Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2016-04-28, 20:27
bjt wrote: Bootable CD is your friend 😀 It can only boot from the Floppy drive (internal or external) or HDD.
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2016-04-28, 20:01
An old Linux distro and a Toshiba Tecra 500CDT, not very clean but it works, with a few broken plastic latches, and the eject drive lever was out all the time and now dead stuck in it's place... Boasting a Pentium 120MHz, slow enough that using my ZV cards on it will have a noticeable impact on …
Re: Compaq Presario 433, my 486 pure DOS machine
Posted on 2016-04-28, 19:39
I tested my Backpack enclosure with Cyberwar and Rebel Assault 2 in SPP mode: Cyberwar 180KB Rebel assault 2 (% of CPU used) 40% 80Kps 50% 93Kps 60% 116Kps Bidirection: Cyberwar 323KB Rebel Assault 2 40% 139Kps 50% 162Kps 60% 198Kps EPP mode: Cyberwar 1000KB Rebel Assault 2 40% 510Kps 50% 454Kps 60% …
Re: PC compatibility cards
Posted on 2016-04-24, 09:41
dr.zeissler wrote: That's the idea. But for the Dos-PC. What NuBus computer do you need the card for?
Re: Iam looking for Diamond Stealth III S540 extreme driver
Posted on 2016-04-22, 11:44
One of the results points to a listing for a magazine cover CD: http://www.kultcds.com/Catalog/index.php?n=18 … ares$2Fcartes3D Getting the .iso for that particular disc was easy on a french old magazines archive website.
Re: Iam looking for Diamond Stealth III S540 extreme driver
Posted on 2016-04-21, 16:00
Here you go, took me about 2 minutes to find! Filename s540extreme_w9x_0301.exe File size 4.31 MiB Downloads 181 downloads
Re: Best OS to use? Slot 1 dual CPU build
Posted on 2016-04-17, 14:03
Haha, you got me! A shame though, it's great...
Re: Best OS to use? Slot 1 dual CPU build
Posted on 2016-04-17, 13:04
The Voodoo5 works like a Voodoo4 in BeOS though, the SLI mode isn't supported, some benchmarks: https://web.archive.org/web/20010606223529/http://www.benews.com/story/3760 It would be a good idea to dual boot BeOS and Windows 2000 or XP, if only for having a better web browser, as the choices for …
Re: Best OS to use? Slot 1 dual CPU build
Posted on 2016-04-17, 12:46
You'll probably need the patched beOS v5 boot floppy and kernel for computers with over 512MB of ram, and the leaked OpenGL drivers that support the Voodoo 3 and 4 cards if you want to play Quake 2 and 3 in hardware-accelerated OpenGL instead of software mode, I assume it can work with the Voodoo 5, …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2016-04-03, 14:12
They were the next big thing indeed, a quote from http://www.beincorporated.com/press/pressreleases/00-10-18_q3results.html: "We will continue to prudently manage our expenses as we take the actions necessary to allow us to fully participate in the Internet appliance market. Independent market …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2016-04-03, 13:12
Open that bad boy up! How hackable is it? Does the Geode processor respond to SETMUL? Does it have the earlier south bridge or the newer AMD influenced one? If it's not locked down, this thing might have the ingredients of a really nice DOS box. I did open it before even turning it on, I'll make …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2016-04-03, 11:25
Bought a BeIA internet appliance, the FIC Genesis 2000: Filename genesis2k-front.jpg File size 21.69 KiB Views 5474 views Filename genesis2k-back.jpg File size 24.48 KiB Views 5474 views
Re: VOGONS Benchmark archive?
Posted on 2016-04-03, 09:27
Here's the Cyberwar demo for DOS: https://mega.co.nz/#!GoIFhKyK!Ok8C9qrZpdksqau … TZ135cLPGC4v5r8 Filename install_001.png File size 23.69 KiB Views 2757 views Filename install_004.png File size 22.77 KiB Views 2757 views Filename install_009.png File size 23.56 KiB Views 2757 views
Re: PCMCIA Graphic and Video decoding cards
Posted on 2016-03-27, 21:24
To finish, the MPEG-1/2 video hardware decoding cards, all needing a laptop with a ZV port. What is a ZV port you might ask, well, check here: https://web.archive.org/web/20010609053253/http://www.multisource.com.au/realmagc/zvfaq.htm For MPEG-1, there is the RealMagic Explorer/EZ Video MPEG - 1/ …
Re: PCMCIA Graphic and Video decoding cards
Posted on 2016-03-27, 18:33
And we follow with the Cardbus cards: appian-card.jpg The Appian Traveler has 4MB of RAM and is compatible with DirectX 7.0, it works under Win9x and 2000. It can handle resolutions from 800*600 upto 1280*1024 in 8, 16 and 24bpp. Website: https://web.archive.org/web/20020716103935/http://appian.de/ …
Re: PCMCIA Graphic and Video decoding cards
Posted on 2016-03-27, 18:29
The Speedy results: VGA.png CT.png T64V800x600256.png Speedy speedmarks vga 5.90 CT LINEAR4 7.38 T64V 640x480 256 19.13 640x480 32k 13.76 640x480 64k 13.76 640x480 16M 8.56 800x600 256 21.60 1024x768 256 23.76 1024x768 32K 16.58 1024x768 64k 16.63 The card is fast but useless for DOS games, any Win3 …
PCMCIA Graphics and Video decoding cards
Posted on 2016-03-27, 18:28
The topic would be very short if it covered only graphic cards, so I'll add MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 hardware decoding cards as well, it seems to be relevant enough... There are 3 different type of graphic cards here, PCMCIA 16-bit, Cardbus 32-bit, and cards for PocketPC/Palmtops, I'll mention the latter …
PCMCIA Storage
Posted on 2016-03-27, 12:00
Does the subject really need a thread? Are there more than Compact Flash to PCMCIA adapters out there? Do they work in DOS? The answers to all those questions are Yes it does, there are and most do, so it's totally relevant to our retro file transferring needs! Let's start at the beginning, here is …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2016-03-26, 12:24
3.60, it's booting off the roms due to an issue with the hdd. I could always slap New Look on this one if I felt like it. Version 3.x is all you really need ;) and is still supported. http://qubeserver.com/Qube/classicriscos.html I've got another flacky system with 4.6 roms but they will go into …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2016-03-25, 12:37
Took over the kichen table playing around with a dodgy Acorn RiscPC for the hell of it: IMAG0258.JPG Nice thing about these is they can take a x86 co-processor card and you can run dos through to Windows 98 no problem. Very nice machine, you seem to run an old version of the system though, from …
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