Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-04-25, 20:52

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by Thermalwrong

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I bought an IBM Thinkpad 600X - it's the 650MHz speedstep model and amazingly the battery still works and it has the original restore CDs & manual :) IMG_7821 (Custom).jpeg I last owned one of these around 10 years ago when I ran XP on it and had an internal wireless module and an upgraded MMC-II …

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

Posted on 2018-04-25, 00:13

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by Thermalwrong

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It's nice to see the Aopen H340 case again, I think I had one a few years back but it was a more modern system than a P-III :) I thought the PSU was a bit noisy Tonight I was checking over a Pine PT-311 motherboard with an Am386DX40 CPU on it - so far I've swapped out one cap that had some dirt on …

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Re: Quiet cooling solution for slot 1 CPU?

Posted on 2018-04-09, 23:19

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by Thermalwrong

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My current favourite solution is to use an Artic F8 TC fan and zip tie / screw that in place of the original fan, then put the temperature sensor into an area that you know will get hot but not blown on by the fan, such as wedged in the gap between the heatsink & CPU if it's a SECC II cooler, being …

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

Posted on 2018-04-07, 10:55

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by Thermalwrong

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Does your screen have a hue/tint to it or is it neutral? I observed that many crts are kinda bogged "perfection-wise" from the years we used to play on LAN where one could have a look at many of them next to each other... but it's kinda strange for former "expensive" one. My "new" CRT is the Sony …

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

Posted on 2018-04-07, 01:21

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by Thermalwrong

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Skeletor is on holidays so I had to fire up DoomII - the IIyama is running with a BNC cable now and the picture is somewhat "neutral". Overall the magenta hue is always there, besides in windows where one can tune the color components. Why the monitor has no capabilites to modify the green channel …

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

Posted on 2018-04-03, 23:54

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by Thermalwrong

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Today (uh it's already past midnight...) I've been reading through this information (https://www.roberthancock.com/dell/xpsdproc.htm) for my Dell XPS D233 to see about fitting a 500MHz Celeron with slotket to it. 20180403_202438 (Custom).jpg Currently it doesn't boot with the Celeron fitted, but my …

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

Posted on 2018-04-02, 19:51

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by Thermalwrong

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Hehe, thanks, I also think this board looks cool and was the main reason to buy the lot. However, while playing around it wondered why my two P2-400 power up with 266 MHz regardless of the Jumper-setting. Explanation: The Chipset has a fixed bus speed of 66 MHz and the Multiplier of the CPU is …

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Re: Help with identifying Reveal Sound Card

Posted on 2018-04-02, 00:25

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by Thermalwrong

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I like this game :) It looks like the name is just "Sound FX Wave", here's a review of it: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=eMKimy4DFaEC&lpg=PA8&ots=ieljREJxB9&dq=%22reveal%20sound%20fx%22&pg=PA222-IA4#v=twopage&q&f=false And here are some drivers: https://www.driverguide.com/driver/detail.php? …

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Re: Chipset with a Pentium 2 233

Posted on 2018-04-01, 17:37

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by Thermalwrong

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That's the nice thing about slot1 - especially BX boards that can set multiplier / FSB, it can with suitable bios support, handle processors from the P-II 233 up to the coppermine P-IIIs, and they're easy to swap out. Also, some of the older Intel CPUs are unlocked, so can be underclocked via …

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Re: Chipset with a Pentium 2 233

Posted on 2018-04-01, 14:53

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by Thermalwrong

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Probably better to use the P2B for a faster build, the 233 is well suited to the LX chipset - my current favourite PC (because of integrated OPL4) has an LX chipset motherboard, it came with a PII 233 and works pretty well overall. The P2B might have better options for underclocking / disabling …

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Re: Please identify this card Opti / Crystal / Yamaha OPL

Posted on 2018-04-01, 14:12

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by Thermalwrong

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I see it :) You should put the "wavetable" in the listing title, it will sell more easily that way, because it is a wavetable card and people do like those :) I agree that it's probably not worth it with a 286 system and it's better to use your ESS card - I have another opti 82c924 card running the …

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Re: 3dfx Voodoo5 9000 optained!

Posted on 2018-04-01, 12:01

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by Thermalwrong

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Excellent work getting Crysis to work with the Voodoo5, I liked that it still shows the 3DFX logo when opening too 😁 This a really good demonstration of the amazing VSA100 chip(s) 😀

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Re: Roland MT-200

Posted on 2018-03-31, 11:51

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by Thermalwrong

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Thanks for making these videos CrossBow777, I've been after one of these quirky devices for a while and have potentially got an MT-90 on the way with a broken floppy drive - your videos have helped a lot with understanding what's involved in using & fixing it.

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Re: The Grand OPL3 Comparison Run!

Posted on 2018-03-31, 00:49

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by Thermalwrong

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One of the archive.org links works for the games demos, it's about 40mb and doesn't download very quickly: https://web.archive.org/web/20140905021829/https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/43851675/OPL3GameDemos.zip edit: listening to the soundscape opus samples; is it getting some notes wrong in Doom …

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

Posted on 2018-03-30, 19:23

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by Thermalwrong

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Spent slightly longer than I should have getting Wingroove set up on my P2 Thinkpad so I can listen to tunes while I get some work done. Sadly it looks like most of the links for any 0.Ax version I could find are dead, but 0.9E is running great. I still can't believe how decent this sounds for such …

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Re: Please identify this card Opti / Crystal / Yamaha OPL

Posted on 2018-03-30, 15:36

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by Thermalwrong

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Hi there :) I'm trying to get the same card working in Windows 98, which appears to be a mistake! It looks like the Opti 924 mostly is meant for DOS / Win3.1 / Win95. From what I can see, your card is exactly the same as mine so there's no point posting a picture of it - It appears to be a clone of …

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

Posted on 2018-03-25, 22:51

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by Thermalwrong

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Found the 15" version of my old Trinitron monitor to play old low res games on - I forgot how heavy these things are though :dead: Our family computer used to have the 17" version of this monitor, the CPD-200ES, but I didn't want such a large display for this setup. I don't have a car right now so I …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-03-24, 11:59

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by Thermalwrong

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^^ That board almost certainly uses a Dell proprietary PSU, just making sure you know. A standard ATX one will plug in but will insta-kill the board. im pretty sure that i can mod one atx psu to use this board, and to be honest it was really really cheap, i will use one 20 to 24pin atx adaptor and …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-03-18, 21:15

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by Thermalwrong

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I've decided to start posting after lurking on here for a few months :) Just collected this and had to drag it home in the snow - It's an early Dell XPS system which I like the case design of - it might be nice get a CRT to stick on top of it since my other cases are mini towers. IMG_7634 (Custom). …

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