Re: Why is a DX2-66 without Cache faster than a PIII without Cache?
Posted on 2010-09-07, 08:47
Yes and you can disalbe L1 as well as L2 in the BIOS of most PIII boards. L2 cache has basically zero impact. And L1 cripples the cpu...
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2010-09-07, 08:34
Stuff works fine, but the FreeDOS CD doesn't pick up my optical drive. It boots fine but when it loads the driver it just says, no CD found. Well my floppy cable will be here soon, so I can try the W98SE boot disk and see if that CD Rom driver works! Took some pics. Benchmarks are full speed and …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2010-09-07, 07:33
Another box came today! It was another "bundle" purchase. I really just wanted that slot 1 board, but it came with some other bits and peaces as well... Link to mainboard specs: http://www.gigabyte.com.au/products/product-page.aspx?pid=1445&dl=1#sp Will flash the bios right away and and see if the …
Re: Sound Blaster Pro exclusive games
Posted on 2010-09-07, 05:20
Sorry to bump this thread... I am looking for a game that will play stereo on a Soundblaster Pro 2.0 but will play mono on a Soundblaster 16 and also doesn't have support for the Soundblaster 16 natively... And just for clarification, this issue only applied to digital audio (speech, sound effects)? …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2010-09-07, 02:57
archsan wrote: btw, won this yesterday: Did you pick it up? Because I saw such an item on eBay Germany the other day. I didn't bid, but I got another item. A midiman MM401 for 3 Euros 😁
Why is a DX2-66 without Cache faster than a PIII without Cache?
Posted on 2010-09-06, 23:54
I came across this excellent post: http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=25232&highlight=cache Now I wonder why the 486DX2-66 only gets a slight performance drop from disabling L1 cache, yet when I do the same on any Socket S370 cpu, the performance nose dives and it doesn't even reach the speed of …
Re: Got my first box of oldschool parts!
Posted on 2010-09-06, 23:49
Yep, thats what it boils down to. Slot1 ist the only option to almost come full circle: With 1000 MHz without cache, you reach a fast 386. Ok now I am interested! Slot1 or socket 370 shouldn't really matter? Or does it? My PIII @ 1 GHz only nets me a slow 386SX 20 MHz. If I could get a fast 386 I …
Re: What DOS games are good for testing if a machine is to fast?
Posted on 2010-09-06, 23:45
Ahhh yes Test Drive 3 I remember that game :-D Well so far I haven't come across a game that doesn't run with the "cache disabled" trick... That's more or less what I am trying to find out. If most games are able to be played with this trick... There are many games past 1994 which have speed issues. …
Re: What DOS games are good for testing if a machine is to fast?
Posted on 2010-09-06, 13:43
Theme Park Hmm are you sure? That's quite a young game released in 1994 with the Pentium already on the market...
Re: What DOS games are good for testing if a machine is to fast?
Posted on 2010-09-06, 12:05
Yea I am very interested to hear what they sound like... They do not have a OPL chip for FM synthesis so they are using the wavetable system to emulate FM synthesis. It does support General Midi though and also Adlib Gold? Well I will check it out for sure 😁
Re: AGP Pro
Posted on 2010-09-06, 11:39
Yea my Asus uATX board with i815 chipset has an AGP Pro slot. There is a sticker over the very first section of the slot which you need to remove if you insert a AGP Pro card.
Re: Sound Blaster ISA Cards
Posted on 2010-09-06, 11:23
ux-3 wrote: Send me the 50 bucks plus postage, and I'll send you 3 SB ISA cards any time. Can I choose which model? 🤣
Re: What DOS games are good for testing if a machine is to fast?
Posted on 2010-09-06, 11:12
That's an exaggeration. I could never get those things or the SB Live cards to play under DOS. Hmm there might be a few reasons. My research so far has shown me that there where only a few models that used the Ensoniq chip from the Ensoniq AudioPCI. I believe yours doesn't use this chip at all... I …
Re: What DOS games are good for testing if a machine is to fast?
Posted on 2010-09-06, 10:37
Well Ultima 6 runs perfect! Smooth scrolling. Smooth fades. A bit boring though because I don't have any sound yet :-( However I feel like there is limit as to how fast I can get this machine. I have ordered a 1.4 GHz cpu which is the fastest model for this board, but I fear it will only have a …
Re: What DOS games are good for testing if a machine is to fast?
Posted on 2010-09-06, 10:25
Clash of steel seems fine! I didn't play a lot because I don't have a mouse yet. The computer moved his units, I could hear some firing from the PC speaker... Will try Ultima 6 now...
Re: What DOS games are good for testing if a machine is to fast?
Posted on 2010-09-06, 10:12
Well my PIII 1 GHz with cache enabled gives me a Norton SI 8.0 score of 16.7 which makes it a 386SX 20 MHz. Wing Commander 1 played fine, a bit on the slow side, but this makes it also an easier game... I haven't got a joystick so I can't do the calibration, but I will try SSI's clash of steel and …
What DOS games are good for testing if a machine is to fast?
Posted on 2010-09-06, 09:26
What games are known to be good tests to see if a slowdown is working well? Looking for something that works well on a 386 but breaks on faster machines... I am confident you guys know of a few good "candidates"...
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2010-09-06, 07:47
Well I didn't have any luck booting from that CF. I can fdisk it, I can format it. I can sys it. I can copy stuff onto it. I can run games from it. But I just can't boot from it... It doesn't hang or anything, just stops right before it should load the OS... Tried two mainboards, master, slave, …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2010-09-06, 05:55
Got some more bits! - 2gb CF card - CF - IDE adapter - Notebook drive IDE adapter - Midi cable for joystick ports
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2010-09-04, 13:45
Not really Retro stuff, but the purchase is related to my current Retro PC project! 2x Black Floppy drives (Hardly any shops sell floppy drives, let alone black ones!) 1x Samsung IDE DVDRW
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