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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-01-31, 19:27

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Ozzuneoj wrote on 2023-01-31, 19:23: PD2JK wrote on 2023-01-31, 18:35: Finally. Nice! Just to be clear, that's a 1Ghz Thunderbird, not the first gen Orion model, so you'll need a Thunderbird capable motherboard... but you've got the beastliest Slot A CPU around right there. Awesome find. 😀 Works …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-01-31, 18:35

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Finally.

Re: Voodoo rush working slow ?

Posted on 2023-01-29, 13:24

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

What are the results of running that donut demo?

Re: An EPIC Socket-8 Build

Posted on 2023-01-27, 13:32

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

kixs wrote on 2023-01-27, 12:49: I gave up on Overdrive P-II as it only offers minimal increase in performance. By my tests around 10-20% in best case over PPRO 1MB @233Mhz. And I kinda don't like P-II that much. That is surprisingly low. Graphics or memory limitation? It was the only P2 with 512 …

Re: An EPIC Socket-8 Build

Posted on 2023-01-26, 16:52

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

My compliments to your not so obvious choice of hardware, nice photo's. How about the case or housing for all this exotic stuff?

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

Posted on 2023-01-24, 15:51

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Finally got some sound out of the GUS MAX.... Now the fun really begins when I'm gonna add a SB16...

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-01-21, 13:39

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

In German it means something like 'super' or 'great' or am I mistaken.

Re: What are the most demanding games of their respective eras?

Posted on 2023-01-21, 07:43

in Milliways

in Milliways

From what I can remember, Interstate 76 was a slideshow on our 200 MHz MMX PC. Maybe it was because of the 2MB CL-GD5446 and the lack of a real 3D accelerator.

Re: How many people run Plus! or Theme's on their retro rigs

Posted on 2023-01-20, 17:50

in Milliways

in Milliways

There's a Command & Conquer Red Alert theme pack on the Aftermath expansion CD. Sometimes I enable it for a while, but turn it off because it gets annoying after some time. 😉

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-01-19, 15:58

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Got a BP6 and a Voodoo Graphics card and took it for a spin. Also a K8N Neo2 Platinum with Opteron 165. And some 256MB PC133 CL2 modules.

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-01-17, 17:52

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

AlessandroB wrote on 2023-01-17, 17:33: These. Where they come from? they seem to be an old design and not from a 486 or Pentium, maybe they are the original PS/2 sims? Those are indeed original PS/2 memory modules. Lookup the FRU number. 😀

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-01-16, 21:21

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I got a bunch of dead voodoos from a colleague who was sort of promising to trade them for some time. I think bellow 100EUR was a good deal but I'm feeling buyers remorse already. https://www.vogons.org/download/file.php?mode=view&id=155175 Some aren't in factory condition and has marks of repair …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-01-15, 15:41

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Fun to see that the Creative card has a CT number just like ISA, PCI, et cetera.

Re: Voodoo rush working slow ?

Posted on 2023-01-15, 11:00

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Can you run the Donut Demo? You can download it from a falconfly mirror.

Re: Dell Dimension 486SX 25 processor swap to 486DX. How do I change the bus speed?

Posted on 2023-01-11, 05:42

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

First time I see on-board Paradise VGA, nice. I can't help you with the jumper settings, but what happens if you try a few jumper positions? I don't think you'll wreck the board with that...

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

Posted on 2023-01-06, 14:50

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

It had/has a HSF installed, so I might as well add some paste for better contact. Once, I saw a heatsink 'hoovering' over the CPU. Not much use for a HSF at all in such a case. 😁

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

Posted on 2023-01-06, 14:12

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I can't do much of a better cable management. I'm happy with it. Both Teac drives work, no bad sectors on the Conner drive, re-soldered the Lithium battery (still 3.61V in it), added cooling paste between the heatsink and the AMD DX2-66, checked jumper settings for the I/O addresses on the sound …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-01-05, 19:44

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

That's a correct guess Radical Vision. Only the PSU was half dead, measuring 8.5V at the 12V rail.

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-01-05, 19:08

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Local craigslist with auction mode on. The bidding stopped after a few days without the auction being at the ending time. So the seller contacted me, think he needed the money, don't know. But he was a retro fanatic that's for sure.

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-01-05, 17:06

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Was looking for a GUS for years and almost gave up. How the turn tables today. It was somewhat of a surprise system that didn't involve kidney selling. Disassembled the whole thing:

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