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Re: Best LGA775 Cooler for under $25

Posted on 2017-04-02, 20:54

I use a TX3 with my 2600k since day 1 - I can't recommend it enough. Keeps the cpu cool even on summer-time. I had to change the fan once though, started being noisy due to the amount of hours it worked. Great little cooler.

Re: Roland founder Ikutaro Kakehashi has died

Posted on 2017-04-02, 13:11

by keropi

in Milliways

RIP

Re: My Socket 7 Pentium MMX build

Posted on 2017-04-01, 18:28

by keropi

in Marvin \ System Specs

nice build!!!

Re: BitchinFast 3D 2000!!

Posted on 2017-04-01, 17:47

by keropi

in Marvin \ Video

One of the best yt videos ever made. I wish there was an ultra-thumbs_up button I could use.

Re: SoftMPU on LGR

Posted on 2017-04-01, 09:53

by keropi

in SoftMPU

Great vid , saw it yesterday - almost made me to go fondle my mt32 as well 🤣 🤣 🤣

Re: Microsoft to release 64-bit MS-DOS 9.0 after 17 years

Posted on 2017-04-01, 07:50

by keropi

in Milliways

🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 nice one

Re: My 486SLC (386SX) system, what can I do with it?

Posted on 2017-03-31, 23:45

by keropi

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

That seems correct for a 486slc - 386DX/40 speeds in benchmarks. I know of the 386sx->486slc double clocked upgrade but no upgrades for the 486slc itself. The upgrades would be better if they came with some sort of L2 cache but sadly they don't. 1kb is just too little to make a big difference .

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-03-31, 21:27

by keropi

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

the 2 socketed ICs on the mediasonic soundcard can be replaced with the real Yamaha counterparts and boost it's FM quality since the ones installed are clones . Something to keep in mind if you want to use it "seriously" LOL I recently did that to a clone card I had and the difference in quality was …

Re: My 486SLC (386SX) system, what can I do with it?

Posted on 2017-03-31, 17:50

by keropi

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

first look at your BIOS setup, if there is an "Internal Cache" option then you need no tool - chances are the option exists.

Re: Thimbleweed Park (SCUMM)

Posted on 2017-03-31, 07:00

by keropi

in Release Announcements

It's not literally SCUMM, is it? I would expect it's something that just happens to superficially resemble SCUMM. [...] yes, that seems to be the case - played a little (maybe 10mins in) and this is no way a good-old SCUMM game... transparencies, multiple layers of scrolling, pixel effects... I am …

Re: Bought German 386SX system, several cards I can't identify...

Posted on 2017-03-31, 06:57

by keropi

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

^ this You are having a (useless nowdays modem) , serial/lpt/gameport , ide/floppy controlller and lastly a network card all in separate cards like elod wrote. All except the modem are useful , the NIC will allow for easy file transfers once you locate it's DOS Packet driver and use mTCP's ftpserver …

Re: My 486SLC (386SX) system, what can I do with it?

Posted on 2017-03-31, 06:48

by keropi

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

you can play 386 games, what else? 😁

Re: Losing my sanity over Sound Blaster cards

Posted on 2017-03-31, 00:19

by keropi

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

weird, I have used various Live! cards on 440BX/845 mobos and never had an issue... I seem to remember (but don't quote me on that) that they tend to hog/stress the PCI bus so back then mobo manufacturers actually made their hardware compatible to the Live! cards - rather than the normal opposite. …

Re: Serial Mouse

Posted on 2017-03-30, 20:04

by keropi

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

take a look here if this interests you: PS/2 to Microsoft Serialmouse Adapter Converter / Updated First Post / Firmware Update added

Re: New DreamBlaster S2 !

Posted on 2017-03-30, 18:59

by keropi

in Marvin \ Sound

another great tune indeed clueless1 , here are some recordings for comparison S2 playback: https://soundcloud.com/user-919839499/lands-of-lore-8005-s2 SC-55 playback: https://soundcloud.com/user-919839499/lands-o … lore-8005-sc-55 it really performs great on the S2!

Re: Thimbleweed Park (SCUMM)

Posted on 2017-03-30, 17:40

by keropi

in Release Announcements

https://youtu.be/gESZ95d5pkU it doesn't run in DOS though 😊

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-03-30, 13:08

by keropi

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

^ cool/weird stuff but sadly really really really rare. Never knew they used this king of expansion for anything other than ram... isdn and modem option? surreal! never saw this ram module before - or even the card itself 😐