Re: Best Sensaura Implementation

Posted on 2022-06-14, 01:58

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Just for anyone googling in the future: i'm currently trying out a Hercules Fortissimo III 7.1 - CS4624-CQ - i found that in UT the distant sounds were cut off and even closer sounds were not very loud. other sound effects and music were fine. after flubbing about in the audio options in windows and …

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Re: What video card for an authentic 2009/2010 system?

Posted on 2022-06-09, 05:03

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is the PC gonna be running Vista or 7 (or XP?) cool system btw. GTX460 seems like a really hot card or is 160w tdp not bad? I was planning on using an old GTX570 i had from my old Win7 build in my own XP build but decided against as it could pull in too much power. My PSU is 550w but apparently the …

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Re: 3DFX Banshee issue

Posted on 2022-06-06, 03:44

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by foil_fresh

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If the banshee is the only card plugged in, and is not giving output during the power-up or POST before Windows, then it's either - a) dead b) not seated correctly in the agp slot correctly. drivers won't be the issue. if it's not working before windows then it won't work in windows either. Can you …

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Re: intellipoint 4.1, win98, input is broken - alternatives?

Posted on 2022-05-19, 00:56

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by foil_fresh

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ok awesome, i'll try both out 😀 thanks

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Re: Win98SE Pentium 4 Project

Posted on 2022-05-19, 00:46

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by foil_fresh

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i can get a pic later tonight, but if i can explain poorly: they are 2 individual lever clips that act the exact same way as a stock cooler, each one has a thumb grip fold-over sections that clamp down (one goes left the other goes right) and use the 4 squared holes in the retention bracket. once …

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Re: Win98SE Pentium 4 Project

Posted on 2022-05-18, 03:43

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I wanted a quieter S478 cooler so i got Thermaltake Pipe101 and slapped a 92mm noctua fan on it. close to 500gm of pure copper with a quiet fan = good times.

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intellipoint 4.1, win98, input is broken - alternatives?

Posted on 2022-05-18, 02:26

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by foil_fresh

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i have an optical intellimouse 1.1 (scroll wheel, side buttons) and wanted to use the side buttons in W98se. installing intellipoint 4.1 is fine, selecting the device is fine, the side buttons allow me to go back/forward in pages and windows in explorer, which is what i wanted. the problem now is …

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Re: So, what games would you recommend for my Pentium 1 system? Go nuts!

Posted on 2022-05-16, 01:43

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by foil_fresh

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Boppin outsold SQ6 and VGA Planets outsold Doom? lol. looks more like a pirate survey list from somewhere out of the warez scene. Good guess :-) https://groups.google.com/g/comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.adventure/c/cAX9zd31Zzk/m/CIsnFLTmZzsJ "For 52 weeks people from all over the Internet have been sending …

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Re: Day of the Tentacle keeps locking up - CPU too fast?

Posted on 2022-05-07, 07:02

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by foil_fresh

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ratsflif wrote on 2022-05-07, 03:36: Thank you so much. I think it was the ctmouse driver. I copied over the most recent version 2.1 b4 and I played for well over an hour tonight without any lock ups. hey nice. happy tentacle-ing!

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Re: Day of the Tentacle keeps locking up - CPU too fast?

Posted on 2022-05-07, 07:01

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by foil_fresh

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i had the lock-up issue because of an older ctmouse driver in one of philscomputerlab driver packs. dott would lock up a few minutes into the game. i did everything like slowing down the game, trying different soundcards and settings, memory settings. changing to the latest ctmouse driver fixed it …

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Re: Day of the Tentacle keeps locking up - CPU too fast?

Posted on 2022-05-06, 04:05

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by foil_fresh

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i had the lock-up issue because of an older ctmouse driver in one of philscomputerlab driver packs. dott would lock up a few minutes into the game. i did everything like slowing down the game, trying different soundcards and settings, memory settings. changing to the latest ctmouse driver fixed it …

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Re: So, what games would you recommend for my Pentium 1 system? Go nuts!

Posted on 2022-05-06, 03:56

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dormcat wrote on 2022-04-30, 02:53: SETBLASTER wrote on 2022-04-30, 02:20: Top 100 of 1995 Railroad Tycoon? Ultima Underworld 2? You sure about the list was of 1995? it is likely a list of games ranked by sales in 1995, not released in 1995.

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Re: ESS1868F IRQ DOS/WIN98 problems

Posted on 2022-04-14, 03:58

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by foil_fresh

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dos isn't initialising any other hardware than what is needed, so unisound is setting the irq at 5 for the sound card. this setting isn't permanent, it's just the TSR in dos making it up as it starts. which is absolutely normal. the motherboard's resources show you irq 9 because win95 and win98 are …

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Re: April Fools Build ( Spring Forward ) 1.4ghz. Boost.

Posted on 2022-04-14, 02:29

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by foil_fresh

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that's an FX5200 bud

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Re: Is it possible to build a Retro Rig that will run BUILD Engine games at 1280x1024 @ 60FPS?

Posted on 2022-04-14, 00:55

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by foil_fresh

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just wondering, has anyone tested 1440x1080 resolution? will build work on this res? i'm at work and the thought just popped into my head. having pixel perfect 4:3 duke3d would be great on a modern 1080p display...

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Re: Can't get any PCI DOS compatibles soundcards to work on ASUS P4R8L (Ati)

Posted on 2022-04-11, 01:58

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Without knowing for certain, I'd bet my life savings on it being the chipset. With nForce chipsets of the same era, they don't support the features necessary to run the TSRs which emulate DMA which DOS games rely on for digital audio. Any P4 motherboard with an Intel chipset (i845, i865) will be a …

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Re: Can't get any PCI DOS compatibles soundcards to work on ASUS P4R8L (Ati)

Posted on 2022-04-08, 01:13

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by foil_fresh

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Without knowing for certain, I'd bet my life savings on it being the chipset. With nForce chipsets of the same era, they don't support the features necessary to run the TSRs which emulate DMA which DOS games rely on for digital audio. Any P4 motherboard with an Intel chipset (i845, i865) will be a …

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Re: How often do you purchase retro hardware?

Posted on 2022-04-05, 06:01

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once or twice a month, sometimes less if i feel like ive gone over my imaginary budget. i make exceptions for local facebook marketplace sales - if i see something too cheap to pass up then i make an enquiry and hope nobody else has snatched it up. im happy to go for a drive to get a bargain.

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Re: List of PC games that you have not played or beaten yet that you'd like to

Posted on 2022-03-22, 03:18

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I was on a good streak early last year but then kinda faded back into modern online stuff. I finished for the first time: Doom, Duke3d, Blood, Quake, Jedi Knight (and the expansion), Max Payne, C&C1, C&C2, Red Alert, Red Alert 2, XCOM, Monkey Island 2, Sam N Max, Day of the Tentacle, Full Throttle, …

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Re: IBM PS/2 Model 95 (Pentium 60 build w/ MT-32 & OPL2)

Posted on 2022-02-24, 06:58

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by foil_fresh

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https://web.archive.org/web/20140904183648/ht … hp?f=25&t=40179

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