Re: What does your significant other think of your retro pc hobby?

Posted on 2025-01-15, 19:47

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by Joakim

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I dont buy much any more but when I did, I kind of got away with it saying they are worth a lot.. It's no lie and I only got good deals, but I dont sell a lot.. yet at least.

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Re: AMD K6 3/III + Price

Posted on 2024-12-24, 14:30

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by Joakim

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if you already didnt know, you can also mod a k6-2+ 'into' a k6-3+. think you get more cache if i remember correctly.

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Re: How slow down pIII cpu for properly playing some dos games?

Posted on 2024-12-24, 09:26

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by Joakim

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You could try to turn off l2 cache and see where that gets you.

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Re: MS-DOS drivers for PCMCIA cards and AI - Wild idea

Posted on 2024-12-12, 06:46

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by Joakim

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there is perhaps a chance, if you trained it specifically on similar stuff, but i would guess it would ve a huge challenge to explain the actual problem ut needs to solve. I think that if you are able to explain what it should do you might as well solve the entire problem yourself. Imo AI is pretty …

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Re: Ps/2 to Serial Adaptors do they even work?

Posted on 2024-12-02, 17:05

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by Joakim

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i dont know all the technical details but as i understand it those adapters only work with some mice. like the popular microsoft intellimouse comes in differrnt versions even if they visually look the same: Filename Screenshot_2024-12-02-18-03-49-93_260528048de7f2f358f0056f785be619.jpg File size …

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Re: Can’t run Simon the Sorcerer

Posted on 2024-11-25, 21:20

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by Joakim

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i should play that game again, its a classic. i tend to play it every 7 years or so. voice by Chris Barrie is phenomenal.

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Re: Help with Direct Draw and DirectX

Posted on 2024-11-24, 20:49

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by Joakim

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Doubt it is very easy to downgrade direct x. probably easier just reinstall windows on a second hdd and just go with the version the game came with. For science you can then upgrade it incrementally until you get the error. sounds like a wonderful weekend activity. you can even live stream it. i …

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Re: Suicidal behaviour: Going into Windows 11

Posted on 2024-11-21, 11:06

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by Joakim

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You may already know, but to fix right click menu open command prompt as Administrator and type the following. reg.exe add "HKCU\Software\Classes\CLSID\{86ca1aa0-34aa-4e8b-a509-50c905bae2a2}\InprocServer32" /f /ve Yeah i heard about it but not tried. i can probably do this at my home computer but …

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Re: VGA and Pixelart (or why 256 colors are enough for everyone)

Posted on 2024-11-20, 17:23

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Cool topic and nice screenshots! 256 colours 640x480 (and speech) was all i needed in the 90s, being an avid adventure game fan. Filename stsarticle.jpg File size 412.39 KiB Views 530 views File license Fair use/fair dealing exception Art style is much more important than technology. This is true …

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Re: Compaq Prolinea 2/50 ISA Problems - sanity check on diagnostic

Posted on 2024-11-17, 21:33

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by Joakim

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that dark line was a trace? 😃 sounds easy enough. just need the right size of wire. practice on something else if you feel uncomfortable. you can do it! for science and bad poetry!

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Re: Can’t run Simon the Sorcerer

Posted on 2024-11-17, 21:24

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by Joakim

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ok i dont know what that command does or what to make of the numbers. windows 98 comes with version 7.1 and thats the dos most people use. not that im against anything else but dos 4 is from 1986. 😀

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Re: Can’t run Simon the Sorcerer

Posted on 2024-11-17, 20:58

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by Joakim

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wait a moment are you using dos version 4.X? sounds very adventurous indeed!

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Re: PSU from 1998 ok?

Posted on 2024-11-15, 21:30

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by Joakim

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Personally i dont use easily replaced 'noname' ATX PSU's. I had one burn up and an other disturbing my power line network. I feel its not really worth the risk or effort. (But i have some old proprietary Compaq PSUs that work just fine.) My take on it is, PSU might break other hardware if it fails, …

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Re: Can’t run Simon the Sorcerer

Posted on 2024-11-15, 15:52

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by Joakim

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Are sure that the cd driver is loaded? Usually it is D: just type that and dir and see if it spins up and the disk contents are showing.

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Re: Can’t run Simon the Sorcerer

Posted on 2024-11-15, 06:04

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by Joakim

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I believe this game requires quite a lot of conventional memory as well. this part of the memory is shared with the drivers you also need. This can be fixed by loading drivers into the high memory area.

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Re: Compaq Prolinea 2/50 ISA Problems - sanity check on diagnostic

Posted on 2024-11-13, 18:51

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by Joakim

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I see, I was not aware that some desktop computers had built in memory. did replacing this capacitor alleviate the issue you were having?

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Re: Compaq Prolinea 2/50 ISA Problems - sanity check on diagnostic

Posted on 2024-11-11, 17:49

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by Joakim

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nice! it's certainly possible... but at second glance, what is that chip next to it? some kind of memory? vram?

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Re: Compaq Prolinea 2/50 ISA Problems - sanity check on diagnostic

Posted on 2024-11-10, 19:44

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by Joakim

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i dont think thats the way to check if the caps are ok. to check the capacitance you should remove at least one leg from the board and measure it out of circuit. i dont fully understand why it should have anything to do with dma anyway. I have a prolinea 5120 and i believe you can do some settings …

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Re: Suicidal behaviour: Going into Windows 11

Posted on 2024-11-05, 19:47

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by Joakim

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have been using w11 for a while now both ar home and at work. the most annoying part is the stupid functionality of the right click menu ther are also some weird bugs like popup windows with no text or buttons, w10 software not being compatible and some strange issue with the microphone for …

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Re: Speed sensitive DOS games to try on Pseudo 386/486 PC

Posted on 2024-10-29, 12:53

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by Joakim

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indiana jones fate of atlantis has some speed sensitive issues. if i remember it was sound related being an objectively awsome title it would be my first test. 😀

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