Re: Fast systems with ISA

Posted on 2014-02-12, 21:30

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The second motherboard you found there, the MSI one, I found the manual after some searching and it lists the block diagram for the layout and the ISA slot is routed through "PCI-to-ISA Bridge", so likely that one is like you said, wrapped through PCI and probably wouldn't work. That soyo board …

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Re: Fast systems with ISA

Posted on 2014-02-12, 20:39

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You're pretty much hit the outer limits of possibility there, 800 FSB P4s are going to be the absolute fastest you can get--period--industrial or not. That said, P4 motherboards with ISA are more prevalent that people tend to realize, case in point: http://www.ebay.com/itm/SOYO-SY-P4I845PE-ISA- …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2014-01-29, 22:55

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What does refurbished mean applied to computers and parts? In Russia, there is no such phenomenon (to the best of my knowledge), gear is either sold new or used. I only see 'refurbished' at foreign sites. It's basically to mean that it is used, but all of the parts that were either not functional, …

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Re: Anyone have interest in buying a NOS 200MHz system?

Posted on 2013-09-27, 21:26

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Oh, yeah, this route would be wonderful given how many people want to put together hardware from around the 1997-era. That CPU speed is just about perfect for most DOS games, and fast enough for most 90's Windows games. If the price is right, and with that microATX board size, yeah, quite a number …

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Re: Anyone have interest in buying a NOS 200MHz system?

Posted on 2013-09-27, 17:41

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It's my understanding that selling anything on this forum is specifically barred... But were such a machine available for purchase somewhere for around 100-150$, I would purchase one...

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Re: 3D Accelerated Games List (Proprietary APIs - No 3DFX/Direct3D)

Posted on 2013-09-26, 18:30

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Say, um, this might be a bit of a stupid question, but do we need to now add AMD's Mantle API and Battlefield 4 to this list? http://www.anandtech.com/show/7371/understand … ics-api-for-gcn Proprietary API, this is, after all...

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Obsidian2 Medusa Cables?

Posted on 2013-07-21, 03:26

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After the commentary I made on one of the old 'Sound Card Compatibility' threads on PCI based cards, I've done quite a bit more research and am now prepared to do some experimentation with Mini-ITX rigs and DOS/Win9x. I plan on making one build specifically for DOS, and one build for GLide …

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Re: Humour Thread: Outrageously priced retro gear for sale online

Posted on 2013-05-28, 16:15

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It's not the price of this one that made me giggle, but I thought I'd post it here anyway. http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Sound-Blaster-Live-LS-5-1-Card-with-Box-FREE-SHIPPING-IN-USA-/400497607653?pt=US_Vintage_Computing_Parts_Accessories&hash=item5d3f8483e5&_uhb=1 What exactly is the issue with this …

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Re: Humour Thread: Outrageously priced retro gear for sale online

Posted on 2013-05-27, 20:06

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Remember the Thinkpad 360PE I pointed out? Yeah, well apparently its influence has infected another auction. This one isn't even a 360PE, yet they think it must be given the description... And the condition? The description? "...feels heavy so its all there..." *Atomic Facepalm* http://www.ebay.com/ …

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Re: Is there a micro board with a 486 , pci , and usb port?

Posted on 2013-05-24, 17:00

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Most of the VIA Mini-ITX boards from around '05-'06 supported Windows 9x and had PC/PCI and Distributed DMA support. That might be as close as you can get.

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Re: Recommend a PCI Sound Card for DOS

Posted on 2013-05-19, 13:51

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The only problem with going for an all-PCI solution is the lack of support for MPU-401 with intelligent mode. You should always have at least one ISA slot for this in any retro build, in my opinion. This is not true! There are very good 'external' MPU-401 interfaces that support intelligent mode …

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Re: Recommend a PCI Sound Card for DOS

Posted on 2013-05-19, 03:43

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Valnar: can somebody name the older chipsets which definitely support Distributed DMA? Mainboard chipsets supporting DDMA: Listed are Intel 430TX and 440BX, ALI Aladdin 4 and Aladdin 5, and probably more.... SB-128/Live! emulation works for me on a VIA apollo pro 133A and VIA KT400, but support …

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Re: Planning to Build a New Computer - Want Some Advice

Posted on 2013-04-27, 20:45

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The L2 cache? Yeah, Intel only states the amount of L2 cache per core, whereas AMD states the amount of cache over all, so the i5-3570 has 1MB per core, which comes out to 4MB overall. The AMD has 8MB overall... Which comes out to 1MB per core. Nooo... I was quoting totals. The i5-3570 has 256 KB …

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Re: Planning to Build a New Computer - Want Some Advice

Posted on 2013-04-27, 20:28

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Geeze, this is looking more and more like a toss-up. I found some more benchmarks that show the i5-3570 to have 33% stronger single-thread performance over the FX-8350, yet the FX-8350's overall performance is 25% stronger. This suggests that the more threaded an application/game is, the better it …

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Re: Humour Thread: Outrageously priced retro gear for sale online

Posted on 2013-04-16, 21:18

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My god.... Why?... Just why?... http://www.ebay.com/itm/1994-THINKPAD-360PE-2 … =item2a24125500 Nearly 200 grand... and 103 declined offers...

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Re: Socket 8 --> Slot 1 Slotket Adapters

Posted on 2013-04-09, 21:23

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Oh, yes! They exist. But they don't work on BX boards as we already discussed here. 😢

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Quality Gameport Racing Wheels?

Posted on 2013-03-17, 17:23

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I'm in the market for some a racing wheel for playing games like Test Drive and Need for Speed 1/2. Any recommendations?

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Re: Spam, spam, spam

Posted on 2013-03-10, 16:45

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Re: Absolute minimum rig for browsing and such; what do you guys think?

Posted on 2013-03-07, 04:02

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I'm not really sure where this idea of using Seamonkey 1.x is coming from, as that's a rather ancient browser at this point. Something like Qupzilla or possibly K-Meleon would be a much better idea. That's a fair point, on that Thinkpad though, in my experiments using VMs, I tend to run into the …

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Re: Absolute minimum rig for browsing and such; what do you guys think?

Posted on 2013-03-07, 02:30

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Win95C'd Pentium II 266MHz w/ Seamonkey 1.x, although the cpu requirement can be bumped down to Pentium 133MHz (WITH CACHE THAT IS) This is relevant to my interests. I have recently dug up a Thinkpad 760XD (P1MMX @166, 512K cache, 104MB RAM.) and would like to make it a semi-mobile machine for …

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