Re: what was it like watching the death of 3dfx post voodoo 3 (late 1999-2000)?

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This may be of interest. For about 10 years (late 90s to late 2000s) I played Quake (actually Quakeworld) nearly every day, and I usually ran the client with the -condebug option. The resulting qconsole.log file is 150 MiB in size. I filtered out the F_SYSTEM proxy responses (which report client …

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Re: is seeking out a slot 1 celeron worth it?

Posted on 2024-05-10, 12:28

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I recently acquired a Hypertec Phoenix 370/S from 2001. It's basically a computer on a card. Information about it is scarce. Does anyone know what video chipset it uses?

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Re: The King has left the Building.

Posted on 2024-05-10, 11:11

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He's not a bot, he just works in customer service.

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Re: Is the Pentium 4 underrated for retro computing?

Posted on 2024-05-08, 13:13

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Personally I think anything older than 64bit as far as CPUs go is retro. There were 64-bit computers with SSE3 and PCIe slots as early as 2004 (20 years ago). I have such a machine in use as a file server. The Windows 11 TPM 2.0 requirement is a big problem, though. That's what is going to finally …

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Re: Okay but did you ever PURCHASE WinRAR?

Posted on 2024-05-06, 12:39

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How do you unregister it before reinstalling it, or changing the computer, or if the OS gets damagaed somehow and you reinstallation? haha, this is a concern whenever I sell or give away a computer. I don't want to become the Peter Quistgard of file compression. You must delete and secure erase the …

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Re: Okay but did you ever PURCHASE WinRAR?

Posted on 2024-05-05, 21:14

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Yes I purchased a license in November 2000 and still use the product every day. ETA: I do however use unregistered RAR for DOS in DOSBox as my WinRAR license doesn't work with older editions of the software.

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Re: Why The Internet Archive Is In Danger Right Now...

Posted on 2024-05-04, 17:20

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So do we have a plan B for what to do if this gets taken offline for good? Is anyone archiving the archive?

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Re: Why The Internet Archive Is In Danger Right Now...

Posted on 2024-05-04, 16:54

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"Temporarily Offline" hmm...

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Re: Why The Internet Archive Is In Danger Right Now...

Posted on 2024-05-01, 09:36

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Is it just me or is the Wayback Machine less useful than it used to be? Old webpages are often not available. Often it just gives you an unhelpful link to the current online page. You also have the disappearance of Google cacheing. It's becoming harder than ever to research old topics that require …

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Re: 8 of my retro PC builds in all of the Lian Li cases

Posted on 2024-04-29, 10:21

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I have 10 Cooler Master cases but nothing by Lian Li. Brand loyalty is a funny thing.

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Re: Are there regular users here with profession away from tech industry?

Posted on 2024-04-28, 01:33

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It figures this place would have a bunch of industrial guys who wrangle old hardware for pay not fun.

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Re: Pentium PRO?

Posted on 2024-04-25, 03:16

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Right, that figures. I need to get 100 mbps cards to stress the bus. I'm still going to install the EISA card because this is the only machine I have with that bus and I'm curious to learn how it works. 1GBS Ethernet still is within PCI specs Apparently VLB could run as fast as 1.7 Gbps. (200 MiB …

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

Posted on 2024-04-25, 02:32

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I once found a process called "hellobitch.exe" running on a computer that came to me for repair. If only it was always that obvious.

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Re: What is the LAST 5 DOS Game ever made for DOS?

Posted on 2024-04-24, 05:48

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October 1997 is also when the first GTA came out. It can be run in both DOS and Windows but DOS is better IIRC because it has Voodoo support which is missing in the Windows version.

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Re: Are there regular users here with profession away from tech industry?

Posted on 2024-04-22, 08:03

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Is EBCDIC still a thing? I remember messing around with that a few years ago when I was learning about text encodings. EditPadLite can read EBCDIC files.

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Re: Pentium PRO?

Posted on 2024-04-22, 04:46

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Right, that figures. I need to get 100 mbps cards to stress the bus. I'm still going to install the EISA card because this is the only machine I have with that bus and I'm curious to learn how it works.

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Re: Pentium PRO?

Posted on 2024-04-22, 04:38

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I have only one PPRO machine, a Dell PowerEdge 2100/180. This reminds me of a question I've been meaning to ask. This machine has EISA slots however currently it has only a 3C509B-C ISA NIC installed. However, I have also obtained a 3C592-C EISA card. Both are 10 mbps EtherLink III cards. Before I …

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

Posted on 2024-04-10, 16:16

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Google have recently removed the ability to view cached pages. They took the option off the search page a long time ago, but you could still view the page by prefixing the URL with cache: e.g. cache:www.website.com/page.html This no longer works. Now you are sent directly to the current live page, …

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Re: Tell about your country

Posted on 2024-04-05, 14:39

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bump https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/03/back … sh-connections/

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Re: Obnoxious Chrome anti-feature, download blocking now too paranoid.

Posted on 2024-03-16, 13:54

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I just switch browsers when something like this happens. I have 14 modern browsers installed (plus an old version of Navigator for legacy compatibility reasons.) If one does something that annoys me, I just launch another.

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