Re: Sega Documentary (1993)
Posted on 2023-04-22, 18:12
That narrator has an identical voice to one of the YouTube content creators I follow
Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow
Posted on 2023-02-25, 16:28
Did you ever do a review of any of the Test Drive series of games? (NFS not included)
Re: Does anyone know of other than S3 manufactured PCI video cards with "16-bit VESA LPB" connector?
Posted on 2023-02-21, 04:21
Thanks. The links are rehashing well known information that was already listed above, although the last PDF is interesting, it goes into more details about LPB than what I have found before. Having owned many s3 cards in the 1995-1997 era I owned one of the cards in question S3 had its own daughter …
Re: EGA Graphics Without Breaking the Bank
Posted on 2023-02-15, 18:52
The EGA systems I’ve had were all connected to a CGA monitor or in one strange case a special monochrome monitor that came stock with an off brand 286 w/EGA Now that I have a magnovox EGA monitor I don’t have an EGA display adapter
Re: Vooodoo differences?
Posted on 2023-02-15, 18:08
Image quality is about it, that and historically some brands boxed set had a better set of included software https://www.anandtech.com/show/190
Re: Does anyone know of other than S3 manufactured PCI video cards with "16-bit VESA LPB" connector?
Posted on 2023-02-15, 17:32
This is OT but S3 in that era had some s3 branded components that used their special feature connector. https://www.epanorama.net/documents/pc/vafc.html https://www.electronicproducts.com/decoder-card-brings-dvd-playback-quality-to-multimedia-pcs/ Ever present but rarely used for consumer products …
Re: Pentium II 550mhz
Posted on 2023-02-14, 21:47
Like the Intel 486 DX40, the Intel 486 DX4-120, they were CPUs that motherboard manufacturers guessed at, but Intel never released. In some cases they were on the early “future looking” NDA protected CPU timelines DX3-75 and DX4-90 were hinted at circa 1991. Pentium 80mhz was also on the timeline …
Re: Slower K6-2s e.g 200/233MHz
Posted on 2023-02-03, 23:59
Vertex out of the computer shopper sold a PCCHIPS M571 multimedia Pc with your choice of CPU mid 1998 I considered a k6-2-200 but ended up with a Cyrix MII-PR233 Because it was over $150 cheaper. The entry level k6-2’s were all almost the same price so it didn’t make sense to buy slower than 300mhz …
Re: is it possible to get a geforce gt 710 2gb ddr3 pci-e working under win98se?
Posted on 2023-02-03, 04:03
Grab an antique card https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=abYeIixYrbk Pcie antiques exist
Re: EGA/VGA emulation on Hercules
Posted on 2023-01-31, 16:06
m1so wrote on 2014-11-08, 21:37: Out of curiosity, were any EGA/VGA emulators for Hercules cards ever written? Why not buy a EGA/VGA combo card that “emulates “ EGA on Hercules natively? To emulate EGA or VGA on a plain Hercules card would make everything slow as molasses, simply not practical
Re: Pentium1 75/133 without L2 cache
Posted on 2023-01-30, 01:48
Without L2 a P133 isn’t much faster than an amd 5x86-133 with full cache, especially if it is one of the early slow old Socket 4/5 Chipsets. A very good hard drive controller and video card could make up some of the performance, especially if you can run fsb75 or 83 stable but you will still get a …
Re: Extended Memory on PC/XT
Posted on 2023-01-28, 19:20
What type of memory card and driver are you using?
Re: Leading Edge Model D non-standard CGA mode
Posted on 2023-01-27, 19:04
Plantronics or one of the other proprietary CGA extended graphics modes. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xNsK_F4JlG4
Re: HDMI To SVIDEO Adapter
Posted on 2023-01-25, 23:12
It has always been one of the big "THOU SHALT NOT"s of HDMI that modern HD content can't go to an analog channel, hence HDCP fails when trying to use streaming boxes etc through analog converters. Therefore official HDCP compliant devices that do that, don't exist. Probably unofficial ones do, but …
HDMI To SVIDEO Adapter
Posted on 2023-01-25, 19:42
My current cheap HDMI conversion solution allows me to under/over scan and move the image to center on screen, it outputs composite, Svideo and RGB+S (15khz) for old commodore / Amiga screens. This was terrific for using my TV for Pc emulation amongst other things. But sadly most other devices throw …
Re: Gatekeeping in the retro hobby
Posted on 2023-01-20, 00:16
My experience is most Gatekeeping takes place when certain folks encounter certain other folks that buy rare expensive antiques to tear apart for key caps or to make motherboards into wall clocks. I’ve thrown out and recycled truckloads of semi rare hardware (oops) but I do get why people would like …
Re: Dell Dimension 486SX 25 processor swap to 486DX. How do I change the bus speed?
Posted on 2023-01-13, 03:39
Odd I would expect sysclock/3 or sysclock/4
Re: 386 with 4GB?
Posted on 2023-01-13, 02:51
Let me get this straight. You are essentially asking if it helps to use a Sata drive on a VLB controller for your paging file on a 386, yes? ... :] TLDR: there is nothing that would run well on a 386 and require more than 8MB of ram. Same deal with 486 and ~12MB of ram. There we’re definitely …
Re: Strange SIMM ram package
Posted on 2023-01-09, 01:46
I have found a lot of Doa memory complaints mentioning that brand so gotta wonder how reliable a “complex” package like that would be.
Re: Pentium 1 366mhz The Infamous Golden Tiger
Posted on 2023-01-09, 01:39
Never!!! What surprises me is that there seem to be 100mhz ones. Wonder if there are any 90 or 75s? 🤔 There was a period of time when a P75 was the only low power notebook pentium CPU, so I would bet that it’s possible unless p75 laptop chips were in normal packages. Though, as a golden tiger I bet …
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