Re: Any tips/ideas/suggestions for putting a 486 mobo inside a more modern case?
Posted on 2020-01-28, 15:59
Well. One idea is to get blank IO shield for the ATX case and then make a hole for keyboard din connector to it.
My first gaming laptop
Posted on 2020-01-28, 12:55
I went through my storage recently and happened to come across my first gaming laptop from year 2005. It is acer ferrari 4005wlmi. Anyone has any idea if it has any retro potential? Like could I install older OS than winXP like win9x to it and get drivers for chipset and video chip and get older …
Re: any use for broken hard drives?
Posted on 2020-01-27, 13:04
GigAHerZ wrote on 2020-01-27, 10:15: @Baoran, allergy to the actual specific material itself is way more plausible. 😀 Could be but I can't do prolonged test to see if there would be rash or something because I would be throwing up after holding such hard drive magnet for a few minutes.
Re: Dos games that is too much for Pentium 133?
Posted on 2020-01-27, 01:02
First game that comes to my mind is quake if you want to play on higher resolutions. Same with duke nukem 3d and blood at higher resolutions. It isn't about the video card in dos thought. It is generally about the cpu because they do rendering in software, so increase in resolution increases cpu …
Re: any use for broken hard drives?
Posted on 2020-01-27, 00:50
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-yHv91Y_oI Check it out. ;) I still expect you to become millionaire. :) (if you are telling truth/truly sensitive to EM fields, because ordinary humans aren't) Interesting video. Main thing for me is that when I removed hard drive magnets for the first time I …
Re: any use for broken hard drives?
Posted on 2020-01-26, 14:59
@Baoran, Well, that can be classified as paranormal. There are numerous offers for multiple millions of dollars, to prove anything paranormal at all. I expect you to be a multi-millionaire, or if you didn't know about those offers, soon-to-be multi-millionaire. ;) @Zup, electric busses accelerate …
Re: Why are Hercules graphics cards so rare anymore?
Posted on 2020-01-26, 11:24
Does this apply to older hercules cards only? I see those hercules stingray voodoo rush cards being sold constantly around where I live. Even at the moment I could pick up 2 of them for 20 euros each, but I heard they have pretty bad dos compatibility so I have not bought them so far.
Re: any use for broken hard drives?
Posted on 2020-01-26, 08:00
I have removed magnets from few of them, but they make me feel sick for some reason. I only need to hold a magnet like that on my hand for 30 seconds and I start feeling really sick. Really strange. What wonderful implants you must have... No implants as far as I can know, but could make it a neat …
Re: any use for broken hard drives?
Posted on 2020-01-25, 10:09
I have removed magnets from few of them, but they make me feel sick for some reason. I only need to hold a magnet like that on my hand for 30 seconds and I start feeling really sick. Really strange.
Re: Matching / Selecting sound cards for different builds
Posted on 2020-01-23, 22:29
I have been building only 486 systems and later so far myself, but my newest build that I have been gathering parts for has been a 386 33Mhz. I was thinking that since it will be my oldest system, I might as well put my oldest working sound card in it which is sound blaster CT1320C, because I don't …
Re: SATA to PATA adapter in the vintage computing
Posted on 2020-01-22, 07:33
I am kind of curious about this as well. Like how large hard drives work using them and what are transfer speeds like. There are many larger sata hard drives than there ever was when it comes to ide hard drives. I just recently got this PCI IDE card and based on info online it says it supports ide …
Re: Floppy disk quality.
Posted on 2020-01-22, 03:21
Why would formatting make a difference? I don't see formatting doing anything different to a floppy disk compared to normal writing...
Re: DOS Hang on floppy boot
Posted on 2020-01-22, 02:30
Do floppies work normally if you boot to dos from a hard drive? I have had 2 motherboards in the past that did the same thing that I get Starting MS-DOS and then it stops, but when I installed a hard drive and booted to dos there I noticed that the floppy drives didn't work properly even when not …
Re: Let's benchmark our systems with caches disabled
Posted on 2020-01-22, 01:47
What happened to the spreadsheet or is the problem with my web browser? It only shows 486dx2-66 stuff in the main results and I feel like much of the data is missing that used to be there. Edit: The spreadsheet seems to be back to normal now. No idea what the issue was
Re: Help me identify two motherboards...
Posted on 2020-01-21, 22:29
The 486 motherboard looks a lot like LS-486E rev C1 or C2 to me.
Re: Philips PC info needed.
Posted on 2020-01-21, 10:03
It seems that it has one of those huge seagate drives, so I assume that would make it probably one with 40Mb. It doesn't have any I/O card and only video card, so that is why I asked if the ide interface would be on the motherboard or if it simply has I/O card removed. I asked about if power supply …
Re: PCI ide in 486
Posted on 2020-01-21, 06:03
appiah4 wrote on 2020-01-21, 05:30: I have a silicon image raid controller I flashed to ata controller mode around. I will certainly try it in my Cx5x86 build 😀 Tiido mentioned earlier in this thread that some silicon image ones don't work so I am not sure why the one I bought for few euros worked …
Re: PCI ide in 486
Posted on 2020-01-21, 04:44
Switching from 40 wire ide cable to 80 wire ide cable increased the reading speed from 2800KB/s to 4800KB/s. I assume the low speeds are because of DMA transfer not being enabled in dos.
Re: Philips PC info needed.
Posted on 2020-01-21, 00:24
I think the model is Philips P 3345 and it is being sold on Finnish online auction site and seems to be bit rough shape, so I am trying to find out what I could do with it so if it is worth me bidding on it. Only thing I found out about it online was that it is suppose to be 386.
Re: PCI ide in 486
Posted on 2020-01-21, 00:02
Sorry for resurrecting my old thread but I found a pci ide card that just works on my 486 motherboard. Maybe this is not so uncommon and the info of this thread is old information, but I was excited. pci ide card.jpg This is picture of my very first test that I just did. There are few things though. …
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