Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2015-09-13, 20:37
I agree. I have a very similar triangular shaped card that is for a handheld scanner type (Epson I think). But don't have the scanner itself.
Re: Bought these games today
Posted on 2015-08-16, 14:26
keropi wrote: ^ I detect someone that doesn't have small children 😀 Just some humour. We all made such drawings when we were young. Some of us (ie me) still doodle when in a conference. 🤣 🤣
Re: Bought these games today
Posted on 2015-08-16, 12:27
What on earth is htat on the wall. 🤣
Re: Weird issue with SubCulture CDROM in Win95
Posted on 2015-08-14, 10:15
Yes it's quite possible the CD Drive is defective, or the CD. But IDE CD drives are very popular still. If you had the PC on a home network and shared a partition, you could read the CD on your main PC, and see if you could copy the contents that way. The real issue would be whether the CD drive on …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2015-08-08, 19:10
I enjoy reading those spec stickers on oem type computers. Just thinking "that was all you needed back then", seems way too little now.
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2015-08-06, 20:55
15 when I got my first personal PC. ECS K7VZA I seem to recall, with a Duron 800Mhz(?- I believe) and an ATI Radeon VE. Still have the Radeon. It really did not run Mafia well at all 😠
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2015-08-05, 13:22
Got my server machine into it's new case on the weekend. I think it looks quite handsome. At the same time I convertd the 1x 160gb hdd to 2x 80gb RAID 1 system with an PCI raid controller and also added an SCSI adapter with a tape drive for backup (when i get some tapes). I had a lot of trouble at …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2015-08-03, 18:56
boxpressed wrote: I'm away from my computer at the moment, but the patch I used is the one from this site: http://www.markshan.com/thesinraven/amd_3dnow_3.20.htm That site's amazing!
Re: Bought these games today
Posted on 2015-08-01, 11:32
Interesting, your Jedi Knight 2 games seem to be the cheaper type boxes that only has an opening at the top or bottom?? Mine are case type where the front surround comes away. I am guessing the cheaper type boxes came later.. 😢
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2015-07-30, 07:40
Purchased this to replace my server case:
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2015-07-26, 10:59
I would have said that such a layout concerning ISA cards at the top was a poor design considereing you couldn't get any cards in there that were longer than the slot themselves if you had a couple of hdd's. :angry: Mind you, that isn't a 1993 problem at all, I think we can all accept that the long …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2015-07-25, 21:48
Oh man. I'm downloading those links for future use!! ^^ And, it looks like i've got some catching up to do regarding your website HighTreason.. And I really like the layout too actually. And i've got enough of text that I wish to put on mine concerning my bikes and computers.. :O And I hear you …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2015-07-25, 21:22
Today I upgraded my website. (from my old one - http://www.blurredmanswebsite.crabdance.com/old_website/home.html ) ftp://www.blurredmanswebsite.crabdance.com/webpics/communicator4.72turbolinux6.bmp And then after doing all that messing around making screenshots of various systems and browsers to …
Re: Grandma's Dell E520 - A story
Posted on 2015-07-24, 16:42
Came across a few of these at my old work. Not bad machines really. Though trying to find a Win7 driver for on-board Video was a nightmare :blush: I was surprised by the upgradeability of these machines though. And I also quite like the BTX standard, I would prefer to see the top of expansion cards …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2015-07-20, 11:56
Yesterday set up a website that is hosted on my server. Used a free domain service to get a DNS. But i'm intruiged by it. I've always wanted my own hosted website, even taking in account of the possible security risks. The DNS works nicely with the FTP hosted on the same box too.
Re: Bought these games today
Posted on 2015-07-18, 18:38
That's terrible. Luckily I've only had a few items that have been received in such a condition. Unfortunately the two I can remember it occuring with were brand new sealed big box copies of Midtown Madness (which upon opening I found the CD jewel case had an odd defect in that there were no …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2015-07-18, 18:35
Not really retro but set up a couple of scheduled Xcopy commands that run every month to copy certain information from my desktop to my 24/7 local and ftp server. It feels nice to have a backup system in place. Check rsync. It was designed for this and mainly what it'll do for you is checksum that …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2015-07-18, 14:19
Not really retro but set up a couple of scheduled Xcopy commands that run every month to copy certain information from my desktop to my 24/7 local and ftp server. It feels nice to have a backup system in place. I guess the only retro thing about it is that the server is an early Athlon 1700 with …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2015-07-15, 22:56
What I love about AT keyboards is that they have really nice long leads. It's the small things.. As far as today's retro stuff goes, I gave up in trying to install non-pnp network cards on TurboLinux 6, so instead I swapped out the 3com 3c905 in my 3DFX box with a Realteak 8029, put the 3c509 back …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2015-07-12, 14:14
I haven't tried any other versions, only mucked with the default. I don't have the slightest nostalgia for revisiting Dependency Hell. This Corel works nice out of the box FWIW. Other than Knoppix I usually expect some trouble with Pentiums, but this install and the hardware detect were butter- …
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