Re: Setting up WinXP for more than gaming
Posted on Yesterday, 11:38
maybe try the unofficial service pack 4? https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/wind … unofficial.html
Re: Need some help with assembly language
Posted on Yesterday, 11:14
You don't necessarily need to reprogram the PIT to use it for finer resolution, the first channel is normally running at ~1.2MHz already and you can read the current count from IO port 40h any time you want. The problem is that the channel mode is not configured the same on every PC so you'll …
Re: Year 2038 bug?
Posted on 2022-09-25, 11:43
In the 2000s, many devs were all excited to switch to 64-Bit computing on Windows. I was one of them. Devs always love any kind of new 'standard' that will cause old products to be discarded and new ones to be bought. The motivation could not be more obvious. (And their portrayal of themselves in …
Re: Technically impressive FM synth music
Posted on 2022-09-15, 16:36
Would a similar result be achievable with a YM2612 emulator and a VGM player that disabled the pcm and psg channels? Maybe using a nice quality USB soundcard for the output? The emulators are very good these days. You could even say they are better than a recording from hardware, depending on …
Re: Technically impressive FM synth music
Posted on 2022-09-14, 10:26
try this on for size http://www.hyakushiki.net/misc/du-mmx.ogg That is some High Fidelity right there! Thanks. What is the name of the track and the composer? Sigh.... I better start linking all the tracks to VGMrips.net, I guess.... ;) The song is from Boomer Kuwanger's stage in Megaman X. The MMX …
Re: Technically impressive FM synth music
Posted on 2022-09-13, 15:39
Re: The search for the legendary pentium III-M 1.33ghz
Posted on 2022-09-13, 14:44
I had a Dell Latitude C400 with 1.33GHz P3 for a short time before giving it to my brother. Not sure if the chip was soldered. Performance was underwhelming since it was heavily memory bandwidth limited.
Re: What is a genuine PC?
Posted on 2022-09-06, 17:28
Further to a discussion at work today, most PCs are actually 'PC compatibles' (as they used to be called), as a genuine PC is made by IBM, who invented (or at least came to be most associated with) the format. Is that literally correct? Are 'real' PCs still being made?If not, what were the last …
Re: How to use keyboard shortcuts on vintage models that lack Windows keys?
Posted on 2022-08-27, 02:59
My Laser XT keyboard had no Windows key but it had some other unusual key that seemed to be redundant. I used a program to remap that into a Windows key. I think the program was KeyTweak, maybe it works on Win10 who knows...
Re: Why DOS4GW games lead to higher system requirements + slower performance on 386sx
Posted on 2022-08-18, 21:11
It should also be noted that running in 32-bit protected mode is a choice of the developers, and one of the biggest reasons to make that choice is needing more than 640KB of memory. It means the developers set out to make a heavier game. So the situation is more like "higher memory requirements lead …
Re: MCGA hardware issues on IBM PS/2 model 30 8086
Posted on 2022-08-17, 21:06
The fact that characters show repeating data and there is a fault detectable by software (video memory test?) makes me think that the problem is with the video memory address bus (A3 line?)
Re: Toshiba satellite 1555cds
Posted on 2022-08-15, 17:44
Sorry but it's too late for that since I scrapped the motherboard back in 2003 or so, 🤣
Re: Toshiba satellite 1555cds
Posted on 2022-08-14, 20:20
Can't say, as I never tried a 256MB stick.
Re: Toshiba satellite 1555cds
Posted on 2022-08-13, 19:15
1555CDS overheated and ran unstable on the stock CPU. I had one in college and had to run it at 190MHz low speed to be able to get anything done without constant crashing. The problem was the extremely conservative fan operation, maybe it was a BIOS/ACPI issue. The RAM can go up to 160MB at least.
Re: An ATI Radeon 9600 with Mobility Radeon 9700 chip. Its normal?
Posted on 2022-08-12, 19:56
If you got a card with 4ns memory and 128-bit bus I'd call that a win. Getting a 64-bit card would be a disappointment. The Mobility 9700 was supposed to run more efficiently than the Mobility 9600, reaching higher clocks at the same TDP. I wonder if it is a good overclocker.
Re: Ati Radeon Mobility 7500 keeps showing black screen for a moment, no glitching.
Posted on 2022-08-11, 20:56
Low score for a 7500. That memory is GDDR 200/400, so I would expect 4000 3Dmarks in '01. The driver I use for Mobility 7500 is called SP30767 (do a search and you should see links for Compaq Evo, etc.) but I know it doesn't have your exact device ID with subsystem 10021002 so you'd have to edit the …
Re: Power consumption: Radeon 9600 pro X1650 Pro or GF4200ti?
Posted on 2022-08-10, 20:18
here is a power consumption ranking / chart I saved a long time ago: d'oh! vogons clobbered the image. You can find it here instead http://www.hyakushiki.net/misc/gfxpowerchartby3d.png
Re: Promise EIDE2300 BIOS
Posted on 2022-07-29, 21:20
So you tried to disable the card's BIOS but the message still came up? That seems like it must not have really been disabled then, like maybe you used the wrong jumper setting to try to disable it. Maybe try removing the ROM chip and see if the card works then as a generic multi-I/O card. BTW, can …
Re: What do you drive?
Posted on 2022-07-25, 20:45
Hit something of a milestone during a rare road trip recently. 333,333 miles on the odometer. Not really that much for a 40-year-old car though, especially considering that part of the instrument panel was replaced at one point with a junkyard part with higher mileage... if it still had the original …
Re: What modern activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2022-07-20, 02:13
Finally finished downloading a bunch of "modern" games that had been steeply discounted at GOG... so I could run them on gloriously non-modern Windows 2000. Serment - Contract with a Devil (RenPy game), Mhakna Gramura and Fairy Bell (RenPy VN), PARQUET (VN), and Hyperdimension Neptunia U (an OpenGL …
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