Picked up an Epox MVP3C-M with a K6-2 on it for the princely sum of 5$ 😀 No idea if it works yet but it even came with the PS/2 header. Filename unnamed.jpg File size 88.13 KiB Views 1014 views

Phil has a video on his youtube channel on the HD4250 onboard graphics and what it's capable of - might be relevant? EDIT: A link might have been a good idea 😀 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWdB_vc3lhQ

When I did the floppy install of OSR1, I just used two floppies. While one was installing I wrote the next image on my laptop via a USB floppy drive. Worked pretty well and didn't take that much longer than a CD install, just needed the space to have the PC and the laptop side-by-side.

I've done a Windows 95 OSR1 install from floppy... it's not fun but it's not as bad as you'd think, and OSR1 doesn't have the Active Desktop "enhancements". The original Shell for Win95 would probably be quite a bit faster on a 486. That said, one more vote for a boot floppy - that would definitely …

For some reason my CRT is letting me set only up to 75Hz at 1280x1024, while at 1600x1200 its allowing me to set 100Hz. Also 1280x1024 is 5:4 aspect ratio so it would look a bit weird. I'm currently running it at 1024x768 @ 120Hz for the voodoo3, but in Half-Life it often drops below 60fps... Do …

Opera 10.63 is... Mostly usable on the semi-modern web? I've actually had it play 360p YouTube on my WinME laptop as recently as last week. Buggy as heck but better than IE6.

Tested the AWE64 Value I picked up yesterday, and it worked wonderfully. Currently it's in my early Socket 7 machine (Lucky Star P54CE, Pentium-S 133, 48 MB Ram, Win95C, Cirrus Logic 5446 PCI) - tested with Descent in AWE32 mode and my goodness that was a good experience.

Almost could call this a dumpster dive - paid 10 bucks for the husk of a computer from the place I found near work - the case is near damaged and I likely won't keep it, but inside is an AOpen board with 2 ISA slots, a slot-style CPU (I think it's a PII or PIII) and the thing I really wanted.... an …

appiah4 wrote: PCMCIA Sound Cards exist. Thanks for the link. Now the issue is ever finding one up here in Canada for a reasonable price 😀

Picked up a trio of as-is old laptops from a semi-official "Ewaste drop off that also allows you to buy parts and pieces from the skids of parts people dropped off" I found near work. Spent 20 bucks CAD. Got a Toshiba Satellite T1910CS, a Toshiba Satellite 110CS, and a Compaq Presario 1200. The two …

Picked up a trio of as-is old laptops from a semi-official "Ewaste drop off that also allows you to buy parts and pieces from the skids of parts people dropped off" I found near work. Spent 20 bucks CAD. Got a Toshiba Satellite T1910CS, a Toshiba Satellite 110CS, and a Compaq Presario 1200. The two …

Unfortunately all of my early machines and hardware were given to me or the family's - an IBM PS/2 w/386, a generic 486 (no CDROM, had Win95 installed from floppy!), and a Packard Bell w/Pentium 1 233, Win95, 2MB Video and a Yamaha onboard sound chip of some sort that I remember sounding …