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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-08-06, 00:43

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Just please don't blame the shipping companies. The plastic of this vintage, yes this is the very subject of vintage stuff were formulated badly, simply shatters. I had number of not too old Sharp TVs, less than 10 years old has very fragile plastic that I cannot smack the top to diagnose the …

Re: Members of Vogons, what shows do you currently watch?

Posted on 2022-08-05, 13:23

in Milliways

in Milliways

DosFreak wrote on 2022-08-05, 12:57: Don't make me post George Carlin. Winner! I’m going through “King of the Hill” series again at request of my wife; she loves this show, too. Dale: Do your people even celebrate Thanksgiving? John Redcorn: We did… once.

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-08-04, 00:46

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Here are the sound cards I've picked up over the past 1 1/2 months: Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS (x5) Creative Sound Blaster Audigy Creative Sound Blaster Audio PCI128 Creative Sound Blaster AWE64 Gold ESS Maestro-1 ES1948-F ESS AudioDrive ES1869F AZTech SC 338-A3D Aureal Vortex AU8820B2 …

Re: Members of Vogons, what shows do you currently watch?

Posted on 2022-08-03, 22:11

in Milliways

in Milliways

I do maintain that at the time, nothing was as funny prior or even after Seinfeld. I am a huge fan of the Office, P & R, Community, and Scrubs. I think each have their merits. It's probably the "Seinfeld is unfunny" effect. A lot of Seinfeld's humor was highly topical to the 90's era, and that …

Re: Members of Vogons, what shows do you currently watch?

Posted on 2022-08-03, 18:15

in Milliways

in Milliways

I would imaginr Seinfeld is unanimously considered the king of comedy. But it simply wouldn't be so w/o the laugh track. Anyone disagree? Completely agree. Laugh tracks and studio audiences are usually just a crutch for lazy writing and to waste time. For instance: show's basically pause while …

Re: Windows 98 drive mounting

Posted on 2022-08-03, 16:52

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

What happens when Daemon Tools isn't installed? What chipset are you running? Do you have the requisite drivers installed i.e., VIA 4-in-1, Intel INF, etc.? Have you tried installing Windows ME?

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-08-03, 16:09

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

That's interesting. So Windows 2000 can tell the difference between sockets and cores on a modern motherboard? I thought an OS from 1999 would be unable to discern the difference! All of the cores or hyperthreading instances are treated like a CPU, but of course Windows 2000 (or XP pre-Service Pack …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-08-03, 15:31

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Really? HOW? I want to install Windows 2000 on a Threadripper PC now LOL. The licensing policy for NT 3.X all the way until Windows 8.1/2012 R2 is per CPU socket. Core licensing didn’t start until Windows 10/Server 2016. You can install Windows 2000 Professional officially on a single or dual …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-08-03, 12:54

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

2 CPUs for Professional, 4 with Server, 8 with Advanced Server, and 32 with Datacenter. That's the official licensing policy. It's not hard to lift this limit on Professional with some registry tweaking ;) Really? HOW? I want to install Windows 2000 on a Threadripper PC now LOL. The licensing …

Re: Windows 98 drive mounting

Posted on 2022-08-03, 03:00

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Try the USB drivers I've attached. I have 100% success using it in Windows 95B/95C/98/98SE (Windows ME has a built-in driver), and it's only a fraction of the size of the nusb36e driver package.

Re: Market value for popular or rare classic computer hardware

Posted on 2022-08-03, 00:44

in Milliways

in Milliways

Now I come to think of it, AGP is called a bus but it has only two stops. Northbridge <-> Graphics card or onboard chip. Hmm... This reminds of my days studying for MCSE back in 1999 on networking re: Ethernet: In one of those Microsoft Training kits was a line something like '...physically it's a …

Re: How China's invasion on Taiwan affects PC market

Posted on 2022-08-02, 17:02

in Milliways

in Milliways

As long as Taiwan continues to show strength with a respectable military, a good economy and broad public support for their current form of government, the island will remain outside of Beijing's control. If any of those 3 legs of the stool becomes weak, then Beijing might try to take advantage of …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-08-02, 16:54

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Windows 2000 is just fine for gaming. I played all my games with zero issues on a dual P3 machine for 4 years or so. Thats good to hear, wondered how it would cope with two CPUs. Perfectly windows 2000 is NT based. You can do up to 4 cpus with 2000 pro and alot more with the server variants. 2 CPUs …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-08-02, 01:42

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I added another Trident ProVidia 9685 to the pile; this one without video out, but still has the 2MB VRAM expansion module. And the other added is an STB Nitro 3D (S3 Virge/GX). It overclocked to 83/83MHz from 75/75MHz. Anything more, and the screen gets pixelized. The STB Nitro 3D will be a part of …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-07-31, 21:07

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I picked up, what appears to be, an unused Radeon 8500. Everything is sealed including the CD, no scratches on the support bracket, and it has that "new card smell," heh... I tested it and it works fine. Back to the shelf it shall go, though.

Re: Members of Vogons, what shows do you currently watch?

Posted on 2022-07-31, 20:53

in Milliways

in Milliways

I would imaginr Seinfeld is unanimously considered the king of comedy. But it simply wouldn't be so w/o the laugh track. Anyone disagree? The laugh track adds to the show, but it would still be great without it. It's one of the few series which gets stronger with each season, unlike like 'The …

Re: Members of Vogons, what shows do you currently watch?

Posted on 2022-07-31, 13:48

in Milliways

in Milliways

Finished another loop through of Seinfeld (except the last 2 episodes... they stink).

Re: Win98SE CD-RW utilities?

Posted on 2022-07-31, 02:51

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

"Nero" is what I used back in the day. You can search the "Wayback Machine" for it. I also used Adaptec ASPI: https://adaptec.com/en-us/support/_eol/scsi_sw/aspi-4.70/

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-07-30, 19:39

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

20220723_143011.jpg Radeon 9700(PRO ??) 128 MB - dead Leadtek GeForce 7600 GT 256 MB - dead Sapphire X1950 GT 265 MB - dead :( didn't had a lot of luck in the last couple of months... But hey, at least they didn't cost a fortune, 2 euro for the last one... Also bought a gtx 260, a gtx 275, a hd …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-07-29, 20:01

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

2nd half of the bunch: ATI Rage Pro Turbo 8MB ATI Rage 128 16MB ATI Radeon 7200 32MB SDR ATI Radeon 8500 LE 64MB DDR ATI Radeon 9600 XT 128MB SDR GeForce MX 200 32MB SDR GeForce MX 400 64MB SDR GeForce MX 420 64MB DDR GeForce MX 460 64MB DDR GeForce 256 32MB SDR GeForce2 GTS 64MB DDR (Pure) …

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