Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-01-29, 04:01

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by gdjacobs

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probnot wrote: Saw these at Goodwill and couldn't help myself. goodwill_floppies.jpg Though after reading the recent thread about floppies, these are probably rubbish for reliability. Those from the main store downtown?

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Re: Alternative to Voodoo 3 video cards

Posted on 2019-01-29, 03:55

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appiah4 wrote: Cheap AGP alternatives to the Voodoo 3 are […] Show full quote Cheap AGP alternatives to the Voodoo 3 are - nVidia GeForce2 MX/MX400 - Matrox G450/G400 - ATI Rage128 Pro - S3 Savage4 Pro With Win98SE, a beastly CPU, and nGlide.

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

Posted on 2019-01-28, 20:33

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by gdjacobs

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You running Power architecture still?

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Re: Show us your retro computer cases

Posted on 2019-01-28, 14:13

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Bancho wrote: This is my most retro case and houses my Pentium MMX. Funtional Turbo button on the GA-586HX board :happy: Case is a bit flimsy […] Show full quote This is my most retro case and houses my Pentium MMX. Funtional Turbo button on the GA-586HX board 😀 Case is a bit flimsy but does the …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-01-27, 19:17

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by gdjacobs

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IS that the same "VTech" that sold (and still sells) educational electronics via toy stores in the Netherlands? Apparently up to somewhere halfway the 1990s their products were pretty decent, if about one to two generations behind then-current stuff (i.e. they sold 486-based systems in the P2 era …

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Re: Some questions regarding roland hardware and using it on a modern system

Posted on 2019-01-27, 19:03

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SuperDeadite wrote: CM-64 is the one to get if you are interested in Japanese computers. If you plan to emulate everything on a modern system, there is really no reason to not at least try Japanese systems. Interesting topic for discussion.

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Japanese Market PC Platform Emulation

Posted on 2019-01-27, 19:03

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SuperDeadite in another thread mentioned about X68k emulation. I had always assumed the market was small enough that emulation projects hadn't really pushed forward and Japanese only games were stuck on real hardware, but I guess that's not the case. Out of curiosity, what's the state of the art for …

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Re: Printing from inside DOSBox

Posted on 2019-01-27, 18:47

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Yup, vDOSPlus. It's meant for running old DOS office-type programs.

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Re: Why does everyone hate SVN DAUM and whats the better alternative?

Posted on 2019-01-27, 18:46

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by gdjacobs

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Pretty much nothing you run in DOS was meant for or looks right in 16x9 aspect anyway (IMO). If your display surface is running in that aspect, the programs in DOSBox are going to have to be stretched.

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Re: MIDI Sound in DOS Games [Solved]

Posted on 2019-01-26, 21:01

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by gdjacobs

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It's tradition. https://youtu.be/cf6SaA-Kdro?t=119 Titles that are hard coded will always look for a card with those settings. Other IO addresses and IRQ settings were less commonly used therefore less reliably detected.

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Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on 2019-01-26, 20:50

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That looks awesome! Does the board support de-turbo?

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Re: What motherboard/processor combination for speed sensitive DOS games?

Posted on 2019-01-26, 05:01

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by gdjacobs

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There is also Pentium 233Mhz mmx that has good options for slowing it down. Also I have a 486 33Mhz retro pc that can be slowed down to 386 and 286 speeds by disabling caches and combining that with using the turbo button. I can say that 486 is my favourite retro pc. The Pentium MMX chip is the …

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Re: CHS limiting hd size

Posted on 2019-01-26, 04:51

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I am trying out some old hd's in my 386, and unfortunately they are all larger than the 528MB chs limit. One, a Samsung drive, has a jumper to limit it to 528MB, but it turned out to have lots of bad sectors on it. I've tried out EZ-Drive, and I might end up using that with a larger drive, but …

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Re: Turbo Switch Display (strange)

Posted on 2019-01-26, 04:45

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Each 2x3 cell of headers (with two pins missing) corresponds to one of the elements of the 7 segment display. The jumper switch is used to connect above, to the right, or below the center pin. Those positions correspond to the segment being lit with turbo on, turbo off, or both. You're going to have …

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Re: Yamaha YMF7x4 Guide

Posted on 2019-01-26, 04:19

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Come to Canada instead! We try to be pleasant to make up for the awful winters.

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

Posted on 2019-01-26, 04:18

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In short: the default base address is 330h and the default IRQ is 2 (but on some machines, IRQ2 may be troublesome, so you might be better off using one of the alternatives, such as 3, 5 or 7). You don't need to install any drivers or load any utilities or anything. Just configure your software to …

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Re: Logging into Gmail with old mail clients

Posted on 2019-01-26, 04:13

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I actually wasn't aware that stunnel could be used in this way (I thought it was more intended for use as a VPN). That's actually really, really cool.

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Re: Show us your retro computer cases

Posted on 2019-01-25, 07:58

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by gdjacobs

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Aha, so you're THAT guy!

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Re: Have youtube slashed their bitrates?

Posted on 2019-01-25, 07:56

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Do they take the H264 material and transcode it (to H264 again, for instance) before storing, then transcoding again at a later time from the already recoded H264 stream, compounding the compression error?

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Re: Show us your retro computer cases

Posted on 2019-01-25, 04:38

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Dual floppies? What goes on here?

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