Re: What are these cards?

Posted on Yesterday, 17:13

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darry wrote on 2024-09-11, 21:13: The video card is probably a Dell OEM TNT2 M64. Yes, with 32MB VRAM. Dell part # 073RGY PCB part # BRD-05-E15 REV C https://www.ebay.com/itm/295446410492 https://www.lakemichigancomputers.com/product … -agp-video-card

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Re: Pentium3 on WinXP

Posted on Yesterday, 14:50

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No hardware and no software conflicts. The game requires a STRONG CPU. Ram or GPU don't matter in this game. Tested on many processors that I have: The minimum AMD CPU to play this game at max settings is Athlon XP 2500 Barton and the minimum Intel CPU is Pentium 4 northwood 2400. We had a topic …

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Re: Pentium3 on WinXP

Posted on Yesterday, 11:21

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About performance in games: don't expect anything extraordinary in 90's games with a Pentium 3! Case in point: Pentium 3 1400S; 3*512mb RAM, Abit VH6T, Geforce3 ti 500 - top of the line for 2001. And no, Pentium 4 is not better despite the higher frequency, it is actually slower! Only Athlon XP can …

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2024-09-11, 02:42

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I emailed my friend who used to work for Micron and let him know about the computer, and how I didn't initially realize that it was from the company he used to work for; he replied that he had no idea that Micron used to make complete systems! Guess it was because complete systems were sold by …

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Re: I have met some problems with rottk xi

Posted on 2024-09-10, 21:57

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You don't speak for me. I am really enjoying Black Myth Wukong. I'm not good at it, but I enjoying it. I was talking about RotTK franchise specifically. Black Myth Wukong is an action game after all, and its original model Journey to the West , being a fantasy adventure filled with magical elements …

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Re: BIOS Configuration for Harddrive (486 PC)

Posted on 2024-09-10, 21:41

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So what's the make / model / total physical capacity of your SATA HDD? I've got a 16TB SATA HDD but I wouldn't just create a 2GB partition and put it into a 486 build with an adapter. Disruptor wrote on 2024-09-10, 21:30: If your BIOS does not support HDD autodetection, you may try CHS 1023/16/63. …

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Re: I have met some problems with rottk xi

Posted on 2024-09-10, 21:23

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Welcome. Although I understood which game you were referring to I'd bet that most VOGONS user couldn't. This franchise -- or any game based on Romance of the Three Kingdoms in general -- is too tied up with East Asian history and culture so gamers outside this geographical region seldom feel the …

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

Posted on 2024-09-10, 20:46

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Not sure if this counts: browsing back issues of PC Magazine (Feb. 1982 to Jan. 2009) with Google Books. It's more than a digital library but a museum. 👏 As a foreigner it's particularly interesting to see a service or product popular in US / North America but completely unheard of locally.

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2024-09-10, 18:21

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I had never heard of Micron computers, but this looks like it was a high dollar machine at the time. You never heard of Micron computers???! They were common around the turn of the millennium, and probably before that too. Earlier than that. I started reading English edition of PC Magazine in early …

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2024-09-10, 11:29

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Hopefully I can find a BIOS update since it appears to have an issue with the date. No, you've found a computer that traveled 4500 years back in time. Seriously though, I've encountered similar problems (different and ridiculous dates at every startup) on a much more modern computer using a CR2032 …

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Re: what was it like watching the death of 3dfx post voodoo 3 (late 1999-2000)?

Posted on 2024-09-10, 10:37

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Looks like many VOGONS folks have fond memories of the end of 20th century. :smile_cat: I had to buy a new computer fast in February 1999. Voodoo2 was too expensive; for single-card options, most reviews praised TNT while criticized Banshee for being no merit other than Glide support. So I got the …

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Re: Pentium3 on WinXP

Posted on 2024-09-09, 19:05

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Does Pentium 3 with GF3 or GF4Ti or Radeon9500/9700 and 512mb ram, can run perfectly with games from late 90s (maximum setting and 30 stabile fps)? What with early 2000 games like Gta3 and MaxPayne 2001? How do you think ? I play Need for Speed: High Stakes and Descent 3 (both released in June 1999 …

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Re: How do I use ribbon cable for floppy drives

Posted on 2024-09-09, 18:34

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Like kmeaw said, the default position of that jumper is at DS1, while your current jumper is at DS0. More info can be found with "5.25 INCH FLEXIBLE DISK DRIVE STANDARD SPECIFICATIONS M4854-347USA" and "M4854-347USA PCB NAMFM PARTS LOCATION DIAGRAM" at Bitsavers. Their efforts of digitizing and …

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Re: How do I use ribbon cable for floppy drives

Posted on 2024-09-09, 09:30

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Both drives lights do seem to turn on when I try to access one of the drives then I get a message saying drive is not accessible Yes, yes we knew that already. https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=102514 Repeating your status again and again won't make your situation any better. If you want …

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Re: Graphics adapter suggestion for a 486 DOS PC

Posted on 2024-09-08, 21:21

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PS: Sorry if i did any language mistakes as it's not my native language. Welcome, and no need to worry about that; saw that 英雄联盟 (LoL) mousepad in the background. :wink: As the framerate question: IMHO the Doom engine used by all three games preferred faster CPU than graphic chips, and your Vectra …

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Re: How do I use ribbon cable for floppy drives

Posted on 2024-09-08, 20:28

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Hi both lights turn on when computer is testing the drives but when I click on a drive in my computer screen only the light turns on corosponding to the drive that I’ve clicked on in the past when I only had 1 floppy connectored it was fine Please do the following: Turn off your computer. Open the …

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Re: Having trouble connecting 2 floppy drives on one ribbon cable

Posted on 2024-09-08, 20:13

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Hi yes the cable I’m using is the same type as pictured in the other topic I made I’m a bit confused as you mentioned pin 1 should be connected to all 3 connectors do you mean the side of cable witch is pin 1 And the same side of cable to all 3 connectors First, I saw no picture of YOUR floppy …

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Re: Pentium3 on WinXP

Posted on 2024-09-08, 19:52

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Now, don't get me wrong, if you put an SSD in a RAM-starved retro system today, it'll perform a lot better than the same system swapping to a hard drive back in the day, but... personally, I would rather have hard drives and maximal quantities of RAM in a retro system rather than SSDs that are used …

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Re: Pentium3 on WinXP

Posted on 2024-09-08, 17:43

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No wonder I never had memories of XP being "snappy" (not including "retro" Core builds with 2+ GB RAM and SATA SSD) because I've never used vanilla XP even to this day. My first XP experience was Athlon XP 2200+ (1.8 GHz Thoroughbred) with 2 x 256 MB DDR-2700 (333 MHz) and 80 GB PATA HDD in 2003; …

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Re: Cannot get MSCDEX to load high in a DOS setup on 86Box

Posted on 2024-09-08, 12:06

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I had encountered a similar mystery back in 1995 when I bought my first Pentium 120 MHz with 16MB RAM: the UMB on the new computer was much smaller than that of my 80386 with 4MB RAM, even with almost identical CONFIG.SYS settings. I tried to boot both computers with the same DOS 6.2 floppy and …

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