Re: SHARP Transmeta Efficeon laptop

Posted on 2022-11-13, 01:59

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by lepidotós

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I grabbed Odin and threw it on the net disk (my Acer laptop I'm using), and am using it to image the Windows XP install in case there's anything interesting on it. To image the 7,207 MB that are in use, it took 4:50:53 with an average transfer speed around 450-500KB/s, compressed with BZip2. …

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Re: Cheap but well performing PCI 3D video cards

Posted on 2022-11-13, 01:39

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I'd second looking for a G200 or G450 PCI (sometimes listed as 7003-03) as well, just to keep the option open -- Matrox's relative obscurity these days outside hospitals and hobbyists seems to keep it relatively cheap; about $30 for a PCI G450 here in the US taking a quick look on eBay as the …

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Re: Era-specific hard drive capacity. Share your thoughts.

Posted on 2022-11-13, 01:33

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I can second the CF to IDE adapter. My Lombard is CF-modded and it's great -- not only is the performance similar enough to not have it feel significantly faster, which isn't really a plus to me but I know is for some, but it more importantly allows me to switch between a Mac OS 9.0/10.0 DP2 card …

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Re: Era-specific hard drive capacity. Share your thoughts.

Posted on 2022-11-12, 19:39

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80-340MB 640MB / 640MB-2GB 4-8GB 8-20GB 20-40GB 40-60GB My PowerBook G3 (Lombard, 1999) came with a 4GB hard drive. The Dell Inspiron 8500 with a Pentium 4 had either a 30 or 60GB hard drive. IBM ThinkPad 700 had an 80 to 120MB hard drive, and the 750s had either 170 to 340MB, both of which came …

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Re: Cheap but we’ll performing PCI 3D video cards

Posted on 2022-11-12, 08:12

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You can in theory use an AGP GeForce2 with a Quadcore (overclocked to 4GHz, but only 1 core usable under Win98) and 1200MHz DDR2. But these boards ain't gonna be cheap and are total overkill for a GF2. I took a look, and ForceWare 61.77 claims to support the Riva TNT on Windows XP, so that opens up …

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Re: SHARP Transmeta Efficeon laptop

Posted on 2022-11-12, 05:52

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Half-Life Timedemo -- Software (Sept. 1997) c2a4 ----- c2a4a ----- c2a4b ----- avg. ----- 320x200 77.9 76.2 74.9 76.333 c2a4 ----- c2a4a ----- c2a4b ----- avg. ----- 640x400 37.5 38.2 38.7 38.133 c2a4 ----- c2a4a ----- c2a4b ----- avg. ----- 800x600 25.2 24.0 25.5 24.9 c2a4 ----- c2a4a ----- c2a4b …

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Re: SHARP Transmeta Efficeon laptop

Posted on 2022-11-11, 21:26

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Fair enough, that makes sense. Anyway, I'm currently heading out for something but am currently in the process of testing a few games. I'll finish them when I get back, and get to doing the CPU benchmarks suggested, plus a compiling test with the Digital Mars D compiler.

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Re: SHARP Transmeta Efficeon laptop

Posted on 2022-11-11, 20:42

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Looks like it says so. However, I noticed the Machine tab suggests it's a Crusoe, and the main page says it's 90nm, but TM8600 is supposed to have been fabbed at 130nm; TM8800 is 90nm.

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Re: What games did you become really good at?

Posted on 2022-11-11, 06:02

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I've gotten to a point in SimCity 2000 where I can make a city sustain myself. Godlike compared to 11 year old me. I also feel like I can fluently move around in Quake and Half-Life, and enjoy them for the movement, even if I'm still terrible at deathmatch.

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Re: Retro confessions. What are yours?

Posted on 2022-11-11, 05:53

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Is it Cyrix or AMD? And is that good or bad posting? Because I talk a significant amount of smack about both amd64 and my current cell phone, which would likely make them some of my more talked about topics. To be honest, I'm ambivalent towards 99% of SIs/OEMs of the day. I suppose I dislike Compaq …

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Re: Cheap but we’ll performing PCI 3D video cards

Posted on 2022-11-10, 20:45

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Rage Pro and derivatives are super cheap, but very shitty for 3D in general. ATi were very adamant to implement double-buffered Vsync in Direct3D at all times, without performance to back it up, even in period correct games. So enjoy constant dips form 60 to 30 fps or from 30 to 20/15 fps, due to …

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Re: SHARP Transmeta Efficeon laptop

Posted on 2022-11-10, 20:27

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by lepidotós

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Here you go, hope it helps. It seems good to me. Something I noticed is that my system is reporting as AGP disabled, and WinBench 2000 says the Radeon is PCI. I've made sure the AGP driver is installed and am re-running the benches to see if that did anything now. Edit: yeah, it's absolutely flying …

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Re: Cheap but we’ll performing PCI 3D video cards

Posted on 2022-11-10, 18:09

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Which OS? DOS, 3.11, 9x, NT, Linux? Depending on which it is for driver reasons, maybe something like a GeForce 2 MX 200 or a 3D Rage Pro. I see MX 200s going for like $10 on eBay from a quick look -- buy it now, as well, no snipers or anything. Same with the Rage, which is a lot closer in time ( …

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Re: Other hobbies?

Posted on 2022-11-10, 17:52

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I want to learn 3D animation; I can model, just not rig. I also like cooking and baking. And I've been trying to learn the D programming language for a few years now; I wouldn't say I'm a master but I've gotten a few programs finished.

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Re: List of PC games that you have not played or beaten yet that you'd like to

Posted on 2022-11-10, 07:28

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I'm not actually 100% sure I've ever 100% beaten Half-Life. I've played through it countless times in the last 13 or 14 years but I don't ever remember fully beating it, nor any of the expansions. A few games I know for sure I've never beaten are: Halo 1, any of the games in the Command and Conquer: …

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

Posted on 2022-11-10, 07:08

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Went to check the prices of Radeon Pro W6600s, did some updated number-crunching on how much I need for the Raptor Blackbird motherboard and associated IBM 02CY297 because I'm moving soon, then watched some YouTube. Probably going to go sleep soon to a video about cooking or something. I usually …

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Re: SHARP Transmeta Efficeon laptop

Posted on 2022-11-10, 06:47

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Will do tomorrow. For now here's a bunch of synthetic benchmark results. Nowhere near exhaustive but it covers a not insignificant range of the benchmark suite for 9x that Phil compiled together. No, I didn't know how to save the 3DMark2000 results in more detail, unfortunately. I recently learned …

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Re: Retro confessions. What are yours?

Posted on 2022-11-10, 06:42

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Excel. I put way more hours on my CRTs with my modern boxes (i5-2400/i5-6600K) than I ever have with my older hardware, and that isn't looking to change as I look for a second 19" CRT and a good DisplayPort to VGA adapter that'll output 10bpc video from a Radeon RX 570 (and, in the future, a Pro …

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Re: SHARP Transmeta Efficeon laptop

Posted on 2022-11-09, 20:07

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Actually yes, for some reason it seems there's a noticeable 2-3 second lag when opening up stuff like dialog boxes, but after that it runs alright. Fast enough that I've gotten the first round of benchmarks done with 3DMark2001. 640x480x16 gets 967 marks, while 1024x768x16 gets 697. I tried 32-bit, …

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Re: SHARP Transmeta Efficeon laptop

Posted on 2022-11-09, 17:32

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Oh, for sure, here you are. Hope it helps! I'm confident that it's not 100% accurate, but it seems good enough, and I'd need to spend more time with it to really know for sure.

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