114TB UnRaid server: https://imgur.com/a/u74RyIR The Specs: CPU: Intel Xeon E5-2697 v2 (12c 24t) Mobo: Asus P9X79 LE RAM: 48GB (6x8GB) of 1333mhz DDR3 GPU: PowerColor PCIE x1 AMD Radeon HD 5450 512mb LAN: Aquantia AQtion 10G Pro NIC (The RealTek 1gbps NIC is also used for most network and internet …
Re: What modern activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2020-04-28, 16:54
Making physical copies of PC games that have no physical release. CAD$50 for the printer, CAD$21.99 for three sets of ink tanks from it, CAD$46 for gloss inkjet printable 25GB BD Discs. Kinda fun. Filename IMG_20200428_124417.jpg File size 1.81 MiB Views 466 views Filename IMG_20200428_124620.jpg …
Re: eMachines eMonster 500a Restoration/Sleeper
Posted on 2020-04-26, 22:56
So I picked up this HP L2035 20" LCD monitor for CAD$12 over a month ago, just before COVID-19 shut things down. When researching the specs everything said it was a 'TFT' screen and I thusly assumed it was TN. I'm sure others who know mid 2000's monitors know better than I did but it turns out this …
Re: post up pics of your "computing area"
Posted on 2020-04-26, 03:52
What kind of retro desk has no DOS compatible gaming PC? Point of order: They are all COMPATIBLE with DOS. It's just that none of them have DOS installed. :P Though DOS would probably be less than ideal on anything other than the E5800 machine. Also, just about anything that doesn't require Real …
Re: post up pics of your "computing area"
Posted on 2020-04-26, 00:53
An update with a what's what of my 'Retro Desk' now that everything is setup and I'm using it during this pandemic. Yes, it's a proton pack to the left. I kinda have nowhere else to keep it. Filename IMG_20200425_203303.jpg File size 1.57 MiB Views 128 views
Re: The Painfully Inauthentic Windows 9X Build
Posted on 2020-04-25, 21:35
Since you're running overkill hardware for WinME, how about overkill software? Doom3 can run Win9x with a patch and Half-Life 2 will run out of the box. I don't know about Fujoshi-hime, but I'm definitely planning to do that in near future on my overkill build . Recently I found out about that …
Re: International mail shipments and COVID-19
Posted on 2020-04-25, 02:26
If your stuff is in air mail, tough luck. Afaik, most international postal services heavily rely on cargo bays of passenger flights. Sadly, they are all gone, and air mails are grounded. Yeah it's a real mess. A LOT of freight was actually moved in the cargo holds of passenger airliners. There's …
Re: The Painfully Inauthentic Windows 9X Build
Posted on 2020-04-23, 00:43
My motherboard has an IDE port, but SATA drives can also be ran in legacy mode (aka IDE drives). As for graphics cards, if the PCIe X800 GTO I have doesn't work even with the ati drivers on philscomputerlab than I still have a PCI graphics card that can be used (Geforce MX4000). Though I might not …
Re: The Painfully Inauthentic Windows 9X Build
Posted on 2020-04-22, 23:08
I'm wondering, would an Intel D945psn motherboard with with Win98SE/ME? It's a socket 775 motherboard that supports the Pentium 4 line of cpus. Also since there is talk of PCIe cards that work with win9x, is the Ati Radeon X800 GTO one of those working PCIe cards? I have one but the fan on the …
Re: The Painfully Inauthentic Windows 9X Build
Posted on 2020-04-22, 13:27
Yeah, that's a shame. When I was buying my X8xx Pros, I was specifically looking for VIVO ones (I know, you wasn't buying Pro). And even though I have a X850 Pro VIVO, I wasn't able to unlock it, since it's using slow 2.0ns memory. At least my X800 Pro VIVO is now fully working X800 XT. Yeah and …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2020-04-20, 17:54
bofh.fromhell wrote on 2020-04-20, 02:13: Very nice! What printer is that? A Canon Pixma MX922 which I got used for CAD$50. Keep in mind you also need ink jet printable media, plenty of discs would just smear the ink off.
Re: The Painfully Inauthentic Windows 9X Build
Posted on 2020-04-19, 22:31
Do you have small yellow connector under Molex one? Also, how fast is your VRAM (1.6 or 2.0ns)? If you have that yellow connector and 1.6ns VRAM, you would be able to "upgrade" to XT or XT PE by flashing vBIOS. I did that few weeks ago with my X800 Pro, and I currently have X800 XT ;) I already …
Re: eMachines eMonster 500a Restoration/Sleeper
Posted on 2020-04-19, 16:18
Easily fixable is those 2 capacitors were the only issue. It also lost a fan blade which was a $8 part ordered from China. (God knows when that'll show up however) But yeah, it even still works without the capacitors, but gonna replace them eventually. That said, someone ships something as …
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