Re: Strange issues with 486 Tomato Board (help)

Posted on 2021-06-03, 06:30

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by Cyberdyne

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

x36 only mean, that you need PARITY memory, it mean 3 or 9 or 18 memory chips, not 2, 8, 16. EDO will only work with some few newer UMC based motherboards. Maybe some more. For 486 only use EDO.

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Re: Windows 3.1 max requirements

Posted on 2021-05-27, 11:20

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by Cyberdyne

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

With a garden variety of Socket 7(Not Super) motherboard and a Pentium 7 motherboard yo can not do anything wrong, just do not change the voltages. Usual Pentium 200 will even run at 233, but I do not recommend it to use at long periods.

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Re: Modern Ports (Engenes) for Classic Games

Posted on 2021-05-27, 11:10

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by Cyberdyne

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Warcraft 2 BNE does not need a modern port.... and the "modern port" has a totally different feel and AI. It is the same with Tiberian Sun and Red Alert 2, these games are perfect as they are.

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Re: Im making a frontend/manager for win9x games

Posted on 2021-05-27, 11:01

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by Cyberdyne

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Like really someone is asking money for a frontend 😁 😁 😁

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Re: FastDoom. A new Doom port for DOS, optimized to be as fast as possible for 386/486 personal computers!

Posted on 2021-05-27, 10:03

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by Cyberdyne

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DOS/32A warning (9003): real mode interrupt vector had been modified: INT xxx These will occur with allmos all games where you replace DOS4GW with DOS32A I just (null) these text strings out from the DOS32A.EXE, I am kind a OCD with those kind of "annoyances".... These errors are not fatal in any …

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Re: Sound card with low noise, non-stereo reversed wavetable support?

Posted on 2021-05-24, 11:46

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by Cyberdyne

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Tiido, find me a known game, that ES1xxx cards can not handle. I have plenty of ES1868 and ES1869 based cards, never had a game, that crapped out with them. Yamaha OPL-SAx cad do have some issues, not only Duke Nukem 2. Have few Sound Blaster 16 and AWE 32/64 cards and ALS100 cards, but have not …

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Re: Safe to use 100v AC adapter on 110/120v AC power?

Posted on 2021-05-21, 07:22

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by Cyberdyne

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Are they switching or transformer PSU-s? And usually deviations in mains voltages are allowed. Today 2,5-5% in developing countries even 10%. but with old hardware you better not risk it.

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Re: Adding a second HDD to a Compaq Deskpro 4000

Posted on 2021-05-20, 06:25

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by Cyberdyne

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Better get a modern 80wire cable, that has those connectors close together and use that. Repressing old cables is basically just breaking them.

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Re: Any suggestions for replacing a tiny power supply in an AT computer?

Posted on 2021-05-20, 06:15

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by Cyberdyne

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Moore than sure that Black is Ground, Red is +5V, Yellow is+12V, Blue is -12V and White is -5v. Usually those mini motherboards start to work only with +5v and +12v. Few of them even start to work with only +5V.

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Re: Aladdin (DOS) music - SB16 vs. SBPro vs. WSS

Posted on 2021-05-20, 06:10

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by Cyberdyne

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Vogons is a wonderful place, we fix and update things that have been broken or need an update for over 25 years.

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Re: Sleeper pc trend

Posted on 2021-05-20, 05:28

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by Cyberdyne

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Never intended for my main PC to be a sleeper, but why buy a new mATX case for a 65W AMD Ryzen APU based computer. And the PSU is good quality, but "only" 350W.

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Re: When publishers break software on purpose (Adobe in this case)

Posted on 2021-05-18, 12:37

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by Cyberdyne

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You now there are good alternatives for opening and using DWG files. So AutoCAD is like MS Office, yo really do not have to use it, hey even our multinational company uses DraftSight.

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Re: Windows 3.1 max requirements

Posted on 2021-05-18, 12:25

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by Cyberdyne

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

All Socket 5/7 CPU-s have a minimum speed grade at 1,5X and minumum FSB 50MHz, otherways they are unlocked. Only 233MHz Pentium MMX have some "magic" inside, but I have never owned one. But I have few motherboards that even produce some unofficial FSB-s like 40 or even 33. But at least you can …

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Re: Windows 3.1 max requirements

Posted on 2021-05-17, 10:53

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by Cyberdyne

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Underclock it to 166MMX and yo do not have those anoying Borland CRT error 200. But yes, I would say that Windows 3.1x will run on allmost anything, I mean really, i have tried it with a Core2Duo with a Nvidia card. Modified 256colos SVGA driver and PC-Speaker sound driver. And i did have 4GB on RAM …

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Re: Are Voodoo graphics card THAT good ?

Posted on 2021-05-11, 11:31

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by Cyberdyne

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They are not THAT Good, just a special thing. Rendition Verite had better Quake port. Tomb Raider had also other and better ports. If we talk about DOS. In Windows, there were an early time where Glide ruled, but in reality majority of good games got a DX/OGL version early on. And now we have …

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Re: Does anyone recognize this Sound Card?

Posted on 2021-05-11, 10:51

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by Cyberdyne

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in Marvin \ Sound

Oh the dawn of early sound cards... There are so many chips scratched clear or taped over.

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Re: Strangest thing found on harddrives

Posted on 2021-05-06, 12:04

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by Cyberdyne

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You had a offline hard drive from an old flea market laptop, and you hired a lawyer and called the police ... overreacting a little bit. You could just zero out the drive or if you are too paranoid, then just break the drive, that's about it. Child pornography. ...And then I hired a lawyer to help …

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Re: Strangest thing found on harddrives

Posted on 2021-05-05, 05:31

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by Cyberdyne

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Homebrew porn of course 😁

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Re: Sound Blaster AWE64 on a XT 8086: is it possible?

Posted on 2021-05-05, 05:26

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by Cyberdyne

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

NB! No 16BIT ISA card will damage your 8BIT XT slot, the 8BIT portions pinout is the same, all is the same. Even that elusive Slot 8 is mostly electrically the same, only few things that will not damage the system if you stick something else in there.

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Re: Sound Blaster AWE64 on a XT 8086: is it possible?

Posted on 2021-05-04, 09:56

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by Cyberdyne

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Yes doable, but it will only run as a Generic Sound Blaster 8bit, so no 16bit and no EMU8000 AWE portion, so it is pretty useless. And you ma not even hear Adlib portion, because it is routed thru EMU8000 and with newer AWE32 and AWE64 cards it had to be initialised, or there is silence.

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