Re: Need help building a Retro Gaming PC

Posted on 2015-07-07, 09:43

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by tayyare

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

..... 600mhz Slot 1 Pentium III 512mb PC-100 RAM Matrox G400+ AGP 2x Voodoo2 PCI in SLI AWE64 (CT4520) Netgear FA310TX 3.5" 1.44mb Floppy Drive CD-ROM Drive Peripherals: InterAct Hammerhead FX 600mhz Slot 1 Pentium III: I don't like slot motherboards much, this is just a personal thing and does not …

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Re: Anyone else dislike multiplayer? No, just me?

Posted on 2015-07-07, 08:09

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by tayyare

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Count me in. I did not play any online multiplayer games since 1996-1997 (Quake). I did like occasional LAN parties, both cooperative and (much so) deathmatch, but that was long ago, during the good old times of Doom / Doom II and Duke Nukem. I was young, single and student at that times and there …

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Re: Need help building a Retro Gaming PC

Posted on 2015-07-06, 15:07

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by tayyare

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The machine in my sig is built for the almost same purpose you have (playing games that I don't have gog versions, and a bit problematic in my XP box) plus some DOS and Windows OS fun. People adores BX boards (like Asus P2B-F or P3B-F, but using a slot to S370 adapter adds to complexity needlessly, …

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Re: How to Connect to the Internet in Windows 3.1

Posted on 2015-07-05, 23:04

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by tayyare

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Can anyone please tell how to do this? I got the NE2000 drivers and Trumpet Winsock, as well as WinPcap. However, I don't know how you set up WinPcap. Can anyone provide assistance? Here is a link for networking with Windows 3.1 but I'm not sure it will help. http://www.windowsnetworking.com/j_ …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-07-05, 20:44

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by tayyare

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I bought a box of hardware for 25 euro, might have overpaid a bit but I liked the 386 board and the rest was a (nice) bonus! http://i.imgur.com/NV2gW5Xl.jpg Is this a Seagate ST-157A? I searched hard for it for years (with reasonable prices) and even purchased 2 of them to recreate my first PC, but …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-07-05, 20:40

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by tayyare

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Thank you for your funny comments :lol: I wonder what that connector behind the slot, that looks like a female IDE, is for. As far as I know there is a INTeL i960 processor under that heatsink. I wonder how good it will perform in the Pentium 166. Found the manual, and actually this connector is …

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Re: Please advise me on a Tualatin motherboard?

Posted on 2015-07-03, 22:11

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by tayyare

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Mine is Gigabyte GA-6VTXE. I purchased it as a replacement for existing GA-6VXE7+ and used with a coppermine 1000 for a time, happily. Now it has a 1.4 Tualatin and I'm even happier..😀

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-07-03, 19:06

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by tayyare

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I've never seen such a mean looking SCSI controller before. 🤣

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Re: Old Hard Drives

Posted on 2015-07-03, 08:40

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by tayyare

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Although I've used a CF card in the past successfully together with DOS, I always try to stick with old hard drives, because of the sound . The "computer thinking" sound is part of the retro experience, so for me that's the way to go on DOS systems. On Pentium(MMX) class systems, I also use noisy …

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Re: retro PC help

Posted on 2015-07-03, 06:10

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by tayyare

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For 5EU, I think it does not worth even to ask. I would just go and buy it. By the way, for the last couple of months or so, I own' one of those Tualatin guys...:lol: I don't know about TUSL2-C, but I used in the past a CUSL2-C (BP edition) with happiness. It was my first PIII system. I checked the …

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Re: CT1920/CT1922 AWE32 Upgrade

Posted on 2015-07-03, 06:04

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by tayyare

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Do these look ok for that card? All I'm finding from Creative is they need to be 80ns or faster and 72-pinn SIMMs. http://www.ebay.com/itm/32MB-2X16MB-FPM-PARITY-60NS-SIMM-72-PIN-5V-4X36-/230649540925?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item35b3c8b13d or these? http://www.ebay.com/itm/32MB-2X16MB-FPM-NON- …

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Re: P4 build in the works

Posted on 2015-07-02, 07:25

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by tayyare

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I don't know if you have it but here is the manual for your board: http://dlsvr01.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/sock478/P … 00-e_deluxe.pdf Please see the section for RAM installation. The board is picky about its ram configurations.

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Re: Weitek 4167 - Software?

Posted on 2015-07-01, 07:29

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by tayyare

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I only know old Autodesk applications (AutoCAD was being one) that supports this specialized FPU.

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Re: Ultimate OS/2 Warp 4 machine?

Posted on 2015-06-30, 08:25

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by tayyare

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I first had the retro virus around 2009 and OS/2 Warp 3 and 4 was among the first OSs that I tried at that time. The machine was a PIII 1000 Coppermine on Gigabyte Via chipset motherboard with 1 GB RAM. In my experience, Matrox display cards (anything including and below G400) and 3Com 905 NICs have …

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Re: Benchmark Retro build.

Posted on 2015-06-30, 07:21

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by tayyare

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For the most part its up and running. Still need a few things. However things are not do good with the AWE64 Gold. I got three issues with it. 1) When I boot up I get a message saying. Read Error in C:\.....SYNTHGB.SBK. 2) Only the left channel works. 3) Card fails the onboard mem test. (Creative …

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Re: P4 build in the works

Posted on 2015-06-30, 07:14

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by tayyare

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Asus P4P800-E, especially the deluxe version, is a very nice board, according to my experience in the past. It was my first S478/P4 setup and I was quite happy with it, though mine has a lower spec CPU (1.4 or something?). I choosen that board actually for RAID options and on board firewire. One …

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Re: Ultimate Windows 98 Box

Posted on 2015-06-30, 06:57

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by tayyare

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I'd love to see this build become reality! That motherboard looks very interesting. If not for the fact that S478 coolers are a pain alone :) What about applying third party patches / hacks for things such as support for more than 512 MB Ram or larger hard drives. I don't have any experience with …

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Re: How to low-level format an old MFM HDD?

Posted on 2015-06-29, 14:02

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by tayyare

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Bumping because I have received a 10MB hard drive recently and plan on doing a low-level format too. Older versions of Ontrack DiskManager will be good for this. I don't remember the version, but during the early 90s, I was using one came with a Seagate drive (in a 5.25" 360 KB disk, no less :lol:) …

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Re: Please help identify this card

Posted on 2015-06-29, 13:51

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by tayyare

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BT878 chipset TV cards was very popular during the times (1998-2000), since they were being supported by third party programs like MoreTV and people were using them for decoding nagravision coded payTV channels (which was popular in some countries during the time, including mine). Although the video …

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Re: Glorious PC Master Race - An Endangered Species

Posted on 2015-06-26, 09:41

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by tayyare

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...Well, yeah, I can not worry about that, but other people are still going to stick a label on me whether I like it or not. You already gave the answer yourself. "People sticking labels on you" is not something you can control. "How do you feel about it" is the thing that you can control. I will …

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