Re: Need a help

Posted on 2020-07-13, 16:35

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by mothergoose729

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Quick google search found this http://sup.xenya.si/sup/info/digital/MDS/jun9 … PC/A0814SVB.PDF dionb is on to something. Even if the onboard graphics is enabled and set to the primary display adapter, you should still be able to post with additional cards.

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Re: IBM PC 5150 games?

Posted on 2020-07-13, 16:32

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by mothergoose729

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Compatibility won't be perfect, but yes. I have a trident 9000 integrated in my Monotech XT board and it works pretty well for a lot of games. I'm speaking under correction, but the Trident 8900 had a mode utility to enter Hercules, EGA and CGA emulation mode, respectively. Maybe it will still work …

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Re: IBM PC 5150 games?

Posted on 2020-07-12, 23:39

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thank you very much! looking on the internet I discovered some interesting things about hardware which is the critical part: 1) the CPU can be changed with a NECv20 which is faster and the clock generator can be changed by bringing the CPU to 8mhz. 2) IBM provides both the CGA card and the EGA for …

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Re: IBM PC 5150 games?

Posted on 2020-07-12, 17:23

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thank you very much! looking on the internet I discovered some interesting things about hardware which is the critical part: 1) the CPU can be changed with a NECv20 which is faster and the clock generator can be changed by bringing the CPU to 8mhz. 2) IBM provides both the CGA card and the EGA for …

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Re: IBM PC 5150 games?

Posted on 2020-07-12, 07:18

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by mothergoose729

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I am making a spread sheet for myself for noting things about old games. In my collection I am only up to 1986, so at the moment it works great for this question :). https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hVLM9Jmvx3_HTmTdMnoGj2D7DJu7g3ZFeEfYcM5yZc4/edit?usp=sharing Mostly it is shitty arcade ports, …

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Re: Best WinXP Video Card

Posted on 2020-07-04, 00:50

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There are a lot of games like Splinter Cell 1 that need a very specific video card to run their best. The early XP/ late windows 98 era is where most of the trouble is. Most everything after about 2002 will run fine on anything. Even in modern windows with patches or no CD hacks.

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Re: Primer on PC audio?

Posted on 2020-06-25, 02:42

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by mothergoose729

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So in addition to my earlier questions, Im kind of wondering how modern playback works in the case of something like a Realtek audio chip. If I play a game that was recorded using a Roland MT-32 for example, what exactly is the Realtek chip doing? Does it have the ability to emulate all kinds of …

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Re: Primer on PC audio?

Posted on 2020-06-25, 00:49

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Gonna keep it high level, but here goes. The first IBM PC was released in 1981 and it had a PC speaker. A PC speaker is little a speaker, attached with a couple of wires to the board, that project noises out of the chassis. The PC speaker is a single voice, square wave that is controlled directly by …

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Re: Pentium MMX 450MHz

Posted on 2020-06-22, 20:09

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by mothergoose729

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EWW. 2.7V is REALLY scary. I mean if you are keeping it at sub-ambient temps it might be okay, but even so I'd expect that chip to fail in short order. I feel 10% voltage boost is the MAXIMUM safe overclocking voltage. It could also be totally fine. Nobody knows what voltages or temperatures are …

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Re: New sound card project: AWE64 Legacy

Posted on 2020-06-09, 08:01

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by mothergoose729

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for dos sound awe64 and even better the awaited awe64 legacy for win32 games go aureal vortex 2. and you will never want to hear about sblive. and i have apollo pro 133a aureal is great I have an AWE32 on one of my DOS rigs, an ALS100 on the other and an SBLive on my Tualeron/V3 Win98 rig, and I'm …

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

Posted on 2020-06-02, 08:33

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by mothergoose729

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My son helped me install some PCI cards for my socket 478 windows 98 machine. He begged me to play some games on it, so we played unreal gold on a voodoo 3. He had a blast. He really enjoyed the "jewel gun" aka the stinger. Did you play the game together on seperate computers? ;) He isn't really …

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

Posted on 2020-06-02, 02:46

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My son helped me install some PCI cards for my socket 478 windows 98 machine. He begged me to play some games on it, so we played unreal gold on a voodoo 3. He had a blast. He really enjoyed the "jewel gun" aka the stinger.

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Build Log: Recreating my first gaming PC (2008)

Posted on 2020-05-17, 18:21

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by mothergoose729

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I have been a member of the overclock.net forum for 12 years. I was looking through my old post history when I stumbled upon this thread: https://www.overclock.net/forum/8-intel-general/372602-putting-together-computer-want-good-advice.html It was detailed list of the exact parts I had used to build …

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Re: Pentium 4/Socket 478 Dual-Boot Windows 98 & Windows XP Gaming Setup

Posted on 2020-04-08, 16:29

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by mothergoose729

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Thanks for the update! There is a lot that has been said in this thread already. Forgive me if I am repeating it. Don't add windows 98 to a hard drive that is larger than about 120gb. Windows 98 has a nasty habit of getting corrupted on larger disks. You can patch windows 98 to behave better, but …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-03-19, 15:57

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by mothergoose729

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X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty. I don't have a PCIE one yet, and this one was a decent price.

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Re: Guidance for Windows 98/Windows XP Gaming Build

Posted on 2020-03-13, 00:06

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by mothergoose729

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The 865 chipset is socket 478. It comes with a good combination of "modern" and old school, like SATA 1.5, dual channel support, and support for higher clocked P4 processors, as well as IDE, AGP, and drivers for windows 98. I have an Asus P4P800-E Deluxe with a Northwood 3.0ghz/800mhz FSB and dual …

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Re: Guidance for Windows 98/Windows XP Gaming Build

Posted on 2020-03-12, 05:54

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by mothergoose729

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For what you are trying to do, I think maybe your only good choice is a pentium IV with AGP. I have an asus board with a 865 chipset and it works great in windows 98. I think ideally you would want an FX card, but an ATI 9800 or a Geforce 6 series are also good choices. I would also suggest getting …

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Re: Guidance for Windows 98/Windows XP Gaming Build

Posted on 2020-03-11, 04:29

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by mothergoose729

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Which one of your games won't work in XP? Most of the benefit of win9x is DOS. PC parts that can do late DOS through early XP is pretty specific, and there will be a lot of compromises.

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Re: DOSBox 0.74 CPU Benchmark

Posted on 2020-02-19, 20:43

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by mothergoose729

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Food for thought: https://hothardware.com/reviews/amd-ryzen-9-3 … shootout?page=2 This review compares Ryzen 3900x with two cores disabled to i9 9900k, with both CPUs locked at 4.0ghz.

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Re: DOSBox 0.74 CPU Benchmark

Posted on 2020-02-19, 17:23

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Yeah it is interesting. AMD IPC compares favorably to intel processors in some benchmarks and not in others. This dosbox benchmark is probably the biggest gap I have seen so far. The Kaby Lake CPU benchmarks are, on average, 12% faster clock-for-clock than Ryzen, and the haswell CPUs, which are …

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