Re: FX5200 Replacement mini form factor

Posted on 2021-07-15, 17:26

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by Gopher666

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

It looks like 77.72 might work better Might? :) Like I get nothing black screen, nada, machine freezes in both Win98SE and WinME with both drivers. I can boot to safe mode that's about it. I have tried to adjust the AGP gart no success. I have downloaded this 512MB patch: "PTCHNVSZ - Win9x patch …

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Re: FX5200 Replacement mini form factor

Posted on 2021-07-13, 17:03

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by Gopher666

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

GeForce 6200 in pci and low profile is pretty common, but going past the FX series makes for sacrifices in compatibility from what people around here have tested and posted. Worth a try, and has fully functioning DX9 unlike the FX 5200. I got the AGP version of this card with 512MB ram. It works …

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Re: Looking for the best Sound Blaster Live! model for DOS that I own

Posted on 2021-07-05, 17:57

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by Gopher666

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in Marvin \ Sound

Let's keep this discussion Sound Blaster related only. I have just checked Phil's YT video about the ESS Solo and not bad actually game wise but I remember having these cards in the past and they counted as low profile alternatives in the age of Sound Blasters. As I have said the machine does NOT …

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Re: Looking for the best Sound Blaster Live! model for DOS that I own

Posted on 2021-07-05, 07:50

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by Gopher666

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in Marvin \ Sound

Sorry for bumping such an old topic up but my question is exactly the same so I felt it's a waste to open another one for it. The SB0200 is an oem garbage that doesn't even play well in Win9X, throw that to the trash right away. I have got an SB0100 as it was recommended in other threads as it …

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Re: FX5200 Replacement mini form factor

Posted on 2021-07-02, 06:53

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by Gopher666

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yeah I know it's always a tradeoff I used to have a separate XP box... 9400GT looks cuteee, also its like 10 bucks however as someone mentioned: " I don't think there are any. I can't find support for WIN9X past the 6XXX series cards, some say there are 7XXX WIN9X drivers but I couldn't find them. I …

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FX5200 Replacement mini form factor

Posted on 2021-07-01, 18:47

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by Gopher666

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

https://www.vogons.org/download/file.php?mode=view&id=113574 Hello Folks, I got this Geforce FX 5200 128 MB ram 4x AGP in my retro gaming box but the poor thing is dieing slowly. This was a garbage card even in it's own days. For old DOS games and majority of the Win98 games it's usable however when …

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Re: Lost Vikings General MIDI port changer

Posted on 2021-06-22, 08:34

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by Gopher666

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Sorry to bump such an old topic up but does this game using MIDI at all? During the setup there is just the sound driver so I assumed that it is not using MIDI. Either way I have a Sound Blaster 5.1 SB0600 and it sounds absolutely terrible for some reason in both DOS and Win98SE. I'm using Phils …

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Re: Dialup pool with fake PSTN (ISP SETUP)

Posted on 2021-06-20, 20:46

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by Gopher666

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yeah that's why I opened this topic I don't want to rush with this project. There is this Siemens Octopus later they renamed to UNIFY series of PBXes: https://www.phone-distribution.de/?language=en&info=p5931_openscape-business-v2-x5r-l30251-u600-g654-new.html You can get them dirt cheap like 50 EUR …

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Re: What you got for your money in the late '80s early '90s

Posted on 2021-06-10, 06:37

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by Gopher666

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in Marvin \ Software

And what you get for your money Today is daemon tools, ccleaner with built in adware and windoz 10 which is a malware by itself 😀

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Dialup pool with fake PSTN (ISP SETUP)

Posted on 2021-06-07, 20:55

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by Gopher666

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Recently I found some fun project: https://dogemicrosystems.ca/wiki/Dial_up_server https://dogemicrosystems.ca/wiki/Dial-up_pool The two is basically the same the least with more modems. It's like having a little R&R dialup setup where you are your own ISP sounds fun. Definitely a future project for …

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Re: IPX removed from Linux Kernel in 4.18 - Wine & IPX Gaming?

