Re: Core2 Q9550 Daily Driver
Posted on 2016-05-10, 12:28
Jade Falcon wrote: Wow what a mess of a pc. Care to elaborate? I know that the cables are a bit all over the place but it's clean and in good nick... 😕
Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow
Posted on 2016-05-09, 18:13
Funnily enough, I've never heard about this game until about a few years ago. Looks interesting, but I can't imagine that it's any fun to play. Then again, I could say the exact same thing of games like Bioforge as well as a certain other title by Infogrames. ;) I actually played LBA back in the …
Re: What are the best Sound Canvas games?
Posted on 2016-05-08, 14:21
... Also, I understand Lands of Lore uses capital tone fallback, and that won't work in Sound Canvas VA (or anything other than an old GS hardware synth, really). Is there any way around this, like a patch, or fixed version of DOSBox, or ScummVM? If not, how much of a difference does it make? I …
Re: Pentium 233MMX - SCC-1 / CT2230 / Voodoo2 rig
Posted on 2016-05-08, 11:19
awgamer wrote: I guess your motherboard doesn't let you reduce the FSB to 50 for 75 MHz? It does let me choose 50mhz FSB, actually this is how I get 100mhz (50x2). The problem is the multiplier, 1.5x gets translated into 3.5x if you use a Pentium MMX. So the only way to use 1.5x is with a non-MMX …
Re: Would you use this board?
Posted on 2016-05-07, 21:47
I built a system with a P5Q and a Core2 Q6600 for a family member in 2008 - board is used for work and has been running flawlessly everyday since then.
Re: Let's benchmark our systems with caches disabled
Posted on 2016-05-07, 17:29
I updated the spreadsheet with results from my 233MMX build http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=42572 I benchmarked 8 different combinations of CPU speed and caches but I'm just gonna post the highest and lowest results here for simplicity: P233MMX with L1 and L2 enabled 3Dbench: 165.1 …
Re: Pentium 233MMX - SCC-1 / CT1600 / Voodoo2 rig
Posted on 2016-05-07, 17:23
So I ran a few benchmarks with Phil's benchmark suite - I get 82.71 fps in DOOM when i'm running the system at full speed, and as low as 4.32fps when running it at 100mhz with L1 & L2 disabled. In this case, speedsys gives a CPU score of 10.45 which is apparently equivalent to a 386DX40 - it means …
Re: Just bought a "New old stock" XT computer... what to expect / look for?
Posted on 2016-05-05, 23:25
So, I plugged the 5.25" floppy drive on my Pentium 4 machine, tried with a spare cable, didn't work, then noticed that the cable from the XT machine has a twist on the second connector so tried with that but didn't work either - Windows XP tells me something about an E/S error, it can see the drive …
Re: Just bought a "New old stock" XT computer... what to expect / look for?
Posted on 2016-05-05, 13:29
Time to update this thread as I've just been able to open the package from the seller. I can confirm that everything seems to work, which is really amazing considering how long this machine has been kept in storage :) There is a coin cell battery in the I/O expansion board but it's fine and hasn't …
Re: Core2 Q9550 Daily Driver
Posted on 2016-05-01, 09:28
The 4850 still runs fine and I got it second hand on Ebay years ago. I also got a second one to upgrade the PC of a family member a while ago and it works fine too. None of these cards are used to play games though, so that might make them less likely to fail I suppose. I found a pic of the Geforce …
Re: Audigy2 ZS missing MIDI synths
Posted on 2016-05-01, 09:16
Glad that the Korg software somewhat helped. For some reason when I run it on my system it also shows a corrupted entry for "wdmaud.drv" - don't know what this relates to.
Re: Audigy2 ZS missing MIDI synths
Posted on 2016-04-30, 19:39
just to troubleshoot, did you click on "option" in the above screens and uncheck "delete KORG midi device only"? This allows you to not only delete the corrupted entries but also the other ones, maybe you need to delete the creative one and some of the others before you reinstall the audigy drivers …
Re: Audigy2 ZS missing MIDI synths
Posted on 2016-04-30, 18:25
This is a long shot but maybe you'd like to try it: Sometimes Windows seem to install unnecessary midi drivers in the registry even if the device has no midi capability, for example plugging a USB soundcard might install one. From what I understand there might be a limit to how many midi devices you …
Core2 Q9550 Daily Driver
Posted on 2016-04-29, 15:05
I built this system in 2007 and used it as my main PC until last year - definitely the longest use I've gotten from any computer so far. Had photos of it laying around so I thought... why not open a thread about it. Even though it's nothing special, I liked using this PC over the years and think it …
Re: Pentium 233MMX - SCC-1 / CT1600 / Voodoo2 rig
Posted on 2016-04-29, 14:32
Thanks for the info, that's very helpful! I looked at the thread in your signature and learned about Phil's benchmark kit, didn't know he had one - cool idea! Might get around to do some benchmarking soon.
Re: Pentium 233MMX - SCC-1 / CT1600 / Voodoo2 rig
Posted on 2016-04-28, 09:06
Thanks! I have to say I'm not familiar with Setmul, but I sometimes disable caches by going in the Bios for speed sensitive games. Works fine even though I tend to use this PC to play late DOS games more than early titles. I find I often prefer DosBox to play older games. Also, I always turn off the …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2016-04-26, 07:09
Nice. I used to have a Prodikeys DM around 2004-2005. Cool concept, but I never really made use of it so I sold it a couple of years later.
Re: My childhood Peacock 8MHz XT
Posted on 2016-04-25, 16:34
Cool story. I think it's amazing that your parents managed to keep this computer for so long instead of getting rid of it like so many of us did. Hope you have fun restoring it and please post pics!
Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread
Posted on 2016-04-25, 16:31
Ronin82 wrote: Hello vogons!I have a few retro systems and i want to share with you some photos. 1.F.I.C.Hercules 191/272: ... Love this case! Really cool.
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2016-04-24, 21:16
Robin4 wrote: Won this rare Tallgrass Tech ISA 8-bit controller. Dont know if this is a tapedrive card or an harddisk controller card. I was interested by a few things from this seller but then I noticed most cards don't seem to be in good shape, who knows how they've been stored all these years... …
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