Re: Super Socket 7 600 Mhz Upgrade

Posted on 2012-09-17, 00:46

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by carangil

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

This is one of the weirdest things I've seen but at 616 mhz my USB mouse is not recognized in windows 98. It works just fine in lubuntu. At 560 mhz with a 112 bus, everything is fine in both oses. But at 616 my USB mouse blinks on once and then quits. I might do a bench mark to see if 560 with a 112 …

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Re: Super Socket 7 600 Mhz Upgrade

Posted on 2012-09-15, 17:38

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by carangil

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in Marvin \ System Specs

I was mistaken about a 105Mhz setting; I must have been thinking of some other board I once worked with. But, I did bump up the FSB to 112. A 6x multiplier was not booting (672 Mhz), but 5.5 is working fine. (616 Mhz) My memory is still at CAS 2. I'll keep it at this speed for the time being. If I …

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Re: Super Socket 7 600 Mhz Upgrade

Posted on 2012-09-14, 22:33

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by carangil

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I figured that this is the only one motherboard that gives you the 140MHz FSB option, making your CPU to go @ 840MHz A 140mhz bus with 6x multiplier, will the system really be stable at 840Mhz? 140*4.5 would give 648, which seems very high for a k6. The board I have now does have some options for …

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Super Socket 7 600 Mhz Upgrade

Posted on 2012-09-13, 07:17

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by carangil

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in Marvin \ System Specs

I just put a k6-2+ 570 I got off ebay into my super socket 7 board. It's meant to run at a FSB of 95 at 6x multiplier. I'm running a 100 Mhz bus, so it comes out to 600 Mhz! The on-chip cache really helps too! Specifications: -MSI 5184 Baby AT Super Socket 7. -k6-2+ running at 600 Mhz, 128 on-chip …

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Re: Implementing a 16 or 32 bit pc in FPGA - doable or put down the bong?

Posted on 2012-09-03, 07:40

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by carangil

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Its certainly possible but is a lot of work. In college I took a CPU design course where we implemented mips CPUs in fpga. It took a group of 4 students a couple weeks to get a simple CPU going. And mips is risc. A ful x86, even a 386 missing protected mode would be a bunch of work. You would …

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Re: EDO simm vs PC100 DIMM for super socket 7

Posted on 2012-09-01, 07:30

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by carangil

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Thanks for your replies. The board I have is this one http://www.msi.com/product/mb/MS-5184.html The manual specifically says it supports mixing SIMM and DIMM. But if it will just slow things down, then I won't. 768 is probably overkill anyway. 512 is almost overkill, for win9x it definitely is. I …

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EDO simm vs PC100 DIMM for super socket 7

Posted on 2012-08-31, 19:01

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by carangil

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have a super socket 7 board with 2 DIMM (PC100) slots and 2 SIMM slots. The board supports a maximum of 768MB of ram, in this config: 256MB DIMM x2 128MB EDO SIMM x2 I had 1 256MB DIMM in it, and I just added a second one this morning, because I recently decided to max-out this particular system. …

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Re: emachines all in one; are the signals inside 'standard'?

Posted on 2011-04-04, 22:35

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by carangil

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I found technical info on the motherboard inside: http://www.e4allupgraders.info/dir1/motherboa … 0/calgary.shtml http://www.motherboards.org/files/manuals/125/Calgary.pdf Page 13 has the info on the monitor interface.

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Re: emachines all in one; are the signals inside 'standard'?

Posted on 2011-04-04, 22:09

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by carangil

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Oh wow, I didn't realize the inside was basically a laptop. No wonder it was so cheap. I do have Pentium 3 laptop with a relatively small motherboard and a jacked screen; I smell a possible Frankenstein project. First things first: I poke around inside and see if there's anything resembling VGA …

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emachines all in one; are the signals inside 'standard'?

