Re: This will make you die inside (really) Voodoo 5 6000 "playdough"

Posted on 2016-05-18, 01:57

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by keenmaster486

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

AAUUUUUUGGHH! (dies) 😵 Hey, you were right! That is horrible. Putting playdoh on a video card? That man has no sense whatsoever. *sigh* there really is no limit to the stupid things people will do.

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Re: New member saying hello.

Posted on 2016-05-17, 22:41

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by keenmaster486

in Milliways

in Milliways

Retro hardware stuff goes in Marvin 😀 Are you actually Irish, or do you just live there?

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Re: Oldest PC you've visited VOGONs with?

Posted on 2016-05-17, 03:39

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by keenmaster486

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'll probably do this with my P166 laptop, when that happens I'll post pictures. Next week, since this week I'm in San Francisco on vacation! (Hello Maker Faire Bay Area!) Somebody's probably going to post pics of an old 5150 logging on to VOGONS with 5 1/4 floppy disks, thus rendering all the other …

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Re: Amazon sellers are retards... (rant)

Posted on 2016-05-17, 00:08

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by keenmaster486

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Every single time we order a book on Amazon, it comes mispackaged in a thin box with no bubble wrap, so of course the cover is bent or there are pages bent or the cover is scratched or something else is wrong with it. Every single time, I kid you not. It doesn't matter whether we order direct from …

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Re: Dual Booting Windows 98 and DOS 6.22?

Posted on 2016-05-15, 22:13

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by keenmaster486

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The answer to question 1 is yes. Mostly you can run whatever games you want inside Windows 98, and if you have to go into MS-DOS mode the only effective difference between Windows 98 DOS (which reports itself as version 7.1) and 6.22 is that 7.1 supports FAT32 and thus drives greater than 2GB. I use …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-05-15, 20:09

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by keenmaster486

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Sorry, I overreacted and I do get what you're saying... they absolutely should have supported cd-r since it was standard at the time. I just don't think that standards should be legally enforced necessarily (except for some safety standards). It is the responsibility of the consumer to check that …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-05-15, 19:46

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by keenmaster486

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Now, let's be reasonable: they never claimed to support cd-r and the customers voluntarily bought the drives. Nobody got cheated. Nobody should be put in prison because they sold a cd drive that doesn't support cd-r.

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Re: Sent PM sits in outbox for a day

Posted on 2016-05-15, 19:30

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by keenmaster486

in Milliways

in Milliways

Agreed. I've noticed that as well.

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

Posted on 2016-05-15, 05:50

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by keenmaster486

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Sounds like a nice machine, although when would you need 48 megs of memory in a P66 machine? I assume it's running DOS or Win 9x.

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Re: Gamepad/Joysticks on vintage hardware

Posted on 2016-05-14, 23:45

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by keenmaster486

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Drivers are not necessary, I can tell you that much. But as for the difference between digital and analog, I'm not quite clear on that myself :blush: just never had reason to look into it... Although I can tell you that my analog flightstick works on pretty much anything. And yes, mostly they do …

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Re: Best graphics card for dos gaming

Posted on 2016-05-12, 03:04

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by keenmaster486

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hmm... The Mach32 and Mach64 cards have bad EGA compatibility and produce the jerky motion bug in Keen, afaik. Edit: Rage as well, I can say from personal experience. But I've heard very good things about S3 cards, particularly the Trio. Not surprising considering it's the card used in DOSBox …

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Re: Dumb things you've done (or have seen someone else do) on a computer

Posted on 2016-05-11, 14:05

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by keenmaster486

in Milliways

in Milliways

Used a vacuum once to clean out a fan on a really nice nVidia card. Needless to say, the fan was never quite the same after that! :lol: I've had a few "delete *.*, oops!" moments before. I fried an Athlon XP by running it without the heat sink for one second. Poof of smoke, and thar she blows! A …

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Re: Need help - Website broken

Posted on 2016-05-10, 18:40

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by keenmaster486

in DOSBox General

in DOSBox General

Hm. Sounds like your computer's long overdue for a reinstall.

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Re: Scroll wheel support in Windows 98 SE?

Posted on 2016-05-10, 15:32

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by keenmaster486

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hmm... I have an HP PS/2 mouse, and its scroll wheel works great in 98SE. Maybe it's because I have NUSB installed?

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Re: How to get 90's PC games to work?

Posted on 2016-05-10, 04:14

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by keenmaster486

in Windows

in Windows

One word: Google. Google is your friend. Sometimes you can get information on specific games, but for the games you're talking about probably a Windows 98 VM set up in VirtualBox would at least get them running. If they're DOS games then use DOSBox. Period. Or build a machine with real DOS on it, or …

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Re: Best graphics card for dos gaming

Posted on 2016-05-09, 19:53

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by keenmaster486

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yeah, most ATI cards and some Matrox will mess up Keen due to not being 100% compatible with the EGA standard. Something interesting, though: Keen Dreams (the "lost" episode) doesn't have this problem, even though it uses almost exactly the same engine ("Galaxy" engine) as Keens 4, 5, and 6. …

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

Posted on 2016-05-09, 04:04

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by keenmaster486

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I want pictures of that piece of awesomeness :) That Buick he's got? Dope slap time... *ow*. Sorry, didn't make myself clear there, I meant your P166 machine :blush: Although pics of the car would be cool too, even though I personally would be a lot more interested if it was a '50 Studebaker :lol: …

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Re: Need help - Website broken

Posted on 2016-05-09, 01:34

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by keenmaster486

in DOSBox General

in DOSBox General

Hmm, funny, the website works for me. Maybe it's fixed now. Welcome to the forums and good luck!

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

Posted on 2016-05-09, 00:15

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by keenmaster486

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I want pictures of that piece of awesomeness 😀

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Selling an old server MB, some advice needed

Posted on 2016-05-08, 22:37

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by keenmaster486

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I found this old server (a Dell PowerEdge 300) at my dad's office. It's a dual PIII machine, ran Windows 2000 for years until he decommissioned it, still working, in the mid to late naughts. I want to know how much the innards are worth on eBay, together or separately. First, the MB: [with …

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