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

Posted on 2015-05-09, 14:13

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by brostenen

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Just curious as to why you are running the M64 version of the TNT2? Well... I am using my GF2-MX400 in this machine as of right now. Gives the same sort of compatibility as the M64 in question, running on DOS-6.22. I do own some higher class AGP card's (such as V3 and so forth), yet they are the …

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

Posted on 2015-05-05, 10:29

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by brostenen

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Long time since I have been doing any real retro activity. Anyway. I have been rebuilding my fic pa-2013 machine. This time it is an k6-2 500, paired with 128 Mb of ram. An TNT2 M64 agp and my AWE32 CT-3900 with 2mb RAM. It is yet again running MS-Dos 6.22. No windows. My problem is, or I am …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-05-02, 13:21

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by brostenen

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Damn close to you'r card. Same as the other "Golden" posted earlier. Must be different revision's though, same name. More interesting stuff! I wonder, what might be hidden under the label "qc check". I carefully tore off the label - under it turned out to be a piece of board is white painted. I try …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-05-01, 21:46

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by brostenen

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easy_john wrote: Great! Found my card here http://www.yjfy.com/museum/sound/sound-8-ISA.htm listed as "Toptec Golden Sound" Damn close to you'r card. Same as the other "Golden" posted earlier. Must be different revision's though, same name.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-05-01, 07:40

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by brostenen

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Hmmm.... Knowing nothing about terratec or profimedia, I have searched for those brand names. Looking at it in perspective, the logo of terratec profimedia, looks like two brand names slammed together. The brand is German. So... Could it be that there were an early and local company named profinedia …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-04-30, 22:23

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by brostenen

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Ok. Just that terratec have been producing cards under the Profimedia name.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-04-30, 21:49

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easy_john wrote: Got this soundcard some times ago. Can someone help me identify it? http://kawai.spb.ru/photo/d/122742-2/IMG_9367_v1.JPG. […] Show full quote Got this soundcard some times ago. Can someone help me identify it? . Terratech Profimedia perhaps? Looks like OPL-2 on that card, not shure …

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Re: Pentium 233 Mhz - Fitting an AWE32 inside

Posted on 2015-04-28, 20:24

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by brostenen

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Uhmmm.... Found this item on ebay. (i have absolutely no hands on experience with this board) Just check out the space around the lowest isa slots. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Socket-7-AT-ATX-motherboard-TOMATO-BOARD-TX98-3D-REV-1-20-without-RAM-CPU-/141636312784?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash= …

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Re: Pentium 233 Mhz - Fitting an AWE32 inside

Posted on 2015-04-28, 12:24

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by brostenen

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I have the same kind of issue as your's, just not that bad. As my P133 is on a Epox MVP3-C board. Anyway.... I have these kind of sollutions for you. Do you own something like an ATX SS7 board, wich are not in use as of right now? In that case, try to install the P-233-MMX on to that board. (Boards …

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Re: SATA CD-ROM use in Win98SE with audio cable

Posted on 2015-04-27, 20:13

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by brostenen

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Back in the day's we had cd players hooked up directly to the PC. Thus skipping the stereo system. That was way before cd drives were cheap enough. Circa 1990 to 1993.

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Re: [SOLVED] Dynablaster sound

Posted on 2015-04-27, 19:53

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Oh, is it this? http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/bomberman Then yeah, probably should be in DOS Games. Yeah. That's the one. It's called bomberman on other platforms like gba and such. It's one of those spinoffs name wise, just like rage racer is to the ridge racer series. Remember this game as …

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Re: [SOLVED] Dynablaster sound

Posted on 2015-04-27, 07:47

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You are telling me that a question on how to get a dos game working in dos, are for the Marvin section? Just qurious because I have had it in dos all this time.

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Re: [SOLVED] Dynablaster sound

Posted on 2015-04-27, 04:48

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If anyone will find this usefull, and maby comment on why this is so. Please do fill in with knowledge.... 😀

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Re: Help me choose the right sound card for 2 retro sets!

Posted on 2015-04-22, 21:20

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by brostenen

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I wouldn't count on all these games playing nice in a DOS window, but in any case, Win98 SE does have a pure DOS mode, and you can reboot into it, if you want, even if you normally boot into Windows. Windows will never be pure DOS. It's Windows, capable of doing some later type of DOS. Not pure DOS …

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Re: Help me choose the right sound card for 2 retro sets!

Posted on 2015-04-22, 21:10

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by brostenen

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My advice on what two cards to use. Setup1: CT1600: SB Pro 2. Setup2: CT3670: SB 32. Most games that you want to use the Pentium one for, the SB-Pro2 is more than enough. And for late DOS/Win9X games, the AWE32 is better than the Live, because you will have 100% DOS compatibility. Shure the Live can …

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Re: tom's Hardware piece about building a vintage PC

Posted on 2015-04-17, 14:25

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Well... My machine, that covers games such as Warcraft-II, is this. For the motherboard, I have an Epox MVP3-C, because the original board's HDD controller just died. For the cpu, I have chosen an P-133 non MMX. For memory I have chosen 32mb PC-100. The GFX is an Cirrus logic PCI. (not shure of the …

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Re: tom's Hardware piece about building a vintage PC

Posted on 2015-04-16, 22:40

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by brostenen

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candle_86 wrote: if a VM worked even half the time for gaming I'd give away my left Kidney. And the right testical too... Hehe.

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Re: tom's Hardware piece about building a vintage PC

Posted on 2015-04-16, 22:34

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A P200 for 'games 1994 and before'? There's some games from that year and the year before that would run way too fast to be playable on a 200. Yeah... 200mhz was like late 95 or early 96. And as fast as the tech industry sputtered cpu's out (the rush for mhz) I remember people running all 94 games …

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Re: tom's Hardware piece about building a vintage PC

Posted on 2015-04-16, 20:23

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by brostenen

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Yes. True.... He is also talking about emulation and Win-9X in some absurd and wierd way. Wich I simply can not get to fit together. What does he actually tell the reader?

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Re: tom's Hardware piece about building a vintage PC

Posted on 2015-04-16, 20:08

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We also shouldn't forget that building a PC is a lot of fun! Some PC enthusiasts enjoy building computers more than using them even, so you might build one of these systems for the sheer joy of it. Further, building a new computer can be quite expensive, but the cost of building an old system like …

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