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Re: How many "hobbyist" PCs do you have?

Posted on 2025-03-12, 17:17

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Pentium 3 @ 800 Pentium MMX @ 233 Amiga 1200 @ 66 Sharp X68000 @ 10 I don't have as many systems as other people , I ended up selling a lot of hardware I didn't need and consolidated it down to 4 systems and 3 monitors. The only extra systems I have is like one test bench PC and one or two scrap …

Re: Favorite MIDI game soundtracks?

Posted on 2025-03-07, 07:44

in Milliways

in Milliways

Akumajō Dracula on the x68000 already got mentioned but Square resort is another x68000 game with a well composed soundtrack. Dark sun shattered lands on PC , love the intro and combat music , makes you really fell like you've fallen into an adventure , sewers music has a really good tune. I'm …

Re: Super annoyed by eBay sellers jacking up prices and inflating shipping

Posted on 2025-02-13, 08:15

in Milliways

in Milliways

WAT , 1129.22 usd?! am I reading that right?!

Re: Super annoyed by eBay sellers jacking up prices and inflating shipping

Posted on 2025-02-13, 07:26

in Milliways

in Milliways

Personally, I limit all my searches to US only. I hate paying international shipping and I don't trust many of the listings (mainly for old PC parts) coming from places like China, Ukraine, etc. I do sometimes limit it to North America if I notice some good deals from our northern neighbors in …

Re: DOS Gaming PC Questions from a DOS Newbie

Posted on 2025-02-11, 01:52

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

So the biggest stumbling block you'll encounter with DOS games is the sound hardware , it can get pretty expensive trying to cover all the bases and a bit convoluted, so I'd start with maybe going on youtube and looking up soundtracks of games of the era using different sound devices and deciding …

Re: Whats the most rare piece of hardware you own?

Posted on 2025-01-29, 09:04

in Milliways

in Milliways

Wowee , its been 2 years since(oh actually 3 , geeze) I posted on this thread last , time sure does fly by. Anywho I've sold off a fair bit of my actually rare hardware as I never really used most of it , I sold a boxed pas 16 , my unusual Rendition Verite 2200 card , and Tseng ET6100. But I have …

Re: Matrox Genesis

Posted on 2025-01-25, 14:36

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Jollyroger wrote on 2025-01-25, 00:58: The DTK installation is password protected 🙁 InstallShield asks for a password, not much of a chance finding out what that is... Which file is the DTK install?

Re: Killed my Voodoo 1?

Posted on 2025-01-19, 13:08

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yeah. Get a fan. Back in the day, I had a fan on my Orchid card. People said you didn't need one, but my thought was that it's better to have a fan than not. I OC'ed mine a little, but I definitely felt safer having one. Someone used to sell these weird lil fans on thin metal arms that would then …

Re: Killed my Voodoo 1?

Posted on 2025-01-19, 13:07

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

It's 30yo. All things eventually wear out. Watch some repair videos, and see if you can figure out what might be wrong. Don't panic. It's not dead dead, but one tiny few cent component probably is. It's just a matter of finding it. For that matter, you can probably fix the other one too. If you …

Re: Killed my Voodoo 1?

Posted on 2025-01-19, 12:56

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The case only has provisions for one fan at the front with the psu fan acting as exhaust, and I'm not sure where to fit one near the 7 expansion cards the system contains , but I'll look into coming up with some sort of solution. You can try a side-mounted fan bracket. I'm using one of those in my …

Re: Killed my Voodoo 1?

Posted on 2025-01-18, 20:06

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

If you're running the V1 with a CPU faster than about a P2 400, some people say this can cause problems. It's likely that this would maintain full utilization of the card and produce more heat. Voodoo1 would have been used with 1996-1997 CPUs. So like Pentium II 300 and slower. You could experiment …

Re: Killed my Voodoo 1?

Posted on 2025-01-18, 20:05

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yeah. Get a fan. Back in the day, I had a fan on my Orchid card. People said you didn't need one, but my thought was that it's better to have a fan than not. I OC'ed mine a little, but I definitely felt safer having one. Someone used to sell these weird lil fans on thin metal arms that would then …

Re: Killed my Voodoo 1?

Posted on 2025-01-18, 14:07

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Also does anyone know where the myth savegame folder is ? I might have corrupted the game after panic ALT-F4ing while it was loaded with a distorted image and it wont run now and gives a gob file error. Id probably want to back it up before I do a reinstall.

Re: Killed my Voodoo 1?

Posted on 2025-01-18, 14:03

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

hold on I rebooted my pc after a while and ran the diamond voodoo test and its gone , I also pushed the passthrough cable in a bit prior to booting , so maybe thermal expansion moved the cable a bit or the dac is flaky , ill have to be a bit more careful with how long I run the card in the future, …

Killed my Voodoo 1?

Posted on 2025-01-18, 13:51

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Well this is a bit embarrassing but I think I might have done my voodoo 1 in. So I was playing a relatively long session of MYTH the fallen lords with 3dfx mode enabled , and its a pretty hard game so you can get stuck on some missions for a fair while and I think I might have overdone it a bit , …

Re: Patched Windows games from GOG on Windows 98

Posted on 2024-12-27, 14:22

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

I've said this before but I really wish GOG provided unaltered copies of disk images with as many games as possible , I know people with original hardware are not their target audience but youtubers or researchers would benefit from having original copies to play around with , plus it would help …

Re: Sound Blaster 16 CT1740 - one FM/MIDI channel almost dead

Posted on 2024-12-27, 14:10

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Well I replaced the chip , I needed to remove the caps next to it to get to it , and I melted the volume wheel a bit somehow. It hasn't fixed the issue though, id say its made it worse now , in the duke3d sound test everything sounds crackly and distorted and the left sound channel still seems weak …

Re: Jazz Multimedia G-Force 128 (Tseng ET6000) can't play Jazz Jackrabbit

Posted on 2024-12-27, 11:25

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

I had this issue with my ET6000 , I think it's because the card does not support mode X.

Re: DOS/WIN95 Living together

Posted on 2024-12-27, 10:36

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Hi!. Small Intro. My first forum post anywhere in maybe 25 years or so be nice. :) I built a computer I had in 1990's to play around with my old games I keep. I put my original setup on the curb in around 2000 with a GUS, 2 VOODOO cards and a 21" CRT. Ouch! What with these prices today? Dang it! I …

Re: Nec Multisync horizontal collapse issue

Posted on 2024-12-19, 14:27

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Thanks for the suggestions so far , ill look into them , if it helps here is the service manual if anyone wants to give them a look. https://ia903403.us.archive.org/28/items/nec- … 0JC-1401P3A.pdf

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