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Re: Mid-late 90's-2000 Gaming PC build

Posted on 2018-07-23, 19:07

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

The BX motherboard is famous for being reliable and your P3 700 and Voodoo 3 are a good pair. The isa slot is also good for a soundcard to play dos games on a really fast PC. It's the drivers that gave the VIA chipsets a bad reputation, and while they are still not as good as the intel ones. you …

Re: Good card to pair with Voodoo-2 PCI ?

Posted on 2018-07-23, 18:59

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

No such thing as a AGP Voodoo2. Voodoo 1 and 2 were "add on" cards and still need a separate 2d card (can be any card including a more modern 3d card like a Geforce) a real rough idea would be the voodoo number with the Pentium, so Pentium 1 voodoo 1, P2 voodoo 2, etc

Re: Windows 95C sort the start menu by name: how do I do it?

Posted on 2018-07-23, 18:55

in Milliways

in Milliways

If I remember correctly it just shows the file order of the folder c:\windows\start. Sort that in explorer and it'll be arranged in the start menu

Re: Sound Blaster 32/64 questions

Posted on 2018-07-23, 18:51

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Hmm... Would a good compromise therefore be having a SB16 and a SBLive? The 16 covers DOS and the Live covers Midi and everything AWE32 and 64? Yep, only thing AWE gives you over SB16 is the few games that support AWE natively for music. Anywhere else its just a standard SB16. AWE does let you load …

Anyone still use ball mice?

Posted on 2018-07-23, 17:49

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I for one don't miss those days at all and only use one on my PC without a ps2 port. But does any of the more hard core period correct builders still use a non optical mouse? I came across a few at work today, all PS2 only so not much use to me, but in 2 minds if they are worth saving at all. …

Re: Dual boot Windows 95 and 98?

Posted on 2018-07-19, 15:44

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yeh I also think I didn't like the way Win95 booted to previous MS-Dos when I first upgraded. I seem to remember Win95 renames system files when booting to previous version to get around the below and it was really easy to get mixed up with which system files belonged to which OS, especially if it …

Re: Voodoo2 8 to 12MB RAM upgrade - is it really that straightforward?

Posted on 2018-07-19, 15:18

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Cant solder to save my life but plenty can and I like the idea of 12MB SLI to the masses!

Re: Taking care of HDD collection ?

Posted on 2018-07-19, 15:09

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

This is true but only delays the spin for a few seconds, The controller has to wait for an extra moment for the drive to spin up so it can then initialize it. It was so the PSU wasn't overloaded with multiple disks all drawing power at the exact same time, not as a power saving feature. But if …

Re: How do you feel about gutting OEM PCs and using their cases/parts for builds?

Posted on 2018-07-19, 11:19

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I've never had that problem, I quite like using modern-ish cases with the better airflow for old PC's that don't arrive in their own cases. AT cases are different story but rarely is any AT hardware boring any more, so when people here part out systems that were obviously original part of me things …

Re: Slot 1 "Behemoth" Cooling - help needed!

Posted on 2018-07-19, 11:05

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Here is a round up from back then, If nothing else it gives a few more options to search for. http://www.speedy3d.com/articles/cooler_roundup1/index.shtml The first pic in this post is my all time favourite cooler based on looks Wind tunnel cooling solution for PII Klamath

Re: Should I buy a 56k modem?

Posted on 2018-07-19, 10:55

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

buy I don't think so, Ask for one on free trading sites. you'll most likely get one eventually. They are not desirable even in the retro community. You'll never use it, but an external modem can be used as a desk ornament for that full nostalgic effect. Internal modem cant even be used for that. …

Re: Planned overkill 1996 Pentium Pro workstation build

Posted on 2018-07-18, 16:47

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Errius wrote: I have a Dell PowerEdge 2100/180 from 1996 with roughly similar specs. No AGP though. Was AGP a thing in 1996? LX based boards were the first with AGP and they didn't really hit the market till around 1997

Re: Unique Force Feedback API Support

Posted on 2018-07-18, 16:42

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Not quite what your asking but I've got the Logitech Formula Force "old red" wheel. This was one of the devices that came with the usb to serial adaptor. The build quality was excellent. I still have my original wheel back in Australia and have purchased a 2nd hand one here in the UK. I can only …

Re: Formatting Playstation 2 fat hard drive for use in a 486 build?

Posted on 2018-07-18, 16:25

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'm actually looking forward to my IDE drives dying out, most are around the 40GB where as I already have a bunch of SATA disks below 160GB waiting to go into LBA 28 with help of a sata to ide converter Hell, even my original xbox has a 2TB HDD with a sata to ide converter

Re: Enable 'It is now safe to turn off your computer'.

Posted on 2018-07-18, 16:02

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

ATX style connector https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATX#/media/File:24-pin_ATX_power_connector.jpg AT style connecto http://s3.amazonaws.com/hs-wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/13130233/181_221.jpg ATX came in around the same time as Pentium 2 So if your using a P2 or later then disabling power …

Re: Windows 98SE / ME Build with DOS..Maybe

Posted on 2018-07-18, 15:49

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Keep an eye on Gumtree, I've gotten a 486 for £2 and a Slot 1 Dell for £11 (5 years ago admittedly) Apart from the Dell not having Ram or a HDD, they were complete systems. the people selling them were just clearing out old junk. Anything beige is work a look. Unless part of the attraction is …

Re: AMD 750 what to expect

Posted on 2018-07-18, 15:45

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

What graphics card you using, People trying to install their new and expensive graphics card caused the most problems back then. Now that AGP is mature and dead its much easier picking the working combinations. (its why Voodoo's were popular back then as really they are bridged PCI cards)

Re: KVM Cable Management

Posted on 2018-07-18, 15:10

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

KVM's discussed here don't support any kind of remote feature. just allow you to use the 1 keyboard, mouse and screen on multiple systems. I suppose any KVM that has a remote feature and ps2 support would be fine though as its looking after the remote side of things. the PC just thinks its normal …

Re: Name your machines

Posted on 2018-07-18, 14:43

in Milliways

in Milliways

I'm boring, on the network they get my initials -CPU or -motherboard, but I'll call almost all of them different in person. ie, JC-DX2 is always called Osborne JC-POD is called "the other 486" I name the Mrs, devices her initials then -iphone, mac, etc (She doesn't have more then one device somehow …

Re: Why does different games need different CPUs?

Posted on 2018-07-18, 13:40

in Windows

in Windows

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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