Power Supply Recommendations for a dual P3 System

Posted on 2020-12-03, 16:09

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I just bought an dual slot 1 PII/III ASUS P2B-D motherboard. I'm probably going to use a PIII Coppermine 800 to 1 GHz (100 MHz FSB variants) of some sort. The final system will be mainly used for Win 9x era and late DOS games, so not sure if I'll make any use of the dual CPU ability, but I'll …

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Re: Fighter Ace 2 Offline Client / Demo

Posted on 2020-12-01, 20:03

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Interesting! Never used QEMU before, going to check it out. Be great if I could retire my jet-engine exhaust 3850 machine, as this was the only game I still used it for.

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Fighter Ace 2 Offline Client / Demo

Posted on 2020-12-01, 19:07

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( https://archive.org/details/faii_setup ) I believe this game came out 1999. It was an online WW2 fighter simulator played through MSN Gaming Zone. Servers are long gone, but it contains an offline component for training, free flight and few other scenarios I like to fire up occasionally. …

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Missing Pins on 3.5 Floppy Connector on old Gateway machine?

Posted on 2020-11-29, 22:04

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Forgive the horrendous cable management... but I was considering moving the components out of this old Gateway machine into a new case. This Athlon 64 era machine was bought at retail and did not have a floppy drive pre-installed nor did I ever install one later, but it does have a floppy connector …

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SSD Options for SATA 1.5 Only Motherboard

Posted on 2020-11-21, 21:27

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I have an Athlon 64 3400+ machine that used to be my main workstation from 2005-2008. Long ago I maxed out the RAM to 2GB and installed a ATI 3850 AGP video card, but now I would like to add an SSD as a final upgrade. The sticking point is the MSI motherboard "CoreCell-Extreme Chip you've ever …

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Re: VGA Capture Thread

Posted on 2020-11-21, 21:12

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I am wondering if someone could recommend an ideal PCIE VGA capture card for the purpose of playing games - not capturing/recording them? In other words, retro machine outputs VGA to the capture card, which then turns up in a window (perhaps streamed by VLC) on the modern host machine. I made VCS …

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Re: VGA Capture Thread

Posted on 2020-11-20, 20:59

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So, I'm using a Startech PEXHDCAP60L, and so far it's been doing pretty good. already found some quirks to work around with. Unfortunately I can only optimize the settings for a certain set of resolutions, so DOS textmode looks a bit off when I set it for normal game capture. I've started Lemmings …

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Re: VGA Capture Thread

Posted on 2020-11-20, 20:53

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I am wondering if someone could recommend an ideal PCIE VGA capture card for the purpose of playing games - not capturing/recording them? In other words, retro machine outputs VGA to the capture card, which then turns up in a window (perhaps streamed by VLC) on the modern host machine. I am curious …

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Re: VGA Capture Thread

Posted on 2020-11-19, 23:05

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I am wondering if someone could recommend an ideal PCIE VGA capture card for the purpose of playing games - not capturing/recording them? In other words, retro machine outputs VGA to the capture card, which then turns up in a window (perhaps streamed by VLC) on the modern host machine.

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Re: Help identifying a late 1998 PCI sound card from my childhood PC

Posted on 2020-11-13, 00:49

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cyclone3d wrote on 2020-11-12, 21:45: Was the DOS music absolutely horrid? If so it was probably one of these Ensoniq cards. My prior computer lacked a sound card... so I wouldn't have had any basis of comparison back then, haha.

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Re: Help identifying a late 1998 PCI sound card from my childhood PC

Posted on 2020-11-12, 21:01

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Joseph_Joestar wrote on 2020-11-12, 20:51: Possibly one of these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ensoniq_AudioPCI Thanks, I am leaning heavily towards it was probably the ES1370, as this card seems to predate Ensoniq's acquisition by Creative. I no memory of anything at all being labeled Creative …

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Help identifying a late 1998 PCI sound card from my childhood PC

Posted on 2020-11-12, 20:45

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I am trying to rebuild a long gone computer I had as I a kid which my family got in late 1998. I've narrowed down every component except for the sound card. The machine we bought was a whitebox from an uncle's friend who assembled and sold PCs on the side. I believe it was around $1000 USD in total, …

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Re: Huge Server / Full AT Case - what to use it for?

Posted on 2020-10-23, 00:39

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Tetrium wrote on 2020-10-22, 11:38: That case looks pretty nice actually. Have you ever weighed it? I have not, but it's quite heavy compared to all my other cases. It actually has wheels on the bottom for moving it around. Looks like the original seller still has a couple for sale: https://www. …

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Huge Server / Full AT Case - what to use it for?

Posted on 2020-10-21, 00:23

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Awhile back I picked up this new-old stock case for a 386 based project. I did not realize just how huge it was... and the fact it takes a full size AT power supply. I've since moved the 386 project to another case... which leaves me wondering what I could use this gigantic case and power supply …

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Re: Windows 95/98 games you never get tired of?

Posted on 2020-10-21, 00:14

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Civilization: Call to Power Age of Empires 2 Imperium Galactica 2 Heroes of Might and Magic 2

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Re: USB2ISA? I'm Skeptical...

Posted on 2020-09-12, 13:19

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Interesting device - I wonder if a floppy disk controller + 5.25 drive could work with this in some way?

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Re: Options for connecting internal 5.25 / 3.5 / ZIP drives to modern system

Posted on 2020-09-12, 02:08

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Well, there is the Kryoflux : https://webstore.kryoflux.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=1&products_id=30 , which is read/write and the Fc5025 http://www.deviceside.com/fc5025.html , which is read-only . These are meant to be used through USB on modern PCs with vintage 5.25" floppy drives (and …

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Options for connecting internal 5.25 / 3.5 / ZIP drives to modern system

Posted on 2020-09-12, 00:24

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I am planning on putting together a modern Zen 3 system using an new-old stock ATX case from the mid 90s. I would like to to add support for a few internal retro drives, mainly: -ZIP (100MB) -3.5 Floppy -5.25 Floppy (probably 1.2MB variety) The goal is to allow the system to read and write media …

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Re: Connecting MT-32 or SC-55 to a Windows 98 laptop - best options?

Posted on 2020-06-12, 15:35

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I am planning to stick with 98 on this machine. Sounds like UM-One is probably the best bet. Don't suppose anyone has gotten a UM-One-MK2 working under 98? I have one kicking around I used to use with DOSBox. I am thinking probably would use the SC-55 much more on this machine. I have an older 486- …

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Connecting MT-32 or SC-55 to a Windows 98 laptop - best options?

Posted on 2020-06-12, 01:37

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Hello guys, I have a Sony Vaio PCG-GRX560K that I have installed Windows 98 on. What would be the best option for connecting to my MT-32 or SC-55? This laptop has: -Parallel -Serial -USB -PC Card Options off the top of my head: -Roland UM-One USB to MIDI (old version that has 98 drivers) -Some sort …

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