Re: The Return of the BEIGE! (Pentium II Inside)

Posted on 2012-03-09, 02:58

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by badmojo

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Midi describes a size of beer glass in Australia too, in some states. Now there's something you didn't need to know. Bring back the beige I say! Just leave the fire retardant out of the plastic this time please.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2012-03-09, 01:42

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by badmojo

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A few cards of interest I've found in my recent travels. A voodoo1 I got quite cheaply on eBay from a guy in Germany. The description didn't include the word 'voodoo' I don't think, so I didn't have much competition - or maybe it's just not a very good one! Works OK, once I cleaned the mud off (?!): …

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Re: Wavetable Stand-in Card (XR385)

Posted on 2012-03-06, 21:51

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by badmojo

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Fantastic, thanks very much for your detailed replies guys, I'm looking forward to trying this out. And Malik, the world needs more people who take pride in their bat files!

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Re: My 486

Posted on 2012-03-06, 21:33

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by badmojo

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Cool, thanks for sharing! What's that empty socket in your sound blaster for?

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Re: ebay drying up?

Posted on 2012-03-05, 03:04

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by badmojo

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Stuff older than 1996 or so seems pretty scarce to me, I find more of this era stuff in the 'to be scraped' pile at the tip. People just aren't aware that there's a market for stuff that old I guess, or they just can't be arsed listing it. I have heaps of 'saved searches' setup but they miss a lot …

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Re: Wavetable Stand-in Card (XR385)

Posted on 2012-03-05, 02:52

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by badmojo

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Sorry to join in here at the end with a dumb question, but I'm planning on using this setup myself (thanks to that dude in China who seems to have a limitless supply of those XR385's). I understand how all this works except for this: I configured the cards as follows: AWE32 CT3910: A220 D1 I5 H5 …

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Re: Best VLB video card?

Posted on 2012-03-01, 22:40

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by badmojo

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I have a few VLB cards to choose from and I find that the image quality and colour depth are the most important factors, particularly for a game like Dune2 which doesn't need much grunt anyway. I use one with an ET4000AX chipset, which is actually the slowest card I own, but it looks absolutely …

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Re: Random pics from a computer mag, October 1994 edition.

Posted on 2012-02-29, 11:06

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by badmojo

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Looks like it 😀 That's insane, three thousand bucks for a 386 25Mhz! And that's just the MB.

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Random pics from a computer mag, October 1994 edition.

Posted on 2012-02-29, 10:34

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I scored myself 10 or so 'Australian Personal Computer' mags on eBay, circa 1993/4. This was my personal golden age for computing so I'm having a ball with them, and thought I'd share a few pics. These are mostly just ads from the October 1994 issue - check out those prices! (aussie dollars). No …

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Re: Wing Commander 1/2 joystick issue...

Posted on 2012-02-28, 05:10

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by badmojo

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Mau1wurf1977, you're the ultimate campaigner for the 'cache dis-abler' cause - love it! Personally I have a bee in my bonnet about using the period specific hardware but using a Pentium makes a lot of sense, I've found countless P1's during my old hardware savaging. Dunno the history of them, but …

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Re: 486 Time Machine Build

Posted on 2012-02-27, 01:53

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by badmojo

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muchas gracias for the offer, I've sent you a PM.

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Re: 486 Time Machine Build

Posted on 2012-02-26, 23:39

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by badmojo

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OK the cache I ordered for this ASUS VL/I-486SV2GX4 has arrived so I'm ready to start playing around. One thing that bothers me (it's superficial and it shouldn't) is that during the POST, the list of details on the screen include "IPEX blah blah". IPEX is the name of the company who put this PC …

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Re: The 486 I just built

Posted on 2012-02-21, 21:35

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by badmojo

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Cool, can we have some pictures? I like to see what old cases people come up with. The DX266 is such a great chip, perfect for 1994 era games. With regard to that Diamond Stealth 24 - how does it look? Using 3dbench I determined that it's the fastest of the VLB cards I have (compared to a Tseng …

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Re: Project time: Restoring a Packard Bell Legend 406CD to general use/gaming spec

Posted on 2012-02-20, 21:58

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by badmojo

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It looks great, nice work. I've never been game enough to try the oven thing. I have used the dishwasher on a couple of keyboards though and they always come up looking pretty good. You mention cleaning PSU's and I assume you take then apart if you're chucking them in the oven, but what about …

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Re: Sad state of affairs

Posted on 2012-02-20, 02:46

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by badmojo

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An interesting article on the subject of AMD and "what went wrong" http://www.pcpro.co.uk/features/372859/amd-what-went-wrong

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Re: 386 revival

Posted on 2012-02-17, 09:09

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by badmojo

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You're right it does have 8kb - better than nothing I guess!

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386 revival

Posted on 2012-02-16, 09:44

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by badmojo

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An old PC I rescued from the tip recently was sporting a nice little 386DX40 motherboard - one of those soldered-on-chip deals. Unfortunately the battery had leaked and although it did POST, it wouldn't recognise the keyboard. With sadness I decided it was toast and hung it on the wall of my outside …

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Re: Voodoo question. Warning - ignorance on display.

Posted on 2012-02-15, 03:28

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by badmojo

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I like the 'voodoo 5 as the main card' option - less is more. And this is a P3 system aimed at games in the 97-2000 era, so the V5 is about the right age. There's one selling locally for about 70 bucks, but I don't usually spend that much on my retro bits. Also, I would be bumping a Geforce2 Ultra …

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Re: Voodoo question. Warning - ignorance on display.

Posted on 2012-02-11, 11:35

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by badmojo

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Thanks for the replies, now I have more options to think about... is that good or bad? I'm gonna end up with about 6 PC's by the time I've covered everything. This is getting out of control!

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Re: Cleaning old computer chassis parts - Retr0Bright?

Posted on 2012-02-09, 01:52

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by badmojo

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Hmm I'm interested in this topic too, I have a couple of cases and things that I refuse to use with that horrible yellow colour. In general I struggle to follow recipes for some reason so haven't tried the exact retr0bright formula / process. But I've recently tried an adhoc mix of peroxide bought …

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