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History of Computer Graphics Cards
Whether you’re into 1980’s computing or Windows 98/XP gaming… You’ll no doubt have put some thought into the video card your vintage computer has (or will have). Some are hunting for the 3D accelerator of the late 90s, while others want a faster DOS card for Doom. Others just want to pick the best CGA/EGA…
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What Makes a Vintage Gaming PC?
These days if you asked a group of people what a retro gaming PC was, you’d get a pile of different answers! That’s because there are entirely different generations who want to re-live a specific era. My experiences spanned 3 of those. I’ll break it down into what I think of as the main ‘generations’…
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[Solution] Frozen on Verifying DMI Pool Data
Had a really frustrating time recently with a M5ATA Biostar Socket 7 board. This system is a Pentium 233MMXQuantum 6GB72pin EDO or 128pin SDRAMW/standard floppy, CDROM & SB sound. It all started with random CDROM errors while reading discs. I thought maybe it was the IDE cables or the drives themselves but I replaced all…
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There’s A Team Preserving Vintage PC Knowledge
Long ago… when you bought a motherboard or an entire computer, you’d get a set of books, installation and driver disks. If you needed help, you could telephone the manufacturer or write a letter. Some had dial-in bulletin board systems (BBS) for support, that’s if your PC was operational or you happened to have a…