Hi all. Sure I vanished. Life changes and such I now have my own place. This P2 machine still going strong. Now has ATI Rage 128 Ultra instead of the Geforce 4. Now has a dedicated ISA soundcard (OPTi 82C929a based MAD16 card). For now it's running well. My goal now is to swap to a proper chassis, …

Definitely agree about telemetry and drm. Yes operating systems of old are more direct and yes you can do what you want on it.

Now thats a useful menu, I like that. I wonder if you could add the beep sounds (like when you install doom or quake), the ability to toggle them on/off? Just a thought. I'll definitely give this a go

I agree - still does the job well. I got an old compaq laptop running NT. its not online in any shape or form but has both Office 97 and Lotus smart suite. I use it to track my finaces. Does the job well. a small black and white printer would do well for it but chances of one of those still having …

Absolutely, those skills are put to use daily for me. I keep a cable factory running. Some machine plc terminals use anything from dos to os/2 to even nt4. Funny that, we make your fibre / ethernet on retro hardware.

I say this because, at the moment I find modern day computing jus boring. Having to do the manual setup to get a system how you want it to me is part of the fun. Seeing a mish mash of boards slotted in to create a system is far better than the bland shades of black on everything we see in a modern …

Sorry I forgot to add that, It has aGeforce 9500 GS as it's primary card (only because its 1 slot not two) the PCI slot next to it houses the xonar. Rig 3 - Not needed really but houses windows 2000 Motherboard: PC-Chips M848a V2.1 (Sis 748) CPU: Duron Socket A (Appelbred) 1.6Ghz RAM: 1GB DDR1 Sound …

It's doing a job for me though so that's something. Thanks for helping me identify it though I appreciate it.

Aha that's what it is! Palit isn't a bad brand, still going I think?

Thought I'd share my rigs in here. Rig 1 - Retro 98 and Dos Motherboard: Repurposed Compaq EP 6350 System (was just the board) - uses Intels 440BX chipset, 2x ISA, 4xPCI, 1x AGP2X. IO has just PS/2 Mouse and Keyboard, 2x Serial, 1x Parallel and 2x USB 1.0 CPU: Pentium II, Deschutes 350mhz at 100mhz …

Must admit, I have an unbranded (well its got no stickers so I am still identifying it) MX440. Still clean for its age. Nice purple PCB on it too. Yes Forceware 80 causes my PII system to freeze 98 on bootup every other boot. Nabbed a copy of the 45 driver from vogons drivers. Problem solved, runs …

Many thanks guys! much appreciated. I have an old fanless (Don't know the brand) Geforce MX440 (low profile, fanfless and purple) it works fine and despite it being an AGP8x card, it has the groves to allow it to slot in backwards compatiable AGP 2x, and does operate in such manner. This is until I …

HI all Been lurking in Vogons but now registered. recently rescued the compaq Deskpro EP 6350, well shall we say the motherboard part since the case was nowhere to be seen. Luckily as this board is ATX form factor (minus the IO sheild), I have successfully transplanted it into another case. The …