Re: Good SLI choices for Windows XP?

Posted on 2018-10-17, 13:40

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by cyclone3d

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Well, apparently you can get up to 980Ti working in XP. Not cheap but it is possible. Whether or not it would work on your board is another matter all together. And you would be super extremely CPU limited. http://mattpilz.com/windows-xp-drivers-nvidia-geforce-gtx-970-980-980-ti-titan-x/ https:// …

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Re: Looking for old 3dfx demo, don't know the name

Posted on 2018-10-17, 05:10

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by cyclone3d

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I'll edit here if I find downloads for other ones you are looking for. Anyway, here is Funky Quadrics https://web.archive.org/web/20010614012129/http://www.cs.uoregon.edu:80/~johnny/resume/programming/index.html https://web.archive.org/web/20010615212757/http://www.cs.uoregon.edu:80/~johnny/resume/ …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-10-17, 03:47

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by cyclone3d

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A loose board I wouldn't pay $20 for. Virgins valued quite high, huh? OMG have you seen the prices on ebay? They are all so expensive unless you get them from eastern europe. Hmmm, most of the time, the shipping cost from Europe is quite high. Most of the boards I have gotten have been from the USA …

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Re: Open-sourcing dgVoodoo?

Posted on 2018-10-17, 02:33

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by cyclone3d

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Not at all? What about maybe opening it up as "You can look but not modify/copy/use for anything"? Just for people who are curious about his it all works. Hmmm.. that wouldn't work at all. There would inevitably be someone who would save the code and then be able to make their own version of it. …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-10-17, 02:30

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by cyclone3d

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I once saw an Aztech BX-II card listed for $7.50. It was missing a bunch of caps so I figured sure, I'll get it and replace the caps and see if it works. After I bought it, the seller cancelled my order and then promptly relisted it for $75... He got a nasty-gram from me after saying that the price …

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Re: 12Mhz 80286

Posted on 2018-10-16, 21:55

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by cyclone3d

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Looks to me like 1985. All the Intel ones I see have copyright dates of '82 , '85.

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Re: External Floppy Drive Wont Run CHKDSK

Posted on 2018-10-16, 20:24

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by cyclone3d

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It makes total sense to me why it won't let you dismount a drive that you are currently trying to run something from even though chkdsk isn't really on A:. If you dismount it, it kills the handle to it and if it let it do that then the command prompt would probably freak out and either close or just …

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Re: ISA MIDI-only wavetable cards?

Posted on 2018-10-16, 15:49

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by cyclone3d

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Not sure if this is what you're talking about, but I've seen a couple motherboards with a "wavetable" header that's just a 2x3 or 2x4 pin header, rather than the "proper" 2x13 pin header that is the usual WaveBlaster header. Presumably this header has just the bare minimum of signal pins (5V, GND, …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-10-16, 04:36

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by cyclone3d

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Maybe it was a special add-on for some OEM system that had onboard sound. I couldn't find any information about it whatsoever I should be able to look up the data sheet for the Crystal chips and see if I can figure it out, but it has some sort of firmware on the card so that kinda makes me think …

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Re: A PC for Morrowind

Posted on 2018-10-15, 23:44

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by cyclone3d

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Basically throw as much as you can at it. It plays wonderfully on a much newer system. For an "Ultimate" Morrowind build, I would just run it on your normal PC. Hardware of the same vintage as the game doesn't run it very well. It actually kind of really sucks. I like 60+ fps for almost all my games …

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Re: Radeon HD3850 PCI-E

Posted on 2018-10-15, 22:02

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by cyclone3d

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Why skimp on the CPU for XP. Single core with XP is gouge your eyes out with a rusty spoon agonizingly painful. Dual-core CPUs weren't around when XP came out and I haven't seen it run slow on any of my XP-era single core PCs, so what makes you think that? Having to work on office computers that …

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Re: Bad movies and horrible films

Posted on 2018-10-15, 21:09

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Battlefield Earth Critics Consensus: Ugly, campy, and poorly acted, Battlefield Earth is a stunningly misguided, aggressively bad sci-fi folly. Made by the same studio that gave us Ballistic. Plus, it comes with a bonus serving of fraud. Following the financial failure of Battlefield Earth and …

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Re: Possibility of a Mock Dedicated Online Vintage Resale Site

Posted on 2018-10-15, 21:03

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by cyclone3d

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There are sites like this already that have been around for a while so I would say it would be feasible. https://classiccomputershop.eu/ http://www.legacycomputersnparts.com/catalog/ https://www.sellmyretro.com/category/all-categories https://www.recycledgoods.com/ - techincally not vintage only, …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-10-15, 20:24

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by cyclone3d

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This weird Crystal wavetable add-on ISA board. Looks like it only pulls power from the ISA bus and nothing else. Also looks like it is supposed to hook up to a SB16 the same way a CT1920 (awe32 upgrade / goldfinch) card does. Seller's photos cropped and rotated. Filename front.jpg File size 582.18 …

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Re: Bad movies and horrible films

Posted on 2018-10-15, 15:38

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Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever (2002) staring Antonio Banderas and Lucy Liu. With a Rotten Tomatoes score of 0% I think we have an unbeatable winner. Critics Consensus: A startlingly inept film, Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever offers overblown, wall-to-wall action without a hint of wit, coherence, style, or …

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Re: Soundware CD 45 GUS daughterboard attachment- comments / thouights please

Posted on 2018-10-15, 13:59

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by cyclone3d

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Here is mention of mitsumi, panasonic, and possibly sony daughtercards. http://www.gravisultrasound.com/files/UDD/vol … /1994-03-22.TXT From the looks of it.. I am guessing mitsumi, but I could be wrong.

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Re: Radeon HD3850 PCI-E

Posted on 2018-10-15, 01:52

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by cyclone3d

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Why skimp on the CPU for XP. Single core with XP is gouge your eyes out with a rusty spoon agonizingly painful. 1GB of RAM ios also the bare minimum I will run XP with. As for the 3850, it should be good for games up to 2005. It was released in 2007.

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Re: 486 Build - help finding hardware?

Posted on 2018-10-14, 13:59

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by cyclone3d

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Cache and possibly upgrade to a 5x86-133 CPU. Can you post pics of the cache slot? It may just be a standard COAST module. I am not finding anything specific about this model except for an ad in Infoworld.

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Re: pentium 4 frustrations

Posted on 2018-10-14, 01:39

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by cyclone3d

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Bent pins generally just take a while to get straitened properly. I have fixed CPUs that have had around 100 very bent pins. Worst was a brand new Dell with a Xeon where the heatsink had pulled the CPU out in shipping. I spent a good hour plus straightening all those pins. The main trick is to get …

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Re: Bad movies and horrible films

Posted on 2018-10-13, 05:50

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by cyclone3d

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I enjoy really bad films. I find them hilarious. Manos the Hands of Fate Gigli Manos looks painful to watch.. kinda on the level of Plan 9 from Outer Space. Gigli looks like an ok movie. Let me know if you make it through watching Rubber. I tried to watch it and didn't make it past 15 minutes …

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