Re: virus on vogondrivers

Posted on 2020-06-26, 22:27

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by darry

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What exactly is a moaner type? :P And wouldn't wanting to moan a lot actually be a good reason to come here and moan? :P You'll recognize them the instant you come in contact with them. :) OMG they wrecked my system but I do not want to hear that I may be wrong. Moan. And I hate my Mother. In other …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-06-26, 21:02

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by darry

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just where do you find these things x3 That would be very interesting to know ... on the other hand that would probably reduce his findings 😉 If I had to guess, he probably pays more to get these than most of us would, so I don't think we'd be competing much. :D If I had not kept some parts that …

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Re: Addonics A151-910 YMF718-S Card Resource Conflicts

Posted on 2020-06-26, 20:36

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by darry

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Both, in fact. I was able to write the old one back with the cache disabled, and then re-write a new thing to disable the IDE, and it w o r k e d. My computer was too fast xd, it didn't corrupt the eeprom and the PC still detected it So everything works and no more Windows resource conflicts either …

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Re: Apple is getting off Intel CPU’s ?

Posted on 2020-06-26, 20:33

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by darry

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But Apple will not give this savings to end user for sure Lets also not forget, that Apple may decide to not allow any upgrade options to CPU on any new platform. Or at the very least that will require "certified" personnel to do that for you. For a chunky fee of course. There is tendency for CPUs …

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Re: Apple is getting off Intel CPU’s ?

Posted on 2020-06-26, 20:28

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by darry

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Actually a PPC built of Dosbox runs much faster in Rosetta in 10.5 VM than on a real PPC machine ;) That's a lot of stacked emulation. Surprising it runs so well. If current industry trends continue, I wonder how many layers of stacked virtualization/emulation/containerization we might have go …

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Re: Addonics A151-910 YMF718-S Card Resource Conflicts

Posted on 2020-06-26, 19:21

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by darry

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athlon-power wrote on 2020-06-26, 18:38: IT WORKEDEDED, SLOWING THE TIMING DID THE THINGAMAJIG THING. THANK YOU. Cool, but what worked. Writing the EEPROM with SETYMF ? Restoring the EEPROM with WRITEPNP.EXE ?

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Re: Duke Nukem 3D on a i80386

Posted on 2020-06-26, 16:53

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by darry

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I played Duke 3D on an IBM Eduquest 386slc-25 with full mwave sound and it would go from quite smooth and playable to jerky I had to disable sound because if too many sounds played I would get a hard disk crash and had to reload the OS. I sort gave up on it after the 2nd crash even though …

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2020-06-26, 13:33

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There are a GLUT of supermicro motherboards on ebay that are micro atx in size and have 6x 10g & 2x 1g ports. Going to make a pfsense box out of that. Im going to try to just wire things directly to each other and see if that works out. If not i see 24port 10g switches on ebay cheap You could get 2 …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-06-26, 07:09

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Until I saw it, I had no idea Sierra Semiconductors ever made a vga chip. The only other card I could find pictures of with the same chip is the STB Horizon 64 PCI. I did find the datasheet and the chip is supposed to support 4MB though I don't think any were made with more than 2MB, which is what …

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Re: Big A** Monitors thread

Posted on 2020-06-26, 06:58

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My 25" Acer VW257 is 1920x1200, IPS , VGA/HDMI and 70Hz capable (max 75Hz) at up to native resolution with no frame-skip . It also supports VESA adaptive sync over HDMI . I did not measure input lag, but did not notice issues . Monitor has no issue displaying oddball resolutions over HDMI using OSSC …

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Re: Problem with Compex ReadyLINK RL2000 PCI/ISA PnP Ethernet cards

Posted on 2020-06-26, 06:41

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by darry

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You shouldn't need any utility for the PCI card. You're saying neither the BIOS nor OS detect that a PCI card is even there? That's a good point. The PCI one should be detected by Windows and the BIOS in all cases. Some (many?) network cards could be set to non PnP mode (the DE220 is one of those, …

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Re: Problem with Compex ReadyLINK RL2000 PCI/ISA PnP Ethernet cards

Posted on 2020-06-25, 19:40

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by darry

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Does anyone know how to get these PCI/ISA PnP Ethernet cards to work in Windows 98? 🤔 The utility doesn't even detect them. I had no problem with D-Link DE-220 series card. The utility is dated from 1996 and the cards from 1997 or later . Maybe a later utility that works can be found her https:// …

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Re: Joined the SC-55 gang today

Posted on 2020-06-25, 06:33

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Salient wrote on 2020-06-25, 04:54: Nice find and good price! Make sure though to replace the CR2032 battery inside. Or simply remove it, if you don't mind the unit having factory default settings at every boot .

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Re: 10GB drive + Award BIOS problems

Posted on 2020-06-25, 06:18

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by darry

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That is likely BIOS limitation/bug . Your board board is old enough that its BIOS will likely not be able to support anything over 4.2GB (or possibly 8.4GB) without either a BIOS update, patching the BIOS (if possible), an XT-IDE BIOS, a PCI IDE/SATA controller with a BIOS that can handle the drive …

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Re: Primer on PC audio?

Posted on 2020-06-25, 04:05

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by darry

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pretty much all of that is done in software nowadays, the realtek chip is more or less just an ADC/DAC with a few other features, all it has to do is translate the digital audio to analog outputs. I guess thats kinda where I am lost then. If I play a game with a MIDI soundtrack, it doesnt have pre …

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Re: Radeon R200 and Memory Bandwidth

Posted on 2020-06-25, 00:15

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by darry

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I don't think you will get any disagreement from anyone here that a 128-bit bus is better than a 64-bit one . What I'm curious about is how much of a cost advantage it was for a manufacturer to put fewer higher density RAM chips for a 64-bit DDR SDRAM-based 128MB card versus more lower density RAM …

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Re: Radeon R200 and Memory Bandwidth

Posted on 2020-06-24, 23:24

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by darry

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I've got quite a few cards based on the R200 core. People will often tell you that the Radeon 9000/92x0 cards are close the 8500LE or 8500, and that the 9100 is spot on. Something you'll want to keep in mind is memory bandwidth. My 64-bit 128MB Radeon 9250s are dwarfed by not only my Radeon 8500, …

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Re: 10GB drive + Award BIOS problems

Posted on 2020-06-24, 22:54

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by darry

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That is likely BIOS limitation/bug . Your board board is old enough that its BIOS will likely not be able to support anything over 4.2GB (or possibly 8.4GB) without either a BIOS update, patching the BIOS (if possible), an XT-IDE BIOS, a PCI IDE/SATA controller with a BIOS that can handle the drive …

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Re: Collecting rants

Posted on 2020-06-24, 18:43

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by darry

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I've had an Amiga 1200 for like three years and I never use it because it's a PAL 1200 and I don't want to pay 180 dollars for a flicker fixer or take my chances that I can find a compatible LCD monitor to use with an adapter. Why not get one of those inexpensive Gonbes GBS-8200 converters ? …

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Not so crazy idea : using a Raspberry Pi 4 with jackd , Zita A2J bridge and jack_mixer to make a software S/PDIF mixer

Posted on 2020-06-24, 18:36

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by darry

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This might actually be within my reach, skill-wise, though not something I would like to get into right now (other projects and professional as well as personal priorities) . In the meantime, I am floating the idea . TODOs and potential issues/challenges : a) I know essentially jack about Jack, but …

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