Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-08-18, 01:14

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by KCompRoom2000

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Here's a pic from today's thrift store haul. IMG_1485.JPG List of stuff I've bought: - Magnavox Portable 5" Color TV - A 2-port VGA switch box (will come in handy for a future setup) - A Polaroid camera - KEIO PS/2 Optical Mouse (now plugged into my main i5 rig, Works on Windows 10 after a simple …

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Re: Video review of 2001 Dell Dimension 4300s! (Transcendental Airwaves)

Posted on 2017-08-17, 20:58

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by KCompRoom2000

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Pretty cool, I remember seeing your post of that thing on the Retro Rig Thread when I was a lurker here, I too have a Dell Dimension 4300S with a matching setup , it was my main 9x gaming machine until it went on hiatus due to a mishap from ordering the wrong USB front hub board (never use a front …

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Re: Sound issues with Sound Blaster 16 WavEffects

Posted on 2017-08-16, 21:22

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by KCompRoom2000

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As far as the crackling and hissing goes, it might be from trying to use amplified/powered speakers on the line-out jack when the JP2 and JP3 jumpers are set to use the card's built-in amplifier. going by the actual manual here you locate jumpers JP2 and JP3 to make sure they're pointing up (usually …

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Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on 2017-08-16, 21:10

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by KCompRoom2000

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What do you guys consider retro? I've got a few towers here and there however some might be too new to post here. It's hard to say exactly what can be considered retro here as some people have loose definitions of that term, some people use a Core 2 Duo as an overkill 9x gaming rig while others use …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-08-16, 06:20

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by KCompRoom2000

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Anywho. I bought a Dell XPS Gen 1 today. Ive been discussing buying this since early last year and I've actually forgotten which CPU and GPU it has in it. It'll be good regardless. It should have either a 3.4GHz Prescott or a 3.4GHz Gallatin (is there a major difference?). The GPU will be either a …

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Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on 2017-08-16, 06:02

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by KCompRoom2000

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HPI wrote: FmTowns ur20 80486SX-20 MHz Sony Trinitron 9"CRT […] Show full quote FmTowns ur20 80486SX-20 MHz Sony Trinitron 9"CRT Here are the pics... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7u8YIcit0Ns Really cool looking system, it looks a lot like both a classic AIO Macintosh (the floppy drives) and a …

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Re: The Ferrari Coppermine, a.k.a. Can a retro PC be still productive?

Posted on 2017-08-13, 20:20

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by KCompRoom2000

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Alright. Will do it once I find one at an affordable price, or if I happen to stumble upon one from a traded in PC. I'm perpetually on a shoestring budget, so I can do upgrades quite slowly. Would a 550W PSU be adequate for my configuration? Or should I look for something a bit more powerful? …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-08-13, 20:10

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by KCompRoom2000

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This ATI Radeon 7200 32MB AGP video card came in the mail today, I've installed it into the Dell Optiplex GX150 tower and it's working great. just what I need to benchmark it for 9x gaming. IMG_1478.JPG This appears to be one of the early models with a date code of 0049 (Week 49 of the year 2000), …

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

Posted on 2017-08-13, 09:09

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by KCompRoom2000

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Got this in the mail today from eBay for $44.99 ($39.99 + $5 S&H): a DVD Burner from MCE for my iMac G3/600 Slot-Loading system with the bracket, Molex power splitter, data/power logic board, its own bracket with the DVD Burner installed, the driver CD, and a blank DVD. Now I'm happy. And it's …

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Re: Looking for a PSX, Nintendo and Sega Emulators for Windows 98

Posted on 2017-08-11, 07:17

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by KCompRoom2000

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Here are a few that I could think of on the top of my head: PS1: ePSXe versions 1.8.0, 1.7.0, or older Genesis: Kega Fusion 3.6.4 SNES: ZSNES 1.51* NES: Nesticle* * Has both DOS and Windows versions available. Sorry I can't think of any other systems since I haven't been in the emulation scene in …

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Re: What was the last program to use Windows 98SE?

Posted on 2017-08-08, 20:46

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by KCompRoom2000

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If you mean the last game to support Windows 98SE, we already have a topic about this: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=61&t=55244 and here's a list of the last 98-compatible versions of general software on an MSFN topic: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/105936-last-versions-of-software-for- …

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Re: Mobility Radeon 9200 Windows ME Drivers?

Posted on 2017-08-08, 20:27

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by KCompRoom2000

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IIRC from prior experience getting Windows ME to work on a Dell Inspiron 8200 with a Mobilty Radeon 9000, you had to extract the catalyst driver pack and then install your video driver manually through the display properties control panel. ATi Radeon 7500: Unpack WME 8.03 catalyst driver. To install …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-08-06, 19:54

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by KCompRoom2000

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The GX150 came in yesterday so here are a couple pictures: IMG_0101.JPG IMG_0102.JPG A little surprising that this machine was manufactured on March 5th of 2002, especially because at that time Pentium 4 systems started catching on to the point where this is from the same generation as my Dimension …

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

Posted on 2017-08-06, 19:40

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by KCompRoom2000

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Got a bracketless 3dfx VooDoo3 2000 PCI card in the mail today, so I borrowed a bracket from my nVidia GeForce4 MX 4000 PCI card, and the bracket is way off so there's a gap between the bracket and the mounting screw, so I might try to find a bracket for the card itself, If you have (or know …

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Re: Rage 128

Posted on 2017-08-04, 21:44

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by KCompRoom2000

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My Dell Dimension 4300S came with an ATI Rage 128 Ultra 32MB video card when I got it. I hardly remember how 3D performance was since I didn't have enough 9x-era PC games to play back then, I think I remember Fly! Piper and Cessna in San Francisco lagged on there but that's about it. I'm not …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-08-03, 21:26

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by KCompRoom2000

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I've ordered a Dell Optiplex GX150 mini-tower a few days ago. The specifications are: Intel Pentium III @ 1 GHz, 512MB PC-133 SDRAM, an unknown video card which will most likely be replaced by an ATI Radeon card of some sort, and a Sound Blaster Live!, I have a 40GB hard drive that I plan on putting …

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Re: Just got a lot of new retro stuff to make new content for the community

Posted on 2017-08-03, 21:17

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by KCompRoom2000

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I managed to remove the nVidia Display Driver from Safe Mode (somehow I couldn't uninstall it from Add/Remove Programs), I now installed only 77.72, but it is still being "half" detected. It's fully detected by the system per se, as I see the "Monitor on nVidia GeForce FX5500" in the Display …

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Re: Great collectors of Vogons! What's missing in your collections? :P

Posted on 2017-08-03, 21:08

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by KCompRoom2000

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All right, let's list what I've been searching for but have yet to find in my journeys at local thrift stores and recycling centers, I'm bound to find some of these eventually: - A PCI Ethernet card for my Win95 rig - ZIP250 drive module for the Dell Latitude C-series laptops - A front USB port/card …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-08-02, 22:52

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by KCompRoom2000

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The short summary is the entire line of 7000 series cards, desktop and mobile, have a fatal design flaw. All 7000 chips will die on their own eventually. The longer they've been running in operation (and the hotter they get) the faster they die. But they will all die eventually. It effected -some- …

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Re: Last PC games supporting Windows 9x?

Posted on 2017-08-02, 22:37

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by KCompRoom2000

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Isn't Sims 2 Apartment life an expansion? He didn't mention if expansion packs counted, but I know that EA has updated some executable components in The Sims 2 expansion packs and later "Deluxe" printings so I'd be mildly surprised if they haven't broken 9x compatibility. :exclamation: I had been …

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