Re: Doom vs Heretic VGA performance difference
Posted on 2025-06-05, 08:42
Wrt original post; maybe it's those 8-bit writes that only uses half of the isa bus...
Re: 3com EtherLink II ASSY 2227 - Problems with BNC connection
Posted on 2025-05-16, 07:59
Does dmesg print anything when you modprobe the card? It might be configured for aui instead of bnc.
Re: Are early levels better than later levels in games?
Posted on 2025-05-15, 11:23
The desert part in GTA San Andreas that opens up last is the best. San Fierro that opens up in the middle is second best. The most annoying part is at the start with all the gang wars going on.
Re: Linux kernal going to drop i486 support
Posted on 2025-05-12, 10:37
systemd is not an integral part of linux and there are many distributions that don't use it, favoring initd instead. Yes I know; that's why I referred to userland. The problem is though, that all the major distros are aping into systemd full time - all the main focus is on that. Systemd also …
Re: Linux kernal going to drop i486 support
Posted on 2025-05-12, 05:42
The sea change in linux is corporate in nature. Red Hat and their ilk doing their thing. What bothers me more than stupid things going on in the kernel is totally disastrous things going on in userland. For me, sysv init is all that linux needs to boot and work properly. Look at what a cancerous …
Re: End of 10
Posted on 2025-05-08, 12:21
From personal experience, Debian isn't so great with proprietary Nvidia drivers The sad reality of Nvidia support is that you must use at least first generation of RTX on Linux. Everything below will soon be dropped or already has been dropped and may work decently only on X11. And there's simply …
Re: Linux kernal going to drop i486 support
Posted on 2025-05-08, 11:52
It's more annoying that Shift+PgUp and Shift+PgDown were dropped on text mode virtual consoles in 5.x Yes. Absolutely. About the 486 support - yes it is symbolically sad, but modern linux cannot work on a 486 anyway, without some serious manual labour and trimmings, and without any graphics. …
Re: S3Trio64V2 1MB PCI card reported as REALmagic64/GX
Posted on 2025-04-26, 18:47
Probably tried to customise it so that it does not look like a common garden variety one. Hacked the bios. Card would likely not work right if it were the wrong bios.
Re: What is the general opinion on all-in-one computers?
Posted on 2025-04-26, 18:17
Re: What is the general opinion on all-in-one computers?
Posted on 2025-04-26, 06:25
Underwhelming and overpriced. Proprietary huge laptops that cannot be realistically serviced and upgraded.
Re: Are SD/CF card solutions in retro systems cheating in your view?
Posted on 2025-04-25, 08:00
Interesting reads. Seems as if most don't care to use flash storage. In principle, neither do I. However, I do appreciate the sound and the tactile nature of real hard drives. Even though my first "pc" compatible was a 286 with ide, the sound and manner of the ST-225 is absolutely iconic and …
Re: State of gaming nowadays
Posted on 2025-04-25, 05:55
It is a bit twisted yes. I understand it as: since there are already so many existing games out there that are good and since it is trivial and cheap to create new ones and/or maintain existing ones, what is the financial incentive to do so? I have two thoughts on this that immediately spring to …
Re: SMR drives
Posted on 2025-04-23, 12:00
Mine seem to be doing well. When mdraid runs a check, they don't seems to take an eternity to finish. I only run these drives in a mirror. Nobody should run these in parity RAID or ZFS or anything that is inherently write-heavy. EDIT: Hardware_ECC_Recovered on one of the drives seems like it might …
Re: SMR drives
Posted on 2025-04-23, 11:58
I disagree here, as SMR drives need long periods of being powered and spun up, without accesses happening, to reshingle. Otherwise data rots in the cmr cache area, and it never gets vacated to the smr area. It's best-use scenario is as a read only volume serving boot images for emergency recovery, …
Re: 486 sx25 PC
Posted on 2025-04-01, 17:51
A case can also be made towards leaving it as is; just add a sound card. It will play the whole gaggle of quest games in a very era appropriate way. It would be nice to have a running example of an sx25 in a time capsule kind of way. Doom anyway runs nicer on a pentium.
Re: In C, is there a way to access the address stored in the linking pointer for any node in a linked list?
Posted on 2025-04-01, 17:36
Perhaps build a map structure (either tree or unordered) that indexes the list nodes' values (or at least the part thereof you are trying to look up) as keys, mapping them to node pointers of existing nodes in the list. There is no other direct way that is fast, unless with "direct access" you just …
Re: Hardware you wish you'd never bought.
Posted on 2025-03-25, 14:53
I bought an Asus U3S6 thinking that THAT would be THE upgrade for my SE7527RP2 based dual Irwindale system. It is a pci express 4x card that provides 2x sata3 and 2x usb3 ports. It would have been great in theory, except., when I plug it in with drives connected to it, the bios screen hangs and …
Re: hardware you are glad you never bought
Posted on 2025-03-25, 09:29
I never bought one of those "all in one" PCs, where the screen & PC are in a single unit. At times they were marked down in price, sometimes looked ok and seems practical in space terms - but i knew they would tend to be under-specced, difficult to upgrade and go out of date quickly as a result. …
Re: question about NAS storage
Posted on 2025-03-25, 09:16
wierd_w's writeup above is very good. It's basically connecting your favourite storage configuration by means of your favourite (for the purpose) computer to the network. Samba for windows clients, nfs for linux clients, don't know the apple stuff. Another higher level protocol I might throw out …
Re: SMR drives
Posted on 2025-03-25, 08:58
I detest SMR drives for a multitude of reasons. However - In a typical external drive workload use case, the difference would probably not be noticable.
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