Re: Posts your Halloween Build
Posted on 2018-11-01, 13:39
haha, hardware with hell type creatures in the name, never though of that! Straight away I thought of 2 dos games Hocus Pocus and Mystic Towers
Re: What hw does a ISA sound card NEED to have, to give me the full intended experience in a DOS game?
Posted on 2018-11-01, 13:34
This confuses a lot of people (myself included) when first starting out, It's also the most fun part for dos era. I found it most simple to break it down to a game configuration options, the 3 main ones are 1) Adlib Adlib is done by the Yamaha OPL chip on soundcards, later on companies started …
Re: Asus P2B-DS dual CPU
Posted on 2018-10-18, 17:00
Thanks, its my 2nd favourite PC (after my 1st PC from my childhood) but probably the most used one. Don't listen to Parke, chase that rainbow! even though he is 100% correct. First off you can get away with using one of your single CPU's and testing everything out, it doesn't need the CPU blanking …
Re: Should I sell my 90s PC?
Posted on 2018-10-18, 16:40
If you need the space or cash, sure. Depending what you have it may be worth more to part them out though. Just be careful you don't regret it few years down the track like so many of us have. I'd hang on to anything with sentimental value few more years just in case.
Re: The Story of Why Everyone Uses Onboard Sound Today
Posted on 2018-10-18, 16:36
I have to disagree that onboard sound stopped sucking at the same time Vista came out. It really just didn't suck quite as much as it had been sucking. When MS screwed up with Vista, that also meant the killing off of hardware accelerated audio which did actually hurt game performance as the …
Re: What's your home/everyday PC?
Posted on 2018-10-18, 16:04
- usually I actually use the tiny, non-haptic touchpad on the thing. I prefer it to the clit. But if I'm going to be working on it seriously for any period of time, I dig out one of my Where is it? I've had a few IBM/Lenovo's over the years and could never find it ….Sorry couldn't resist, I'll go …
Re: The Story of Why Everyone Uses Onboard Sound Today
Posted on 2018-10-18, 13:19
Vista killed off a lot of the demand as well. Creative lost their major selling point (EAX) with even alchemy more aimed at getting older games working rather them creative trying to push a licenced technology. Just so happened this is when on board stopped sucking
Re: 486 Build - help finding hardware?
Posted on 2018-10-18, 13:09
You can pretty much get away with no CD drive these days if you have a large HDD and network card. I've got drivers and Win95 install files on a separate partition, and once Windows is up I can transfer files aver the network if needed. and just about all my games are no-cd cracked, partly to help …
Re: Asus P2B-DS dual CPU
Posted on 2018-10-18, 13:01
That's a real nice board, but it does have some restrictions depending on which revision. You can find out more here: http://homepage.hispeed.ch/rscheidegger/p2b_procupgrade_faq.html Many years ago I installed to P2 400's I had spare, Every boot Win2k would log an error in event log about mismatched …
Re: Average PC Specs for Low, Medium, and High-End PCs of late 1998 - early 1999
Posted on 2018-10-18, 12:44
remember the year well, was when I got my very own PC :) it was my Christmas Present for 1998, I had $3000 Aussie dollar budget and ended up with Gateway PII 400 (was only our 2nd PC so not confident building from scratch yet) PII 450 was an option but cost too much RAM: 64MB (Default option, knew I …
Re: Win98 & DOS games: Voodoo 5 or Voodoo 2 + some other AGP card?
Posted on 2018-10-18, 12:24
I would say paring the voodoo 2 with a strong D3d card is best of both worlds, it is a compromise but it may not matter. I had a V2 SLI + Ti4600 and it played most games pretty well. Noticed I said "had" also ended up building a 2nd, 3rd, 4th and more PC's. but that's because I caught the bug. But …
Re: Were large flatbed scanners more common in the 90s?
Posted on 2018-10-16, 11:58
Yeh late 90's SCSI started to reach the home market with things like Zip disks and scanners, often the card was bundled with the device. Didn't take long for parallel to hit the market once they became really affordable but the 2 standards still lived side by side in the home market. Flatbed …
Re: Win 98 Build Update
Posted on 2018-10-16, 11:49
Its a very nice build but what I would do is Ditch the voodoo 3 and get 2x Voodoo 2 (creative branded) 1x FX5900 (creative branded) for 2d and D3D 1x ISA SoundBlaster (creative branded) for Dos sound Creative speakers. ..you may see what I'm getting at here ;) Seriously though its a real nice build …
Re: Computer won’t start when finally everything is together
Posted on 2018-10-16, 11:29
Yeh, definitely get a speaker even a cheap Peizo will do. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/10pcs-Motherboard-Mainboard-Computer-PC-BIOS-Beep-Code-Internal-Speaker-Buzzer/202180417236?hash=item2f12e456d4:g:HEcAAOSwLI1aVG8b:rk:2:pf:0 Until you have a speaker hooked up to give you an error code you can strip …
Re: 486dx2-66 upgrade woes
Posted on 2018-10-16, 11:09
That's not uncommon, even with period hardware. Sometimes 2 drives just wouldn't get along. Just try all the combinations, Setting both as cable select Setting one as Primary or slave and other device as cable select. Moving one of the devices over to the primary IDE channel and leaving the anti …
Re: 486 Build - help finding hardware?
Posted on 2018-10-16, 10:58
Also think 64MB is a bit too much, Depending on your setup will depend on how much RAM is cashable which is what your after. That's if your after raw performance, I also have 64MB in my 486 as I get my kicks from having the thing maxed out more then raw performance and the difference is only a few …
Re: What's your home/everyday PC?
Posted on 2018-10-16, 10:36
Technically its a Dell Precision T5500, Duel Xeon 5504 2.00GHZ, 12GB Ram, Quadro FX580, Win7 Its an ex customers PC, I had to pay for the 2nd CPU raiser, but CPU and RAM are all out of other machines I have lying around. I say technically as its mostly used to share media files with my TV, In the …
Re: Dual Pentium3 motherboard, Is it worth it?
Posted on 2018-10-06, 03:12
Having a duel P3 is how I found out 99% of Win9x games run fine in Windows 2000 and even stable win98 has nothing on Win2k. but you don't need 2 CPU's for Win2k. You can enter your results here https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=54929 But really apart from coolness 2nd CPU offers no …
Re: Dual channel U320 SCSI, any benefit?
Posted on 2018-10-06, 03:00
Mirror is slower as it has to write everything twice, once to each HDD. In theory this is what the 256MB cache helps with. OS writes to the cache , cache hands it down to the HDD's it was always a case of sacrificing speed for redundancy. I'd be interested in seeing how much faster a stipe array is …
Re: How to run XP32 and XP64 on the same PC?
Posted on 2018-10-06, 02:16
As long as both OS's can read the first partition your fine. so NTFS or FAT32 Windows treats the 32 and 64bit OS's as completely different OS's so the standard boot loader will create a 2nd entry. but do install 32 bit first As a side note you can actually install 2 copies of the same XP in 2 …
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