Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-04-22, 22:07

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by draetheus

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I was itching for some portable retro gaming so I picked up an HP Compaq nc6000 from eBay. This thing is an absolute beast! Can run 98 or XP, sharp 1024x768 display, only about 5lbs, and even the crippled 64-bit mobility radeon 9600 is very capable. 5800 points in 3dmark 2001 stock, and after …

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Re: SoftGPU: OpenGL + DirectX + Glide driver for Windows 95/98/Me

Posted on 2024-04-13, 22:34

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by draetheus

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This is incredible! Pretty much every game I have run on vGPU10 has worked with a playable framerate at 1024x768 or at minimum 800x600! Thats way more than I can say for PCem. I haven't noticed any graphical glitches either (beyond known known issues like table fog, etc). My only issue is that in …

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Re: Can't enable AGP Texture Acceleration (98Se)

Posted on 2021-03-10, 17:43

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by draetheus

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I'm not the most experienced GPU person but....why are you trying to enable AGP features for a PCI graphics card?

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Re: Good value PC for Win98 - evading the RETRO TAX

Posted on 2021-03-06, 00:32

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by draetheus

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I would not go below 5700 for FX series. IIRC the problem with the FX 5700 is that its an NV36 and thus you can't INF mod it for older driver support. May not be necessary for OP depending on his games but worth bringing up. FX 5800/5900 are ok. https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=832285#p832285

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Re: Good value PC for Win98 - evading the RETRO TAX

Posted on 2021-03-05, 18:00

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If Win 98 games are first priority and DOS games are second priority, I'd highly recommend either a P4 or an Athlon 64 with a VIA chipset motherboard. P4s and A64s can be had very cheap, and VIA chipsets have very good driver support for Win 98, and in my experience, the ACPI implementation is very …

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Realtek's VXD drivers are not nearly as bad as expected!

Posted on 2021-02-26, 16:44

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Due to scrapping several thrift store PCs, I ended up with enough spare parts to build another Athlon 64 rig. Naturally I ordered another YMF744, but while I wait, I decided to test out the onboard Realtek AC97 sound. Predictably I ran into issues installing the WDM drivers, but I discovered Realtek …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-02-24, 05:32

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Warlord wrote on 2021-02-24, 01:54: Great haul Abulak, wish there was a place like that in northern va. There was/is a place in crestline ohio I used to visit but they don't have old stuff anymore. Too bad Scott's Bargains closed, used to be a great place.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-02-23, 04:59

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have taken to scrapping thrift store PCs when looking for optical drives as its much cheaper than ordering them off eBay. First one I scrapped was a beat up P4 Dell circa 2003. Only useful things I got out of it were the DVD drive and some slow DDR 266 RAM. The motherboard had bulging caps, the …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-02-22, 23:39

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have taken to scrapping thrift store PCs when looking for optical drives as its much cheaper than ordering them off eBay. First one I scrapped was a beat up P4 Dell circa 2003. Only useful things I got out of it were the DVD drive and some slow DDR 266 RAM. The motherboard had bulging caps, the CD …

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Re: The Athlon 64 Frustration Build

Posted on 2021-02-20, 03:28

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by draetheus

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Ruthlessly pragmatic. I love it! Just so you know, PCem can now emulate slot 1 computers. My 4.0ghz haswell PC is capable of emulating a PII@300mhz pretty well. Yeah I tried using the latest build of PCem with a PII. Some games ran fine, but more intensive games like Quake 3 would experience …

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Re: The Athlon 64 Frustration Build

Posted on 2021-02-20, 03:21

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by draetheus

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This is a good rig! :) I wasn't even aware of the FX5900* having different GPU IHSs (or I knew and had forgotten about by now xD :P ), but this is good to know. I only ever worked with 2 of them of which one I never bothered to remove the stock HS of and the other having a Zalman VF-700CU iirc. And …

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Re: The Athlon 64 Frustration Build

Posted on 2021-02-15, 01:27

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Posted (likely) final update. Time to stop fiddling and finally play some games!

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Re: Retro confessions. What are yours?

Posted on 2021-02-14, 02:52

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I can't believe people recommend Audigys for Win 98 builds. Having just fought with one over the last 2 days, the experience has been awful. Firstly the driver installation process is slow, and the bundled software is bloated with crapware, not all of which you can de-select (I'm looking at you …

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Re: New PS/2 compatible mouse options?

Posted on 2021-02-07, 20:22

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by draetheus

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gdjacobs wrote on 2021-01-30, 08:48: I have a full size Kensington Pro Fit. It's PS/2 compatible via an adapter. Bad news, the latest revisions of Kensington Pro Fit do not appear to be PS/2 compatible at all after testing. Should have looked at newegg reviews, as someone else echoed similar …

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Re: The Athlon 64 Frustration Build

Posted on 2021-02-07, 04:28

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I will tell you that you didn't try hard enough. Since you already mentioned DOSBox-X, PCem etc. you obviously wouldn't mind the route through emulation. You had probably missed out QEMU and its potential with Windows 98 VM 3D acceleration. A word of caution though, it could turn out an even bigger …

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Re: The Athlon 64 Frustration Build

Posted on 2021-02-04, 22:10

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If you haven't yet I'd definitely repaste that GeForce card, as heat seems to have killed a lot of cards from that generation. I have an NV Silencer 3 coming from another country so it will happen eventually. In the meantime it can OC to 475/900 on the stock HSF, so I'm not too concerned with …

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Re: The Athlon 64 Frustration Build

Posted on 2021-02-04, 22:05

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I recommend getting a SB Live or Audigy 1, you'll get better quality EAX which many games of that era support. You can keep the YMF744 for DOS gaming if you want. In my A64 Win98 build I'm actually using a SB Audigy 1 and Diamond MX300. I have the digital out from the MX300 to the Audigy's CD …

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Re: New PS/2 compatible mouse options?

Posted on 2021-01-31, 01:56

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by draetheus

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

gdjacobs wrote on 2021-01-30, 08:48: I have a full size Kensington Pro Fit. It's PS/2 compatible via an adapter. That appears to be exactly what I'm looking for in a mouse, thanks!

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Re: Old hardware giveaway thread.

Posted on 2021-01-28, 19:09

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by draetheus

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Edit: gone

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New PS/2 compatible mouse options?

Posted on 2021-01-28, 19:00

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by draetheus

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'm having a hard time finding new PS/2 compatible mouse options that aren't cheap garbage. Any recommendations? Or just pray for a NOS MX518 that isn't absurdly priced?

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