Re: Games that benefited from having a NEC V20?

Posted on 2019-08-03, 18:54

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by infiniteclouds

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Agreed. Is there an actual clock-switchable 10mhz 8088 though? My Tandy SX has a "8088-2" which can do authentic 4.77 or 7.16mhz (sometimes referred to as 5mhz and 8mhz). I don't think there were actual authentic 8088 CPUs rated higher?

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Re: Help with dual-boot (separate drives) XP/Win7

Posted on 2019-08-02, 18:19

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by infiniteclouds

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I think a lot of this is complicated by the fact that I have my Windows 7 install in Raid 0 (256GBx2). Even putting off adding another OS to the system, I'm not sure I can even add an additional internal drive outside this array.

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Re: Help with dual-boot (separate drives) XP/Win7

Posted on 2019-08-02, 15:40

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by infiniteclouds

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Interesting -- I thought it would actually be easier having them on separate drives. Frankly, I've never introduced another internal drive to my set-up at all and not sure how introducing a 3rd drive (of a different size - 500gb in this case) when I already have two drives (256gb) running in Raid 0. …

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Re: Help with dual-boot (separate drives) XP/Win7

Posted on 2019-08-02, 02:57

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by infiniteclouds

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All this applies even if I'm not doing dual-boot on a single drive/separate partitions but rather on separate SSDs altogether?

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Re: Help with dual-boot (separate drives) XP/Win7

Posted on 2019-08-01, 20:08

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by infiniteclouds

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Windows XP requires that your BIOS is configured in IDE/Legacy mode. Alternatively, you can streamline AHCI drivers into your windows image, but this is mostly an issue for Haswell or later boards. Ivy Bridge/Sandy Bridge is the last platform to have official support for XP. Hmm, I wonder if this …

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Re: What is better for pure Dos and Win98 -Super socket 7(K6-III) or Slot 1/Socket 370 (PII/ PIII)? Where are differences?

Posted on 2019-08-01, 19:30

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by infiniteclouds

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I got an Ezra 866 and a Nehemiah 1.0ghz. I am hoping that the Nehemiah will respond to throttle.exe, which when combined with setmul and set FSB, might allow me to get more speeds in the 486 range. Meanwhile, getting down to a 286 or slower would be nice too. If it doesn't work out, I have the Ezra …

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Help with dual-boot (separate drives) XP/Win7

Posted on 2019-08-01, 19:21

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by infiniteclouds

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I've never had more than one OS installed on system before. The ways to go about doing it seem different depending on the OS and I'm looking for some advice/guidance. I'm currently running Windows 7 on this computer and it is an Ivy-E Bridge i7 with a Kepler nVidia card - so it should work well with …

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Re: Time period PC's vs the affordable norm

Posted on 2019-08-01, 16:03

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by infiniteclouds

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When you folks say "Pentium was 3000$ or so at release" are you talking about the entire system, right? I can't imagine a single component costing that much even if it was cutting edge. Curious as to the cost of the individual components that made up these systems as I imagine that besides the …

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Re: What is better for pure Dos and Win98 -Super socket 7(K6-III) or Slot 1/Socket 370 (PII/ PIII)? Where are differences?

Posted on 2019-08-01, 01:10

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by infiniteclouds

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It's on one of the corners of the board, and also inbetween the ISA slots.

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Re: What is better for pure Dos and Win98 -Super socket 7(K6-III) or Slot 1/Socket 370 (PII/ PIII)? Where are differences?

Posted on 2019-08-01, 01:02

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by infiniteclouds

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They should all work with the SMB tool to change FSB in software but you should try to get a Rev 2.0 for the fixes, specifically the enhanced AGP slot compatibility.

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Re: What is better for pure Dos and Win98 -Super socket 7(K6-III) or Slot 1/Socket 370 (PII/ PIII)? Where are differences?

Posted on 2019-08-01, 00:23

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by infiniteclouds

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^Indeed. I think there are a few -- but the only one I'm familiar with is the aforementioned 6BXC Gigabyte board -- with a Rev 2.0 if you're going to use AGP cards of a certain voltage, like a Voodoo 3.

