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

Posted on 2015-08-30, 17:43

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by Stiletto

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Im testing old HDDs I had a big box with ~30 old HDDs that took a 1 meter* nose dive down on my parquet floor half a year ago. Im now testing to see which drives survived and which drives sounds like waste shredders. The HDDs were just stacked in the box without any protection at all so I will be …

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Re: Videos flicker in Star Wars Starfighter

Posted on 2015-08-30, 17:39

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by Stiletto

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Silanda wrote: Try this: http://enbdev.com/convertor_dx8_dx9_v0036.htm Thanks, my archive of this was outdated. 😀

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Re: Searching for short search terms.

Posted on 2015-08-30, 17:15

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by Stiletto

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in Milliways

This works, but it's not ideal. Thanks. Looks like it did a pretty good job to me. Make sure you use quotes around "OS/2" in your Google query. Can't say that it's been discussed a ton around these parts., but there's several threads. From what I understand the forum search cannot be altered …

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Re: The Nostalgia Bug

Posted on 2015-08-30, 17:09

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by Stiletto

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in Milliways

Yes it comes and goes in waves :) Indeed. I have a lot of hobbies, and I'm always "realizing" that one of them is dumb and I should do the other. So after a few days or weeks of modern gaming, or camping/outdoors stuff, or car stuff, or retro gaming, I rotate back to another one. This is PRECISELY …

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Re: Freetech 586F52 motherboard thread

Posted on 2015-08-30, 17:05

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by Stiletto

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I think its better when you host your data files on the forum, not on external websites that could come offline.. Which means, that data files are accessable anymore. I ment this especially for the hosted manual.. Agreed. That and/or mirroring your upload on SquallStrife's VogonsDrivers. :) In fact …

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Re: Diablo2 on Win98

Posted on 2015-08-29, 15:45

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by Stiletto

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It's true, there is no subforum for old games on old computers. Perhaps Marvin is the best place for now, I really don't know.

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Re: SoundMedia (Sound Blaster 2.0 clone)

Posted on 2015-08-29, 04:59

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by Stiletto

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

And the manual.

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Re: FitzQuake for DOS [fxMesa]

Posted on 2015-08-27, 16:41

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by Stiletto

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Maraakate wrote: Also dborca just emailed me back and said when he gets back from vacation he's willing to look over some code 😀 That's awesome!

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Re: building old 386/486 systems.. AT form factor vs ATX

Posted on 2015-08-27, 15:35

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by Stiletto

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

chrisNova777, you can do some research on Google Books to try to pin this down: Looks like MidiMan introduced its first product 1991... but PortMan doesn't seem to appear until 1995 at the earliest... and the Portman 4x4/S not until 1997... https://www.google.com/search?num=100&safe=off&tbm=bks&q=% …

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Re: What are the best console emulators out there?

Posted on 2015-08-27, 06:55

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by Stiletto

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in Console & Arcade Emulation

Funny you should mention that - Samuele actually touched xbox.c in MESS this release cycle: https://github.com/mamedev/mame/commit/b8d19a6c867a884ef4d261533f24cf4190a9915f https://github.com/mamedev/mame/commit/cc6f34f81cf4e7f4c06fff50c632ed01b2ba8695 Mind you, it still doesn't do a whole lot. XQEmu …

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

Posted on 2015-08-27, 06:48

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by Stiletto

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Been spending lots of time archiving MESSDev's external artwork file collection.

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Re: FitzQuake for DOS [fxMesa]

Posted on 2015-08-27, 06:47

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by Stiletto

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in Release Announcements

I tried to get in touch with daniel borca, but have not heard replies though his emails still work. I last talked to him via email back in 2003... (has it been that long? Time flies...) I don't know how good the wrappers are today but like 5-10 years ago they were basically hit or miss if they ever …

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Re: x86EMU emulator testers wanted

Posted on 2015-08-27, 06:02

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by Stiletto

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From the many support requests you've posted here, you should be calling this VOGONSEmu or something 🤣 (I kid, I kid...)

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Re: Some questions about ATI Small Wonder v2 and TECMAR Graphics Master

Posted on 2015-08-25, 21:05

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by Stiletto

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

WANTED - Manuals/drivers for: Tecmar Graphics Master Paradise Autoswitch EGA 350 (EGA1A) This guy claims to have a Tecmar Graphics Master new in box, with manual, back in 2011: http://www.vintage-computer.com/vcforum/showthread.php?9741-Tecmar-Graphics-Master-%28CGA%29-picture Maybe, if he still …

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Re: Does anyone have any idea what the spec of quantum fireball is

Posted on 2015-08-25, 20:31

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Quantum Bigfoots... had one or two in our tech room we'd frequently use as door stops, hammers... and amazingly we could still read from them following use in that way (for shits and giggles). In their heyday, at least, they were built like tanks... 😁

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Re: OPL3 implemented in FPGA

Posted on 2015-08-23, 17:30

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by Stiletto

in PC Emulation

in PC Emulation

Awesome! 😁

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Re: New emulator

Posted on 2015-08-23, 17:25

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by Stiletto

in PC Emulation

in PC Emulation

Awesome, welcome to the club! (And our forums!) 😁

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Re: DOSBox used in benchmark testing of the new 6700k

Posted on 2015-08-23, 17:21

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by Stiletto

in DOSBox General

in DOSBox General

The MAME results... Yeah, that's taz-nz, one of MAMEWorld's favorite benchtesters. Funny how that blog picked up his results and reposted them...

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Re: DOS Windows 95 Benchmarks

Posted on 2015-08-23, 16:20

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by Stiletto

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Moved to Marvin (I guess)

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Re: Expendable (by Rage) bump mapping issue

Posted on 2015-08-21, 17:28

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by Stiletto

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IIRC the EMBM version will run on G400, G450 and Parhelia, but not on G550. There was a link to an older page with a patch to make the EMBM version run on Non-Matrox cards, but that patch isn't available any more. strange for a patch to go completly missing from the internet, you would think it …

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