Recent content by imported_Kiwi

Funny you should mention 440BXes. I had an SE440BX when it was new, and I have another one available now, but I chose the Abit BX-6 (same chipset) over Intel's because of the superior setup in the BIOS. The one I had in 1998 was unreliable, uncooperative, bad acting all around. I swore off...

I suppose you mean the fact that I use the nickname of NZ residents, which I can because I was born down under to U.S. parents there on a job that there weren't enough experienced Aussies / New Zealanders available to handle (Geophysical Search Teams). Meanwhile, I have found the Xfce user...

I've come across illustrated user guides to Gnome and KDE, although not to XFCE. It was from those that I got the impression that KDE would be a lesser dimension of paradigm shift than Gnome, and all of the Debians seemed to claim to run on relatively old hardware in relatively small amounts of...

Someone educate me on the Virtual stuff; isn't it like DOSbox in a way, chewing up a great many CPU cycles from a modern system to emulate a 386, and not even a fast 386? I have several potential "period" hardware systems matching the games I think I want to play. I was working overtime in...

Specifically, old games are the proposed subject matter for the *Nixes to chew on, along with WINE. I've been having tons of problems with the Windows98se installs going straight into the super slow motion mode of the candidates tested for the Retro PC Gaming Platform (one breadbiarded rig with...

I'm considering either Kubuntu or Xubuntu, for a relatively old 384 MBs (max) PC I've built from the discard pile/ shelf / cabinet where old parts go. Which of those GUIs will a long-time W98 / W2K user (shorter time with XP -- kept resisting that one until fairly recently) find easier to...

I do have a setup on which I've installed DOSbox, but the fact is, at the data point I have in mind, Win9X was already dominant. Also, the journey from scratch to working system is at least as important as whatever games I choose to test the system(s) with. I've bought some PC-66 RAM on eBay...

I have a matched pair of Intel 810 (s370, Pentium3) MBs I doubt that I will ever use; they were in a lot of six, all of which were supposed to have been reconditioned/ refurbished by Intel. I have more MBs as well, but AFAIK, the rest are almost certain to be only useful as sources for parts...

During those years (end of the 90s), I was covered up in work, with little free time for myself, especially not to play many PC games. I want to recreate a couple of PCs of the sort that a well-fixed gamer might have owned, to play some of those old games, but as well as anyone back then could...

Well, fancy that! CD music is "analog" sound, after all, but enabling the digital setting definitely did the trick on THIS one (my own next-oldest in regular service, used for 'Net surfing, eMail, file backup, forum messaging, & just overall workhorse). I should be able to walk her through...

When CD players were new on the scene, there was a cable you had to connect from the back of the drive to either your audio card, or a header for your onboard sound. I haven't seen those cables included with optical drives in a very long time, and I don't think I've had any legacy ones I kept...

This seems to be a thread close to what I have in mind. I've never used AOL for mail, and this reply makes it seem that you don't normally "keep" copies of anything on your own system. I haven't even been able to find a local copy of a bookmarks file. My daughter in law uses AOL's browser and...

That happens to be a situation that I've run into while setting up a Retro Platform for a couple of old games, and would like a 'Cleaner that works in Win98se, but if there's one out there any longer, it hasn't shown up in extensive use of Google . . Suggestions, anyone?

I thought about that, but I'd skipped from a P2/400 to an Athlon 1.3 in a Gigabyte ZXE (KT133A), and from there to an nVIDIA NF2 Asus A7N8X. Part of the charm was keeping the twin (the second started after familiar problems started up with the first one) pair from costing much of anything...

The prospect of using "period" hardware with the matching OS seemed reasonable when it rose, and I've never tried too hard to sell the older gear as it was set aside after upgrades, so I had almost enough for two PCs when I'd started. The Sound Blaster Live! cards wouldn't work for me in either...