Re: Anyone Play minecraft?

Posted on 2011-08-10, 22:38

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Minecraft is pretty much my favorite modern game. I'm running a server as well, although it is private because some idiotic little kids liked to target it a while back. Dumped lava and destroyed everything, so I had to restore from a backup a few times and got annoyed, so I just set up a white list …

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Re: This has been driving me nuts for years... looking for an old screen saver

Posted on 2011-08-09, 17:40

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Ah, my bad. I just went by whatever Wikipedia told me. If it's from 1995, I wonder then if this screensaver is actually a 16-bit one. Depends on when it came out in the year, I imagine.

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Re: This has been driving me nuts for years... looking for an old screen saver

Posted on 2011-08-09, 16:51

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Nope. I just booted my old Powerbook G3 which had AD on it, and the Artist module just takes existing images and filters them gradually. It doesn't draw from scratch. It looks to me like the only way to find this (barring somebody actually having it on them) is going to be blindly running into it …

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Re: This has been driving me nuts for years... looking for an old screen saver

Posted on 2011-08-09, 01:04

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I don't think that is it; the screensaver had no "pointer" (pencil or whatever) of any kind and did not take images from the hard drive like Auto Draw does, as far as I remember (it would actually draw certain parts like a background and then draw over to make other parts, and you can't "make up" …

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This has been driving me nuts for years... looking for an old screen saver

Posted on 2011-08-08, 19:58

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A strange request, perhaps, but that's what I do best. Back around 2002/2003, when I was in elementary school, I would visit a friend's house. In a back room where we usually hung out his family's old PC sat around. It was some sort of full-tower Gateway, which I believed looked a lot like this one …

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Re: Rage 128 GL AIW PCI

Posted on 2011-08-08, 18:51

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I have a Rage 128 GL (though AGP and not an All in Wonder) and I've had nothing but performance issues with it. Can't figure out why but everything 3D performs terribly. Hell, UT99 was faster in software mode than even hardware mode at 640x480, all lowest graphics settings. Thus, I hope that card …

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Re: Out of topic : Name of cartoon series with farm animals within Loony Toons?

Posted on 2011-07-27, 04:35

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Foghorn Leghorn! Not my favorite of all of the Looney Tunes stuff but still good.

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Re: Windows NT 4.0

Posted on 2011-07-24, 18:55

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What would be the latest era of hardware generally supporting nt4... p3 and early athlon? PS. I just shifted a hard drive from a bx-based dual celeron system to a tualatin on a via board. Surprised me, nt4 booted fine. Not having the arcane knowledge, I'd assumed that like 2000 it would take it's …

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Re: Ethernet on Windows 95 problems

Posted on 2011-07-10, 04:23

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I had a Realtek 8139 that had the same issue. I'd plug it right into my ethernet switch and it would never get an IP address even though every other machine could. Tried it in a few different computers, a few different OSes, and it turned out the card was dead. Very frustrating.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2011-07-07, 23:07

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Alright. Got it. Sorry about the confusion, I haven't worked with external devices like this often. Also, it seems this could be a lucky motherboard score. I was looking up more stuff about the sound that's integrated on it, and played around a bit, and it seems to have an OPL3 synth! I did not see …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2011-07-07, 21:36

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Well, the confusion can continue. I am totally sure it is a parallel zip drive. The writing on the back shows a printer icon, not the SCSI logo as SCSI drives apparently have. And to make things worse the parallel zip drives are Apparently SCSI drives that convert internally. I decided to attach …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2011-07-07, 03:54

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I emergency-fixed my girlfriend's dad's laser printer at his business and he gave me a bunch of old computer stuff from storage in return. Among the fun stuff: -Zip100 drive (Parallel) -HP Colorado T1000e Travan tape drive (no idea where I'm going to get tapes for this, but it's a fun novelty to …

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Re: AFCM (age, first computer, milestones)

Posted on 2011-06-28, 23:27

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1. 18 2. Well, the first PC I owned was a Gateway G6-450 (PII/450, 64MB RAM, 14.4GB hard drive, STB Velocity-- I believe Riva TNT based graphics card, Win98 FE) that was bought in 1999. I was a Mac owner before then, with my family buying a Macintosh Performa 600 (68030/32, 4MB RAM, 160MB HDD, …

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Re: Intel vs AMD? Or should I say Intel and AMD?

Posted on 2011-06-24, 16:42

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I built my current system a year ago around a Core i7-930. I was deciding between this and whatever the high-end AMD 6-core processor was at the time-- I forget-- but I chose the i7 because I don't use a large number of heavily multithreaded applications and the i7 offered better performance per …

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Re: Widescreen resolution Windows 95

Posted on 2011-06-12, 12:47

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There are some notes on this page about running a Voodoo5 in widescreen resolutions like 1440x900 and 1680x1050 on Windows 95, which seems to require manually programming them into the registry. I don't really know much about how this works, but it may be possible to find the timings needed for …

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Re: K6-2 / Gigabyte GA-5AA - Unstable?

Posted on 2011-06-11, 18:20

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Yeah, there's a huge fan welded to the bottom of the ATX PSU. While I could slide the AT PSU in, there's a metal bar across the case that blocks the ATX from going in-- partially because of the slightly taller nature of the ATX, but also this huge fan. Unfortunately, like some other computers I have …

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Re: K6-2 / Gigabyte GA-5AA - Unstable?

Posted on 2011-06-10, 01:32

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Just for the record...have you adapted the PCI divider accordingly (along with the ISA bus) so the PCI bus runs at 33Mhz, seeing you lowered the FSB. Maybe it's a stupid question, dunno, I'm kinda tired atm :P The pictures didn't tell me a lot, it's mostly cable. Well, I figured it did that on its …

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Re: K6-2 / Gigabyte GA-5AA - Unstable?

Posted on 2011-06-09, 23:07

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Well, here are some pictures. If you want any areas in specific detail let me know. (Links, because they're huge pictures) http://dl.dropbox.com/u/11388083/DSCN1250.JPG http://dl.dropbox.com/u/11388083/DSCN1251.JPG http://dl.dropbox.com/u/11388083/DSCN1254.JPG http://dl.dropbox.com/u/11388083/ …

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Re: K6-2 / Gigabyte GA-5AA - Unstable?

Posted on 2011-06-09, 03:00

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So I think replacing the PSU would be a great idea except that the only spare I have on me right now won't fit my case. I'll figure that out later. In the mean time I'm trying some other options. For one, I am attempting the recommendation of taking the FSB down to 66mhz. Now I have it running at …

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Re: K6-2 / Gigabyte GA-5AA - Unstable?

Posted on 2011-06-06, 10:17

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That could easily be it-- I should've been tipped off by the fact that the PSU says "ValueLine" on it. That doesn't sound good. 😜 However, can I fit an ATX PSU in an AT case?

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