Re: Does anyone recongnize this computer/case
Posted on 2022-06-16, 00:58
I found the case! below is a picture I drew from memory in 2017 of what I remember it looking like and a picture someone else took of one they had.
Re: do full height hard drives have any value?
Posted on 2022-06-12, 08:44
If you dig it out and its working dont forget to let us know what you find ! i actually googled around a bit and it seems like full height drives of that size were possible/somewhat normal. I even see a full height drive that was 23gb! I'm remembering the drive was scsi so might be a real simple …
Re: do full height hard drives have any value?
Posted on 2022-06-12, 08:25
are we talking about full height 5.25 drives ? or full height 3.5 drives ? there are about 8 5.25 full height drives , 2 or 3 5.25 half height drives. and just one full height 3.5 drive. one thing thats weird is I think one of the 5.25 full height drives is like 3000mb (3gb) in size. I know they …
do full height hard drives have any value?
Posted on 2022-06-12, 08:15
do old full height hard drives have any value these days? I know modern flash replacements basically made these things useless as far as actual ease of use goes. but do they otherwise have any value outside of just being neat to look at/take apart? I have a about 8 full height hard drives and like …
Re: need help finding dos driver for plus hardcard II xl 105
Posted on 2021-04-06, 21:10
I actually have the original driver disk for my hardcard 105 but it's revision E from maybe 1990 so i'm not sure if it's any different from what was linked already
Re: need help finding dos driver for plus hardcard II xl 105
Posted on 2021-04-06, 21:03
i also have the hardcard 105 and have installed it into a windows 95 era packard bell , and yes you can read the drive and pull info off of it but you cant write to it. My goal however was to simply rescue the data from it before it possibly dies. My hardcard 105 turned out to have a windows 3.1 …
Re: USB Devices heavily slow down my Pentium III
Posted on 2021-04-06, 20:45
I think you might be just hitting an operating system issue. I use WFFLP on my older configs that can run it and don't experience this issue. The way something like xp SP3 uses the usb ports might have changed significantly vs 2001 or vs 2006 when WFFLP was made. If I had to make a pure guess it's …
Re: P3 temp sensor
Posted on 2021-04-04, 22:55
Overheating was a major concern since Pentium 66. In fact, some S7 era mobos were using external sensor. Yeah but a lot of s7 machines and even slot 1 didn't even use/need thermal paste. Some just ran big passive heat sinks too. Anyway , I assume the p3 667mhz model doesn't mind the lack of thermal …
Re: Gotek-like emulator drive for CDs?
Posted on 2021-04-04, 22:39
Deksor wrote on 2021-04-04, 22:35: having CD audio ah , yeah thats a problem. who would have thought running the audio directly from the cd drive straight out the back of the machine wouldn't be a good idea? 🤣. definitely offloaded stuff at the time , but now is just annoying.
Re: P3 temp sensor
Posted on 2021-04-04, 22:35
The Serpent Rider wrote on 2021-04-04, 22:16: Not with general recommendations to build P3 retrorig. Guess it comes back to the old "at what point do you need a heaksink / thermal paste" debate. I guess my confusion stems from.... if there's no temperature sensor , then overheating probably wasn't …
Re: P3 temp sensor
Posted on 2021-04-04, 22:14
red-ray wrote on 2021-04-04, 22:00: if it uses fans and they fail The Serpent Rider wrote on 2021-04-04, 21:49: 20+ years with original thermal paste. I guess I assumed anyone still using pentium 3 wouldn't be a novice
Re: P3 temp sensor
Posted on 2021-04-04, 21:31
The Serpent Rider wrote on 2021-04-04, 21:09: I don't think a pentium 3 really needs a temperature sensor Famous last words. Does it? To my knowledge they don't really get that hot while using even pretty basic heat sinks. Maybe the 1ghz+ ones do. But I think sub 1ghz models are fine so long as the …
Re: Gotek-like emulator drive for CDs?
Posted on 2021-04-04, 21:05
in theory could this not be done somewhat by making a CF card slot and simply writing the cd contents to a cf card? I get it wouldnt have the switching between multiple cd's thing but it's a start
Re: 4GB disk in an old 486?
Posted on 2021-04-04, 20:51
I think this video can help , I've never gotten it to work so this is as far as I can help https://youtu.be/sI7U9LYbt28
P3 temp sensor
Posted on 2021-04-04, 20:37
I tried googling this first but the results were inconclusive. Does the pentium 3 have a temperature sensor? I've also heard that the board has to support temperature sensor monitoring possibly. I don't think a pentium 3 really needs a temperature sensor but i was just curious as I was installing …
Re: Isa sound card that can play back higher quality audio?
Posted on 2020-10-08, 03:56
cyclone3d wrote on 2020-10-05, 22:32: How much L2 cache do you have? i think it has zero l2 cache , but idk that l2 cache would help with sound playback , if someone want to try their own machine with removable l2 cache to see what it does that be neat to see
Re: Isa sound card that can play back higher quality audio?
Posted on 2020-10-05, 20:35
Sounds like the MPEG card and driver isn't configured. I can play full screen video with good quality audio (i.e VCD) that is smooth on my 25MHz 486SX. ok well the video aspect has already been finished and works very well so now it's more the audio thats the issue. What are your full system specs? …
Re: Isa sound card that can play back higher quality audio?
Posted on 2020-10-05, 15:26
Jo22 wrote on 2020-10-04, 22:02: There's another, lesser known on. The OS/2 video codec (Ultimotion) . It was also released for Win-OS/2. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=H3BYvPDdRcQ your link only goes to a youtube video and not and encoder or anything i can use
Re: Isa sound card that can play back higher quality audio?
Posted on 2020-10-05, 15:24
Are you using a MPEG decoder card to free up CPU resources? It will enable you to have full motion video in full screen with high quality audio. the machine has mpeg decoding but the machine is far to slow to make use of it. the only mpeg based video it can playback is lower quality than just …
Re: Isa sound card that can play back higher quality audio?
Posted on 2020-10-04, 19:49
The SB16 ASP chip can help in decompression under Windows 9x.. https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=62&t=60488 It looks interesting but if there's no way to integrate it with a video stream then it's not too much help. The thread doesn't seem to indicate what methods are used to create the files …
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