Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-09-17, 23:06

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by smtkr

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MSI trolled me hard. Remember the 6168 I fixed a few pages back? https://www.vogons.org/download/file.php?mode=view&id=201556 Apparently my board was resistor crippled from factory to 8MB. A quick read of the RAM chips brought Samsung KM4132G112Q-7, which turned out to be the same chips used in the …

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Re: Possible driver issue with TNT2 and games

Posted on 2024-09-17, 01:08

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by smtkr

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How does Quake 3 run?

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Re: Possible driver issue with TNT2 and games

Posted on 2024-09-15, 00:41

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by smtkr

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Which version of Windows are you running? Is this a fresh install of Windows? Can you try running Quake 3 and let us know how that runs? You've picked two games that tend to give people problems. Quake 3 is the Macintosh of 1999 gaming--it just work.

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

Posted on 2024-09-14, 16:38

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by smtkr

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Wow, that's in amazing shape. Those things have really cool options for screen mods. I've done a couple over the past year and the results have been amazing.

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

Posted on 2024-09-14, 16:37

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by smtkr

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Is that a custom BIOS? I've never seen one show monitors during POST like that.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-09-12, 03:17

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by smtkr

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PcBytes wrote on 2024-09-11, 12:31: Another bay purchase! ABIT AB-BX6 R2.0, w/ SL3XK. I've got two of those and no IO plates 😁 I use one of them as my "daaily" retro driver

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Re: Pentium3 on WinXP

Posted on 2024-09-09, 02:29

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by smtkr

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It's worth noting that some games rely on libraries provided by later Windows XP service packs. For example, I couldn't get Warcraft III patched past 1.17 to run on SP1. And those errors aren't easy to diagnose.

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Re: Why so many Katmais (and Deschutes)?

Posted on 2024-08-31, 02:19

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by smtkr

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I have two 800 MHz Slot 1 coppermines. Ebay was floated with them 15 years ago. Cooler points towards OEM machines. This is it. Intel sold a ton of these and there are a ton still around. It's just that the COVID hoarding has shoved them all into "collections." When I put together my slot 1 system …

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

Posted on 2024-08-21, 22:52

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by smtkr

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An first retro to Gameboy game launch party for Israel indursty in a Tel Aviv mall: https://youtu.be/nloZGAHQUtw?si=ZLSEBP4xAS9Egyxe https://youtu.be/xBTk28t0Q-A?si=LsOARHj4t692whif As a huge Gameboy fan (have restored/modded three DMGs this year), I salute you. I can't get enough of these. I'm …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-08-18, 20:01

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by smtkr

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Is that last one a Geforce 2 Ultra, or a Geforce 3? It looks pretty barebones, so guessing geforce 3?

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Re: Max Payne (2001), what did it use shaders on?

Posted on 2024-08-18, 00:55

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People played it on tnt1 so no. I can play Morrowind on a Geforce 2. It will simply disable that part of the rendering path that my card doesn't support and my water will just look horrible. But anyhow, I'm pretty sure Max Payne does not use programmable pixel shaders (which is why you can't find …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-08-11, 02:29

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by smtkr

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I have a huge problem buying GeForce 4 Cards lol it's a sickness. 15$ for a nice Ti4200 is great. I bought this beautiful (and way to expensive) Ti 4680XP thinking it was a Ti 4800 with a weird name... Turns out it was a 4200 Turbo card which is actually kinda interesting in its own way. It needs …

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Re: BX vs VIA chipset

Posted on 2024-08-04, 14:31

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by smtkr

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This thread is making me vaguely remember one other peculiarity with the VIA chipsets. Wasn't there some kind of weird RAM that they support that never took off? Did any of that ever make it into the wild?

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Re: Gigabyte GA-BX2000+ - FSB133=no post

Posted on 2024-08-03, 00:05

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by smtkr

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My primary 440BX board won't run stable above 127MHz FSB. At some point in the future, I intend to modify the resistor array to juice the VIO regulator to 3.45V to see if that does the trick, but that's more of a curiosity. Capacitors are very unlikely to be the barrier.

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Re: Windows and others: good Anime games?

Posted on 2024-08-02, 02:40

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I wouldn't exactly call it a good game, but Oni was kind of cool for a little bit.

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Re: Which were the "MUST UPGRADE HARDWARE" games of your past? Which are the consensus games?

Posted on 2024-08-02, 02:36

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by smtkr

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Morrowind

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Re: Is Sb0060 the best Live! Card?

Posted on 2024-07-26, 03:10

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by smtkr

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See https://dosdays.co.uk/topics/sb_live.php I have a CT4760 and a SB0060. Given that I'm just using two speakers in my setup, I don't really care about the 5.1 angle and so I just end up using the CT4760. I kind of dig the gold-colored autio jacks on the 4760

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-07-21, 16:27

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by smtkr

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Double DVI. Interesting.

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Re: BX vs VIA chipset

Posted on 2024-07-20, 03:41

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by smtkr

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I'd investigate tweaking with wpcredit if there are still guides online for it. I'm guessing it's just not tuned correctly. When the apolla pro 133a first came out, some of the lazy mainboard makers didn't optimize their boards. You would see wild performance variance across manufacturers.

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Re: ASUS P3B-F incorrect voltage -5V

Posted on 2024-07-18, 22:52

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by smtkr

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I just turned off the warning and kept using it with a modern PSU when I was using mine.

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