Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2019-02-16, 06:16
Been buying mine on ebay unfortunately for about $50 so back it goes, i dont know how stable a reflowed board with no clean flux would be...
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2019-02-16, 01:38
Just got my second DEAD Radeon 9800 Pro. Man I don't think many of these cards are in working condition given my luck. Both the sellers claimed they were tested and working perfectly. They arrived in antistatic bags and bubble wrapped outside of that so I think they were broken prior to shipping. …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2019-02-15, 15:26
The ESC key there is like the IBM AT Keyboard. Personally I love it there and wish it had never been moved to it's current position. I think there are a lot of nice things about the older key layout than what we ended up with today.
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2019-02-07, 23:43
I prefer chips.
Re: FYI: Steam drops XP/Vista in 2019
Posted on 2019-02-04, 03:39
Yup that's all she wrote. If you are in offline mode and haven't run it for a bit it will launch 1 more time, then after that steamui.dll error. I'll be interested to see how long people who deny steam an internet connection are able to keep going.
Re: Found the vintage PC motherlode...
Posted on 2019-02-02, 19:44
Let us know when they start putting some of this up on ebay, or if they want to do any deals to this community prior to going on ebay =)
Re: post up pics of your "computing area"
Posted on 2019-01-31, 02:21
Davros wrote: ]Mine […] Show full quote ]Mine I have the exact same desk.
Re: 10 year cpu challenge
Posted on 2019-01-29, 01:50
2009 i7 - 920 2013 i7 - 4770k 2019 i9 - 9900k
Re: What game are you playing now?
Posted on 2019-01-26, 09:06
Thought I'd upload some footage of me playing Quake 2 in RTX full ray tracing rendering. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGF2o7QU4Sk
Re: What game are you playing now?
Posted on 2019-01-24, 01:42
Playing with q2vkpt the fully Ray traced Quake 2 implementation, pretty cool.
Re: Favourite version of Windows?
Posted on 2019-01-21, 21:46
XP, VISTA, 7, 8, 8.1, 10 I don't have a problem with any of these OS. Anything before that and I'm very suspicious of. Win 3.x is a garbage DOS overlay. Win 95 and 98, 98SE are unreliable and eventually eat themselves. XP was the first actually reliable Windows OS for long term. Yes I maintain and …
Re: Suggested specs for a full speed DOSbox machine?
Posted on 2019-01-19, 08:53
i9 9900k @ "Stock" D1: Microseconds 1 loop: 1.94 Dhrystones / second: 516,129 VAX MIPS rating: 293.76 D2: Microseconds 1 loop: 2.02 Dhrystones / second: 493,827 VAX MIPS rating: 281.06
Re: Post your 'current' PC
Posted on 2019-01-18, 15:11
I'll try to remember to post with my 9900k over the weekend, I'm interested to see too.
Re: Windows XP Activation how long?
Posted on 2019-01-17, 02:36
WPA_KILL
Re: What game are you playing now?
Posted on 2019-01-12, 18:36
Have you never hand mapped an RPG? That was a good part of the charm of those early RPGs like Eye of the Beholder, get yourself some grid paper and go to town. I played Legend of Grimrock 1 and 2 manually mapping them, it was the whole reason I even played those games. If you haven't ever tried …
Re: Should I sell my desktop?
Posted on 2019-01-12, 07:24
Sell both and get a tablet!
Re: Daemon Tools 3.47 No Longer Works on Windows 98 After Installing Unofficial Service Pack 3
Posted on 2019-01-08, 21:01
Have you tried just reinstalling Daemon Tools?
Re: Guess the track
Posted on 2019-01-05, 23:08
Don't know but it sounds like Japanese RPG music.
Re: What game are you playing now?
Posted on 2019-01-05, 18:35
Just started Dragon Quest XI last night. So far I'm loving the art style and turn based gameplay. I can already say this is 5X the game that Final Fantasy XV was. I finished that game but I still can't figure out why. I think it was pretty awful for many reasons, the biggest of which is it was just …
Re: Is there any need to have two retro gaming rigs witth the same OS?
Posted on 2019-01-04, 23:20
I agree with the idea that more than 1 computer is needed for MSDOS, I personally use 2, an IBM 5170 and a Pentium 90. However I think DosBox is the best solution entirely avoiding real machines if your just doing it to play the games. I also think there is an argument for adding machines where you …
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