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Acer Travelmate 529atx for dos/win98 gaming ? Is it suitable ?

Posted on 2018-03-31, 09:30

Hello , Iam thinking about buying this laptop in mint condition, however iam not sure if it is suitable , does anybody here have any experience with this laptop ? Any help is higly appriciated 😀

Bought vintage laptop that i have to press the display to get clean image

Posted on 2018-03-21, 05:18

by Aglenoth

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hello gentlemen , I have boight old tft screen tecra however i have to press screen from back to get clean image as seen in photos , i thought about placing something behind the LCD , but i dont want to bend lcd. Any help os higly appriciated 😀

Re: Unable to get into BIOS after reinstalling Compaq Armada 1575D

Posted on 2018-03-21, 05:10

by Aglenoth

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Thank you very much 😀

Unable to get into BIOS after reinstalling Compaq Armada 1575D

Posted on 2018-03-19, 18:56

by Aglenoth

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hello gentlemen, i have reinstalled this laptop with Windows 98 and Iam now unable to get into BIOS , what should i do were there some proprietary windows 95 compaq discs containing BIOS ? Thank you for any advice 😀

Please help me find drivers for Compaq Armada 1575D

Posted on 2018-03-11, 18:33

by Aglenoth

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hello Gentlemen, i have bought this laptop and iam unable to find any drivers for it at all, any sourse of info is highly appriciated

Any information about NEC ready 120 lt ? Cant find much online

Posted on 2018-03-07, 18:18

by Aglenoth

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Dear community , i found this laptop for 1000 CZK which is about 30 USD in perfect shape however i dont know much about it , i only know its Powered by Cyrix at 200 mhz , but will it be capable of DOS gaming ? Any info is higly appriciated 😀

Found some Intel and Amd smart sd ram ,is it worth keeping ?

Posted on 2018-01-20, 11:09

by Aglenoth

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hello gentlemen , i have been going through my stuff and found Intel and Amd branded smart sdram sticks ,does it have any value since i dont have motherboard where i can use those sticks. Any info is highly appriciated 😀

Re: Recomendation for Celeron 266 games

Posted on 2018-01-20, 06:17

by Aglenoth

in Marvin \ Software

Well yes this is my second system and i just want to see something that is this cpu capable of 😀 Iam not sure if i want to overclock this cpu since it is my last one

Re: Recomendation for Celeron 266 games

Posted on 2018-01-18, 10:14

by Aglenoth

in Marvin \ Software

The list is extensive - what type of games do you like to play? Your CPU is very limiting in the sense that it doesn't have any L2 cache. However, based on your system specifications, I would say anything released in early to mid 1999 or earlier (Half-life comes to mind). Iam quite interested in …

Recomendation for Celeron 266 games

Posted on 2018-01-18, 05:25

by Aglenoth

in Marvin \ Software

Hello everyone can someone recommend some win 98 games i can play with this cpu i also have voodoo 2 . Thank you for any recoemdation 😀

Re: How does SB 16 CT2950 sound ? Is it buggy ?

Posted on 2018-01-06, 07:28

by Aglenoth

in Marvin \ Sound

It seems like mine has Yamaha opl chip too

How to repaste old slot 1 celerons is there any guide ?

Posted on 2018-01-05, 18:37

by Aglenoth

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hello everyone i have few celerons and i would like to try overclocking , but i don't want to overclock something with 20 years old thermal paste. Is there any guide since I don't want to destroy heatsink or cpu itself.

Re: How does SB 16 CT2950 sound ? Is it buggy ?

Posted on 2018-01-05, 16:13

by Aglenoth

in Marvin \ Sound

jesolo wrote: Yes, it does have the hanging note bug but, it is less noisy than the older Sound Blaster 16 cards. It also uses Creative's CQM synthesis (i.e., doesn't have a real Yamaha OPL3 FM synthesis chip). And how bad is the emulation ?

How does SB 16 CT2950 sound ? Is it buggy ?

Posted on 2018-01-04, 12:04

by Aglenoth

in Marvin \ Sound

Hello Everyone, since I am really lazy and have not forced myself to disassemble my current DOS-PC I would love to ask if I should swap my ESS1868f sound card with this SoundBlaster one, is it worth,and does it have the hanging note bug ? Also are drivers available for this card ? Any help is highly …

Re: Ideal Voodoo 2 Cooling?

Posted on 2017-11-25, 07:28

by Aglenoth

in Marvin \ Video

Chipset heatsinks works well 😀

Re: Decent Win/Dos ISA soundcard for a budget ?

Posted on 2017-11-23, 15:59

by Aglenoth

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I will look for an AWE64 value, but this shipping will kill me someday 25 usd for card and another 15 for shipping, i wish i had a better deal 🙁 iam from czech republic and i don't know where to get the card , so i guess my only chance is overpriced Ebay. 😒 Anyway thanks for advice 😀

Decent Win/Dos ISA soundcard for a budget ?

Posted on 2017-11-23, 07:37

by Aglenoth

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hello everyone my ESS 1868f started to do weird things lately, and iam thinking about replacing it. What are decent cards i should get without breaking a budget(highschool student) ? Thanks for info 😀

Found SB 16 CT 2950 which seem to have been poorly repaired , iam scared to use it , any suggestions ?

Posted on 2017-11-21, 20:00

by Aglenoth

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hello everyone , i found an old PC containing this little beauty however i have noticed that one of the capacitors has been changed since it seems someone tried to solder it there (seems quite ugly) iam scared that it will short my motherboard or my only ISA slot , I also noticed that voltage of …