Dumb CRT question - best monitor for NTSC and PAL signals?

Posted on 2025-03-25, 21:43

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by cloverskull

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in Marvin \ Video

Hey friends, I want to get a single high quality CRT monitor for all my retro rigs (by way of a KVM VGA switch) but I have a need to handle both NTSC and PAL signals. I'm not sure where to begin - multisync? Multiscan? Are these just loaded terms or are they proprietary? Ideally I can find something …

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Re: Stunt Island “8x detail” mod

Posted on 2024-12-22, 20:07

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by cloverskull

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in Milliways

Wow, really cool. REALLY cool. I'd love to better understand how to disassemble 16 bit stuff with lost sources but my dyslexia makes following along like this a little tough. I'd literally pay for someone to pair program with me even to just go over exactly what you wrote just to help me understand …

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Re: Collective v1.0.0 - Collection Tracking Software

Posted on 2024-12-22, 20:01

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by cloverskull

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in Release Announcements

@Jkmills78 It seems like dotnet on mac is a bit of a mess. I'm trying to get this figured out but it's definitely a bit all over the place. Not your fault, mind you :) Just the nature of dotnet I suppose. I'll follow up if I get it sorted but not sure how much real effort I can expend here on this …

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Re: Collective v1.0.0 - Collection Tracking Software

Posted on 2024-12-21, 12:03

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by cloverskull

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in Release Announcements

I'll be the first to admit I haven't built anything dotnet so am probably the wrong person here, but since nobody else has chimed in about the Apple Silicon build, I'll give it a whirl :) I installed dotnet SDK 9 for my Mac arm64 and tried `dotnet workload restore` followed by `dotnet build …

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Re: How much is safe to overclock Tualatin 1.4ghz?

Posted on 2024-12-19, 02:39

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by cloverskull

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Man, these 1.4ghz Tualatin CPUs are gonna be worth quite a bit on the vintage market at some point. I'm hoarding a couple myself :P @VooDooMan do you have any in your stash you'd want to part with that you've already proven overclockability? Right now I have two in use. Both running at factory clock …

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Re: S3 ViRGE VLB project (or " Making a Concurrent for Creative 3D Blaster VLB" )

Posted on 2024-12-19, 02:35

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by cloverskull

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Granted this is a pretty long thread and I have serious covid brain at the moment, but ... is anyone actually building these? I'd love a new VLB GPU in my 486 rig!

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Re: Collective v1.0.0 - Collection Tracking Software

Posted on 2024-12-19, 02:32

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by cloverskull

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in Release Announcements

I have a Mac with an M3 chip - do you have build instructions? I'd love to try this out.

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Re: Are PPC Mac OS (aka Mac OS Classic) applications/games 32-bit only?

Posted on 2024-12-14, 03:24

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by cloverskull

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I'm a big fan of the IIgs - best II era machine IMO. That said, talking about PPC Macs, I agree with @Jo22 that the 10.4 Tiger version of the OS was ideal. Yeah, the G5 was 64 bit, but it wasn't really possible (IMO) to realize much benefit from that. If you're interested in OSX 10.4 Tiger, I …

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Re: S3 ViRGE VLB project (or " Making a Concurrent for Creative 3D Blaster VLB" )

Posted on 2024-12-11, 05:28

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by cloverskull

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Wow, these are incredible, just noticing this thread now. I'm so impressed. I wish I had the skills to assemble one of these...

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Re: Pentium Overdrive (83) 3D printed fan bracket

Posted on 2024-12-10, 16:43

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by cloverskull

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Wow, this is great. I have the original fan, etc., but am wondering now how this performs in comparison. Very nicely done.

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Re: Opinions on optimal Baldur's Gate 2 performance

Posted on 2024-12-06, 10:50

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by cloverskull

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Interestingly (chiming in for the heck of it) I first played BG1 and BG2 on a G4 PowerPC Mac. At the time I felt like it ran great! But that was ages ago, so who knows if it actually did or if I'm remembering things more fondly than reality.

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Re: Mobile Pentium MMX 300mhz on Socket 7

Posted on 2024-12-04, 19:21

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by cloverskull

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Looks like the hard part is finding one of these Chinese built fake S7 chips which are really a Tillamook and an interposer in some sort of enclosure 😜 I've seen photos and videos of them but can't find them anywhere. Alas...

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Mobile Pentium MMX 300mhz on Socket 7

Posted on 2024-12-04, 16:54

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by cloverskull

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hey friends, I stumbled across this video today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=736iXRdXuTE Looks like he was able to order a dubious Chinese S7 Pentium MMX 300MHz CPU which was likely a mobile CPU in some sort of interposer configuration. Has anyone tried one of these? Are there any downsides vs …

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Re: Having Issues running Windows 98SE on my Dell GX150

Posted on 2024-12-04, 05:43

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by cloverskull

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Have you tried replacing the PSU? I had loads of weird restarting and freezing problems that I couldn't figure out with one of my builds and it turned out replacing the PSU was all I needed to do.

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Re: Best modern PSU for a retro build?

Posted on 2024-12-04, 01:12

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by cloverskull

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Thanks for the feedback, folks! So, hopefully I've been overthinking this and one of my PSUs that are currently unused but semi-new should work. I appreciate everyone's comments.

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Re: Another PS/2 Mouse ISA (ISA8) card adapter

Posted on 2024-12-02, 17:08

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by cloverskull

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'm interested in purchasing some in the US if folks are still building these

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Best modern PSU for a retro build?

Posted on 2024-12-01, 23:34

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by cloverskull

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hey friends, can someone recommend a proper modern PSU that is as close to ideal for a retro build as possible? In this case I'm targeting a S7 rig but in general I'm curious what folks would recommend. I'm a bit PSU ignorant so am not sure how much wattage is required for a retro PC but also how …

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Re: config.sys and autoexec.bat question regarding performance of games

Posted on 2024-11-27, 02:58

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by cloverskull

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Interesting thread. I'd love if there was a wiki page or something with all these types of details, I just go on blind faith sometimes with my configs based on what other people have done but I never took the time to understand what each thing was doing.

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Re: Software you can't find, and your hunts for them

Posted on 2024-11-26, 16:19

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by cloverskull

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

@ldeveraux yep! Those games 😀 And yeah I know about that site, I've visited it regularly. I actually run a couple linux BBSes and have my favorite doorgames set up on them. Linux native doors back in the day were hardly a thing though so the bulk of games are run in a DOS emulator.

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Re: Voodoo 1 and Voodoo 2 (2 cards w/ SLI) on same PC

Posted on 2024-11-26, 09:57

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by cloverskull

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Awesome, thanks! I'll definitely follow up. I appreciate your writeup.

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