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Re: Best video card for Pentium III 450Mhz

Posted on 2015-02-05, 23:05

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Uprising I and II its only been the last couple versions of Nglide where the UI isn't messed up. I don't think there is another wrapper that can play those 2 games either, and still be fast enough on a PII-450. Those 2 games are why I keep a V2 in alot of my builds. They only support glide or …

Re: Best video card for Pentium III 450Mhz

Posted on 2015-02-05, 21:58

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Thats ok, can still add a V2 to compliment the 5600 🤣

Re: Best video card for Pentium III 450Mhz

Posted on 2015-02-05, 18:37

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Don't get the 5500FX or 5700FX if you want to use the 40.xx drivers, they don't show up till the 50's. TNT1\2 + 1 or 2 Voodoo II's would be a good combo for such a system if you don't want to use a newer cards, but want good dos\win3.x support too.

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-02-05, 18:26

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

That would be great if they were all like that 🤣 ! We used to have a used electronic store around here that did things kinda like that. It went out of business long ago, I picked up alot of mobos and other computer parts from it before it did.

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-02-05, 15:32

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yea the sad thing is they don't pay their employees anything. And take advantage of some of there disabled employees and actually pay them less then min wage and somehow get away with it.... They really are more of a leach to local area then a help to its community. Unlike thrift stores like the …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-02-05, 14:30

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I think the managers influence the prices at each store. I bet some of them are having them check old software they deem rare on Ebay and Amazon first now before loping on stickers.

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-02-05, 13:53

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

They lop PC-CD's with music, for 1.25. Whats funny is seeing atari and intellivison carts, they seem to individually price them now, and seem to think since they are old. They are automatically worth their weight in gold, even for the common ones. They don't do that for nes\genesis\snes carts lol …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-02-05, 12:12

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Wish Aureal would of stuck around one more year and produced better NT 5x drivers. I'd use them more. As for the goodwill issue above, there getting worse, lately the ones around me are not keeping hardly any electronics, of almost any kind. Even cables and AC adapters, which goodwill used to be a …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-02-03, 19:51

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Pinout on the card is same as the connector on the mobo. So yea Pin-1-1 etc. Heres an old vogons thread on it. PC/PCI or SB-LINK cable. How to make?

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-02-03, 17:21

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yea it doesn't. Sorry I've never seen one that has. Sure they exist tho. 744 and 754? models? Just ones have have coxial S/PDIF outputs that work in dos are the rarest ones I've come across. ^ Also nice laptop above.

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-02-03, 15:22

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yea its the same as the SB-LINK Almost all ymf-724 cards have them, using them is basically the same as an ISA card when connected that way under dos. Not that its needed, for the most part they have excellent dos game compatibility without the cable attached. These cards work in XP tho, if you …

Re: Adware and AdBlock on browser gaming

Posted on 2015-02-03, 03:10

in Milliways

in Milliways

+1 for adblock and no-script, along with ghostery to get the rest. Its not safe to browse the web without them anymore. I would never support a game that forced me to disable them. I'd suspect it of trying to get malware into my system. Suggest not playing that game 🤣 .

Waveforce192-XG

Posted on 2015-02-02, 22:03

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Another PCI YMF-724 : Nothing special other then the fact this one is actually produced by Yamaha themselves, and its covered in rubycon caps. Yamaha Waveforce 192 XG

Re: What would you consider to be the most powerful\best cpu to pair with a Voodoo3?

Posted on 2015-02-02, 18:04

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

You can benchmark V2's in 3dmark 99\2k\2001 just fine. Check the 3dmark99 and 2001 posts here on vogons. I've done it many times.

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

Posted on 2015-02-02, 18:00

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Trying to transfer large amounts of data across the ISA bus via a 10/100 Intel ISA etherexpress adapter. Suffice to say not impressed, it gets nowhere near the theoretical max speed of the isa bus, and is just as slow as a normal 10mbit adapter. 1-2.5mbytes a sec on avg. Ended up taking the drive …

Re: Started using ATX cases for AT boards

Posted on 2015-01-29, 22:32

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

you can buy blank i/o shields on ebay and cut your own openings.. http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-SuperMicro-MCP-260-00011-0N-I-O-shield-without-any-opening-/360831590210?pt=US_Motherboard_Backplates&hash=item54033d1f42 You can make your own out of the top of a plastic ice cream bucket. The plastic is …

Re: Athlon 1000 vs XP 2000+

Posted on 2015-01-21, 16:26

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'd go with the 3200+ 512k Barton. Its the fastest of the Socket A's and not to common as consequence. No real reason to bottleneck yourself if you have it. Thunderbirds and lesser Athlons don't support SSE, and are gonna be less fun on the net... Then even a pentium III would be. You won't even be …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-01-21, 02:23

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Its Probably ok with the Radeon if it lasted that long. I just would stay away from any high draw AGP cards. Really not my favorite board, the second one I have has L2 cache issues above 83mhz and has to be disabled lol . It went back into storage recently, since I have a better sis based socket 7 …

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

Posted on 2015-01-21, 02:00

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Put a Swifttech MX370, the best socket 370\A heatsink on one of my Tualatin boards. It can run passive now, the pins on this things are in the style of a screw and give it a large amount of surface area. http://www.frostytech.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=884 Review of it with pictures, since I'm to …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-01-21, 01:48

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Word of warning, don't use the Agp slot on that fic PA-2013 board. Unless its a very low power card like a GF2 MX. AGP Voodoo3 ruined one of the boards I owned, voltage regulators are not up to agp spec.

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