Re: Goldstar 16-bit ISA multi I/O PC controller card, model IDE Plus V3L, 002.

Posted on 2018-07-31, 03:09

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retro games 100 wrote: Tetrium, thanks very much for uploading the manual. That was really good of you to do that. I'm sorry for the late thank you too! You are welcome 😀 And no worries, I'm just glad it helped 😀

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Re: VIA C3 1GigaPro Help - Which motherboard?

Posted on 2018-06-18, 21:36

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VIA once released a list of officially compatible motherboards and a copy of this list is saved here . The problem is that it (afaicr) never specified which variant of C3 (or Cyrix3) was compatible with which exact motherboard, but my guess would be this had to do at least partially with the …

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Re: Packard Bell European Master CD

Posted on 2018-06-18, 21:18

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First result on google images for Packard Bell European Master CD comes up with the picture: 1372883228.or.46613.jpg I suppose they had more master disks, which all may have looked different. Hence why I asked :P Or they may all be the same except for the part number... :dead: Or they may have the …

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Re: Bought these games today

Posted on 2018-06-17, 16:27

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Seems I'm the only one buying games lately. :P I'm atm actually buying more games then I am buying hardware :P My most recent additions are another copy of Battlefield 1942 World War II Anthology, a copy of Battlefield Vietnam and a copy of Rayman 3-pack (the latter 2 games I didn't previously have …

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Re: Packard Bell European Master CD

Posted on 2018-06-17, 15:59

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cyclone3d wrote: Tetrium wrote: What does this disk look like? Have a pic of it? First result on google images for Packard Bell European Master CD comes up with the picture: 1372883228.or.46613.jpg I suppose they had more master disks, which all may have looked different. Hence why I asked 😜

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Re: Packard Bell European Master CD

Posted on 2018-06-16, 23:30

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What does this disk look like? Have a pic of it?

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-06-16, 23:12

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Been a while since I last bought anything, but after some guessing and contemplating about a €15 Medion PC containing a P4, I suspected it to contain a Radeon 9800XL or another one of those odd Radeon's, Delta PSU and 512MB DDR-400, perhaps even more and maybe containing a harddrive. When I got home …

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Re: NVIDIA Fermi is now officially retro (or atleast unsupported)

Posted on 2018-05-25, 19:47

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Retro =/= No longer officially supported. ^^ This. Fermi was released in 2010 or so? It's only 8 years old... This topic does come back from time to time and it's very hard to set some standard for what is retro and what is not. One could even argue that a card 3 years old is retro (or rare or " …

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Re: 3dfx Voodoo5 9000 optained!

Posted on 2018-05-03, 19:17

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That's unreal! 😁

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Re: My Cyrix 5x86 133/4x Story: A VOGONS lifeline - Feipoa

Posted on 2018-05-03, 18:55

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Artex wrote: keropi wrote: Finally closure! And I am willing to bet that haul is purposely long so that people quit midways... I was close my friend.. I was close. I can imagine... Even just reading all this made me want to quit. Well done and enjoy 😀 But pfff...such a thing better not happen again …

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Re: Geforce FX5800 Ultra - Serious, Serious £££

Posted on 2018-04-12, 16:12

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FX5800U was always a very uncommon card here in The Netherlands. It was almost as if they didn't even exist, basically all 5900U and 5959U were WAY more common. And it's kinda legendary. I'm not so sure about how practical the 5800U is. I think it's more some kind of curiosity. Kinda wish I had one …

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Re: Retro Hardware Prices... are NUTS!

Posted on 2018-04-12, 16:10

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This is why I go through the trouble of hoarding in the first place, do it on the cheap when no one gives a rat's ass or thinks you are insane and profit later by not having to pay out the rear later. I wonder how many here are regretting not stocking up on 3DFX cards.. Not me lol It's exactly as …

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Re: Pentium III in Intel LX board?

Posted on 2018-04-12, 15:54

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Just to be sure, which Pentium 3s are you testing with? LX may support Katmais, though this is more a matter of the board and not just the chipset.

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Re: PC100 BXcel board - is it worth it?

Posted on 2018-03-29, 23:54

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but the cool thing about this particular motherboard is that it is a BabyAT one, which is somewhat rare for Slot 1. ^This Even though it was a PCChips board, I kept it as I knew Slot 1 AT (and especially compatible with Deschutes 100MHz FSB) was uncommon, even then. I had gotten this board locally …

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Re: Hoontech SoundTrack 97 PCI

Posted on 2018-03-29, 23:44

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I had gotten one of those Hoontech sound cards with breakout box locally and had to track down a driver from somewhere in Korea I think? These sound cards seemed to be more popular there due to karaoke or something. I only downloaded the driver for my specific card and I doubt it's compatible to …

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Re: How many floppy disks do you have? And what do you do with them?

Posted on 2018-03-29, 23:39

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Most floppy disks I gotten were free from people who were tossing them out and I got basically all ranges I think? From 5.25in floppy disks (don't have any of those quad density disks I think?) to 3.5in (from SSDD to DSED) I have a couple hundred perhaps. Since I have the space and these don't take …

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Re: best windows 98 agp card

Posted on 2018-03-29, 23:30

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Yeah can't complain about the bandwidth there! Latency is an important consideration too though. I'm not sure how it compares there. That might be hard to compare to Intel because of the differences in how their CPU caches work. Anandtech actually shows SiS 735 SDR being superior. The chipset that …

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Re: My CPU Collection

Posted on 2018-03-29, 23:24

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The Serpent Rider wrote: That AMD 5x86 seems to have a relatively late product date Those laser engraved 5x86s are dated around 1997-1998. Strictly OEM and usually used for embedded solutions. Some were even marked as DX2 and DX. His AMD 5x86 has an actual date code of week 18 of the year 2000, …

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Re: My CPU Collection

Posted on 2018-03-27, 18:58

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I don't think there are any CPU collection threads here? That AMD 5x86 seems to have a relatively late product date :) I think some of us here may have a substantial amount of CPUs, but I know that some serious collectors have even in the thousands (not me though lol). I do like looking at pics, so …

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Re: Dead Viper 770?

Posted on 2018-03-27, 09:39

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just curious, how did you repair a video card with a pencil eraser? Just cleaned the contacts? Yes. That's basically it. I prefer to use rubbing alcohol and I've fixed dead hardware this way, like memory modules, slotted CPUs and graphics cards. The amount of dirt that comes off is amazing …

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