Re: Neat little CRT terminal emulator

Posted on 2016-03-26, 22:04

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realnc wrote: Why is everything so fuzzy? All my CRT monitors had a clear, sharp picture. Unless this is supposed to emulate a CRT TV. But who would want a TV as a PC monitor? You can allways change some setting's, and do a custom setup of the terminal program.

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Re: Neat little CRT terminal emulator

Posted on 2016-03-26, 22:01

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Saw it a couple of years back, when it was still beta/alpha or something. After a failed installation, I simply gave up on it and forgot. I like the idea. It simply reminds me of my times in front of a Vax terminal in 1995.

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Re: Apple Decides 600 Million PC Users with 5 Year Old PCs is a Sad Fact

Posted on 2016-03-26, 21:49

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Well.... Apple has become a joke and a shell of their former self, ever since Steve Jobs died. Perhaps they will go the way of the Commodore now. They would have if he had not rejoyned in 1997. Now. For me at least. It seems as they are starting to take up bad bussiness habbit yet again. Telling the …

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Re: Lost interest in new games since a couple of years...

Posted on 2016-03-26, 21:39

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The only new games I play, or shall I say newer games. Are Real Racing 3 and Minecraft. The next newest games that I play are Playstation2 games and PSP games. All the rest are Dos and Win9x games. So yeah... I know the feeling.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-03-26, 21:29

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Just over a week ago, something (a selection of certain hardware) appeared that i have wanted for a while but never thought I'd get hold of, to make matters worse I was flat broke. Annoyingly, the price was also lower than the others I have seen appear and I expected it would be gone by the time I …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-03-25, 22:26

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Hmmmm.... Must avoid them A7V600's then. 😁

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-03-25, 20:21

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I have the A7V-266-E board, and I am thinking that it is somehow a big brother to the A7V board. It is nice and runs good. Not had it running that much, to say wether it is 100% stable or has issues. Yet for what I have tried, the A7V lineup is pretty decent hardware.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-03-24, 22:48

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I picked up an Intel SE440BX-2 (replaced cell battery) since I've never used a slot 1 system and I picked up some PC100 RAM. I don't have a processor yet but I was thinking I would buy a 800MHz Pentium III since the board is a late enough revision to support it. It is a really stable and good board …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-03-24, 21:22

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Got this little guy in the mail yesterday: http://i.imgur.com/WYbJHKml.jpg http://i.imgur.com/CcpxxMGl.jpg http://i.imgur.com/4aYSw0Yl.jpg Siemens Nixdorf Scenic C5 PRO 166 - 166MHz pentium non-mxx, 32mb of ram, voodoo 1 and ymf-719 isa sound card. It came with a 1.2GB WD HDD witch I wapped for a …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-03-22, 19:23

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ExTneicsol wrote: I think i have to adjust my camera 🤣, next time i will make sur they are the right size. Meanwhile you can copy past the adress. 🤣 Still sorry, new cellphone ... Well... You can allways resize them in photoshop, and "save for web", in order to make them small in size.

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Re: Regarding a dog...

Posted on 2016-03-21, 17:38

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If there was no ID tag's of any kind. Then it is straight forward I would say. Just keep a low profile on this.

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I wish all, a nice easter 2016.

Posted on 2016-03-21, 17:33

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Wish you all a good and nice easter 2016. No real time for tinkering, as I am doing something a bit better. I am having my children the entire easter, except two days. And they are going to eat a lot of chokolate. Going to be so fun doing stuff this entire week.... And fresh baked bread and pancakes …

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Re: Planning a mini exhibition of retro computers in Idrija, Slovenia

Posted on 2016-03-19, 08:09

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Great idea. Really nice, and looking forward to read about it. For the hardware..... Try to match as much as possible, in order to get it as era-correct as possible. 8088's should of course have CGA or EGA if possible and stuff like K6-III's should have something like V2-SLI or V3. And you could …

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Re: Best PCI sound cards for Win9x ?

Posted on 2016-03-19, 07:43

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Yes. OP asked for cards in Win9x, so this is above the ISA/Pci question, as there is no reason for running Win9x if all games were Dos-only. When someone is asking about Win9x cards, then I asume that most of the games played are actually Win9x games.

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Re: Best PCI sound cards for Win9x ?

Posted on 2016-03-19, 01:21

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Good point. If anyone can deliver a PCI chipset with accurate OPL3, it would be Yamaha. I'd love to hear some comparison clips. Hightreason's Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zueKH6CUVqE (I believe he linked earlier) Random YMF-724 Youtube vid'z: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query= …

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Re: Best PCI sound cards for Win9x ?

Posted on 2016-03-19, 01:10

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Unfortunately, the only way to get truly good OPL3 is with an ISA card. Are you 100% shure on that? I think the YMF-724 sounds great, and it has OPL-Core. If I am wrong, then I really want to learn. And with a SB-Link setup, it should work great with XMS. If I am wrong, then I will quietly eat my …

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Re: Best PCI sound cards for Win9x ?

Posted on 2016-03-19, 01:04

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gdjacobs wrote: If you want your Win9x machine to be able to handle DOS titles well, the Ensoniq ES1370 has the advantage of not resampling 44.1k or 22.05k PCM audio. Good cards, nice SB-Emulation, fine wavetable sucky Adlib.

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Re: Best PCI sound cards for Win9x ?

Posted on 2016-03-19, 00:55

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Ensonic's are good too. Not great, just fine. Personally, I much prefer a stereo card above any surround card. Stereo feels a bit more retro and vintage to me. Yet again. It is 100% a question on personal choice. And yes. I do have two different SB-Live cards and they are ok. In pure Dos, the Live …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-03-18, 17:59

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That GF4 card, somehow reminds me of: Don't know why. 😁 😉

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Re: Best PCI sound cards for Win9x ?

Posted on 2016-03-18, 17:49

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YMF-724 cards are my favorite when it comes to the era of between MS-Dos and Win9X. They have MIDI for Emm386 games, when played from within Win9X. They are SB-Pro compatible, and they have a real OPL3 core build into the chip. Then they have 3D sound technology of one or more types. The card is a …

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