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Re: The Recycle Center 1995 build - or thereabouts.

Posted on 2019-02-16, 21:28

by gdjacobs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Or look at making some sort of shroud to improve airflow.

Re: ATX I/O shield models for 3D printing

Posted on 2019-02-15, 17:35

by gdjacobs

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I asked earlier about conductive paint. Carbon is apparently used in various binders for commercial EMI suppression coatings. Someone wrote up an instructable where they MacGyvered their own versions and put them to the test. https://www.instructables.com/id/Conductive-Paint/ Apparently mixing …

Re: 5V/3.3V Rail Current

Posted on 2019-02-15, 17:21

by gdjacobs

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

That's a significant modification and not necessarily straightforward to complete.

Re: Floppy drive pins ?

Posted on 2019-02-14, 20:45

by gdjacobs

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The ground pins would be terminated on one side which would provide some protection from interference.

Re: Floppy drive pins ?

Posted on 2019-02-14, 17:28

by gdjacobs

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Usually just one for keying is removed. However, the odd pins are ground, so maybe it works fine.

Re: List the PC games that you have beaten

Posted on 2019-02-14, 17:10

by gdjacobs

in Milliways

One word for you wrt Syndicate in the late levels: heavy laser.

Re: 486 system FreeDOS or MSDOS 6.22?

Posted on 2019-02-13, 21:03

by gdjacobs

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

By the way... If you are running MS-Dos 6.22, then you actually don't need more storage than 2gb on each partition. Games do not take up that much space, and 4gb CF cards are cheap and on eBay. Or get an CF card/adaptor that uses SD cards for storage, and use that in a CF-to-IDE adaptor. Can't I …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-02-13, 20:58

by gdjacobs

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Muppets4 wrote: Just arrived in the mail: two sound cards […] Show full quote Just arrived in the mail: two sound cards One AWE64 CT4500 and a Crystal chip from Packard Bell. Both ISA bus. 20190213_164716 (Custom).jpg 20190213_164659 (Custom).jpg That first one is an Aztech board.

Re: Old KEnitec 286 Plus (suntac) Rescue, will need help.

Posted on 2019-02-13, 20:56

by gdjacobs

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Failed resistors have a smell like no other.

Re: cpu upgrade (dos-win95 era)

Posted on 2019-02-13, 20:54

by gdjacobs

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

For me, the biggest improvement is when using SETMUL. The P55C design has more parameters to toggle for throttling and more performance differentiation from those parameters.

Re: Music Quest MPU clone cards, anyone interested in them?

Posted on 2019-02-13, 20:49

by gdjacobs

in Marvin \ Sound

Per game or mostly per audio API?

Re: Sound Blaster LIVE! Versions

Posted on 2019-02-13, 20:47

by gdjacobs

in Marvin \ Sound

The SB0200 is a cut down, feature stripped version. The SB0220 is better as it has EAX support.

Re: Various Soundcards into a 5.1 Receiver Options

Posted on 2019-02-13, 20:45

by gdjacobs

in Marvin \ Sound

If you want to leave your receiver in surround mode, matrix decoding is usually fine for most applications (except music).

Re: 3D Accelerated Games List (Proprietary APIs - No 3DFX/Direct3D)

Posted on 2019-02-13, 20:31

by gdjacobs

in Marvin \ Video

It means Original Post or Original Poster depending on the context. Turok is listed at the beginning of the thread.

Re: Recreating MaximumPC's Dream Machine 2000 (Plus!)

Posted on 2019-02-13, 20:26

by gdjacobs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Intel486dx33 wrote: Ugh, The days of tape libraries and backups devices. What a pain. I love the Apple iCloud. WTF? In case you didn't know, tape is still pretty much king. What do you think organizations which are mandated to preserve their data use, buddy? Hint: It's not iCloud.