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

Posted on 2018-03-01, 10:26

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by appiah4

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My 7950GT arrived and after one run through of the Luna tech demo and 5 minutes of Oblivion did the whole magic smoke routine. That's the second 7000 series card I've had do that exact same thing. Needless to say I've demanded a refund from the seller for trying to burn my house down. EDIT: NVM, it …

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

Posted on 2018-02-28, 15:35

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by appiah4

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Decided the Voodoo3 in my P3 was redundant as I already had a Voodoo 2 SLI in my K6-2 system so I upgraded that to a GF2 GTS and now that system covers 1998-2000 not 1998-1999; spent the whole day installing games from 2000.. So many great games too! I wonder if I will miss anything by playing …

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Re: VGA Capture Thread

Posted on 2018-02-28, 10:32

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by appiah4

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I’ve actually read the second half of this thread over again last night and today I am no wiser for it. 30 pages and no good cheap way of capturing dos gaming footage - mind boggling. Someone needs to get on top of this an fpga capture unit that can handle low res vga signals shouldnt be that hard …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-02-28, 08:39

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by appiah4

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Xp? 8800gt? Retro? I was expecting to see the word not in there somewhere. Windows XP is 17 years old. Horrifying realization isn't it? Well, some of the things we consider still modern are.. I don't know how to put this. Last night I was watching a Radeon 7000 review video by what seems to have …

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Re: Does Radeon 7000 have HW T&L or not?

Posted on 2018-02-28, 08:34

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by appiah4

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I see.. So those forum posts here and there about T&L becoming available all of a sudden with driver updates are just bogus. Sad. I'm trying to decide between a G450 PCI and a Radeon 7000 PCI for a high end Coppermine i810 system, this would have made the choice a lot easier. Now it's very difficult …

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Does Radeon 7000 have HW T&L or not?

Posted on 2018-02-27, 09:44

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by appiah4

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Conventional wisdom seems to indicate no it does not, but there are a lot of conflicting reports on the interwebs that the T&L capabilities were unlocked in later drivers.. Can anyone confirm whether T&L works or not with the latest legacy Catalyst 6.2 drivers available on AMD's site? I suspect that …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-02-27, 08:34

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by appiah4

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That's unused OEM. There's quite a lot them hanging around here and there, but technically you'll violate terms of use if you install it. Unused OEM is good enough for me, don't have even that.. Microsoft is a lot more lenient about the use of their licenses than people think, they won't mind using …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-02-26, 07:54

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by appiah4

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A genuine Windows 2000 Pro.. The envy is real..

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Re: What CRT for RGB video?

Posted on 2018-02-21, 10:02

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by appiah4

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I believe SONY made some incredible RGB monitors that were used by broadcasting stations and whatnot but I don't have any model numbers off hand.

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Re: Is the VIA EPIA-M a good ITX Win9x platform?

Posted on 2018-02-21, 08:01

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by appiah4

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800 has the VT8231 SB which has SB Legacy Support unfortunately 10000 has the VT8235 which has no SB Legacy Support.. In other news I made an IO shield for this board. In gold color no less.

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Re: Is the VIA EPIA-M a good ITX Win9x platform?

Posted on 2018-02-20, 21:06

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by appiah4

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Upon visual inspection I can't find any on my board that appear to be faulty, and it POSTs fine, so I won't bother with recapping just yet.. I do believe everything that comes with the board has Win9x drivers by VIA, but I will probably have to hunt them down manually. I could go with 1GB and XP I …

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Re: Is the VIA EPIA-M a good ITX Win9x platform?

Posted on 2018-02-20, 16:05

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by appiah4

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Excited to see what this little fella can do. You can always drop in a replacement PCI sound card or faster video card depending on what you need. The case I will use is super tiny and has no expansion room but maybe later I can move it to another case with an ESS Solo-1 for DOS support.. for now …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2018-02-20, 14:41

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IMO Shadow Warrior is the good classic fps re-boot. Combat is satisfying and the story interesting and doesnt get in the way at the same time. Doom just gets boring very quickly. And I wouldn't discount story from FPS either. Metro series are one of my favorite games because of it. I loved Shadow …

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Re: Is the VIA EPIA-M a good ITX Win9x platform?

Posted on 2018-02-20, 14:30

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by appiah4

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The board arrived yesterday, I am hoping to put it inside an mITX barebone case with a 60W external power supply this week. https://s5.postimg.org/yuz6edq03/F99_FC598-2_D7_D-4149-_A936-0_BE8_A07_C8074.jpg I plan to install WinMe on it simply because how dependent it will be on USB2.0 support, and …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2018-02-20, 10:55

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by appiah4

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IMO Shadow Warrior is the good classic fps re-boot. Combat is satisfying and the story interesting and doesnt get in the way at the same time. Doom just gets boring very quickly. And I wouldn't discount story from FPS either. Metro series are one of my favorite games because of it. I loved Shadow …

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Re: Installing Win9x/Me from a USB Drive

Posted on 2018-02-19, 12:38

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by appiah4

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Auzner wrote: Why not try it? GRUB supports boot from ISO. I've thought about setting up a high capacity USB stick with a bunch of OS installer ISOs. Well, I for one would be very interested..

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Installing Win9x/Me from a USB Drive

Posted on 2018-02-19, 11:45

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by appiah4

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I want to install Win9x or Me on a system with Boot from USB HDD support but no optical media, is Rufus + Windows install ISO the way to go about doing this?

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Re: What is a good source for genuine or replica case badges?

Posted on 2018-02-16, 10:29

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by appiah4

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Soooo appreciated, thank you!

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-02-16, 10:05

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by appiah4

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Amiga was the future. What we are living today is a lie. 😢 So sad.

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What is a good source for genuine or replica case badges?

Posted on 2018-02-16, 10:03

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by appiah4

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I need things like Intel Inside, Intel Pentium Inside, MMX inside, Designed for Windows 98 and NT, Designed for Windows 98 and 200 Professional etc. stickers - you get the idea. Is there a good ebay shop or similar that sells these things? IT's not easy to find a source on ebay that has the stuff I …

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