Re: K6-2 for notebook
Posted on Today, 02:47
Shame 🙁 ... ah well you can try taking it the other way 450 on 1.6 to 1.8 for fanless system.
Re: Pocket 386, the brother of Hand386 and Book8088, the story so far ...
Posted on Yesterday, 17:00
There was a bit of a time lag between VBE 2.0 being useful from about '96ish and the VGA chipsets most ppl had being from about 1994ish apart from newest ones that had VBE 2.0 in BIOS. So there were cards and install disks created before VBE 2.0 was a thing or worth worrying about, that continued to …
Re: Pocket 386, the brother of Hand386 and Book8088, the story so far ...
Posted on Yesterday, 14:26
Hello, I am new here. I just got my pocket 386 and my impressions so far: The screen is only held by 2 screws instead of 4 like the book 8088, so the screen's upper shell is loose because there are no screws to hold it in place. Mine comes with the right speaker rattling, so I just disconnected the …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on Yesterday, 14:15
5160s don't have onboard IDE but I have seen a lot of later Turbo XT clones with IDE on board, along with a full whack of i/o and even video. There are also some 8 Bit IDE cards, but they are nowhere near common. You've seen a lot of XTs with on-board IDE? Could you share some of them? Integrated …
Re: PC tower cases by year
Posted on Yesterday, 03:58
I am wondering if it's another iteration of CTI, because they started out in the 70s as Computer Time Inc, selling dial in time on mainframes, then by late 80s had pivoted into the case market with a line of the [IIII] front cases, and although at time of those cases I can't find out what they were …
Re: Help needed in fixing a graphics card
Posted on 2024-04-25, 20:02
I wouldn't say that type of RAM is particularly known for going bad... so check solder on all pins... if good and shiny and nothing cracked off the board, consider that it might be a symptom of the power supply to the RAM being not as good as it should be somehow, either noise/filtering or lower …
Re: OrangePC 530 pinout, bios update, vram upgrade
Posted on 2024-04-25, 18:27
Some will be ground pins, they'll be zero ohms to ground... there we go, done my share 🤣 It's a tough one, my google fu is like 3rd dan, but all I see is 5 other people looking for the pinout.
Re: need some help to pick the right athlon cpu?
Posted on 2024-04-25, 15:24
Gah, yah anything to go in a slot is nasty spendy, the 600s were hailed as the overclockers though if you wanna multi clock them to something decent.
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2024-04-25, 14:51
Left a big enough hole to get it back in though, go to grocery store and get a bottle of liquid smoke flavoring and a turkey baster...... 🤣
Re: need some help to pick the right athlon cpu?
Posted on 2024-04-25, 14:45
I'd say, aim to pick up a 1200 / 1266 with 133/266 FSB .. it's away from the expensive hotspots like 1.4Ghz fastest or magic 1Ghz.... will be 9x or 9.5x then you can run it at 900/950 and most boards are quite comfortable at 115 if you want the Ghz. Then you know the CPU okay is to shoot the moon at …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2024-04-25, 14:25
5160s don't have onboard IDE but I have seen a lot of later Turbo XT clones with IDE on board, along with a full whack of i/o and even video. There are also some 8 Bit IDE cards, but they are nowhere near common.
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2024-04-25, 13:31
One chip two chip, dead chip blew chip. If not motors, some other high power inductive load.
Re: Weren't sound artists frustrated to know that very few players would be hearing the true sound of their creations?
Posted on 2024-04-25, 13:27
First time I really noticed game music was when Out Run hit the arcades and we were treated to the stylings of Hiroshi Kawaguchi
Re: Shot in the dark... Identifying a 386SX motherboard
Posted on 2024-04-25, 03:57
Yeah there's a few more that are kinda close an Auva and a Jamemco, and one is a lot warmer https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/ecs-neatsx but not quite right still, might boil down to revisions.
Re: Borland "abandonware" gets an implicit stamp of approval
Posted on 2024-04-25, 03:45
In my college days they seemed a bit laissez faire about Turbo Pascal, letting anyone copy it to learn Pascal on, but if you wanted to publish anything you'd better have fully paid copy.
Re: [ASUS P55T2P4 Rev 3.1] Benchmark results and system settings
Posted on 2024-04-24, 20:34
So if I estimated your IQ at 121 and mine at 131, you would be totally happy if I drew the bar chart like this? IQ comparison of JWS (top) and BW (below) |# |#########|# 120 - - - - - - 130
Re: Weren't sound artists frustrated to know that very few players would be hearing the true sound of their creations?
Posted on 2024-04-24, 20:29
My perception of the situation is that prior to about 1997 many of them would be totally amazed that what they were creating would be seen as enduring art, maybe being gobsmacked that these geeks paid out in real money to put some plinky plonky stuff on kiddie games, but hey, at least it's not …
Re: [ASUS P55T2P4 Rev 3.1] Benchmark results and system settings
Posted on 2024-04-24, 20:20
4 of your graphs do not start at zero, that makes them junk and misleading.
Re: [ASUS P55T2P4 Rev 3.1] Benchmark results and system settings
Posted on 2024-04-24, 19:59
2 out of 6 graphs work for me, the ones not starting at zero are as useful as false advertising.
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2024-04-24, 19:41
I think you are seeing the COAST module.
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