Re: PAS16: junk or doing something wrong?

Posted on 2015-08-14, 23:27

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by HighTreason

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I found my PAS Plus kicks off when used with certain PCI graphics cards in the machine. Cards with the TSeng ViPer seem to be a guaranteed problem, the FM music will invariably fail to work.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-08-14, 15:21

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by HighTreason

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Last piece of the puzzle arrived from Japan (CM-32). Now the tower is complete. I blame Phil (as usual) for all this. excellent tower :D *vomits* vlcsnap-2015-08-14-16h15m52s727.png Had an SC-55, SC-88 Pro, E-MU Proteus 2000 and MT-32 over time, but they all ended up going to landfill long ago …

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Re: FB01 / IMFC Music

Posted on 2015-08-14, 11:33

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by HighTreason

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Isn't the FB-01 similar to the DX100 and therefore the Genesis? Unfortunately I don't know of anything that works with it out of the box.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-08-14, 00:32

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by HighTreason

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I always feel that any thread has a direction and sometimes it can take a minor detour but such branches wear themselves out on their own after a while and all goes back to normal. A little derailment is actually good, it's a community, not an instruction book - though there is a whole lot of useful …

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Re: Keep Pentium Pro or 486?

Posted on 2015-08-13, 23:20

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by HighTreason

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To be fair to the M919, if you play with ANY 486 board long enough you'll find something broken. My PCI Aquarius (Which would have competed with the M919) has no problems with serial ports, cache or anything that the M919 does. But the PCI implementation makes it difficult to get some cards, such as …

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Re: Keep Pentium Pro or 486?

Posted on 2015-08-13, 21:42

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by HighTreason

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It would depend how different the PPro boards are if I were in that situation. If they are similar, or the same, I'd get rid of one of those as you could probably net a nice profit. Otherwise, if they differ considerably, get shot of the M919 somewhere, if you have the cache module in, people will …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-08-13, 21:37

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by HighTreason

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Nothing wrong with that ;). Fellow metal head here, rock on \m/ Unfortunately, this place is filled with only chavs (eww!) ¹, hipsters and druggies... The druggies are the best of the bunch, they at least usually have something of a personality, even if it is just the delusions of a drug addled …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-08-13, 17:42

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by HighTreason

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Oh, so we're on about women now? https://40.media.tumblr.com/01a3b530f5762859969705b4e4d268cb/tumblr_mjxzczIi7d1s2ro6eo1_500.jpg Much better. No idea where this is from, I'd rather have found a legit photo from the 70s or 80s, but couldn't... Suppose I could dig out old family photos - yeah, I'm …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-08-13, 17:05

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by HighTreason

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To be honest, I think things are much worse today;

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

Posted on 2015-08-13, 09:57

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by HighTreason

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Yesterday I installed the Quadro 2 Pro into my dual P3. Now I have tested it; vlcsnap-7823-01-03-23h48m56s001.png Seems faster than the Radeon VE for what I want to do with it. The VE will probably find a home in my K6, which currently has a Rage card - I don't really want to retire the VE as it has …

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

Posted on 2015-08-12, 21:35

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by HighTreason

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ICH7 and especially ICH9. The host drive will have its performance cut in half (At least, on a RAID0 array, not sure about non-RAID or on other controllers, though the Silicone Image in the same system - board has two RAID controllers - showed similar results in a brief use of that one as the boot …

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

Posted on 2015-08-12, 19:15

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by HighTreason

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Even my old ECS board from a decade ago has that - they actually beat ASUS on that one to the point that paid reviewers had a very hard time justifying their recommendation to buy the ASUS instead - something they did even after the ECS destroyed everything but the competing DFI(I think, might have …

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

Posted on 2015-08-12, 18:54

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by HighTreason

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Oh, great, a blind fanboy - fairly common in these parts and I've run into enough of them over the years, you aren't the first and won't be the last I am sure. This is trying the limits of my civility. 1. I cannot use SSDs, it is common for me to have files OVER 64GB in size. I have, right now, a …

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

Posted on 2015-08-12, 17:43

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by HighTreason

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64GB? What? Really? So, this is from, like, 2003 right? Rubbish. SSDs are the way forward, they just aren't ready yet. Furthermore (As to the OS), I don't have time to mess with things and why should I have to? It should work as advertised out of the box. It pisses me off the amount of third party …

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

Posted on 2015-08-12, 13:11

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by HighTreason

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Corporate versions of XP do not require activation. I despised 2000 because the server where I worked ran it and the netcode was horrible. Hated XP because it was ugly, impractical and made the NT kernel mandatory (Which I never thought worked in some environments) and also looked like it was …

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

Posted on 2015-08-12, 13:04

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by HighTreason

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Can't really employ them in RAID, had problems with it and have heard of others in the same boat. Perhaps I have learned wrongly, but I believe there are reasons that using such drives in this manner is not a good idea. The cost is also prohibitive and the reliability is not there yet. I hate most …

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

Posted on 2015-08-12, 09:44

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by HighTreason

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SSDs are for pussies 😜 WD RE in RAID, the only way to go. I have always wondered how it is possible to actually make the operating system take up that much space.

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

Posted on 2015-08-12, 08:42

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by HighTreason

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If it's going to be broken either way, I may as well have a speedy operating system with a halfway consistent interface as opposed to the incoherent bloated and unstable mess that is Windows 7. I hate most operating systems past 98 to be honest, they just got progressively worse until Windows 8.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-08-12, 05:31

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by HighTreason

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Seems to vary a lot. I suspect they have some kind of contract with the courier, possibly they wait for the OUT pile to reach a certain size or the courier picks it all up at certain intervals. If you order at the right time it might just reach the pile as the courier gets there and you get it early …

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

Posted on 2015-08-12, 05:18

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by HighTreason

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Now that I am trapped using Windows 7 (Worst OS ever I might add) every day, I realize that most of my computer-type tasks are technically retro because most of my software doesn't even work in this OS. Having regained access to my blog I tried to edit it only to find the software I use for that …

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