Re: Pentium 200 vs Pentium MMX 200 vs Pentium Pro 200 (256kb & 512kb) DOS Benchmarks
Posted on 2023-11-26, 22:34
Awesome! Miss the days when the PPro was king.
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2023-11-03, 08:52
Got these today： 1. Matrox Millennium II, 8MB of WRAM is integrated on board. 2.MSI MS-4131G, 128K L2 cache installed,The location of the CPU socket is peculiar. MGA-1.jpg MGA-2.jpg MS4131G-1.jpg MS4131G-2.jpg Nice one - I had quite a few from these. At first I couldn't believe that these really …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2023-11-02, 14:00
Got these today： 1. Matrox Millennium II, 8MB of WRAM is integrated on board. 2.MSI MS-4131G, 128K L2 cache installed,The location of the CPU socket is peculiar. MGA-1.jpg MGA-2.jpg MS4131G-1.jpg MS4131G-2.jpg Nice one - I had quite a few from these. At first I couldn't believe that these really …
Re: Okay! Pentium 60 it is: and tips on motherboards or adapting a socket5/socket 7 one?
Posted on 2023-09-16, 12:02
Got my first Pentium60 system in February 1995 and now I have 4 - unfortunately all in generic cases, not a single one of the nicer OEM based ones of yesteryears. If a gfx card does not cooperate in Win9x one has to reconfigure the irqs, which was, in my case, needed to get Matrox cards to work(I …
Re: Picked up a Gateway 2000 P4D-66 - but it isn't...
Posted on 2023-08-15, 11:14
Lovely case.
Re: The Ultimate 486 Benchmark Comparison
Posted on 2023-08-15, 10:43
I had my Gigabyte GA-486 AM/S up and running and used a peltier element with a capable version of the 5x86. It's unfortunately not 100% stable which I can maybe change by hopping onto another board with a variable voltage regulator. Nonetheless a nice experiment. And which Graphic Card is in use …
Re: CRT experience
Posted on 2023-08-13, 12:17
Stil have a few CRTs and always will - an old system without a CRT is a bore. I use cheaper ones for common affairs and spare the better ones(20"+) for rare sessions. Currently in use is a 19" Targa as a workhorse screen. It's a nice CRT but nothing like the big ones from IIyama that I have used.
Re: Pentium Pro
Posted on 2023-07-08, 11:37
The 16bit code issue won't matter with most software as the cpu is fast enough to "render" the issue inane. Addtionally the dos software one is most likely to run on such machines is 32bit as in a DPMI host sitting on top of DOS. I guess a 1MB PPro + fastvid or a Voodoo would be a connoisseur's way …
Re: Were you ever hurt by a computer?
Posted on 2023-07-08, 11:24
In the late 90ies I was working for a small computer store and got countless cuts by the cheapo cases.
Re: 486 board with UMC 8881E/8886B: The winner is: EDO without L2 (if your only other option is L2 at 3-2-2-2)
Posted on 2023-06-23, 10:05
Lovely thread - MkArcher your cache board looks promising! I wonder if speeds above 50mhz fsb are feasible on the late era chipsets... wether UMC or SiS I never got far with optimum timings. I also tried feeding the s/rams with a slightly higher voltage but this did not provide any benefits. The …
Re: Doom2 multiplayer with 56k modem to 56k modem directly attached (is this even possible)
Posted on 2023-05-19, 12:29
Cool! I have never tried it like that. We did it over Null Modem or LAN.
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2023-05-18, 10:54
Got two nice cases - both containing Pentium era hardware(S7 & SS7). Nice! I’d love to find an InWin A500 again. I remember I bored out the tiny vent holes on the bottom front edge to improve airflow. I think that was around the time that we all collectively started to worry about those sorts of …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2023-05-18, 10:53
gerry wrote on 2023-05-17, 14:23: amadeus777999 wrote on 2023-05-17, 10:18: Got two nice cases - both containing Pentium era hardware(S7 & SS7). these look good! planning to keep as S7 era? I'll put a socket 4 board into it as I'm not really into S(S)7. From a practical point of view S7 is nearly …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2023-05-17, 10:18
Got two nice cases - both containing Pentium era hardware(S7 & SS7).
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2023-05-01, 07:39
Hello, I looked everywhere for your reply, I read it and then totally forgot in which thread it was in! I even created a new thread to try and obtain the answer, here: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=93935 But I can just delete it and ask here: could you please elaborate on the …
Re: Post your Wintune97 scores here!
Posted on 2023-04-30, 17:21
Cool - I really dug WinTune95. Will run this later on - Thx.
Re: Sony CRT TVs and Monitors "breathing" and brightness problem - which caps/parts to replace to fix it?
Posted on 2023-04-30, 17:15
I personally have only adjusted the (trinitron) G2 brightness issue via cable/software.
Re: DIY MS-DOS loading screen
Posted on 2023-04-30, 17:07
Maybe 'typedef enum { false, true } Boolean;' would be a bit more elegant. Is the 'getch()' in BC++ similar to the usual 'getchar()' or similar to the one which could also be found in old Visual C?
Re: USB to Serial Mouse using the Pi Pico!
Posted on 2023-04-30, 15:17
Awesome work!
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2023-04-30, 12:41
I'm from Germany. Here I still see CRTs being offered from time to time, but mostly they are too far away to pick them up. But from my observations over the last 3-4 years they are getting rarer. And yet there doesn't seem to be much interest in them because if an ad shows up it doesn't disappear …
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