Re: Socket 6 Motherboards

Posted on Yesterday, 22:56

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I think they inially planned to milk the 486 platform for longer, but quicky abandoned it in favour of Socket 5 / Pentium. It appears in some proprietary/industrial Asian systems. Intel (per their 1990 roadmap) had originally planned to be at 200mhz in 1999 They planned for socket 4 to exist longer …

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Re: Should a Diamond Speedstar Pro (CL-GD5426) work in Win3.1 in 286 real-mode?

Posted on Yesterday, 15:12

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Looking at my bare NOS 6mhz 5170 AT motherboard replacement I appear to have 150ns memory But upon testing holy waitstates Batman! I should be able to run o waitstates at 6mhz using 150ns memory? It looks like I have clk=2 waitstates? Is that correct? This thread makes me sad I have the motherboard …

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Re: Should a Diamond Speedstar Pro (CL-GD5426) work in Win3.1 in 286 real-mode?

Posted on 2020-12-02, 17:44

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by rmay635703

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That 287Turbo module is pretty insane. I have a 287 upgrade module of some sort which allows the FPU to run async to the CPU, but it's very compact and simple...nothing at all like this monstrosity. Why on earth does it require so much power? Were they afraid that the original AT motherboard …

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Re: Made in USA 386.

Posted on 2020-11-29, 18:37

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Actually, I have been looking for another motherboard because this one only has 64kb cache. But I will trouble shoot this motherboard some more and try to figure out why it is not detecting IDE hard drives. 64k is doing well for a 386, a few have 128k but it seemed like only hybrid boards or IBMs …

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Re: What are your Favorite Games for a 286 platform?

Posted on 2020-11-28, 01:24

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Monkey Island Indiana Jones Jill of the Jungle Trilogy Leasure Suite Larry Keen Spear of Destiny On your system many of the older “Windows” games work great also.

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Re: Internet Archive

Posted on 2020-11-27, 21:51

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Any discussion of abandonware is against forum rules. This thread is therefore off topic and needs to be closed

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Re: 8-Bit Guy video's are becoming a chore!

Posted on 2020-11-23, 19:57

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That's the problem with youtube. It rewards massive output (4x 10 minute videos in 2 weeks), rather than sophisticated work (1x 40 minute video in 2 weeks). While not exactly on the topic of retro computing, prime examples of channels done right are "Technology Connections" and "Chyrosran22" in my …

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Re: 8-Bit Guy video's are becoming a chore!

Posted on 2020-11-23, 18:30

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The real problem with YouTube is that most massive channels are grown from very early entries. Meaning for most normal humans it’s too late to get a large channel on YouTube The other way to become big is to be apart of YouTube poop and usually coming preloaded with a canned audience. The number of …

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Re: 8-Bit Guy video's are becoming a chore!

Posted on 2020-11-20, 18:26

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I recently watched the AI video and don’t get what the big deal was. Certainly nothing to rip your cloths and run naked in the street over.

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Re: Are there other forums that discusses older Compaq Pentium servers?

Posted on 2020-11-20, 14:12

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Huh looking for old compaq servers brought me here https://www.computerhope.com/win3qa.htm Blast from the past

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Re: 8-Bit Guy video's are becoming a chore!

Posted on 2020-11-20, 14:09

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Every time a similar thread pops up I learn about somebody's favorite youtube channel that I wasn't aware of 😁 I am reminded of ones I had forgotten about or I found irritating then upon revisiting their new content is decent Ancient DOS games I use like an encyclopedia when I want to review a …

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Re: Can we figure out Rage XL?

Posted on 2020-11-20, 01:12

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Anonymous Coward wrote on 2020-11-17, 13:08: RageXL is known as Mach64GM? That's news to me. Sounds to me like the entire rage line must have Windows 3.1 drivers then (or at least ones requiring a very small mod to work)

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Re: 8-Bit Guy video's are becoming a chore!

Posted on 2020-11-19, 20:45

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AVGN has a wife and kid so he’s not as angry anymore :0 Also has all the other random side ventures Need to have the AVGN, Cinnemmassacre, redlettermedia, 8 bit guy crossover episode There are so many other vintage channels out there you can watch. Sort of but not really 8 bit guy has a level of …

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Re: 8-Bit Guy video's are becoming a chore!

Posted on 2020-11-19, 20:38

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You should message the 8 bit guy, My guess is being in the middle of building a $500 shed that costs $30,000 is draining but His interests are known as well and the current subjects he is reviewing may not be the best fit for a full video, maybe needs an 8 bit guy shorts segment for some of these. …

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Re: Help overclocking an AMD 5x86 133

Posted on 2020-11-18, 17:10

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Some motherboards/cards aren’t stable at 40mhz and need different settings or even in some cases different cache

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Re: Pentium MMX running at the wrong speed

Posted on 2020-11-16, 22:12

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Well, that was unsuccessful... I made up a lead with a 1K resistor in, but as soon as JP2, which seems to be connected to BF0 on the processor, is pulled high, it refuses to post... More head scratching required. Andrew Make sure your jumper setting isn’t trying to ground the pin, mike need to …

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Re: Pentium MMX running at the wrong speed

Posted on 2020-11-16, 10:31

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This is a common but very old issue A single rail motherboard (one that does not have separate VIO/Vcore) Lacks the ability to properly set jumpers causing them to float on split rail CPUs) To set a jumper you need to be able to bring the multiplier pins high or to ground, To fix you will need to …

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Re: Were VLB video cards ever good?

Posted on 2020-11-14, 16:00

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[Thanks. I was getting around 20fps in my super socket 7 system as well. So pushing 320x200 @256 colors, 20 times a second, means that Doom would have to push ~1.25 MB/s to the VGA card, yes? Is that an inflection point on the ISA bus where pushing the extra frames require an increasing CPU load …

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Re: Is there other forums that discusses older Compaq Pentium servers?

Posted on 2020-11-13, 12:39

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Uncreativelabs died and it is the original dating back into the 90’s In fact Vintage pc forums that were very active 1995-1998 mostly died off in the new millennium. Remember the old “rings” of different category websites and forums? Although hated here Winworld and some similar OS software …

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Re: Is there other forums that discusses older Compaq Pentium servers?

Posted on 2020-11-12, 21:50

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Vcfed occasionally though most vintage forums have died.

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