Re: Dual P233 MMX DOS/Win98/XP machine

Posted on 2010-06-18, 06:06

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by Anonymous Freak

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XP will run just fine with enough RAM. When it first came out, I ran it on an ultra-portable Sony "PictureBook" (something that would pass for a "netbook" now,) with a Pentium MMX 266 MHz and 64 MB RAM. Keep the third-party software to a minimum (i.e. no AV,) and it'll run just fine.

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Need to get my 5.25" drive installed in something!

Posted on 2010-06-17, 06:02

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by Anonymous Freak

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So the same incredible Freecycle find that got me my prototype Sound Blaster has turned up a few other nice surprises... The gentleman advertised a small list of old games, among them Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, along with some other games. Well, digging through the two boxes, there are a few …

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Re: Double score: CMS and prototype SB1.0

Posted on 2010-06-16, 16:25

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by Anonymous Freak

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Unfortunately, I don't have a 5.25" drive handy to image the disks from. I'll see if I can get to it this weekend.

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Re: Double score: CMS and prototype SB1.0

Posted on 2010-06-16, 07:34

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by Anonymous Freak

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And it works! Still don't have a hard drive, but I found a .MOD player and some smallish .MODs to throw on my boot floppy. This prototype "Killer Card" works perfectly!

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Re: Just acquired: EARLY SOUND BLASTER ... NEW IN SEALED BOX

Posted on 2010-06-16, 06:14

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by Anonymous Freak

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Alright, CMS test attached to my other thread.

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Re: Double score: CMS and prototype SB1.0

Posted on 2010-06-16, 06:14

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by Anonymous Freak

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So I finally got a machine with ISA slots out of storage. No hard drive. :-( I did load SBTEST2 onto a boot floppy to get diagnostic data, though. The Killer Card has DSP version 1.03. I'm including scans of the cards (ignore the bright green bit at the end, I used a USB-PS/2 adapter to keep the …

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Re: Just acquired: EARLY SOUND BLASTER ... NEW IN SEALED BOX

Posted on 2010-06-16, 05:37

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by Anonymous Freak

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Can you take this file: http://home.arcor.de/h-a-l-9000/test/SBTEST2.zip (It checks DSP version number and some more things) would be great if you used it with both your cards: gameblaster and sb this way: sbtest2>gb.txt sbtest2>sb.txt so that it will save the results into .txt files Here you go, …

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Re: Double score: CMS and prototype SB1.0

Posted on 2010-06-15, 23:57

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by Anonymous Freak

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Yeah, I'll have to give this guy a thorough cleaning before trying it out; I'll also check out to see if any of the capacitors can be easily replaced. Yeah, all the socketed chips are great. If I find any of them are dead, most are probably readily replaceable from Radio Shack. (Well, what Radio …

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Re: Dual 386 Motherboard??????

Posted on 2010-06-15, 23:14

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by Anonymous Freak

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In high school, we had a "mini-supercomputer" (Sequent S27) that had eight 386/387 pairs. Ran a variant of UNIX called DYNIX.

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Re: Monochrome CGA

Posted on 2010-06-15, 21:49

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by Anonymous Freak

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CGA monochrome supports higher resolution than color mode. (640x200) And with tweaking in composite mode, can be both high-resolution and high-color. (Relatively speaking, of course.) Plus, the OP is referring to support in DOSBox. (I used to have an HP 200LX, which has a "CGA monochrome" display. I …

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Re: Introduction.

Posted on 2010-06-13, 18:37

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by Anonymous Freak

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I keep meaning to get an Amiga, (along with an Alpha and a Sun, and a....) but haven't gotten one yet. I've had a few slip through my fingers from Freecycle/Craigslist over the years. I started out as solely a collector of 68k Macs, then 3-4 years ago expanded to early IBMs, then to "alternative" …

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Re: Introduction.

Posted on 2010-06-12, 23:08

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by Anonymous Freak

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I don't know the full specs of the AT yet, it only had an EGA card in it when I put it in storage, and I don't have any EGA monitors. I have since gotten a VGA card for it, but I need to dig it out of storage first.

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Re: Double score: CMS and prototype SB1.0

Posted on 2010-06-12, 22:49

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by Anonymous Freak

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I have the worst luck with lottery tickets. I match ZERO numbers significantly more often than I match even one. Statistically, matching zero is LESS likely than matching one. Somehow, I doubt Creative has any interest at all in it. (Especially since the person I got it from offered it to them …

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Re: Just acquired: EARLY SOUND BLASTER ... NEW IN SEALED BOX

Posted on 2010-06-12, 19:15

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by Anonymous Freak

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As soon as I dig the AT out of storage, I'll run that on 'em. I'll try to do that within a week or two.

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Re: Just acquired: Creative GAME BLASTER /aka C/MS...Complete in Box !

Posted on 2010-06-12, 09:26

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by Anonymous Freak

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So the CT-1300A I just got (see other thread about "double score") is advertised solely for music. Must have been from before they even thought of using it for games. The funniest part is the label on the back "ONLY US$195" Mine has the complete box, including the manuals and software.

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Introduction.

Posted on 2010-06-12, 09:10

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by Anonymous Freak

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Alright, found this site through a search, and it looks great to me, so I suppose I'd better introduce myself. I'm "Anonymous Freak", the same name on many other forums (including Slashdot, MacRumors, 68kmla, VCForums, and a few more.) I'm a long-time geek, dating back to when my dad bought an IBM …

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Double score: CMS and prototype SB1.0

Posted on 2010-06-12, 08:56

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by Anonymous Freak

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Howdy all. New member, found the forum via search. I just acquired two new pieces of kit to go with my vintage PC gear. What started out as a reply to a Freecycle ad for "old PC games" turned into two large boxes of old PC games, including old Infocom games (yes, including the appropriate …

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Re: Just acquired: EARLY SOUND BLASTER ... NEW IN SEALED BOX

Posted on 2010-06-12, 08:39

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by Anonymous Freak

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And, just after posting, I see the link in Malik's sig, which appears to have exactly what I need. Thanks, Malik!

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Re: Just acquired: EARLY SOUND BLASTER ... NEW IN SEALED BOX

Posted on 2010-06-12, 08:37

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by Anonymous Freak

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Hi, not to thread hijack or anything... So I just picked up, for free (thanks, Freecycle!) a box of old DOS games (including, appropriately enough, the old Infocom Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy,) along with two extra presents. A boxed Creative Music System. and this: http://www.hurtley.info/Media/ …

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