Re: Why wasn't the Amiga popular in North America?
Posted on 2013-05-08, 23:20
Used 386s were probably about the same price.
Re: Ebay has fucked up. Ebay has sucked. Goodbye ebay?
Posted on 2013-05-08, 22:40
eBay has always sucked. I hate the bastards. Unless you are making an insane amount of profit on the item you sell, it's basically impossible to make any money on eBay. They take 10-15% of the SALE price, not the profit.
Re: Why wasn't the Amiga popular in North America?
Posted on 2013-05-08, 22:31
I was never impressed with PSX graphics. They always looked like amateurish VGA graphics to me. Never understood what the big deal that that system was.
Re: Finally scored a 25 mhz Harris
Posted on 2013-05-08, 13:35
Should be faster than a 386SX-16. I think Even a 286-16 was faster than a 386SX-16 (unless it had cache). The memory chips on the 286-25 are DRAM. I am only aware of one single 286 motherboard that has the option for L2 cache, and I have never seen one in the flesh (or photos for that matter).
Re: Whats with the shipping costs from USA???
Posted on 2013-05-08, 13:29
Several years ago when I was selling off all my stuff on eBay I used USPS quite often. Aside from being run down, I really couldn't stand the attitude the workers gave me. Even though I always tried my hardest to be polite and take care of my business as quickly as possible, they gave me the …
Re: Whats with the shipping costs from USA???
Posted on 2013-05-08, 04:48
I still don't understand how these Chinese sellers are paying such insanely low rates. As an individual when I try to ship stuff using China post it always costs me a bloody fortune. They must be getting some kind of rebate from the government.
Re: Why wasn't the Amiga popular in North America?
Posted on 2013-05-08, 04:43
I've always been under the impression that 115 and 230V are equally dangerous. It's the current and AC frequency that make them dangerous. My main gripe with 115V is that basically the whole bloody world uses 220/230/240V. From a manufacturing point of view, it's pretty annoying having to deal with …
Re: Another 486 build.... with EISA!
Posted on 2013-05-07, 13:51
When you get a chance, I'd really like to see the speedsys for your Nice board on FASTEST at 33MHz. Be sure to use v4.78.
Re: Why wasn't the Amiga popular in North America?
Posted on 2013-05-07, 12:49
Were artsy-fartsy people really into the macs at an early stage? I know for publishing, yes. But the original line of Macs only did black and white. The Mac II (which came out 18 months after the Amiga) was horribly expensive...as in $5,500. I wonder if that even included the expensive trinitron …
Re: Retro Supplies Australia
Posted on 2013-05-07, 00:47
Patience.
Re: Another 486 build.... with EISA!
Posted on 2013-05-06, 14:15
CPU score shouldn't change much. I think it's about right for an intel dx4 in write through mode. But, you should be able to get better memory performance on your SiS boards. I believe the Nice BIOS should have an option for "PAGE INTERLEAVE". At least on my board it is enabled by default.
Re: Why wasn't the Amiga popular in North America?
Posted on 2013-05-06, 09:02
I noticed that the Amiga was relatively popular in Canada, and some of the northern US states...for a time. But Amiga pretty much just disappeared by 91 or 92. As to why it wasn't as popular in North America as it was in Europe...I personally blame Americans. They always have to choose stupid …
Re: Another 486 build.... with EISA!
Posted on 2013-05-06, 08:33
The memory results I get from my Nice SuperEISA seem to be quite a bit better than this. Is memory interleave enabled on the Tyan? This is a bad photo of my Nice board from several years ago. The bus is running at 40MHz (can't remember if it's on faster or fastest for memory timings). The results …
Re: Another 486 build.... with EISA!
Posted on 2013-05-06, 00:29
That was a pretty interesting review. I just wanted to point out one thing that I thought was a little unfair though. The author states that VL-bus is faster than EISA at video, yet he didn't even test an EISA graphics adapter. He only tested the VLB and ISA versions of the Stealth24.
Re: Seeking information on a Tyan 486VL/EISA Motherboard
Posted on 2013-05-05, 05:32
There's nothing weird about 16 or 20MHz. That was perfectly normal for 486SX chips. But in any case, if your board is like the NICE it will support the following bus speeds: 16, 20, 25, 32, 33, 40, 50 and probably 66.
Re: RAM on a 286 motherboard
Posted on 2013-05-05, 04:39
80287XL was only ever rated by intel to run up at speeds of up to 12.5MHz....but this may have been because intel itself never made 286s faster than that (AMD and Harris did). A heatsink is probably a pretty good idea though, otherwise you should get a Cyrix or IIT FPU rated for 20MHz.
Re: RAM on a 286 motherboard
Posted on 2013-05-04, 07:59
Is your 80287XL running at 20MHz, or does it run at 1/2 or 2/3 bus speed?
Re: Seeking information on a Tyan 486VL/EISA Motherboard
Posted on 2013-05-04, 07:58
Are there more jumpers than what is shown on TH99? According to TH99 jumpers JP26 JP27 and JP28 are the only possible ones that could control bus speed. Should be pretty easy to figure it out.
Re: SB16 Ct2230 + NEC XR385 vs YMF719 + NEC XR385
Posted on 2013-05-04, 05:20
YMF719 sounds a hell of a lot cleaner than any SB16 I've ever heard...with the exception of maybe the AWE64...which has no internal DB connector. My vote goes for the YMF-719. I don't know which games are incompatible with the YMF-719, but surely they must be few and far between. Just for the record …
Re: RAM on a 286 motherboard
Posted on 2013-05-03, 23:51
I didn't know 1MB SIPPs were rare. At one time I had access to an entire jar full. Once I even had a 20MHz 286 motherboard with 1mb SIPPs.
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