Re: How about a MR-BIOS ROM file repository?

Posted on 2021-08-26, 15:43

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by drosse1meyer

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My googleing skills have not been enough... :( It would be absolutely amazing, if someone would have MR BIOS for SIS 85C471 based chipsets. Information from one of the bios packs here, in the thread: (but the bios itself was missing :( ) Filename Port Description SIS 85C471 -------- ------- …

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Re: Reasonable price for old desktop computers

Posted on 2021-08-25, 17:33

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by drosse1meyer

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Everyone's price point and value assignment is different of course. Looking at what's on eBay now, I think the $40 i paid for a complete packard bell P166 last year was pretty good. Overall, 'working' vintage systems are pricey now, but you can also compare that to trying to source parts for a build …

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Re: Steps to restore an IBM Thinkpad 755CD / 755CX

Posted on 2021-08-25, 14:48

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by drosse1meyer

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Congrats. I had one a long time ago (2000-ish) , someone gave me the 75 mhz version with the pentium bug :) I loved the keyboard and how it hinged open and had such easy access to the add ins. Since it was pretty slow for window98+ decided to put linux on it. We were able to get slackware working …

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

Posted on 2021-08-24, 20:33

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by drosse1meyer

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Desoldered some parts from defunct CD drives - to be reused for random things - pin blocks, sockets, switches. Reduce reuse recycle 🤣

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Re: What laptop brands have the strongest internal antennas ?

Posted on 2021-08-24, 14:44

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Some laptops have a bios lock so you can’t upgrade the WiFi card or they only support a certain model WiFi card. So the Best thing to do is to use a USB Wifi Adapter or Wifi Bridge. These are guarantee to work. Don’t waist your time and money trying to upgrade a Wifi card or antennas in a laptop. …

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Re: Is it worth it for me to get a Voodoo card?

Posted on 2021-08-24, 02:27

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I don't have any issues with image quality degradation when using the VGA passthrough, the video card I'm using with the Voodoo has 230Mhz RAMDAC and connected with a very short cable. I'm also using a CRT screen for my old machines. As leileilol said, the Voodoo cards features dithering techniques …

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Re: Is it worth it for me to get a Voodoo card?

Posted on 2021-08-24, 00:35

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by drosse1meyer

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There's a trade off though. With those cards, you need to use a pass through cable which results in image quality degradation whenever the non-Voodoo card is used (e.g. while showing the Windows desktop). This becomes very noticeable at 800x600 and higher resolutions. However, it can be worked …

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Re: SIV support for 386/486/586 class + Alpha CPUs and 3dfx + S3 + SiS + Matrox + XGI + old ATI + NVidia GPUs - Testing

Posted on 2021-08-20, 12:57

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by drosse1meyer

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After updating to IE6, it is now showing tool tips! Hurray! (Incidentally, all versions of comctl32.dll appear to be the same as before install, so there must have been some other quirky windows thing going on, perhaps a support file wasn't properly registered. smh) I am pleased to hear the …

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Re: Anyone here got a Compaq Presario 4120 ?

Posted on 2021-08-19, 18:06

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im wondering if anyone in the forum has a presario 4120, 4122, 4160 im insterested on what keyboard model it came with, and what mouse model it came with, if you can share a picture of it it would be great Hi there I had a 4160 back in the day. I'm pretty sure it came with this kind of keyboard ( …

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Re: Is it worth it for me to get a Voodoo card?

Posted on 2021-08-18, 18:15

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by drosse1meyer

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@drosse1meyer You can always try to overclock your cpu to 200 MHz (just set multiplier to 3x) and check how much your framerate improve. Later you can use FSB 75 MHz if your board supports it. This board/CPU combo won't post with that setting even though it has 3x... I can get 180 mhz though @ …

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Re: Is it worth it for me to get a Voodoo card?

Posted on 2021-08-18, 16:23

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by drosse1meyer

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The combination of S3 and Voodoo Graphics is quite decent for that machine. Good DOS compatibility combined with Glide support. I used one of these cards on my Socket 7 computer. For the earliest Windows games with 3D acceleration support I recommend using 512x384 resolution if possible for better …

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Re: Is it worth it for me to get a Voodoo card?

Posted on 2021-08-18, 15:24

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The combination of S3 and Voodoo Graphics is quite decent for that machine. Good DOS compatibility combined with Glide support. I used one of these cards on my Socket 7 computer. For the earliest Windows games with 3D acceleration support I recommend using 512x384 resolution if possible for better …

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Re: Is it worth it for me to get a Voodoo card?

Posted on 2021-08-18, 14:54

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by drosse1meyer

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Just to chime in. It depends on what you're looking for. To re-live days of yore? Or to just see what the hubbub is about? (The latter will probably not impress you unless you lived through that period.) The main appeal of Voodoo was largely contemporary to its time. As you probably know most games …

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Re: SIV support for 386/486/586 class + Alpha CPUs and 3dfx + S3 + SiS + Matrox + XGI + old ATI + NVidia GPUs - Testing

Posted on 2021-08-18, 14:43

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by drosse1meyer

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Also the hover tooltip complains about COMCTL or something on my system OK and without knowing the the exact tooltip text I will have to guess. Your system has COMCTL32 V5.00.2614.3500 whereas my 98SE system has V5.50.4522.1800 which I think came with IE6 SP1 , I suspect if you also install this …

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Re: SIV support for 386/486/586 class + Alpha CPUs and 3dfx + S3 + SiS + Matrox + XGI + old ATI + NVidia GPUs - Testing

Posted on 2021-08-17, 19:05

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by drosse1meyer

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please see attached. Non-mmx P166, s3 virge, voodoo1, 64 mb, win98se. Thank you for the report in which all looks good to me. From the screen shot I can see SIV did the setup needed to report disk SMART information, once the system was rebooted did the disk get reported on Menu->Devices->SMART …

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Re: SIV support for 386/486/586 class + Alpha CPUs and 3dfx + S3 + SiS + Matrox + XGI + old ATI + NVidia GPUs - Testing

Posted on 2021-08-17, 02:20

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by drosse1meyer

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red-ray, please see attached. Non-mmx P166, s3 virge, voodoo1, 64 mb, win98se. regards

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Re: The case for using modern PSUs with retro / vintage systems.

Posted on 2021-08-14, 23:52

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by drosse1meyer

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Just a note regarding PFC: some older systems may not work correctly with it. I have a Dell Dimension which only works with non PFC; this can be a consideration if you decide to buy an aftermarket PSU and use a harness adapter for their proprietary connection.

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Re: Help with a 1999 Computer build

Posted on 2021-08-14, 23:07

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Ahh those were the days. I built a machine for college shortly after the turn of the millennium. My set up was a slot 1 P3 733 (coppermine), voodoo3 300 agp, 256 mb ram, 40 GB drive, and the much maligned SB Live. I'm not sure if i had a DVD or cd burner at that time, may have purchased later. …

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Re: What do you think about Steam Deck handheld PC ?

Posted on 2021-08-14, 23:03

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Point taken about the freedom bit, but that seems to be something that would be valued by a much smaller segment of the gaming population. In that vein it will be interesting to see if or how much valve locks this down and tries to prevent hacking etc. Remember when PS3 offered the ability to …

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Re: What do you think about Steam Deck handheld PC ?

Posted on 2021-08-14, 22:00

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x86 hardware has a very long pedigree by comparison to consoles which virtually wipe the slate clean and start fresh hardware blueprints for each generation. Not-to-mention a software base accumulated across literal decades - in Steam, Valve already has a larger, more mature software ecosystem than …

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