The Descent code wouldn't be very useful anyway due to a license conflict IIRC. Well no, but the code can be studied, and might give some 'inpsiration' for making the Quake-renderer faster on 486. But I think with two simple changes you should already get quite far: 1) Make the rasterizer perform …

Second of all, I think that it would be an interesting project (that I would start if I had the time and/or skill) to try to write a quake engine specifically optimized for the 486. I'd really like to see this. Here's some nice inspiration to get you going with someone doing an excellent job at ' …

I have given this game a quick look, and the problem seems to be that it relies on dx8vb.dll, which is not included with Windows Vista or newer. There are also a few pretty nasty bugs in the code. The most important bug is that it tries to run the rendering in a separate thread. This means that a …

There is one way: If the board has a large socket (with more openings than the 486 has pins) it might support POD. Otherwise, it definitely won't :) Yes, operative word being 'might'... I have one board where my Pentium Overdrive fits, but it doesn't work properly. It works fine in a more modern …

I don't consider DOS 7 a proper DOS, since it is not a standalone OS, but rather the DOS-portion of Win 9x. Because of this, it requires quite a bit more memory than standalone versions of DOS, and I have run into some problems because of that. It is physically impossible to free up enough …

Scali wrote: I believe there is also a key-combination to switch the speed, but I don't know it offhand. I have the original manual though, so I can look it up tonight. The key combination is alt+left shift+right shift, by the way.

I found multiple versions of DOS 3.21 (for different systems). I would still like the image, maybe one of those is the one you have. Here are the two Philips floppies that came with my machine: http://bohemiq.scali.eu.org/PhilipsP3105 They also include things for the ATi Small Wonder video card. …

chrisNova777 wrote: http://www.1st-technologies.com/files/vc6redi … t_download/file could this be it? I already linked that one above, I think that's the one yes 😀 Else I can look up my VC++ 6.0 CD when I get home.

Also, do you have DIP Switch information? And a manual maybe? I do, but it's in Dutch (the MS-DOS is also a Dutch version, now that I think about it). There's only a few DIP switches on the motherboard though, so I can just translate for you, I suppose.

Thanks, so it doesn't put the whole card in 64-bit mode when memory usage crosses 1.5 GB? I've read the whole article before but it's not really clear on if the "worst case scenario" applies to the whole card or just the last 512 MB of memory. From what I understand, it interleaves the memory …

Here is a good description on how the memory is connected: http://www.anandtech.com/show/6159/the-geforce-gtx-660-ti-review/2 Basically there are three memory controllers, each with 2 32-bit memory channels, and one controller just has more memory attached. The effective bandwidth depends somewhat …

Here's an inexpensive solution to add RAM on 5150/XT class machines: http://www.lo-tech.co.uk/wiki/1MB-RAM-Board That card is mainly useful for real 5150s, as they shipped with 16K-256K memory (there are 2 motherboards, the first can only take 64K max, the second only 256K max). Most clones ship …

does anyone have a version of this file that is not in Dutch??? it says EN-US (English, United States) but it comes up in Dutch.. maybe an error on microsofts part? http://download.microsoft.com/download/vc60pro/Update/2/W9XNT4/EN-US/VC6RedistSetup_deu.exe It's German (_deu signals 'Deutsch' which …

Hum, that was an interesting era :) I think I still had my trusty Pentium 120@133 back then... 64 MB memory, Matrox Mystique 2 MB videocard. Running Windows NT4, Win98SE and MS-DOS 6.22 in triple-boot config. SB Pro 2.0 and GUS MAX on board. The PC my dad used at work was more interesting though... …

Surprisingly the Pentium D did not gain much from increased FSB, without HT there isnt much need I guess. The Pentium EE *did* have HT however (which effectively made it the first 'quadcore' x86?). So it would be interesting to know what would happen with a Pentium D at high clockspeeds and HT …

it seems strange that u would need to install visual c++ packages to run a precompiled app.. It depends on how the app is compiled. Since MFC is used by many applications, it makes sense to use a shared library rather than compiling the same library into each application statically. So a lot of …

I have an Philips NMS 9100 XT Computer with 768kB of RAM. I am wondering a few things about it, since i never had an XT computer before. The specification is the following: 8088 Microprocessor 8MHz , 768kB RAM , Video 7 VEGA VGA 256kB I think I have the same one, or at least a similar one. Mine is …