Re: Pentium 4 and retro gaming

Posted on 2014-08-14, 19:41

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My P4 system feels much like a 1998 machine with an overkill processor, thanks to the video cards being reasonable bottlenecks. Speedy loading (and installing!) times are a nice advantage as well as stability (for non-HT processors). I'm considering getting one now, thanks a lot. I decided to start …

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Re: For the "Aera-right" build: Info about old recommended configurations.

Posted on 2014-08-14, 14:01

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Well, one of the forum users, I believe is Tetrium, has in is signature some links for very interesting reading that he (rightfully) recomends. I love the Red Hill Guide and keep coming back to read it, it has been updated recently. Other thing I like is the Computer Gaming World Museum, you can …

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Re: 486 four-eighty-six or four-eight-six?

Posted on 2014-08-14, 13:47

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Gary Kildall was pretty awesome. I don't know why useless turds like Gates and Jobs get all the attention and people who actually did the hard work get very little recognition. I personally don't believe the story that Kildall blew off the IBM suits. Was watching discovery or history channel and …

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Re: My 1999-Turn of the Century Gaming Build

Posted on 2014-08-13, 15:02

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This is so well thought 😀 Allways good to be able to compare our own PC configuration with other's solutions.

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Re: 486 four-eighty-six or four-eight-six?

Posted on 2014-08-13, 14:47

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BIOS in Portugal: Bee-ush (as in push)

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Re: Vintage hardware lovers - do you really love vintage hardware or simply pragmatism?

Posted on 2014-08-13, 14:43

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and isn't this a site dedicated to that or did I somehow miss something? Technically, no. It's a website dedicated to getting OLD games running on NEW systems. (Back when "systems" meant PCs and "new" meant Northwood P4's and Athlon XP's running a NT-based OS like Windows XP.) Hacks, patches, and …

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Re: 486 four-eighty-six or four-eight-six?

Posted on 2014-08-12, 21:47

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Jorpho wrote: Four and four twenties and six. Just kidding. Eighty six. It takes a canadian to joke like this. Never heard of four-eghty-six all my life. Allways four-eight-six from everyone. Portugal.

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Re: Post pics of your CRT monitors

Posted on 2014-08-12, 03:35

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Hey! I came here for the pics. 😒

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Re: Pentium 4 and retro gaming

Posted on 2014-08-12, 03:30

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leileilol wrote: My P4 system feels much like a 1998 machine with an overkill processor, thanks to the video cards being reasonable bottlenecks. Speedy loading (and installing!) times are a nice advantage as well as stability (for non-HT processors). I'm considering getting one now, thanks a lot.

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Re: 15" CRT Monitor with manufacturing defect.

Posted on 2014-08-11, 21:54

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I usually do the following: 1- Turn on the PC and the monitor. 2- Wait until the defect becoems visible. 3- Play around the monitor with some unshielded speakers from an old stereo until it desapears. Magnets of any kind work too. I don't know if this ruins the monitor, only needed to do it once, so …

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Re: Overclocking AMD K6-2+/500

Posted on 2014-08-11, 21:48

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You guys made me remember of this http://redhill.net.au/c/c-e.html#k6-3-450 The last entrey, regarding AMD K6-III+ 450 😀

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Re: Top 90's machine

Posted on 2014-08-11, 12:59

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^^ I agree with you :) (...) That Yamaha card sounds interesting but, at least for me, if I want A3D I get a Vortex 2 card, if I want EAX I get a Live!, Audigy, Audigy2 or X-Fi. I'm not really into sound for now. Still dealing with cpu/3d, but maybe after having everything set up. Anyway the yamaha …

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Re: Top 90's machine

Posted on 2014-08-10, 22:53

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IMO the 90's was one of the best decades for PC gaming, with the best DOS games, the advent of Multimedia (soundcard and CD-ROM kits!). But also the birth of 3D hardware acelerated games. It was a fantastic decade of game tech evolution. Believe it or not I don't think the 90's decade of gaming …

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Re: Top 90's machine

Posted on 2014-08-10, 16:26

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IMO the 90's was one of the best decades for PC gaming, with the best DOS games, the advent of Multimedia (soundcard and CD-ROM kits!). But also the birth of 3D hardware acelerated games. It was a fantastic decade of game tech evolution. Believe it or not I don't think the 90's decade of gaming …

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Re: Pentium 4 and retro gaming

Posted on 2014-08-05, 14:11

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Yeahh.... P4 and retro gaming is best served up on XP. We might see that in 5 years from now, when kids of the 00's have all grown up. Then socket 478 systems will be rare. Keep all pci cards from now on i say. I agree, but those kids will probably chose a P4 merely for nostalgia, because for XP …

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Re: Pentium 4 and retro gaming

Posted on 2014-08-04, 20:20

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My P4 system feels much like a 1998 machine with an overkill processor, thanks to the video cards being reasonable bottlenecks. Speedy loading (and installing!) times are a nice advantage as well as stability (for non-HT processors). This is a plus. However it doesn't make me prefer a P4 over a P3 …

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Pentium 4 and retro gaming

Posted on 2014-08-04, 17:23

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Hello everyone, recently I've seen many people interested in Pentium4 systems. I imagine a Pentium4 could be a good high end win98 gaming pc, is this the main reason? Or am I missing something?

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Re: MS-DOS Time-Machine Gaming - Mau1wurf1977's YT Videos

Posted on 2014-08-03, 12:15

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Cool!

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Re: Senrew's Parts Giveaway

Posted on 2014-07-30, 01:30

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Hello senrew, what a great idea. The hardware guys surely appreciate your gesture 😀

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Re: Vintage hardware lovers - do you really love vintage hardware or simply pragmatism?

Posted on 2014-07-28, 23:34

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If I'm being honest with myself - I'm not always - I'm forced to admit that I enjoy buying and playing with hardware more than playing games. My projects are always aimed at getting the best hardware to cover a given period, and I have several beautiful PC's and consoles as a result. But once I …

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