Re: COMPAQ Contura 4/25CX
Posted on 2023-11-18, 20:23
Got an external keyboard or mouse plugged? There was a period where the "PS/2" port on compaq laptops only seemed to be for a numeric keypad and it flaked with anything else.
Re: 3D games you would like to see in high resolution
Posted on 2023-11-18, 20:15
Comanche: The sense of depth at low resolutions is awesome! It doesn't need more resolution! NFS 1 / NFS SE: Maybe that's nostalgia for me. The graphics were astounding for that era, I think that it deserves to be preserved as-is. Also, keep in mind that both games would lose their charm if …
Re: SCSI: Over how many brigdes can you walk?
Posted on 2023-11-18, 15:27
There may have been commercial/industrial applications but the home users who were most into this kind of setup back in the day were Amiga owners, trying to set up PC/Amiga "twin" systems. Peak interest was around 94-98ish I think. The typical idea was to use a larger PC mid tower and have a 486 or …
Re: Does anyone know of any Virtual CD/DVD software that used VXD drivers in Win98?
Posted on 2023-11-18, 05:39
Check out this thread, there's a lot of talk about WDM solutions, but there's some other ideas... Windows 98SE + Virtual CD Software + CD Audio
Re: Retro motherboards with onboard video and audio.
Posted on 2023-11-18, 05:20
That dude could also have been XGI when they were overhyping the Volari 🤣
Re: Retro motherboards with onboard video and audio.
Posted on 2023-11-18, 05:16
I lowkey wanna see a benchmark faceoff for win98 pre-2000 stuff, on duron 600 on boards with the various early socket A onboard graphics solutions, cyberblade vs savage vs SiS 315. ... though it got a bit better later on socket A with unichrome and NF2... I have heard tell that if you restrict …
Re: Powering old motherboards with 5V only?
Posted on 2023-11-17, 20:41
Probably the serial is most likely, disable on the i/o card and in CMOS if possible to avoid weird errors and hangups. If possible you might wanna stick a 10 kilohm to ground on the 12V to avoid anything that reads it or references it going into "undefined" state, i.e. putting spurious bits on a bus …
Re: What DOS games are there that support two simultaneous joysticks?
Posted on 2023-11-17, 17:58
What is the difference between using two dedicated ports versus a Y cable? How can try joysticks work off of the same port? Most games used a Y splitter if it supported 2 joysticks. Instead of trying to track down a Y splitter, try looking for the Quickshot J-link, it functions as a 2p Y-splitter, …
Re: Emulation on MS Windows 3.1x ?
Posted on 2023-11-17, 15:56
It's hard to imagine how anemic a lot of these old computers really were in terms of raw hardware performance if they can be emulated so well on such old hardware. It's so impressive to see all of this hard work by so many talented people. This was also the era of experienced ASM programmers, so I …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2023-11-17, 15:18
Just bought a small lot of unused industrial Pc104 stuff… should include 4 cpu cards(intel Pentium 166mmx, and 486 type), 2 backplanes, 2x 3,5 and One 5.25 floppy , and some spare parts. It was a little bit expensive with 115 euros. When it will arrive I will post pictures and you can tell me how …
Re: What do you drive?
Posted on 2023-11-17, 03:32
I dunno, he (Anthony Olzewski) was turning them away as donations at the thrift shop kinda place "Garage Sale" and "street.cheap" and seems more involved with the https://www.jerseycityfreebooks.com/ and petcraft than computercraft and the classic "graverobber.com" site now. Think that was a thing …
Re: What do you drive?
Posted on 2023-11-17, 00:48
kant explain wrote on 2023-11-16, 23:33: I need a really big van or possibly even a shuttle or short bus, possibly even a step van. I'm in NJ. Suggestions please. I want to keep it under 5k for now. You could go see if the "Official COMPUTERCRAFT Information System Ambulance" is for sale... http:// …
Re: Win10 + IDE + HD + LS120… i go crazy
Posted on 2023-11-16, 16:17
Try a CDROM or other optical drive on that controller, maybe it doesn't do diskchange right.
Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.
Posted on 2023-11-16, 03:38
Not technically a dumpster find but.....rescued this Dell Dimension XPS from going to the scrapper. Has had the CPU upgraded with a PIII 850mhz at some point. Also has a Vortex 2 sound card and a Geforce 3 ti200. Pretty good score. Nice! I've a generic ATX case that looks very similar to that Dell …
Re: Slot1 -> Sockel 370 Adapter help!
Posted on 2023-11-16, 03:34
I don't feel so bad now for having about six... or so... I should do a round up, believe I have 2 MS6905s, one shuttle, one asus, one startech one upgradeware slot T... and prolly 5 slots for them to belong in. ... unless I'm gonna go nuts cramming 1.4 Ghz of tualatin in a SFF compaq deskpro for …
Re: Slot1 -> Sockel 370 Adapter help!
Posted on 2023-11-14, 21:11
Some quick notes... A large proportion of Slotket adapters around are PPGA celeron adapters, meaning it's not plug and play with PIII CPUs... mods exist. A slotket, when it supports coppermine PIII will not turn a 1Ghz 133 CPU into a 1Ghz 100 CPU, it can do nothing for a locked multiplier so CPU …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2023-11-14, 19:47
That sucks most bigly... In my estimation of forces required to do that, it looks like "vehicle ran over it" level of damage or someone 200lb plus did a full weight jump stomp with hard soles. If that were the case, I don't think anything short of highly paranoid packing, the kind that gets …
Re: PCIe cards with composite analog video input, were there any apart from AIWs?
Posted on 2023-11-14, 18:10
fyi, The company was bought out by Rockwell Semiconductor in 1996, which became Conexant (Nasdaq: CNXT) in 1998 from the wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooktree So for later gfx cards I guess you'll need to look for conexant chips. Thanks, didn't occur to me to check for renaming, I thought TV …
Re: Asus A8n-sli premium won't post
Posted on 2023-11-14, 15:43
Asus boards are absolute assholes about needing a CMOS battery with decent voltage to work and can play dead with batteries other boards wouldn't even be losing time on yet. Have about 30 Asus motherboards between 2000-2010 year range. Not single one did this, every one started without battery, …
Re: PCIe cards with composite analog video input, were there any apart from AIWs?
Posted on 2023-11-14, 15:25
First mention of a decoder chip found in a review for an MSI 7600GT card, Philips SAA7115HL, on MSI NX7600GT-VT2D256E ... and searching that and GeForce seems to be getting the largest pull of card models yet. Including many that "vaguely" had VIVO mentioned in other sources. So I guess that that is …
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