Re: Best CGA & Hercules games
Posted on 2020-03-29, 13:09
Another one I just remembered with Hercules graphics is Sim earth by maxis.
Re: Netburst troll PC part 2: Budget boogaloo
Posted on 2020-03-28, 07:13
LOL, thanks for that really made me smile! I honestly think those netburst Celeron's are the most hopeless, cynical and utterly disappointing x86 CPU's ever made. Can you imagine how someone must have felt "upgrading" from a 800 MHz PIII or Duron or similar to one of these rigs and finding that the …
Re: The 286 IBM miniature build project
Posted on 2020-03-24, 23:32
Neat little system, what's with the wires on the realtek VGA card?
Re: Best CGA & Hercules games
Posted on 2020-03-22, 03:56
He is one of my all time favourite games and it works a treat on Hercules and it's officially been released for free by the original makers also, double bonus! https://streetrodonline.com/downloads/ Get the Street Rod SE version as the hercules files seem to be missing from the original, anyhow no …
Re: HWiNFO for DOS resurrected !
Posted on 2020-03-19, 16:41
Incredibly I finally have both the time and being in the right location to test my Compaq Presario 2232 media GX system. Clock speed reporting is off, as in it's inconsistent from try to try, I actually don't know for certain the speed of the chip, info on this old piece of crap is limited, but as I …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2020-03-10, 12:49
Got a couple of Radeon's today, hoping at least one will play nice with my Opteron, also these famicom games. Filename DSC_0191.JPG File size 205.2 KiB Views 183 views Filename DSC_0192.JPG File size 286.75 KiB Views 183 views
Re: 7-zip benchmarks for over 60 CPUs
Posted on 2020-03-10, 12:09
Added my AMD Opteron 1354(4 cores, 2.2 GHz) & i7 950 to the spreadsheet. Sheet sorted as requested.
Re: Looking for a particular NES game
Posted on 2020-03-10, 10:22
I think Leileilol is right. Weirdly we were playing this one on the Famicom just the other day, it's still in the console! Obake no Q-Taro Wan Wan Panic that roughly translates to Q-Taro the ghost woof, woof panic. The game is from Bandai in 1985 and based around a popular manga and anime series …
Re: Cyrix FasMath Demonstration Diskette
Posted on 2020-03-07, 07:59
Thanks for sharing that, these FPU disks seem hard to track down these days.
Re: Any users of non-popular (lesser known) vintage computers around ?
Posted on 2020-02-21, 06:47
My first computer was a VIC 20 with cassette deck in 1982. Second was an Acorn Electron when they first came out, kept this for years and years, it was mostly compatible with the BBC Micro used in schools etc at the time. I had an Oric Atmos 48K for a good while,they were sold off really cheap when …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2020-02-17, 09:32
On the ps/1 boards the spacing from the riser card is set further to the front than most other systems of this type, notice the forward set back plane casing, I have had this issue for years trying to find a case for my PS/1 386sx board, oddly that case you have there looks to be the exact type I …
Re: Any love for AM2?
Posted on 2020-02-12, 18:48
I use a HP proliant ML-115 Opteron 1354 (4 core, 2.2 GHz), as one of my two daily drivers, 8GB ram and SSD with Linux and it works a treat, absolutely solid as a rock too, never given the least problem. It's got a corsair psu , ancient geforce 6800 video card and even older sound blaster live! It's …
Re: What is the name of this space combat racing game?
Posted on 2020-02-10, 06:17
It's star wars pod racer, arcade version by sega, also on dreamcast, also version on Nintendo 64 and PC (win 9x). I was playing the windows version only the other day on my PIII, Voodoo3 box 😀
Re: Is ST486DX2-80GS cpu a cyrix cpu?
Posted on 2020-02-10, 06:14
Yes, I believe it is a Cyrix core, however it has the 8k cache (WB) according to CPU world so it should perform much the same as comparable intel or AMD chips. I'm not aware of any incompatibilities with the Cyrix 486, I thought those came later with the 6x86 but would be interested to hear more. I …
Re: I think it's time to include first gen phenom
Posted on 2020-02-06, 11:57
Hmm. I'm using a Opteron 1354(4 core, 2.2 GHz, 65NM) based system as a daily driver currently alongside my old i7 rig. It's a HP Proliant ML-115. 8 GB RAM, Geforce 6800, SB Live! , 64 GB Samsung SSD and a couple of SATA hard drives. Running Linux Ubuntu 19.10 I have no problems at all with internet …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2020-02-04, 13:39
This is my latest purchase of retro PC hardware, a nice all ISA 486 motherboard with a UMC U5S 40 MHz CPU and 8 MB RAM, works perfectly and goes well(as all these UMC CPU based boards seem to do). Filename umc u5s.jpg File size 445.13 KiB Views 479 views Filename u5s.jpg File size 497.53 KiB Views …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2020-02-04, 13:31
Either of those CPU's will be fine in a regular socket 7 intel TX motherboard, I have perhaps a dozen Cyrix 6x86 CPU's and ALL have worked fine in my DFI P5BTX/L(I think that's the model!, been so long since I opened that case). So I have run straight 150,166,200+, MX 166,200,233,266,300 & 333 in …
Re: ESCOM Pentium 100
Posted on 2020-02-04, 13:13
Sorry to dig up an old thread but this is/was my dream PC! I had the P75 version of this in the exact same tower case and I have a dream that one day I will own such a machine again as my first PC was from Escom! A few months after purchasing such a beast I ended up working in one of their stores …
Re: Early 90s 386 build as close to period correct as possible.
Posted on 2020-02-04, 13:06
Here's my 386, also very yellow! You can really see it next to the CRT monitor and against the 5 1/4 drive. To be fair I am curious if retro bright might be worth trying also, but at the end of the day it works fine and it's old, so looking old isn't really the worst thing in the world, call it " …
Re: Early 90s 386 build as close to period correct as possible.
Posted on 2020-02-03, 11:47
Brilliant little machine, you can't go wrong with a 386! As for RAM amount, I bought a new 386 PC in 1992, it came with 2mb RAM, I upgraded the following year to 4mb. You may as well leave the 8mb in there however, games won't really use it and it might be handy if you decide to play around with …
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