Re: AMD K6 Quake2 and Quake 3, aiming for stars.

Posted on 2020-02-14, 21:55

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by cyclone3d

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in Marvin \ Video

Do you have a PCI sound card you could try? If I remember correctly from back in the day, ISA sound cards can kill performance compared to PCI sound cards. A Sound Blaster Live! / Audigy / Audigy 2 would be good choices for games in Windows. An Aureal Vortex 2 would also probably be fine. I really …

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Re: Driver for MediaMagic Telemetry-32 OPTi 82C950

Posted on 2020-02-14, 19:56

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by cyclone3d

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in Marvin \ Sound

Ok, I'll upload the drivers to vogonsdrivers tonight after verifying they work. I actually both versions of that card - one with the multiple CD-ROM connections like yours and one with only IDE - like that pic from eBay.

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Re: Driver for MediaMagic Telemetry-32 OPTi 82C950

Posted on 2020-02-14, 17:46

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by cyclone3d

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I do.. but I hope you don't actually plan on paying the stupid amount that the eBay seller wants for that particular card. The 82C950 is not the actual chip that handles everything from what I have found. It is that AT&T chip to the left of the Opti chip.

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Re: AMD K6 Quake2 and Quake 3, aiming for stars.

Posted on 2020-02-14, 06:06

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by cyclone3d

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in Marvin \ Video

What sound card are you using?

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Re: External floppy drive

Posted on 2020-02-14, 01:30

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by cyclone3d

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

You would think that the 1.2MB drives would have been made to properly support 360k disks. Could a 1.2MB drive just move the head twice as far or are the heads physically different... the 360k drive having a wider head? What happens if you set a 1.2MB drive to 360k in the BIOS?

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-02-14, 00:14

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by cyclone3d

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imi wrote on 2020-02-13, 20:37: nice, I already made peace with the fact that I will probably never have a GUS ^^ they look pretty good for having been buried in that pile. I thought I would never have a GUS.. Then not long ago I found a boxed one for sale for $25 + shipping. Don't give up.

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Re: svga/vesa emulator for dos?

Posted on 2020-02-13, 18:05

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by cyclone3d

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in Marvin \ Software

pff. I don't even defend my cards vga-only nature anymore. You want to believe it is svga? Fine. Be happy, ok it is. Happy now? You just keep going back to my card, over and over again, now that's lame. That's not what I want to know. Now, back to my help request: How can I run nfs on vga-only …

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Re: New forum suggestions/Feedback

Posted on 2020-02-13, 18:03

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by cyclone3d

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What's up with the recent "reaction image" error when attaching images? I haven't seen any response from any mods about it. Sorry about that! Nobody posted to https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=70809 so I wasn’t immediately aware of the problem. It should be fixed now. Thanks! I was looking …

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Re: "Reaction Image" auto-detect issue

Posted on 2020-02-13, 17:04

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by cyclone3d

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in Milliways

bumpity so maybe a mod sees this.

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Re: New forum suggestions/Feedback

Posted on 2020-02-13, 17:04

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by cyclone3d

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What's up with the recent "reaction image" error when attaching images? I haven't seen any response from any mods about it.

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Re: External floppy drive

Posted on 2020-02-13, 06:35

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by cyclone3d

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

First computer my family had was a white box 386sx-25. Had 5.25" 1.2MB and 3.5" 1.44MB floppy drives. I never even tried to get a 720k 3.5" drive. Might have had one pass through my hands at one point but not really sure. You didn't miss much as the XT's and early 286 with DD drives were a PIA imho …

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Re: svga/vesa emulator for dos?

Posted on 2020-02-13, 06:33

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by cyclone3d

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in Marvin \ Software

Wow.. you won't even provide any real information. There might be a utility made specifically for the chipset on your card that would help. But no, you refuse to provide any information that would allow somebody to actually help you. Me thinks you must be trolling.

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Re: External floppy drive

Posted on 2020-02-13, 04:44

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by cyclone3d

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Should be able to. I've never had any troubles with 720k disks in 1.44MB drives. I've never owned a 720k 3.5" drive though. Really ? Had a few old IBM's that had 720k and 360k drives. Hated the stupid blue eject button on the IBM's 720k's. First computer my family had was a white box 386sx-25. Had …

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Re: External floppy drive

Posted on 2020-02-13, 02:45

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by cyclone3d

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Should be able to. I've never had any troubles with 720k disks in 1.44MB drives. I've never owned a 720k 3.5" drive though.

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Re: Soldering Polymer Capacitors ?

Posted on 2020-02-12, 22:09

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by cyclone3d

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Set the temp of your soldering device to a bit above whatever the melting point of your solder is IF you have already removed the old solder from the circuit board. It also depends on if you are soldering to a large ground plane or not. I would use a hot air soldering gun with a small tip.

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Re: Ebay sellers world wide ?

Posted on 2020-02-12, 20:58

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by cyclone3d

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I reuse boxes when needed as well. Nothing wrong with reusing boxes or other packing materials if they are in good shape.

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Re: External floppy drive

Posted on 2020-02-12, 20:07

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by cyclone3d

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Is it possible to send an arbitrary file across a serial connection using only stock DOS commands? Just looked it up and it looks like you can by: 1. initialize the COM ports on both machines. 2. use the copy command. Example: Receiving computer: MODE COMx:2400,n,8,1,p CTTY COM1 copy /b COM1: …

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Re: External floppy drive

Posted on 2020-02-12, 19:49

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by cyclone3d

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

What about installing a NIC in the XT and then spin up a local ftp server on the more modern machine. https://www.brutman.com/mTCP/mTCP_FTP.html

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Re: Ebay sellers world wide ?

Posted on 2020-02-12, 19:40

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by cyclone3d

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I bough 2-3 times from Usa, since I live in Europe I prefer to buy inside EU, but I never had problems, sure I bought stuff like video cards or memory. The only problem I had was with a fellow italian seller who sold a 3dfx card saying it was in pristine condition while it was damaged, he didn't …

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Re: Ebay sellers world wide ?

Posted on 2020-02-12, 19:31

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by cyclone3d

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In the USA the post office provided flat rate shipping boxes for FREE and you can buy bubble wrap and a bag of packing peanuts at the UPS store and extra Large boxes. So boxing items up correctly so they will not be damaged or broken during shipping is not that difficult. I do wish Americans would …

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