Re: Retro confessions. What are yours?
Posted on 2022-12-16, 21:28
Re: A brief comparison of 386 FPUs
Posted on 2022-12-15, 10:50
I’m going to be building a 386 er ‘486’ system soon. And using the texas instruments sxl2 66 on the new interposer. And was wondering what the best fpu to pair with it would be. This will be the slowest system that I have ever built. So it will be kinda fun new territory for me. I’ll have to post …
Re: Creative AWE 32 CT2760 ISA apparently dead ?
Posted on 2022-12-14, 17:43
Search for program UNISOUND here on Vogons and run it. It will configure the card to use in games. It will also show how much memory it has - 2, 8, 28MB is possible via 2x SIMMs.
Re: Troublesome mystery 386 "rabbit" mainboard
Posted on 2022-12-13, 21:34
Use single sided 72-pin SIMMs.
Re: Do you have more games than you will ever play?
Posted on 2022-12-09, 01:10
I have some weird collections of games for different systems... manly for emulation... No idea how many games... usually all ever released. But I only played a few in those collections over the span of 15+ years.
Re: CPU Identification tool CHKCPU, 25th anniversary 'Retro' update - Inviting testers
Posted on 2022-12-08, 23:05
Tests with my "fastest" 286 @ 29MHz: https://i.imgur.com/4UQY1Dpl.jpg The same motherboard with Ti486slc-33 upgrade with Cyrix FPU @ 32MHz: https://i.imgur.com/eKXoQa2l.jpg Might do Cx486DRx2-66 later if time permits. Otherwise I use a good benchmark/sysinfo tool "comptest". It also detects …
Re: GTX 285 only works with generic drivers/safe mode
Posted on 2022-12-08, 09:20
I have similar problem with one Voodoo3 card. It runs fine with integrated MS drivers - Quake3 runs without problems. But when I load 3dfx drivers, there are graphics glitches in Q3. Something is wrong with the card.
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2022-12-04, 19:49
LewisRaz wrote on 2022-12-03, 12:37: Sold my one only a couple of months ago and regretted it a lot. Was extremely excited to have an offer of £20 accepted on this one 😀 I wouldn't even dare to put such a low ball offer 🤣
Re: Need for Speed 1 SE compatibility with Voodoo 3?
Posted on 2022-12-01, 19:43
It's been some time now since I played any NFS on my dedicated rig for it. But I don't think there were any problems. I use P3-866, 512MB and V3 3000 AGP with Win98SE. Installed are NFS from TNFS:SE to Porsche Unleashed.
Re: PCChips M218 286 motherboard info needed
Posted on 2022-11-25, 19:31
I used to have 286 in 1991 but never had any need for EMS - at least that's my memory. What programs/games require EMS on a 286?
Re: your last purchased retro graphics card or any of your collection
Posted on 2022-11-23, 23:32
Last few purchases:
Re: need dump of ROM for ELSA Winner 1000 ISA and ATI Mach32 ISA DRAM
Posted on 2022-11-23, 22:57
I did make yet hope, someone save ROM from ATI Mach32 DRAM ISA. I have the card. How to save both ROMs via computer? No EPROM-Programmer as TL866CS or similar ? Other Solution : NSSI could dump VGA ROM https://www.navsoft.cz/products.htm It dump to file with size 32kb . (probably , it dump to file …
Re: need dump of ROM for ELSA Winner 1000 ISA and ATI Mach32 ISA DRAM
Posted on 2022-11-22, 17:52
Madao wrote on 2022-11-22, 17:36: I did make yet hope, someone save ROM from ATI Mach32 DRAM ISA. I have the card. How to save both ROMs via computer?
Re: Personal ultimate retro gaming pc
Posted on 2022-11-21, 13:40
Very good 😀 I always like to see finished projects... gives me hope I will too some day 🤣
Re: Ti 486SXL2-50 on some kind of adapter... what is this for?
Posted on 2022-11-20, 00:52
I've no idea what that does. But it works like the ones without any adapter. I tested these chips on several motherboards. Some motherboards don't like the Ti486SXL and adapters doesn't matter. Haven't seen one with the cooler. But they do get hot.
Re: Ti 486SXL2-50 on some kind of adapter... what is this for?
Posted on 2022-11-20, 00:26
Here it goes:
Re: Ti 486SXL2-50 on some kind of adapter... what is this for?
Posted on 2022-11-19, 23:21
I had this on my SXL2. I took it apart and used the CPU without it. I didn't find any differences in operation. I should still have a few of these adapters.
Re: your last purchased retro graphics card or any of your collection
Posted on 2022-11-14, 21:11
Last one would be this. Still sealed.
Re: HELP Save my Hard drive.
Posted on 2022-11-12, 18:32
Usually they are marked as BAD because they are BAD. Something written on such sector won't be stored properly and reading such data will be corrupted. If HDD has many bad sectors it isn't safe to use for normal operation as data already written can be corrupted and unusable. If you don't care about …
Re: Getting 387sx coprocessor working.
Posted on 2022-11-11, 22:37
This is some heavy stuff 🤣 386sx has full 32-Bit Internal Architecture More reading here: https://media.digikey.com/pdf/Data%20Sheets/I … tel386%20SX.pdf
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