Re: Dual gpu pci cards

Posted on 2021-12-21, 08:29

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by Anonymous Freak

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One huge deal - that quad Radeon is just "four separate video cards" to the OS to run many displays. It does *NOT* support any form of internal CrossFire. If you only have one display plugged in, it's only going to use one GPU. It would be functionally identical to plugging in four dual-head Radeon …

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Re: PC-Cards on Macintosh (NUBUS or PDS or PCI)

Posted on 2020-06-19, 16:25

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by Anonymous Freak

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I have quite a few. A Performa 630 DOS Compatible, a Power Macintosh 6100/66 DOS Compatible, and a boxed PCI "PC Compatibility Card" You need the "PC Setup" system extension+control panel to make the DOS card work in any of them. Version 1.x were the original releases of the software by Apple. …

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Re: Do you ever

Posted on 2017-01-03, 03:25

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by Anonymous Freak

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Why I never! I play minesweeper. (Or Reversi on Windows 3.0.)

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Re: What was your worst screw-up with retro tech?

Posted on 2016-12-29, 13:39

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by Anonymous Freak

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Tetrium wrote: Solarstorm wrote: I started collecting it. 😒 So did you kill anything yet? 😊 Does a relationship count? 😁

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Re: Before I recyle this...

Posted on 2016-12-29, 06:01

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by Anonymous Freak

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My eBay google-fu is failing me, I can't find a picture of the card you're referring to. Is the 8-pin port like an old Macintosh serial port? http://www.cablestogo.ca/product-images/02315/600/02315a.jpg There is a possibility it's a PC "AppleTalk networking card" - a few companies made cards to add …

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Re: Deyellowing Plastic

Posted on 2016-12-29, 05:58

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by Anonymous Freak

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The main thing that retr0bright adds is a more "gel like" texture that makes it easier to spread and stay on the plastic. But now more beauty supply stores are selling gel hydrogen peroxide directly, so retr0bright's big advantage is just that it's cheaper to mix than to buy pre-made gel H2O2. The …

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Re: What was your worst screw-up with retro tech?

Posted on 2016-12-27, 11:35

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by Anonymous Freak

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A couple. One is the simple "plugged a wire in backward" which fried it - "it" in this case being the near-mythical Teac dual-drive. Of course, only the 5.25" half is fried, the 3.5" half works fine. The other was getting the OS on a laptop "just right," - period perfect everything, loaded with tons …

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Re: Anyone know if this adapter would work?

Posted on 2016-12-20, 12:27

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by Anonymous Freak

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*eyeballs FireWire to USB connector that shows up in "Customers Also Shopped For" and that can't possibly work - fortunately not the same seller* What the everloving frack are those?!?! I thought "yawetaG had to be seeing things", went and looked. I'll be damned they exist. WHY ??? Seriously, what …

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Re: Anyone know if this adapter would work?

Posted on 2016-12-20, 12:24

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by Anonymous Freak

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Look up your model of Dell's tech specs - Dell had a period where they were notorious for using power plugs that look like some existing standard, but aren't quite it. We had a bunch at work where the "CPU AUX" power plug looked like a PCIe 6-pin plug (where most motherboards use either a 4-pin or …

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Re: Here I go! Trying OS/2 for the first time!

Posted on 2016-12-20, 09:27

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by Anonymous Freak

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Depending on your version of OS/2, it might have support for Windows 3.1 (win16 only,) or it might not have Windows support at all. It will have DOS support, though. At this point, it's hard to find native OS/2 software, the latest OS/2 version of Firefox is 2.0. Really, just play with it and enjoy …

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Re: Legal status of old shareware programs

Posted on 2016-12-20, 09:20

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by Anonymous Freak

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It depends on what country you're in. In the US, no computer software is public domain due to age. Copyright in the US lasts a ridiculously long time - it's currently at "120 years after creation, or 95 years after publication, whichever is shorter." Which means the NEWEST something can be to be …

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Re: Show off your tiny PCs

Posted on 2016-12-19, 05:55

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by Anonymous Freak

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matze79 wrote: Games on OSX ? apple sucks much this days, they give a fuck on gamers.. Example, Spore is just bundled windows version with wine. That's not Apple's fault, that's lazy game developers' fault.

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Re: Newest games on oldest hardware

Posted on 2016-12-19, 05:54

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by Anonymous Freak

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Actually, *THIS* wins for "newest game on oldest hardware": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lop3oNb3MY

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Re: Newest games on oldest hardware

Posted on 2016-12-19, 05:41

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by Anonymous Freak

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If you want "newest game on oldest hardware", I'd have to say this Kickstarter would fit the bill: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/stirringdragongames/unknown-realm-an-8bit-rpg-for-pc-and-commodore-64 Although it's going to be a Commodore 64 game. ("PC" game in the form of shipping with a C64 …

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Re: Fastest pc you have win98 on? (besides emulation)

Posted on 2016-12-16, 06:06

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by Anonymous Freak

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Right now? Tualatin 1.4S on 820 with 1 GB PC-800 RDRAM, and Voodoo5 5500.

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Re: AMD drops the mic

Posted on 2016-12-14, 13:22

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by Anonymous Freak

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Especially comparing to an Intel processor with Turbo off - that's one of the major performance boosters. Half of Intel's CPUs "rated" speeds aren't ever actually run at that speed, they always run at a higher turbo speed. I'll wait for independent reviews. That said, anything that forces Intel to …

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Re: Are there any VR headsets that can used as a dumb display?

Posted on 2016-12-12, 05:29

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by Anonymous Freak

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Most "VR headsets" made before 2014 are really just dumb displays. See the Sony Glasstron (How I lusted over those when they first came out.)

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Re: PCI PCMCIA card drivers

Posted on 2016-12-12, 05:27

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by Anonymous Freak

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If you can find an ISA PCMCIA controller, you'd have better luck - PCMCIA is basically an extension of the ISA bus, so you just need DOS 5+'s built-in PCMCIA drivers for those. For a PCI card, you'd need to find one that specifically has DOS drivers.

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Re: DOSBox for money?

Posted on 2016-12-12, 05:27

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by Anonymous Freak

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And if they are doing anything other than burning the DOS Box installer to disc, they have to make their changes available under the license.

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Re: Can someone point me to an external 2TB or 3TB USB drive that will work in XP?

Posted on 2016-12-12, 05:23

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by Anonymous Freak

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As pretty much everyone else has said - anything 2 TB and over won't work natively on XP x86. (Theoretically 2 TB will work, but if the drive reports even 1 byte over, it won't.) Some drives may do some "trickery" to allow it, but you'd have to find out for a given drive if it does or not. Network- …

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