oeuvre wrote: Finally got a chance to test 6 5.25" floppies I ordered. All of them formatted correctly and I made 2 MS-DOS boot disks to test. Works fine! I've never seen an Optiplex so white and bright than this. Where are my sunglasses? 😎

Very interesting thread :) When I was spend almost of all my free time playing games in my Sinclair ZX Spectrum. (1985 - ...) Talking about PC era, the times of Pentium MMX was very nice too. I remember games that MDK, Oddworld Odyssey, MotoRacer, Ignition, Pandemonium... (1996 - ... ) And now. I …

Paid 20 for this combo. fake cache - infamous M919 with fake cache - Infamous M915i with fake writeback cache - Unknown SIS board with soldered cache, probably fake too. If anyone knows the model please let me know. https://s1.postimg.org/3rbbqp1bmn/image.jpg https://s1.postimg.org/60uca6rmpr/image …

The Pc Chips M921 board seems to be a good one. Got a Belinea CRT from a friend of mine... after adjusting some of the settings I was pretty happy with the picture. Although Belinea was a poor man's company(when it came to monitors it seems) the camera is not really able to do the picture justice. …

My last adquisition. An external USB floppy drive. The quick/temporal solution to transfer files from my "current" PC to 486. Works even in my smartphone trough OTG cable. 😁

Hi. I think that Quake III Arena works fine in your computer. Quake III Arena specs from MobyGames It's not the best but funny to play with other people over LAN or Internet, or bots. You can find OpenArena too, an opensource version of Quake III Arena. Unreal and Half-Life, as mentioned above, …

Doom. Yes, I know, I'm not very original. Now, I'm playing e2m4

Yeah! 20171007_215135.jpg Thank you very much. All answers have helped me. I made a cable to take the power from the CPU fan connector to the two first pins (+5V and G) in the display. With this, the number 50 is displayed. :) After this I closed the next two pins with a jumper, only for testing, …

Hi. I am restoring and tunning my 486. At the moment, there are two things that I could not repair. One of them is the display located in the front panel case, the CPU Clock Speed Diplay. 20171001_010449.jpg The CPU is an Intel 486 DX4/100Mhz. 66 Mhz in "normal" mode and 100 Mhz in "turbo" mode. In …

Hi. This is my list: - Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48. - PC-XT compatible, NEC-V20, 640KB RAM, 20MB HD, Hercules display. DOS 3.30 - PC 486 DX4@100 Mhz, VIP mainboard, 32MB RAM, Sound Blaster 16, 4x CDROM, 2 Floppy (5,25'', 3,5''), 2 CF cards as IDE HD. MS-DOS 6.22 - HP Vectra VL Pentium II, 128MB RAM, 4GB …

Welcome to the forum. Your english is very good! Your journey sounds similar to mine. I decided to resurrect my old PCs after fixing up my 1980s/early 90s Acorn computers (8 and 32-bit). When I am finished I will have a 386 (DOS), Pentium 133 (DOS/Win 95/NT4), Pentium III 650 (Win98/2000) and …

Hello. The first of all excuse me for my english, this is not my mother language but I am always learning. Since a lot of years I focused in 8 bit retro computing, specially playing with my dear Speccy, but recently I setup my old 486 thanks in part to this forum. In my desk there are permanent …