Re: Disassembly of laptop, how to disconnect this ZIF-like cable?

Posted on 2020-08-03, 14:10

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the clamp may be a small element just on the edge of that socket - i dont see these personally without glasses; so maybe inspect the socket some more, its obscured here;

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Re: Slow compact flash adapter performance

Posted on 2020-08-03, 10:54

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this looks like pretty normal isa speed to me

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Re: Slow compact flash adapter performance

Posted on 2020-08-03, 03:07

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please try with smartdrv disabled and please provide results of a bench - access times and transfer speeds at least so we know where the politician is edit: and shadowing is enabled?

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

Posted on 2020-07-26, 14:18

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Horun wrote on 2020-07-26, 02:27: Also figured out some jumpers on my Holtek LCMEIO-2A (Holtek EIO-2 v1.1) ISA IDE/Floppy/multi card based on Holtek HT6550A. this thing has 16 data bits but only 11 address bits on isa connector - how come?

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Re: 32-bit OS that will run best on 8MB 386sx-16

Posted on 2020-07-23, 17:00

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A busmaster SCSI controller is almost a must if you really try to run Windows 95 on a 386SX. I'm running a 20 MHz 386SX and it was a huge difference switching from IDE to the Adaptec 1542B. is this a difference that can be measured/documented? what about network/video - is there some meaningful …

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Re: Reducing overhead of Win98 when running DOS games

Posted on 2020-07-22, 20:31

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is it running with sound when its running faster? have you tried exiting windows and then running? (without reboot)

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Re: How to upgrade memory on my 386sx

Posted on 2020-06-27, 13:50

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cyclone3d wrote on 2020-06-27, 06:38: Get an ISA memory expansion board. how much slower would that be compared to onboard memory?

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Re: Pentium III + Windows 98, Slow network transfers

Posted on 2020-06-27, 00:55

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has anyone ever wondered how much of all this load comes from the filesystem?

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Re: MP3s slightly slower on old '90s pc with CMI8330

Posted on 2020-06-04, 19:19

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have you tried recoding to 64bit and see if it improves in same app/soft environment? also another mp3 player would be a good thing to test

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Re: poor preformance

Posted on 2020-05-23, 18:12

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can you go for an older driver? as old as possible

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-05-22, 10:38

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I got this beauty in off eBay, an AST Premium Exec 386SX/20 from early 1992. I'm genuinely amazed it works at all, though I cannot get into setup no matter how many times I press CTRL+ALT+ESC. same here :) do You possibly have any knowledge of the internal connectors? i would love to know the pin …

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Re: Windows 2000 on single Pentium Pro

Posted on 2020-05-19, 00:46

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not enough ram; also, 2k was slow a 500 mhz k6 for me

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AST Premium Exec connector specs

Posted on 2020-05-18, 23:00

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hello, i have some old laptop model AST Premium Exec sx20; there are two connectors inside near the modem connector outlet (j20 and j21 which look identical); i tried googling this but could not find the details of how exactly those connectors work (its probably isa but im not sure); if anyone could …

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Re: What NAS are you using ?

Posted on 2020-05-06, 18:19

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almost none use retro for this? i hoped to see a few sub ghz machines...

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Re: It is hard to cope with how stupid the world is these days

Posted on 2020-05-03, 21:35

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Jo22 wrote on 2020-05-03, 10:06: Losing a job may be unpleasant, but isn't the end of life. tell that people needing care/medicine when without medicare no disrespect intended but You probably live in a rich and civilized country, not all are as safe as You or even i

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Re: Windows 98 framerate feels choppy

Posted on 2020-04-19, 08:21

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the driver is too new imho PaddyWi wrote on 08 : 23 ; 18-04-2020: On Win9x, the mouse never moves as smooth as on any NT-based Windows. why? is there some interpolation that i can turn off?

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Re: how can i run php3 and php4 on modern computers?

Posted on 2020-04-16, 01:49

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this is open source i thought - why dont You build it for yourself?

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Re: Using VIA VT8231 South Bridge for sound blaster pro emulation

Posted on 2020-04-10, 10:47

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is it feasible to move such a chip to a separate pcb and use just the sb part of it?

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Re: Pentium III + Windows 98, Slow network transfers

Posted on 2020-04-08, 18:33

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not sure this will help i believe many cards offer full offloading only on winnt but not on win 3 and 4 i also remember some simple settings were very suboptimal in windows 4 out of box, not sure whether it was about frames or timing;

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Re: Vogons streaming announcement thread

Posted on 2020-04-05, 20:18

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it says there, if i got this right, that executing specialized code per frame is faster than just transferring a set of ascii characters and ascii character changes(for more accurate shapes)? a screen is 1k chars, changes may be some additional 100chars per frame max (it can be done without …

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