Re: Retro computer builds that surprised you the most because they worked better than expected

Posted on 2021-07-07, 18:11

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by Caluser2000

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I once put together a S370 Celeron system and installed Win ME just for giggles... But it turned out to be a very stable and responsive system, much to my surprise. All the negitive hype about ME were over exaggerated. Like any operating system if you pick the rigth hardway it will function as …

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Re: How to determine which element of the graphics card is faulty?

Posted on 2021-07-07, 18:07

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by Caluser2000

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dulu wrote on 2021-07-07, 17:37: What can it mean if the card shows artifacts in its default settings (in 3d mode), but the artifacts disappear when I reduce the memory frequency by 10MHz? Is this permanent memory corruption? Or maybe a problem with its power supply? VRam most likely...😉

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Re: motherboard PC speakers

Posted on 2021-07-07, 18:00

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by Caluser2000

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You know a hard drive magnet can pick up a full PC system unit right? If magnetic fields corrupted computers so bad, they'd have never worked with a hard drive installed. Lol. Some of my old systems have lasted over 30years without any effect from the speakers at t all.....;) Some folk just worry …

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Re: Retro computer builds that surprised you the most because they worked better than expected

Posted on 2021-07-07, 17:40

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by Caluser2000

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This AMD K^-2 400AFD and mobo is better than than expected. It's load load time in half, a minute and a halt to the XFCE4 desktop now.Firefox is a lot quicker even with just 256megs of ram. The inteweb access in Dillo in awesome for a system built from components from 1997/98. Can bump up the cpu …

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Re: What hardware do you think belongs in a museum?

Posted on 2021-07-07, 17:31

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by Caluser2000

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Digital Research needs a representation. CP/M and variants were around quite a while, multi-platform and was the inspiration for Dos. As were *nix.

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Re: 386SX/40 build

Posted on 2021-07-07, 09:00

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by Caluser2000

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Of course going from 20mhz to 25mhz will be faster...😉

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

Posted on 2021-07-07, 07:19

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by Caluser2000

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xcomcmdr wrote on 2021-07-07, 07:06: Caluser2000 wrote on 2021-07-06, 19:48: The HP P200mmx packed a sad last night and doesn't. Done the normal trouble shooting stuff. You monster ! Linux killed it ! No I threatened that I was going to install MickySoft Windows 95 OSR 2.5 on it......😉

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

Posted on 2021-07-07, 05:37

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by Caluser2000

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My AMD K6-2 project is coming along quite nicely. The first modo never displayed anything and no beep errors. I replaced that with a slightly older one and it is rocking along with the ndd pulled from tje HP P200mmx system. There is a significant increase in speed. Booting to the desktop in a minute …

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Re: Is there a dosbox version for 486?

Posted on 2021-07-06, 22:22

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by Caluser2000

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Rikintosh the front end/gui didn't look anything like this did it? I think so, but everything was written in Asian characters That would make sense because of the use case you described. Some sort of *nix controling everything and the software sort itself of it stops running.. Probably a process or …

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Re: Is there a dosbox version for 486?

Posted on 2021-07-06, 20:26

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by Caluser2000

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Rikintosh the front end/gui didn't look anything like this did it?

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Re: Is there a dosbox version for 486?

Posted on 2021-07-06, 19:56

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by Caluser2000

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Only backing up my claims old boy. Unlike some. You know evidence , examples n stuff..;) I can't imagine what sort of "evidence" is constituted by photographs of graphics on a monitor, chum. If you want to show off, I suggest getting a Youtube channel or an Imgur gallery or something. In any case, …

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

Posted on 2021-07-06, 19:48

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by Caluser2000

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The HP P200mmx packed a sad last night and doesn't. Done the normal trouble shooting stuff. To replace it I'm putting together a AMD K6-2 400AFR based system on a Super Socket 7 mobo. Should be fun...😉

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Re: Is there a dosbox version for 486?

Posted on 2021-07-06, 19:37

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by Caluser2000

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She used a Win95 or something graphically similar, I don't remember, but it was in Japanese, and she had a system that virtualized everything, every program she had, ran in a virtual "capsule", because if the program crashed, the system wouldn't would be compromised. Well, that definitely wasn't …

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Re: Is there a dosbox version for 486?

Posted on 2021-07-06, 19:00

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by Caluser2000

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Ok, I'll explain the whole story so you can understand my idea: A few years ago, I worked providing maintenance in computers, until a computer came to me, which was inside a machine for cutting and refining metal parts. I don't fully understand how that machinery worked, I just know it was …

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Re: Ports better than original.

Posted on 2021-07-06, 18:15

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by Caluser2000

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Btw a "port" as I understand it here is "(mostly) the same thing, running on a new (different) platform". I do not feel the same. Maybe because I'm playing games since I had a ZX Spectrum. At that time, "AAA" (that term didn't even exist) games were released on 3 or 4 different platforms at the …

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Re: HWiNFO for DOS resurrected !

Posted on 2021-07-06, 15:38

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by Caluser2000

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That's right, MSDOS 7.x is no longer the "good old" real mode DOS as it used to be. Regarding the wrong CPU clock on VIA Eden, I'd need to see the HWiNFO Report and Debug Files (run HWINFO -r -d) to check what might be wrong. Yes it is. It just has FAT32 support added. Which is dam handy. There …

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Re: Shuttle XPC Barebone SB61G2 V3

Posted on 2021-07-06, 07:18

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by Caluser2000

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Warlord wrote on 2021-07-06, 06:20: It's kinda cool did u ever fix the nic Nah it's toast. The pci one does the job just fine so not concerned about it at all.

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Re: Is there a dosbox version for 486?

Posted on 2021-07-06, 05:57

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by Caluser2000

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MS Windows 3.x in 386enhaced mode can already do multiple windowed Dos sessions. A lot of folk did that when it was released. Same with OS/2 v2 up.

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

Posted on 2021-07-06, 05:26

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by Caluser2000

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Fired up my project Acorn RiscPC after quite a long hiatus . Some thing is obviously up with the hhd a RiscOS wouldn't load from it. No problem because it has partial RiscOS on two rom on the mobo with some relatively basic applications to play around with. And of course you can shell out to the …

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Re: Shuttle XPC Barebone SB61G2 V3

Posted on 2021-07-06, 04:44

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by Caluser2000

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Some more shots. Xandros 3OCR. The best Distro of the early/mid 2000s IMHO. Based on Debian Sarge so you can use the Sarge archives to pull extra software in using apt or the gui package manager which is base on Synaptic.. It had excellent integration with MS Windows networks at the as well as *nix …

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