Re: Advantages of WinME over Win98SE?

Posted on 2015-11-01, 10:39

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by Sedrosken

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Eep. I posted a falsehood in regards to the specs of the machine I'm using Me on right now. Latitude C600 Pentium III 1GHz/700MHz (primitive SpeedStep implementation is primitive, but also somewhat useful in keeping temps and power consumption down...) 128MB PC100 SDR (soon to be 512MB) ESS Maestro …

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Re: Most disappointing games?

Posted on 2015-11-01, 09:43

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Skyrim. As good as it was, it didn't live up to half of the hype it got. Alternatively, Diablo II. They took a dark fantasy/horror hack n slash with roguelike elements and made it all about item farming. It was still fun, bucketloads in multiplayer, but it didn't have the same feel as the original. …

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Re: Struggling to see difference between 16 bit and 32 bit colours

Posted on 2015-11-01, 09:37

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by Sedrosken

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Well. This was enlightening. Might as well tone down the color depth on my poor struggling P3s, seeing as not only can I not tell the difference but neither can almost anyone else. And I use LCD monitors all around, and none of them are particularly new or were expensive when they were... thought it …

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Re: ET4000/W32i + 386 + 1024x768 + Win3.11

Posted on 2015-10-29, 02:51

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by Sedrosken

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Then that explains why a good CRT has always been better for color reproduction for me than any LCD monitor I have. Even the Ultrasharps pale in comparison to a good old NEC Multisync.

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Re: What's a good / the best PCI graphics card I can put in a 500mhz IBM Aptiva E 190?

Posted on 2015-10-29, 02:50

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by Sedrosken

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radeon 7000 . I have one in an old packard bell ledgend. Give the option of vga , s-video , and dvi. it's 64mb , and is capable of multiple monitors. One of the best pci cards that runs on very old versions of standard pci. This. I just got one for my 300GL, and it flies in comparison to the old …

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Re: Advantages of WinME over Win98SE?

Posted on 2015-10-25, 05:02

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by Sedrosken

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For science, my newly-acquired Pentium III laptop (Latitude C610, PIII 750MHz, 256MB PC100, Rage Mobility 8MB with 1024x768 MAX res on internal screen, Crystal 4205 audio, 80GB Seagate Momentus 5400.2 PATA) will be an experimental ME install at first and I will see if all the computer clout I can …

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Re: What's a good / the best PCI graphics card I can put in a 500mhz IBM Aptiva E 190?

Posted on 2015-10-25, 02:05

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by Sedrosken

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Hello guys, I recently rescued and restored this little guy and frankly the SIS graphics in it leave much to be desired. I want it to at least pull par with my Compaq 7360 which has VIA chipset. I want both to be able to run games like Driver which the Compaq does flawlessly but the IBM cannot even …

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Re: Advantages of WinME over Win98SE?

Posted on 2015-10-24, 23:55

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by Sedrosken

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What?! What color depht are you using? Try checking and unchecking the checkbox in Display Properties that allows you to use more colors in icons (and reboot after each change). Also, get TweakUi and have it repair the icon cache. I'm at 1280x1024 @ 60Hz using 32-bit color mode. Well, it didn't fix …

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Re: Surviving the late 90's without 3Dfx

Posted on 2015-10-24, 23:50

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by Sedrosken

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Hate to break it to you guys but I was only just born in 1998. I didn't have a late 90's to survive, really. I only started becoming conscious of my actions around 2002. At least, that's as far back as I can remember clearly. The main reason I am so interested in vintage computing today is because, …

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Re: Advantages of WinME over Win98SE?

Posted on 2015-10-24, 06:33

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by Sedrosken

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What has 98SE2ME done to my poor, poor icons?!

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Re: Advantages of WinME over Win98SE?

Posted on 2015-10-23, 21:59

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by Sedrosken

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I understand it was met with scorn and still is by most people, but why am I seeing so many people using it for their P3 boxes? Not as many as people using 98SE or 2000, of course, but it's still a sizable amount of people. Is there something they know about it that I don't? Have they figured out …

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Advantages of WinME over Win98SE?

Posted on 2015-10-23, 21:39

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by Sedrosken

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I've noticed some people using Windows ME rather than 98SE for their newer vintage builds. I would like to ask what the point is behind that? Does Windows ME have better support for certain things?

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Re: IBM PC300GL, Katmai 500 with Rage XL PCI and 768MB RAM

Posted on 2015-10-23, 21:25

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by Sedrosken

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Thanks for the insight. Might just do as you said and use this machine for very late DOS titles once I get ahold of another P3 system (probably a Coppermine 1GHz, I'm not going to go the extra mile for an extra 400MHz unless it comes free), but then I'll just put the PII-350 back in. The Trio3D is a …

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Re: ET4000/W32i + 386 + 1024x768 + Win3.11

Posted on 2015-10-23, 21:09

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by Sedrosken

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I have seen 8-bit and 16-bit RAMDACs. What is the difference if they both operate at the same speed? Also, I believe the MicroLabs card DOES support 1024x768 at 64k colours, but only in interlaced mode. The difference is the color depth: 8-Bit means the DAC is capable of 256 colours, 15-Bit 32768, …

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Re: POLL: What is your favorite x86 vintage processor?

Posted on 2015-10-22, 11:52

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by Sedrosken

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For me it's a tossup between the Pentium MMX 233 and the Pentium III-S 1400.

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IBM PC300GL, Katmai 500 with Rage XL PCI and 768MB RAM

Posted on 2015-10-22, 11:38

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by Sedrosken

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Pics coming soon. This minitower was given to me several weeks ago by a friend of mine. It came to me with no RAM or hard drive, a busted CD-RW drive (that I have replaced with a beautifully working 40x CD-ROM drive with working CD Audio), a thankfully working floppy drive with a black dust shield ( …

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Re: Post your 'current' PC

Posted on 2015-10-22, 06:21

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by Sedrosken

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Mine is nothing special. Phenom II x4 945, 12GB DDR3 (2x2GB, 2x4GB), 1TB hard drive (about halfway used), GeForce GT 730 w/ 2GB GDDR5 VRAM, DVD-RW drive. I tend not to be very taxing on my storage devices (the only reason my PC300GL has an 80GB was that I needed something bigger than a 20GB but I …

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Re: Retrofanatic's "8Mhz TURBO BOARD" NEC V20 XT Build

Posted on 2015-10-22, 06:04

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by Sedrosken

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in Marvin \ System Specs

Lovely build you have here. Shame I never get anything older than a Pentium through my workshop. I tend not to go out of my way to find these things, but I may just have to do that one of these days.

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Re: Max Windows 98SE PC specs

Posted on 2013-05-13, 15:40

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by Sedrosken

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No, by max I meant max for the period. Anything more would be way overkill, and 98 wouldnt be able to handle dual cores.

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Re: Picking the best DOS Sound Blaster(s)

Posted on 2013-05-13, 15:27

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by Sedrosken

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If I'm only using it in DOS or Windows 3.11/95/98, I choose the SoundBlaster AWE64 Gold. If I'm using, say, Windows 2000 or XP in a dual boot configuration with DOS, I use the SoundBlaster PCI. IIRC, this was the last SoundBlaster card to have DOS drivers. But I think the sound quality suffers a bit …

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