What retro things have you done today?

someone on here said my case should have a light at the front so i have added one, and i dont think it looks to bad ..

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Unbelievably my £8.89 delivered ebay 754 board with CPU arrived via Hermes today, wasn't sure if would as the guy had 0 feedback and was a total punt. Still need to test it mind

Its new home arrived too - ▷ **B Grade** Kolink Aviator M Micro-ATX Gaming… | OcUK (overclockers.co.uk). had a fairly 90's/early 2000's vibe to it so seemed a fitting style :)

2GB DDr400 ready to go in and after I have tested it works ok with my 6600le, I am thinking either the 9800pro or X800XL wil go in it.

The 9800 is already cozy in my Atlhon 2500+ box and it feels like era wise the 9800>Athlon XP and X800 > Athlon64? Thoughts?
 
Done a bit of soldering today. I had a Yamaha YMF179 which was in the great £8 job lot of 2020 which had lots of rust on the backplate, the joystick port was all rusted up and the output jacks had white residue on them due to I presume moisture. De-soldered the jacks and joystick port and replaced them with clean ones from an old SB-PCI card. Now the card has the AC97 colours on the jacks. I plan to replace the caps, do the low bypass fix and spray the bracket some colour (maybe black like the Diamond MX300)

Also bought a new 486 motherboard. Asus VL/EISA 486 board. I've not messed about with EISA, but this looked like a really nice board. Would like to do a nice high end 486 build around it.
 
The Athlon 64 2800+ chip arrived this morning so I bit the built and threw it in the MSI fingers crossed cheapo board, found a cheap little naff cooler and powered it on. To my amazement all booted first time!

So the base of the 754 build lives which is awesome :)

The HD4850 I paid 1.20 +shipping for arrived too and looks absolutely immaculate. Fingers crossed that is a happy bunny when I fire it up too

Just got shipping update saying that the Abit 9550 and MX420SE are both with my local courier too!

EDIT: They both work too......woohoo!
 
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Not has a good retro day!

I watched some of LGRs XP era videos and went to put together an XP build but none of the boards seemed to work and would "hard turn off" with a power supply click after a few seconds, making me think it was a power supply issue. But after reseating the power supply and its modular cables it seems to be working, but my Q6600 DDR3 system still wasn't.

So I dug out my 975X board even though it has never been the most stable of systems (all wrapped up ready to be sold!) And went to put my Q6600 in there but somehow managed to put a Pentium D 950 in instead!

So now I'm just using my least favourite board with a wtf CPU that I can't be arsed pulling apart the system to change and a rando X1950 XT because 15 year old forum post said it was more powerful than an 8600GT.

Time to play early to mid 2000s XP games I guess!
 
My XP build came about by chance.

Two companies ago, they were having a PC clear out. There was this gem of a Fujitsu Esprimo AMD 64 compact PC which ran XP rock solidly.

Sega Rally with the Microsoft Force Feedback Wheel is retro heaven.
 
phatboy said:
Haha! Nicely done

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Cheers man!

I'm working on a video where I will refurb the 3870x2 (its in really poor condition and has had parts of its backplate actually sawn off!)
Filmed a little practice just unscrewing it all to see how the quality and camera angles would look. Got the approval of my brother (He owns a video/music studio) :)
 
LewisRaz said:
Cheers man!

I'm working on a video where I will refurb the 3870x2 (its in really poor condition and has had parts of its backplate actually sawn off!)
Filmed a little practice just unscrewing it all to see how the quality and camera angles would look. Got the approval of my brother (He owns a video/music studio) :)
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Sounds good, if you have that level of sign off you should be on to a winner :)

We are looking at changing our breakdown and repair guide method for our engineers at work. Thinking about picking up one of the posable desk mounts so you can film properly down on to the desk and have a full overview angle, over your shoulder if you will. At the moment its handheld phone video and snapshots in documents which seems stone age to me!
 
cee-S-dee said:
Really awesome dude. How you capturing your audio? What program and equipment you using?

I got so many cards I'd love to capture audio from.
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I would love to say I have some clever/professional method but it’s literally just a shielded aux cable into my windows 10 PC. Then use the built in “voice recorder” using the line in instead of mic. Then convert those to WAV. Then use FL studio which has a denoiser built in.

oh and I record 3 seconds of nothing at the start so FLstudio can get the “noise profile” that it needs to clear up. The results are nice and clean and quick to do.
 
Added a 16gb CF card to act as drive D:, i didnt want to use a riser slot, so unmounted it and hot glued it to some adjusted plastic mobo mounts

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added the gigabit NIC, but since read win98 is rubbish at transfer speeds, ive kept it in anyway has the netgear install adds a status icon in the taskbar. I disabled the on board lan in the bios, but its still showing in device manager.
 
also i have to socket 775 mobo and CPU spare. one core2duo the other core2quad, both would make good XP builds. both MATX. I tried to sell one before, So if anyone wants it i will reopen the MM post, and add the other one , just looking to cover postage
 
Kurgen said:
Added a 16gb CF card to act as drive D:, i didnt want to use a riser slot, so unmounted it and hot glued it to some adjusted plastic mobo mounts

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added the gigabit NIC, but since read win98 is rubbish at transfer speeds, ive kept it in anyway has the netgear install adds a status icon in the taskbar. I disabled the on board lan in the bios, but its still showing in device manager.
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Interesting. Does this act as your CD drive with mounted ISOs / Cue / other images and does it cause problems with audio or stuttering in games?
I’ve tried mounting cd images on usb2 and hdd and analogue audio creates massive lag in some games.
A device that acted like a fake cd drive with an audio to soundcard connector may work.
A good example is Forsaken, it stutters ever 2 seconds with mounted images and cd audio on. Playing off the cd is fine. I guess it’s a Daemon tools analogue audio problem
 
Guest2 said:
Interesting. Does this act as your CD drive with mounted ISOs / Cue / other images and does it cause problems with audio or stuttering in games?
I’ve tried mounting cd images on usb2 and hdd and analogue audio creates massive lag in some games.
A device that acted like a fake cd drive with an audio to soundcard connector may work.
A good example is Forsaken, it stutters ever 2 seconds with mounted images and cd audio on. Playing off the cd is fine. I guess it’s a Daemon tools analogue audio problem
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i havnt actually tried anything that needs CD Audio, the main game im using it for is Klingon Academy , and i have the original 6x CD-Roms for this. , but yes i am mounting other ISOs directly from the Compact flash card as well but my boot drive was only 4gb so i needed more space for installs. Im still having the occasional issue with shutting down and restarting cleanly, and im not sure if this is the compact flash cards or just forgetting that windows 98 wasnt that stable anyway
 
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