Re: Finally scored a 25 mhz Harris

Posted on 2013-10-26, 17:28

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almost all from Israel went through ordeals of fire before I got them. I'd love to know who the seller is - that's the first time in ages I hear of anyone around here selling old PC stuff (older than P3 era, at least). Keep in mind that many countries behind the Iron Curtain made do with technology …

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

Posted on 2013-10-26, 15:22

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This is why when I'm expecting something rare I track it and then go right to the post office as soon as tracking says the package is there. I try to minimize the chances on anything that took me years to find getting lost, stolen or damaged.

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Re: Duke Nukem 3D - no mouse

Posted on 2013-10-26, 15:09

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Geocities-like layout still used especialy by japanese, like this one: http://www.ararza.com/us/frame010.htm (WARNING: NSW) What was the other personal web hosting site that looked very similar to Geocities? It's been so long I can't remember now. I remember Tripod but I think there was a third one …

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Re: Roland SCC-1 - MIDI garbled?

Posted on 2013-10-26, 00:11

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Boy, I wish I had Roland SCC-1 problems. 🙁

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Re: The game that robbed me of so much time.

Posted on 2013-10-26, 00:10

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DracoNihil wrote: Can any of you beat my "highscore"? I can beat any highscore with Photoshop. 😁

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Re: a good motherboard/CPU for windows XP

Posted on 2013-10-26, 00:04

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For CPU all you need to remember is Q6600 SLACR. It can be overclocked to ridiculous levels on air alone. Grab one before they become collectible and prices soar.

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Re: This ATI Rage worth keeping?

Posted on 2013-10-25, 23:52

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I used a Rage Pro for a long time. I see no point in dealing with them in this day and age – any system that can use one of them can probably easily use any number of much, much better cards that can be obtained cheaply from eBay. Even a GeForce 4MX is a vast improvement. But if you have a game …

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Re: This ATI Rage worth keeping?

Posted on 2013-10-25, 16:18

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The only problem with the ATI Rage Pro and Mechwarrior 2 is that a bug in the game (skygnd.par) makes it look pretty bad. I don't know if anyone have made a bugfree skygnd.par for the ATI Rage Pro card. If anyone wants to take a shot at it, please do so. It is just tedious work to fix it. This post …

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Re: Finally scored a 25 mhz Harris

Posted on 2013-10-25, 13:10

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Funny thing, I got ALL packages from Ukraine intact - almost all from Israel went through ordeals of fire before I got them. Some were destroyed as well. How could they take a Sound Blaster for an Uzi part, I don't know... Some parts can be used for multiple purposes. Motherboards, video game …

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Re: Custom Netvista build

Posted on 2013-10-25, 12:59

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How does the FX5600 compare to the 5500 and the 5200? I remember the 5200 being a pretty lousy card, and the 5500 is only a slight bit better. XD The FX5600 is worlds away from the 5200 and 5500. It's about 30% faster than the 5200 and about 22% faster than the 5500. That's enough to make some DX9 …

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Re: Custom Netvista build

Posted on 2013-10-25, 12:44

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Yeah. This system needs something like this: http://cgi.ebay.com/261311400421 (That link goes to an ATI Radeon 9250 PCI for sale for about $5.) If they weren't so hard to find, a Radeon 9100 PCI or GeForce FX5600 PCI would be even better with the GeForce being the best, but harder to find, of the …

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Re: Nvidia "G-Sync" announced

Posted on 2013-10-25, 12:38

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offtopic: because many people (specially with Fermi cards) are getting lot of stability problems when updating beyond 314.22 And back on topic... Newer nVidia driver has an "adpative VSYNC" option. I have to try that. As for the hardware thing (G-SYNC) I have seen that it comes with ASUS monitors …

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Re: Want to be interviewed about digital preservation?

Posted on 2013-10-25, 12:31

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if they're easy to find, why bother preserving them? ;) Steam and Origin games are easy to find but if the economy gets any worse and something happens to those services the games will just evaporate. I say preserve anything you can. And this is the big weakness of game publishers going digital …

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Re: Just fixed an XT clone board. Now what?

Posted on 2013-10-24, 00:59

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I wanted to get rid of some stuff to free up some space. I built up a pentium 150 box with a 3dfx Rush and an AWE64, loaded a few games on it like Quake, Hexen, Carmageddon, Duke 3d etc... put it on ebay for $35. Only got one bid. I got a few people asking if I'd split it so they could cherry pick …

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Re: Finally scored a 25 mhz Harris

Posted on 2013-10-24, 00:51

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After years of futile searching everywhere I finally got the ultimate 286: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140971784286 No need to transplant oscillators any more. Raw power rulez by default. It would be nice to have a faster coprocessor but one of Barney's last 87XLs (I have the …

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Re: Duke Nukem Meets Metal

Posted on 2013-10-24, 00:31

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I've been a fan of this guy for a while and try to promote his vids whenever it's appropriate to the topic on whatever forum I'm visiting at the time. The best thing, he takes requests for anything he hasn't covered yet and will make a metal guitar version of it. I really like how he does the music …

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Re: Am I the only one that gets pissed off about...

Posted on 2013-10-23, 11:59

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Jorpho wrote: Very good, sir, but that's illicit drugs and not gold extraction. Whole different ball game. It's still chemistry and still dangerous. I'm just trying to demonstrate the level of stupidity that some people will go to to make a little money.

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Re: Am I the only one that gets pissed off about...

Posted on 2013-10-22, 20:44

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Are there really home DIY guides for doing that sort of thing? Or articles encouraging people to try it themselves? As you say, it never would have occurred to me that someone with no idea what he was doing would try anything like that. I wouldn't even have thought that the requisite chemicals …

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Re: Curious about Voodoo 3 and on

Posted on 2013-10-22, 20:39

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I suppose, as I am only going off benchmarks. And youre right about the quality of DACs in GF2 cards. Most of them are hopeless. TV out is even worse. The GF256 was highly overrated, a TNT2 Ultra had parity with it in most games of the era. The GF256 was actually pretty revolutionary for the time. …

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Re: Am I the only one that gets pissed off about...

Posted on 2013-10-22, 20:25

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It seems that 2011 was the whole 'gold scrap" hey-day. It's actually been slowing down alot over the past years. People have caught on just how much of a scam it was, gold plate is useless; most of the "gold" on vintage hardware [and newer hardware] is not gold but mere gold plate. Many of the old …

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