Re: New Project: Windows XP machine with max compatibility
Posted on 2017-07-31, 12:18
Most of the applications that need hacks to install on Server 2003 are utilities or AV programs. Most games work fine, and most drivers are identical.
Re: New Project: Windows XP machine with max compatibility
Posted on 2017-07-31, 11:39
There are various problems with this attempt. VOGONS was originally created as a site to help people get very old DOS games to run on new systems (At the time Windows XP and it's useless NTVDM) Thus the name, Very Old Games On New Systems. XP is NOT a fun machine for DOS games. Your machine is …
Re: New Project: Windows XP machine with max compatibility
Posted on 2017-07-31, 09:59
There are various problems with this attempt. VOGONS was originally created as a site to help people get very old DOS games to run on new systems (At the time Windows XP and it's useless NTVDM) Thus the name, Very Old Games On New Systems. XP is NOT a fun machine for DOS games. Your machine is …
Re: modem over VOIP?
Posted on 2017-07-27, 03:44
An idea is to get an OBi box that does Google Voice. That's my plan as I don't want to tie up the phone line for a modem. You can also go hunting around for a system that has a proper lossless codec.
Re: External battery melting?
Posted on 2017-07-24, 08:50
May be advisable to actually use external NiCad batteries (2x 3v). The problems with corrosion (which do not manifest in these batteries until 10-25 years later) can be "solved" by sealing the battery holder with something like tape, and keeping it away from motherboard components. I think this …
Re: Flashing HW/SW: Dediprog vs Aardvark
Posted on 2017-07-19, 07:04
I suggest you ask around in a place like the EEVBlog forum where people are a lot more knowledgeable on this sorta stuff.
Re: Can I plug a pci card into a pci riser slot?
Posted on 2017-07-19, 06:11
If you are like most retro collectors, I suggest you take a sacrificial modem (of which you may have many) and try it out. "sacrificial modem" made me chuckle. But seriously though, they grow like mold. I have like 10 I have no use for. I've begun sticking them in my towers just to get them out of …
Re: Can I plug a pci card into a pci riser slot?
Posted on 2017-07-17, 18:15
If you are like most retro collectors, I suggest you take a sacrificial modem (of which you may have many) and try it out.
Re: Pentium 4 with ISA
Posted on 2017-07-15, 05:50
There is a really, really good reason why no Pentium 4 motherboards support ISA. ISA is useless to a Pentium 4. DOS isn't something you should really be doing beyond Slot 1, and MAYBE Socket A. At the time the Pentium 4 came out, DOS was dead and over with. PCI sound cards (and even integrated ones) …
Re: Computer turning on and off
Posted on 2017-07-15, 01:07
It's nosferatu.
Re: My dad's external 200GB HDD failure, and I cannot backup the files
Posted on 2017-07-14, 20:59
If there is some actual serious stuff you need off that drive, and it's worth money to you, you can always bring it to a data recovery service. Tampering with the drive further can often lead to less of a chance they can do anything.
Re: My dad's external 200GB HDD failure, and I cannot backup the files
Posted on 2017-07-14, 07:00
As amazing as it sounds I have never once had a hard drive die on me. Data loss? YES, outright death? No. Just keep trying stuff. Imagine the drive is one idea. Using GParted to recover lost data is another. Sometimes hard drives just break so fast you can't get the data off of them. If you want …
Re: Newer CRT On Pentium WIN95 PC... Anything I Need To Know?
Posted on 2017-07-12, 21:43
No, my Trio32 works perfectly fine. By looking at the pinouts I have real heavy doubt that anything would go wrong TBH. I have never had an issue, even when mixing an early 1990's IBM CRT with newer tech.
Re: IDE hard disk alternatives
Posted on 2017-07-11, 23:16
If you have money to piss away, try to find some good SCSI drives. Those things were built to last nuclear winters, and most of them still work to this day. I have 4 drives, 3 10Ks and 1 15K, all Ultra320 with SCA-80 connectors, and they work as well as they did when they were new in the early …
Re: Newer CRT On Pentium WIN95 PC... Anything I Need To Know?
Posted on 2017-07-11, 20:59
I've never had a problem in my life with that. I doubt that it would be an issue.
Opinion on storage solution for future PPro build.
Posted on 2017-07-11, 19:45
My Pentium Pro project has hit a snag. The board came DOA, and while I could have used the money from the return to order another board, my modern Z97 board died on that day too, and needed a replacement. So the project is postponed till I have the resources to get a new board, but I had some ideas …
Re: IDE hard disk alternatives
Posted on 2017-07-11, 19:41
If you have money to piss away, try to find some good SCSI drives. Those things were built to last nuclear winters, and most of them still work to this day. I have 4 drives, 3 10Ks and 1 15K, all Ultra320 with SCA-80 connectors, and they work as well as they did when they were new in the early …
Re: What hardware did you have lying around that you missed at first?
Posted on 2017-07-11, 19:39
Oh do I have a story. I had an old IBM PS/1 with a 486SX-25 (me thinks). It could be considered my first retro computer. I had brought it home from a neighbor who didn't want it anymore, and started it up with Windows 95 installed on it. I had a load of fun, including putting MS-DOS 6.22 back on it …
Re: IBM 2284 for sale
Posted on 2017-07-11, 19:29
The graphics card is worth more than the entire computer. Not counting the graphics card, that machine is worth 4 bucks for the gas to pick it up for free from a few cities over. You might catch a few IBM fanatics who need every IBM machine ever made, but OEM machines are normally not worth a whole …
Re: Newer CRT On Pentium WIN95 PC... Anything I Need To Know?
Posted on 2017-07-11, 19:21
At higher resolutions like 640x480 (Yes this is actually pretty high compared to even consoles like the Genesis/Mega Drive) this begins to matter a lot less. I see 0 problem with using that monitor with a DOS or Windows machine.
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