Re: Wanted : Desktop Style AT motherboard case. Also, a MPU-401 box+card.

Posted on 2010-02-14, 01:33

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If there are some pictures of your spare (tower and/or desktop) cases, I might be able to spare the leg and arm! 😁 (And in case I would like to get em', no need to include the power supply.)

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Re: Wanted : Desktop Style AT motherboard case. Also, a MPU-401 box+card.

Posted on 2010-02-13, 08:27

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Thanks for the offer. Any desktop style casing available? Or perhaps a full AT tower..

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Need help identifying the following motherboard model for jumper information

Posted on 2010-02-12, 09:45

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Another of those dreaded "the maker behind the masked motherboard" phenomenon. This is a socket 7 motherboard which I just recieved. A SiS 5511-5512-5513 chipsets based motherboard : http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/5566/dsc00003aw.jpg http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/8380/dsc00004i.jpg http:// …

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Re: Brown ISA slot

Posted on 2010-02-11, 07:42

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EISA? Oddly placed cache slot? Riser? Where is the picture? (Do these words even rhyme?)

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Re: Global disease of old computer lovers

Posted on 2010-02-11, 05:39

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Bandung, Indonesia, Southeast Asia. Malik and I are practically neighbors when it goes to global scale. Hehehe! Yeah! :happy: And I'm from the K'Tithrak Mang in the Kilrathi Sector...or...was it from the Scumm Bar in Monkey Island?... In the mean time while I solve my identity crisis and make up my …

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Re: FIC 486 VIP IO2 - no POST

Posted on 2010-02-07, 15:23

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Looks like the bios has been messed up. The only way to check if the motherboard is alright or not is to hot flash the bios. You can easily (carefully though) remove the bios chip and hot flash it on another running motherboard. Uniflash (Universal Flasher) flash utility works well for this purpose. …

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Re: Which Might and Magic game should I start first?

Posted on 2010-02-07, 13:34

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I started with Might & Magic III : Isles of Terra too. Good game which imparted good first impression of the series, which later prompted me to get the M&M Collection. M&M 4 : Sword of Xeen and Clouds of Xeen (or was that Dark Side of Xeen? - confused) are equally good too. If I remember correctly, …

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Re: FreeDos - A Closer Look :

Posted on 2010-02-06, 11:56

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Malik, your monitor looks interesting. It doesn't look like the one you normally use. It looks more "square shaped" (not widescreen), as opposed to rectangular shaped. Is it 4:3 aspect ratio? If it is, can you please say a bit about it, such as model number, and whether it's any good or not. Thanks …

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FreeDos - A Closer Look :

Posted on 2010-02-06, 06:50

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Thanks to keropi , I remembered to fire up the the FreeDos in my test setup. My Test Setup: DFI CA61 Socket 370 Motherboard intel Coppermine 1GHz Socket 370 Processor Micron 256MB PC-100 DRAM (128MB x 2) WD 80GB used for this FreeDos Installation Seagate 120GB (power cable pulled off during …

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Wanted : Desktop Style AT motherboard case. Also, a MPU-401 box+card.

Posted on 2010-02-03, 10:30

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Anyone has a spare or unused AT motherboard casing and willing to ship here? I know the shipping will be quite expensive but I'm willing to pay for it. Just wanted a case (with the LED and turbo button) for my 486. Preferably with space for 2x 5.25" bays and a 3.5" bay. My current AT case is used …

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Re: Advice on a 486 Build

Posted on 2010-02-03, 10:15

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ALi is one of the better 486 chipset..has the best PCI performance of all 486 chipset That's probably telling of the glorious quality of 486 PCI chipsets. :D It was definitely not the finest hour of the industry. lol, nope....it was more the rush of releasing new tech before it was ready for the …

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Re: A few oddities in LAPC-I playback on various motherboards.

Posted on 2010-02-02, 10:59

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You can add Curse of Enchantia to your tests. Any particular problem with this game and LAPC-I? so I take a. Companions of Xanth b. Gods c. Heart of China are "good" titles to do tests with? I am interested in doing the same on my PS1/pro, K6-II and 5x86/133 pc's... Errmm...these were the games …

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A few oddities in LAPC-I playback on various motherboards. *UPDATE 2*

Posted on 2010-02-01, 12:58

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The obvious factor that inhibits the LAPC-I playback completely is the absence of the -5v rail in the PSU, irrespective of the motherboards. I've also noticed a few oddities : 1.) DFI P2XBL Slot 1 Motherboard ( 440BX ) with PIII 450MHz 100MHz FSB with PC-100 128MB RAM : Most of the games that I have …

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Re: Name the most conventional mem hungry game you came across

Posted on 2010-01-28, 10:45

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Falcon 3.0. (at least 600kb or 600,000+ bytes - forgotten which requirement.)

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Re: AT mobo with ATX power supply

Posted on 2010-01-28, 10:34

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With an ATX switch (i.e. ATX PSU connected to the ATX power connector on the motherboard with the casing's power cable connected to the power switch jumpers on the board), you have the option to "soft-off" your system if using Win9x and above. With AT power supply, you have to turn off the system …

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Re: Anyone using FreeDOS?

Posted on 2010-01-26, 15:22

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Another great utility for supported motherboards is the umbpci.sys - Provides UMB without placing the system in real-mode(LIM-EMS emulation mode). I haven't tested this with the compatibility or execution of games yet. I'll add this into my roster. Great, instead of tinkering with the motherboards, …

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Re: Anyone using FreeDOS?

Posted on 2010-01-26, 15:16

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I think there is a problem of read error of the floppy disks, when smartdrv is installed under qhimem.sys environment (or shsucdx, not sure). The actual read will be fine but when dir is typed, you can only see gibberish characters. You can still load the executable, say, like install.exe for …

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Re: New forum member, thinking of retro PC build (3.1 & 95 OS).

Posted on 2010-01-26, 14:30

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In my P133, I can play all the flight sims smoothly - F-117A, F-19, F-29 (F-29 Retaliator is a real beauty, with the same amount of smoothness in a 286, and still smooth in the P133. Very nice coding in terms of speed and smoothness!). System Shock I no problem, but you may need a high end PII or a …

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Re: Anyone using FreeDOS?

Posted on 2010-01-26, 10:41

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I read this thread before and forgot to keep up with it, since I didn't have enough time to try out the FreeDos. I already have burned the bootable ISO version of the FreeDos but yet to install. I think I'll try installing it too in the 486SP3 system that I'm tinkering with currently. And then with …

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Re: New forum member, thinking of retro PC build (3.1 & 95 OS).

Posted on 2010-01-26, 10:12

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Well I have several in mind... Alien Breed, Another World, C&C, C&C Red Alert, Battle Chess, Beneath a Steel Sky, Bubble Bobble, Chaos Engine, Civilization II, Crazy Cars III, Doom I & II, Dune II, Extreme Pinball, The Incredible Machine series, F1, F117A Stealth Fighter, F19 Stealth Fighter, F29 …

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