Re: Second Retro Winter 2019 Holiday Build - El Cheapo Sempron 64 3000+

Posted on 2019-11-28, 18:28

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Dig the mid oughts case and labeled zip drive port! Should be 2005ish https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AMD_S … microprocessors Maybe some Unreal Tournament 2004 or Doom 3?

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Re: Early 2000s tat-off: let's see your colored translucent plastic things

Posted on 2019-11-23, 14:13

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Filename Screenshot_20191123-090854_eBay.jpg File size 352.67 KiB Views 914 views I love this case, but there's no way I'm paying that price, nevermind $70 shipping. I don't remember seeing cases like this back in the day, but if it was like $20 at a local yard sale or CL, that'd be a impulse buy …

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Re: Serial & parallel port opening covers

Posted on 2019-10-11, 14:12

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The connectors on those used to be connected by ribbon either to a PCI card, or to the motherboard

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

Posted on 2019-09-06, 12:20

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JonathonWyble wrote: Today was my first day of computer programming / video game design class Congrats, good luck, and have fun!

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Re: Modern laptops vs. more traditional designs

Posted on 2019-08-28, 20:58

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My point is that PC specs have far outpaced what normal, typical, everyday tasks require. There are relatively few people who actually need the power of the latest and greatest. I agree with this on a functional requirements standpoint, but software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster, and …

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Re: Building a hard drive display thing out of plexiglass!

Posted on 2019-07-19, 15:34

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+1 pretty cool. would watch more of that.

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Re: Need help finding unusual motherboard standoffs

Posted on 2019-07-19, 15:08

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http://www.addtronics.com/addt/product_info.p … products_id/110 MSTDOFF $5.00 MSTDOFF, Motherboard standoff (6 pieces) for ET series cases

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Re: Win98SE When is the hardware overkill?

Posted on 2019-07-02, 12:49

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When I got my first i7 920, I got an Asus P6T motherboard for it. There were still options in the BIOS related to Windows 98. Not sure if they're still there after the latest BIOS update. Might be a fun build though, even if only one core is available. When I got my first p4 rig, the first thing I …

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Re: Story behind your avatar?

Posted on 2019-06-29, 14:28

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Still shot from about halfway through the lab tech death animation in Blake Stone 🤣

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Re: Ryzen snoozer build.

Posted on 2019-06-21, 00:08

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I like it. Looking forward to more. Love the case.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-06-12, 19:36

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I bought one of these inexpensive de-soldering guns from china. It does not work. It does not heat up enough. Has anyone else had any luck with these inexpensive guns? I just have a few motherboards to fix so I did not want to buy an expensive gun, but it looks like I might have to now. Sorry to …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-06-10, 17:00

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Edit: Wait a minute, that's a Socket 7 board, not a Socket 8. Did you just post the wrong photo? Sorry to disappoint you, but it isn't a PPro, rather a regular Pentium on a VX motherboard. Ah no worries, for $20 all-in still not bad. Since it's Socket 7, do you guys think a DX4 100mhz would be …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-06-10, 16:29

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Got this motherboard with Pentium Pro @ 150mhz for cheap: Untitled.jpg Has 3x ISA, not sure what all those slots are on the left, different RAM slots? Not sure what to expect for performance on this vs Pentium MMX. Will think about dual booting Win3.1 / Win98se. Any recommendations for games that …

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Re: Best toddler games for DOS

Posted on 2019-06-06, 14:54

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bregolin wrote: I love me some Wacky Wheels - https://store.steampowered.com/app/358380/Wacky_Wheels/ I forgot all about wacky wheels, that was a great one! My goto racer was Peggles.

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Re: USB Transfer Cable that shows up as a Mass Storage Device on Windows 98 / ME

Posted on 2019-06-06, 14:50

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I have a "USB Transfer Cable" that my brother and I used back in ~2006 for transferring files to a project PC we built. It was advertised as being red but when I opened the box I was surprised to find a thing that looked like a hot-pink jump rope. Crazy looking contraption, but it worked great. …

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Re: What program can do this, please?

Posted on 2019-06-06, 13:43

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Not sure if there's an application that does this already. The auslogic duplicate file finder looks pretty good, but not sure if it'll find dupes across multiple disks, especially when they're not mounted at the same time. It would be pretty straightforward to put together a script to hash all the …

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Best toddler games for DOS

Posted on 2019-06-06, 11:56

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What are some of the best games for toddlers or young kids that you might remember from the 80s and 90s? DOS would be best but even win3.1/9x might be ok. I'd like to give my kids an experience that's different from all the iPad/iPhone games that are out there. I feel like a fullscreen game that …

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Re: USB Transfer Cable that shows up as a Mass Storage Device on Windows 98 / ME

Posted on 2019-06-03, 20:44

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What about across over cables and usb to RJ45 converter? Why can't you use a usb hub for keyboard and mouse? If there is a video port why can't you attatch a cheap smalll LCD monito? https://www.amazon.com/Sabrent-Ethernet-100Base-T-Network-NT-USB20/dp/B000LWESXW Any drivers should be able to be …

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USB Transfer Cable that shows up as a Mass Storage Device on Windows 98 / ME

Posted on 2019-06-03, 18:58

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Hello, I have a Windows ME computer which has software that drops files onto a thumb drive. There is no monitor/keyboard/mouse, and I do not have access to remote into the PC. There are no network/parallel/serial/any other ports available on the Windows ME computer, just the one USB port. Instead of …

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Re: Best method for developing GUI apps for Windows 3.1

Posted on 2019-05-31, 11:58

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+1 for Delphi 1.0. never used that version, but as far as Pascal, yes it's a little awkward but not that bad. You could always write the winsock component you need as a DLL in Delphi and use it with your vb3 application, that way you only have a small portion of your codebase in Pascal

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