Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-02-04, 14:58

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Also bought the bottom case recently, to add to the beige stack in my "cupboard of shame": Wait a minute! I can understand putting the Powermac 7200 in the "cupboard of shame", but why the Motorola Starmax and Power Computing machines? What's wrong with them? Those are actually a lot more …

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Re: Adware and AdBlock on browser gaming

Posted on 2015-02-01, 20:41

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Yes its too much and they can just go away for all I care, hopefully all F2P Games can just go away as well. No. How are the poor or moneyless gamers if all games are paid? They'd better request voluntary donations than put up anti-AdBlock scripts... Except we all know how well begging works. It …

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Re: Great collectors of Vogons! What's missing in your collections? :P

Posted on 2015-01-31, 11:54

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I got one there for $17 less than a year ago. Some years ago it was fairly ease to buy a TBeach ISA sound card now they have disappeared, I know that because my collection is not complete. :depressed: I know. I'm searching for a Tahiti, myself. I got some driver floppies for it in a bulk lot of …

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Re: Adware and AdBlock on browser gaming

Posted on 2015-01-30, 09:14

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All the browser games I have ever played have ways of detecting when you're blocking the ads that support the game. If you're not a paid player and you're blocking the ads, then you're stealing their server time and will be banned before too long. Well I can see that happening, guess they don't …

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Re: Pentium 100/98Mb/Voodoo and HalfLife: amazing

Posted on 2015-01-29, 22:21

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feipoa wrote: In that case, I have a lot of testing ahead of me as I will want to test the Am5x86, Cx5x86, and i486 in WinNT4 and Win9x using the Voodoo3, Ati Rag128 VR, GeForce2 MX400, and Matrox G200 in order to find the fastest possible combination. Don't forget the POD.

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Re: S3 Savage 2000

Posted on 2015-01-29, 17:09

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I thought early 32MB was a Number9 thing and it didn't exactly work out for them giving the novelty impression for it in a while The Diamond Stealth III S540 Savage 4 Pro had 32mb, not that it helped much. Video card makers started packing more memory onto their cards as prices came down so they …

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Re: Best video card for Pentium III 450Mhz

Posted on 2015-01-29, 07:09

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One of the advantages to Glide is its thinness. It has lower CPU overhead than the other APIs. A Glide wrapper will nullify this advantage since it performs considerable translation. Not good with a P3 450 that's already struggling. I've always found that colors look better when displayed through a …

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Re: ISA Graphics Card Display Distortion

Posted on 2015-01-29, 07:01

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Artifacting like that can be a sign of a video chip on it's way out. You might get a clear desktop, but as soon as you load up a game it starts glitching. I've owned 3 video cards that did that and all were unfixable. Playing around with drivers and other software installed on the system won't help …

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Re: Adware and AdBlock on browser gaming

Posted on 2015-01-28, 22:26

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All the browser games I have ever played have ways of detecting when you're blocking the ads that support the game. If you're not a paid player and you're blocking the ads, then you're stealing their server time and will be banned before too long.

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Re: POD 83 faster than Socket 4 Pentium 66?

Posted on 2015-01-28, 05:48

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This is not exactly news. Also I hope that he tested with similar video cards, or else its going to drag to one or the other. For instance the only way I found to compare my VLB system with PCI systems was to get the PCI version of my Number Nine S3 Vision 864 VLB card. Back in the days most cards …

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Re: Osbone 486 DX2 66 VL-Bus (My 1st PC ever)

Posted on 2015-01-27, 20:19

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Osborne was still around when the 486 came out? I thought they went out of business long before that time because they unwisely discontinued production of their original luggable/suitcase computer before the replacement machine was ready. And a Mach64 video chip on board was high end for a 486 class …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-01-27, 20:15

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I originally wanted an SC-88 Pro but instead won an SC-8850 for about 245. A few scratches/marks here and there- Is that a reasonable price to pay? These days, 245 (I am guessing dollars) is not too bad of a price, but like always, if you hold out longer you could get a better deal, but IMO, an SC- …

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POD 83 faster than Socket 4 Pentium 66?

Posted on 2015-01-27, 19:47

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Video proof here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYMycN5hGwU Amazing stuff.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-01-27, 13:56

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King_Corduroy wrote: Aww that's cheating! You can't just go out and shell out big dough for perfect systems over the internet. 😜 Yeah, you have to find them for $5 or free in thrift stores, yard sales, or Craigslist. 🤣

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Re: The Ultimate 486 Benchmark Comparison

Posted on 2015-01-26, 22:21

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We need a decoding guide for the production numbers on the underside of the Cyrix/IBM/SGS-Thompson 5x86 chips.

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Re: IBM/Cyrix Processor Manufacturing Date Code?

Posted on 2015-01-26, 22:07

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I have a ceramic one without the heatsink that says IBM9314 Q07001 50H8302 PQ At least I think that's what it says. They put a slash through the zero's so my eyes can't tell an 8 from a 0. It's hard to read black ink on a black background. There was also a quality control sticker over it and there's …

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Re: K6-3 CPU-cache?

Posted on 2015-01-26, 15:33

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k6-2: 0.25um process, no l2 cache k6-3: 0.25um, 256k l2 cache k6-3+: 0.18um, 256k l2 cache, only for mobile and embedded k6-2+: 0.18um, 128k l2 cache, only for mobile and embedded no doubt the k6-2+ and k6-3+ are better at overclocking, but they usually don't go much higher than 600mhz due to their …

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Re: AdLib has become oh so rare!!!

Posted on 2015-01-25, 21:50

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And it's hard to imagine that in it's day the AdLib was actually one of the most popular sound cards being sold which was why it had such widespread support even after they weren't being sold any longer. The prices today would have you believing that only a handful were ever made.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-01-25, 20:54

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xenu wrote: Got these last week: Wow, an Alliance card, two Trident cards and a SiS 6326. You're a real glutton for punishment.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-01-24, 14:08

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The Voodoo 2 cards you are using are from different manufacturers. The top one is a Creative 3D Blaster and the bottom one is a Diamond Monster 3D 2. You will need a "mis-matched SLI voodoo 2 driver" http://www.3dfxzone.it/dir/news/3dfx/voodoo2_2kxp_mismatched_beta_0.22/ I have never tried …

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