Re: 3 (+3 more) retro battle stations
Posted on 2023-11-26, 15:33
One of the benefits I noticed with MR BIOS on my PKM 0033 was that it allowed me to use the Cyrix 5x86.
Re: Alaris Leopard Rev C 486SLC2 (MR-BIOS???)
Posted on 2023-11-23, 15:05
I believe we have a dump from a Rev A board. Perhaps the BIOS on the Rev C board has improvements.
Re: Alaris Leopard Rev C 486SLC2 (MR-BIOS???)
Posted on 2023-11-23, 14:04
Did your board come with MR BIOS？If so, please dump.
Re: Alaris Leopard Rev C 486SLC2 (MR-BIOS???)
Posted on 2023-11-23, 01:44
What is your board revision?
Re: Help with older 386 motherboard - Samsung Sensor PC - VLSI - VL82C320 / VL82C331
Posted on 2023-10-23, 05:43
V019B301 VLSI301 VLSI TOPCAT / Intel-340 386 SX/DX, non-cache V019B302 VLSI302 VLSI TOPCAT / Intel-340 386 SX/DX, non-cache, with 82C106 combo chip V019B312 VLSI312 VLSI TOPCAT / Intel-340 386 SX/DX, 385 cache, with 82C106 combo chip These notes indicate the ROMS are for both the SX and DX version. …
Re: My Very Long Bus Adventure.
Posted on 2023-10-16, 16:30
The image of the Motion 771 is a little blurry, but it appears to have a VRM under the VGA port. Perhaps the memory chips are 3.3V? If possible, measure the voltage coming out of it.
Re: Should a Diamond Speedstar Pro (CL-GD5426) work in Win3.1 in 286 real-mode?
Posted on 2023-10-13, 00:49
Okay. I’m I’ll try to look into it today. Probably around ‘93 or ‘94 these 5.25” disks were transferred to 3.5”, but unfortunately there were written over at some point.
Re: Should a Diamond Speedstar Pro (CL-GD5426) work in Win3.1 in 286 real-mode?
Posted on 2023-10-11, 06:50
If I redump, is there an easy way of determining the integrity of the file without resorting to an installation procedure?
Re: Where to obtain 110 MHz RAMDAC for ARK1000VL graphics card?
Posted on 2023-10-09, 01:41
Damn. I miss my Umax SCSI flatbed scanner. Yes, I think it would be nice to have a full scan of the manual. Include the front and back covers of the book too if possible. Is there anything interesting on the original diskettes that's not included in the barebones version? Disk images would probably …
Re: Where to obtain 110 MHz RAMDAC for ARK1000VL graphics card?
Posted on 2023-10-02, 04:23
AC: User WJG6260 owns the printed Bali32 manual. A few months ago, he sent me some select pages concerning the video modes and the 2MB upgrade. Unfortunately, it had been scanned it as large resolution colour images, so the PDF size is too large to attach. However, I have been able to convert it to …
Re: Where to obtain 110 MHz RAMDAC for ARK1000VL graphics card?
Posted on 2023-10-01, 08:37
Which you do. Unless you use the patched BIOS, you just install the missing memory, and you get access to 1280x1024x256c (albeit interlaced). On the other hand, the manual does not claim that the PCBs for the 80MHz and the 110MHz version is identical. I see that you compared your card with the 110 …
Re: The 486 I swore I'd never build.
Posted on 2023-09-20, 08:24
Weird. We’ll if that’s the case then finding that chip should be a priority. Cache that’s always dirty isn’t much better than going without.
Re: The 486 I swore I'd never build.
Posted on 2023-09-20, 02:44
Cache performance should be fine as long as you don't enable write back.
Re: Gainbery MAXimizer Cyrix 5x86-133
Posted on 2023-09-03, 14:24
If you want to know if it's AMD or Cyrix, just run speedsys. No need to remove the heatsink.
Re: 386 dx40 boots okay, but only using 8bit ISA
Posted on 2023-09-02, 23:55
Check the pins in your isa slots. Maybe one of the slots is broken.
Re: Which of these 3com cards is the fastest for a 486 66mhz? ?
Posted on 2023-09-02, 23:45
Running a 486 66mhz, which of these would be the fastest? Etherlink III 3c509B-TP Etherlink III 3c509-C Etherlink III 3c509B-C The shipping is expensive where I live (canada) so I wanted to know which would be the best one to get. Make sure you get the one with TP, because you’ll need it for your …
Re: 3 (+3 more) retro battle stations
Posted on 2023-08-31, 04:26
https://websrv.cecs.uci.edu/~papers/mpr/MPR/ARTICLES/071702.pdf https://websrv.cecs.uci.edu/~papers/mpr/MPR/ARTICLES/080101.pdf https://websrv.cecs.uci.edu/~papers/mpr/MPR/ARTICLES/080201.pdf https://websrv.cecs.uci.edu/~papers/mpr/MPR/ARTICLES/080602.pdf https://websrv.cecs.uci.edu/~papers/mpr/MPR/ …
Re: 3 (+3 more) retro battle stations
Posted on 2023-08-30, 13:50
That was a pretty interesting read. In the report, there is no mention of a 386DX pinout version of the SXL2. It also states that the 168-pin version of the SXL2 is 486SX pin compatible, which is obviously not the case. I wonder if there are other reports from this magazine on TIs later 486 …
Re: 3 (+3 more) retro battle stations
Posted on 2023-08-21, 16:00
After all these years, we're still digging up newly discovered chipset vendors. There must have been over a hundred at some point.
Re: Turbo Bus 386 Mother Board
Posted on 2023-08-19, 13:42
That's interesting. The manual lists the DTC series numbers: 7000 Series - High Performance MFM/RLL Controllers 6000 Series - High Performance ESDI Controllers 5000 Series - Standard MFM/RLL Controllers 3000 Series - SCSI Host Adapter Your controller isn't merely a standard RLL controller, but a " …
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