Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2016-04-15, 00:47

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luckybob wrote: PeterLI wrote: Watched a Steven Seagal movie yesterday but fell asleep. 😀 That's normal. Perhaps this can keep PeterLI awake, it will be an upgrade over Steven Seagals tired "jokes" in any case. Thunderstruck by Steve'n'Seagulls https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4Ao-iNPPUc

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Re: 16x9 CRT HDTVs

Posted on 2016-04-15, 00:07

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If you can get your hands on a 34" CRT HDTV with a DVI port for free then its worth the trouble. It can probably show 4:3 content correctly and you will not find any 4:3 CRT HDTVs anyhow. There are a few 4:3 CRT monitors that are larger than 30" but they are ultra rare and normally won't go very …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2016-04-14, 22:35

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Today i have packaged alot of motherboards in ESD bags and put them in huge boxes. I have also played around with my new Epiphan DVI2PCIe frame grabber and it's just great. :) The Epiphan capture tool works good but I can see some room for improvements, like why do you need to type a new file name …

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Re: SGT76's 1998 Pentium II build

Posted on 2016-04-13, 16:35

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Nice build! A Voodoo 2 SLI setup can benefit from a faster CPU but you know that already and I'm guessing you are aiming at keeping the system period correct for 1998.

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Re: Can't make it post - help needed

Posted on 2016-04-13, 16:26

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Not all SiS chipset Socket 3 PCI motherboards can take EDO, it depends on both BIOS version and chipset revision. Are you sure you are using FPM memory? You can also try moving the video card to another slot, I have more than one motherboard that wont run the video card in the first PCI slot. Also …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2016-04-13, 12:31

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Funny, because just a couple of days ago I saved a 2 GB drive by getting violent with it. In short, it wouldn't work but had nothing important on it anyway - in fact, it is getting replaced soon and always was temporary - so I figured it was worth a shot. The repair involved me grabbing the nearest …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2016-04-13, 11:46

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@Skyscraper; If you've got a decent RAID you might be able to hit higher resolutions with compression disabled, assuming this is an option. For me, it is the only option (And I'd try to do it anyway for quality), which is why I've dragged 1920x1080 60 out of a measly Pentium D, the only real limit …

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Re: PSU - bust the myth

Posted on 2016-04-13, 02:16

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On to candidate number two, a ~10 year old Chieftec 400W PSU. The Chieftec (Delta) GPS-400AA-101 A. Chieftec GPS-400AA-101 A.JPG The Chieftec (Delta) GPS-400AA-101 A inside. Chieftec GPS-400AA-101 A inside 1.JPG Chieftec GPS-400AA-101 A inside 2.JPG Chieftec GPS-400AA-101 A inside 3.JPG This looks …

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Re: PSU - bust the myth

Posted on 2016-04-13, 02:05

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Im rebuilding my capture system. The old PSU had an 20pin ATX connector and I needed a PSU with a 24pin connector for the "new" motherboard. I found a FSP 250W PSU and as the capture system wont use more than 150W I thought it was a good candidate. A missing screw and full of dust, great signs. …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2016-04-13, 01:52

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That's funny, we used the same exact card to get the bracket from :D Regarding capturing, you might have to seriously upgrade your machine. Capturing at 1600 x 1200 60 fps my Haswell Pentium Anniversary CPU just handles it at around 70% CPU load. I think a FX6300 would work well. Well when you need …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2016-04-13, 00:52

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A few days ago I wrote that I was rebuilding my capture system, I did not get very far as rebuilding my work space trumped rebuilding the capture system in importance. Today I spent an hour actully rebuilding the capture system, not just thinking about it. This is my capture system. Capture system. …

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Re: Information on an old Wang Labs EGA card

Posted on 2016-04-12, 20:32

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candle_86 wrote: thats a rather large wang (couldn't help myself) That is actually a "M-EGA" Wang.

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Re: Last native AGP Radeon

Posted on 2016-04-12, 01:46

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The HD 4770 was the last/fastest agp card to be released from ATi When I had an old 2001 gateway it had an x1650 in it which was a bridged card and it worked fine. The Radeon HD4770 AGP was vaporware. Radeon HD3850 and HD4670 are the fastest bridged AGP cards, it's not easy to to tell which is …

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Re: ASUS PCI-486SPG3 Questions

Posted on 2016-04-12, 00:55

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The Asus PCI/I-486SP3G MB should be decent, better than most Socket-3 motherboards even. There is no need to replace it. There is no real gain using SCSI over IDE if you use some old noisy 730 MB (just a guess) hard drive. Your board could run into the 504MB limit with an IDE HDD though but updating …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-04-11, 21:10

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I said I would not buy more stuff the next couple of months if it wasnt for a specific project, like the 8bit ISA VGA card a couple of post above, it's going into my XT clone system. Another thing I wanted for my XT clone system was a NEC V20 CPU. There were no V20s to be found on Ebay UK the last …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-04-11, 20:48

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This is my today's purchase - Trident TVGA8900C (~10$ shipped): It's a bit of a sad story - I've bought this card just to salvage those Fujitsu 4x256kb CMOS chips for my Gravis Ultrasound which for now isn't even capable running Second Reality... So tomorrow my new Trident is going to loose not …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-04-11, 20:24

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I got a small package today. Inside the package i found an OCTEK OAK OTIVGA UMC UM587F 8bit EGA/VGA videocard from ~1988. From what I can tell there is zero information about or pictures picturing this card online except for the sellers bad picture showing this exact card. There are pictures showing …

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Re: Video Cards for Windows 9x benched on a very fast Windows 98SE system.

Posted on 2016-04-11, 19:52

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We will se what happens later when I have got things better organized. As it is now my apartment is a mess so all projects except for testing some new stuff are on hold until the mess is stored away. The 100 large ESD bags I ordered from the UK for storing motherboards are already one week overdue, …

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Re: Reviving a 286 board

Posted on 2016-04-11, 19:38

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Nice save! I hope you told that electronics recycling facility what they needed to be told. A spinning PSU fan and some glowing leds are not the same as Working condition!!! Perhaps it's best to not be too hard on them though so they don't quit selling stuff on Ebay and just scrap everything they …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2016-04-11, 18:06

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Now I have also learned how hard it is to remove the broken plastic key "pins" from the switches without the correct tool, I need to get such a tool and a bunch of new keys, glue seems to messy for the better keyboards. I have fully disassembled a Digital rubber dome keyboard so I could access the " …

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