Re: Nvidia Fermi retro?
Posted on 2018-10-26, 22:46
In my view, it's retro if you use it for running retro software.
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2018-10-25, 20:54
Apparently a high performance evolution of ARCNet. Cool. I actually used to have a twisted pair ARCNet hub.
Re: Newcommer, new dos pc questions Retrocengo
Posted on 2018-10-25, 20:48
ISA gives you more flexibility in a DOS built - *usually* PCI sound cards do the job well enough, but they have limits. A PCI YMF7x4 requires a PC/PCI (SBLINK) connector to work properly under DOS. Motherboard with that are rarer than motherboards with ISA. If you want a flexible solution that …
Re: 486 and hard drive size limit.
Posted on 2018-10-25, 01:52
Baoran wrote: Sorry about that. I must have missed your previous message. NP. I had a bad time with hardware mortality scrounging around for period IDE drives for this 386 board; soft limiting drives instead has really saved a lot of grief. I suspect that you'll have a similar experience if you …
Re: Adding Text to Config.sys for Menus
Posted on 2018-10-25, 01:41
Mouse driver changing can usually be done in userspace rather than by custom config. By CHOICE or at the command line, for example. Having said that, I've only found one title so far that had issues with CTMOUSE (hello Allegiance!).
Re: Were most of the CD Audio tracks of the 90s just MIDI recorded from high end devices?
Posted on 2018-10-25, 01:33
I believe it was an SC88.
Re: 486 and hard drive size limit.
Posted on 2018-10-24, 01:40
Again, if you have any Maxtor, Seagate, Samsung, Hitachi, or IBM drives, they can all be set to appear as an arbitrary size drive. My 386 now has a 60 GB Spinpoint IDE drive limited at 1032192 sectors (the 528 MB limit). Either download the Hitachi or Seagate drive tool or download Hiren's (as it …
Re: Soundblaster AWE32 Advice
Posted on 2018-10-24, 01:21
What about an AWE/OPL combo? Like the CT2760 It's the ideal thing, although probably a bit noisier than an AWE64, and has the hanging-note bug for external MIDI devices, but that's only relevant if you plan to connect external MIDI devices. SB16s also have a couple other audio quality bugs that can …
Re: 486 and hard drive size limit.
Posted on 2018-10-23, 16:16
Both IBM/Hitachi and Seagate/Maxtor/Samsung lines of HDD can be LBA limited via their respective config tools. I recommend that approach if they're not naturally limited to 8gb.
Re: 486 and hard drive size limit.
Posted on 2018-10-22, 02:58
It's not just LBA but firmware specific bugs which matter.
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2018-10-22, 02:57
Trying to find something in my stock of spinning iron which will be compatible with an UMC ISA IDE controller in my 386.
Re: Judgement Rites Roland MT-32 Emulation on DosBox SVN/Linux
Posted on 2018-10-22, 02:41
collector wrote: He said that he already tried that patch. Bah, never post while not fully conscious.
Re: Hen's teeth and unicorns
Posted on 2018-10-21, 17:36
shock__ wrote: Who knows ... I know a forum member that got his A4000T for free at a junkyard, just like my neighbour gifted me an A3000D which he found on the street recently - both In fully working and decent optical condition. Nice street 🤣
Re: Judgement Rites Roland MT-32 Emulation on DosBox SVN/Linux
Posted on 2018-10-21, 17:27
As pointed out, the patch is already applied.
Re: PCI sound cards and Chipsets from various manufacturers...
Posted on 2018-10-20, 03:28
The ALS4000 is also a potential contender.
Re: 2007 "retro" C2D XP PC
Posted on 2018-10-20, 03:26
Specs: Asus P5B (P965 chipset) motherboard Intel Core2 Duo E6300 @ 2.33GHz (Maybe someday I'll upgrade it to E6600 or E6700) 2GB DDR2 667MHz NVIDIA Quadro FX 380 (I'm going to change it to some period correct one) 32GB SSD and 80GB HDD (That HDD died so I'm probably going to replace it with some …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2018-10-20, 01:55
He's about 8.0 on the Pai face punchability scale. (Ajit Pai - 10.0, Nigel Farage - 9.5) Shit, he's 10.0 in my book! This advert specifically: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/DT21WPZji_U/hqdefault.jpg https://i.ytimg.com/vi/DT21WPZji_U/hqdefault.jpg http://internazionale.il24.it/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/ …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2018-10-19, 18:13
Let me guess. X-Fi Fatal1ty sound? Yes, I have one of those. I just need a Fatal1ty video card. Nvidia GS8800 This guy might well be the most annoying face in gaming hardware; I really don't see why one would build a tribute PC to him but good luck to you all the same. He's about 8.0 on the Pai …
Re: Indonesian Tsunami
Posted on 2018-10-19, 15:12
Re: HP 9000 C30
Posted on 2018-10-18, 23:19
Here are photos of my HP 9000 c30 running HPUX 10.11 With Netscape and IE. It plays DOOM too. That's thing's sexier than chocolate. However, as far as I can find, the C series didn't have a C30 model. C300 maybe? Edit: Hmm, C300 was a 68k based computer. Yours does appear to be a C chassis unit, …
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