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Re: USB Floppy Drives?

You could solder up an adaptor to connect a 5.25" drive (you'd need an external power supply too), but you may have difficulty overriding the type of drive the USB chip reports (telling the OS cyls, heads, spt, etc). Unless it has a configuration EEPROM you could manipulate... I once bought a bunch …

Re: When does something become retro?

in Milliways
Just to add: Anything with 3DFX in combination with reasonable period correct hardware to me is very obvious to be retro, dare to deny that 😁 Edit: Another add. Personally I also put a boundary at AT to ATX systems, even if the rest of the hardware is about the same

Re: When does something become retro?

in Milliways
The thing tips over the line from old to retro when looking at it means conciously looking into the past. 'Looking backward.' Here it is revealed perhaps that retro needs to be more of "you don't see that anymore" than a date of introduction. Something like this imo. Many people use old stuff …

Re: Slot 1 Intel 440Bx Build

Are you still using that same PSU? I had one from the same brand and it was really cheaply built Neither of those boards seem to have the buffers for the DIMM slots. As I recall buffers were necessary if you wanted reliable operation out of the 4th DIMM slot. Would you know if this is also the case …

Re: Bought these games today

in Milliways
Today I bought BF2 Deluxe Edition (a second hand copy) for €2. I'm not sure if it is retro enough since the game is barely 10 years old but I always wanted an extra copy as I play it on a LAN with a couple of friends on a regular basis. Last week I also bought Sim Isle (dunno if I ever played it but …

Re: Matching hardware with software?

For me it goes somewhat along these lines (only Windows, haven't build a DOS rig in a long time lol) : Windows 95 : Anything 486 100MHz or faster with 16MB RAM or more Windows 98SE : Anything with 64MB RAM and a Pentium class CPU above 100MHz or so Windows ME : Anything with 128 MB RAM or better ( …

Re: Old computers for daily tasks?

in Milliways
I used to use my old Pentium 3 for downloading pictures off of my mobile, but that ended when my old mobile finally died. Then I use a couple Athlon64's for tasks like watching movies and as a backup/datacomputer for storing all of my files along with slipstreaming and burning Windows OS cd's

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