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Re: Sound Blaster Pro: Why is it the game standard?

Posted on 2020-09-22, 12:06

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

There is also the matter of cpu power. Several games had a sound quality selection 1 pentium 2 486 3 386 4 386sx On my Cyrix dx2 I usually selected pentium class 16bit stereo sound, all that would happen was an occasional screen studder The lowest settings were usually 8bit mono 11khz for 386

Re: Fujitsu hard drives

Posted on 2020-09-22, 11:07

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I had a 4gb Fujitsu that came in my MII 233 system The system always seemed glacial until I upgraded to a Maxtor 60gb drive. Drive was quite reliable and was sold in my college system (K6-2 450) to another student for cheap.

Re: Jill of the Jungle support Tandy 3 voice?

Posted on 2020-09-20, 20:45

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Filename D8D3C633-433D-4F9A-B20A-0EEC043B6121.jpeg File size 67.94 KiB Views 57 views Odd

Re: Until when PC used 10 function keys, instead of 12?

Posted on 2020-09-17, 18:12

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Some of the very old PCs used for terminals had 24 function keys One of my AT/XT keyboards with this layout is dated 1985 Not really sure outside financials when the function keys got much use Usually F1 help F2 Menu F3 Print F4 fold/tab F12 (don’t remember but it seemed to be used a lot) F24 clear …

Re: PC Chips M570 BIOS which has GUI

Posted on 2020-09-16, 13:51

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I would hotswap to burn the bios Someone at Wims can likely help https://www.wimsbios.com/forum/motherboard-de … m570-t1205.html

Re: K62-500 overclocking

Posted on 2020-09-15, 17:07

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Perhaps antidotal but on several boards I had if I benchmarked a Standard k6-2 @ 5.5x theN benchmarked the same chip at a higher speed using the 6x multiplier My results were actually slower at the higher speed (and no usually in both cases I wasn’t overclocked either same bus speed as well) Also I …

Re: K62-500 overclocking

Posted on 2020-09-15, 00:19

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

K6-2 no K6-2+ yes

Re: Jetboard (J-Mark) 656HXA with 6x86-PR166+ cpu, 32mb ram. Do I need extra L2 cache? What about chipset drivers?

Posted on 2020-09-14, 19:45

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

More than 64mb on a pentium is far from useless Windows 98se comes to mind

Jill of the Jungle support Tandy 3 voice?

Posted on 2020-09-12, 03:13

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

I can’t seem to get 3 voice sound on my Tandy 1000rlx working on Jill of the Jungle, Has anyone gotten this to work? I own all 3 of the games Thanks

Re: The merits of Socket 7 processors - Intel P54C/P55C | AMD K5/K6/K6-2 | Cyrix/IBM 6x86 | IDT Winchip

Posted on 2020-09-12, 02:30

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The athlon ddr bus and increased burst lengths are a large part of the performance What’s stranger is How the relatively minor bus differences between the p54c and the Ppro made a sizable performance difference

Re: DTX 486 DX/33

Posted on 2020-09-09, 01:47

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Honestly have never seen a DTK 486, we had stacks of 386sx DTKs of various clock speeds at every school and business around here, 286’s were always NCRs

Re: Are MMX chips marked at all to indicate speed?

Posted on 2020-09-08, 21:57

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Fake or worn top. All mine have the speed

Re: How to make NEC V20HL run at 16 MHz?

Posted on 2020-09-08, 20:28

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

matze79 wrote on 2020-09-08, 18:22: Try run some XT Class Cards.. you will find ones that would not even work beyond 4.77Mhz I had an ibm CGa on a turbo XT, just got more screen sparkles in text mode

Re: Fake 486 Processor?

Posted on 2020-09-08, 18:17

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Gotta wonder what the point of a fake DX4 is?

Re: How to make NEC V20HL run at 16 MHz?

Posted on 2020-09-08, 18:15

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

matze79 wrote on 2020-09-08, 18:06: Why not just go 286 ? On my XT ISA Clock = CPU Clock. So no way i can go 16Mhz I’ve ran 16mhz ISA Bus on a 486, trouble is the ide controller and sound cards. An XT is much easier on ISA cards than a 286+ So I expect you Would need to cherry pick cards

Re: How to make NEC V20HL run at 16 MHz?

Posted on 2020-09-08, 18:00

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I was thinking more of if you were to upgrade a real 5160 The standard 16 bit ISA slot could work with an 8086, you would just need to either latch or NC the upper 4 address bits. Trouble is 8086 only has a single 16 bit IRQ, rest officially are “8bit”

Re: How to make NEC V20HL run at 16 MHz?

Posted on 2020-09-08, 17:27

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

does anyone make this kind of cards? Intel made a card to drop in the 8086 in place of the 8088 Considering the bus similarities I’ve often wondered if a dumb upgrade would allow half the bus to sit on the ISA card and the other half go to the main board 256k on the board 256k on the card for 16 …

Re: How to make NEC V20HL run at 16 MHz?

Posted on 2020-09-08, 17:24

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

It's also a real bummer there are no 8087 options over 10MHz. Nobody ever bothered to make a CMOS version of the 8087. There are rumours that Cyrix designed one, but it sounds like it was never brought to market. I long since wondered why the 80287 wasn’t a drop in replacement to the usually faster …

Re: Gaming headset/chair recommendations

Posted on 2020-09-07, 18:22

in Milliways

in Milliways

SAMs club had vibrating gaming chairs stereo Bluetooth speakers for $90 a while back. That is what I got

Re: Help identifying 286 board with TACT chipset

Posted on 2020-09-07, 15:31

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I would try a very slow oscillator like 10mhz I wonder if you have a blown chip, hard to test without a stack of spare 286 systems

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