Re: Tech Support. Wish me luck, guys.

Posted on 2020-03-09, 20:59

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My ATEN MasterView Plus does the same thing... It only accepts PS/2 mice for input, but will happily convert this to serial internally if you use a bog-standard mouse converter on one of its outputs. I'd be kind of surprised if IOGear's version requires some proprietary adapter.

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Re: Style problems/bugs

Posted on 2020-03-08, 19:49

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I'm having an issue with the search box. If I search for a two-word term with a space in the middle, like mobility radeon (not in quotes), I get lots of results. Then I hit the gear icon, change the 'sort by' field to 'post time', and hit 'go', and I get the page that says 'No matching posts were …

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Re: SIV support for 386/486/586 class + Alpha CPUs and 3dfx + S3 + SiS + Matrox + XGI + old ATI + NVidia GPUs - Testing

Posted on 2020-03-07, 22:06

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Here's an updated report from my Shuttle XPC running 5.47 Beta 03 showing that the [menus] crash is indeed fixed . Nice work! It still doesn't read much info about the GF3 in that system under Win98 but I understand there isn't much that can be done about it. I have some other platforms and GPUs to …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-03-07, 20:58

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Here's another thing I didn't buy, but it was lying on the shelf at a thrift shop. A thoroughly weird "Pegatron IMIMV-CF" motherboard: 20200306_202925.jpg 20200306_202947.jpg What we have here is an mATX desktop board with an mPGA478 socket, three mini-PCIe slots (one is just empty solder pads), …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-03-07, 02:04

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I've seen that thing too once, and heck, I know some people used to even drill DS/DD disks to use them as HD disks in 1.44M drives. So no, that concept ain't new. I used to heat a large nail (holding it with pliers so I didn't burn myself) using my mothers gas stove top and then push the nail …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-03-06, 20:55

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Didn't buy this, but I found something I didn't even know existed at my local Freegeek & it was too amusing not to share: 20200303_153037.jpg 20200303_153048.jpg That's right, a thing that "converts" 3.5" DS/DD disks to HD by punching out the notch in the side. WTF. This is in no way a good idea and …

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Re: Any recommendations for a midi Selector, switch?

Posted on 2020-03-04, 19:22

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I have a Casio TB-1 (2 in, 8 out) and a Midiman Thru 3x8 (3 in, 8 out). Both are really nice as they work as more of a matrix and you can route multiple PCs or sequencers to a stack of sound modules however you like. 100% physical button switching, no USB needed.

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Re: VFX1 foam replacement?

Posted on 2020-03-02, 01:38

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At least on mine, the foam was just held on by sticky velcro pads, so you can rip it out and try different things until you find something you like. I just used the old pad to make a pattern and cut some ~1.5cm thick dark grey padding foam to fit. It sticks to the velcro and does the job.

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Re: Tualatin Laptops

Posted on 2020-02-22, 14:45

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I had a Thinkpad x24 (1.13GHz) which was a pretty neat little machine. Performance was decent, but never felt quite up to par with an equivalent desktop system, there was someting in the power management or whatever that held it back a little. The onboard Mobility Radeon 7000 was gimped by only 16 ( …

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Re: How to: Imaging/cloning a harddrive, using Linux only....

Posted on 2020-02-14, 19:14

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"status=progress" is a super useful option to add to the end of the 'dd' command (exactly like that, no '-' or '--'.) It's a fairly recent addition so won't work in super old distros or Mac OSX/BSD. For example: dd if=/dev/sdx of=image.img bs=128k status=progress (Note that I'm not piping into gzip, …

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Re: List of Web Browsers For All Operating Systems

Posted on 2020-02-08, 22:41

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Which ad blockers or similar software are we using ? When I'm on my mac i like to use AdGuard with Safari and Edge, since it is free and I'm not willing to pay for one. Not that I'm too scared of anything while surfing the web on my mac - I have been doing that for like a decade without these …

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Re: PowerVR Fun Thread

Posted on 2020-02-08, 21:36

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@leilei: nice work! Will have to check out Flycast. Let me know if you need better real hardware captures to refine the thing. Speaking of which, someone ran the PowerVR version of Tomb Raider on real hardware on a GDQ stream. I haven't watched the whole thing yet, so don't know if he mentions how …

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Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2020-02-08, 18:51

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I got a laugh at the bobbleheads cropped out on static torsos. That would have been exponentially more difficult to do in 1992 than it is now, and I can't even imagine why they would go to the trouble. Would have loved to hear an example of that stilted dialog.

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-02-07, 03:39

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Today I booted up one of my Windows boxes, and discovered for absolutely no reason it had shuffled all my desktop icons around. AGAIN. It didn't even "arrange" them, it just randomly scattered them to different parts of the screen in nonsensical blocks. >:( How do I tell Windows (98~XP~7) "don't …

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Re: noclip.website - Explore retro game maps in your browser

Posted on 2020-02-06, 09:07

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^^ Neat. I've run across that before, but I've still never managed to sink any time into those games. They always seem kinda daunting, but I guess a good companion prog would help. Here's one for Wipeout/Wipeout XL that's been around for a while, it even plots a flythrough of the tracks or you can …

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noclip.website - Explore retro game maps in your browser

Posted on 2020-02-05, 22:27

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I thought this was pretty neat: https://noclip.website/ Not the most diverse selection of maps, but some pretty cool ones. I'd love to see some classic PC shooters/platformers added in. Filename gta3.jpg File size 243.11 KiB Views 335 views Post here if you find anything interesting. 😜

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2020-01-30, 08:06

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Gave the demo of the awkwardly-named Antigraviator a try. It's pretty much what you'd expect: grav.jpg Nothing original here, but it's quite good! Despite appearances, I'd place this more in the F-Zero camp than the Wipeout camp, as there's no pitch control and the physics are much simpler. Music …

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Re: Need for speed 3 Hot Pursuit on Win98SE

Posted on 2020-01-28, 00:40

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Are there different retail versions of NFS3 floating around? I installed it off an original CD on fast P3 with a Quadro FX1000 (~GF FX5800) running Windows XP a while ago and I was able to play through the whole game with no issues. Don't remember what display driver I used but it wasn't anything " …

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Re: DOS/Win9x laptop - what specifications would be perfect for you?

Posted on 2020-01-25, 04:48

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Warlord wrote on 2020-01-25, 04:13: I took an hour or so to look into it for you, and found a few options. Id recommend [...] ^^ Did you read the original post? Because it sure looks like not: cyclone3d wrote on 2020-01-24, 19:29: I am not looking for what already exists. I want to know exactly …

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Re: any use for broken hard drives?

Posted on 2020-01-25, 03:53

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I've seen people post want ads for the platters for 'art projects', but that's about it. Honestly they're not especially repair-friendly devices for end users (chunky MFM/RLL drives from the early '80s, maybe. Multi-gigabyte 3.5" drives from the mid-'90s, not really.) There's always some minescule …

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