Re: Good value Win98 Graphic Card

Posted on 2019-05-13, 01:26

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by mothergoose729

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

A little bit hard to answer, because there is a lot of overlap between ideal and overpriced. I can suggest what to look for, and then it is on you to try and find a good deal. You want a card that supports 32 bit colors, 8 bit palatized textures, table fog, and is fast enough for late era 98 games. …

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Re: What is better for pure Dos and Win98-Super socket 7(K6-III) or Slot 1/Socket 370 (PII/ PIII)? Where are differences?

Posted on 2019-05-12, 19:05

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Unlocked S370 CPUs, which ones are unlocked, anything except Celerons? This ATX bracket for AT boards, but i dunno where to buy.. I dont mind some version, there would be more holes for some serial, paralel, USB or PS2 ports. AT-Bracket.png It not look complicated, if someone is skilled with …

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Re: What is better for pure Dos and Win98-Super socket 7(K6-III) or Slot 1/Socket 370 (PII/ PIII)? Where are differences?

Posted on 2019-05-12, 16:03

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by mothergoose729

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

j^aws : I dont think that compatibility issues are only about machine speed after slowdown, from my experience there is lots of other factors in the play and and there are very important too. Can you be more specific about which slowdown utilities are good for which platform? Setmul is working for …

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Link - How many emulators can I run on a 200MHz Pentium MMX?

Posted on 2019-05-10, 21:47

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by mothergoose729

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Ran across this video today and I just love it. The emulation quality is definitely not great, but it tickles me so much to see it running on DOS era hardware. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7mopLMtaIo

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-05-10, 21:15

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Just bought a few goodies for my new 775 board :D Intel 6500k. This is a pentium dual core model from the wolfdale family. A special skew was released in china with an unlocked multiplier. I believe this is the fast 1066mhz FSB processor (on a per core basis) released for 775. http://cdn.cpu-world. …

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Re: Famous computer slogans and quotes ?

Posted on 2019-05-10, 00:04

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in Milliways

nvidia - "The way it's meant to be played"

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-05-09, 19:27

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New unused MDA/Hercules monitor ADI DM-14F: https://i.ibb.co/3ShGtMz/P90509-182026.jpg https://i.ibb.co/DWzQXJR/P90509-182122.jpg https://i.ibb.co/KyHMBsr/P90509-182225.jpg https://i.ibb.co/m4cF9p8/P90509-191335.jpg https://i.ibb.co/QjdFFXt/P90509-191723.jpg https://i.ibb.co/VqHvHkh/P90509-191746. …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-05-07, 22:59

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Just pulled the trigger on an ASRock 775 Dual VSTA! https://asrock.com/mb/VIA/775Dual-VSTA/index.us.asp#Specification It supports Core2Duo processors and AGP at 1066mhz! To my knowledge, this is the fastest motherboard with an AGP slot. https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/gcAAAOSwEGBcQFPp/s-l1600.jpg I …

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Re: What would be the fastest XP Setup with XP Era Hardware ?

Posted on 2019-05-07, 22:01

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I have tried a number of early XP games on my GTX 1080 with windows 10, and I have found most of them work fine. Of those that don't work correctly, I am sure all of them are due to software compatibility, rather than hardware comparability. Not all codecs are supported on windows 10, so some games …

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Re: Two dead monitors within a month

Posted on 2019-05-07, 03:11

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I don't think CRT PC monitors are worth paying a premium for. Most of them can do 1600x1200 at 60hz just fine. Based on my limited experience, monitors from the late 90's are usually all pretty good, while some Dell and Emachine cheapo monitors from the mid 2000 are sometimes total dog shit. If you …

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Re: What would be the fastest XP Setup - theoretically?

Posted on 2019-05-06, 21:48

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

XP does come in an x64 flavor as well. The x64 drivers are mature as well. There are also some games that have x64 executables which run a bit faster than their 32-bit counterparts, Well, but at that point you might as well just run Windows 7. But then again, the kind of machine we're talking about …

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Re: What would be the fastest XP Setup - theoretically?

Posted on 2019-05-06, 18:00

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Theoretically, a 9900k with 64gb of RAM and four GTX 980ti GPUs in SLI. The fastest graphics card with XP drivers is the nvidia gtx 980ti. From what I understand though, there are color issues with VGA that have to be corrected in the driver software, but it is supported. The fastest supported …

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Re: Is This Idea Viable?

Posted on 2019-05-06, 00:01

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The best PCI graphics you can get for windows 98 is probably the fx 5500. PCI graphics in general are not going to get you the best performance, even a cheap AGP card will perform much better. A voodoo card is another good choice, but at the ebay prices these days I think you are better off using a …

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Re: Best motherboard AMD s.939 with AGP

Posted on 2019-05-03, 04:30

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hi Everyone, I need a bit of advise for picking the best socket 939 motherboard for my needs. Im currently running my setup on Gigabyte GA-7N400 Pro2 with Athlon XP 2500+ which is perfectly fine. But you probably know the hassle when your cpu doesn't support proper SSE2 instruction set which means …

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Re: List the CPUs you owned when they were new

Posted on 2019-05-03, 03:24

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I got into PC building in the mid 2000s. Pentium IV 2.6ghz Northwood E8400 Core2duo Phenom II X6 Llano A3850 Intel i3 6100 Intel 6600k Intel 7700k

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Re: Games not detecting CD Rom ? Windows 98

Posted on 2019-04-29, 22:16

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by mothergoose729

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Maybe you should try to do a "Custom" installation? I always find preconfigured DOS startup files when I do so. (On the other hand, I usually prepare my computers without Windows, install that only after basic DOS is done. There are a few switches in msdos.sys that massively influence Windows 9x …

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Re: Games not detecting CD Rom ? Windows 98

Posted on 2019-04-29, 21:51

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ah redbook, yeh that does complicate things. You can get cd audio with daemon tools but need WDM drivers. I'm a EAX kinda guy so I'm screwed as well. So its a clean install + SP3 with with all cards pulled out accept video? In which case it cant be the sound card conflicting. Yeh guess you could …

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Re: Games not detecting CD Rom ? Windows 98

Posted on 2019-04-29, 21:46

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ah redbook, yeh that does complicate things. You can get cd audio with daemon tools but need WDM drivers. I'm a EAX kinda guy so I'm screwed as well. So its a clean install + SP3 with with all cards pulled out accept video? In which case it cant be the sound card conflicting. Yeh guess you could …

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Re: Games not detecting CD Rom ? Windows 98

Posted on 2019-04-29, 20:21

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My autoexec.bat and config.sys files are indeed empty. They are 0kb in size and when I edit them with notepad nothing is inside them. I am using a retail copy of windows 98, with only my Nvidia VGA drivers installed. I have also tried updating to the unofficial SP3 patch and enabling DMA and those …

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Re: Games not detecting CD Rom ? Windows 98

Posted on 2019-04-29, 00:13

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What is MSCDEX? Sigh. Maybe post your config.sys and autoexec.bat in "code" blocks. Are these files in the root of my c drive? If so both files are completely empty. Is it a configuration issue? Yamaha YMF744 PCI (new addition) Since this is the only thing that's changed recently, it is the prime …

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