Re: Collecting rants

Posted on 2020-07-27, 18:15

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by cyclone3d

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Prices of old hardware can be all over the place. From what I have seen is that some people who have stuff to sell go and look at the eBay BIN prices for items that have been there forever and never sell. They then base their price off of those listings Then you have people who look at the sold …

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Re: Is this Seasonic SS-350SFE 350W PSU worth purchasing?

Posted on 2020-07-27, 14:33

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by cyclone3d

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I'm a big Seasonic fan. I have a 1050W in my main computer and I was buying/hoarding the 350w and a few higher ones for retro builds when there were cheaply available new pulls listed on eBay. The ones I got have the single 120mm fan.

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Re: List of rarest PC soundcards

Posted on 2020-07-27, 02:34

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by cyclone3d

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I really like the list! Some could be revised to be rare I think but what about the rare external sound devices you especially could find in old games like: - Roland Cm 500 (GS&MT32) - Yamaha FB01 - Casio MT540 Yes indeed you can find them in SCI1 games as supported midi devices. All here external …

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Re: Collecting rants

Posted on 2020-07-26, 22:02

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by cyclone3d

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Repo Man11 wrote on 2020-07-26, 20:12: I sure wish Ebay would be more strict about who lists what when it comes to categories. Why do I have to wade through a sea of PCIe video cards when I entered PCI in the search? Because PCIe has PCI in it. Just limit the search with some - terms.

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Re: How can you obtain 100% legal copies of DOS and older versions of Windows?

Posted on 2020-07-26, 18:04

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by cyclone3d

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DOS 6.22 was released for free by MS on their ftp years ago. Sure it was the upgrade version but all you need is a bootable drive to install it. You can even do that with the 6.22 upgrade disks. Then to make it have everything you also need the free supplemental disk. For newer stuff, maybe we could …

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Re: Replace LGA socket with bent\broken pins

Posted on 2020-07-26, 15:49

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by cyclone3d

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I can't perform the transplant but I have two ideas: Ask ASUS wether they'll do it if you supply the socket with the board. (30€ is very fair!) Try locating a video game console repair shop near you and ask wether they'll do it if you supply the socket. Don't bother with ASUS... at least if you are …

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Re: Any way to wipe a FATX partition from a Western Digital Protege HDD?

Posted on 2020-07-25, 19:00

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by cyclone3d

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tomexplodes wrote on 2020-07-25, 17:00: My more recent PC is all sata and the drive is pata, so that's out. . Wheee! - Tom That's what a cheap USB to SATA/IDE adapter is useful for.

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Re: SC-88 backward compatible with CM-32L sound effects?

Posted on 2020-07-25, 16:42

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by cyclone3d

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I Looked at the manual already... doesn't say anything about MT-32, CM32, CM64. Also took a gander at the SC-88 and the SC-55 manuals these are the listed maps in addition to the native maps: SC-88st - SC-55 SC-88Pro - SC-88 and SC-55/SC55mkII SC-88 - SC-55/SC-55mkii SC-55/SC-55mkii - MT-32 You …

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Re: Any way to wipe a FATX partition from a Western Digital Protege HDD?

Posted on 2020-07-25, 04:17

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by cyclone3d

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Can you hook it up to a newer windows machine and use diskpart? All you need to run is: Diskpart List disk Select disk (whatever number the disk is) Clean Create partition primary If clean won't clear it out, then you definitely need some special utility to unlock it.

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Re: Using JB Weld as thermal epoxy?

Posted on 2020-07-25, 03:51

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by cyclone3d

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JB Weld pretty much sucks. I haven't bought it in years because when I used to use it, it would fail pretty quickly. My guess is that it would fail really quickly in an application that has lots of thermal cycling due to the different thermal expansion and contraction properties of the different …

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Re: Games set in the future, on a date that is now in the past

Posted on 2020-07-25, 03:44

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by cyclone3d

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There are some Wiki pages about games set in different decades. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Video_ … et_in_the_2020s

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Re: Collecting rants

Posted on 2020-07-24, 19:25

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by cyclone3d

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Speaking about the search engine pollution, GPU hunting is the worst. Try searching GeForce 256 in eBay. All you get are cruddy 8800GTs and low end nvidia trash with 256MB VRAM. Coupled with the distinct lack of PCI video cards, it makes looking for new parts very annoying. My search string on eBay …

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Re: I thought adventure games died out a little after DOS but mobygames reveals otherwise.

Posted on 2020-07-24, 19:22

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by cyclone3d

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Adventure games are no longer king the way they were in the '80s and early '90s. They do not get top shelf budgets like they used to, so graphics and animation may be sub par by today's standards, but are still very much around, even if mostly done by indies. And to top it off, most of the indie …

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Re: I thought adventure games died out a little after DOS but mobygames reveals otherwise.

Posted on 2020-07-24, 15:36

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by cyclone3d

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At the bottom of moby's page they have a top(20) games in their stats section of critic and (moby)user scores. Can sort by genre or year for a platform, but not genre & year together unfortunately. I always take scores like that with a huge grain of salt. Sometimes the games that get horrible …

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Re: Coil whine - fact or myth?

Posted on 2020-07-24, 15:33

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by cyclone3d

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Yeah.. still happens but usually only at very high framerates from what I have seen.... such as running an older version of 3dMark on a new card where the framerates go absurdly high. I currently have an EVGA RTX2080 (RMA replacement for 1080Ti I bought for cheap that was dead but still under …

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Re: I thought adventure games died out a little after DOS but mobygames reveals otherwise.

Posted on 2020-07-24, 14:58

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by cyclone3d

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Oh yeah.. there are a ton of them out there. Two of the better / newer ones are: A Tale of Two Brothers - you need a dual-analog stick gamepad to play this properly as you control two characters at the same time. A Boy and His Blob There are a ton of really good adventure games out there. One of the …

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Re: Collecting rants

Posted on 2020-07-24, 13:58

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by cyclone3d

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The lower offer from sellers is not automatic. If somebody watches your sale, eBay will send you a message encouraging you to send an offer to the person watching. The easy pricing thing seems dumb to me and I will most likely never use it.

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Re: Anyone can identify this 286 motherboard?

Posted on 2020-07-24, 13:48

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by cyclone3d

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What if the problem is that the motherboard came from a system with a proprietary power supply wiring scheme?

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Re: Great collectors of Vogons! What's missing in your collections? :P

Posted on 2020-07-23, 19:51

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by cyclone3d

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Intel486dx33 wrote on 2020-07-23, 09:08: A BIGGER garage to put all this stuff in. Don't forget that it needs to be climate controlled. I still want a Pro Audio Spectrum Plus just to finish out that range of cards. Still want the Gallant / Zoltrix cards I am missing... but they are super hard to …

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Re: Need a DIY MIDI FM synth module

Posted on 2020-07-23, 17:03

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by cyclone3d

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Pretty sure the stock MIDIbox setup and code would have to be modified to support more than one OPL3. I've though about building one before but never got around to it... too much other stuff always going on.

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