Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-07-16, 18:39

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Got myself a Toshiba Satellite Pro 400CDT for 5€! Works perfectly, though it needs a new CMOS battery. Pentium 1 (75MHz?), 40MB RAM, 810MB HDD. Came with neither a battery (thank god) nor its external floppy drive. Also had a Zoom 56k PCMCIA modem inside, though without its cable. It could use some …

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Re: 3dfx bars

Posted on 2017-05-02, 13:22

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Thanks a lot! Messing with the phase settings and then forcing auto-conf solved the issue. Tomb Raider and Battle Arena Toshinden work fine, monitor reports 640x480 60Hz. They aren't artifacting or crashing at all too, maybe my Screamer 2 installation is borked.

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Re: 3dfx bars

Posted on 2017-05-01, 17:29

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Yep, happens without loopcable too, auto-adjust doesn't help either. Picture is from an Acer 17" LCD monitor. Haven't tested on a CRT yet, though.

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3dfx bars

Posted on 2017-05-01, 14:47

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Got myself a Diamond Monster 3D 4mb PCI with a knocked capacitor which got replaced immediately, and decided to use it with my P100 build for DOS Glide gaming. With Tomb Raider, it appears to work, however I get dark vertical bars. Happens every time after the 3dfx switches outputs, starting when it …

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Re: CD-R media covers

Posted on 2017-04-30, 21:55

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Oh the memories. Now that's the Verbatim DataLifePlus i was talking about earlier 😀

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-04-30, 16:30

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In gaming, with stock speeds and fan going 100% I can barely keep it around 90. No wonder they're becoming so rare. Decided to try an Arctic Accelero L2 Plus on mine, fan constantly 100% (connected directly to the PSU). It certainly keeps it cool, but it made the card warp a bit, and it covers many …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-04-30, 00:51

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rein_ein wrote: Bringing some pci-e heresy back again,i recently picked Asus 8800 GTX,with bit damaged plastic on blower but working at least. Cost me 5$ Awesome! Be sure to apply fresh paste, those damn things get hot iirc.

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Re: Asrock 775Dual VSTA & Core4Dual thread

Posted on 2017-04-29, 09:32

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I also have a 4CoreDual-VSTA board to test with a Q6600... :evil: And there we go. Just upgraded the 775Dual-VSTA/C2D E6300 @ 1.8GHz/2GB DDR2/Win10 build mentioned in page 2 to a 4CoreDual-SATA2/Q6600/2GB/Win7. So far, so good. The Q6600 runs at 2.30GHz due to chipset limitation (FSB ~1024MHz …

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

Posted on 2017-04-29, 06:33

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Nice! Any SSD in that rig? No, not yet, can't justify the cost of one atm. Also can't afford to upgrade, let alone update this system; it's a fully loaded SL 10.6.8 *ackintosh , which I decided to use in the home studio, to which I connect certain (outdated) hardware with no support for more recent …

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

Posted on 2017-04-28, 17:20

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Retro? I still use the X58/LGA1366 platform as my main PC but with a six core Xeon, I don't think I'm the only one around here that does it. :P Retro? My main music production rig is a trusty ASUS P5KC s775 originally bought in 2007, with the most recent upgrade being a modded Xeon E5450 in place …

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

Posted on 2017-04-28, 14:35

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Psion handhelds are awesome! Happy 5MX and Revo owner here! Was playing with a HP OmniGo 100 last night, then saw your post 😲

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Re: CD-R media covers

Posted on 2017-04-27, 20:53

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I remember some (very) old Verbatim DataLife jewel cases with a dark blue cover, and a few years after that, a yellow/blue design (writing DataLife plus, metal azo or something fancy like this), some golden "Sentinel" discs(?), and Taiyo Yuden's "That's CDR/That's Write" brand with a black/blue/ …

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Re: Voodoo 2D Companion Card Prefrences

Posted on 2017-04-27, 20:38

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I used to pair my Canopus Pure3D 6mb Voodoo1 with a Matrox Millenium II/4MB. It has since been replaced with a S3 ViRGE/DX (Diamond Stealth 3D 2000 Pro 4MB) only to play Terminal Velocity in S3D (which sucks, btw). While the Millenium was a great card, it was incompatible with some DOS games . …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-04-24, 14:05

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Finally got my hands on one of the later 3dfx cards, the Voodoo4 4500 AGP. Had to clean the heatsink and oil the fan a bit. It replaced a Voodoo3 3000, which had replaced a Creative RIVA TNT/Voodoo 2 combination earlier :lol: Apparently works nicely with Glide and is a bit better on D3D games than …

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Re: Yellowing Plastic

Posted on 2016-10-24, 21:42

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Awesome. Might help brighten my Amiga 500 someday.

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Re: Reading CD-Rs on DOS 6.22

Posted on 2016-10-24, 21:40

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Be sure to have an ISO9660 file system structure, not UDF or anything else, and it'll work, or else it's your media/the drive is picky/needs a good cleaning!

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Re: Yellowing Plastic

Posted on 2016-10-24, 21:38

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Don't plastics crack easier after using hydrogen peroxide on them though? Haven't tested it, but always wondered about negative consequences of retr0brite-like substances... There's too much information out there on whether it's dangerous or not, I don't really know who to believe.

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Re: What Piece of PC Hardware Have You Owned Longest

Posted on 2016-10-24, 21:31

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A plastic SL27J P200/MMX which used to reside in the PC I kept the longest time as a kid. Somehow, while everything else (motherboard, cards, etc including the AT case) got tossed away, this CPU survived in storage, all alone, with no bent pins after all these years. Found it some months ago …

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Re: Well, should I ask this girl to coffee or not?

Posted on 2016-10-24, 21:14

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Swpa! That's superb, consider yourself lucky!

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Re: Well, should I ask this girl to coffee or not?

Posted on 2016-10-24, 20:49

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Just build a slowish DOS/Win3.1 Socket 7 system for your gaming pleasure. Pentium - better than sex. And I'm dead serious on that. ok, maybe not, but you get the point ;p Who needs girls anyway? They seem to understand our hobby just as much as we understand their obsession with cosmetics... And …

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