Re: Absolute best, Most reliable fans

Posted on 2024-05-14, 19:45

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by Rwolf

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Over the top design: Heat pipes on massive cooling blocks as 1st line buffers, heat transfer to some larger liquid tank as secondary buffer - you have cooler nights I assume, when you can get rid of the heat outside...unless you also need to hide the heat signature, then instead dig down & find an …

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Re: Jumperless, non-PnP ISA sound cards and Windows 95 hardware detection problem

Posted on 2024-05-12, 13:36

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by Rwolf

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I don't know this board, but it looks like this one from Addonics: https://hw.fagear.ru/yamaha-ymf701-s-addonics-a151-830/ You picture is a bit gritty, but there may be some stray solder around the empty socket, and maybe in other places...it may need some clean up.

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Re: Max Payne 1 on voodoo 3 3000 error "FPU precision assumed to be 53bits"

Posted on 2024-05-08, 22:47

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by Rwolf

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in Windows

Curiously I found a similar question about Max Payne 2 in an archived post at 3DRealms forum: https://web.archive.org/web/20140602173318/ht … read.php?t=6844 for more FPU stuff: http://stereopsis.com/FPU.html

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Re: 8-bit ISA Game Card pinout question

Posted on 2024-05-08, 22:25

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by Rwolf

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Perhaps then some legacy non-std pinout on a stick they wanted to support? There were some non-pc 'joypads' (I never had one) that might apply. Some pinout variants: https://allpinouts.org/pinouts/connectors/inp … ck-pc-gameport/

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Re: Tex Murpy Overseer DVD Edition Being a Pain

Posted on 2024-05-08, 21:51

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by Rwolf

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Does it have any extras making it worth playing on the DVD, other than not having to swap CD:s? (I have the CD version only, but I've seen you can combine them into a DVD for ease of use - but I figure it's not the same as the bundled DVD)

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Re: 8-bit ISA Game Card pinout question

Posted on 2024-05-08, 08:36

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by Rwolf

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I think the two-port cards like that were intended for either two joysticks with 2-axis and 2 buttons each, the sticks attached to one connector each, or a single joystick with 4 axis and 4 buttons, attached to either one *or* the other connector.

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Re: Speed sensitive games suggestions to test throttling methods?

Posted on 2024-05-07, 18:59

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by Rwolf

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

One game I could not get to work at all using DOSBox on a P4 was a freeware, it was found in one of my 50+ DOS games CD:s, called 'Find Felix the Cat', and it had issues with fast computers, also according to the developer who I got in contact with. It was made to run on old 8088 PC:s and DOSBox …

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Re: Im unable to add network Card to 486 Siemens Nixdorf Scenic 4L

Posted on 2024-05-06, 12:30

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by Rwolf

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Do you have all voltages needed for that card on your ISA bus? Not sure what version you have of that card, TP or Coax? check e.g. https://www.arstech.com/install/cms-display/s … upplyneeds.html

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Re: Im unable to add network Card to 486 Siemens Nixdorf Scenic 4L

Posted on 2024-05-04, 16:26

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by Rwolf

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Since (what I understand) this motherboard uses a riser slot for the two ISA cards, there could be some issues with poor/bent connections on the riser board itself?

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Re: Plastic gotten sticky around laptop keyboard.

Posted on 2024-04-22, 17:13

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by Rwolf

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I had a sticky plastic/rubber surface on one similar keyboard (not the keys themselves) and after ordinary cleaning failed, I just applied some potato starch to the surface, and it seems to have worked out for me.

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Re: Tie Fighter Collectors Edition - only works from C

Posted on 2024-03-28, 13:15

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by Rwolf

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I have some notes for that release printed out; one thing that LucasArts support document says is that an incomplete installation or installation on multiple locations will give this effect that the game start will only open the installation menu. What I then wrote from my own tests: if installing …

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Re: How to build a new EISA CFG file?

Posted on 2024-03-25, 13:35

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by Rwolf

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

This range can depend on how the address decoder is implemented; often the decoder has a larger range that is limited by the number of address pins used on the decoder chip, in this case it could be implemented in the FPGA which allows for more granular resolution. Since it emulates other older …

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Re: Things I learned about fans

Posted on 2024-03-16, 20:37

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by Rwolf

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I used to be able to follow the boot-up sequence of a (fanless) computer system developed at my workplace, just by listening to the power supply whine (about 18-20kHz) changing with load. Tinnitus from some too close noisy hard-drives fixed that eventually.

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Re: Things I learned about fans

Posted on 2024-03-15, 08:25

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by Rwolf

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

FWIW, back when noisy PC:s were the norm, all the PC:s at my workplace got put in very efficiently silenced padded boxes (with internal fans & long folding air-vents); expensive but that was a cost neccessary to be able to think. And it was not only the fans back then, but also hard-drives that …

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Re: HDD boot a 386 Tulip Computer is possible ?

Posted on 2024-03-04, 23:23

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by Rwolf

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

If you have formatted a partition size the computer can handle, you also need to set the boot partition as active.

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Re: 286 Motherboard does not work . CMOS inoperational. System halted.

Posted on 2024-03-03, 22:56

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by Rwolf

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

From what I recall, professionally, the pad/rework could be done about 4 times if you were good at it, but after that the tracks & vias were at severe risk of delaminating and the board was usually scrapped if it didn't look good enough.

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Re: List of Currently Free Games

Posted on 2024-03-01, 17:24

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by Rwolf

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Just checked and Steam isn't required to run the game. I do see libwinpthread-1.dll so it's likely bare minimum Windows XP compatible but if compiled with a newer mingw-w64 then likely just Vista or 7 at a minimum. It does state the following in the whatsnew but I don't see the older SDL.dll so …

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Re: List of Currently Free Games

Posted on 2024-02-29, 18:02

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by Rwolf

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How is this different from the original Ur-Quan Masters ? Seems to be the same AFAIK, this is just a Steam release from the original game designers (Paul Reiche III and Fred Ford). Most likely to help promote their upcoming sequel. What I could find out, the gameplay and graphics are the same, but …

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Re: Poll. How did you handle AGP to PCI Express stepover?

Posted on 2024-02-26, 12:58

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by Rwolf

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in Marvin \ Video

I was looking for a hybrid mobo, but did not like their performance, so I stayed with my PCI/AGP combo and only got a used PC with PCIE maybe 5 years ago. Nothing exciting, really - when the high performance graphics cards started costing as much as a new PC itself, I just left the race to the top. …

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Re: Sound Blaster boards doesn't work on PC with Intel Pentium III

Posted on 2024-02-24, 08:34

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by Rwolf

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hmm...I don't think the Live board has DOS support, it would run under Windows though, if the game can use DOSBox in a Windows environment? (It could be the same with the Audigy 2, but I've never used one myself.)

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