Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-08-26, 22:55

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OMFG I AM SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO JEALOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That was basically my families first computer back in 1995! Your reaction pretty much made my day. I left the house before 9am to get to Cambridge to pick up a 386 I bought off eBay for 99p. It should have taken an …

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Re: Cleaning up old kit

Posted on 2015-08-26, 22:46

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Thanks a lot, folks - plenty of stuff for me to try here. And very interesting to see how different people approach the different issues. Would it make a good addition to the wiki?

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Re: Cleaning up old kit

Posted on 2015-08-26, 20:47

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Dishwasher. Seriously? I hold this site in such high esteem that it almost makes sense. I have to admit I wasn't expecting trolls. When people are trying to help dont call them trolls or that will be the last help you get, seriously. Hey I know I'm new here but I'm not new to forums nor computers. …

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Re: Cleaning up old kit

Posted on 2015-08-26, 19:44

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Dishwasher. Seriously? I hold this site in such high esteem that it almost makes sense. I have to admit I wasn't expecting trolls.

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Re: Cleaning up old kit

Posted on 2015-08-26, 19:05

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Is that a bit like the 'air in a can' I've used before? I don't know why I didn't think of that.

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Re: DOS 6.22 / Windows 95 dual boot.

Posted on 2015-08-26, 18:58

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chinny22 wrote: if you also want Win3x installed I wouldn't recommend the above though Personally I've decided I can't be bothered with having multiple OSes on one machine. DOS 6 / Win 3.1: 386 Win 95: 486 Win 98: Pentium / Pentium II / K6 Win XP: Pentium 4 / Athlon XP I like to compartmentalise.

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Cleaning up old kit

Posted on 2015-08-26, 18:52

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I've done a forum search which was inconclusive. What are people's top tips die cleaning up old PCBs etc?

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-08-26, 18:48

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Nice spread of CPUs there. Right. Am I irrational to be so very excited / proud to now be the owner of an Acermate 386SX/20N? The pics I saw prior to buying it suggested it might have an oldskool sound card in it because of the game port and two 3.5mm ports on the back. Turned out they were just …

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Re: Any Unreal Tournament gamers here?

Posted on 2015-08-25, 20:35

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I actually have a dislike for Pentium IIs. It's a bit irrational but I think it's because it doesn't seem like a 'proper' CPU generation. Pentium, yes. Pentium III, yes. I think it's the only CPU I never wanted to own although I accidentally inherited a couple recently. I reckon the slot has a lot …

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Re: DOS 6.22 / Windows 95 dual boot.

Posted on 2015-08-25, 19:21

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I've been researching this all day because I know I did it without a bootloader back in the day. I found this site, which says the critical factor is to use an upgrade version, which explains why neither of my OEM versions work. Windows 98 does this so much better.

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Re: Any Unreal Tournament gamers here?

Posted on 2015-08-25, 11:35

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I'd be up for this. The original UT is one of my all time favourites. I think I must have played it on my PIII rig back then, but I just looked up the recommended specs: Pentium II / K6 300Mhz 64MB RAM 8MB graphics card So your setup will pretty much murder it. I could probably get away with using …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-08-25, 09:29

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soviet conscript wrote: now the real prize. That case is incredible! No bromine yellowing! Want!

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-08-24, 23:58

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Bought a boxed AWE32 today. Really cheap. Will be at my parents house in NL next month hopefully. I will probably keep it to trade. I bought one of these new in 1995. No longer have it :neutral: http://i858.photobucket.com/albums/ab148/citydrone/Mobile%20Uploads/YI517M552_662875c9-aeb1-467b-947e- …

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Re: Old fart topic: What was your hardware specs in 1992?

Posted on 2015-08-24, 23:30

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I removed the piezo from the motherboard and replaced it with a header, so I could connect either a real speaker or the SB Pro easily. I could also route the SB Pro mixer output back to the speaker. I used that very same SBPro 2.0 and that very same cable in the IBM 5160 to capture 8088 MPH :) Nice …

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Re: DOS 6.22 / Windows 95 dual boot.

Posted on 2015-08-24, 23:15

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I am literally performing this very task tomorrow (if my serial mouse turns up). I'm pretty sure the first time I did it, it worked exactly the way you want it to but I'll have to try it again to be sure. I can't use my recent win98 build as a reference because I kept DOS on a separate partition (to …

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Happy Birthday Win95

Posted on 2015-08-24, 22:41

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So I'm sure everyone has seen the headlines on sites like Slashdot - apparently it's 20 years old today. I haven't fired up a copy for a long time myself but I remember using it for the first time. It was probably a copy (it was much easier back then before activation came along). After using …

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Re: Old fart topic: What was your hardware specs in 1992?

Posted on 2015-08-24, 21:55

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This will annoy those who dislike topics to be resurrected so apologies for indulging but this caught my eye. '92 happens to be the year we got our first PC. Knowing nothing about such things at the time, I had no objection to my Dad deciding to make the purchase from Ryman (an office supplies store …

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Re: What machines did you use in High School?

Posted on 2015-08-19, 22:16

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In order: 1989: An early Acorn (possibly Archimedes) while in primary school. 1991: BBC Micro when I started secondary school. 1994: A later Acorn (possibly A3000) when I started GCSEs, mostly used for playing Lander. 1997: RM 486DX2 machines that I did IT A-Level on (Windows 95 and Access 2.0) And …

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Re: Booting DOS from Compact Flash

Posted on 2015-08-19, 17:27

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For CF card - you have to make 1st partition active - use FDISK utility. Weird. I checked FDISK and it said the partition was primary and already active. Deleted it and recreated it anyway (I should know better than letting software do something for me), reinstalled DOS and of course it worked. I …

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Re: Booting DOS from Compact Flash

Posted on 2015-08-19, 17:04

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The same card has been working absolutely fine on my socket 7 board, with or without the Voodoo. The cable was fine at both ends. It's obviously not a processing issue because the 3DFX hardware isn't being utilised in DOS but, if it's a cable issue, it should persist because the loop through cable …

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