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Re: What is your favorite or must have pieces of hardware?

Posted on 2016-05-30, 03:49

in Milliways

in Milliways

@Tetrium Wow that IS quite a list. My entire collection is not much bigger then your favorites list!!! :-p. I've basically spend 10 years actively acquiring parts and it was much easier in the early days. And don't worry about the size of your collection, what's more important is that you have what …

Re: Would you think education is a business in today's world?

Posted on 2016-05-30, 03:35

in Milliways

in Milliways

I'm actually more worried about scientific research getting corrupted by big companies. At some point a great discovery is made: "Thingy A is proven to be bigger than thingy B!!!" One year later: "Thingy B is actually bigger than thingy A!!!" One more year later "Thingy A turned out to be bigger, …

Re: Windows Me - "Misunderstood Edition"

Posted on 2016-05-30, 03:26

in Milliways

in Milliways

The blinking cursor thing happens on my WinME box as well. I guess the image stating Windows is shutting down didn't actually make it into Windows ME, so it simply shows a blinking cursor instead. Since ACPI is disabled on my machine (to free up IRQs) and I'm using an older APM style setup, I do …

Re: Greetings & My Rig

Posted on 2016-05-30, 03:21

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Welcome aboard! You're not using a fan on your CPU heatsink? And what's that in the top external 5.25 drivebay of your black case? And it's kinda nice to see someone having build a retro rig with only a single Voodoo 2, or is SLI still being contemplated 😜.

Re: Tetrium's guide to Windows ME

Posted on 2016-05-30, 03:06

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Wow...how can such beauty come from such an ugly case, but nice find! :D Does it have the ME product sticker somewhere on the case btw? Yeah it has the WinMe license key sticker on the side. I couldn't get the thing to reliably POST until I completely disassembled it and cleaned all the dust out of …

Re: amd k6-2

Posted on 2016-05-30, 03:02

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

They aren't too similar in how they look though...well..in as much as Slot 1 boards can look different :P. I used a s370 build for my Celeron 800 rig and it ran pretty much effortlessly. Only gripe I had about that board was it's cramped free socket area (had to find a good but small CPU HSF). I …

Re: 440BX 133Mhz FSB 89Mhz AGP Video Card Compatibility?

Posted on 2016-05-30, 02:57

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

You may say about your doubts more concretely. Which doubts? The Geforce4 MX was NV17, it was a Geforce 2 MX die shrunk with the memory controller from the Geforce 4 Ti ported over. An MX440 is neck and Neck with a Geforce 2 Ultra, while an MX420 will compete with a GTS And this with less power …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-05-30, 02:47

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Cheers HT :). I wasn't even aware of the existence of silver-colored DVD drives until I came across these (though I never bothered to go find out so I would know for sure) and the silver optical drives I did came across were usually CDROM drives, most without the capability to even burn media. The …

Re: What is with the prices on retro cards lately? (not a sale/appreasal post)

Posted on 2016-05-30, 02:40

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

most of us who for the first time start collecting retro computer stuff, will take at least a year or 2 before our collections start getting anywhere substantial True... For me it has taken 3 years so far and not finished building the collection yet. Still missing vital pieces, before the …

Re: What would you choose, K6-2 500mhz or Celeron 466mhz

Posted on 2016-05-30, 02:12

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I never build a time machine. If Bancho intends to use any games which will require slowdown, I'd guess he would be better off with K6-2, if only for the purpose of slowing the system down. s7 is also one of the most versatile sockets with chips from many different manufacturers and makes available, …

Re: What is your favorite or must have pieces of hardware?

Posted on 2016-05-29, 16:02

in Milliways

in Milliways

This might be a long list lol! That's some list you have here! I hope it's in the "favorite" and not the "must have" side, otherwise space can easily become an issue with all those :lol: These are actually favorites of mine. Nah, not all of them are "must haves", some are on that list mostly …

Re: Best graphics card for dos gaming

Posted on 2016-05-29, 15:49

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Is there actually such a significant difference between the Virge/DX and Virge/GX graphics adapters? AFAIK ViRGE/DX uses FPM\EDO memory while /GX uses SGRAM\SDRAM (probably other diffirences can be but I'm not sure) They are using even same BIOS images :) Cheers :). The few GX ones I saw do have …

Re: The most underutilized GPUs

Posted on 2016-05-29, 15:26

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The PowerVR Kyro series. Hardly anyone used them but they traded blows with much more expensive and more powerful cards at the time, due to their efficiency. It would have been interesting to see how things would have developed if the technology behind them had stayed on the desktop and matured …

Re: amd k6-2

Posted on 2016-05-29, 13:25

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I figured as people are saying board models and such, I should put in a good word for the Chaintech 5AGM2. I never used a Chaintech Socket 7-ish board, but Chaintech's 6BTM Slot 1 BX boards I found to be really impressive somehow. We got a whole lot of these to build older rigs from (charity work) …

Re: Best graphics card for dos gaming

Posted on 2016-05-29, 13:14

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Looks like I can't help you. I tested with a Trio64, 2x Trio64+, a Virge/DX and a Virge/GX. All worked perfectly except for the DX of course, which doesn't work at all! Ah well, at least it gave me an opportunity to test some cards. Can't see what could be wrong with the thing - it looks perfectly …

Re: Is there any benefit from playing a single core game on a OS that supports dual cpu?

Posted on 2016-05-29, 13:08

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Man, I sure am glad that people around here have opened up to the idea that SP3 is kind of a resource hog. I remember that not too long ago, I voiced some concern and suggested avoiding SP3 on older systems, only to be made fun of :P. Then you should tell those same people that you've been running …

Re: 386_Junkie’s duo core 386; The modified Systempro!

Posted on 2016-05-29, 12:38

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

386_junkie...what an amazing build!!! Fantastic restoration job on the case as well and you sure have a lot of creativity and ideas, amazing! Even the CPU cards look fantastic and everything looks like new, awesome job! :D edit: Ah noes, my post got on page 2, gotta go back a page cuz I wanna take …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-05-29, 12:19

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Cheers HT :). I wasn't even aware of the existence of silver-colored DVD drives until I came across these (though I never bothered to go find out so I would know for sure) and the silver optical drives I did came across were usually CDROM drives, most without the capability to even burn media. The …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-05-29, 10:25

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Got 2 DVD drives the other day, both with a silver-colored front bezel. Been on the lookout for a couple of those to appear for a long time so I have a better color match with a couple of silver-colored cases, one of the 2 even is a burner 😁

Re: What is your favorite or must have pieces of hardware?

Posted on 2016-05-29, 10:17

in Milliways

in Milliways

This might be a long list lol! Anyway, here goes! *CPU* 386DX-33 Intel 486DX4-100 (wt and wb) Pentium Overdrive 83MHz AMD 5x86-133 Cyrix 5x86-133 Pentium-60 Pentium-200 non-MMX PentiumMMX Overdrive-200MHz Pentium-233MMX Pentium Pro-200 (256KB, 512KB and 1M versions, @233MHz would be a bonus) Cyrix …

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