Re: What hardware do you think belongs in a museum?

Posted on 2021-07-04, 07:14

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Rolling 25 year old cutoff would work I'd think. I second that, because some platforms aged differently fast, so to say. Also, some platforms or computers had a different significance in history. Let's just think of the original XBOX, the iPod or the original Kindle ebook device. They have their …

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Re: Most stable and compatible win9x configuration

Posted on 2021-07-04, 05:21

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@Joseph-Joestar ^Be careful with the Pentium 4, though! Some of its instructions were somewhat quick that DOS-based versions of Windows struggled. Edit: Found the the article! https://www.os2museum.com/wp/those-win9x-crashes-on-fast-machines/ It's the LOOP instruction that's so develish quick. And …

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Re: Is this CF-IDE adapter a viable option for DOS?

Posted on 2021-07-04, 04:10

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Glad to hear that it works! ^^ If you like, you can these for benchmarking, for example: - CheckIt! v3 or v4 - SpeedSys - Syschk - Sysinfo by Central Point Software or Symantec NSSI and Dr.Hardware Sysinfo may also support benchmarking, not sure if it works for HDDs, though.

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Re: Most stable and compatible win9x configuration

Posted on 2021-07-04, 03:39

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Just saw an authentic Youtube video called "Why is it so hard to create my dream 1996 gaming PC?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFPCU40RxO8 It's very interesting and provides a good impression of mid-90s' computer game playing on Windows. (Ok, to be honest, it was high-end then; at the time, I …

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Re: defragging ssd

Posted on 2021-07-03, 21:46

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Hm, yes. I guess we could say that the SSD doesn't need defragmentation, but Windows dos. All those "fragments" will cause the NTFS filesystem to become more and more convoluted/messed-up as time wents on.

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Re: 32-Bit is dead

Posted on 2021-07-03, 21:40

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Look, let's stop being so inefficient, and just call it "4 byte", ok??? By going to 2 syllables we've doubled the IPC right there. Agreed. :thumbsup: Could also be called an "quad octet" (since"byte" isn't always 8-bits), "8 nibbles" or "octa nibble" - to those who love nibbles. :) PS: I think this …

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Re: Most beautiful Dos-Games for a 486...what are your favorites?

Posted on 2021-07-03, 14:38

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And I disagree with the assertion more "modern" tends to equate more "realistic". Some modern games look anything but realistic, while older ones do. If anything some modern games have such stunning graphics they manage to pass off the fantastical more convincingly, leaving older games looking …

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Re: Most stable and compatible win9x configuration

Posted on 2021-07-03, 13:06

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If you're primarily interested in playing Windows games, get a SBLive for cleaner sound output and EAX support. But if you also want to play DOS games, you can keep the AWE64 as well, since it has better DOS compatibility. EAX? I thought that A3D was the legendary audio standard everyone loved. :) …

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Re: Windows 3.x games that don't work in Windows

Posted on 2021-07-03, 04:04

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Zup wrote on 2021-07-02, 09:28: [..] here are few Windows 9x games than run on Windows 3.1, and that's after installing Win32s and offering a goat as a sacrifice. [..] Oh, no! Not Toriel! 😳

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Re: What is the best 68K Mac emulator for playing games?

Posted on 2021-07-02, 16:31

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the Amiga version of Fusion is fantastic prince of persia 2 works on basilisk II in windows but there are sound issues during the game, the music stop etc on the other way FUSION DOS version works on dosbox or PCEM but is very slow there and is not usable you need fast real hardware to run fusion …

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Re: Windows 11 on Raspberry Pi 4

Posted on 2021-07-02, 10:32

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Interesting while I suppose the increased Rpi4 microSD card performances should be enough for any o.s. considering they ran their Debian verion of linux with much slower bandwidth on any microSD before this version; the idea of the USB3 to external SSD might be faster but not that compact. I don't …

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Windows 11 on Raspberry Pi 4

Posted on 2021-07-02, 09:18

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Hi everyone, Just saw the news and thought I should share it with you. https://www.tomshardware.com/how-to/install-windows-11-raspberry-pi There's a tutorial that describes how to install the ARM versions of Windows 11 on your Pi 4. Maybe it's interesting to those of you who have no TPM-equipped x64 …

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Re: Did you ever have a realisation that your retro memories or assumptions weren't quite accurate?

Posted on 2021-07-02, 02:47

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"Did you ever have a realisation that your retro memories or assumptions weren't quite accurate?" Well, to err is human, people say. Luckily, that doesn't affect me. (*mew!*)

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Re: Leak of Windows 11

Posted on 2021-07-01, 21:25

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Or you simply want to Print some Pages and finish your working day. But Windows 10 responds with Bluescreen because Microsoft trashed the Print Function ;-) Matrix printers, it trashed support for matrix printers (needle printers). Imagine, doctor's offices worldwide couldn't do their jobs because …

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Re: 32-Bit is dead

Posted on 2021-07-01, 19:10

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Me. It's me, I'm the revival. LOL! You made my day! :D :cool: :thumbsup: In any case, there are technical reasons for vinyl over other music formats. With a good system you can get very good quality sound reproduction out of it. Even better if you get your hands on a tape dub of the original master …

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Re: Leak of Windows 11

Posted on 2021-07-01, 18:44

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Oh boy, what a rant. The thing is, Linux has many thousands watching the code Ha, that old urban legend again. +1 Not Linux per se, but.. One of the BSDs had a backdoor for years and nobody noticed, despite the source code being "open". https://www.theregister.com/2010/12/15/openbsd_backdoor_claim/ …

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Re: 32-Bit is dead

Posted on 2021-07-01, 15:07

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^Vinyl, Audio CDs, MP3.. You're very nostalgic people, I see. What's the next big revival, if I may ask, Schellack records, steam engines or AM radio ? ;) Speaking of ancient stuff, there's SAQ in Grimeton, Sweden. It's the world's last functioning machine transmitter and a world heritage. For those …

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Re: 32-Bit is dead

Posted on 2021-06-30, 18:13

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Well, and by that logic, 32 bit isn't dead because your switches, routers, other network equipment etc. has a lot of 32 bit processors doing those jobs Legacy hardware and embedded sector -> see microcontrollers exception 🙂 PS: IPv4, mTCP, 10Base2, WEP128, WfW 3.11 etc are all equally "not dead"/ …

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Re: Hyundai Super 16 XT setup disks or BIOS access - does anyone know how?

Posted on 2021-06-30, 14:10

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I'm speaking under correction, but I believe floppy drives are configured by jumpers on XTs. Because, if no Real-Time Clock (RTC) is installed, there's no place were BIOS settings could be stored. On PC/AT computers, a small part of the RTC's internal memory is used to hold the configuration data. …

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Re: 32-Bit is dead

Posted on 2021-06-30, 13:29

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So it is exactly like BIOS used to be as well. Buggy and exploitable. No, not really, I think. By comparison, the BIOS is as simple as DOS. It merely tests the hardware and provides a few interrupt calls, that's all. Todays software developers have the misconception that complexity makes things …

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