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Message 844488 - Posted: 24 Dec 2008, 7:30:45 UTC
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I would like to use the classic Seti@home as I did back in 2001.. I cannot remember the exact year... this new version doesn't run on my old computer well. I would like to use the version shown HERE but I cannot find it. Help me please :)
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Message 844515 - Posted: 24 Dec 2008, 10:25:58 UTC - in response to Message 844488.  
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It's no longer alive. It died a long time ago, while its hardware is no longer hooked up. You can see its old hardware still sitting in the server closet gathering dust on this page, last photo.

Read SETI@home Classic: In Memoriam

BOINC is the only option you have. Sorry.
(I wouldn't call an AMD 2800+ old hardware. I am running Seti and 7 other projects (out of 40 that I am attached to) on an AMD 2200+ .. it's still going well.)
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Message 844848 - Posted: 25 Dec 2008, 3:54:09 UTC - in response to Message 844515.  

Well, I was thinking about digging out the older computer(when I was using the old seti@home) and have it run often, but when I saw how choppy the graphics were on this computer I decided not to and ask if there was a way to use it.

Since there isn't a way I'll just run it on this computer. Thanks for your help :)
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Message 848013 - Posted: 2 Jan 2009, 4:40:43 UTC - in response to Message 844848.  

We had a competition a while back to see who had the slowest computer running SETI@Home BOINC. The winner was, I believe a 45MHz Pentium. If you just disable the graphical screen saver (use blank or default for the screen saver) S@H will probably run just fine. (I thought I had a lock on the competition, but my 90MHz Pentium was soundly beaten. My 90 has since died (shrug).).


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Message 858324 - Posted: 27 Jan 2009, 0:26:17 UTC - in response to Message 848013.  

COMMAND LINE!

Thats what we need for the really slow machines.
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Message 858363 - Posted: 27 Jan 2009, 1:19:10 UTC - in response to Message 858324.  

COMMAND LINE!

Thats what we need for the really slow machines.


BOINC comes with command line tools by default. BOINC.EXE supports command line operation and runtime arguments/switches.
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