Re: Apple is getting off Intel CPU’s ?
Posted on 2020-07-22, 19:20
Instruction translation a la Mac PPC Virtual PC will be computationally very expensive. For the sake of consumers, I hope they don't go that route.
Re: Ultimate 386 system?
Posted on 2020-07-21, 22:32
Wolf3d, SoD, Blake Stone would have all been butter smooth on a 386DX40. Good stuff!
Re: Dual Pentium Pro Build Thread
Posted on 2020-07-21, 14:19
chinny22 wrote on 2020-07-21, 08:52: So you'll have dual blacktops in the Asus board and dual goldtops in this. You have a really nice dual dual PProp setup 😀 Time to find a period copy of CATIA.
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2020-07-21, 04:01
Artex wrote on 2020-07-21, 02:44: Hahaha. 😀 I see what you did there... Few know that Fate of Atlantis is a thinly disguised documentary where Indiana Jones finds Artex' secret bunker of treasures.
Re: Ultimate 386 system?
Posted on 2020-07-21, 01:32
Can confirm that even the excellent FastDoom is quite a compromised experience on the 386: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=74886 The hardware is brilliant for platformers & pinball of course. Jazz Jackrabbit tests the limits in places with the occasional slowdown, solved by turning the …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2020-07-21, 01:28
devius wrote on 2020-07-20, 20:32: kolderman wrote on 2020-07-20, 19:24: If you consider albatross parts "gaps" in your collection you must have a fun time being a collector 🤣 What are albatross parts? See Adlib Gold and Voodoo Rampage prototype. Or just look at Artex' and Hard1k's post histories.
Re: Is this a decent PSU?
Posted on 2020-07-20, 23:30
Recently purchased an AT case to start building my DOS build. Case came with a Star 230W Switching power supply. I can’t find much information on this PSU. Here are a few pictures. No transient voltage suppression. No line filter. Schottky diodes in a barrel package using the inadequate heatsink as …
Re: Is this a decent PSU?
Posted on 2020-07-20, 23:18
If in doubt about a PSU, the best rule of thumb is weight: good PSUs are chock full of heavy components and heatsinks. Bad PSUs tend to be full of air (at best). It's almost always best to take the heavier PSU, regardless of whatever is written on the label. Unless some really unscrupulous factory …
Re: Best OS with support for Dual Pentium Pro’s
Posted on 2020-07-20, 23:13
If your shop runs strictly Pro Tools, for instance, you're probably using Windows. If your shop runs Reaper, you have options. You try to sound like it is just Pro Tools that is lacking native support for Linux. Bitwig (which I already have, and which I also brought up) is an exception to the rule …
Re: Is this a decent PSU?
Posted on 2020-07-20, 15:56
A stupid name is usually a dead giveaway. Star, super power computer (it's an actual brand!), Sparkle power, Bestec, Everbest, Pro power, Sunpower, Truefaith and the rest of the chinese junk that was dangerous to use even as new. Forget them and use more expensive but reliable brands: anything made …
Re: Is this a decent PSU?
Posted on 2020-07-20, 04:16
Recently purchased an AT case to start building my DOS build. Case came with a Star 230W Switching power supply. I can’t find much information on this PSU. Here are a few pictures. No transient voltage suppression. No line filter. Schottky diodes in a barrel package using the inadequate heatsink as …
Re: mt32d cannot load libmt32emu.so.2 - no such file or directory?
Posted on 2020-07-19, 20:22
You could, or put together a simple helper script that checks for a specified LIBDIR in ldconfig -p. If it's not already configured, add a rule in ld.so.conf.d (if it exists) or ld.so.conf (if that directory doesn't exist). Reload ldconfig and check the searched paths again to see if LIBDIR is …
Re: What game are you playing now?
Posted on 2020-07-19, 01:15
chrismeyer6 wrote on 2020-07-01, 01:26: I'm pretty sure EA took the servers down a few years ago. But I'd love to be proven wrong though. Cause I had so many hours spent playing online matches. There appear to be community servers. https://cnc-online.net/en/
Re: mt32d cannot load libmt32emu.so.2 - no such file or directory?
Posted on 2020-07-18, 00:49
Fluidsynth may configure it's midi port differently as amidi is built to work with hardware midi devices. Use aconnect -l instead as it shows all midi devices (both input and output) and will be required for virtually patching between midi ports (unless you use one of the graphical tools). From the …
Re: Best OS with support for Dual Pentium Pro’s
Posted on 2020-07-16, 13:52
I just don't like such unreserved and categorical statements that you always make, when there's nuance and detail. Facts: Some games runs fine on NT4, and in case of SMP, some made to take advantage of several cores even run better than under W95/single core. Nah, my post was qualified, so I'm cool …
Re: Asus P2B-F Slot 1 Retro PC
Posted on 2020-07-16, 02:11
A lot of factory air guides are formed out of poster board. If you want to further reduce CPU temperature, that would be an option for you.
Re: DOS alternative to lspci?
Posted on 2020-07-16, 01:50
You can try pcicfg: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ralf/files.html Or this tool, some assembly required: https://github.com/nowrd2xpln/dos
Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today
Posted on 2020-07-15, 22:18
RAID 1 is just a 1:1 mirror. You can hook up one of the drives from the array and read it without having to do any type of recovery.... As long as at least one of the drives is still good that is. I'm familiar with RAID levels. RAID 1 (and JBOD which isn't really RAID) is simple enough that vendors …
Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today
Posted on 2020-07-15, 14:45
To be fair, I recently replaced the H700 LSI-based RAID controller in my R710 homelab machine with a cheap Marvell SATA HBA and I did not need to format any of the "single drive arrays" that I had. I imagine a RAID1 array might be recoverable too (or at least the data, if not the array itself) …
Re: Microsoft Flight Simulator
Posted on 2020-07-15, 14:43
At the very current moment with the (very little) news I've been reading and the (supposed to be) leaked benchmark of the DTK (and yes I know it is not very representative of what they will sell in the future, but shows a very good promise of what they can deliver) are very convincing to me, so I …
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