Re: Does anyone remember what bundles with a sb16 card?
Posted on 2013-11-25, 00:45
Anonymous Coward wrote: -Lemmings 🤣 I remember when the world was going crazy over this game...
Re: Disabling onboard RAM on a Compaq CDS 522
Posted on 2013-11-25, 00:43
How does the 16MB or 32MB memory work alone? If these don't disable it, then it's probably going to need some sort of proprietary ram. 😢
Re: 486 Laptop Power Jack
Posted on 2013-11-25, 00:41
You might be able to track down an original or aftermarket power adapter on the Internet via some computer surplus sites. The other thing you might be able to do is track down a service manual for the laptop, which should have the pin out and voltages for you to adapt something.
Re: 16-bit PCMCIA Wireless with WPA?
Posted on 2013-11-25, 00:38
Have you looked into any Xircom ones?
Re: DOS FOR loop over directory?
Posted on 2013-11-25, 00:38
Kahenraz wrote: However, DOS 7.1 does not have the /D switch and will only return files. Wow, that's stupid. Way to go Microsoft! 😠
Re: What CF-IDE adapter, CF brand/type, and CF max size for...
Posted on 2013-11-25, 00:34
FDISK /MBR rewrote the Master Boot Record for the drive. This was important because this is what early viruses destroyed or used to launch their payload. The MBR is before the sectors where the partition tables are, so even if a partition is a primary and set to active, if the MBR isn't right, it …
Re: Found a few old CPUs...
Posted on 2013-11-25, 00:19
The FPU on Cyrix x86 processors was pretty bad, and everyone knew it back then. Before games like Quake, FPU was only important for CAD work, so you'd only buy it for its integer performance. Still, in this age of the components of early modern computing being melted down and recycled in droves, who …
Re: 386 Networking
Posted on 2013-11-25, 00:11
So one thing that hasn't been mentioned here is old Artisoft Lantastic. It ran well as a server or client on any platform from DOS to Win98se. I still run it parallel with MS networking on my 95/98se systems, but it can be a bit tricky to set up. The only disadvantage of it was the memory usage in …
Re: Diamond Speedstar VGA ISA video card, quick test
Posted on 2013-11-24, 23:40
The Speedstar was one of the best ISA cards of its time, especially if it had a decent amount of ram and could run 1024x768x256+. As far as jumpers, most cards had a jumper to manually use IRQ9 or not, and maybe one to enable/disable the card bios. I never found the irq jumper to make much …
Re: Longest longetivity builds of the 90s
Posted on 2013-11-24, 23:33
Lets say you had an almost unlimited budget in the year you bought/built a system in the 1990's which setup would last the longest while still be able to play newer released games satisfactory? It is easy to use all our hindsight when making this list, but here are my top three builds: 1. 1995 …
Re: What do you do with broken hardware?
Posted on 2013-11-24, 23:12
I've never thought about it until this thread. I've had a small pile of stuff that I discover is defective and didn't know exactly what to do with it since I know it's good to someone. Looks like I need to figure out if I want something fixed or whether it's time for the piece to move on to the next …
Re: Turtle Beach Multisound Pinnacle - What is it?
Posted on 2013-11-24, 23:09
This was a pretty high-end sound card for the time, focusing on audiophile quality audio. Unfortunately, it wasn't sb16 compatible, which hurt it for any gaming usage. But the wavetable was very good and comparable to adding a yamaha wavetable. It's a great card if you've got Windows-based sounds.
Re: Finally built a K6-3 pc!
Posted on 2013-11-24, 23:06
I've also seen a few Yamaha DB50XG and XR385 daughterboards pop up on auction sites every now and then. Unfortunately, those daughterboards usually go for over $100.00. :blah: Wow, I had no idea those things were worth so much. I think that's how much we paid for it back in the late 1990s. I even …
Re: Finally built a K6-3 pc!
Posted on 2013-11-24, 23:04
dr.zeissler wrote: FDD: TeacDualFloppy 3,5" 1,44MB 5,25" 1,2MB These were awesome. We actually had 2 sets of these in a 486 we built based on a future domain scsi controller that had native 4-floppy support. It was pretty killer. 😀
Re: The Ultimate 686 Benchmark Comparison
Posted on 2013-11-24, 22:56
Very, very interesting and well-done article and comparison. I don't think even the tech publications of the day did such high-quality comparisons. :cool: I have several Pentium Pro 200s inside a couple of IBM Netvista systems. I never realized how nice of a chip they really are until now. …
Re: Harddrive survival rate IDE vs S-ATA
Posted on 2013-11-24, 22:21
SCSI drives were always rock solid. :) IDE drives got cheaper during that whole 120gb-250gb time period. Of the handful I have, I think about 20% have had issues as well, so it seems like par for the course. SATA came after what seemed like the problem times of IDE was over (500gb+), so the hardware …
Re: The Suitability of the PS/2 for Gaming
Posted on 2013-11-24, 20:23
AFAIR there was only one 3.5" drive. Looked pretty much like this: http://www.classic-computers.org.nz/collection/ps2-30-286-complete-400x.jpg Ahh, then this is the 30-286. :happy: Looks identical to mine. The model 30 had an orange power switch. At first I hated such a solid power switch, but …
Re: The Suitability of the PS/2 for Gaming
Posted on 2013-11-24, 16:25
Those had to be the PS/2 model 30s if it was dual 720k drives. But they were only 8 or 10mhz 8086, not 286 processors. I still remember that built-in GWBASIC. Pretty annoying if a disk went bad. I still have one somewhere that was leftover from being the terminal of our System 36 Days Inn central …
Re: Windows 98SE update list?
Posted on 2013-11-23, 21:23
Hmmm...interesting. I have seen that type of behavior on some of my 98se systems. But as long as whatever I was running was already closed and those files saved for a few minutes before I attempted shutdown, I never cared. I have a script I created to save my 95/98se state and then I can restore it …
Re: The Suitability of the PS/2 for Gaming
Posted on 2013-11-18, 15:39
At some point I would like to build a PS/2 Model 30 80286 again as well. :happy: We actually built ours when it still was a 'current' model. We sunk a lot of money into that machine, but it did a lot of work before we built the 486. After that point, it was just a redundant machine. Would you be …
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