Re: Look what that Neon 250 sold for!

Posted on 2011-08-28, 22:27

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Remember that $300 486 I mentioned earlier? Well one from the very same seller just went for $28 http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/486-PC-DX2-66-8Mb-RAM-400Mb-Hard-Drive-/140594026625?pt=AU_Computers_Vintage&hash=item20bc0e9881 It depends who's online at the time the item is listed. There obviously …

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Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2011-08-28, 22:18

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Haha, a game that needs *100* cycles? That's... around one-third the speed of a 4.77MHz 8088 normally :shocked: I don't see how any game can require anything slower than a 4.77mhz 8088 since that is the baseline CPU for very old DOS games. There is nothing slower than that unless 8080/8085 code is …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2011-08-28, 22:15

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Is the Fire 1k faster then the standard Permedia 2V pci card? I have one of those in a box here. Actually used to have two of them. Not too bad a card for such a old one. And yeah, noticed Open gl support was pretty decent on Permedia. Biofreaks ran in Open Gl on the 2V card without any visual bugs …

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Re: What graphics card for an Athlon Socket A Thunderbird

Posted on 2011-08-28, 00:35

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Ok, i have searched myself on the internet for information.. The latest directx windows 98 se / me was supporting was directx 8.1 DirectX 9.0C Nov 2006 build Geforce 6800 Ultra AGP. Find them, those are definitely top-end Win9x cards. Also however the thunderbird will be bottlenecking them hard. A …

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Re: What graphics card for an Athlon Socket A Thunderbird

Posted on 2011-08-27, 22:35

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Ok, i have searched myself on the internet for information.. The latest directx windows 98 se / me was supporting was directx 8.1 So i had to find an dirext 8.1 graphics card for my system.. because an direct 9.0 card wouldnt not doing more that windows 98se would support.. The fastest ATI card was …

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Re: 12MB voodoo2 : only 2MB frame buffer??

Posted on 2011-08-27, 01:09

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Hello! I noticed this today: http://i54.tinypic.com/2elb6tl.jpg I am using a 12MB Orchid Righteous 3D II voodoo2 ... tried both the latest official drivers and fastvoodoo... both show the same frame buffer amount: 2MB :angry: Wasn't this supposed to be 4MB? +8MB texture mem ? edit: also tried the …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2011-08-27, 01:06

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Picked up two slot 1 towers today. One was a Dell Pentium II 333mhz system with a Fire 1k pro Agp card (Permedia 2 Im guessing???), Awe64, cd drive and hp cd burner, ram, etc. The other was a Pentium III tower used by Daewoo, cpu in the 700 mhz range, with some crappy forgettable SIS agp card and …

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Re: EGA Doom

Posted on 2011-08-27, 00:43

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Aw, that looks lame. I'd have rather seen the graphics be dithered instead of using a nearest neighbour algorithm. Cheap. That's been done too. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Nz_QB26Clw I'd like to see it on a VGA grayscale monitor. Or maybe on this one http://medgadget.com/2010/11/barcos_new_30_ …

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Re: EGA Doom

Posted on 2011-08-26, 18:40

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How about an ASCII Doom Rogue-like? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcxtOzjuJzc

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Here's a fun project. Doom RPG.

Posted on 2011-08-26, 18:37

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYVkKVdQx-A&feature=related 😮

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Re: Look what that Neon 250 sold for!

Posted on 2011-08-26, 13:55

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Hahaha, that post made me laugh, reminds me of when i was sniping manually. I did not have the real time update so i had to reload by hand all the time and my internet was from an overworked network and not very reliable so it could take lots of time to reload, i seldom dared bid below 30-20 sec. I …

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ZX Spectrum Doom?

Posted on 2011-08-25, 22:58

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3v7cFGneuaw&feature=related Is there nothing these things can't do?

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Re: EGA Doom

Posted on 2011-08-25, 22:50

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Is this it? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khuyZdgYxlc The sound effects from the PC speaker sound like an Atari 2600. 😁 At least it looks better than 4 color CGA Doom. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgTtLxBS_l4&NR=1

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2011-08-25, 21:14

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Picked up some old Acer tower yesterday for about 8 bucks. Pentium 1 socket 5 based. Had a full size SB 16 ISA card and some Cirrus Logic 2d card in it. Have not fired it up yet, and don't plan to until I have the time to deal with the Dallas RTC stuck in there. I gather all you have to do is mod a …

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Re: Look what that Neon 250 sold for!

Posted on 2011-08-25, 21:10

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Suit yourselves guys, i used to snipe manually before but i was constantly stressed about (being there) and would still not make it half the time because i was doing something else. Unless you are very comfortable with yourself and your connection reliability, you wont manually snipe at 5 sec from …

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Re: Global Conquest (Microprose 1992)

Posted on 2011-08-24, 22:41

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You won't get advice about circumventing copy protection here. Get a legal copy.

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Re: Look what that Neon 250 sold for!

Posted on 2011-08-24, 22:37

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The only time I don't snipe is if the auction ends in the middle of the night when I'm asleep. You might try auction sniper, they will snipe in your stead. Only Costs 1% of final price per snipe, only pay if you win. I like it alot. And you have some cool options. 3 first snipes are free anyway. …

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Re: Look what that Neon 250 sold for!

Posted on 2011-08-24, 00:45

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I once sold a used X800XT Platinum Edition for $200, $70 more than I had bought I for new at Newegg only a few months earlier. Lots of suckers on Fleabay. Of course you also have auction snipers mixed in. Diverse community lol I snipe everything. It's the only way to win. You can put in a …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2011-08-24, 00:16

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I've been waiting for one of these to come along just for the novelty of owning the machine that Apple sued out of existence. They rarely appear on auction sites and when they do the shipping is a deal killer.

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Re: Bugfix: Gravis Ultrasound panning emulation

Posted on 2011-08-23, 10:34

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about battlecruiser 3000ad http://www.fileplanet.com/62798/60000/fileinfo/Battlecruiser-3000AD-v.-2.09 a nice installation installation method is described here: "Fortunately, all the needed files are actually in the 130+ meg version you've downloaded - just rename it to the extention .cab, and …

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