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

Posted on 2019-12-13, 13:33

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by appiah4

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Yeah if I saw an intellevision or a colecovision on the side of the road I would certainly stop to pick it up, I'd be excited. If I saw an Atari 2600 on fire on the side of the road I wouldn't piss on it to put it out =P. This is possibly the funniest thing I've read on Vogons in a long while. I …

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Re: Strange case of Non-Post after rehousing..

Posted on 2019-12-13, 12:27

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I will try a re-cap of the 1500uF 6.3V OTS caps, so I ordered the parts, they should be here next week. In the meantime, I also bit the bullet and got me a GA-K8NS nForce3 250 motherboard to replace the ASUS K8V K8T800; I may as well give nForce3 a shot. Also, it has Rubycon caps in the VRM area, so …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-12-13, 11:39

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A trio of cards from 2001 that basically battled it out amongst themselves until the GeForce 4 hit the shelves: https://i.postimg.cc/sGMdq5wk/ASUS-AGP-V8200-64-M-TVR.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/4nygYTsW/ATI-Radeon-8500-64-MB.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/YjPwgySM/n-Vidia-Ge-Force-3-Ti-200.jpg The GeForce 3 …

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Re: A 286 computer, is it totally useless?

Posted on 2019-12-13, 06:51

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by appiah4

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What Amiga could do with video required tens of thousands of investment with PC; this is why TV broadcasting studios were still using Amiga for video editing all the way into the late 90s (maybe in some cases even into the 2000s) until digital video, digital broadcasting and high definition became a …

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Re: A 286 computer, is it totally useless?

Posted on 2019-12-12, 09:43

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by appiah4

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Nope. I used it on the Orchid V1, that I had around 2000. I used it in an K6-II-500/Gigabyte-GA5AX setup. I have it on a CD somewere. I might know what you mean. Back in those days, especially scaling video to fullscreen was very expensive without hardware support. I've seen a video player that …

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Re: Strange case of Non-Post after rehousing..

Posted on 2019-12-12, 04:47

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by appiah4

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I checked my board and all caps marked on ASUS FAQ are 1500uF 6.3V parts; however mine are not RLZ 0333; the ones by the VRM are RLX 0344 (again by OST, maker of the faulty RLZ caps) and the ones near the RAM are a super suspect Elite brand. I think it is caps all the same.. More on OST caps: …

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Re: Orpheus Soundcard: a new DOS soundcard with SPDIF/OPL3/MPU support

Posted on 2019-12-11, 20:12

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by appiah4

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Keropi, you put me on the waiting list for this right? Cheers neighbor 😁

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Re: Capacitor Question. Which one to go with?

Posted on 2019-12-11, 13:30

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by appiah4

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Get the Kemet, it will be fine. Kemet must be even better than the original, right? Knowing the cheap bastards Creative are anything on a decent reseller like Mouser will probably be better. I've used junk chinese caps to fix SB16/32 cards in the past and it had no discernable negative impact on …

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Re: Capacitor Question. Which one to go with?

Posted on 2019-12-11, 13:17

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by appiah4

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Get the Kemet, it will be fine.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-12-11, 13:13

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by appiah4

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First batch of four I'm expecting today/tomorrow came in today.. Let's just say they were the top dog graphics card that battled it out for majority of 2001. 😀 Pictures later tomorrow, when all batches arrive.

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Re: The "perfect" Windows 98 SE

Posted on 2019-12-11, 12:39

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by appiah4

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I install nusb before even any chipset drivers, and I don't bother with SP3, Tuneup97 or Ccleaner. Never had a (major) issue.

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Re: Strange case of Non-Post after rehousing..

Posted on 2019-12-11, 11:57

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by appiah4

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KXG and KXE are capacitor series from nippon chemicon, absolutely not a shit brand :p https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nippon_Chemi-Con there should be a small outline of the logo next to the letters I googled K8V Deluxe capacitor and was confronted with a gazillion websites complaining about failing …

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Re: A 286 computer, is it totally useless?

Posted on 2019-12-11, 11:37

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by appiah4

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You still had to get into the 486 era, before the Amiga was considered obsolete. Better GFX had to be on the market. Better sound had to be on the market. A better bus was needed. You had to unload the CPU from lots of stuff. Yes. Games were better on the PC by the end of 1992. As the Amiga was …

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Re: A 286 computer, is it totally useless?

Posted on 2019-12-11, 11:28

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by appiah4

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You still had to get into the 486 era, before the Amiga was considered obsolete. Better GFX had to be on the market. Better sound had to be on the market. A better bus was needed. You had to unload the CPU from lots of stuff. Yes. Games were better on the PC by the end of 1992. As the Amiga was …

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Re: Creative CT2770 - What are these jumpers for?

Posted on 2019-12-11, 11:27

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by appiah4

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I am thinking that JP17 actually connects line out to the card's port, so it may be possible to get line out from that header.. I will test that theory out once I get the card. If anyone has it, can you please check? I found this post and it seems that JP16 and JP17 are line out. JP16 pin 2 to 5 …

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Re: Creative CT2770 - What are these jumpers for?

Posted on 2019-12-11, 10:39

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by appiah4

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I actually have the original manual for my CT2770, however, it didn't mention these jumpers (JP16, JP17 and JP18). A quick google showed that these jumpers are undefined and set by factory. On my card though, the JP17 is set connected. I am thinking that JP17 actually connects line out to the …

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Re: Strange case of Non-Post after rehousing..

Posted on 2019-12-11, 08:45

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by appiah4

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Capacitors o nthe motherboard are from a shit brand called.. KXG or KXE, or some such - I forget, what exactly - but they are shit.. Time to order replacement caps I guess! In the meantime I ordered an nForce3 Socket 754 board (Gigabyte GA-K8NS) to try out and make sure everything else works and the …

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Re: One PC to Rule Them All! - My Ultimate SS7 Build

Posted on 2019-12-11, 06:29

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Update: I decided to use this CT2770 anyway... Since I use Vortex 2 to (really) enjoy music, the filtering problem of this card is not really a problem. The CT1747 chip sounds fantastic! Got this Voodoo3 card. According to the seller and the memory chip part number, this is a 143MHz Voodoo3 2000. …

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Re: Strange case of Non-Post after rehousing..

Posted on 2019-12-11, 06:27

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by appiah4

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While I don’t have any concrete suggestions, I do have food for thought: one of my Socket 7 boards just would not boot outside a case. The only half-logical explanation I have for it was that maybe ground was around the screw holes, or something? Haven’t had time to read the whole problem-in- …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-12-11, 05:23

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by appiah4

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Brought home a lot of goodies over the weekend, a few things I'd been looking for and hope to get working well. :blush: - Generic minitower with fairly basic socket 7 system inside. Aureal Vortex sound card, but otherwise not really interesting. It was really cheap and I practically bought it for …

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