Re: ATI Mobility 7500 Issues... Are these rubbish??

Posted on 2023-11-24, 11:55

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by bakemono

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Does anyone have any experience with this chip? Best drivers advice maybe? I really like this machine and want it to work but im losing my mind with it now. Yes, I have it. I've run more than a few games but not the ones you mentioned. My driver version (WinXP): ATI Technologies Inc. 2005/06/07 6. …

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Re: AMD R7 240 poor performance comapred to HD8490

Posted on 2023-11-22, 18:10

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by bakemono

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smoke86 wrote on 2023-11-21, 21:23: I just got an AMD R7 240 (1GB DDR3) Is your HD8490 also DDR3?

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Re: Connecting old machines to the internet: dispelling the superstition

Posted on 2023-11-11, 11:23

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by bakemono

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People are still spellbound by the security theater long after the inevitable result has come to pass. You handed a browser monopoly to an advertising company and most of your gear is remote controlled by corporations. Superstition is alive and well.

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Re: Energy efficient old hardware for win98

Posted on 2023-11-02, 12:51

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by bakemono

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Yes, but on them under Windows 98, such software tools for slowing down / increasing speed as Intel SpeedStep, for example, will not work, which are limited in terms of Win9x support, if I remember correctly, to the most mobile Yonah (however, ASUS also released a desktop model for these processors …

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Re: microsoft sound recorder settings do not save xp

Posted on 2023-10-31, 14:54

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by bakemono

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so every time i click convert format in sr it reverts back to 22khz 8bit. is there a reg key to manually fix it? ty When you click 'convert format', sound recorder calls acmFormatChoose in MSACM32.DLL which brings up the selection dialog box. If the ACMFORMATCHOOSE_STYLEF_INITTOWFXSTRUCT flag is …

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Re: Fast way to test 486 stability in DOS? Please recommend software

Posted on 2023-10-30, 12:05

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by bakemono

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Modern game flickering triangles and bad textures are symptoms of modern GPU failing to perform internal calculations without errors = math errors, wrong values and writes to wrong memory locations. Not necessarily. I induced this behavior by running northbridge voltage too low. (And usually IME it …

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Re: Fast way to test 486 stability in DOS? Please recommend software

Posted on 2023-10-29, 12:47

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by bakemono

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I don't think running old games is really proof of stability. If it was rendering a few wrong pixels here and there, are you certain you would notice that? Or would you think it looks normal and your system must be "stable"? At least with modern games, they tend to glitch in more spectacular fashion …

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Re: Fast way to test 486 stability in DOS? Please recommend software

Posted on 2023-10-27, 11:19

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by bakemono

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My method: use PKZIP to zip a ton of files, and then extract the zip and see if any CRC errors result. Tests CPU, memory, and disk. It'll stress memory more if you make a big SMARTDRV cache first.

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Re: Converting MIDI to OPL3/Adlib

Posted on 2023-10-25, 11:35

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by bakemono

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MIDI to VGM translator is also an option. Instrument patches can be edited, though changing assignments with some GM instruments would require editing the source file and recompilation.

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Re: PC game with most individual files?

Posted on 2023-10-17, 11:08

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by bakemono

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Mirror's Edge has 3200 files. Mount&Blade has 3900 files. Shank 2 has 4100 files. Ys: Memories of Celecta has 5900 files. ToK Complete Edition has 21000 files.

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Re: Is there any reason to install more than 1 MB RAM on a 286 PC?

Posted on 2023-10-16, 17:42

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by bakemono

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Personally, I often still wonder why the plain 68000 was still kept being used in home computers and consoles for so long, considering that the 68010 was a worthy successor that's pin-compatible and slightly more elegant. Good point. It makes me wonder why for instance Atari and Commodore didn't …

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Re: Examples of the worst LCD screen scaling you can find please...

Posted on 2023-10-16, 17:10

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by bakemono

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Reminds me of the scourge of 800x600 screens connected to NeoMagic chips with only 768KB video memory. 800x600 with 256 colors was the only option that didn't look like total crap. Did later laptop dedicated graphic chips provide resampling based scaling, or is everything always nearest-neighbor …

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Re: Applications resident in ROM - How do they work?

Posted on 2023-10-09, 14:22

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by bakemono

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Only guessing, but BIOS can reserve a part of conventional memory by reporting a smaller conventional memory size. For example, many times they will reserve 1KB and then report 639KB memory instead of 640KB. If ROM-based applications have a small memory footprint they might go this route. Another …

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Re: Motherboard and PSU for 24/7 run?

Posted on 2023-10-09, 13:42

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by bakemono

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I've seen high durability portable PCs but don't recall seeing anything specifically marketed that way for desktop. Anything that isn't complete junk should be able to run 24/7. You just have to be mindful of thermal and mechanical stresses. Don't use components that get super hot. Don't use some …

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Re: What's the best way to put a remote-access camera inside a water meter manhole?

Posted on 2023-09-26, 13:38

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by bakemono

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I'm sure you could put some kind of arduino project down in the hole to take snapshots of the meter at the appropriate time and communicate with it over bluetooth/wifi but I think that would be solving the wrong problem. A better plan would be to install a water meter inside the house, if you don't …

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

Posted on 2023-09-25, 18:09

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by bakemono

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Tried to overclock my 6MHz AT to 10MHz. It was already at 8MHz, and I had tried 10MHz once before with the result being a system that booted but froze after a minute. But now I have a few 68-pin PLCC sockets and I heard about putting a PLCC 286 into a socket and plugging that into a PGA 286 socket. …

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Re: MIDI to VGM translator

Posted on 2023-09-16, 16:08

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by bakemono

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Tested a couple of Sound Blaster 16 cards and found that one of them would only play OPL2 stuff, seemingly because of register initialization when switching to OPL3 mode. OPL3 tracks now clear register 8 and don't try to clear register 0xBD in part 2. (It's not clear from OPL3 Programmer's Guide …

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Re: VGA custom character mode for Gameboy emulation

Posted on 2023-09-15, 20:41

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by bakemono

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So you want a 256x256 pixel buffer, using a character mode which represents two gameboy pixels using one (8x3) character? That would mean a 128x256 text mode. Isn't there only a 32KB memory area available for text modes? At 0xB800 segment? Since the gameboy has only 4 gray levels, I bet you could …

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Re: new Windows 2000 fan project writes drivers for modern hardware

Posted on 2023-08-28, 13:12

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by bakemono

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No, I used this link ftp://ontheserver.de/entpackt Verified in wireshark that it was FTP protocol, not HTTP. (And this is on a Japanese PC with Japanese Windows. If that matters.)

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Re: new Windows 2000 fan project writes drivers for modern hardware

Posted on 2023-08-27, 10:18

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by bakemono

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Why promote google drive? Nobody can download anything from there without JS, cookies, and being tracked by google. The FTP link works fine for me in three web browsers that I tried. One of them showed some incorrect characters but it still can access the files.

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