Posted on 2011-04-04, 21:19

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by carangil

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Hi I have an old emachines eOne sitting in the garage that still works. (amazing huh, emachines was kinda junk) It's an all on one unit that looks a bit like an iMac ripoff. I kind of want to take out the mobo and put something faster in there, and just use it as a websurfing workstation. But, I was …

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Re: DOSBox as an application wrapper

Posted on 2011-02-09, 18:47

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by carangil

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Sure, its pretty easy. 1. install dosbox 2. put the old application somewhere, like c:\users\xxx\myOldProgram 3. create a custom version of the dosbox.conf file, and drop it in the myOldProgram directory. In the [autoexec] section, add the commands to mount the directory and run the old program 4. …

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Re: Which PCs Should I Grab For Classic Gaming (different eras)?

Posted on 2011-02-04, 23:41

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by carangil

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Probably the best advice when running old DOS games, is have a machine that you can boot in a 'real' dos flavor (6.22 or Win95/98 DOS mode) and has an ISA sound card. Sound Blaster 16/Pro is the best for compatibility. I use a Media Vision Jazz16 PAS with good results. I have 3 PCs for old DOS …

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Re: any DOS sound drivers/emulators for modern hardware?

Posted on 2010-10-26, 03:24

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by carangil

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I am running Windows 7 and Ubuntu Netbook Remix. In Win7 in VMWare I was running DOS 6.22. Tomb raider and Descent run fast in it.

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Re: any DOS sound drivers/emulators for modern hardware?

Posted on 2010-10-25, 23:07

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by carangil

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"You're not saying you got better performance on this Atom-powered netbook with VMware than with DOSBox?" Thats exactly what I'm saying. In DOSBOX, Tomb Raider was barely playable at 320x240. VMWare plays it as 640x80 just fine. Same with Descent. Descent plays nicely in DOSBOX at 320x240, but when …

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Re: any DOS sound drivers/emulators for modern hardware?

Posted on 2010-10-25, 18:32

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by carangil

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That is true. However, on this particular machine (atom-based netbook) 32-bit is a better fit. My desktop is a much better fit for 64-bit OS, and is fast enough to run these games fine in DOSBOX. There are two other solutions that worked as well: -DOSEMU: I shrunk the windows partition down to put …

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Re: any DOS sound drivers/emulators for modern hardware?

Posted on 2010-10-22, 02:50

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by carangil

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Running XP drivers with VDMSound lets these games run full speed. One observation with VDMSound: Adlib emulation slows down my whole system, but General Midi works fine!

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Re: any DOS sound drivers/emulators for modern hardware?

Posted on 2010-10-16, 00:26

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by carangil

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Core is left at auto, but for protected mode games with a Windows host, that should be 'dynamic', right? I'm starting to realize Win 7 starter is a 'crap' OS, and am putting Linux on this weekend. I'll try out dosemu.

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Re: any DOS sound drivers/emulators for modern hardware?

Posted on 2010-10-15, 19:17

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by carangil

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Thanks, I'll give the drivers a try. Well, I can't really increase the cycles anymore, since these games are Protected Mode, so DOSBOX goes from cycle count to 100%. I tried the 105% setting; not quite enough. I also changed the output from surface to OpenGL, and that helped just a little.

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any DOS sound drivers/emulators for modern hardware?

Posted on 2010-10-14, 21:51

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by carangil

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I have an Atom-powered netbook, and is finding DOSBOX too slow for some games. These netbooks can boot into FreeDOS OK, but, of course, the sound hardware is way too modern. I know that some semi-modern sound cards (AC97 based) will sometimes work with other AC97 sound blaster emulator drivers …

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decentralization of the PC

Posted on 2010-10-13, 03:46

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by carangil

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It used to be that a home computer (such as C-64 or TRS-80) lacked any storage and came as a simple 'base unit.' Everything you needed, such as modem, floppy drive, etc was just an external peripheral. When PCs and Macs took over, it became the norm to have all the peripherals built-in to one …

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