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Re: Remastering games, is it really worth it?

Posted on 2024-01-04, 16:24

in Milliways

in Milliways

I prefer rereleases than remakes. Like the XBLA version of Doom, Duke 3D World Tour or at least remakes like POSTAL Redux or the Monkey Island remake because they retain a good chunk of the original experience and allow it to be enjoyed as it was. Remakes usually try way too hard to make everything …

Re: 2024 - End of the era of Retro Computing Youtube channels?

Posted on 2024-01-04, 16:09

in Milliways

in Milliways

My favorite retro channels personally are Janus Cycle and Druaga1. Druaga makes videos once every year or two and they're always really fun but you have to like his personality. Janus Cycle is excellent at going into the communities of various unique devices and into what makes them special, along …

Re: Choosing PSU for Pentium 3 system

Posted on 2023-11-30, 15:02

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I use a brand new Thermaltake 500W PSU in my P3 build along with a Cooler Master N200 case, specs in my signature. Works great so far and haven't noted any issues, but had to use a Molex to floppy adapter as APT97 mentioned. Additionally, you must have a 24-pin to 20-pin ATX power converter if your …

Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2023-11-28, 15:07

in Milliways

in Milliways

Beat Deus Ex for the first time. Extremely impressive, cannot believe I've never played it before. Spoiler I personally choose the New Dark Age ending, and it's sad I couldn't keep Paul alive, but I didn't even know I could save him. JC is gonna have to be added to my list of FPS heroes. I tried …

Question about modern SSDs on retro builds

Posted on 2023-11-15, 19:08

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'm adding a WD Blue SSD as a secondary drive to my P3 rig (specs in my signature) via an IDE to SATA adapter by StarTech to install XP on. I will format it on my main PC with Windows 10 before installing XP on it, but my main question was do modern SSDs need TRIM, and if so how do I do this on XP …

Re: Win98 don't shutdown or reboots

Posted on 2023-11-13, 14:12

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I get this on my P3 build randomly, specs in signature. I suspected it was either the network stack or just buggy ACPI. Interested to see what would help in your case, OP.

Re: Working WPA2 WiFi on Windows 98SE

Posted on 2023-11-04, 21:40

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Depending on the revision there are 3 or 4 different chipsets in those WPC54 cards (Broadcom, TI, Atheros...). Maybe you should provide the revision number (V1, V2...V7) of your card to prevent others from buying any WPC54 and not getting it to work. I think it's a v3 revision but I'm not entirely …

Working WPA2 WiFi on Windows 98SE

Posted on 2023-11-04, 19:50

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Recently I went to a thrift store and got some old Linksys PCMCIA card (as well as a cool Yamaha PSS 140 seen in the picture). The box mentioned support for 2000 and XP at a minimum but when reading the manual mentioned 98/ME and after putting in the disc it actually seemed to have drivers for 98/ME …

My experience with a KingSpec IDE SSD

Posted on 2023-11-02, 18:52

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Got the 64GB version and tried it on my ThinkPad T42 with Windows 98 and Windows XP. They really aren't that good, and the performance was pretty terrible, 98 loved to lock up when installed and RW speeds were extremely slow, XP had similar issues. I heavily recommend going with a CF to IDE adapter …

W98 AGP issues on AMD VIA chipsets

Posted on 2023-10-31, 18:08

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

So I've experienced this myself on a MSI K8T Neo2 using an ATI Radeon X800 GTO which the specifics of this issue are seen in my post history, and have seen PhilsComputerLab experience the same issue here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtyLkfvozck&t=696 despite him having an Nvidia card. The …

Re: WinXP/7 builds and potential Windows 98 rabbit hole build

Posted on 2023-10-31, 13:59

in Windows

in Windows

You will never find a definite dream PC for 98 at least within a reasonable price. It's best to experiment with different boards and cards. You could even use one of those weird Celeron integrated Mini-ITX boards with an SiS chipset which would be great for 98. I personally recommend Socket 462 if …

Re: NINA - AOL Desktop and AIM revival

Posted on 2023-10-21, 01:34

in Release Announcements

in Release Announcements

That's cool! Thanks a lot for the information! That's quite a progress since last time I checked. I hope that the AOL client from GeoWorks will work eventually, too. 🙂👍 Edit: Ah, silly me! It's the chat/messaging system! 😅 Windows 3.1x messenger support sounds awesome, still. Edit: Support for ICQ …

Re: NINA - AOL Desktop and AIM revival

Posted on 2023-10-12, 13:39

in Release Announcements

in Release Announcements

NINA is now in beta and now has support for TOC, AIM chat rooms, and many other codebase improvements. AOL Desktop support is confirmed working and will be released to testers soon. Other donators have discovered many clients that are working on NINA such as ICQ and iChat.

Possible to make virtual MPU-401 for Windows MIDI devices?

Posted on 2023-08-22, 17:10

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

I have a ThinkPad T42 with Windows 98SE and a SoundMAX integrated audio chip. I want to play through Duke 3D again which works fine on the machine except one issue with the sound card. It actually has SB emulation with working audio but it forces all MPU-401 calls to it's own crappy EuCom synth. I …

Re: Using a retro ThinkPad for retro gaming

Posted on 2023-08-14, 02:54

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I ran into some hurdles getting drivers but had a stable system. I cannot for the death of me find out what the WiFi card in this thing is in Device Manager (PCI Card, PCI Ethernet Controller or Unknown Device?) nor which one it even is in general. I've tried many drivers but haven't found anything …

Using a retro ThinkPad for retro gaming

Posted on 2023-08-11, 15:32

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I bought an IBM ThinkPad T42 (Type 2373-CTO) to see if it would be adequate for retro gaming with Windows 98, using SBEMU for games that need a sound blaster and doing the ATI driver hack to enable legacy rendering features. It should be arriving later today. It also came with a dock too which is a …

Re: NINA - AOL Desktop and AIM revival

Posted on 2023-08-04, 09:13

in Release Announcements

in Release Announcements

NINA is now in private alpha. AIM from the earliest versions up to 5.9 work. To get access, simply donate here https://nina.chat/donate . ICQ and AOL Desktop are next on the roadmap but this is a huge win. The developers have lots of exciting stuff coming and I hope it could peek the interest of …

Re: Athlon motheboard recommendations

Posted on 2023-07-31, 11:37

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

If you want, you can look at my post history on why I would recommend against going with a newer 754/939 platform for this use case. VIA's chipset drivers are total PITAs and the BIOS has a lot of bugs with AGP on 9x and I killed a motherboard by making a mistake flashing the BIOS, ATI chipsets flat …

Re: Getting started with my first late dos and early win 98SE build

Posted on 2023-06-13, 04:50

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Just for some of my input, don't make the mistake of trying to go too new. Ask the guy who thought 98SE would just work fine on a K8T800 Socket 939 mobo. Stick to what people used 98 on for what will actually work best. If you are into MIDI like I am (not a lot of people are lol) and don't want to …

Re: Retro OSes for retro computers

Posted on 2023-06-13, 04:25

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

So, yeah, Q4OS Trinity running from an SSD on a P3-733 with 512 megs of RAM and 3.5 gigs of swap: it's somewhat usable, but it ain't pleasurable. Everything I tried seems to work, but nothing is snappy, not the way Windows 98 is; instead it's kind of like using an Atari ST with just one floppy …

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