Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2013-11-08, 01:40

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Then you are either very lucky or very sneaky about getting the things you buy into the house without attracting attention. Women generally don't understand these things and see old computer parts as junk to be thrown out. Lol, have you ever actually spoken to a woman? Staring at your shoes and …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2013-11-07, 21:10

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If he's married, it doesn't matter what's inside. Every box that arrives is filled with trouble when you're married. What? I'm married, and none of my boxes are filled with trouble. Then you are either very lucky or very sneaky about getting the things you buy into the house without attracting …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2013-11-07, 20:50

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keropi wrote: Cloudschatze wrote: http://www.symphoniae.com/soundcard/IBM/PS1/JPG/92F9425_s.jpg […] Show full quote Little box o' trouble... what's inside?! 😊 If he's married, it doesn't matter what's inside. Every box that arrives is filled with trouble when you're married.

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Re: Lost my Voodoo 5 - What Shall I Do Now?

Posted on 2013-11-07, 18:52

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Just out of curiosity, what is that header near the center top of the card used for?

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Re: "Demanding" MS-DOS games for a 1.4 GHz Pentium 3

Posted on 2013-11-07, 18:51

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3DBENCH2: Weird result of 467,8 with FASTVID and 511 without. The benchmark itself is running at 2x the speed with FASTVID compared to without, so I guess the speed broke the score. I don't think 3DBench2 is very accurate anymore at these speeds. Even the latest version (1.0c) was designed with 486 …

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Re: SIMMCONN is still available for those who want to do a memory upgrade on their AWE 64

Posted on 2013-11-07, 18:47

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Stiletto wrote: jwt27 wrote: I don't get the warning anymore, note that last post was on 2013-04-26. Arrrrrgh. *shakes fist at sliderider* Don't shake it at me. This thread was bumped up to the top and marked in my browser as having new posts in it before I replied to it.

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Re: SIMMCONN is still available for those who want to do a memory upgrade on their AWE 64

Posted on 2013-11-07, 12:56

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My Avast says this site is infected with VBS:Malware-gen. Be careful! My Bit Defender doesn't and that picks up everything. I also visited this site previously when I still had Kaspersky and that never picked up anything, either. Are you sure you're not getting a false positive from something else …

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Re: The PC Chips lives

Posted on 2013-11-07, 01:32

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If the prospect of recapping frightens you, then you want to stay away from the Mac SE/30. They ALL end up needing recapping eventually. They are infamous for it.

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Re: Windows 98SE update list?

Posted on 2013-11-07, 01:24

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Come to think of it, didn't the last "official" release of IE6 for Windows 98 introduce that obnoxious bug that caused Explorer windows to lock up when you deleted a file? http://www.frankprovo.com/win98ie6filesproblem.htm One of the unofficial service packs almost certainly fixed it. Not only that …

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Re: Abe's Exoddus slow on Pentium 3 (Voodoo Banshee)

Posted on 2013-11-06, 17:57

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Just curious as to why you would want both a V3 and a Banshee in the same machine instead of pairing the V3 with some other card. The V3 is going to multi-texture a hell of a lot better than the Banshee.

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Re: When will laptop batteries get better?

Posted on 2013-11-06, 13:14

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32 hour laptop battery http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/thinking-tech … -32-hours/10739

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Re: Humour Thread: Outrageously priced retro gear for sale online

Posted on 2013-11-05, 23:09

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http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEXGEN-NX586-ISA-MOTHERBOARD-CPU-RAM-COOLER-WORKING-CONDITION-ULTRA-RARE-/200982153369?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2ecb784899 Hard to find as they are, an nx586 motherboard with CPU is NOT worth $550, especially not the VL-bus boards. The same seller also has an nx586 by …

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Re: Windows 98SE update list?

Posted on 2013-11-05, 23:00

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98SE2ME also has some useful updates in it.

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Re: OS Options and getting them on a box with limited drives

Posted on 2013-11-05, 16:52

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Unless you have a lot of RAM, you probably shouldn't bother doing anything with Win9x on that 486, especially since you have another perfectly good machine for that. Stick with DOS. The novelty of OS/2 will probably wear off in ten minutes and you will never use it again. I used to use Syquest …

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Re: Rocking AMD 386 DX 40Mhz system build

Posted on 2013-11-05, 16:42

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I don't know, for some reason the 386 seems to me to lack the wow factor of a fast Harris 286 on the one end or any 486/5x86 on the other. I have a brand new in box 386SX-16 motherboard here that I was considering for a build until I got the Harris 286 motherboard and back when I started acquiring …

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It's alive! It's ALIVE! (dead Toshiba laptop found in trash)

Posted on 2013-11-05, 16:19

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I got the replacement motherboard and Turion 64 x2 Ultra CPU in the mail over the past two days to rebuild the Toshiba Satellite that I found and it's now on my bench loosely assembled and it works! I have enough of the screws to make it solid again, but many of them were missing when I got it. ( …

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Re: A3D sound issues

Posted on 2013-11-05, 12:22

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F2bnp wrote: This is uber cool, are the drivers available? He says in the text that the only XP drivers are all hacked and have bugs. I would imagine Google search would produce some results.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2013-11-05, 12:13

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You need to be careful when ordering bulk lots of parts, especially when a lot of the parts aren't particularly difficult to find. The shipping costs will kill you beyond a certain point and make you regret purchasing what seemed like a good deal. Who said i paid shipping costs for it?? It was from …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2013-11-05, 02:18

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Mau1wurf1977 wrote: Wow I didn't know AT cases are so rare. But you can't rescue every hardware you come across either 😀 In some places they are more rare than others, but yeah, sources for AT cases are beginning to dry up as more collectors start looking for them for their pre-ATX builds.

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Re: OS Options and getting them on a box with limited drives

Posted on 2013-11-04, 23:38

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d1stortion wrote: You can see how Quake 3 runs on Dual PPro 200 1MB and a 10 year newer graphics card... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bK5QFySGpy4 Not exactly the smoothest experience 😉 Is the game being run in SMP mode so both CPU's can get in on the action?

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