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Re: What is better for pure Dos and Win98 -Super socket 7(K6-III) or Slot 1/Socket 370 (PII/ PIII)? Where are differences?

Posted on 2019-07-31, 22:27

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by infiniteclouds

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Actually, there are STILL MS6905 slotkets readily available from the same German seller I purchased from. I don't want to post the Ebay link because I believe it's frowned upon but you can easily find it by searching MS6905. I use it for my VIA C3s and MODDED Tualatin -- although the my 1.4-s …

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Re: NVIDIA Fermi is now officially retro (or atleast unsupported)

Posted on 2019-07-31, 21:39

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by infiniteclouds

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Have there actually been any discovered benefits of Fermi over say... Kepler? - Which we know to be the last well-supported generation for Windows XP. I imagined Kepler cards might run into some issues with early XP but based on other posts around it seems not?

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Re: What is better for pure Dos and Win98 -Super socket 7(K6-III) or Slot 1/Socket 370 (PII/ PIII)? Where are differences?

Posted on 2019-07-31, 21:22

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by infiniteclouds

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I found this in an old vogons thread. With a 50mhz FSB I think sub 9 speedsys is possible, which puts it right around a 386DX20. https://www.vogons.org/download/file.php?id=28201&mode=view What does the speed curve of the Nehemiah look like? I was just about to buy a new socket 7 board, but now I …

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Re: What is better for pure Dos and Win98 -Super socket 7(K6-III) or Slot 1/Socket 370 (PII/ PIII)? Where are differences?

Posted on 2019-07-31, 17:09

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by infiniteclouds

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What is the slowest speed of the Ezra-t comparable too? A 386DX25/33, probably. The C3 Nehemiah can go lower (and much higher), bottoming out with 3.36 SpeedSys, 4.2 3DBench and PCPBench of 1.1FPS... probably 286 territory? However, the Nehemiah suffers from the same problem the K6 -- you can't get …

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Re: What is better for pure Dos and Win98 -Super socket 7(K6-III) or Slot 1/Socket 370 (PII/ PIII)? Where are differences?

Posted on 2019-07-30, 20:22

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by infiniteclouds

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Its funny DIP switches (still much better than Jumpers..) are problem, but swap whole CPU is not.. But ok. Your point would be valid if the CPU swap was necessary to match capabilities. It is not. With just the VIA C3 in there it possible to do everything the K6 can do and more -- from software. …

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Re: What is better for pure Dos and Win98 -Super socket 7(K6-III) or Slot 1/Socket 370 (PII/ PIII)? Where are differences?

Posted on 2019-07-30, 16:11

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by infiniteclouds

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I prefer the my C3 in a Slot 1 over my SS7 K6+ for a few reasons: 1) Slot 1/C3 can change FSB in software, no need to mess with jumpers or DIPs. 2) C3 has a much greater range and gradual scaling than the K6, especially in the 486 range. My C3 can do 486DX2-66, the K6s end up being too fast or too …

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Re: Can you remove SP2 from an XP installation that includes it?

Posted on 2019-07-30, 04:38

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by infiniteclouds

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Isn't SP2 just a security patch, mostly? I know at least one game that breaks with SP2 and the machine is going to be offline anyway. Isn't there a patch for the game instead? Sort of. Starship Titanic works fine on Windows XP until you install SP2. SP2 upgrades the Cinepak Codec to a version that …

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Re: TANDY Dos-Gaming-Thread (1000RL/HD)

Posted on 2019-07-26, 00:35

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by infiniteclouds

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Is there any real reason to use a VGA card with a Tandy 1000 TL? I know it's possible to switch between the built-in video and the VGA card pretty easily. I'm just wondering if there are any games that would really run well in VGA mode. For me, it's less about VGA and more about getting that …

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Re: Can you remove SP2 from an XP installation that includes it?

Posted on 2019-07-21, 03:08

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by infiniteclouds

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Isn't SP2 just a security patch, mostly? I know at least one game that breaks with SP2 and the machine is going to be offline anyway.

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