Re: EISA Mainboard Suggestions

Posted on 2018-06-27, 11:36

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by chinny22

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Am I missing something or wouldn't anything with a 16bit isa slot work? Quick google doesn't seem to suggest the Mylex MNE486 was anything overly fancy http://stason.org/TULARC/pc/motherboards/M/MYLEX-CORPORATION-486-MNE486-System-Board.html If you can find the compaq part numbers that will help. …

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Re: My 99% Finished 486 PC

Posted on 2018-06-21, 15:59

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by chinny22

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How do you keep these old AT cases cool? They don't have the fan mounts we're used to seeing with ATX. I have a couple of these old computers and worry about overheating, especially if they have Voodoo cards installed. I have fans directed over hotter parts, like a voodoo. It doesn't extract the …

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Re: Hardware for Win3.11

Posted on 2018-06-21, 15:53

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by chinny22

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No version of Direct X works with 3.11. So that's just about every Win9x game out of the question. But for simply having fun with, its a nice enough OS. I think of it more as a file manager and networking client for DOS on todays gaming machines. I would say sound is most important. Not alot of …

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Re: Pentium II build

Posted on 2018-06-21, 15:29

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by chinny22

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Should be able to play good range of games with that! FX5500 is probably overkill for a P2, Not a bad thing, means you may be able to enable AA, AF etc.

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Re: Configure SB16 (Vibra) to mono-output via software possible?

Posted on 2018-06-21, 15:02

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by chinny22

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its not really mono but I guess you could use mixerset to mute one of the channels. Question is why?! not much is in stereo?

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Re: My 99% Finished 486 PC

Posted on 2018-06-21, 14:42

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by chinny22

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Love the case, you even have the option to upgrade to 100 Mhz or above with that 3 digit display 😉 I'm also a fan of the fake floppy bay cover. Not like you need 2 floppy drives these days but this makes it looked fully loaded with hardware goodness

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Re: Which Is a Faster Drive SCSI or IDE

Posted on 2018-06-21, 14:19

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by chinny22

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Next question to ask yourself is which is more interesting/Different? Caddy SCSI drive hanging off the back of a sound card or standard IDE drive? But for practical use and ease of setup IDE wins easily.

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Re: Hardware for Win3.11

Posted on 2018-06-21, 14:11

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by chinny22

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No version of Direct X works with 3.11. So that's just about every Win9x game out of the question. But for simply having fun with, its a nice enough OS. I think of it more as a file manager and networking client for DOS on todays gaming machines. I would say sound is most important. Not alot of …

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Re: What to pick for a Retro-Gaming Build (mainly Win98, some DOS Adventures)

Posted on 2018-06-21, 13:43

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by chinny22

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Looks like good late dos WIn9x crossover PC SBLive may still cause problems for dos, but you have an ISA slot to fall back on, but wouldn't worry about it till you've tested all your games. We love a bit of hardware porn, so definitely post some pics when you get a chance 😀

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Re: Windows 98 and Large Storage Access

Posted on 2018-06-21, 13:21

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by chinny22

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I also thought mapping a drive letter to FTP would be good solution, and seems it is possible either with 3rd party software or inbuilt to IE5? http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?10554-Map-an-FTP-site-to-a-drive-letter I gotta say though, your running out of space with 120GB x3! You have …

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Re: A beast of a computer - Compaq Deskpro 84'

Posted on 2018-06-21, 13:03

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by chinny22

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I agree, amazing PC. Although first thing I thought was it must sound great starting up with the authentic floppy and HDD sounds on boot. Although I think its better using/enjoying hardware rather then letting it sit unused and it will still fail eventually. You could always boot off the HDD and run …

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Re: Voodoo 2 SLI "what was I missing back then?" build

Posted on 2018-06-21, 12:42

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by chinny22

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Hated these PC's back then, well the case design anyway. Even still they represent what a lot of people had back then (my parents been one) so its good a few are around in the wild I spose. Even 600Mhz is fast enough for a lot of Direct 3D Games, I would also go with what vandymachine said. I didn't …

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Re: Sound card not working + built in audio

Posted on 2018-06-21, 12:29

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by chinny22

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Plus removing the chip wont guarantee the motherboard still wont detect the soundcard, even if the chip is missing. Much better to work out what resources the onboard device is using and work around them. Do you have an option to turn PNP off? that way you can set the resources manually. Early PNP …

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Re: 486 Cooling

Posted on 2018-06-21, 12:15

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by chinny22

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Even back then the most common way was to glue the heatsink on the CPU. If it was good enough for the period I think your ok.

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Re: Easiest way into "authentic" DOS gaming - recommend me some hardware!

Posted on 2018-06-21, 12:07

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by chinny22

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386 era games will be more aimed at adlib (Yamaha OPL) and SB Pro. SB16 and greater reverse the stereo so watch out for that. There is a post around here for adding CMS support to Sound Blaster 2 cards, but cant for the life of me find it now! However Nerdy pleasures lists the cards that are …

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Re: New Voodoo2 SLI build!

Posted on 2018-06-21, 11:18

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by chinny22

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Ha that green things sounds familiar, I almost did the same thing for awhile as well. I'd actually say your currant setup is pretty good, depending where you want the bottleneck to be and maxing out the Voodoo's is a pretty good option A PII 233 is an uncommon choice and will have plenty of power to …

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Re: AMD K6 3+ vs. P3 500mhz.

Posted on 2018-06-21, 10:53

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by chinny22

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If your using a Voodoo3 and sound Blaster Live I would go with a P3 as it will be fast enough for Win9x Glide games that the Voodoo is better suited for. And with that AWE64 in the isa slot you will still be able to drop back into pure dos and play majority of DOS games, and even then sometimes you …

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Re: Question about Windows versions

Posted on 2018-06-14, 23:22

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by chinny22

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The very original release of Myst needs 3.x apparently, but our copy we purchased sometime in the mid 90's ran on Win95 so you may be ok. The thing is you don't really need most of this stuff. I cant think of a single dos game that wont run from booting into Win9x's version of dos (not counting …

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Re: Socket 4 system

Posted on 2018-06-14, 22:56

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by chinny22

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I'm surprised but quick google of the various numbers on the motherboard doesn't bring up a part number for a Dell xyz. Another quick google and its hard finding Dell's from that era at all! But that's what I would spend some more time doing, once we know that the motherboard is say from a Dell …

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Re: Question about Windows versions

Posted on 2018-06-14, 16:23

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by chinny22

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So your pure dos is already the dos/win9x crossover, and you even have glide covered. I wasn't going to get into that yet! So really this will be D3D gaming rig. You could go as far as a socket 478 and GeForce 6800 with official Win98 drivers. This would be massively overkill and getting into Win9x/ …

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