Re: Windows 10 Anniversary Update

Posted on 2016-08-09, 20:00

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3. It screwed up my Windows 7 games for Windows 10 install. None of the EXE files ported over and my old installer didn't work anymore. I had to re-download the updated installer to get it to work properly. Welcome back Freecell, Solitaire, Chess, Mahjongg. (Freecell is my JAM when I'm bored.) Why …

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Windows 10 Anniversary Update

Posted on 2016-08-06, 16:26

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I just installed it today. I found a few minor hiccups that I had to deal with immediately, but otherwise it was fairly smooth and the same. The issues are: 1. Cortana cannot easily be turned off anymore like it used to be. If you're like me, you don't like having everything in your room recorded by …

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Re: How do I tell if my laptop screen is about to die?

Posted on 2016-08-04, 02:36

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You'll know your screen is about to die when you show up at the hospital and it is on life support and its BP has dropped well below safe levels and the EKG shows weak and erratic signals. Doctors will not be around because they have already given up. Only the nurses are on-hand to administer fluids …

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Re: I can't decide.... Graphics card(s) for K6-2/500 DOS/W98 Machine... And more!

Posted on 2016-07-30, 18:39

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Haha, this is where it all started :blush: Bugger I already started and got the Velocity 100 and V3 3500 results in. Testing the Banshee next. I use Serious Sam SE all the time under XP, didn't think of using the first one :) Glide capable games I am using are Turok 2 and Unreal. I would love to …

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Re: My classic gaming retro system specs

Posted on 2016-07-30, 02:43

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IIRC, I think the HP Vectra VE6 Series 8 comes with a Matrox Millennium video card, which I haven't changed or modified :) If that's the card you have installed, it'll have a decent 2D chip on it, but the 3D will suffer. I'd try to find a Voodoo or Voodoo2 PCI card for 3D graphics. You could play …

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Re: My classic gaming retro system specs

Posted on 2016-07-29, 17:12

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2 ISA and 3 PCI... and two ISA card slots used....so that leaves you with 2 PCI slots. You didn't specify a video card in your list. I'm curious to see what you have. I looked up the manual for that system and it claims you actually have 2x ISA, 5x PCI, and 1x AGP slots. Lots of options for a cool …

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Re: DirectX/hardware downgrade

Posted on 2016-07-29, 17:08

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I know it doesn't make sense but figured it'd be like with DOS where period correct hardware is the way to go. So the majority says hardware is fine, so maybe roll back directX to say....7 or 8? What's the best way to go about doing that? I would say, if anything, that your 450Mhz Pentium III is …

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Re: I can't decide.... Graphics card(s) for K6-2/500 DOS/W98 Machine... And more!

Posted on 2016-07-29, 17:05

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No, AGP was specially designed with a double-pumped data interface compared to PCI (66 MHz instead of 33 MHz) and designed to be able to directly address system RAM for use as texture storage, allowing for much more detailed textures than the card's internal memory might allow. Now, the i740 chip - …

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Re: DirectX/hardware downgrade

Posted on 2016-07-29, 15:09

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Wait...your framerates are slow...so you want to get SLOWER hardware? Really? If anything, the GeForce3 is busy waiting for a 450MHz processor to catch up. My Riva TNT2 card has to wait on my 350MHz Pentium II to catch up...as does my Voodoo2 PCI card.

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Re: I can't decide. Graphics card(s) for K6-2/500 DOS/W98 Machine...

Posted on 2016-07-29, 13:49

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200W AT Power Supply (The GA-5AA supports AT & ATX power. However the current AT power supply is wired directly into the power button and heat shrink'd. Any advice on changing over to an ATX 450W is welcome.) Capture.JPG To get an ATX power supply to work, one of two things must first happen. One, …

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Re: Windows 10 on an old laptop. Impressive!

Posted on 2016-07-29, 13:40

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Well, I have a few PCs with older HDD units in them running Windows 10 and I occasionally see that slow-down/pause thing while the drive or Windows or something tries to catch up. But for my personal systems, they're all running on SSD boot drives, so those issues are pretty much non-existent. I am …

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Re: Windows 10 on an old laptop. Impressive!

Posted on 2016-07-28, 20:10

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All right, so I've been using Win10 on a few different machines just to see how it scales and behaves with a bunch of different configurations. My 4 test machines were: -Pentium M 755 @ 2.72GHz, 2GB DDR2, 8800GTS-640MB, i915 chipset. -Phenom II X6 1090T @ 4.07GHz, 16GB DDR3, GTX680, 890FX chipset, …

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Re: What is the maximum hard disk size Windows Me will accept?

Posted on 2016-07-28, 20:05

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Hi, was wondering if anyone might know offhand what is the maximum internal hard disk size that Windows Me will accept? On my current classic/retro PC gaming rig, I think I have a 120GB IDE/PATA hard drive installed, which Windows Me accepts with no problems and with the full partition size, so I …

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Re: Hello i am new and this is my retro PC

Posted on 2016-07-28, 20:03

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http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z172/mkubiak402/electronics/20160717_133238_zps7wvrj3d2.jpg OMG, the feels!!!! I had that exact CD-Writer drive back in my Pentium II PC days. I almost miss it! Brings a tear to my eyes thinking about it! The nostalgia! That was a very good burner in its day.

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Re: Gamepad for Win98 and XP

Posted on 2016-07-28, 19:36

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Ah you said decent. I was gonna say Gravis Gamepad Pro, can be used in Win95/Win98/XP. XP even has the drivers included but the pad is not that great for fighting games. :lol: I was just thinking that, because I still have one. It's hooked up to my Win98 PC and it still works like a charm. I've …

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Re: Windows 10 on an old laptop. Impressive!

Posted on 2016-07-28, 13:23

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My netbook has Windows 10 Home 32-bit and runs acceptably fine on my Netbook with 2GB of RAM and a 1.6GHz Atom single-core with HT.

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Re: Any Win10 Fermi users?

Posted on 2016-07-28, 00:23

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My 2010 PC is running Windows 10 Home 64-bit and has a GTX480. Drivers work perfectly fine.

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Re: What is your age?

Posted on 2016-07-27, 21:08

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I'm 35, single, and hating it. I hate being a 35-year-old *cough*virgin*cough* But I don't know what to do about it.

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Re: Could anyone recommend some pc games for girls?

Posted on 2016-07-27, 01:18

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PeterLI wrote: I remembered a DOS Barbie game. I remember a NES Barbie game. 😒

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Re: Could anyone recommend some pc games for girls?

Posted on 2016-07-26, 13:41

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Any and every Carmen Sandiego game ever made. Good old DOS...

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