Re: Why does different games need different CPUs?

Posted on 2018-07-18, 13:40

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by chinny22

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DOS games in particular, I mean most DOS games won't run in nowadays machines. Dos (and Win9x) games also don't work on currant PC's due to Windows. In massively oversimplified terms, Win9x and below are 16 bit OS's, NT4, 2000, XP are 32 bit, Windows 7 and above is 64bit. Drivers for each are …

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Re: Cooling solutions for old PCs?

Posted on 2018-07-18, 13:20

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by chinny22

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Something I came up with a while back (: Use an expansion slot cover with a steel screw or any other screw that matches your cases thread pitch for the standoff hole. After that, you can mount a properly sized fan on it like this with zip ties. Hope this helps! That's pretty cool.(pun not intended) …

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Re: Windows 9x graphics card changes and drivers

Posted on 2018-07-18, 13:03

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by chinny22

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If you keep swapping hardware you will want to do a clean install eventually but if its stable enough hold off till you have settled on the system spec. Installing your games to a separate partition or drive is also a good idea. The majority of my games don't need reinstalling after a fresh install …

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Re: Change Volume Serial Number in Windows 95?

Posted on 2018-07-18, 12:49

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by chinny22

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Ohhhhhh, Opps!

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Re: Cooling a Voodoo5

Posted on 2018-07-18, 12:43

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by chinny22

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People here have swapped the fans, admittedly 1/2 the time that's to reduce noise but modern fans move more air then the nothing special ones the v5 came with. The usual tricks to break glued on heatsinks apply here. My favourite is freeze the card and try. it is scary though!

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Re: Taking care of HDD collection ?

Posted on 2018-07-18, 12:26

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by chinny22

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Every HDD must spin up while initializing, ... On many SCSI HDDs you may find a jumper that prevents the discs from spinning up when power is connected. Instead they get the start unit command from the controller/HBA. It may be called like "delayed spinup" "staggered spinup". This is true but only …

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

Posted on 2018-07-13, 16:40

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by chinny22

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in Marvin \ System Specs

Due to demand I'm making the Osmenu publicly available here for future generations

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Re: Change Volume Serial Number in Windows 95?

Posted on 2018-07-13, 16:24

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by chinny22

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https://www.lifewire.com/find-your-windows-98-95-or-me-product-key-code-2625095 Note, Volume licence didn't exist for Win9x and more important Activation didn't exist till XP. so the key is just a form or copy protection it doenst get sent back to MS or anything so wouldn't really bother changing …

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Re: What to do with an old computer ?

Posted on 2018-07-13, 00:14

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by chinny22

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Games are the main thing. If not for playing then to compare how different sound cards sound OPL vs clones, Different Midi, Midi vs AWE, GUS or how glide compares to D3D (or one of the even less popular formats like S3D or EMBM, etc) Get network games running just because you can, or something like …

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Re: Highscreen 386 Kompakt Serie III video build

Posted on 2018-07-12, 23:56

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by chinny22

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Pretty cool although I'm not sure about the modem? I guess being isa it was at least a real modem not some crappy winmodem thing. Waiting for the 286 now

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Re: Just got this weird little machine...

Posted on 2018-07-12, 23:45

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by chinny22

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DEC's were always well built PC's. And I love the LPX "Pizza box" form factor, even though its non-standard. Simpy searching 450D2LP brings up a few results. Here is a good one listing video card (S3 805 VLB) as well as other interesting specs http://www.verycomputer.com/7_b5857b9dc2950f8b_1.htm …

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Re: What sound cards competed with Creative during Windows 98/XP era?

Posted on 2018-07-12, 17:36

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by chinny22

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Once 3D became big graphics cards is where 95% of gamers disposable income went. Ever since then Sound has been an afterthought IMHO. So makes sense companies not really investing in a small market with only Creative (EAX) and Aureal (A3D) making any real effort. Remember this was the time when …

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Re: Cooling solutions for old PCs?

Posted on 2018-07-12, 17:18

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by chinny22

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I keep thinking about getting something like these (although more likely cheap ebay ones) as old cases only extract heat via the PSU. https://www.overclockers.co.uk/lian-li-pi-01b-vented-pci-brackets-6-pack-black-ca-327-ll.html Other then that oeuvre's suggestions are what I would go with. maybe …

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Re: Mystery Meat Floppies..???

Posted on 2018-07-12, 16:53

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by chinny22

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Found Office 4.3 in a server room once. Grabbed them because why not? Earliest I'd seen before then was Office 95. Was stoked when I found out it was he final version to support Win3x. Less so when 2 disks had errors, In the end I "found" a copy on the internet which I used to complete the set again …

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Re: A discussion on typing with modern and retro keyboards and the absence of historical keys on laptops

Posted on 2018-07-12, 16:23

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by chinny22

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I semi- get it. I'm surprised how many younger people don't know shortcut keys. They just blindly use the mouse for everything and since the iPhone and moreso with recent MS pushing interfaces more designed for touch screen, it kind of attracts laziness to press buttons on the screen with a mouse or …

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Re: More Mystery Meat ..

Posted on 2018-07-12, 15:49

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by chinny22

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Be nice surprise for your brother next time he drops round and see's his old PC up and running!

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Re: Win98se essentials for gaming ?

Posted on 2018-07-12, 15:35

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by chinny22

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No updates, unless required by a driver or whatever, just slows things down and OS is just still insecure anyways. I don't even bother with the USB Mass support update, that's what the network is for, or the shutdown patch as I seem to have better luck shutdown without applying it!? Apps deamon 3.47 …

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Re: Win 3.1 + MS DOS 5.0 on Pentium II/III? Considerations?

Posted on 2018-07-12, 14:48

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by chinny22

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The main issue is speed. Pentium 2 or 3 wont make much difference, its why the AMD Super socket 7 builds get a lot of talk around here as they are very flexible in slowing down with multipliers and cache settings not locked. That said you my not need to slow the system down, A list of games and any …

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Re: Toshiba Tecra 780CDM

Posted on 2018-07-12, 14:06

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by chinny22

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Toshiba seem to have been "the" company for latops round the P2 era. I've got 2, A Satellite 4090cds here in the UK and Satellite Pro something back in oz, not to mention fair few I've come across abandoned in server rooms in both countries. Always grey and built to last. P3 laptops start to get a …

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Re: Behind the scenes at GOG.com...

Posted on 2018-07-12, 13:56

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by chinny22

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cool! Legal side of things must be nightmare at times (at which point I'm sure they simply give up) For me they will always win over steam or whatever. Big fan of their offline/no DRM installs

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