Re: Recommend a good ISA DOS soundcard

Posted on 2017-05-26, 21:35

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My favorite is the Audician 32 Plus. You can buy it on ebay as new old stock. Uses the Yamaha YMF71x chip. It is SB Pro II compatible and has a MIDI header. Here's some reading: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=49990 Also, if you want a Creative card, here's some more reading for you: …

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Re: Anyone find early 2.5 shooters had more charm than early 3D shooters?

Posted on 2017-05-26, 11:13

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I'm one of the few who prefers slow paced 3D gaming with scares rather than running all the time while shooting. That's why I've been reluctant to play the new Doom, in fact I played the original one quite slowly and had fun so it kind of grates me when people say Doom is all about "never stop …

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Re: Anyone falls victim to WannaCry ransomware?

Posted on 2017-05-25, 21:11

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It's not me it's my parents. My dad is paranoid about XP and wants to install Windows 7/8/10 on their computer. I've warned him it will become too slow to use if he does that. So he just doesn't use it any more. Problem is, all of his emails are on there going back years. Can Linux email clients …

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Re: Does amount of cache matter?

Posted on 2017-05-25, 18:31

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Phil did some cache tests in one of his 486 videos. Can't remember which one, though. Here they are if you want to look for it: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5T8bm … XxdDdMJ8MokDwSq

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Re: Old Anti-Virus

Posted on 2017-05-25, 16:04

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there are also some linux boot cds that AV vendors make for scanning outside of the OS. Useful if you just want to make sure those old systems are clean. Only requirement is that the system be able to boot from CD (might eliminate your oldest systems). The one I've used that seems to work pretty …

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Re: Guess the game!!

Posted on 2017-05-25, 10:54

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Agreed. I'd be willing to post games that are way easier just to keep the flow going. I almost never knew the games that are typically posted, and I considered myself pretty knowledgeable on commercial games from the early to late 1990s. At least I read a few of the main gaming magazines every month …

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Re: Does amount of cache matter?

Posted on 2017-05-24, 23:20

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There is a small, but measurable improvement going from 256 to 512. I want to say something like 1-5%.

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Re: Old PC refuses to write to floppies

Posted on 2017-05-24, 22:00

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It won't hurt to try anyway, no? Will only take a minute. Maybe it's a bug in the BIOS. Maybe not. But no big ordeal to test it out. Have you done a visual inspection for jumpers on the motherboard? Any jumpers or such that might be worth experimenting with?

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Re: Old PC refuses to write to floppies

Posted on 2017-05-24, 20:58

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Try to find the manual or look on the board as there "may" be some jumper that makes floppy drives behave this way (maybe as some anti-datatheft thingy or something). If this is the case, it may obviously also be some (hidden?) BIOS setting. I agree with this. One thing I think we need to be clear …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2017-05-24, 19:50

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@MMaximus - just realized your avatar is one of the default characters in MM4/5 (Maximus). Is that right? :) I've been having bad luck with DOS RPGs lately. Looks like Albion is out, though I'm not convinced I won't go back and try EOB1 again. I do have the level 5 save game backed up, before I got …

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Re: That looks real safe

Posted on 2017-05-24, 17:38

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So obviously that must mean the wire is coming out another window on the back of the house. How could that have even happened? It takes time to add a 2nd story to a house, and some contractor would've noticed and reported it in the weeks it probably took to do that. Makes me wonder if that room it …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2017-05-24, 16:10

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Also, I still think you should check out Might & Magic 3, 4 & 5 if you're into old-school RPG :cool: I'm seeing anywhere from 80-100+ hrs to beat Worlds of Xeen. Do you have enough familiarity with Clouds and Darkside to know about how many hrs each are? I'd like less of a time commitment and not …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2017-05-24, 15:50

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Obvious choice is Baldur's Gate II, but I kind of wanted to spend some time in real DOS, so I'm considering Anvil of Dawn and Albion. Looking forward to hearing what you think of Albion if you choose that - I was really digging on that game for a while but the combat killed it for me before long. …

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Re: Anyone find early 2.5 shooters had more charm than early 3D shooters?

Posted on 2017-05-23, 23:48

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I was able to experience all these games on original release, and looking back, I remember feeling the most awestruck by Quake I. I can still hear the sound effects in my mind when the demo starts playing on loadup. But I was never a fan of the music. In fact, it's one of the only games that I …

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Re: That look real safe

Posted on 2017-05-23, 12:25

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Are you sure that's not internet cable? Still, that looks like it's in the front yard, for all the world to see. Even if it's internet cable and not live power, it's in poor taste.

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Re: Anyone falls victim to WannaCry ransomware?

Posted on 2017-05-22, 23:34

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Jade Falcon wrote: A lot of times in the work place a windows server is directly atched to a modem and the server acks as a router. Atlest put a hardware firewall between them I always say, but some people are cheepstakes That's insane. If it's money then use pfSense or IPFIre.

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Re: Anyone falls victim to WannaCry ransomware?

Posted on 2017-05-22, 20:40

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I think it's crazy that any router would have port 445 open to the outside world. edit: Wow, over 1 million devices exposing port 445 on the internet and 80% of them are Windows-based: https://community.rapid7.com/community/infosec/blog/2017/05/16/update-on-wannacry-vulnerable-smb-shares-are-widely- …

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Re: Anyone falls victim to WannaCry ransomware?

Posted on 2017-05-22, 19:40

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That's not surprising. "The Patch" never prevented the infection, it just prevented it from spreading to other systems in the same network. People are the infection vector, and there are more people using Windows 7 then any other OS.

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Re: Pronunciation of Riva

Posted on 2017-05-22, 14:11

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Good question. I've never heard a French person say TGV so I have always said it in an English way. I would be guilty of hypocrisy if I carried on doing this though because I constantly get into this debate with people. There is a plague of English people who pronounce nougat as 'nugget'. IT'S A …

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Re: Is Vista now Retro

Posted on 2017-05-22, 14:03

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Another reason Vista seemed slow to a lot of people is because they upgraded their XP systems, and the system specs were fine for XP, but on the low end for Vista. And Vista drivers took awhile to mature. By then, people already formed their opinions. Yea, but in the spirit of retrocomputing (seems …

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