Re: Weird Radeon behavior, Win98SE, i815 chipset

Posted on 38 minutes ago

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Your ATI cards seem later than your nVidia cards, so we could be looking at a 4x/8x AGP card problem vs a 2x/4X AGP card. If the nVidia are falling back to 2x, it's possibly that it's having trouble maintaining voltages for 4x... several boards were kinda sketchy for that in the 2000-2003ish era, …

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Re: Minimum hardware to get Netflix working, needs SSSE3? SSE4x? 2024 browser???

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The 7150M in that TK-55 -based laptop is a ticking timebomb, similar to the GeForce 6150 chipset - bumpgate issue... as are most GeForce 8000 series with G8x cores, both in laptops and desktops. Given the CPU is not a powerhouse and the GPU probably won't help that much with the video decoding ( …

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Re: Minimum hardware to get Netflix working, needs SSSE3? SSE4x? 2024 browser???

Posted on Today, 02:29

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NetFlix requires Windows 8/10/11 and Chrome 106, Edge 118, Firefox 111, or Opera 92. Chrome requires Windows 10 and a Pentium 4 with SSE3. NetFlix uses H.264 high profile, as well as VP9, HEVC, or AV1 on newer devices. Is there any chance of a TK-55 with only SSE up to 3 and a Geforce 7150M …

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Re: Minimum hardware to get Netflix working, needs SSSE3? SSE4x? 2024 browser???

Posted on Today, 00:11

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I have found out you can sideload a 3rd party netflix app into Kodi, which can run on a minimal Linux install called LibreElec, so I might screw around with that for the sake of screwing around with it, might be interesting.

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Re: Minimum hardware to get Netflix working, needs SSSE3? SSE4x? 2024 browser???

Posted on Yesterday, 22:15

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Yeah I've had sandybridge stuff for $10 and $20 and redeployed them, local scrapings are very bare at the moment, seems like something I only see every 6-12 months though and not sure how long it will be for something to appear. Though I swear I saw a half dozen possibles LAST month while idly …

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Re: Intel 486 DX2 and AGP x2 graphic port

Posted on Yesterday, 16:42

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by BitWrangler

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Desolder the CPU off a covington celeron slot 1 PCB and bodge wire an AMD DX5 on it 🤣

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Minimum hardware to get Netflix working, needs SSSE3? SSE4x? 2024 browser???

Posted on Yesterday, 16:26

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Hi folks, Dumb as a post relative broke her netflix laptop, sounds permafried, just trying to come up with something for her to run netflix on. Don't have anything very good spare, C2D and Turion X2 kinda stuff. So wondering where the "stopper" is in getting a modern OS, running a modern browser, …

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Re: Intel 486 DX2 and AGP x2 graphic port

Posted on Yesterday, 12:23

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by BitWrangler

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Watch this space and fork it for an AGP version I guess... https://github.com/skiselev/sandy_river_486 Don't be under the impression it will be cheap though. $250 would be probably the middle of the range, plus or minus a lot.

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Re: No hardware will display.

Posted on Yesterday, 02:24

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Try a full, unplug from AC power cycle of the monitor, sometimes they get wedged in sleep.... then also perform an anti-bogosity adjustment, by moistening thumb and planting it across all pins in the VGA cable to monitor.... there's some funny static hangup shit goes on there too sometimes... take a …

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Re: What is the best Thin Client for Windows 98 (SE)

Posted on Yesterday, 02:06

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Slowly, erstwhile expensive parts have been accumulating such that I might make quite a nice machine out of an oldschool thin client... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-Opener Had one for years, didn't feel very pressing, as I only had like 333Mhz low voltage CPU, 2GB slim 2.5" IDE etc around to …

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Re: Link Repository for Vintage PC Driver\Documentation Archives, FTPs, Websites

Posted on Yesterday, 01:03

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by BitWrangler

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If that wasn't in here yet, better get some more down... http://files.mpoli.fi/ https://www.ardent-tool.com/ http://ps-2.kev009.com/ http://archive.retro.co.za/archive/computers/

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Re: Post your Packard Bell computers here!

Posted on Yesterday, 01:01

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Ah this is where I found some Statesman info, including the battery terminal jumper required to start up with no battery... https://oldcomputer.info/portables/statesman/index.htm

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Re: Where is the rest of the world?

Posted on Yesterday, 00:38

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SquallStrife wrote on Yesterday, 00:27: Remember that VOGONS raison de etre is as the official support forum for DOSBox. Don't think so, may have became the official forum of DOSbox, but was more about Glide wrappers at first http://web.archive.org/web/20030804213944/htt … tafleet.com:80/

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on Yesterday, 00:19

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Heh, the good ole "SIMM Tree" or SIMM Stacker. I reckon those would have been a lot more popular in the UK at the time if they were available at ALI Express type prices. As it was, it seemed they were barely cheaper than getting a 4MB/72 SIMM or a 4MB/30, so not worth it to scrape all your 1MBs …

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Re: Link Repository for Vintage PC Driver\Documentation Archives, FTPs, Websites

Posted on 2024-09-17, 22:12

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by BitWrangler

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Some bits and pieces archived by Rees here.. https://ctrl-alt-rees.com/archive PC Stuff is 2nd half of page.

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Re: Intel 486 DX2 and AGP x2 graphic port

Posted on 2024-09-17, 21:43

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by BitWrangler

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Go all the way, terascale or tesla or something and run an OS on the shaders so you can use the 486 as a DOS coprocessor.

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2024-09-17, 21:40

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IDK if it's retro, but it's a 15 year old piece of junk... CR600 laptop, MSI, previous symptoms, turn on, freezes in POST screen while extremely hot... had another socket P CPU, so thought I'd swap it over, T4300 to T2370, annnnd, it's different... doesn't show post screen, seems to do more CD …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-09-17, 21:09

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by BitWrangler

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I need to do that, I've got a bus full of RAM download/file.php?id=132747

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-09-17, 19:12

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Laptop floppies seem particularly prone to the lube turning to glue, so hope it's that simple.

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Re: Trying to get Slackware Linux 4.0 onto my new Pocket 386 palmtop

Posted on 2024-09-17, 19:10

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I wish I could tell you the exact version of the one I have known to work, but a couple of decades back I had Monkey Linux, based on Slackware, running on MSDOS filesystem, on a 386sl20 machine with 4MB RAM, that one, you basically unzip it to a DOS HDD and launch it with loadlin... All I can find …

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