What retro things have you done today?

Kurgen · 6 Mar 2022 at 14:10

Armageus said:
Pushing the definition of retro! Nice build though

its got a windows 10 license activated to the motherboard so i just installed for ease. It was more about using the retro case. Ive got a couple of other small SSDs so might try XP as well. although i would like some kind of dual boot if thats even possible with XP and 10

Retro6 · 6 Mar 2022 at 14:13

Armageus said:
Pushing the definition of retro! Nice build though

I think most of us have pushed the boundaries of retro a tiny bit. I would like to do an XP build that is capable of playing GTA5 and Driver San Francisco.

Bubo · 6 Mar 2022 at 15:52

Armageus said:
Pushing the definition of retro! Nice build though

As a side note, there really ought to be a Sleeper case sub thread on here, would probably fit under the definition of this sub forum maybe.

LewisRaz · 6 Mar 2022 at 16:07

Swapped over my CD drive and still although the CDs work straight away now I still got a hard lock once I tried to launch a game

Looking at the PSU now. (Or perhaps the USB mouse, it has given me crap before)

Retro6 · 6 Mar 2022 at 16:18

LewisRaz said:
Swapped over my CD drive and still although the CDs work straight away now I still got a hard lock once I tried to launch a game

Looking at the PSU now. (Or perhaps the USB mouse, it has given me crap before)

Sometimes faulty ram can cause issues. I did a retro build not long ago where I thought my hard drive was bad and every hard drive I tried on it and it turned out to be faulty ram.

What OS are you using? if its Windows 95 / 98 its better to use a PS/2 mouse.

LewisRaz · 6 Mar 2022 at 16:20

It was the mouse. Using a serial one now and the PC is fine!

Retro6 · 7 Mar 2022 at 19:49

I picked up a dumped a NEC Pentium 4 PC, motherboard totally shot and power supply leaking caps. PC case in very good condition. I tested the motherboard with a different PSU but no life. I have a spare socket 370 board and Pentium III 800 MHz processor to chuck in there and seeing that the PSU is shot as well I've got another to replace it with but got to change the connector on the PSU to make it compatible with the socket 370 board. I need to get more heat shrink and I'm low on solder. I feel another Windows 98 machine coming on. The case is beautiful white and blue with a working floppy and white DVD combo drive.

tenofspades · 8 Mar 2022 at 12:09

was playing playstation yesterday, loading up Duke Nukem(dated), Tomb Raider (holds up reasonably), Crash Bandicoot 2 (Classic), and Crash Bandicoot 3(reasonable).

Kurgen · 8 Mar 2022 at 16:43

bought a DVI to HDMI cable to go from PC to Monitor, description ssys it works this way around, but nothing, sending back... edit does work, pc PC is stuck in a reboot cycle. this is the i7 920 in the blue case

Retro6 · 8 Mar 2022 at 23:24

I had some free time this morning so my plan was to raid a couple CEX stores for cheap goodies. I got some nice DELL 8GB USB drives plus a 16GB TOSHIBA one. A couple of 80GB hard drives for 50p each which always come in handy for those Windows 98 builds. I was going to do another CEX store but I ran out of time and had to go to work. I might get some time tomorrow to look for more hardware bits for more retro PC builds.

almoststew1990 · 9 Mar 2022 at 08:56

Kurgen said:
i7 920 pc installed, its got windows 10 for now might add a second drive for XP

The other day I had my i7 860 up and running at 3.8GHz, playing Horizon Zero Dawn and CP77 on a 2070 Super. It's crazy that the same PC can be an excellent XP PC with proper chipset support using IDE devices and a PCI SB Audigy and swapping out the 2070S for my old GF780.

Guest2 · 9 Mar 2022 at 11:45

Dug out an old monitor played some Behind the Iron gate

Retro6 · 10 Mar 2022 at 10:45

I wont mention the site on here but I downloaded Need For Speed - Hot pursuit 2 with serial key and I burned the ISO to CD because it was to much work to get it to run from USB but I still can't play it because the game crashes before it even starts. It seems to be the case with a lot of retro downloadable games the majority are a waste of time for example I could download 100 retro games and only a handful of them will actually work.

I'll just have to buy this game I think its only a couple pound on the bay.

Tee Hee Johnson · 10 Mar 2022 at 10:54

I went and picked up a 440BX based system near Edinburgh, finally got a chance to look at it last night.

An ASUS p2b with a 300A celeron overclocked to 450Mhz... which is nice. I quite like this board tho, so might do the bios and see what slot PIII's i have kicking about.

Ensoniq 1370 AudioPCI and a Diamond SpeedStar A50, neither of which I had already, so thats kinda cool too.

NinjaCool · 10 Mar 2022 at 14:27

Been sorting through some old PC games so thought it's time to take some pictures.

Armageus · 10 Mar 2022 at 14:33

NinjaCool said:
Been sorting through some old PC games so thought it's time to take some pictures.

Colonization - still one of my favourite games of all time!

NinjaCool · 10 Mar 2022 at 17:57

Here are 3 classic games that I enjoyed a lot as a kid, and Settlers might actually be my most played game when combining my Amiga and PC gaming sessions together.

Armageus said:
Colonization - still one of my favourite games of all time!

Colonization is a great game and Sim City I rate high as well, including the sequel SC 2000 as graphically it was a big improvement over the first one.

manisses · 10 Mar 2022 at 19:10

Tee Hee Johnson said:
I went and picked up a 440BX based system near Edinburgh, finally got a chance to look at it last night.

An ASUS p2b with a 300A celeron overclocked to 450Mhz... which is nice. I quite like this board tho, so might do the bios and see what slot PIII's i have kicking about.

Ensoniq 1370 AudioPCI and a Diamond SpeedStar A50, neither of which I had already, so thats kinda cool too.

I always was fascinated by the Celeron 300A, reading about it in magazines when I was a kid about how it overclocks. Me, still with a Pentium 133 I was dreaming about that one. I've got a couple of them, but I never build a system. When I'll have time I will build a system around it.

Tee Hee Johnson · 11 Mar 2022 at 12:50

manisses said:
I always was fascinated by the Celeron 300A, reading about it in magazines when I was a kid about how it overclocks. Me, still with a Pentium 133 I was dreaming about that one. I've got a couple of them, but I never build a system. When I'll have time I will build a system around it.

Yeah I always thoguth it was a funny move, gimping the Celerons by removing the cache then creating the 300A which has a nice fast cache... albeit not the largest

almoststew1990 · 11 Mar 2022 at 21:14

I'm tempted even though I'm in the process of moving house...

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