Re: Sound card for retro PC

Posted on 2018-12-19, 07:08

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by Cyberdyne

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in Marvin \ System Specs

ESS Audiodrive isa, most compatible WAVE, nice FM. Simple minimalist software. Yamaha OPL-SA compatible WAVE, minus Duke Nuken 2 (ADPCM), perfect FM, original software is crap. But there are alternatives. Sound Blaster PRO is perfect but expencive!!! Sound Blaster 16 is not even compatible to PRO 😁 …

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Re: Old fart topic: What was your hardware specs in 1992?

Posted on 2018-12-18, 13:36

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by Cyberdyne

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Atari VCS 2600, clone. 😊 I got my first PC in 1995, a Compaq Deskpro 286 with a CGA graphics.

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Re: Half-Life 2, what copy should I buy

Posted on 2018-12-06, 07:01

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by Cyberdyne

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Best bet is to use a pirated and hacked version 😁

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Re: Old feature phones / smartphones

Posted on 2018-12-04, 14:14

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by Cyberdyne

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I kinda miss those screen plus alphabet keyboard candybar phones, Nokia made some good ones, and then just started to make only some budget models, and then just stopped. I really like that nokia is rereleasing 3310 and 8110 modern versions. But i really like a modern Nokia E72 or something like …

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Re: List of DOS games with VESA resolution support 640x480x256 and higher.

Posted on 2018-11-15, 10:51

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by Cyberdyne

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in Marvin \ Video

Where is Warcraft 2 ?

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Re: Mobile technology

Posted on 2018-10-15, 07:29

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by Cyberdyne

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Well i am really considering buying a new Nokia 8110 4G and replacing my Galaxy S7.

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Re: Most forgettable/forgotten retro items?

Posted on 2018-08-31, 12:42

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by Cyberdyne

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ISDN modems first! I never knew anybody that owned them when they were a thing. I also moved from 56k crap winmodem to a LAN cable. God i loved my 33k US.Robotics, it was definetly faster then those 56k winmodems.

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Re: Windows 95 is 23 years old

Posted on 2018-08-24, 21:25

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by Cyberdyne

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Well, it was revolutional, ok Windows 3.1x was the start of multimedia, with WinG and Video for Windows and QuickTime, but Win95 and DirectX and Start button revolutionised the PC.

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Re: RAP-15

Posted on 2018-08-03, 06:55

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by Cyberdyne

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I know of Roland RAP-10 and that is good, but what is RAP-15???

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Best Contra was not arcade but Nintendo, dont you agree...

Posted on 2018-06-29, 22:19

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by Cyberdyne

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I was watching my favourite nes game in original mode. And it was better in NES.

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Re: Can I Swap HDD With Dos To Different Motherboard

Posted on 2018-06-29, 11:50

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by Cyberdyne

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If you use a Pentium or newer motherboard, then hard drives are interchangeable. But in the 486 era when LBA was not that mature, there can be troubles, that if you switch hard drives, they are unreadable.

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Re: DOS 7 dont see second FAT32 partition.

Posted on 2018-06-29, 11:43

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by Cyberdyne

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

DOS 7.0 does not see FAT32 at all, only DOS 7.1

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Re: Norton Commander 4.x and 5.0: a few questions

Posted on 2018-06-11, 07:11

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by Cyberdyne

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Back in the day NC 5.0 did a nice litle thing, that it moved and copied files, but files were broken or 0 size. But i really can not remember how. But i have been usin Volkov Commander 4.05 and love it.

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Re: ATI cards for retro builds... any benefits?

Posted on 2018-05-10, 08:33

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by Cyberdyne

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Well if you want a modernish standalone video card, then user Nvidia TNT to Radeon 5xxx series. ATI cards have some issues. And Nvidia 6 series and later also started to drop undocumented VGA features. It is just my observation.

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Re: Why are 3Com NICs regarded in such high regard?

Posted on 2018-05-10, 08:29

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by Cyberdyne

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Well in fast Pentiums and any Pentum 2/3 the advatage is neglible in 100MB/s mode. But anything older, it really maters.

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Re: Does anyone know what this is

Posted on 2018-05-10, 08:26

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by Cyberdyne

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

It does not need extra drivers in DOS and you can even use it with Windows 9x, without drivers. It has its own BIOS. And computer and DOS sees it a just a normal drive controller. Usually only your original MB BIOS has to be configured with first drive active, but with all zeroes. And you have to …

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Re: Avoid Warcraft 2 DOS/4GW Pro throws error?

Posted on 2018-05-10, 08:18

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by Cyberdyne

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Download a DOS/32 extender pack. http://dos32a.narechk.net/index_en.html Then read the the redme. And just use the tools to replace the executable header. It is pretty easy and straightfoward. It solves many problems, with games that have old DOS4GW extender, and do not like big RAM and fast CPU. …

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Re: Does anyone know what this is

Posted on 2018-05-10, 08:15

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by Cyberdyne

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

68k is just a capable and effective Cache controller there.

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Re: Avoid Warcraft 2 DOS/4GW Pro throws error?

Posted on 2018-05-09, 12:49

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by Cyberdyne

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Replace DOS4GW stub with a DOS/32 header, and usually those errors will go away. But i only use it with pure dos.

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Re: Thinking of having a retro-pocalypse

Posted on 2018-04-08, 12:00

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by Cyberdyne

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Well, about few years allready, i have just destroyed everything beyond repair, anything that i dont need, and does have some kind of pseudo 5-15 Euro/Dollar value, and just dumped it, and i live stress free, hey my time also is worth someting, allso my nerves.

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