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

Posted on 2024-03-28, 21:17

Another nForce 2 to have fun with, Soltek SL-75FRN2-RL. Probably my 4th one in almost a whole decade and the 1st (and only) to work properly. Didn't do a full recap as it wasn't really needed... most of the caps aren't the most abysmal choices Soltek could have gone with by a long shot. The only …

Grand hardware testing round (MB, CPU, GPU, RAM, sound)

Posted on 2024-03-28, 20:57

by fillosaurus

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Having so much time (unemployed for now) I did a test round of some of my old hardware. Mobos: CHAINTECH 6AIA2 PCCHIPS M825G MSI K7T PRO2 ASROCK K7S41GX MSI KT3 ULTRA 2 (MS-6380E) EPOX EP-8RDA+ 2x Matsonic MS8137C ECS K7S5A MSI K7N2 Delta 2 GIGABYTE GA-7N400 Pro2 ASUS A7V8X-X unknown socket 370 …

Re: Voodoo 3 3000 agp or agp card + voodo 2 pci

Posted on 2024-03-28, 18:57

by fillosaurus

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

all the sugestions have their point , I have couple of pentium 3's , 850 and 1ghz . For now I'll build the 1ghz . From what I recall I must have 2 identical voodoo 2 and cables ( simply don't remember where is the second one ) , I also have a V3 3000 and V3 3500 TV . I also found in ebay for very …

Re: Voodoo 3 3000 agp or agp card + voodo 2 pci

Posted on 2024-03-28, 18:49

by fillosaurus

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Pentium 3 above 600MHz I'd give a Ti4200 and V2 in your case. This enables the features and speed from the Ti for Direct3D and Glide from the voodoo Sub 600 the V3 would be OK as well, since the system won't be that much faster with a Ti. Alternatively I'd recommend pairing Matrox with V2 (maybe …

Re: One of the pieces in my collection of weird and rare stuff

Posted on 2024-03-28, 03:56

by fillosaurus

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Cool... I have a vague memory of a cheapy that wore too quickly, some computer fair special with the scant instructions in chinglish, was black and silver, heavyish, IR range was horrible, maybe 18". This MS is not IR, but RF. Both the mouse and receiver have a switch underside for channel 1 or 2. …

Re: One of the pieces in my collection of weird and rare stuff

Posted on 2024-03-28, 03:03

by fillosaurus

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Well, wireless ball mice are rare as hen's teeth.

DOS games with native DB50XG/SW60XG support

Posted on 2024-03-27, 22:26

by fillosaurus

in Marvin \ Sound

Going trough a lot of building/testing of old hardware&software I found 2 games with native support for XG MIDI, Heroes of Might&Magic II and Settlers II. Do you know any others?

One of the pieces in my collection of weird and rare stuff

Posted on 2024-03-27, 22:08

by fillosaurus

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

A Microsoft wireless ball mouse, PS/2 and RS232 compatible. I don't know other wireless ball mice.

Help identify a mystery BX board

Posted on 2024-03-27, 05:25

by fillosaurus

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I know absolutely nothing about it. No silkscreened manufacturer name. Have not tested it yet. Unlike other BX boards I have, this one has no SBlink.

Re: Which USB 2.0 cards for old motherboards

Posted on 2024-03-16, 11:35

by fillosaurus

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Had some trouble with VIA, none with NEC. Ironically, VIA USB 2.0 with VIA chipsets. UPDATE: On my current K7 build (slot A Athlon 700 2nd gen, ASUS K7M motherboard with AMD 760+VIA 686A) one of my VIA USB 2.0 cards works perfectly; a very cheap (I mean, it costed me nothing) Gembird with 4 …

Re: Yamaha SW20-PC

Posted on 2024-03-02, 18:50

by fillosaurus

in PC Emulation

Sorry to necro, but the ol' girl SW20-PC works for me on any motherboard with ISA slot, no matter the chipset. Of course, needs some tuning, but I can hear the goodness of OPL4 2Mb MIDI on them.

Re: Y2K build

Posted on 2024-02-20, 12:29

by fillosaurus

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Phuc... Tried again Unreal Gold. IMO, that game needs a Voodoo to really shine, any other 3D card is bantha poodoo. So, I will put 2xVoodoo2 in SLI in the system.

Re: Y2K build

Posted on 2024-02-20, 12:07

by fillosaurus

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Tested the system with some very demanding games from 2000-2003. It works well with any Quake 3 engine game, old Unreal flies, yet to try Dungeon siege.

Re: Which USB 2.0 cards for old motherboards

Posted on 2024-02-20, 06:54

by fillosaurus

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Had some trouble with VIA, none with NEC. Ironically, VIA USB 2.0 with VIA chipsets.

Re: Y2K build

Posted on 2024-02-20, 06:14

by fillosaurus

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Radeon is from 2000 Specifically Radeon 7 2 00 is the 2000 Radeon. 7500 is a big improved iteration from the year after, ditto for the budget-minded 7000 iteration. AFAIK, 7500 is just a process reduction of first Radeon, from 2000, so it counts for 2000, even if it was launched in 2001. Same with …

Re: Y2K build

Posted on 2024-02-20, 02:18

by fillosaurus

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Case should be beige but this one has a "semi accurate" AMD Athlon sticker... maybe the II stands for second gen? Not that I can talk nothing I own is period correct. I like my Slot A, its not as stable as the Slot 1 but it' not as common either. It was my main case for many years and the sticker …

Re: Y2K build

Posted on 2024-02-19, 14:33

by fillosaurus

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Great build! Some pictures please. I don't think Radeon 7500 is a card from 2000, rather from 2001! Also I think the CPU and the board, while very good , are actually from 1999 - that makes your build the 1999 dream machine. I also got a Slot A build that I hope to finish some day: the same Athlon …

Re: Y2K build

Posted on 2024-02-19, 13:49

by fillosaurus

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Great build! Some pictures please. I don't think Radeon 7500 is a card from 2000, rather from 2001! Also I think the CPU and the board, while very good , are actually from 1999 - that makes your build the 1999 dream machine. I also got a Slot A build that I hope to finish some day: the same Athlon …

Re: Y2K build

Posted on 2024-02-19, 13:08

by fillosaurus

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Cypher321 wrote on 2024-02-19, 08:46: Which OS did you go with? If it's not Windows ME I'll be very disappointed 😉 Neah, went with evergreen 98SE. Never liked ME, installed it once, tried&tested it, after a week I went back to 98.

Re: Y2K build

Posted on 2024-02-19, 13:05

by fillosaurus

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Great build! Some pictures please. I don't think Radeon 7500 is a card from 2000, rather from 2001! Also I think the CPU and the board, while very good , are actually from 1999 - that makes your build the 1999 dream machine. I also got a Slot A build that I hope to finish some day: the same Athlon …

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

Grand hardware testing round (MB, CPU, GPU, RAM, sound)

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DOS games with native DB50XG/SW60XG support

One of the pieces in my collection of weird and rare stuff

Help identify a mystery BX board

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