Re: Allure of retro computing

Posted on 2021-06-18, 19:15

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Often times it was much more of a challenge to get things working back in the day. (And to this day as well, even with great resources such as this site.) So to me, a lot of it is being successful in this regard, and learning along the way.

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Re: Why DOS died...

Posted on 2021-04-22, 12:25

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This thread is a bit confusing.... Why DOS died? Is this asking for peoples opinions or is it a historical question? DOS died for general use as it wasn't able to keep up with new technology and paradigms (for example, it's a real mode OS) and Windows no longer required it. Does that mean it didn't …

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Re: Golden age of computing for personal computers

Posted on 2021-04-13, 20:30

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Largely a subjective question. I'm sure you'll get plenty of people who think the 80s with Commodores and Apple products were the golden age, for example. Personally, i would say the 90s. Maybe that's a bit broad but new CPUS and technology were coming out at a ridiculous clip. I mean, just look at …

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socket 370 board - no post - re-cap? other ideas?

Posted on 2021-03-23, 18:57

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Hi All Seeking the collective wisdom of Vogons for this one. Purchased a MSI 815 Pro socket 370 board a few weeks ago, but only recently had a chance to try it out. Looked clean in the listing but sold as-is untested (of course...) Unfortunately, the machine won't POST. The board powers on. LED …

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Re: Short Freezes Caused by Loading New Sounds

Posted on 2021-03-13, 13:38

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Maybe its a directsound issue? Have you tried cleaning and installing a different version of directx?

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Re: How to setup FTP server on Windows NT workstation?

Posted on 2021-03-13, 13:33

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warftpd? or that deosnt work in NT?

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Re: Post photos of your Mega-Luminum computers.

Posted on 2021-03-13, 00:40

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I've been (re)using a lian li lancool k7 as my primary win10/gaming setup. Anodized black aluminum, good airflow, decent ergonomics and case features. It was purchased for my i7 2700k about a decade ago now, and kept it rolling with the cheap i7 6700k 'rebuild' from some parts i bought for cheap. I …

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Re: Understanding what usefulness of PII 400 or 450 vs PIII 800?

Posted on 2021-03-12, 22:48

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If period correctness doesnt matter, and OP is truly concerned about problems with older DOS games, and wants to run on authentic hardware, then i'd consider investing in an original pentium as well as a p3 system w/ 133 mhz bus for newer opengl games, and skip the p2.

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Re: no more iMac Pro

Posted on 2021-03-12, 22:27

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About "fat"/universal binaries: You can still do those, in fact you can still have a binary that runs on ppc/intel 32bit/64bit/arm64. On an intel mac with macOS 11 you can still build all four (though it needs some hoops to jump through first). Technically you just compile it for each platform and …

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Re: Understanding what usefulness of PII 400 or 450 vs PIII 800?

Posted on 2021-03-12, 21:56

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There was also SL2W8 Deschutes 300/66 that had cache from 450. That was my 450 of choice in late 1998. Then got an SL35D when those came around. But yeah if you are looking for 60 fps in many 1998 and newer games, this isn't the hardware you want. The quote that says about playing 1998 and later is …

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Re: no more iMac Pro

Posted on 2021-03-12, 21:44

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There's an iMac Pro? Sounds like a contradiction. They are used in professional media production a lot. They will pay anything for a high power mac machine to run lightroom or what-have-you, because it is so much more expensive for them to change their workflow or miss deadlines. I kind of doubt …

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Re: no more iMac Pro

Posted on 2021-03-12, 14:19

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Intel based macs will for sure stay and have support “for the years to come”. When they run out of support, you can always run any linux distro (like they do with PowerPC macs) or install Windows. It’s just like any other Intel based computer. You have to decide if you want to buy one knowing that …

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Re: Voodoo 2 repair, missing legs on Chuck

Posted on 2021-03-12, 01:22

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this thread makes me wanna buy a broken voodoo i find it funny how you went full tim allen on this - from 'maybe use the dremel' to 'oh a scalpel is interesting' to MORE POWER angle grinder 😜

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Re: Best motherboard for "Mega DOS" build

Posted on 2021-03-11, 23:51

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An Intel chipset board that natively supports Tualatin will be 815 chipset based and that means ISA slots behind a bridge, which means the same issues as with the socket 775 boards. Native ISA means 440BX, which means not all boards can take 133mhz and I'm not sure if there are 440BX boards that …

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Re: Understanding what usefulness of PII 400 or 450 vs PIII 800?

Posted on 2021-03-11, 23:48

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Also, maybe I missed this being mentioned, but a p2 with a 440bx based board can usually accept slot 1 p3's up to a point. So you can conceivably make a double headed monster, though you will be stuck at 100 mhz fsb, for the most part.

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Re: poor advice on fixing things!

Posted on 2021-03-11, 00:24

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Any thread on Microsoft support forums where the 'community expert' constantly reposts the same answer despite it not fixing the problem.

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

Posted on 2021-03-11, 00:15

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After an irritating day of buying B-day presents and then wrapping them for the wife, trying to find time to do our income taxes, and fighting with terrible drivers around town (half of which were stoned out their birds on pot) - it's 9pm and of course my wife's totally not technical friend decides …

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Re: no more iMac Pro

Posted on 2021-03-11, 00:09

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Intel486dx33 wrote on 2021-03-08, 17:29: They should just bring back the “Cinema Display“ to use with the Mac mini and Mac Pro. They have the Pro Display for $5k. Or for $6k you can get the anti glare version 😀 I saw and used it briefly at one of their engineering meetings. It's nice, but way too …

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Re: Understanding what usefulness of PII 400 or 450 vs PIII 800?

Posted on 2021-03-10, 22:00

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Pentium II is great for using Win98 OS and later 90s MSDOS games. Obviously you won't be able to take advantage of accelerated graphics in dos, for the most part and depending on the vid card you chose, but games that rely on software rendering will run that much better (quake for example) compared …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-03-07, 21:12

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Been lurking on ebay and other sites trying to score deals, my target is not to spend more than 20-30$ at a time. Some recent additions: A lot of qty 4 IDE drives and qty 2 3.5" floppy drives. Am I the only person who is completely nuts about case color matching and LED matching? IMG_0971 2.jpeg …

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