Re: 486 cache question

Posted on 2020-07-21, 12:08

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In my experience they're not that rare, but it's finding them that's the tricky bit. The main problem is that scrappers or even collectors come across them and don't know what they are. Like many other such things, it's quite possible you could pick up a bargain if you are looking over a long period …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-06-29, 12:44

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Anyway, such cards always remind me how immensly flexible x86 architecture was and is and it's uses extends far behind home/office or even server room use. Something that people with those silly old Amigas or Macs will never understand :] Wait til they find out the first AirPort base station has a …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-06-16, 12:40

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Wow. Came here for vintage hardware 10 pages so and instead got some arguments about prices and ESD. Gatekeeping is bullshit. Carpet is bullshit. Anyone who believes gatekeeping is effective is the kind of person who thinks segregation and incels are good things. Anyone who thinks that carpet and …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-05-26, 15:10

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Picked up this TOP853 on eBay, has only been used twice and is virtually new in box. Looking forward to repairing some of my motherboards and graphics cards, plus dumping some ROMs using this. Not exactly vintage in itself, but will be used extensively for Vintage purposes. This is one of those …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-04-26, 18:28

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I got this adorable little IBM Aptiva for a great price off eBay, with keyboard and mouse even. Has a 500Mhz K6-2 and 128MB of RAM. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EWVbGzzXYAQbYRw?format=jpg&name=large I've got one of those :) cute little machine. Can probably be upgraded to a K6-III although I've not …

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Re: Does anyone read or write a retro blog

Posted on 2020-04-15, 17:34

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I settled on Blogger because it was a) simple and b) I didn't need more complex features going forward. Took a while to get going but being able to tweak the HTML is useful and the mobile layouts are acceptable. Plus it seems that getting entries indexed by search engines works nicely. Apparently …

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Re: VCS - A capture utility for certain Datapath capture cards

Posted on 2020-04-14, 18:00

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This is nice - I've got a Datapath card that was, until now, pretty useless!

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-04-14, 15:00

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DPT PM2122 EISA SCSI controller with CM4000 cache module. Filename IMG_20200414_155524.jpg File size 1.86 MiB Views 545 views Plus, something I didn't know until just now, it has one of those freaking awesome strobing LED blocks! Can't wait to bench this against VLB and ISA caching controllers... …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-04-13, 14:01

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So what kind of card is this? https://i.imgur.com/5ImSffq.jpg I believe that's an IBM floppy drive interface or clone. The edge connector on the end of the card is what the floppy cable connects to. FYJ5KXWQOYES1762UI.LARGE.jpg I'm intrigued by the motherboard as it looks very similar to an AT …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-04-02, 17:10

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https://i.imgur.com/xO8LGRJm.jpg Don't know if it works yet. Got it from what looked like the original owner. He told me it worked, but sometimes you need to reseat the cpu card to get it going. Something that should be easy to fix. The origional craigslist ad only listed the cpu, monitor, and …

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Re: New Performance Issue In Mac OS Catalina

Posted on 2020-03-13, 21:23

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I only ask because the SDL2 SVN build seems to be the first build where enabling vysync actually has an effect in macOS. It works great in some games (i.e Epic Pinball, Lemmings Chronicles) but horribly in others (i.e Lemmings 2, Warcraft 2) where it causes major slow downs and sound problems. As …

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Re: Zenith 80286 IBF-2527-ET Z-200 / Z-248

Posted on 2020-03-11, 02:04

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Here's the boards in my British Telecom Z-159 Filename 20170606-081556.jpg File size 1.67 MiB Views 62 views Filename 20170606-081713.jpg File size 1.49 MiB Views 62 views Filename 20170606-081619.jpg File size 1.51 MiB Views 61 views Filename 20170607-223013.jpg File size 1.58 MiB Views 62 views …

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Re: Zenith 80286 IBF-2527-ET Z-200 / Z-248

Posted on 2020-02-27, 01:01

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Zenith systems were very well engineered - I guess that's why they held such favour with the defence industry. I've got a Z-159 (rebadged as British Telecom), which also has the debugger (built into the 'monitor' ROM - also has some test routines. Very nice system you have there.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-02-27, 00:49

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Predator99 wrote on 2020-02-21, 10:04: My Zenith 286 arrived - see here 😀 Re: Zenith 80286 IBF-2527-ET IMG_0148r.jpg I frickin' love Zenith stuff. Thanks to their government contracts, they actually had the biggest cut of the PC market in the late '80s!

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Re: Article "The Sound Blaster Story" History of Creative Labs & Interview with its founder/CEO

Posted on 2020-02-27, 00:16

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Really, what killed Adlib was that they were 3 years late to the market for PCM sound, against an existing standard that was already being used and developed for. My understanding, based on the Rich Heimlich interview, was that it happened well before the AdLib Gold was even in development. …

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Re: New Performance Issue In Mac OS Catalina

Posted on 2020-02-26, 12:49

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vsync wasn't enabled, frameskip=1 had a positive difference, frameskip=2 eliminated it. edit: for the hell of it I enabled vsync. Also fixed the problem, with frameskip=0. Go figure.

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Re: New Performance Issue In Mac OS Catalina

Posted on 2020-02-25, 16:38

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Yes, try the SDL2 or even the normal snapshot and make sure you have opengl or metal (with the SDL2) as output. Surface is seriously slow. Jmarsh made the 64bit dynamic core much faster in SVN, so both should give a nice boost Oddness. Downloaded SDL2 and found no difference. Systematically tried …

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New Performance Issue In Mac OS Catalina

Posted on 2020-02-24, 23:25

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Hi folks, firstly I wanted to give some love for the forum redesign - it's working brilliantly on every platform I've tried it on, and has made it even easier for me to connect with the buzzing community here. Secondly, I almost exclusively use DOSBox to play Indianapolis 500 on my Mac laptop. It's …

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Re: Article "The Sound Blaster Story" History of Creative Labs & Interview with its founder/CEO

Posted on 2020-02-21, 14:13

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They didn't pay Adlib a cent for "Adlib Compatibility" and yet they forced others to pay them for the Sound Blaster compatibility claim. It's kind of a moot point considering Ad Lib's inaction at the time. Had developers cited OPL2 as the supported hardware in their literature and setup programs …

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Re: 386sx Setup and Build

Posted on 2020-02-13, 00:03

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by brassicGamer

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I made a list with pics of nearly every game I played on my 386. 1995 was waaaay too long to be using that platform before I upgraded though. The fun part was replaying all the newer games to see how they were intended!

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