Re: My badass Pentium Pro with Voodoo2 SLI

Posted on 2018-11-11, 01:32

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by brostenen

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Nice machine. It is really looking great. I remember when they launched the Pro, and I clearly remember an teaser article. That there were an Quad CPU Pentium-Pro board out there in the wild. Years later, I found out that it was a prototype board that never made it into production. I just remember …

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Re: Hard drive parking.

Posted on 2018-11-11, 01:17

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by brostenen

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I find it particularly amusing that I (as a kid in mid90s) was constantly nudged by the adults (and they were by so-called "IT professionals") to always use "park" in DOS (with 486+ machines). It sure takes some effort to form a habit, but even more so to break it. Well... The IT teacher at my …

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Re: Hard drive parking.

Posted on 2018-11-09, 23:27

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by brostenen

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Best way to confirm is to refer to the technical details of the particular hard drive model. Yup.... Just to make shure that it is not some obscure drive, that does not fully comply with the standards. Speaking of... When that was a selling point in the add's, I kind of think that they eighter …

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Re: Hard drive parking.

Posted on 2018-11-09, 23:16

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by brostenen

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I didn't mean it would depend on the size. What I was asking was that could drives as old as when they were still selling 20mb or 40mb drives have auto parking. I don't know. As I wrote, then it was a selling point, back in the early days of IDE drives. If it was some of the early IDE drives that …

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

Posted on 2018-11-09, 22:58

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by brostenen

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Turned on my RaspberryPI and gamed RetroPIE with both of my children for two hours today. And I can recommend the controller called "Speedlink Strike NX". It is soooo good. Thanks for that. Thinking about setting up a retro gaming Pi with something called Lakka. Have you tried this out yet? …

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Re: Hard drive parking.

Posted on 2018-11-09, 22:19

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by brostenen

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So you would expect any ide drive even as small as 20mb or 40mb to park automatically? I have a huge MFM drive stored with a controller card. I would love to test it some day, but I don't know if there is any chance such old hard drive works. It has nothing to do with drive sizes as such. A few MFM …

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

Posted on 2018-11-09, 20:34

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by brostenen

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Turned on my RaspberryPI and gamed RetroPIE with both of my children for two hours today. And I can recommend the controller called "Speedlink Strike NX". It is soooo good. EDIT: Some time ago, I gave my 486dx33 a different case. And finally I had the chance of updating my blog.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-11-07, 11:41

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by brostenen

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Yesss! I honestly had decent luck with WinMe back in the day, though I found it all came down to what hardware you were running it on. Something <2 years old? I had nothing but trouble on all my personal hardware, back around 1999/2000 or when that was released. Yet my parents had an Compaq with an …

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

Posted on 2018-11-05, 22:31

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by brostenen

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Dude, that case badge is amazing. My case badge is an Apple Macintosh Quadra 650 emblem that my dad put on in the early 1990's. Thanks.... It is a real Amd 286 CPU. It has been dead since way before I got it in 1995. :-D Intel inside, Amd outside ;-) Like taking the phrase litterally. And not just …

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

Posted on 2018-11-05, 21:35

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by brostenen

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Gave my 486dx33 a different case. And used the case badge, that I have used since 1995. Not your average case badge, that is for shure. 😁 Filename DX33-01.jpg File size 394.01 KiB Views 867 views Filename DX33-02.jpg File size 309.67 KiB Views 867 views

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Re: Soundbaster Awe32 setup in win98

Posted on 2018-11-01, 09:51

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by brostenen

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Try a clean install again. Sometimes it can go wrong for some odd reason. As it is an 2760, you will have to go through the jumpers first, before the reinstall of drivers. Once the card is set to the correct IRQ, DMA and IO's, then take a quick look in your bios. Disable anything COM/LPT that you …

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Re: 486 ram speed/type and performance.

Posted on 2018-10-29, 21:09

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by brostenen

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Back in the 90's, I never ran with more than 8mb on my 486 machines. These days I have no issues with software, if I keep it to 16mb. Sometimes more than 16mb will give you some sort of issue.

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Re: So, does anyone here watercool their old gear

Posted on 2018-10-28, 21:54

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by brostenen

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I've never really considered it or saw it as worth it... most really old H/W doesn't get hot enough to begin with; meanwhile, things like Prescott P4s require adequate VRM cooling along with CPU cooling, which most water blocks typically don't accommodate. At that point, adding a fan blowing at the …

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Re: What was your first (as in personally owned) PC compatible computer?

Posted on 2018-10-28, 21:17

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by brostenen

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Fool that I've always been, I was into the Amiga at the time Depends on what your poison is. To me, the ultimate kind of vintage machines are: C64, all Amiga's and all X86 (AMD/Intel/Cyrix) from 286 to Pentium3. Especially the years of 1983 to 1995, as I grew up on all types of hardware from those …

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Re: So, does anyone here watercool their old gear

Posted on 2018-10-28, 21:05

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by brostenen

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No fluid is ever going inside any of my systems, if they are powered on. That is for shure. To me, water cooling have always been about reduction of heat. Not about reduction of noise. In the mid-00's, this was the case, when water cooling started to catch on. Somehow, I still think about water …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-10-28, 18:50

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arncht wrote: Sapphire Atlantis Radeon 9800 Pro 128M AGP ATI Radeon 9800 Pro Nice card. I simply like all Radeons from 9600 to 9800. I don't know why, but there are just something about those cards, and I highly recommend them for Win98 gaming. Only GF4-ti4200 to 4600 are better for late era Win98 …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-10-28, 18:45

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by brostenen

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Bought one of these below, as I wanted a spare CPU, just in case. It is rated at 40mhz, and can without issues run at 50mhz. I think it can do so, because it is an low power without MMU. The one I am currently using, does not really put out any noticeable heat, when overclocked from 40 to 50. And …

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

Posted on 2018-10-25, 23:36

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by brostenen

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Now that is a BEASTLY A500. And I thought mine was actually fast.. Wait, let me grab a screenshot as well.. ACA500Plus SYSINFO.jpg It doesn't look even half as impressive next to yours, does it? I can't imagine how nice it must be to play Frontier or Grand Prix on that machine. Are you using WB 3.1 …

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

Posted on 2018-10-25, 21:12

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by brostenen

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Tried and tested out my Terrible Fire TF-530 accelerator card these last few days. And found that I need to get a kickstart socket relocator in order to have my cloanto dual-kickstart rom switcher installed. It is quite tall, and a few millimeters are in the way of the CPU relocator. I can install …

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Re: Newcommer, new dos pc questions Retrocengo

Posted on 2018-10-25, 21:02

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by brostenen

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Hello everybody, im new here, i will have some noob questions, bear with me :-) My retro interrest exploded in early 2018, started collecting Amiga, then Commodore 64, Then made a youtube channal to share my passion. Few days ago, i watched LGR and Philscomputerlab videoes, listend to MIDI music in …

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