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

Posted on 2021-01-24, 01:56

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by Duouk2000

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

After buying some midi couplers, I managed to get my RPi 4B to act like an MT-32 using MT-32Pi. I don’t have a DAC or some kind of MIDI input, so I’m not going to be doing things simply, but this let me spend $8 to use my UM-ONE-MKII. Some day I will grab a mixer to get everything working with no …

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

Posted on 2021-01-20, 00:21

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by Duouk2000

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Messing around with my MU440EX motherboard. I've got a PII 233MHz CPU, Soundblaster 16 and Voodoo 1 in it. I'm going for a late DOS/Early Windows machine. I couldn't help but try running something a little advanced with Half Life though, which runs predictably bad. I really like how it looks in …

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

Posted on 2021-01-17, 00:24

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by Duouk2000

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

My 21"Dell Trinitron is starting to go I think. Looks blury in the centre of the screen and there's some ghosting like artifact on some desktop items. Not sure if it can be saved (I don't have the skills at any rate). I also broke the one of the pins on my trusty 120GB Maxtor HDD. Little sad about …

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

Posted on 2021-01-16, 02:32

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by Duouk2000

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

My 21"Dell Trinitron is starting to go I think. Looks blury in the centre of the screen and there's some ghosting like artifact on some desktop items. Not sure if it can be saved (I don't have the skills at any rate). I also broke the one of the pins on my trusty 120GB Maxtor HDD. Little sad about …

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Re: Pentium II with no active cooling - OK to run?

Posted on 2021-01-10, 19:33

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by Duouk2000

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Awesome, I thought it might be OK but wasn't 100%. Too used to dealing with a toasty Socket A setup.

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Pentium II with no active cooling - OK to run?

Posted on 2021-01-10, 19:21

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by Duouk2000

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Just wondering if its OK to run a PII 233MHz CPU with just the heatsink? I have a Celeron 333MHz CPU in my MU440EX motherboard but the fan has this high pitched whine. If I stop the fan the system is almost silent. There's no case fans attached at present but I can always add one to help keep things …

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

Posted on 2021-01-05, 01:11

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by Duouk2000

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Came to the conclusion that I just cannot be bothered with Socket A anymore. Researching Socket 754 as a replacement. Yeah, I'm fond of it, I was using one when I first joined this forum in fact! It's just too much hassle for me now though. What is the hassle? With support for 3.3v AGP on some …

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

Posted on 2021-01-04, 23:45

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by Duouk2000

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Came to the conclusion that I just cannot be bothered with Socket A anymore. Researching Socket 754 as a replacement. Yeah, I'm fond of it, I was using one when I first joined this forum in fact! It's just too much hassle for me now though.

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Re: Sony Playstation Classic gamepad works perfect on WIN98!!!

Posted on 2020-11-15, 12:55

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by Duouk2000

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

360 D-PAD is bottom of the barrell stuff. PS1-PS3 is servicable (far better than the Competition Pro PC pad I recently purchased) but its a far cry from what you'd get with a NES\SNES\MD\Saturn controller.

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Re: Collecting rants

Posted on 2020-08-31, 10:21

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by Duouk2000

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Sellers asking an arm and a leg for untested software. I don't care if you don't have the means to test that old floppy disk, price appropriately if that's the case.

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

Posted on 2020-08-20, 22:09

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by Duouk2000

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Picked up a Dell E771P monitor in great condition for £10 via a Facebook selling group. I've been a member of various groups for several years now and never found anything worth picking up at a reasonable price before. It'll make a nice replacement for my 21"Dell Trinitron which is just a little bit …

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

Posted on 2020-07-13, 22:55

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by Duouk2000

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Getting the itch to build again. I planned on building an early PII system a year or so back but put it on hold. Found myself on eBay seeing what's out there tonight.

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Re: Amstrad mega pc

Posted on 2020-01-11, 14:17

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by Duouk2000

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

And of course being UK, the MegaPC would only accept UK PAL MegaDrive games... unless modified :( modifications.... a long story for me :D :D :D http://i.imgur.com/MlIgFl5.jpg actually thanks to Tiido there are also sound quality improvements for the megadrive part: stock megadrive output: https:// …

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Re: Welcome to the updated VOGONS

Posted on 2019-12-29, 00:30

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by Duouk2000

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Before the upgrade you only had one post. So the number matches and a backup made to test development on also only has one post for you which is a lot older. Are you sure about having more posts ? (are you not confused with a different account you might have had ?) Massive apologies, I must have …

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Re: Welcome to the updated VOGONS

Posted on 2019-12-28, 21:00

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by Duouk2000

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Is there an issue with post counts? I don't have a huge post count or anything but it's higher than 2 :p Also, I joined in 2005? SNOVER Snover, this is very weird and worrisome... Before the upgrade you only had one post. So the number matches and a backup made to test development on also only has …

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Re: Welcome to the updated VOGONS

Posted on 2019-12-28, 11:50

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by Duouk2000

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Setting font size and line spacing to small helps somewhat but I agree, there does seem to be a lot of wasted space on desktop. On mobile it feels quite busy. I'm not a fan of either colour scheme personally. -edit- I previously thought my post count and join date had been affected. Turns out this …

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

Posted on 2019-11-03, 23:38

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by Duouk2000

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

After trying and failing to play Gears of War 5 with it's buggy, always onine campaign I decided to play the original Quake. I've never played it beyong the first few minutes, ditto for Quake II. It's a been a blast, I've played through most of the single player tonight! I haven't found every secret …

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Re: The Outer Worlds releases in 2 days

Posted on 2019-11-02, 09:27

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by Duouk2000

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I'm loving it, I'm about 24 hours in so far and doing every quest I can. The lack of bugs is refreshing, the art style is great, I love the writing and the companions and the gunplay is miles better than in Fallout. I also went the Game Pass route since it's £1 for the first month and that service …

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Re: Would you concider this Acer V771 a good CRT?

Posted on 2019-10-13, 19:19

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by Duouk2000

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in Marvin \ Video

Congrats! 1024x768 is as high as I ever go for retro PC gaming, looks like you got a nice deal for €5.

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

Posted on 2019-10-12, 23:11

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by Duouk2000

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I've been having some issues installing certain games lately, getting CRC errors and so forth so I finally ran MemTest86 and yeah, one of the RAM sticks is bad. Removed it and started Windows up again and now KOTOR installs and runs as it should. Performance issues with other games have cleared up …

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