Re: Say "Hi!" to the Renovation SSI-2001!

Posted on 2020-06-14, 22:21

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Lol, I discovered this project only 3 hours after the giveaway stream, that's too funny. Are PCB's available for purchase at this time? I'd love some SID magic in my DOS machine, I don't have a C64 anymore and used to only run soundmon really

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Re: Gotek like Optical Driver Emulator - Is it possible?

Posted on 2020-06-14, 21:00

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I'm patiently awaiting a good ATAPI ODD emulator as well, but for a lot of purposes the iodd2531 is one of my favorite things i've ever owned. Not internal but at least it can appear to the PC as a USB-CD if you wish...

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Re: 3 (+3 more) retro battle stations

Posted on 2020-06-14, 20:17

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The 3D printed case is very impressive. I wouldn't have been able to design something like that, at least not currently! I also just bought a Matrox Millenium for the same reason. Will continue to watch this thread with interest.

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Re: What are builds you want to make someday?

Posted on 2020-06-13, 09:26

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It was fun to see how many people want / wanted to build an Athlon XP. It was the first PC i ever built with all new parts I bought myself, and used it daily from probably 2002/2003 until almost 2010. OC'd to 3.5ghz or something crazy. It was a very charming system to use. I had to get heatsinks for …

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Re: HP T5710 windows 98 build

Posted on 2020-06-13, 09:24

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I have one of these as well as a few other thin clients and if it's old enough to have an inner PCI slot, there is a good chance it will only boot off internal usb ports or require either PlOP or a USB CD drive. I just use an iodd2531. You kinda gotta have something like that if you are constantly …

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Re: Virtual Floppy Drive in Windows 98 SE

Posted on 2020-06-13, 09:20

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thanks for the reply Darry, I’m using and loving a Gotek atm. I just haven’t flashed it (yet) so I need to extract all my images that aren’t 1.44 and put them on the usb. Seems most of my games are 720k. It would be nice to stick my image library on my CF card and just mount them as needed like we …

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Re: pii legacy's old PC's

Posted on 2020-06-13, 07:11

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It seems i'm out of luck with the VIA card I got , despite it having Windows 98 drivers. I didn't notice there was a thread where several other users already noted this card's no good with 440BX. https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=39172 Looks like i'll be making a handmade adapter if I want …

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Re: pii legacy's old PC's

Posted on 2020-06-13, 05:45

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Oh and i know you were wondering about power consumption. All that is only pulling 35 watts tops. https://i.imgur.com/5bwkvPjt.jpg Quite frugal . That's in Windows XP, at idle and with power management enabled, right ? My testbed P3 750MHz (underclocked 1GHz) with Geforce 6200, SATA drive and …

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Re: pii legacy's old PC's

Posted on 2020-06-13, 04:30

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I use MATE and LXDE on my more recent machines.

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Re: My Socket-939 All-in-One DOS/Win98/XP Gaming PC

Posted on 2020-06-13, 04:28

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I guess your 775 board is either having i845 or older chipset, or chipset from 3rd party like VIA? As far as I remember Intel chipsets after i845 no longer have any Win9x drivers. And GF 7100 doesn't have official Win9x drivers as well, modded drivers perhaps? 7100 doesn't have official 9x drivers …

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Re: My Socket-939 All-in-One DOS/Win98/XP Gaming PC

Posted on 2020-06-13, 01:31

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Awesome! Love to see a machine that can run anything. I have a LGA 775 board with an onboard GeForce 7100 which has been great for everything from Win 95 to 10. I haven't tried 3.1 on it or very much DOS (at least nothing with heavy graphics).

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Re: pii legacy's old PC's

Posted on 2020-06-12, 23:35

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-- removed -- Irrelevant pictures removed to prevent confusion

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Re: pii legacy's old PC's

Posted on 2020-06-12, 23:35

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Spoiler VIA C3 MACHINE (Getting dismantled for a different case currently) This machine started out as one I threw together to get some floppy disks backed up, and ended up realizing it's a bad ass machine for DOS/early Windows stuff. As some other posters have pointed out, the C3 is very adaptable …

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Re: Trying to get Pro Audio Studio to work, failing to do so...help? Also, how does one load MVSOUND.sys?

Posted on 2020-06-12, 03:20

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It may be scary to try with the PC running, but if you're capable, i would suggest checking out the voltages input and output of each of those regulators, since that is a LOT of different regulators for one little (very cramped) card.

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Re: Slot1 mobo not detecting IDE disks

Posted on 2020-06-09, 03:51

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A lesson in risk management: If the best thing that can happen is that I can use an 80GB HDD in my first computer, and the worst thing that can happen is the BIOS gets fried, and the system becomes utterly unusable due to the rarity of the board, I would be better off leaving well enough alone. …

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Re: Found a lot of obscure ISA cards, help please

Posted on 2020-06-08, 14:11

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That Jazz16 card looks interesting, i'd love to hear it. I have an OPTi 82C930 card (one of the Megaimage32's) and it's not bad for an OPL3 card, but the FM is way too loud for some reason and can get distorted with too many sounds happening at once.

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Re: pii legacy's old PC's

Posted on 2020-06-08, 13:56

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That's a really nice system you have. One day I'd like to build a Via C3 system. Also nice choice with Sim Tower it's one of my all time favorite games Thanks very much! These boards usually can be found for low prices, even without needing repair. :) Is the onboard sound a VIA chip too? If lucky, …

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Re: Motherboard with ISA & Universal AGP

Posted on 2020-06-08, 06:45

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Not sure if AL440LX is universal AGP or not?

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Re: Working on a water cooled Athlon system.

Posted on 2020-06-07, 09:11

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I had the same motherboard! I had a XP-M 2500 CPU though. I support your water cooling endeavors and hope to see some fun news from it soon.

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Re: Fantastic AT case and my mid to late 90's system in it.

Posted on 2020-06-07, 09:02

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People can hate on Windows ME, but for the best 9x experience, it actually is a great experience out of the box. The problem is that adding too many drivers makes it unstable and that's why people hated it I think. I consider it to be even better than 98SE as long as you don't have tons of tweaking …

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