Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2018-05-03, 13:41
Man I LOVE those cases, I hope I own one, some day, somehow..
Re: Which memory manager is better? Memmaker, QEMM or 386max.
Posted on 2018-05-03, 11:19
The three of us should put together OS/2 Warp 3 or 4 PCs.. And this conversation should probably split off into an OS/2 discussion thred.. 🤣
Re: Which memory manager is better? Memmaker, QEMM or 386max.
Posted on 2018-05-03, 11:11
But Warp 3 opened the doors to the internet for me in 1994 and my 14 year old mind was absolutely blown.. Do you have internet connection from home in 1994? If this is what you meant, I believe that you have mistaken your dates. PS. Assuming you were living in where I live during that times... :lol …
Re: Which memory manager is better? Memmaker, QEMM or 386max.
Posted on 2018-05-03, 10:21
I never used Windows 95. True story. I was an OS/2 Warp 3 guy :cool: I have OS/2 Warp 3... the floppy version! Funny enough it is the only program I found that didn't work on the AMD 486DX2-66 CPU I had at the time. It would install, it could boot in safe mode, but it would BSOD when booting in …
Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread
Posted on 2018-05-03, 09:15
It actually doesn't look that bad in black, but the blue.. :dead: It is one of my favorite cases, built like a brick. Not very practical, for sure, but very spacious and very neat looking. I would buy another if I found it, or a dozen more. https://www.sahibinden.com/ilan/ikinci-el-ve-sifir- …
Re: Which memory manager is better? Memmaker, QEMM or 386max.
Posted on 2018-05-03, 09:09
Wow, very good pack!. I already had a SB Pro 2 when I finally decided to buy a CD-ROM drive (well, finally found the money, actually :lol:) so I went with a CD-ROM only option, but again it was a Creative (4X, if I remember correctly). Since I was kind of a part time IT service tech, it was very …
Re: Matrox G400/G450 Quake III Performance
Posted on 2018-05-03, 09:07
The dropoff after 584 is rather interesting, that is when they dropped TurboGL and moved onto a full OpenGL driver I suppose?
Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread
Posted on 2018-05-03, 08:52
It actually doesn't look that bad in black, but the blue.. 😵 It is one of my favorite cases, built like a brick. Not very practical, for sure, but very spacious and very neat looking. I would buy another if I found it, or a dozen more.
Re: Which memory manager is better? Memmaker, QEMM or 386max.
Posted on 2018-05-02, 18:58
I had a 2x CD-ROM in the form of a SB16/CD-ROM upgrade kit that came in a huge ass box along with about 20 odd CD-ROM games.. That was in 1994, I am fairly sure, because it had Ultima VIII pagan in the games it came bundled with and I was over the moon about it. Most if not all other games in the …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2018-05-02, 18:43
I was expecting this in the mail for some time. Socket 7 boards aren't near as common as I wish they were and ATX Socket 7 boards are even less so, so I jumped on the Tekram. It was a filthy, corroded mess when it arrived. I cleaned it thoroughly. Pretty much every jumper pin was bent so I …
Re: Which memory manager is better? Memmaker, QEMM or 386max.
Posted on 2018-05-02, 17:50
If memory serves, I had about 560 to 580KiB of free memory on my 286. The "trick" was to threw out all the uneccessary stuff: SmartDrive, setver, mode con, ansi.sys, ega.sys, etc. And yes, I had mscdex and a CD-ROM driver loaded. :) As an extension of that, there are multiple 'tricks'... I had a …
Re: Which memory manager is better? Memmaker, QEMM or 386max.
Posted on 2018-05-02, 14:38
The issue, for me, was that memmaker can do a good job with a fairly small amount of TSRs but once you start to load things like antivirus software and convenience tools like DOSKEY (who the hell can live without DOSKEY?) and other dos shell extensions, keyboard/character localization settings etc. …
Re: Trash to Treasure side project: Voodoo 3 3000 Restoration
Posted on 2018-05-02, 13:55
Ok then, the card is now finally in my hands. After quite a bit of cleaning it looks like this: Voodoo 3 (Damaged).JPG Aside from the obvious lack of cooler discussed above, the only material damages I can see are the missing SMD component (labeled R143JNB89, but googling this gives me nada, so if …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2018-05-02, 06:12
i'm reorganizing my collection due to several motherboards stopping working also i'm fighting against my mind, 'cause i wanna get an Atari ST but i'm facing financial troubles You know what they say, the best Atari is a Commodore.. In other news I've been putting in rather mild bids in interesting …
Re: 486 questions
Posted on 2018-05-01, 22:30
From my experience, putting a slow trident graphics card into a 486 can slow it down to 386 speeds in doom. At least it was like that in my 486 33Mhz when I was comparing tseng labs et4000/w32p vlb card and a slow isa trident card that was similar to yours. I got close to double the fps in doom …
Re: Which PCI sound card is best for DOS/98SE games?
Posted on 2018-05-01, 22:25
The moment you say DOS and PCI I think the best option is a good ESS Solo-1 card like the Terrated 128i. Everything else has crappy OPL3 emulation. The Yamaha cards have genuine OPL3 built in. They also have worse compatibility with DOS games on pretty much any PCI bus out there. The SOLO-1 just …
Re: Pentium 1 - 60 MHZ - Graphics Card
Posted on 2018-05-01, 22:21
Come on. You're looking to provide information on who would've been using this combination in 95, ideally too for what purpose. You've got a start in pointing out that compaq at some point offered these two components but don't know whether they were put in the same model or in separate ones. My …
Re: Which PCI sound card is best for DOS/98SE games?
Posted on 2018-05-01, 22:16
The moment you say DOS and PCI I think the best option is a good ESS Solo-1 card like the Terrated 128i. Everything else has crappy OPL3 emulation.
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2018-05-01, 22:13
Invested in a cheap Chinese wireless bridge, and now all of my retro boxes can enjoy Wireless-G and transfer software and game images from the NAS when I need it. Much recommended.
Re: Is this AT PSU usable and worth salvaging?
Posted on 2018-05-01, 22:05
Eh? What is missing if I may ask? Pretty much the only thing which looks okay on this supply is the ground point. Let me itemize the failure: One PTC for transient suppression isn't enough. Two plate capacitors for line filtration. This is insufficient and unsafe; what's installed doesn't form a …
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