Re: Do you keep a tech-journal?
Posted on 2024-05-17, 00:59
It's also good to photograph parts before you put them in machines or in storage. This way you can retrieve things like serial numbers or part numbers without having to pull things apart.
Re: Okay but did you ever PURCHASE WinRAR?
Posted on 2024-05-16, 12:01
Re: Best VGA for the Pentium MMX 200
Posted on 2024-05-16, 01:07
That's exactly the setup I have on my P200 MMX rig. (Trio64V+ and Voodoo2.) I built this system to play one specific game: POD (1997). It's the only computer I've owned since the 1990s that is able to run it properly.
Re: Best VGA for the Pentium MMX 200
Posted on 2024-05-15, 22:10
Yeah, a Voodoo would be perfect for this system, but I'm aware that's not helpful advice in the current market.
Re: Is this software not archived?
Posted on 2024-05-15, 11:18
That Hercules disk has been reused. I hope you like Windows 3.0 games.
Re: Do you keep a tech-journal?
Posted on 2024-05-15, 00:41
Yes I write everything down. I used to use a Palm handheld device. Now I type everything up in Word/Excel.
Re: Okay but did you ever PURCHASE WinRAR?
Posted on 2024-05-14, 21:38
One problem with the RAR format is that Windows Search does not support indexing the archives. It can handle ZIP and several other compressed formats but not RAR.
Re: Information security: the old versus the new, is it a lost case?
Posted on 2024-05-14, 15:47
This happened to me a few years ago: I was running a programming IDE with Team Fortress 2 in the background, working on a program but also occasionally alt-tabbing to play the game. Then when I tried to compile my program I couldn't, because the target executable was locked. When I went to see what …
Re: what was it like watching the death of 3dfx post voodoo 3 (late 1999-2000)?
Posted on 2024-05-11, 12:44
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 …
Re: is seeking out a slot 1 celeron worth it?
Posted on 2024-05-10, 12:28
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?
Re: The King has left the Building.
Posted on 2024-05-10, 11:11
He's not a bot, he just works in customer service.
Re: Is the Pentium 4 underrated for retro computing?
Posted on 2024-05-08, 13:13
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 …
Re: Okay but did you ever PURCHASE WinRAR?
Posted on 2024-05-06, 12:39
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 …
Re: Okay but did you ever PURCHASE WinRAR?
Posted on 2024-05-05, 21:14
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.
Re: Why The Internet Archive Is In Danger Right Now...
Posted on 2024-05-04, 17:20
So do we have a plan B for what to do if this gets taken offline for good? Is anyone archiving the archive?
Re: Why The Internet Archive Is In Danger Right Now...
Posted on 2024-05-04, 16:54
Re: Why The Internet Archive Is In Danger Right Now...
Posted on 2024-05-01, 09:36
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 …
Re: 8 of my retro PC builds in all of the Lian Li cases
Posted on 2024-04-29, 10:21
I have 10 Cooler Master cases but nothing by Lian Li. Brand loyalty is a funny thing.
Re: Are there regular users here with profession away from tech industry?
Posted on 2024-04-28, 01:33
It figures this place would have a bunch of industrial guys who wrangle old hardware for pay not fun.
Re: Pentium PRO?
Posted on 2024-04-25, 03:16
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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