Re: Voodoo 2 DOS Glide compatibility matrix

Posted on 2017-11-05, 07:31

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by alvaro84

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Hm, I guess I have a question here. Sometimes I play the old Tomb Raider with Voodoo cards and once I had a batch file full of environment variable settings for Voodoo 2. Then I had data corruption on that HDD and no matter how long I googled I couldn't find the right settings anymore. So Tomb …

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2017-11-05, 07:23

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by alvaro84

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I should pick up a RD RAM P3 board and an RD RAM Socket 423 board and compare them. Sadly, when or if I'll have the money for that is basically unknown. What would you like to compare? I have a HP KC19+ i820 Slot1 board and an Asus P4T i850 Socket423 one. They're quite different animals, at least …

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Re: What's the best wallpaper for a PPro Voodoo 1 machine?

Posted on 2017-11-03, 19:30

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by alvaro84

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I'd take a photo of the inside of the case and used that as a wallpaper. Then I could always see the innards even when it's closed.

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Re: The Best 486 machine to complement my MMX and soon PIII

Posted on 2017-11-03, 18:05

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by alvaro84

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So far I'm leaning in the direction of 486 DX and yes, SB Pro 2. I'm still thinking about getting both DX+DX2 cpus, but one board. Will it work with both? If the board supports the DX2 it certainly will support the DX too. Both processors are 5V (well most DX2s are 5V) so the board doesn't even …

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Re: How do you recognize if Memory is FPM or EDO

Posted on 2017-11-02, 18:18

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by alvaro84

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lazibayer wrote: A lot of Socket 5/7 boards will report the memory type in each row. This is my method too. The part number way looked promising but then I took my FPM and EDO boxes out of the cupboard and I saw that either it doesn't work or I made a lot of mistakes when I sorted my SIMM sticks 😵

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2017-11-02, 17:51

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by alvaro84

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QWERTZU! I've never seen a German keyboard layout before. Sometimes I forget that the entire world doesn't use the same QWERTY layout. We Hungarians use QWERTZU too, with even more esoteric vowels at the right side than Germans :D And I switch way too often between English and Hungarian layout not …

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

Posted on 2017-10-29, 08:26

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by alvaro84

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Still playing with my Turbo XT. Gave my Orchid TinyTurbo XTra accelerator card another try but it still doesn't work. But I could get its "new" SCSI HDD work in my main i3/win7 rig with an Adaptec PCI controller and copied games and music on it. GLX plays mods @ 22kHz stereo on V20/10MHz + SBPro2.

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Re: Schneider Euro XT (need a manual and audio advice)

Posted on 2017-10-28, 20:56

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by alvaro84

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Let's hope they spent time to write a good CGA code They did! I looked inside prince.exe and found that one can force it into CGA mode with a simple CGA parameter. And it's really much faster. Not perfect but much better. And ugly 😁 EGA mode is slower again, closer to the VGA mode's speed.

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Re: Friendliest CPU family for mid-90s "final" DOS-era games?

Posted on 2017-10-23, 19:54

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by alvaro84

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I've heard that performance suffers when using more than 64MB ram in a Socket 7 system, is this the case with a P3 System? But then wouldn't Windows98 performance suffer if I switched to that, rather than just DOS? It depends on the chipset and the amount of cache. Later (Super) Socket 7 boards can …

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

Posted on 2017-10-22, 06:35

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by alvaro84

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Got my 939 testbed (Abit AX8) properly see A64X2 CPUs. I have no idea why but the 4200+ I wanted to test showed up as 1 CPU and CPU-Z showed 1 core / 1 thread too. What's worse I have no idea how I did it. I installed the ACPI multiprocessor and the A64X2 driver, nothing happened. Deleted the one …

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Re: Super PC/XT Bios BUG for 5150

Posted on 2017-10-22, 04:24

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by alvaro84

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retrocanada76 wrote: As someone else pointed out in other forum SHR AL,4 is not valid but TASM is expanding to to 4 SHR AL,1. […] Show full quote As someone else pointed out in other forum SHR AL,4 is not valid but TASM is expanding to to 4 SHR AL,1. The correct would be: MOV CL,4 SHR AL,CL You …

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Re: How much ram do i need for P2 dos machine ?

Posted on 2017-10-21, 11:03

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by alvaro84

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If it's strictly for DOS I wouldn't put more than 64MB in it, or maybe 32MB. I know no game that need more than 32M and only one demo that may need 48M (Event Horizon from Smash Designs). Too much memory can cause incompatibilities (32768k may be just too much for some software, boards "thankfully" …

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Re: Need Some Idea & Advice on a Nice Board

Posted on 2017-10-21, 08:26

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by alvaro84

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...The only bad news left is, solid VIA MB for SS7, K7 or Pentium III is extremely rare in Japan. Seems still need to wait for a quite long time, sigh.... Kind of sad, 694T boards aren't too rare here in Hungary. I have an MSI and an Epox myself. Abit VH6T was also recommended by an acquaintance of …

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2017-10-21, 05:22

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by alvaro84

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A witching power supply, that's exciting 😁 The entire system may run on magic.

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Re: List the CPUs you owned when they were new

Posted on 2017-10-18, 16:31

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by alvaro84

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Z80@3.125MHz (1989) - I don't know the actual manufacturer, I'll take my Videoton TVC apart again one day then I'll know... 8088/10 (1993) - I still don't know though I saw it enough before I put this thing together, or, more precisely, it was put together in the shop. I wasn't brave enough to build …

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2017-10-17, 18:13

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by alvaro84

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Talking about Socket 4. 3.3V VRM and cache module for my Digital Celebris Socket4/5 board that I normally use as a S4 testbed. Now it works with S5 Pentiums too. Not that I don't have other boards for them, but these parts are really interesting and make the board more complete. Funny little (ok, …

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Re: Advice for building a Pentium 3 gaming PC?

Posted on 2017-10-07, 17:36

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by alvaro84

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P3 gaming rig? My preferences include DOS and therefore ISA so the newest i815 boards aren't for me. But I couldn't get really convenient around Voodoo cards so I can't really advise about them though I plan to take a look in their realm too... My 3 attempts by now: - Classic early, BX based: …

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2017-10-07, 16:08

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by alvaro84

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Found this while going through electronics trash at my university: Beautiful board! My Socket 4 one is in a far worse shape. And I was happy to find any that works. These more exotic sockets are extremely rare in our scrap. Those PLCC sockets look just like the ones on a Tseng ET6000 VGA - though …

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Re: PC Chips M209 286 motherboard, maximum onboard memory...

Posted on 2017-10-07, 06:26

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by alvaro84

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Chiming in - I've found an un-corroded board with the same chipset and the same abilities and issues around detecting and setting up memory sizes. The board layout is like this one: http://stason.org/TULARC/pc/motherboards/H/HEDAKA-286-HED-988.html It has 4 SIPP sockets in two pairs and these could …

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Re: New vs old hardware by power usage

Posted on 2017-10-04, 17:30

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by alvaro84

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My point if "what if" older console and computer were built to consume 1000W or 150W as console just adding dissipations that wasn't usually used back then? Up to any technical core limits I mean.Didn't they do it cause they could not or cause no one would have bought a 250W console or a 500W pc? …

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