Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2016-07-04, 08:04
Spent the entire weekend moving house, seeing as 90% of my stuff is all retro , I consider that a Retro Activity 😜
Re: Steam games on Windows 9X
Posted on 2016-06-24, 08:26
The biggest problem is how steam wraps the executable to its own client as a form of copy protection, you can download the game from a XP machine and simply grab either the original executable if you are lucky enough to own the game or a not soo legit exe, then copy it over to the 9x which kindof …
Re: System Builders Challenge for Dos and 9x (scratch builds)
Posted on 2016-06-21, 07:10
I think going by ebay prices is a bit silly, the best places to look is still the local Classifieds or Charity Shops, ebay is really only there if you need something asap and dont want to wait for it... You can pick up Pentium 3 computers here for about R500 ($33.33 US) , fully working with a CRT , …
Re: Win98 on Compact Flash card?
Posted on 2016-06-20, 14:46
Dos I know of 😀
Re: Win98 on Compact Flash card?
Posted on 2016-06-20, 11:54
How is the wear and tear on a CF card, Ive been warned several times that the card will wear out extremely fast due to the windows swap file ,and not to attempt CF with win9x ?
Re: Asrock 775i65G and 160 GB HDD
Posted on 2016-06-20, 11:47
Sorry posted without reading your whole post its not a bios limitation your experiencing. You can use 3rd party replacements for Scandisk, Norton utilities comes to mind (Norton DiskDoctor), or Partion Magic also had a package that replaces windows scandisk, defrag also wont support 137gb disks. …
Re: My ULTIMATE V2 SLI cooling
Posted on 2016-06-15, 13:11
I wonder if there is a big enough market to actually have something cnced out of aluminum that covers the entire card like modern coolers do...
Re: video capturing real CGA and TGA?
Posted on 2016-06-15, 07:52
Thanks for the suggestions, 2 questions. I don't see a DB9 input on the gbs-8200 so how do you connect a cga cable or will a simple DB9 to db15 work? Second do CGA cards output CGA and the composite simultaneously? Just Connect Red Green Blue and HS and VS to the corresponding pins on the DB-9, …
Re: video capturing real CGA and TGA?
Posted on 2016-06-15, 07:12
You might be able to use a CGA to VGA adapter like the GBS-8200 , some of the CGA games did a lot with Composite aswell, so its worth trying a normal AV capture card and seeing if the effects translate properly.
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2016-06-15, 06:42
Finished my Duel Voodoo2 proof of concept rig, it has a neat party trick where I can change the LED colour with a remote... Specs are as follows: 256MB Ram 1.4Ghz Taulatin Celeron via Powerleap slotkit Gigabyte Geforce 256 1x Creative labs 12mb Voodoo 2 1x Diamond 8MB Voodoo 2 120GB Western Digital …
Re: Pentium II 450 and Voodoo cards
Posted on 2016-06-14, 11:55
Early P4 that has a AGP slot that still supports the Voodoo5 Umm, all the socket 423 motherboards (and up) that I've seen have an AGP 1.5V keyed slot. Earlier 3.3V cards like the V5 will not work on those. They don't even physically fit. My apologies I forgot about the AGP 4x voltage restraints , …
Re: Pentium II 450 and Voodoo cards
Posted on 2016-06-14, 09:26
I think a Voodoo2 SLI setup or a Voodoo3 would be a better fit for that machine. Notwithstanding the fact that Voodoo5s are mad expensive, unless you're asking this question because you have one laying around. I have a new sealed Voodoo5 5500 but not sure which system to pair it with. Early P4 that …
Re: Most useless/undesirable piece of vintage computer hardware
Posted on 2016-06-13, 14:02
I wont shame network cards that quickly there still useful, besides one day I just might do a BNC based network just for the fun of it 😜
Re: Most useless/undesirable piece of vintage computer hardware
Posted on 2016-06-13, 11:34
I had to sit down and actually think of something that can beat modems P1 Era Proprietary motherboards that dont fit in a normal AT/ATX case and uses a propriety power connector 14" CRT VGA screens that cant go any higher than 640x480 AGP Sis6326 PS Before anyone starts shooting me, the reason is …
Re: Motherboard with 1.4Ghz Tualatin support and 3 ISA slots?
Posted on 2016-06-13, 10:19
DFI had a board too "DFI CA61", has 133mhz FSB acording to the manual, its a Via Apollo 133a chipset so shouldn't be too bad, but Ive never used one of these boards. Its a good candidate for a pin modded Taulatin, you can get them on ebay or do one yourself, it works well on my Apollo 133a Gigabyte …
Re: so excited
Posted on 2016-06-13, 09:58
My last find was literally that, a friend phoned me up that he has some stuff, when I got there it was a Commodor Pet, two Spectravision computers a Apple IIe and a box filled with 386 and 486 motherboards another with isa cards... So it might be a good find
Re: Motherboard with 1.4Ghz Tualatin support and 3 ISA slots?
Posted on 2016-06-13, 09:20
Tertz wrote: FaSMaN wrote: Celeron Taulatins with the correct slotkit It's senseless, as Coppermine 1000 on 133 MHz should not to work meaningfully slower in games than Tualatin Celeron 1.4. Thats true , but OP said he wants to use a Tualatin supported board.
Re: Motherboard with 1.4Ghz Tualatin support and 3 ISA slots?
Posted on 2016-06-13, 09:06
Hmm your right, only 100mhz FSB, you can still use one of the Celeron Taulatins with the correct slotkit, there is one thats 1.4ghz at 100mhz fsb , tradoff is 256kb cache, and it will say Celeron instead of Pentium Edit: You will need a powerleap slotkit or similar http://www.powerleap.com/pdf_files …
Re: Motherboard with 1.4Ghz Tualatin support and 3 ISA slots?
Posted on 2016-06-13, 07:37
Native Tualatin support? , I dont know of any but if you use a slotkit , or adapter, the later 440BX boards will run fine and you do get them with 3 ISAs But why 3x isa, only thing I can think of is video editing card, but there are better PCI verients for those... Edit: The Supermicro P6SBU Comes …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2016-06-07, 13:15
The last sound card with the daughterboard is a MediaSonic Sound Commander Gold. My guess is that it's a simple Sound Blaster clone or maybe Adlib Gold clone judging by the name. I have a Sound Commander EX which seems to be a Sound Blaster clone but I can't find any info on it. Thanks , atleast I …
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