Re: Voodoo Card(s) in a fast Pentium 3 machine - Necessary/Worth it?

Posted on 2019-10-16, 16:30

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I'd like to answer with a question as I'll be getting a Tualatin setup myself soon. How is performance with a glide wrapper? I would imagine a fast Pentium 3 with a gf 4 or 5 series card will run most of the games that absolutely benefit from glide just fine using a wrapper (quake, tomb raider, …

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Re: Home file sharing/NAS compatible with W95 and W98?

Posted on 2019-10-16, 16:02

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Another vote for smb1, which can also be enabled in windows 10 still (although in my experience networking anything with windows 10 is a practice in the fine art of luck). Windows 7 will happily share with any dos machine and so will any linux distro running samba. Its easy and cheap to build a …

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Re: The risks of using period correct power supplies

Posted on 2019-10-16, 15:24

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I would use a new power supply on something as modern as a high end Pentium 3 if you aren't able to at least recap the psu in advance of use. Chances are you wont be using any devices that requires -5v. I also find that PSUs from the early 2000s are often total junk. It was funny to use risky …

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Re: We Need to Preserve the Vanilla Quake Experience for Modern Systems

Posted on 2019-10-14, 20:03

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The only way I know of to perfectly display 320x200 with the stretched 4:3 aspect (with square pixels 320x200 is actually 16:10 according to my napkin math) on an LCD would be to upscale every x pixel x5 and every y pixel x 6, resulting in a final image of 1600x1200, quite annoying when you …

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Re: We Need to Preserve the Vanilla Quake Experience for Modern Systems

Posted on 2019-10-14, 14:07

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The only way I know of to perfectly display 320x200 with the stretched 4:3 aspect (with square pixels 320x200 is actually 16:10 according to my napkin math) on an LCD would be to upscale every x pixel x5 and every y pixel x 6, resulting in a final image of 1600x1200, quite annoying when you consider …

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Re: Etherexpress Pro/10+ Packet Driver issue / help needed

Posted on 2019-10-13, 09:59

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by BeginnerGuy

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already tried the crynwr packet driver too.. same results.. ugh! Ah well, I just wanted to have some fun with the system outside of shared drives on the LAN, maybe I can try out another card in the future, right now it's all I have.

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Re: Etherexpress Pro/10+ Packet Driver issue / help needed

Posted on 2019-10-13, 06:24

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I can't get as far as opening leetirc. It just plain dies right there after loading the packet driver and showing C:\_ =\.. Maybe some day I'll have to try another card as horun mentioned, this is all I have for now. It's too bad none of these programs seem to want to just work with the Microsoft …

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Re: Etherexpress Pro/10+ Packet Driver issue / help needed

Posted on 2019-10-13, 04:47

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by BeginnerGuy

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Have already tried 0x60, changed the card to IRQ 10 and address 340h, same thing, keyboard just goes out after it loads.

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Etherexpress Pro/10+ Packet Driver issue / help needed

Posted on 2019-10-13, 00:21

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by BeginnerGuy

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Having an issue here I can't seem to crack. Networking isn't my strong suit and I'm still rebuilding my DOS abilities so I can't tell where the issue is coming from, whether it's a software bug, memory mapping issue, or hardware conflict. Anybody want to take a shot at helping me troubleshoot? I'm …

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Re: New Very Powerful computers coming soon.

Posted on 2019-10-10, 22:21

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CHEESEGRATER V.2.0 "It's the future of gaming" Coming soon to a CompUSA near you

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Re: Help me decide which processor for this build- PIII or PII?

Posted on 2019-10-09, 05:49

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by BeginnerGuy

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To me Coppermine/tualatin P3 is the best all around retro build hands down, so it's my vote. Everybody always mentions the speed sensitive games but are you really going to spend THAT much time on them? It's up to you to decide how critical they are, and that can be a rabbit hole. Also I believe …

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Re: Old hardware giveaway thread.

Posted on 2019-10-08, 23:07

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by BeginnerGuy

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Woohoo!

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Re: Old hardware giveaway thread.

Posted on 2019-10-08, 21:59

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Re: Other than Roland, what are the other "best" sounding MIDI devices/sound cards out there?

Posted on 2019-10-05, 04:02

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by BeginnerGuy

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SC-55 is my favorite but that may be bias due to so many games music likely being developed using a sound canvas to begin with. Kind of like how older Sierra games will make an MT-32 your synth of choice.. Yamaha MU80 XG may be another popular choice for computer related audio. Final Fantasy VII …

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Re: Losing interest after finishing a build -- anyone else have this problem?

Posted on 2019-10-03, 00:19

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The journey is the destination. Quoted for truth. It sounds to me like OP and many others (I just commented in the other thread about losing interest in the hobby) here just plain enjoy hunting for parts and building the PC, benching and tweaking, and not so much using them. It doesn't necessarily …

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Re: Bios Hunt: GENOA 486VLG - X4

Posted on 2019-10-02, 22:52

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by BeginnerGuy

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Hey which EEPROM did the Genoa 486VLG have? Looks like the socket is DIP-28, I'm going to have to take the system down a good bit before I can peel the sticker back, would like to skip that if I can 😜 Would W27C512 do?

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Re: 486 cache/ram speed issue with write-back

Posted on 2019-10-02, 22:24

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by BeginnerGuy

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Thank you TheMobRules, working my way through that now and found the am5x86 data sheet from another source (his link to AMD website is dead). I'm still trying to get the CPU to work in X4 mode in general, aside from the cache. Just can't get it working any way besides X3. Time is limited for tonight …

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Re: 486 cache/ram speed issue with write-back

Posted on 2019-10-02, 19:46

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by BeginnerGuy

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Can some of you modify this utility so it takes address and value from command line and so you can switch whatever values? (If it has an effect is another question) I'm not that proficient in asm myself unfortunately. (C#, in which i work every day, is way-way higher level language and the jump …

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Re: 486 cache/ram speed issue with write-back

Posted on 2019-10-02, 16:46

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by BeginnerGuy

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Thank you bakemono! Exactly what I needed. I have no idea if it will work either, that's why I want to see what happens before I have a modified bios with that bit toggled burned. I believe JP11 on 1-2 results in a failure to post, will test that again later but confident I tried it.

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Re: Any others given up on the hobby?

Posted on 2019-10-02, 16:21

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I think "the hobby" is a bit of a narrow definition. We have varying interests and for me its not collecting everything. I'm not a collector per se, I consider myself a "user". I only buy what I'm going to use and wear out. I dont see the point in spending top dollar collector prices on what is …

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