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

Posted on 2020-04-25, 20:43

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I upgraded my Budget 1997 Build from a Cyrix 6x86MX-PR233 to a Pentium MMX-200 after finding out how cheap the MMX-200 got in late 1997, putting it basically in the same ballpark as the fastest 6x86MX (the PR200) and K6 (233MHz) available at the time. If I built this PC at the time I would have gone …

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

Posted on 2020-04-25, 19:46

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hell yeah the Rage 128 Pro is a kickass card. I wish you could test the Rage 128 (non-Pro) and regular TNT. The TNT2 M64 is a secret retrogaming hero too.

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-04-25, 19:45

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Another Artex post.. FML..

Re: ATI Rage LT PRO AGP 2x woes

Posted on 2020-04-25, 05:51

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Set desktop color depth to 16-bit and it will work. Known driver bug.

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-04-24, 21:57

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I don't need more Socket 7 stuff but when I saw an AT board with an ATX connetors, for 7 bucks I said OK, why not. I aldo got a Pentium 200 on for 7 bucks too so the whole lot cost me just about 15, not bad. All are tested to work. I know the board is an Atrend ATC-5030, not a bad board? https://i. …

Re: I'm new here, from South Africa, ask me anything

Posted on 2020-04-24, 21:39

in Milliways

in Milliways

Oj0 wrote on 2020-04-24, 18:43: appiah4 wrote on 2020-04-23, 17:14: One of us! One of us! You’re South African or a non Facebook user? I actively avoid Facebook.

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-04-24, 18:10

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I also happen to have one of these cards (Zoltrix Audio Plus 6400 3D PnP V.5 AV310 - quite a mouthful indeed), but I never thought much of it because its OPL3 Synth is considered to be particularly subpar . I should certainly try it out sometime! I take that back, the CMI FM Synth is PRETTY cloes …

Re: Chances of this chip being 100% original?

Posted on 2020-04-24, 15:34

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Sorry my bad 😁

Re: Chances of this chip being 100% original?

Posted on 2020-04-24, 14:37

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

all yamaha chips I got from china were remarked ^^ I bought a lot of GAL chips from china once, and since it was leftover stock apparently still in the original packaging the image was exactly what I got :) a lot of the yamaha chips from europe are the same remarked ones as from china, I guess they …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-04-24, 12:28

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

derSammler wrote on 2020-04-24, 11:42: appiah4 wrote on 2020-04-24, 10:02: No, there was no Retrocengo contribution it is 100% local made here in Turkey. Even the name suggests this is a clone of Thorsten Schubert's "D520 HDMI Converter". No, the name is derived fromt he A520 RF modulator. It's …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-04-24, 10:02

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

That upscaler sir.... That is fantastic. Is Retrocengo perhaps involved in some way? I am really looking forward to hearing more about it. How well does it perform and what might the end price be, if it goes on sale somewere? No, there was no Retrocengo contribution it is 100% local made here in …

Re: Retro OSes for retro computers

Posted on 2020-04-24, 07:50

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

kolderman wrote on 2020-04-24, 07:43: MATE is Gnome2. It is not. It is a fork of Gnome 2 and that does not make them the same thing.

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-04-24, 07:48

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Well, neither of these are 'retro' hardware but they are for retro computers. First is an HDMI Upscaler for my Amiga 500; this is a limited run project we collaborated on with the Turkish Commodore/Amiga scene, and the end result is simply fantastic. I will post photos and videos of it in action …

Re: Chances of this chip being 100% original?

Posted on 2020-04-24, 05:54

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Try rubbing it with a cotton swab drenched in isopropyl alcohol, if you get black paint coming off it's 100% fake.

Re: Slot A thunderbirds

Posted on 2020-04-23, 21:27

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I came into this topic, and read it all, and was preparing to post "Oh, I also have a Thunderbird 700", but then I checked my inventory and I actually have a Pluto 800, for better or worse.. https://i.postimg.cc/6QP35k5t/AMD-Athlon-800-B.jpg I plan to put together a Win98/2K dual boot system some …

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

Posted on 2020-04-23, 21:20

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Today I've spent hours trying to get SLI running with two Voodoo II's and it just doesn't work. First I had just two of them: A Creative CT6670 and a PowerColor. Both of them work fine individually, but in SLI mode my screen just turns itself off and the computer locks up. On the PowerColor I …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-04-23, 20:10

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

it's probably easier and cheaper to find a coppermine board ^^ but yeah I'm not that hyped about dual tualatins either, because that would require me to get two of them... Well, if you aren't after -S variants, things like the P3-1200 aren't that terribly rare, I have two. I just don't think I'll …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-04-23, 18:59

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I really want a dual Socket 370 one day, even if it is a Mendocino only board I can run dual Celeron 533s on. I want to run Windows 2000 on it..

Re: I'm new here, from South Africa, ask me anything

Posted on 2020-04-23, 17:14

in Milliways

in Milliways

One of us! One of us!

Re: I'm new here, from South Africa, ask me anything

Posted on 2020-04-22, 13:12

in Milliways

in Milliways

and I'd guess those are definitely not bootlegs? x3 No they are not, they retain basically the entire original copy protection in the case of Amiga games for example. They were definitely licensed because only particular developers' games were in the market, USGOLD, Sierra and Lucasarts for example …

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