Re: My new IBM 386 build

Posted on 2015-11-15, 19:28

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by HighTreason

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No worries, I was going to mess with this thing today anyway. I have some more info which might be useful, or not, but whatever, here it is just in case; J12: Near the speaker - If you take the jumper off the two pins, you should be able to use a standard PC Speaker on that jumper. The two jumpered …

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Re: My new IBM 386 build

Posted on 2015-11-15, 19:12

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by HighTreason

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Here are the innards of my ValuePoint 325T/S with the floppy and bone removed; VP1.jpg VP2.jpg Guess your board is a different revision, but for the most part it looks near identical and is the same spec. My CPU gets hotter than hell so you might want to glue on a little heatsink just to be safe. …

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Re: My new IBM 386 build

Posted on 2015-11-15, 18:33

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by HighTreason

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Looks a lot like the board from my ValuePoint... Maybe that is where it came from. Planning on dragging mine out later, so I'll have to take a look at it now. One difference I do remember though, mine has a small heatsink which looks like a stack of metal discs. As for your FPU, any 387SX FPU should …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2015-11-15, 17:23

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by HighTreason

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Condemned gas installation here, thanks to Hull City Council's famous contractor workmanship, so all I had was that one portable heater. Had no central heating (Not that I want that crap) or hot water for years now, I told them not to rip out my immersion heater and my fireplace, but they did not …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2015-11-15, 16:52

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by HighTreason

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and keeps you warm in the winter Funny that, my radiator recently broke (Blows the breaker whenever it is switched on) so I've been leaving HD movies playing on a loop with acceleration disabled to keep the room warm. The 950 kicks out just enough heat that it isn't unbearably cold in here and the …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2015-11-15, 16:38

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by HighTreason

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Strangely, as probably the only Pentium D fan in the world, even I call the Presler by the name Prescott more often than I should. I think it was basically just Prescott with SMP support (On the Die only) anyway. My workstation is still a Presler and has developed a rather disturbing smell of hot …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-11-15, 15:52

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by HighTreason

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http://i.imgur.com/2QaUbmrl.jpg Seems pretty much identical to my ASUS one in everything but looks, and it is an epic card... Would match my motherboard better, I should fly over there and steal it. :D Nah, just messing with you. But yeah, if it is anything like the ASUS (And it is the same GPU, …

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Re: Pictures of retro-computer club in Moscow))

Posted on 2015-11-13, 21:31

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by HighTreason

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I thought I saw a Neuron, or possibly an Elektonika and some DVKs for a moment but I am thinking not so... I need to improve my knowledge of computers from Eastern Europe it would seem as I think they are very interesting. Anyway, nice photos.

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Re: What kind of FM synthesis is this if any?

Posted on 2015-11-12, 16:13

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by HighTreason

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Most known games in arcade format used the YM2151 chip that was used in the DX7 keyboard and the Sharp X68000 computer together with a Motorola 68000 processor Nope. The DX7 used a different series, the YM212xx I think. The YM2151 was used in the DX21, DX27, and DX100 as well as a few cheap …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-11-12, 16:10

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by HighTreason

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kithylin wrote: Ahhhhh... HighTreason... still using pictures too big to fit in to the forums I see.. 🤣 Buy a better monitor you bum! 😜 Nah, just kidding. My bad, I was slacking off on that, I have fixed the image.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-11-12, 01:30

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by HighTreason

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DX3 huh? Guess those would be a 2.5 Multiplier and, sure enough, nothing used that outside of the POD. I thought one of the regular OverDrive's did, but apparently it did not. As for the SX2, strange thing, they show up from time to time and that's about it. I am surprised the SX2-66 didn't sell …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-11-12, 00:45

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by HighTreason

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This now belongs to me; http://s26.postimg.org/9ryoscc6x/abit_ps5_1.jpg http://www.amoretro.de/ebay/2015/10/abit_ps5_2.jpg As I now own two Socket 4 boards it is likely one will be sent to a good home once I figure out which one I prefer. I think I will keep that CPU no matter what... Probably end …

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Re: Anyone else questioning the point of retrorigs?

Posted on 2015-11-12, 00:29

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by HighTreason

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Still not satisfied with emulation personally. So hardware it is... Plus I do enjoy tampering with the hardware, even though I complain when it doesn't work - in reality, I enjoy the troubleshooting involved and the lengths you must sometimes go to in order to have it work the way you want it to. …

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Re: AMD cpu for Win98SE rig

Posted on 2015-11-11, 12:44

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by HighTreason

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Yeah, I'd recommend cheating a bit with AMD boards and using a later one with the 4-Pin 12V connector if you plan on installing a faster CPU. A lot of older boards were not capable of powering them properly and had stability issues when made to run them. Unfortunately, almost everyone on this planet …

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Re: Pentium 1 multiplier settings

Posted on 2015-11-11, 12:39

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by HighTreason

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Ugh, I have a board with fractional multipliers in the table like that. Royally pisses me off. Since when do computer guys know how to do fractions? I haven't used them since I was in primary school and even then they seemed archaic and I used to get into trouble for using floating points on my …

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Re: How many GBs have you backed up from the "old days"

Posted on 2015-11-10, 21:47

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by HighTreason

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As I am currently reduced to my backups of backups, I can give a pretty good figure. I am one of those people who never deletes anything. All backups are just made by copying the entire contents of my old PC onto a new one when the new one is first set up aside from a few special cases where I have …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2015-11-08, 23:24

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by HighTreason

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Ah, well, I calmed down and went back to being pissed at moving house instead. @Kithylin; On my list of stuff to do next year is to begin hoarding music from the 80s and 90s on CD, tape and vinyl because of the remastering BS. I have literally watched many of my favorite 80s songs briefly disappear …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2015-11-08, 20:54

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by HighTreason

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Smashed things (Worthless things like brown cardboard boxes) because I wanted to listen to 50s music... Most of what I found was "Digitally Remastered" bullshit. I hate that shit, it needs to be fucking outlawed. If I want to listen to music from a certain time period it is because I like what it …

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Re: Changing My Mind on the SB Live!

Posted on 2015-11-08, 18:59

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by HighTreason

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ECW to me means; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4fZINe1AeQ

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Re: Pentium III 733Mhz beating Pentium 4 1.7Ghz quite a bit when it comes to SSE instructions

Posted on 2015-11-07, 18:31

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by HighTreason

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One could argue the Pentium OverDrive had it in 1995, but it was not triggered by thermal conditions directly. If logic in the CPU did not detect a rotating fan it would lower the internal clock of the CPU to prevent overheating. I remember being fascinated by thermal throttling when the P4 was …

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