Re: PCChips M537 capacitor rating help request
Posted on 2019-01-02, 05:10
Any chance someone could help me with this? I'm 95% sure EC12 is a 1000uF 10V part but EC17 I have no clue about..
Re: Retrobrite + grow light
Posted on 2018-12-31, 10:32
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2018-12-31, 07:19
Installed a backplate on my K6-2 system, thanks to liqmat for being so generous with this part. I thought this PC would never have a backplate, but it actually does now.. [...] With patience, time and a great community like Vogons, anything is possible I guess! These can be found relatively easy, …
Re: What game are you playing now?
Posted on 2018-12-31, 05:27
I played through the Act 1 of Freespace 1 on a modern PC using FS:O. I managed to get an XBOX 360 controller working fairly well with the game using GlovePie (but the control scheme floating about on the interwebs is kind of shit, so I had to make my own). I kind of breezed my way through it; I did …
Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread
Posted on 2018-12-30, 19:35
Since it finally has a proper backplate, re-posting my K6-2 Voodoo/SLI system. https://i.postimg.cc/TL8JcKKr/K6-2-V2-SLI-01.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/vxb7pCLT/K6-2-V2-SLI-02.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/njvYSnmN/K6-2-V2-SLI-03.jpg The case was repurposed from a P4. It badly needs a retrobright, and I …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2018-12-30, 19:33
Installed a backplate on my K6-2 system, thanks to liqmat for being so generous with this part. I thought this PC would never have a backplate, but it actually does now.. https://i.postimg.cc/64cVwzY0/K6-2-V2-SLI-04.jpg With patience, time and a great community like Vogons, anything is possible I …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2018-12-29, 08:35
Mr. horse wrote: appiah4 wrote: Mr. horse wrote: took this cool screen shot of a retro OS on my no so retro PC. Nextstep? Afterstep? Or something like WindowMaker on Linux? Custom completed *UNIX OS with a custom build of GNUstep mixed with wmaker. Very nice; reminds me of my RH5/6 and wmaker days …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2018-12-29, 07:00
Mr. horse wrote: took this cool screen shot of a retro OS on my no so retro PC. Nextstep? Afterstep? Or something like WindowMaker on Linux?
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2018-12-29, 06:57
Tested a Ti4600 I had repaired recently (partial recap + broken inductor replacement) and it works flawlessly: 3DMark2001SE Ti4600.PNG Also got an X800XT PE AGP in the mail today but it seemed to have had some rather crude cap replacement repairs (not that I have any desire to redo it) so I thought …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2018-12-28, 22:38
Tested a Ti4600 I had repaired recently (partial recap + broken inductor replacement) and it works flawlessly: 3DMark2001SE Ti4600.PNG Also got an X800XT PE AGP in the mail today but it seemed to have had some rather crude cap replacement repairs (not that I have any desire to redo it) so I thought …
Re: Fastest AGP card ever made.
Posted on 2018-12-28, 21:51
I have a HD 2900 XT 1GB in an NF4 machine at the moment. I love all that pointless memory bandwidth! Yeah the world will be 100% FP16 texturing by 2007!!!! And who wants to use MSAA anyway - cripple that stuff!!! And it's super at heating and drowning out background noise like your game. :) I'm …
Re: Anyone know of any high end computer peripherals from the late 90s?
Posted on 2018-12-28, 18:09
First webcams were around '99, those sphere-like Logitech ones for example..
Re: Anyone know of any high end computer peripherals from the late 90s?
Posted on 2018-12-28, 13:53
oeuvre wrote: Higher end PC speakers would be Altec Lansing ACS495 and ADA880... and cambridge soundworks Wasn't this also the time when DVDs and 4.1/ 5.1 surround took off, and Logitech surround speakers started hitting the market?
Re: Anyone remember a strange old MS-DOS model railroad sim?
Posted on 2018-12-28, 13:50
Re: GOG WinterSale 2018 is here
Posted on 2018-12-28, 13:11
Grabbed Zak McKraken and Torment SE in this sale (and the freebies.. Thanks for the SOMA headsup)
Re: '98
Posted on 2018-12-28, 07:30
I remain impressed by the Rage 128 and look forward to seeing the 128 PRO perform fantastically in your eventual '99 test 😉
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2018-12-28, 07:09
Finally got myself an X800 series flagship card, an X800XT PE: https://i.postimg.cc/YL6zn1G1/Sapphire-Radeon-X800-XT-PE.jpg It has apparently suffered a broken cap (that apparently also tore out the solder pad) at some point, and someone fixed it like this: https://i.postimg.cc/rzxjwLnK/Sapphire- …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2018-12-27, 04:38
https://youtu.be/cw7_dWogBIU?t=452 LinusTechTips just announced he is going to do a DOS gaming PC..... I don't even want to know what this is going to do to the prices of retro PC parts (I'm sure whatever he uses specifically will become unobtanium) How noob he will be about it will probably make …
Re: Ultimate DOS terminal application?
Posted on 2018-12-26, 15:02
I thought Terminate was the go to terminal sofrware?
Re: Best Socket A (462) Motherboard?
Posted on 2018-12-26, 15:02
The Serpent Rider wrote: I'm still looking out for a KT333 board There's plenty of that junk lying around, Perhaps not many cream of the crop boards, but enough decent ones. All I come across here are KT400 and NF2 with the occasional KT600 in there, KT333 and KT133 are rather obacure..
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