Re: If you could play any game for the first time ever again...
Posted on 2015-04-27, 02:42
Re: XP on P3 1.4GHz
Posted on 2015-04-16, 20:46
I have a SuperMicro server with dual 1.4GHz Tualatins and 2GB ECC, and it seemed pretty slow, but it could be the hard drive is slow as well, plus it's only PATA. But the system only has a single PCI-X slot, which I always planned on filling with a better video card.
Re: Gamestop To Begin Trading in Retro Consoles and Games
Posted on 2015-04-16, 14:02
Screw Gamestop; I'll never buy games from them, again. After that whole balogne they pulled with... I forget which game it was, but essentially a game was released, which came with a free copy of the preceding game... or a voucher to get a copy of the preceding game, and they opened each box and …
Re: 300W Heroichi PSU: worth refurbishing?
Posted on 2015-04-14, 22:08
Power supplies, unless specifically designed to use polys, are not the appropriate place for a poly upgrade. Polymer caps are very fast, and would require all the circuitry behind them to be equally quick. The only place I've seen polys applied to a PSU are server-grade supplies, and even they don't …
Re: 300W Heroichi PSU: worth refurbishing?
Posted on 2015-04-14, 14:46
The internals look like an inverted board-layout of the Antec PP303X, many of which I have recapped. Just make sure you use some nice, name-brand caps such as Panasonic, United Chemicon, Nichicon, etc. You don't have to use low-esr, (and in the case of PSU's you don't necessarily want to because too …
Re: So found something in a box, literly a box
Posted on 2015-04-10, 15:16
I always look at systems like that and figure if they can't be made to hit peak video performance, in this case missing AGP, then use it for audio or rather turn it into a media-player. Otherwise, you could cleverly stuff it into the kitchen, somewhere and mount an LCD to a wall or other surface to …
Re: Short on ISA slots? Try this.
Posted on 2015-04-09, 15:04
I just wanted to say that I think this is awesome... even if I don't have a use for it. Well, this would come in handy for boards I have with only a single ISA slot. I have a huge Dell server, here somewhere that has, IIRC, a single ISA slot and plenty of room where I could mount this. Thanks for …
Re: Kickstart for Sound Canvas
Posted on 2015-04-09, 14:56
I think moving the SC to digital would take the fun of using one, away.
Re: typical speed of 4-8gb ide hdd on 486 boards?
Posted on 2015-04-09, 14:32
This has probably been answered a million times, but: Is this a limitation of the BIOS to read hard-disk parameters? [/b] Because otherwise I don't see why one could not simply partition a modern PATA HDD with a small partition that the BIOS could work with, and then benefit from the huge buffers …
Re: AWE64 tinkering
Posted on 2015-03-16, 14:05
The AWE 64 was released around... '97? The card is over fifteen years old, and the capacitors are aging. I'm not sure if the worry about SnR is something your basing simply on technical specifications or something you can actually hear. What I did on an SB16 ISA card, is replace all the capacitors …
Re: What old game would you like to see remade?
Posted on 2015-03-09, 05:39
I didn't notice any mention of it on the forums when I did a search, but I was researching a game I used to play called "Zone Raiders" and found zoom-platform.com which apparently re-works the programming to work on modern systems. I'm about to pull the trigger on "Zone Raiders" so I can play it, …
Re: Are you also spoilt by high-end retro hardware?
Posted on 2015-03-03, 19:47
I see what OP is getting at. And I'm sure this is a popular train of thought. As for myself, I generally gravitate towards items which I accept as a good foundation for an improved item. For instance: A Sound Blaster 16 ISA, something most of us grew up with, is very compatible, sounds good and does …
Re: Tracing an early demo of Revenant
Posted on 2015-02-27, 19:24
I remember playing through this game. It was lots of fun, but I know not everyone likes continual hack n slash. I recommend playing through it.
Re: ISA Graphics Card Display Distortion
Posted on 2015-01-28, 05:43
The removable chip is probably for the color management. I have an Orchid ISA card laying around that has a replaceable... forget what it's called, but it affects it's color-depth abilities, for instance: 16-bit vs 24-bit, etc.
Re: Quake on a P75
Posted on 2015-01-20, 16:25
I'm curious how a newer, PCI sound-card such as a Live! would impact your performance.
Re: getting hardened thermal glue off of chips/heatsink.
Posted on 2015-01-20, 15:45
You could always sand it off. You may want to lap the chips, anyway to improve the heatsink/gpu mating surface, later.
Re: Anything special about AWE64?
Posted on 2015-01-07, 06:38
I actually read something that Creative used capacitors with wrong values against whatwas advised to do in the datasheets of amplifiers on some SB16 cards. Un-Creative Labs. Well, most companies don't use the lab-spec configuration in the datasheet because they are usually trying to 1) cut cost, …
Re: Acer Aspire One 722 - Crackling Sounds on Windows XP
Posted on 2014-12-16, 06:14
What version of XP? If you have an original disc with no service packs, try installing with no ACPI.
Re: Power supply insides question
Posted on 2014-12-10, 21:52
Has the power supply in question actually been in use or did it sit for many years? PSU's that see constant usage should only degrade if the capacitors are low quality or you are putting too much strain on the supply.
Re: RIVA TNT & signal quality
Posted on 2014-12-05, 16:02
I found an SVGA cable with coax at the sync-lines--I'm going to do some comparison testing with a good 3-coax cable. I especially wanted to try this on my SEGA Dreamcast with a Sega VGA-box. Soon...
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