Re: Are VIA chipsets bad for retro games?

Posted on 2024-04-15, 15:40

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by Pino

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

VIA definitely had some troubled series of chipsets, but they are not all bad, and some are actually really good. Tell us what are you actually building and what motherboard are you trying to get.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-04-13, 14:37

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by Pino

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Watched Necro Hardware's video yesterday and commented on the chat "You inspired me to stop at my recycling center today" so after work I drove to my local place and found this Voodoo 3 3000. It's a Dell variant, perfect condition and working great. Also found a Cyrix M II 300, a Geforce 4 MX420 a …

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Re: How hard is it to find retro/vintage computer hardware where you live?

Posted on 2024-04-13, 14:34

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by Pino

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I started looking locally at trift stores and it was really disappointing, went to several and couldn't find anything, luckily about a year ago I found a electronic recycling center and they allow me to look into the bins whenever I want. Was there yesterday and found a Voodoo 3, a Geforce 4 MX 420, …

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Re: I call it "poor man's Orpheus" :-)

Posted on 2024-03-25, 17:39

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by Pino

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Thanks, yes on DOOM E1M1 it's clear, definitely better. But on some other games I tried I wasn't sure. I recently created a way to quickly change back and forward between them, will test more games.

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Re: I call it "poor man's Orpheus" :-)

Posted on 2024-03-25, 15:53

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by Pino

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keropi wrote on 2024-03-25, 14:37: no, PPL patches replace the stock GUS-classic compatibility ones and get loaded directly from games themselves or via ultramid Master keropi, since you showed up around here, what is your opinion on PPL? do you think it's an improvement over the regular patches? …

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Re: Pentium 4 (LGA775 / i865) Multi-OS Build Log (DOS/3.11/95/NT/98/Me/2k/XP)

Posted on 2024-03-22, 17:10

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by Pino

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286, 486DX-33 and Pentium speeds covers pretty much the entire DOS games range requirements I would assume, well done!

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Re: Pentium 4 (LGA775 / i865) Multi-OS Build Log (DOS/3.11/95/NT/98/Me/2k/XP)

Posted on 2024-03-22, 15:49

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by Pino

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in Marvin \ System Specs

Beautiful build, I might try one like this some day. How are you slowing the CPU? Just disabling L1 and L2 cache? How slow can you go and how flexible it is? Thanks for all the detailed info on the post.

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Re: I call it "poor man's Orpheus" :-)

Posted on 2024-03-22, 15:23

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by Pino

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in Marvin \ System Specs

Doom 1 and Tie Fighter (CD Version that has GUS support) sounds better with Pro Patches lite in my opinion, I will see if I can make some recordings.

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Re: I call it "poor man's Orpheus" :-)

Posted on 2024-03-21, 14:14

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by Pino

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Thanks for the comments guys. Crusher, Yes the patches gives different sound character in DOS games, and I'm my opinion it makes it better, I don't like the sound from the original patches. As far as I know the patches don't affect windows at all, for Windows you can use the 4MB patch from the GUS …

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I call it "poor man's Orpheus" :-)

Posted on 2024-03-20, 19:19

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by Pino

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System specs: AMD K6-2+ 500Mhz Azza PT-5VMx VIA Apollo MVP3 128MB PC-133 MSI FX5200 AGP Generic IDE to SD converter with a 32GB SD Card Generic 250W power supply Generic ATX case Generic DVD/CD writer with SATA to IDE converter Generic 1.44MB floppy drive Creative Pebble 2.0 Speakers Samsung …

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Re: Help with system

Posted on 2024-03-15, 17:03

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by Pino

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Looks more like the Chaintech 7NJL4, according to this review: https://prohardver.hu/teszt/nvidia_nforce2-es_alaplapok_tesztje/chaintech_7njl4_summit.html You can read the review using google translator. Funny enough the guy tested it with a Athlon XP 2500+ overclocked to 3200+ (changing only FSB to …

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Re: UNISOUND - Universal ISA PnP Sound Card Driver for DOS v0.81b

Posted on 2024-03-15, 14:06

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by Pino

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Welcome back JazeFox, we appreciate your work. Thanks for the update! The reverb option is something I was looking forward to have.

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Re: Help with system

Posted on 2024-03-15, 13:55

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by Pino

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

What are you trying to achieve with this PC? it's too fast and I doesn't have ISA slots, so assume you are not targeting DOS. For Windows 98 / XP there is not much advantage of having a mobile CPU. I would just buy a cheap Athlon XP 2500+ (I see some for less than $15 on ebay), you can easily …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-03-14, 13:05

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by Pino

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Grabbed a Geforce 2 PRO for $1 from my local recycling center. I have several Geforce2MXs, but this is my first GTS / PRO. Fan is stuck, but it's posting. Memory is only 5.5ns which would translate to 181Mhz, PRO should be 5ns (200Mhz). I was reading about it yesterday and back at that time it was a …

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Re: GeForce4 Ti 4200 replacement fan?

Posted on 2024-02-26, 16:38

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by Pino

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You can replace just the fan and keep the original heatsink if you want, just need to measure the fan and the mouting bracket to make sure you get the right size. Ebay has pretty much any size you might need. Example:

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Re: The LlamaBlaster

Posted on 2024-02-23, 18:04

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by Pino

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This project is moving fast, we appreciate the effort Eivind! Question, is the plan to JCL doing PCB+ all SMD components levaing only the PTH components to be manually soldered?

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Re: Tell about your country

Posted on 2024-02-22, 14:36

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by Pino

in Milliways

in Milliways

Brazil is a hot mess, nothing works, everything is extremely expensive, corruption is everywhere, but the worse is the violence. Weather, natural resources, food and the people are amazing, but in the end the cons overcome the pros to me. I left Brazil and moved to USA about 7 years ago, started my …

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Re: Tell about your country

Posted on 2024-02-22, 14:24

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by Pino

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in Milliways

Who knows how many Chinese are here? I guess not many, because not everyone has the conditions to register for this forum in China's network environment.I'm not sure what kind of attitude Europeans and North Americans have towards the Chinese. It seems to be more negative? In recent years, I have …

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Re: Tell about your country

Posted on 2024-02-21, 15:43

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by Pino

in Milliways

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Brazil is a hot mess, nothing works, everything is extremely expensive, corruption is everywhere, but the worse is the violence. Weather, natural resources, food and the people are amazing, but in the end the cons overcome the pros to me. I left Brazil and moved to USA about 7 years ago, started my …

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Re: The LlamaBlaster

Posted on 2024-02-16, 19:13

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by Pino

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Looks great, looking forward to get one, I always though the pi 2 zero connection was a brilliant idea on the Llama ITX.

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