Re: 3Dfx Voodoo 1 dead ? or I'm doing something wrong???

Posted on 2023-05-24, 22:49

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by Rwolf

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The board seem to have had some rough time, so it might be good to check for broken lines where you have scrape marks. Checking for loose pins on the larger chips are also a thing, sometimes one cannot see an open solder pad connection easily. (I sometimes listen for loose pins/pad solder by softly …

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Re: Attempting to run "Carnivorous" on PC...nothing I tried works, does anyone have any pointers?

Posted on 2023-05-24, 12:16

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Covers are processed now at MobyGames, thanks.

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Re: dgVoodoo2 for Windows Vista?

Posted on 2023-05-23, 12:26

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by Rwolf

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Maybe entirely unrelated, and I'm not sure which of the SC games included it was now, but back in the day I bought a "splinter cell trilogy" bundle, and one of the games refused to run on my then top-of-the-line XP64 system; I think it was something related to the DRM that differed between the three …

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Re: FYI: Steam drops Win7/8/8.1 in 2024

Posted on 2023-05-22, 14:20

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I guess it depends on the method Steam uses to identfy the O/S? There may be actual functionality missing or changed in an older O/S that Steam needs to use, so that would have to be re-implemented separately. Equally, missing obsoleted functions may also stop older games running on a new O/S. Some …

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Re: No Keyboard at 8088 System

Posted on 2023-05-19, 22:04

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by Rwolf

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

What I recall, the missing BASIC ROM should not be a problem; IBM had a BASIC interpreter that was partly residing in ROM and partly in an executable on disk, and if you had an application in BASIC it used both (I guess it was split to prevent copying of just the executable to a clone PC). However …

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Re: "Elder Scrolls: Arena" hangs after character creation

Posted on 2023-05-17, 13:41

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I only have this from the GoG version 1.07 CD, using the bundled DOSBox 0.74 - which is using FreeDOS, but not JEMMEX. In the GoG DOSBox config log 'stdout.txt' there is a line: "Memory sizes above 31 MB are NOT recommended." Not sure if they mean the total memory or just the EMS size, but I have …

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Re: 3Dfx Voodoo 1 dead ? or I'm doing something wrong???

Posted on 2023-05-14, 18:51

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I don't have exactly these, but some of the online photos I see of them do have a couple of heatsinks on the 3Dfx chips. Looking at some pictures at a museum site: http://hw-museum.cz/vga/3/a-trend-helios-3d I can see some components that differs (in the middle of the back side): R148: you have this …

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Re: Can anyone identify this mystery video card?

Posted on 2023-05-13, 16:40

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by Rwolf

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Another example of this card seems to have been asked about a couple of years ago at this site: https://21stdigitalhome.blogspot.com/2019/01/ … tery-video.html

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Re: Can someone help identify this internal Sony floppy drive?

Posted on 2023-05-11, 17:27

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MPF 42A seems to be for an old Apple Mac, there is also a MPF 42B not sure what it is intended for., but maybe the whole MPF 42 series are for Mac? (Ok, this was disproved below) There was this Superdrive thingy that could read different odd formats for the older Macs, which might need some special …

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Re: Low Profile PCI Sound Cards for Windows XP?

Posted on 2023-04-16, 15:25

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by Rwolf

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

If you have some cutting tools, the longer bracket could be modified to a lower height. (Or just cut & drill a new one from a suitable piece of sheet metal)

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Re: How to fix CD-ROM tray won't open

Posted on 2023-04-16, 15:19

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hard to say without pics, but those few CD players that I have had similar problems with, have suffered from cracked nylon cogwheels, specifically the smaller wheels on the motor axle seem to have been prone to this, and the motor axle just spins inside the wheel. Sometimes it's just a simple …

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Re: FYI: Steam drops Win7/8/8.1 in 2024

Posted on 2023-04-13, 14:04

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Shponglefan wrote on 2023-04-12, 20:36: I used to use BBSs back in the 90s, for example. They're all gone now and never coming back. Not quite all, it seems: https://www.howtogeek.com/686600/remember-bbs … isit-one-today/ (I guess some old dogs never learns to roll over and play dead.)

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Re: How to get the "correct" aspect ratio in some DOS games in DOSBox

Posted on 2023-04-12, 11:32

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As a side note, one of my oldest computers, a Sinclair QL, also had this problem - the builtin basic interpreter had a 'draw circle' command which always made an egg-shape. But the monitors also had a stretching dial to make it round and then all was looking good. I think I readthe initial intent …

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Re: FYI: Steam drops Win7/8/8.1 in 2024

Posted on 2023-04-08, 11:26

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I'm just waiting for this type of thing to happen in other areas, perhaps like modern cars with software that suddenly is 'unsupported', and then not allowed to be on the road because of percieved 'security issues'. Maybe it's a wet dream for any car manufacturer to link ownership of a car to …

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Re: Jane's AH-64d issue with helicopter sound

Posted on 2023-02-24, 11:49

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What version of the game are you using? It could be you need to find a patch - searching for patches for the Janes AH-64D game indicates the latest patch was v1.08 - this was addressing some engine sound issues specifically. The main v1.08 patches are different for different language versions too, …

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Re: restoring old floppy and cd drives

Posted on 2022-11-06, 15:11

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by Rwolf

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I had one CD with a cracked small nylon gear; it was pressed onto the axle and with time it eventually failed, splitting open between two cogs. Got a replacement from a scrapped drive with same gear size. (An attempt at gluing the original didn't help, as the stress made it crack open again when …

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Re: HDD Led activity on DOS

Posted on 2022-11-06, 14:32

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Maybe too little ram, constant swapping - esp if DOS is launched from within windows? Alternately some file compression on the partition in windows that takes place in the background?

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Re: IBM PS/2 Model 70 won't keep configuration, help?

Posted on 2021-11-23, 14:35

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Same situation with the SRAM & Vcc? (Since that is where the BIOS settings would be stored) Looks like a bog-standard 2kbyte chip, never seen one break, but who knows?

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Re: IBM PS/2 Model 70 won't keep configuration, help?

Posted on 2021-11-22, 23:03

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by Rwolf

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Trace corrosion as mentioned was present, might cause voltage drops/breaks from the battery to the chips needing it, so maybe check all affected lines/solder points inbetween?

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Re: Roland LAPC-I

Posted on 2021-11-19, 15:10

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by Rwolf

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Jeez...my unicorn needs to be taken out of the stable I guess, haven't used it in ages.

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