Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-07-28, 20:27

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by dionb

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Nice haul indeed, although I too wonder about the price. The Matrox card looks like an Athena. Don't see a Banshee, but there is a Voodoo Rush next to the Tseng VLB card. Also like the big PCI S3 9xx VRAM-based VGA card at the top right. Could that be a Yamaha 719-based ISA sound card above it? Also …

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Re: crt resolution issues

Posted on 2019-07-28, 20:02

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Why does is it even report horizontal resolution then? Why not just report "400 lines" or something? I think it doesn't. These are the monitor's guesses and it just has no way to tell the horizontal resolution. Not just guesses. It knows the vertical and horizontal refresh and it knows the number …

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Re: Which PCI Soundcard

Posted on 2019-07-28, 12:42

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C3-800? Those things generally came with on-board Via audio with good DOS legacy support. Which southbridge does the board have? You might not need a PCI card with those requirements. That said, the ESS Solo-1 is a solid choice for compatibility and you won't beat the sound quality of the Yamaha, …

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Re: Which board and OS should i use for my MMX 200 build?

Posted on 2019-07-25, 23:46

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The TX chipset has a faster IDE controller and it can handle SDRAM dimms at a higher density. The TX board also supports 256mb to the 128mb of the HX, which while dramatically overkill, is nice because a lot of diagnostic boot CDs and basic linux distros require at least that much memory to boot. …

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Re: MOW, ROW in older laptop wifi cards ?

Posted on 2019-07-25, 22:28

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"Rest of the World" = channels 1-11 only "Japan" = channels 1-14, but with restrictions "Europe" = channels 1-13, apart from 100mW/20dBm transmit limit no restriction. No idea what "Most of World" is supposed to mean. In Finland, you want "Europe" in principal, but you'll only notice a difference if …

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

Posted on 2019-07-25, 12:56

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[...] Fantastic. I hope to get mine soon. Haven't soldered in decades but looking for forward to getting my hands dirty. I might actually order one of those Adlib kits first for a practise round, those seem a little bit simpler to put together... This one's not difficult, there's just a *lot* of …

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Re: Tube Time: Announcing The Snark Barker, a 100% Compatible SB 1.0 Replica!

Posted on 2019-07-25, 12:47

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Much, much delayed, but (technically) finished at last: Not going to win any beauty contests, but only messed up one resistor (soldered the 5% tolerance version where I should have done 1%, found out when I tried to figure out where the 1% had to go...) and after sticking it into a PC, it all works …

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

Posted on 2019-07-24, 22:32

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Result of three evenings soldering after putting the children to bed: Works perfectly too 😀

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Re: Tube Time: Announcing The Snark Barker, a 100% Compatible SB 1.0 Replica!

Posted on 2019-07-24, 20:58

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Much, much delayed, but (technically) finished at last: https://tweakers.net/ext/f/xxug2z4Oaga6DgU1BDA7sSyg/full.jpg Not going to win any beauty contests, but only messed up one resistor (soldered the 5% tolerance version where I should have done 1%, found out when I tried to figure out where the 1% …

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Re: PCI Soundcard (SB16/Ensoniq) with Roland SC-55 (Win98SE)? or Options?

Posted on 2019-07-24, 09:33

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ESS Solo-1 'just works', both in DOS and Windows. I had one recently (the Terratec Solo-1) but sold it to someone who asked me to solder a Wavetable header to it. No problem, did that, then tested it with both a Korg daughterboard and my Yamaha MU50EX external module. In Win98 you get the (IMHO crap …

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Re: Question for MPU-401 users and Roland owners

Posted on 2019-07-23, 08:41

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With a bit of patience, you can get MusicQuest cards for much, much lower prices. I have two and iirc the more expensive of the two cost me EUR 25. Thing is that they are much sought-after in the (relatively small) retro gaming community, but most people who have them are musicians who bought them …

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Re: QDI P5i430vx 250dm Explorer II from 1996 ?

Posted on 2019-07-19, 13:49

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Hello Is this Pentium 1 motherboard a good high end one (no entry level/low cost/budget motherboard ?) and easy to use ? Define "high end"? Or "no entry level"? This is an i430VX chipset, which was the low-end partner to the high-end i430HX chipset (both shared the "Triton II" monniker) As for …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-07-18, 23:32

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This (not so) little beauty: https://i.imgur.com/L8t8kEi.jpg According to the FCC ID, it's a Dih Shin DS-2000 keyboard, and it's from 1990. It certainly feels old, but in very good shape, and with nice clicky MX Blue switches. The keycaps are particularly impressive, thick heavy double-shot OEM …

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Re: Help me choose what to build next ?

Posted on 2019-07-18, 21:00

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Intel486dx33 wrote: Okay, I am going to use a Boeing 777 theme. And have it play Boeing engine sounds when logging in and login out. https://youtu.be/eyUY3HVek5Q?t=1 If that's a Boeing 777 this is a Boeing 747:

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Re: Help me choose what to build next ?

Posted on 2019-07-17, 15:33

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Isn't the A-10 Warhog part of NATO ? Not only American. Is it that hard to just check Wikipedia instead of expecting other people to do it for you? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_Republic_A-10_Thunderbolt_II#Operators The A-10 has been flown exclusively by the United States Air Force and …

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Re: upgrading a PC with GA-7IXE motherboard and need help choosing CPU and other components

Posted on 2019-07-17, 11:54

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Had a 7IXE4 (the Socket A version). Fussy about RAM, needs low density - 128MB generally work fine, 256MB modules are a problem, as the high density seem to be more common Terms like "low density" and "high density" are worse than useless taken out of context. What was "high density" in 1998 would …

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Re: Jornada 728 Modern Uses?

Posted on 2019-07-17, 11:44

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[...] what kit did you get along with the Jornada? I sold my Jornada back in 2016 but I think I can give you some pointers. Getting on-line will be a problem as Jornada doesn't support WPA2. You will have to setup a separate router with WEP and keep it on a different subnet so as not to compromise …

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Re: Help me choose what to build next ?

Posted on 2019-07-17, 11:21

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[...] That is why some Danish people, put small Danish flags in dog shits on the street's. Not to mention those pigs :wink: EDIT Since the OP is from USA, it would be unwise to use any part of Stars And Stripes for anything other than the flags intended use. Like if the flag is not free hanging, …

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Re: Help me choose what to build next ?

Posted on 2019-07-16, 13:48

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Solaris 8 __gaming__ build? I can understand the joys of Solaris (although I run it on Sparc, not x86), but one thing it's not great at is gaming. There's very little in the way of games available, and what I've seen in benchmarks shows Solaris to be slower than Linux, and Linux slower than Windows …

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Re: Moving data between an old computer and a new one

Posted on 2019-07-15, 17:33

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why not one of those gotek things. If you as an example, need to move 325 megabyte of data in one go, then it would be a lot of work to split it up into 1.44mb files. Gotek are nice for stuff like cdrom drivers and soundcard drivers. Or using it for images of installation floppy's. Exactly the …

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