Posted on 2021-06-07, 20:29

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by Gopher666

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in Windows

Ahh man I just recently found out about this... cat /boot/config-4.14.18-sunxi | grep -i ipx # CONFIG_IPX is not set On 5.6 it was gone already but, BUT they have left: │ CONFIG_DECNET: │ │ │ │ The DECnet networking protocol was used in many products made by │ │ Digital (now Compaq). It provides …

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Re: Easiest Way to Install 98 SE on a 1 TB HDD?

Posted on 2021-04-27, 08:42

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by Gopher666

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in Marvin \ Software

I disagree. I have been using HDDs larger than 128GB for a long time for Win9x. Also HDDs are meant to be used as system drives while SD cards are not. The analogy applies better to the solution you recommend. Idk man I did some load tests (and at the end that is all what matters) and my fastest …

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Re: Easiest Way to Install 98 SE on a 1 TB HDD?

Posted on 2021-04-24, 13:07

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by Gopher666

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in Marvin \ Software

I would not bother with this whatsoever your wasting your time. It's like you try to play an Audio CD on an old LP player, good luck with it. Just get an IDE to SDcard adapter and a 128GB SDcard, both from ebay is like 50 bucks and your set for life. I have a similar setup with a 256GB sdcard and …

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Re: Period Correct Vanilla Windows 98 SE vs 98SE + SP3 + All Unofficial Updates

Posted on 2021-03-21, 20:09

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by Gopher666

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in Marvin \ Software

This dilemma is far more difficult than it initially seems to be. "vanilla" installations are pretty much vaporized after deploying one or two software suites or games which replace core system components with their own, many do this without dependecy walking and making backups of dll files and …

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Re: Period Correct Vanilla Windows 98 SE vs 98SE + SP3 + All Unofficial Updates

Posted on 2021-03-21, 16:19

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by Gopher666

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in Marvin \ Software

Actually a positive note on this SP3: MSVB6 runtimes are installed correctly. Some progs were missing MSCOMCTL.OCX and other files so I have got the official MSVB v6 update pack but it would not install. No particular reason just the usual "Installation Failed" what we can expect from programs back …

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Re: How to increase the lifespan of old hardware

Posted on 2021-03-19, 18:59

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by Gopher666

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Don't use it 🤣.

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Losing all your partitions HORROR story thanks to Windoz XP and how to recover from it

Posted on 2021-03-15, 19:05

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by Gopher666

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I though I will write down this story down as a lesson to NEVER use windoz xps disk manager with multi-boot systems ever! Maybe it will be useful for someone one day. First of all I have to say I love multiboot systems, just to have the ability to have tons of old systems on the same HDD and to be …

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Re: Making the "ultimate NETWORK boot floppy" ?

Posted on 2021-03-15, 16:31

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by Gopher666

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The point for me would be to have an out of the box solution which requires: 1, No additional CD drives 2, No gotek or floppy 3, No secondary HDD Yeah I already have that running what you mentioned just to PXE boot a regular DOS6.22 floppy which sees the disks then have another IDE HDD formatted to …

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Re: 3Dfx Voodoo 2 12MB problems in win98Se

Posted on 2021-03-02, 14:38

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by Gopher666

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

VIA 8233A(CE) chipset => that is most likely your problem. Via was a trashcan back then. AMD2400+ => you can run XP on that and try the unofficial XP voodoo3 driver, yeah theres 1-2 fps degradation but who cares if it works for ya.

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Re: High Interrupt Load on Intel D5400XS (Skulltrail), latest BIOS and NVMe boot

Posted on 2021-02-26, 20:53

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by Gopher666

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Lucky dog ya. As a previous Skulltrail owner I even sold my dead Skulltrail board, yeah you heard that right the dead motherboard for a lot of money it was so sought after. Why are you running the largest trashcan OS of the world (Windoz 10) on it? That board is from the XP era, you should run XP on …

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