Re: Windows 7 Retro?

Posted on 2021-06-25, 15:37

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by FFXIhealer

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"You will own nothing and you will be happy." The mantra of the Great Reset. That's some evil BS right there. I still plan to own my own home one day, but I'd like to build my own. I just don't have the money to do that yet. And yeah, I've been enjoying reading all the responses as well as other …

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Re: 600mhz P3 in Asus P2B v1.02

Posted on 2021-06-08, 04:06

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I actually have an ASUS P2B that's that old. I originally built it with a 350MHz Pentium II and 128MB of PC-100 SDRAM. During the rebuild several years ago, I opted to upgrade it, so I made sure to flash the latest BIOS I could find for the board, then swapped out the processor for a 600 MHz Pentium …

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Re: No Upper Memory?

Posted on 2021-06-08, 03:54

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I remember being able to get around 610KB of conventional memory free in DOS with my configurations, but it took a lot of trial and error and a VERY German program that showed ALL of the Conventional memory assignments (like Video BIOS shadowing and the like) so I'd know where I can load and place …

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Re: Windows 7 Retro?

Posted on 2021-06-08, 03:47

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My journey through PC gaming actually had me skip the Pentium 4. It went something like this: 1990 (childhood) - 486 (unknown speed) - MS-DOS 6.? and Windows 3.1 1996 (high school) - Pentium (100 MHz) - Windows 95 1999 (college) - Pentium 2 (350 MHz) - Windows 98 First Edition 2002 (post college) - …

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Re: Windows 7 Retro?

Posted on 2021-06-07, 14:34

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by FFXIhealer

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But then that, like, begs the question of how do we define "retro". If we use the dictionary, then really old PC computers aren't actually RETRO, they're VINTAGE. Retro, by the strict definition, is when you intentionally design something to look like something old. Like, you have to intentionally …

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Windows 7 Retro?

Posted on 2021-06-04, 23:31

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by FFXIhealer

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So now that it's a year past End of Life/Support, how long do we have to wait before Windows 7 is considered retro gaming? 🤣 Windows Vista? Isn't Windows XP considered retro gaming at this point?

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Re: Welcome to the updated VOGONS

Posted on 2020-01-17, 17:24

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by FFXIhealer

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You know what I don't like about the new forum - it doesn't work on old web browsers anymore. This forum used to show up properly on Firefox 2.0 running on Windows 98. Now it looks all messed up and cannot render properly. Guess I won't be checking this forum from my Windows 98 computer anymore.

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Re: Windows 95 install

Posted on 2019-12-24, 16:23

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My solution to using a 20.4 GB hard drive is to use a drive overlay software. They were frequently used back in the late 90s to bypass older MB size limits due to drastically increasing hard drive sizes and could be commonly found on systems that had those large drives. I found one created by the …

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Re: Fastest Windows 7 system [omg, it is already retro]

Posted on 2019-10-10, 16:01

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by FFXIhealer

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I'm using a 980Ti on my current gaming rig, built in 2015 around Skylake 6700K. I have all 3 monitors hooked up to it, even though my two side 1080p monitors could run perfectly fine off of the integrated Intel graphics. The problem is, when I did that, the side monitors would blink off every so …

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Re: Fastest Windows 7 system [omg, it is already retro]

Posted on 2019-10-10, 13:25

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by FFXIhealer

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I think a lot of people enjoy the debate as much as messing with the hardware. I'm not calling anyone a troll in saying that, just a lively debate on what everyone thinks about the subject. At least it's A LOT better than political debates, where people are apt to go at each others' throats …

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Re: Found new ram chips for Voodoo Rush

Posted on 2019-10-09, 15:47

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by FFXIhealer

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Really? Then nevermind. He's not as brave as I thought he was. 🤣

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Re: Found new ram chips for Voodoo Rush

Posted on 2019-10-09, 15:22

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by FFXIhealer

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Man, you guys are brave trying to solder RAM chips onto boards like this. I'm not sure I'd have the cajones to even attempt that. I'd be afraid of damaging/ruining these relatively expensive old cards that nobody makes anymore. Good job fixing the card with the bad caps. That, at least, I might have …

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Re: Where to find heavy gauge 3dfx Voodoo pass through cables?

Posted on 2019-10-09, 15:16

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by FFXIhealer

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

When I went looking to source suitable cables for this exact function (connecting a discrete graphics card's VGA output to the input on the back of a Voodoo1 or Voodoo2 card), I was looking for two things: 1. male thumbscrew ends on BOTH ENDS of the cable and 2. short length. I wasn't looking for a …

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Re: Fastest Windows 7 system [omg, it is already retro]

Posted on 2019-10-08, 16:07

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by FFXIhealer

in Marvin \ System Specs

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Please don't talk to me about Skylake being obsolete. That makes me a sad panda. I'm still running a 6700K in the heart of my current gaming rig, paired with a 980Ti. Would I like to have an 8-core CPU? Sure. Am I willing to pay for it and completely rebuild my entire system to do it? No.

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Re: I bought a HP Pavilion 7410P Pentium Classic

Posted on 2019-10-08, 12:35

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by FFXIhealer

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This is extremely similar to the Micronics build I did. I also set it up similarly. Intel Pentium P54c 200MHz 64MB (16MBx4) EDO SIMM memory Micronics M55HI+ (Socket 7) ATI Rage IIc PCI graphics card (motherboard has no integrated graphics) Diamond Monster 3D 4MB PCI Voodoo1 card SMC 10/100 Ethernet …

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Re: Quantum Dynamic Drive Overlay

Posted on 2019-10-07, 20:09

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by FFXIhealer

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

MAKE A BACKUP. Us IT people have been shouting this mantra at the top of our lungs for 30 years and people STILL don't do it. I'm about to be at the point where I just shrug my shoulders and tell people "You should have made a backup." anytime they come to me and complain about missing files or …

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Re: Fastest Windows 7 system [omg, it is already retro]

Posted on 2019-10-07, 14:43

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by FFXIhealer

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This touches on the debate on what constitutes "retro". We used to have a good understanding of it, but the line is getting VERY blurry now for a number of reasons. MS-DOS is retro because nobody uses it anymore for modern software, nobody's making new software using it, it's limited to 16-bit …

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Re: Where to find heavy gauge 3dfx Voodoo pass through cables?

Posted on 2019-10-07, 13:12

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by FFXIhealer

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Ok.... I bought TWO of the cables from the Amazon listing I posted. Nobody cared about MY review of them - I don't understand why. The pictures posted are accurate. I know - shocking, right? On AMAZON?! Yes, they're accurate. Both ends have male thumbscrews with knurled knobs because they are small …

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Re: Retro machines usefulness/connectivity thread

Posted on 2019-10-03, 13:52

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by FFXIhealer

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This is definitely an interesting thread. It touches on a couple of things that I've either been working with or thought about a little bit. For instance: I have a PLEX media server in my house that spends MOST of its time sitting there doing nothing but idling. It's also my network storage server. …

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Re: Where to find heavy gauge 3dfx Voodoo pass through cables?

Posted on 2019-10-03, 13:15

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by FFXIhealer

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

It also has blue plug ends. Very nice. I like color-coded cables where possible. I even took colored markers to generic I/O shields.

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