Re: Baby AT cases or alternatives

Posted on 2008-11-27, 13:56

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by valnar

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Geez... I come here asking for help, and my case gets critiqued instead. :blah: :happy: The case above I've had for awhile. It houses my P2B-B board, which is another AT motherboard with an ATX power supply connector. It's nice and small. I remember it being a fairly common mini-tower, but that was …

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Re: Baby AT cases or alternatives

Posted on 2008-11-26, 22:44

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by valnar

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The Baby AT case I had in mind is something like this.... if anyone finds one.

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Re: My typical retro day

Posted on 2008-11-26, 21:06

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by valnar

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Dude.... seriously... 😖

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Re: Mobygames MT-32 Games List in a single DOC file.

Posted on 2008-11-25, 19:14

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by valnar

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Nice..... thanks. This is a historical topic of great interest to me. I think this was brought up once before, but I'd love a list (which is probably a smaller subset of this) of games that were primarily and specifically written with the MT-32 in mind. All of these games in the Moby list have MT-32 …

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Re: 486 mobo: mouse, floppy, HDD, CD - where do they all go?

Posted on 2008-11-22, 16:59

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by valnar

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I've got a lot of that stuff, but I think only the oldest SCSI cards have floppy connectors. I know my AHA-2940 does not. The OP may still need a cheap ISA card to get a floppy connector. Yah, 68-50pin converters and SCSI terminators. Fun times.

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Re: 486 mobo: mouse, floppy, HDD, CD - where do they all go?

Posted on 2008-11-22, 15:38

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by valnar

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Yep, that's the problem with recreating a truly retro PC. Some of the original hardware back then is not worth buying, even in the name of authenticity (like old hard drives that are half-dead). But to upgrade them to modern technology requires some compromises. An old ISA SCSI/SCSI-2 board with a …

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Re: 486 mobo: mouse, floppy, HDD, CD - where do they all go?

Posted on 2008-11-22, 14:31

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by valnar

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I assume by this question you never had a 386/486 before? Yah, you need cards for all of those if they didn't come with/on the motherboard. Mouse - use a serial mouse or buy a PS/2 mouse card (uh... use serial) Floppy/HDD - You need an ISA card for that. IDE preferred (not anything older of course) …

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Re: New version of DOSBox idea

Posted on 2008-11-22, 14:24

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by valnar

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I agree With Zach, Why not implement the best Front end and have it install with DosBox? I setup up DosBox through my windows tool bar, If I knew how, I'd set it up in the shell menu, under a sub menu. Unfortunately most people aren't computer smart, Most people don't even know how to view files …

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Re: Recording DOS screen

Posted on 2008-11-20, 18:16

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by valnar

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You can't always get what you want. Video camera is the best solution.

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Re: Recording DOS screen

Posted on 2008-11-20, 16:09

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by valnar

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

video camera?

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Re: Getting win98se

Posted on 2008-11-19, 14:09

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by valnar

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in Windows

Download the free Virtual PC 2007 from Microsoft. It works great with that.

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Re: New version of DOSBox idea

Posted on 2008-11-19, 11:20

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by valnar

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DOSBox is already far more advanced and easier to use than a real DOS machine (remember memory management?). You frequently had to setup separate config.sys/autoexec.bat files for games back then too. It may be an emulator, but it is a *DOS* emulator. You're going to need at least some familiarity …

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Re: My Dell GXPro Pentium Pro 200MHz (which I'm about to get rid of). *PICS*

Posted on 2008-11-18, 22:15

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by valnar

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Mike 01Hawk wrote: Never sold 🙁 I'd like $50 + shipping costs for it if you're interested. Sorry to hear that. My guess is it's not rare enough, or like I mentioned in this thread, it doesn't hit any retro sweet spot. How important are early Pentiums?

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Re: How important are early Pentiums?

Posted on 2008-11-18, 20:11

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by valnar

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Good post Malik, but I gotta ask again for others who are reading-- Is there any retro-gaming advantage to a Pentium 66-233Mhz, for specific games, over a 386/486 or a faster PII/III ? It seems to me that for later DOS games, a PII or PIII would be faster (in a good sense) for games that needed it …

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Re: An emulation record?

Posted on 2008-11-17, 11:17

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by valnar

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If you have access to the roms, then Stella is the best emulator for Windows. In DOS, it was PCAE (PC Atari).

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Re: Which Vesa Local Bus graphics card?

Posted on 2008-11-15, 19:06

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by valnar

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

fillosaurus wrote: My experience: Tseng ET4000 W32, S3 928, Cirrus Logic 5428 I second that recommendation, in that order too.

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Re: How important are early Pentiums?

Posted on 2008-11-15, 15:28

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by valnar

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I've been wondering a little about this too. At what point during the 90's did processor speed no longer matter for games (as in being too fast)? A lot of games were speed sensitive as to play too fast on better computers, which is why we build 386 and 486 machines. But let's say during the Pentium …

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Re: Low power video card

Posted on 2008-11-12, 11:56

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by valnar

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I agree that it's probably not the power supply, but if you think it is, this is a worthy investment. http://www.p3international.com/products/speci … 0/P4400-CE.html

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Re: WildTangent Ceases Game Development

Posted on 2008-11-11, 16:15

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by valnar

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Maybe I can finally uninstall this Wildtangent "virus" from my kid's computer now. 😀

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Re: Insane prices..

Posted on 2008-11-10, 22:57

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by valnar

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I don't understand how some people can get such high prices for old hardware? I regularly buy old hardware off my local craigslist for dirt cheap. One guy even gave me a whole laundry basket of stuff for free! It had several hard drives (including a 30 gb Fireball), some cd drives, a dvd drive, two …

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