What retro things have you done today?
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Guy on the bay seems to have brand new boxed black Genius ones for £20, includes the floppy drivers, paperwork etc.
Guess you want to go beige?
Yeah, not going black on a 486!
Bundle of software from FB market arrived today. Keeping this lot:
now the question... to break the seal on those disks or not...
Chucked about 20 other disks out that was mainly cereal box crap.
Putting this lot to the side as its semi intersting. Might try send to lgr or something
now the question... to break the seal on those disks or not...
Chucked about 20 other disks out that was mainly cereal box crap.
Putting this lot to the side as its semi intersting. Might try send to lgr or something
£20 inc postage. It was up for 15 but we agreed postage for £5. First time I ever trusted someone for a sale like that..
Just wanted the dell disks tbh. Didnt realise they were sealed as well as the photoshop disks.
I just need a dell mouse now and I have a full set up
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It's another day of half watching/ listening to LGR whilst working, another day of building my 486 back up. At least it can stay built now that W98 PC lives in that M-ATX case!
£20 inc postage. It was up for 15 but we agreed postage for £5. First time I ever trusted someone for a sale like that..
Just wanted the dell disks tbh. Didnt realise they were sealed as well as the photoshop disks.
I just need a dell mouse now and I have a full set up
Wow that's an absolute bargain!
Now subbed to LGR after you guys all saying about it, starting to do the same whilst working
Tomorrow might well be a format the MMX...AGAIN day at this rate. Cannot work out what something did to the sound, the DOS stuff is fine and windows sounds all work. Just seems that direct sound has decided to do one. Dxdiag shows it all there.....bit frustrating really. Wondering if one of the games I installed yesterday put a version of DX on it that it just doesn't like?
What do you use for storage on that box? With my 9x machines I tend to use Compact Flash and take a backup image of them before installing anything that might mess with system files (updates, games, drivers). I also keep a vanilla image ready to go with the basic software I want on any 9x build, but configured with the Standard Display Adapter and no sound drivers. This way I can test different hardware at will, without the need to clean driver or run the risk of conflict.Now subbed to LGR after you guys all saying about it, starting to do the same whilst working
Tomorrow might well be a format the MMX...AGAIN day at this rate. Cannot work out what something did to the sound, the DOS stuff is fine and windows sounds all work. Just seems that direct sound has decided to do one. Dxdiag shows it all there.....bit frustrating really. Wondering if one of the games I installed yesterday put a version of DX on it that it just doesn't like?
Re-imaging 2-5GB of compact flash only takes 5 minutes tops.
This arrived today. Happy with it so far for the cost (£40 delivered locally)
It does up to 110Hz 800 x 600, 130Hz 640 x 480, 90Hz 1024 x 768
One question, in 640 x 480, windows games play at 61.8 Khz - 120Hz. However some older games (even launched in Windows) like Duke nukem 3d run at 31.4 kHz - 59Hz.
Is there a way of settings 120Hz / different refresh rates for lower Khz - 31.4Khz which is VGA scan frequency. Im thinking older games were just designed run run at 60Hz instead of any higher, but could be wrong. Loving the vivid CRT colours again, proper black and all the manual controls
It does up to 110Hz 800 x 600, 130Hz 640 x 480, 90Hz 1024 x 768
One question, in 640 x 480, windows games play at 61.8 Khz - 120Hz. However some older games (even launched in Windows) like Duke nukem 3d run at 31.4 kHz - 59Hz.
Is there a way of settings 120Hz / different refresh rates for lower Khz - 31.4Khz which is VGA scan frequency. Im thinking older games were just designed run run at 60Hz instead of any higher, but could be wrong. Loving the vivid CRT colours again, proper black and all the manual controls
This arrived today. Happy with it so far for the cost (£40 delivered locally)
It does up to 110Hz 800 x 600, 130Hz 640 x 480, 90Hz 1024 x 768
One question, in 640 x 480, windows games play at 61.8 Khz - 120Hz. However some older games (even launched in Windows) like Duke nukem 3d run at 31.4 kHz - 59Hz.
Is there a way of settings 120Hz / different refresh rates for lower Khz - 31.4Khz which is VGA scan frequency. Im thinking older games were just designed run run at 60Hz instead of any higher, but could be wrong. Loving the vivid CRT colours again, proper black and all the manual controls
if your talking about dos mode which is 720x400 (320x200) this natively runs at 70hz. With regards to SVGA VESA modes, I use a tool called unirefresh which you input the horizontal and vertical min/max rates of your monitor (usually found in the manual) and then you can set certain modes to the rate you would like.
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I gave up with my 486 build as it wouldn't post at all. I put the ever reliable 1GHz back and instead installed the Sims 1 which arrived today!
This PC has gone from being a bit meh to one of my favourites. The wireless kbm (even the media keys work on it), it's quiet, small, powerful whilst not being a Pentium 4!
one thing I didn't realise as a 10 year old is how fantastic the music is in this, particularly build mode.
This PC has gone from being a bit meh to one of my favourites. The wireless kbm (even the media keys work on it), it's quiet, small, powerful whilst not being a Pentium 4!
one thing I didn't realise as a 10 year old is how fantastic the music is in this, particularly build mode.
I gave up with my 486 build as it wouldn't post at all. I put the ever reliable 1GHz back and instead installed the Sims 1 which arrived today!
This PC has gone from being a bit meh to one of my favourites. The wireless kbm (even the media keys work on it), it's quiet, small, powerful whilst not being a Pentium 4!
one thing I didn't realise as a 10 year old is how fantastic the music is in this, particularly build mode.
Is that case the ones on eBay for like £18 + shipping?
Love the size of it!
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Yeah it is. Be warned that even with an SFX PSU there isn't really enough room for a short optical drive up top, length wise. It was a bit squeeze!
I have an irrational obsession with sims1. Build mode 1 music gives me chills.I gave up with my 486 build as it wouldn't post at all. I put the ever reliable 1GHz back and instead installed the Sims 1 which arrived today!
This PC has gone from being a bit meh to one of my favourites. The wireless kbm (even the media keys work on it), it's quiet, small, powerful whilst not being a Pentium 4!
one thing I didn't realise as a 10 year old is how fantastic the music is in this, particularly build mode.
It is just pure nostalgia...
In fact thinking about half the machines I have built over the last year as "main" machines all had this game as the benchmark..
if your talking about dos mode which is 720x400 (320x200) this natively runs at 70hz. With regards to SVGA VESA modes, I use a tool called unirefresh which you input the horizontal and vertical min/max rates of your monitor (usually found in the manual) and then you can set certain modes to the rate you would like.
Thanks. Am I being daft here, i've configured the monitor and modes then saved. When I run unirfrsh.com it shows 'loaded successfully' MICROSFT WINDOWS POP-UP PROGRAM SUPPORT' now what?
I tried alt tabbing out and opening a game (duke nukem 3d) which runs at VESA 640 x 480, its starts up and its 31.4Khz, 60Hz. In unirfrsh 640 x 480 modes are all set to 120Hz
What VGA card are you using? I'll take a look at my config later on today. If I'm honest, I only use it in pure dos. I don't really run any of the games in a DOS window, so I don't know if that will have any effect on how the util works.
@paradigm - How do you connect up the compact flash and take images etc. then if you don't mind me asking? interested to give this a go. formatting the box AGAIN this morning so would like to have a better route in the future
Ta