Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-09-20, 17:34

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by Hezus

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Picked up a box of hardware for about 40 EUR this week and it contained a bunch of different AGP videocards (Viper 550, Radeon a7000, Radeon 850PRO) and some generic PCI networkcards. Also a TerraTec Xfire 1024 sound card, which is ok. But this major prizes were these two beauty's! https://i.imgur. …

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

Posted on 2020-09-20, 11:14

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by Hezus

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I just copied files from one pc to another over IPX using Kali Chat. Must have been at least 20 years ago since I last did that, 🤣.

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Re: Quake won't do 640x480

Posted on 2020-09-16, 19:02

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by Hezus

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in Marvin \ Software

Maybe you'll need to run S3 vesa extensions?

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Re: Roland MT-200

Posted on 2020-09-06, 09:46

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by Hezus

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Really cool! I've got an MT-100, which has an MT-32 inside (the newer 1989 variant with the headphone jack).

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Re: Today is Windows 95's 25th Birthday. Share your memories.

Posted on 2020-08-26, 14:47

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by Hezus

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First experience was on our family's Pentium 75. I was pretty anti-Windows for a long time because it was really slow in general and getting BSODs every now and then. DOS just seemed so much more responsive and easy to use. I actually stuck with DOS as my primary OS through most of the 90s. It …

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Re: Posts photos of your most unique build.

Posted on 2020-08-24, 06:40

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by Hezus

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Old photo so I probably posted it somewhere already, but it fits the topic since I made this case so it's certainly unique :D currently it has K6-2+, Voodoo Banshee and probably ESS ISA Soundcard. I also used this case with 4DPS tomato board. Now there is some kind of SS7 board with similar size. …

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Re: Is case modding a 90s retro thing?

Posted on 2020-08-24, 06:28

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by Hezus

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I also remember case modding as a 2000's thing. Of course there were people who modded their case in the 80s and 90s, but it really became a thing later on. At least here where I'm from (the Netherlands). Of course the term "modding" must be seen in historical context. If you had cut hole into your …

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Re: My 1st socket 7 system in 20 years - Gigabyte GA-586HX + K6-233

Posted on 2020-08-14, 17:49

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by Hezus

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Looks really cool! Socket 7 is probably my favourite system. Turbo XTs are a close second 😀

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Re: Critical Games (DOS) Overview

Posted on 2020-08-12, 17:25

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by Hezus

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Cannon Fodder doesn't run well on faster machines (Pentium MMX). It also struggles with certain video cards like the S3. Wrote a bit about it here: Cannon Fodder: Graphics & Sound issues and how to fix them!

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Re: Cyrix Screamer Pro P200+

Posted on 2020-08-09, 16:16

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by Hezus

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I've owned a Cyrix p200 processor once, but I've never seen a Cyrix branded case before.

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Re: Promise ULTRA100 controller card: can't find drive

Posted on 2020-07-22, 19:35

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by Hezus

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I tried different PCI slots for the Ultra100 but that didn't help. There are PCI IRQ settings in this BIOS that might help but I fear it's not going to do much. I hoped these things to be more compatible, but it seems you just got to have the magic combination...

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Re: Promise ULTRA100 controller card: can't find drive

Posted on 2020-07-20, 14:51

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by Hezus

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Update: I've used OnTrack Disc Manager to unlock the full 8gb of the HDD. Now LBA and 32 bit transfer mode works too. It's a fantastic program: https://www.philscomputerlab.com/ontrack-disk-manager.html

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Re: Promise ULTRA100 controller card: can't find drive

Posted on 2020-07-20, 07:06

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by Hezus

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An XTIDE BIOS on a an ISA network card would be an option, if you ever need more space recognized on the drive(s) . Don't you mean controller card? No, I actually meant just an ISA card with what is called an option ROM . One way is to use an ISA network card with a ROM socket and an EPROM or …

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Re: Promise ULTRA100 controller card: can't find drive

Posted on 2020-07-19, 19:33

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darry wrote on 2020-07-19, 13:47: An XTIDE BIOS on a an ISA network card would be an option, if you ever need more space recognized on the drive(s) . Don't you mean controller card?

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Re: Promise ULTRA100 controller card: can't find drive

Posted on 2020-07-19, 13:42

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by Hezus

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Just a guess but the Promise manual is copyright 2000, so the card could be PCI spec 2.1 (1995) or 2.2 (1998) where as the motherboards PCI may be PCI 2.0 (1993). Another issue could be plain BIOS or chipset incompatibility. Thanks for the reply! I've never really experienced problems with …

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Promise ULTRA100 controller card: can't find drive

Posted on 2020-07-18, 14:29

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Hi there! Reaching out to the Vogons community to help me out with a problem. I've recently aquired a 486DX4 100 with a very exclusive tastes in harddrives. I like to work with CF cards as much as possible but it doesn't want to detect it. Overall, the onboard IDE controller is shoddy. So I got …

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Re: Your oldest favorite computer game?

Posted on 2020-06-25, 16:16

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by Hezus

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Alley Cat - 1984

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Cannon Fodder: Graphics & Sound issues and how to fix them!

Posted on 2020-06-16, 18:08

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by Hezus

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in Marvin \ Software

I read somewhere that Cannon Fodder supported the Roland MT-32 and was very eager to find out what that would sound like. This is where all pain began. I've been gathering bits and pieces of info, tackling one problem after another to finally get it running. I'm probably not the only one, so here's …

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Re: Unisys Aquanta DL / ACER V56LS / ALi Aladdin IV+/ XT PRO chipset drivers

Posted on 2020-05-13, 15:40

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by Hezus

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Took me quite a bit of tinkering but I figured it out. Leaving this info here for future reference: The Aquanta Bios has several hidden options, so you have to change the JP3 jumper to revert to the OEM (Acer) Bios. Now here you can enable the USB Controller. However, the system crashed at boot when …

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Re: VOGONS Driver Library

Posted on 2020-05-10, 06:44

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Good job on throwing up a lot of hurdles to make software preservation a hard job, I guess. That's a bit unfair. I explain in the first post why it's done the way it is. It's not for the sake of being obstinate or elitist, it's purely a practical decision to minimise my administrative overhead. …

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