Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow
Posted on 2013-04-10, 07:41
Also, i'm just going to leave this here... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRci3qWeFCA
Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow
Posted on 2013-04-10, 07:40
Funny that you should mention Roses; I hadn't encountered her work before, but I coincidentally watched her enjoyable let's play of Last Half of Darkness with Clint/phreakindee this morning. Two encounters in one day is worth a youtube subscription :) While watching the AGD review, I kept wondering …
Re: My Ongoing Retro Rig Project - Xeon Prime
Posted on 2013-04-09, 18:38
Impressive assembly. I like the bundled wire IDE cables - what are they? Also, where are they plugged in as the IDE sockets appear free? believe it or not, that's the floppy drive cable. Asus had a brain fart and for some ungodly reason, put the floppy drive connector right next to the agp slot. I …
Re: Socket 478 Heatsink Alternatives...**UPDATED**
Posted on 2013-04-09, 16:45
Well, you are already using 300+ watts for the system now. What if you decided to overclock the holy hell out of the video card too? A 500w would be bare minimum. The old power supplies, you want to use them in the 40-70% range anyway.
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2013-04-09, 13:48
@scylla not to burst your bubble. But it wont work. I've tried. Long story short, pentium pro chips only work on pre-agp chipsets.
Re: Retro Fever!
Posted on 2013-04-09, 09:28
there are MMX overdrive chips. just a thought.
Re: My Ongoing Retro Rig Project - Xeon Prime
Posted on 2013-04-09, 01:23
good lord, dual slot 2 xeons in an lian-li. A sexier computer system there is not. I feel REALLY bad putting my xg-dls into a lian-li case. because I installed smoothwall on it (software router), and then I put it in my basement. Where I cant see it. 🙁
Re: The downfall of Firefox
Posted on 2013-04-09, 01:20
Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow
Posted on 2013-04-08, 23:53
wait... mr bigmouth spoiled it for everyone by shouting out the answer? Who would have thought...
Re: Retro Fever!
Posted on 2013-04-08, 16:21
15 pin connector is rather unusual. I have a similar one on my asus board, but it has a special connector the has usb, ps/2, and I/R.
Re: Socket 478 Heatsink Alternatives...**UPDATED**
Posted on 2013-04-08, 16:18
300w!!?? You need moar power- a good 450w unit would do it ... Yep, the Kill-A-Watt shows this gorging dragon is now drawing from the wall 172W at idle & 311W full burner, I better upgrade PSU before something goes up in smoke. if you want a "period correct" power supply, pc power and cooling was …
Re: Retro Fever!
Posted on 2013-04-07, 22:50
*cough* Re: The Ultimate 686 Benchmark Comparison
Re: Retro Fever!
Posted on 2013-04-07, 00:22
it is at least going to be a pentium. the red intel sticker on the front leads me to believe it MAY be the original 66mhz pentium. I would DEFIANTLY get that. SHOW US INSIDE ALREADY!
Re: Socket 478 Heatsink Alternatives...**UPDATED**
Posted on 2013-04-06, 14:10
Oh yes. But it is now impossibly rare. There was ram that could do 533 mhz easy. But those modules were cherry picked 400 mhz ones. I believe the holy grail of ddr ram was BH5. Also "serious" overclockrs only ever ueed 2 512mb modules.
Re: My hardcore V20 NEC 8088 XT build.
Posted on 2013-04-06, 02:33
its only rated for that speed. it will work only as fast as the motherboard will allow it. its like putting a 386-40 into a 386-33 board.
Re: Beast 486 system board
Posted on 2013-04-05, 21:14
well, i bought the case because it supports FULL-AT motherboards. Because eventually I will find a working one of these: http://www.motherboard.cz/mb/asus/P65UP8.htm I just hope I wont have to sell a kidney to get one.
Re: Beast 486 system board
Posted on 2013-04-05, 20:57
I have my dual pentium pro in an IDENTICAL case. Its an okay case, but I'm holding out for something better. isa-only 486 would probably be an easy build. I would assume that VLB would be acceptable. You should make it a challenge and go 486 with E-ISA. Something like this: http://stason.org/TULARC/ …
Re: MS-DOS 5.0 over Compaq dos 3.31
Posted on 2013-04-05, 09:11
when I finish my 8086 it will have ibm dos 5.01 ^.^ Personally I think 5.0 was the best dos, has every feature you could want, before it started getting bloated with version 6.
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2013-04-05, 00:30
oh my, thats sexy.
Re: haveing a hard time reclaiming conventional mem after installing SCSI CD drive
Posted on 2013-04-04, 07:52
I would remove all the device high and lh commands. and start from scratch. Also I don't like memmaker, do you have access to better memory managers? I would look for QEMM 8 it it was up to me.
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