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

Posted on 2022-05-13, 23:33

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by TechieDude

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Save up bit more to get better stuff, enjoy the healthy food you really like, and occasional fast food and tasty non-alcoholic drinks. Even changing jobs do wonders too if one can. And spend around 15 to 30 minutes a day doing nothing in meditation, slowly breathe out and listen to soothing music. …

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Re: Any advantage in flashing newer BIOS for 3Dfx cards?

Posted on 2022-05-05, 23:41

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by TechieDude

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Came here after trying it on my Voodoo 3 3000D to announce that it works well and there is in fact an advantage! I replaced that pesky v.1.10 Dell OEM BIOS with a retail v.2.15.07-SD and I couldn't be happier with that. Not only it now has a hardware ID that works with all Voodoo 3 drivers, even …

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Re: Fortex, the A3D & XG/OPL3 accelerator (Vortex 2 + YMF744 combo sound card)

Posted on 2022-04-25, 17:39

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by TechieDude

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already have an audigy 2zs i just asked because i wanted to know what it supported and though it would be cool to have a card that could do everything in 1 opl a3d and eax so u don't have to have multiple cards. nothing wrong with asking questions... It sure would be cool, but it would complicate …

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Re: Fortex, the A3D & XG/OPL3 accelerator (Vortex 2 + YMF744 combo sound card)

Posted on 2022-04-25, 16:02

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by TechieDude

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aaron158 wrote on 2022-04-22, 17:04: (snip) *sigh* If you want proper EAX support so badly, just get an SBLive! or Audigy. They're dirt cheap, and they'll work on both Win9x and Win2k/XP with no problems.

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2022-04-14, 01:39

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by TechieDude

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Kahenraz wrote on 2022-04-13, 10:52: When she told you about the e-waste collection, that was actually a test. You failed. Partners that 'test' you like that should be thrown to the curb. They're the real waste.

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Re: Windows 98 veeeeeeery slow!

Posted on 2022-04-12, 17:21

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by TechieDude

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Sphere478 wrote on 2022-03-28, 07:39: It was suggested somewhere that setting the time wrong in bios can cause windows 9x/me to be really slow. It was already found out to be the CPU caches

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2022-02-17, 19:23

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by TechieDude

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Actually, I meant this one, but I just realised they were overlapping and I was being an idiot 😳 I can't see it, unless he's not familiar with cards having all three media types on, or is looking at one of the USB cards or the one with two external SATA connectors. I know what those are. It just …

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Re: FastDoom. A new Doom port for DOS, optimized to be as fast as possible for 386/486 personal computers!

Posted on 2022-02-17, 18:52

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by TechieDude

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appiah4 wrote on 2022-02-16, 09:49: Who has CGA with 200+ MHz CPUs? Some weirdo on a retro gaming forum probably 😂

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2022-02-17, 18:48

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by TechieDude

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weedeewee wrote on 2022-02-16, 20:33: sigh, I'm fairly certain that several of these cards are damaged. Still it's a good haul for this week, don't ya think? 😁 not sh […] Show full quote sigh, I'm fairly certain that several of these cards are damaged. Still it's a good haul for this week, don't ya …

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Re: post up pics of your "computing area"

Posted on 2022-02-12, 12:22

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by TechieDude

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fool wrote on 2022-02-09, 18:29: Yesterday I was about to reorganize my "computing area" ...wasn't inspiring enough really. Needs some drivers. Seems like you've built yourself a nice lab with all that equipment. Could use some tidying up with all those computers, though.

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2022-01-09, 17:06

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by TechieDude

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Well I did. Carried them away in my last bag at the risk of putting my back out (3 laptops plus four days mail). So the haul is: an Acer Aspire 5336, an Acer Aspire 5552, and an Asus A52F. All filthy after two weeks in the elements. These are actually some mighty good finds, especially the last one …

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2022-01-06, 22:47

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by TechieDude

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Big Pink wrote on 2022-01-06, 16:53: Back at work, and what do I see still sitting there? I had made peace with not lifting them, but now I'm tempted. Just take them, dude. Worst case scenario, you end up throwing them away again. And even then, you might have gotten some DDR2 SODIMMs first.

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Re: "low-cost" PCI gaming videocard

Posted on 2022-01-05, 16:00

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by TechieDude

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You can get a Rage XL. Lately there have been a lot of them everywhere.

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2021-12-26, 14:16

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by TechieDude

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Honestly I wouldn't even have bothered if these had Starter COAs. Most of the Acers bearing Starter COAs are very likely craptacular Atom based Aspire Ones that aren't really worth anything. The ones that I would aim for are usually those that have at least some form of Core 2 Duo/i3 CPU, …

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Re: A (Very Short) Guide to Having USB 2.0 in Windows 98 SE with a NEC-Chipset USB 2.0 PCI Card

Posted on 2021-12-15, 00:02

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I recently get a NEC USB 2.0 PCI adapter , and installed the driver successfully. The device manager shows “NEC uPD720010 USB 2.0 enhanced host controller“ and a “ USB 2.0 Root hub“, but the copy speed is still around 2MB/s via a 2.0 disk, don't know why.🤣 Hmm, Kingston? Those things tend to have …

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2021-12-05, 16:49

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by TechieDude

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Gosh, is that one of those machine that operate with paper rolls? My dad used one of these when I was a little kid. In 1992 his employer bought PCs and send my dad and his colleagues to a training course, to improve their productivity. For a short while he did still use the calculator when working …

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2021-12-04, 23:56

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by TechieDude

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Around 2 weeks ago, I finally got out of the army. I'm getting fully discharged in ~12 days (about time!). Anyway, I got home and my dad tells me "Hey, there's an old union office that's clearing out all their stuff and I'm going there to help them, do you want to come?". Of course, knowing what I …

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Re: Early enthusiast cases

Posted on 2021-11-27, 14:11

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by TechieDude

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Victor Bart's ultimate year 2000 build comes to mind, I think it was the ATC201.

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Re: Tillamook 266MHz and working L2 cache?

Posted on 2021-11-13, 14:03

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by TechieDude

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Now that you mention it, they don't seem to be as readily available as they used to...

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Re: Right to repair discussion (split from What retro activity did you get up to today?)

Posted on 2021-10-25, 10:57

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by TechieDude

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the surprisingly passionate anti-repair few that I wouldn't expect to see here of all places, Yah it's weird to come across that in a forum like this. Makes me wonder if I should assist them in abiding by their strongly held principles by adding them to my ignore list, so that I don't accidentally …

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