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Re: Software for Windows 98SE

Posted on 2023-07-02, 20:08

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

According to this post, 5.9.1 is the last version supporting Windows 98/ME: Notepad++ 5.9.2 should also work, it has two versions inside ANSI and Unicode. I have it saved as the last working version. Thanks. I've tested 5.9.1 in W98SE without any updates and the window for opening files and saving …

Re: Strange Floppy Disk behaviour 486

Posted on 2021-10-10, 21:07

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

OK, so this one is evil. The BIOS provides a function "get floppy drive type" (INT 13, AH=8). This function is called by the MS-DOS initialization code to determine what kind of floppy drives are installed. This function retrieves the floppy drive settings from the CMOS RAM (on EISA systems: The …

Re: So embarrassing..what's the default bios password for this PC Chips Cheetah 486 board v1.7 motherboard?

Posted on 2017-01-20, 10:10

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Can you reach the boot stage? Or does it request password before booting? BTW, I haven't experienced so far any BIOSes that had default password after a CMOS reset.

Re: what hardware were you using in 1999?

Posted on 2015-11-23, 19:17

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I had the following config back in 1999: Cyrix 6x86 200+ 32 MB EDO RAM Motherboard: can't remember 1 MB S3 Trio 64+ Some Yamaha OPL3 sound card 1.3 GB HDD

Re: Pentium processor and the 1993/95 ...

Posted on 2015-09-10, 16:06

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

A 386 DX doing only memory copy operations will be twice as fast as a 286. As long as the data you are copying are LONG aligned (to the 4 byte boundary), and you are copying data in 32-bit pieces. If any of these fail, the speed will fall back, although I can't tell you exact numbers. The same …

Re: Pentium processor and the 1993/95 ...

Posted on 2015-09-10, 16:03

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Which was a "up to twice as fast" 386. Not at all, the 486 is only marginally faster than the 386 at the same clockspeed. Which is why the 386DX40 was such a popular option for gamers on a budget. Sunaiac has is right here: the 486 is clock-by-clock twice as fast as a 386, for various reasons: * It …

Re: Pentium processor and the 1993/95 ...

Posted on 2015-09-10, 15:57

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

It mainly had three rather revolutionary changes compared to the 486: It's rather four. The fourth is branch prediction. Which means for most of the time the CPU could guess where the loop will jump. In case of a cache HIT, the instruction pipeline don't have to be emptied, which means a lot cycles …

Re: Booting DOS from Compact Flash

Posted on 2015-08-19, 17:21

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

If the CF card is bigger than 504 MBytes (and your 486 has an old BIOS) you might have to use a Dynamic Drive Overlay software. Back in 1996 a friend of mine had success using a 2 GB HDD in his 486 (DX2/80) by turning of the 32-bit handling of IDE drives. I wasn't lucky with our 486 back then, I had …

Re: She's gonna freakin' die ! Help me !

Posted on 2015-08-19, 09:59

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

English please... I'll sue you for police brutality. If you'd like to speak in Portuguese, you can still do it in private messages. The big majority of this forum's users speak English, this is why you were asked ( English please ) to do the same. I can't see any police brutality here even though …

Re: Games you can play with a Riva 128?

Posted on 2015-08-18, 11:39

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Did anybody play Ignition (Wikipedia) back then? 😀

Re: Dos performance: real mode vs virtual mode ?

Posted on 2015-08-10, 12:49

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Some additional explanation in the 24 Nov 1992 issue of PC Mag (Google Books).

Re: Dos performance: real mode vs virtual mode ?

Posted on 2015-08-10, 12:28

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

You can find the answer on the Protected mode page of Wikipedia , which states that: Virtual 8086 mode, however, is not completely backwards compatible with all programs. Programs that require segment manipulation, privileged instructions, direct hardware access, or use self-modifying code will …

Re: First computers you've used

Posted on 2015-08-03, 14:30

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

My first PC was a Videoton TVC back in 1987 (I was in the first grade of the primary school). It was the family PC, and at that time there were loads of Novotrade (later became Appaloosa Interactive) casette games around. The TVC was made to the hungarian market, with a keyboard that had the full …

Re: 286 40MB HDD to 128MB CF

Posted on 2015-07-27, 10:57

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Also, you could try using the card on a newer system which can auto detect the disk's settings in BIOS and use those instead of setting it as a 100MB drive. In my case it didn't help. When I configured my 486 (using the very same IO card from the 286) to use the same CHS values as the type 47 of …

Re: 286 40MB HDD to 128MB CF

Posted on 2015-07-27, 09:45

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hi, I've ran into the same problem previously (although with a 2 GB CF card). My temporary solution was to install a Dynamic drive overlay software (at the moment of writing this post, I can't tell you, which one, but I'm going to check it). It made possible not just to boot from the CF card but to …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-07-15, 10:24

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I've just bought on an Integraph TD-310 graphical workstation with a Pentium Pro 200 MHz (256 KB L2) procerssor, 128 MB FPM RAM, two SCSI HDDs (one with Windows NT 4, the other with Windows 2000 Workstation installed) and a Matrox Millenium II 8MB graphic card. If everything goes well, I'll pick it …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-07-15, 10:01

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

kithylin wrote: [...] Screw that.. that thing needs two of these: […] Show full quote [...] Screw that.. that thing needs two of these: No way, I would stick to PPro (already have a P2 233), but thanks for the advice. 😀

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-07-14, 10:59

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I've just bought on an Integraph TD-310 graphical workstation with a Pentium Pro 200 MHz (256 KB L2) procerssor, 128 MB FPM RAM, two SCSI HDDs (one with Windows NT 4, the other with Windows 2000 Workstation installed) and a Matrox Millenium II 8MB graphic card. If everything goes well, I'll pick it …

Re: Old Hard Drives

Posted on 2015-07-03, 15:50

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have a bunch of the Hitachi microdrives that I use with a CF-to-IDE adapter. I like it quite a lot, actually. Like badmojo, I use an adapter that is front-facing so that I can easily swap out drives (like cartridges) without opening the case. I use it with a DOS/Win98SE OEM box (Celeron 466). One …

Re: Old Hard Drives

Posted on 2015-07-03, 14:26

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yes I do. I have Seagate and Hitachi micro drives. They are very slow. So slow, that in many games you will have pauses when it accesses the drive. Under what OS are you using them? Windows? DOS? What do you think, would they be fast enough for my 286 and 486 machines, with DOS? -> playing games, …

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