kyteler 60,503 Posted November 29, 2019 Report Share Posted November 29, 2019 Ain't no mother fucking plug and play in the 90s! Get the interrupt request and dma sorted mate, you'll be right. 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
~Slideways~ 2,170 Posted November 29, 2019 Author Report Share Posted November 29, 2019 2 hours ago, kyteler said: Ain't no mother fucking plug and play in the 90s! Get the interrupt request and dma sorted mate, you'll be right. Lol yep, already tried a few variations with no luck. Google says it’s a common problem too. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
~Slideways~ 2,170 Posted November 29, 2019 Author Report Share Posted November 29, 2019 386 turbo button applied down to 8mhz and playing Sopwith 2 which I don’t think I ever had. Seems like they added a couple of hazards and that’s it. 8 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
doullama 1,733 Posted November 30, 2019 Report Share Posted November 30, 2019 This thread is great, such fond memories of the computer my grandparents bought for us kids in 1992 - IBM 486 33mhz, 4mb ram, 128mb hdd, soundblaster, win 3.1, dot matrix printer, a single speed CD ROM drive that you had to put the disk in a caddy, then into the PC. Cost $7600, and more importantly ran wing commander II. Still have a dot matrix printer at work, its screaming always hits me in the feels. The (second hand) cyrix 266mhz that replaced it sometime in the 2000's seemed like such a huge jump forward in technology 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
~Slideways~ 2,170 Posted December 1, 2019 Author Report Share Posted December 1, 2019 I’ve collected a few old machines, one was free from my wife’s uncle. It’s a beige Dell optiplex with an Celeron 466mhz, 64mb ram and according to the driver an integrated Rage something or other graphics chip. I reinstalled windows 98 SE because a bunch of stuff wasn’t working, including the CD drive. So I had to take the hdd out and plug into another computer then copy the win98 CD files over. It worked fine but it still doesn’t detect the CD drive. Tried swapping cables, two different CD drives. Manually installing a driver etc etc. I even updated the bios firmware. Then I tried swapping the hdd and CD drive cables over at the motherboard end. Now it sees a CD drive but no hdd. Weird. Maybe 2nd IDE is dead. Cant just use a master/slave cable because it doesn’t reach. Maybe I could use a USB CD drive. But anyway, here’s Quake. Man these old games were fun. Different CRT monitor this time, I got this one for my birthday when it was new lol. A good CRT has an awesome crisp image, most went into the bin.... 5 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
~Slideways~ 2,170 Posted December 2, 2019 Author Report Share Posted December 2, 2019 Got win98 machine all working, CD drive and sound. Warcraft 2 with CD audio is awesome. fck yeah: Need to find some 90’s pc speakers: 9 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Adoom 2,509 Posted December 2, 2019 Report Share Posted December 2, 2019 Just now, ~Slideways~ said: Got win98 machine all working, CD drive and sound. Warcraft 2 with CD audio is awesome. fck yeah: Cool! "glitteringprizes" "fogofwar"...not sure if this one was a cheat.... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
~Slideways~ 2,170 Posted December 2, 2019 Author Report Share Posted December 2, 2019 2 minutes ago, Adoom said: Cool! "glitteringprizes" "fogofwar"...not sure if this one was a cheat.... Haha yeah I remember glittering prizes, what about blowing up sheep and ‘stop touching me’ Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Nominal 56,502 Posted December 2, 2019 Report Share Posted December 2, 2019 Reminds me of SPISPOPD Did I get that right? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Adoom 2,509 Posted December 2, 2019 Report Share Posted December 2, 2019 2 minutes ago, ~Slideways~ said: Haha yeah I remember glittering prizes, what about blowing up sheep and ‘stop touching me’ I forgot blowing up sheep by constant clicking. I do remember "stop touching me". 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
kyteler 60,503 Posted December 2, 2019 Report Share Posted December 2, 2019 The only codes you need to know are IDDQD and IDKFA. If you don't know what they're for you can get fucked. 8 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
~Slideways~ 2,170 Posted December 2, 2019 Author Report Share Posted December 2, 2019 3 minutes ago, kyteler said: The only codes you need to know are IDDQD and IDKFA. If you don't know what they're for you can get fucked. Unless you try it in heretic. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
~Slideways~ 2,170 Posted December 2, 2019 Author Report Share Posted December 2, 2019 11 minutes ago, Nominal said: Reminds me of SPISPOPD Did I get that right? I don’t think I knew that one? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Nominal 56,502 Posted December 2, 2019 Report Share Posted December 2, 2019 IDSPISPOPD it should be. Was an in-joke of some Usenet thing IIRC. https://doom.fandom.com/wiki/SPISPOPD 1 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
~Slideways~ 2,170 Posted December 2, 2019 Author Report Share Posted December 2, 2019 Man I remember when Quake came out I was blown away that the demo was huge at something like 12mb. How times have changed. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
governorsam 5,251 Posted December 2, 2019 Report Share Posted December 2, 2019 still got a zx81 somewhere in the shed. and an amiga500 still in the box. 5 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
~Slideways~ 2,170 Posted December 2, 2019 Author Report Share Posted December 2, 2019 11 hours ago, governorsam said: still got a zx81 somewhere in the shed. and an amiga500 still in the box. You'd probably be able to sell the Amiga for a decent price if its still in the box. Collectors love boxed stuff. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bonkas 209 Posted December 3, 2019 Report Share Posted December 3, 2019 @governorsam Keen on Amiga if it's for sale. I have had many old machines over the years, thinking of trying to track some old machines down to relive my childhood. I current have a fully working C64, A C64 with suspected faulty memory and a Amiga1200. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Lord Gruntfuttock 23,886 Posted December 3, 2019 Report Share Posted December 3, 2019 Found a zx spectrum, small telly and box of game tapes at the in-laws. Got no tape player to try them out yet though... 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jakesae101 691 Posted December 3, 2019 Report Share Posted December 3, 2019 @Skodie should get in here he has all his his stuff from back in the day with homebrew mods included 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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