Re: AMD Athlon system with very rare 1GHz Thunderbird Slot A CPU!

Posted on 2019-02-09, 12:34

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KX133 chipset supports SDRAM Bank Interleaving, has potential to work a little faster with two modules. https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/kx133-kt … y-tweak.423179/ worked great on KT133, but I seem to remember problems on slot A platforms at the time.

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Re: DOS LAN party... recommend me some multiplayer games!

Posted on 2019-02-07, 21:33

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appiah4 wrote: So when are we getting photos of this event? reminded me I had few stashed away in my YT favorites https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXgEpSFeSTk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ghyo0lsbHM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zs1CMrkiXFs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rjne0gJ9XT8

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Re: Intrest in new ISA cards?

Posted on 2019-02-07, 21:03

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dkarguth wrote: Also, I've never seen a card that allows you to connect a 1541 drive to a PC and have it accessible like a normal floppy drive. No extra drivers needed, it just works. you dont need a card for that, you need a dos driver

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Re: Intrest in new ISA cards?

Posted on 2019-02-07, 09:27

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- A video card that used an FPGA to emulate VGA/EGA/CGA/MDA graphics, settable either by dipswitches on the card or a software utility, that has an HDMI output rather than a VGA. Since an FPGA would essentially completely replicate the functionality of the original VGA/MDA/CGA/EGA cards, it would …

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Re: Best hardware for Need For Speed Porsche 2000 / Unleashed

Posted on 2019-02-07, 08:31

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Anyway, so far DX7a seems to work fine, but I wonder whether DX8.x can improve graphics performance. It doesnt work like that, its not like 1 better is faster or anything. This is a DX7 game and will ONLY use DX7 calls. What you really want is a modern w10 system with 4GHz, GTX something or other …

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Re: My builds before Socket 3 Lan! :)

Posted on 2019-02-06, 19:44

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Socket 3 lan party? were there that many 486 playable lan multiplayer games? almost all the fun ones I can come up with crawled on 486 🙁

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Re: Project: First Person Shooter History

Posted on 2019-02-06, 19:23

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I had no problems getting it running. I went with the standard software version, as you need the registered version to run GLQuake. A cursory google showed that the full version is not easily obtainable and is sold still through a number of digital stores so I left it at that. $2 on Steam, not …

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Re: Dual VGA displays on 286/486?

Posted on 2019-02-06, 14:50

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root42 wrote: Nope, they would have conflicting memory ranges and I/O ports. Someone showed a proprietary CAD graphics card with two VGA connectors some weeks back. But that would only work in Windows or with special software. yep http://retronn.de/imports/hwgal/hw_n9_gxitc_front.html

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Re: AMD K6 Quake2 and Quake 3, aiming for stars.

Posted on 2019-02-05, 19:14

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Necrodude wrote: you arent allowed to have newer stuff then the 31 dec 1999. ... Amd K6-3+ K6-3+ came out in late 2000

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Re: What is the best benchmark for PCI VGA cards?

Posted on 2019-02-05, 17:01

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yes :) most PCI cards had no 3d, and some even no 2d acceleration simply testing highest resolution possible + maybe opening few windows (or running old blitter tests) should show if memory is ok other than that those cards merely supported hardware cursor, GDI if you are lucky (blitter), and rarely …

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Re: What is the best benchmark for PCI VGA cards?

Posted on 2019-02-05, 14:42

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dos? windows? benchmark what exactly?

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Re: Sound Blaster 1.x 'seamless' playback investigation

Posted on 2019-02-05, 14:39

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SirNickity wrote: What a ghetto design... It was brilliant. They took a handful of off the shelf chips, sprinkled some custom firmware and took over whole lucrative market segment overnight with <$60 BOM >$300 SRP product.

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Re: Sound Blaster 1.x 'seamless' playback investigation

Posted on 2019-02-02, 09:01

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Will a v1.xx DSP crash when the DMA controller is in auto-init mode? Why would anyone think that this might happen? ...Wing Commander II Note: If you are running Windows 3.1 without the DSP upgrade from 1.05 to 2.00, you will find that digital sound playback in Windows can waver and stumble. You …

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Re: Recreating MaximumPC's Dream Machine 2000 (Plus!)

Posted on 2019-02-01, 00:39

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Whoever followed that advice in 2000 got rimmed pretty hard.

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Re: DOS LAN party... recommend me some multiplayer games!

Posted on 2019-01-31, 06:11

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One of the Gaming cafes I frequented in 1996/1997 was exclusively Quake 1 :) I think they started with 6? computers, and got bumped to >10 with 3dfx cards as soon as glquake came out. Other one in 1997/1998 was 3/4 Quake 1, 1/4 GTA. Every computer had Voodoo 1, and was quickly upgraded to Voodoo2. …

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Re: Windows NT 4.0 drivers on Windows NT 3.51?

Posted on 2019-01-29, 13:10

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3.51 to 4 had some serious subsystem rework done, video and printer drivers were moved from safe but slow Ring 3 to fast but very unsafe Ring 0. MS rectified this mistake in win7 Looks like ide drivers might also been affected http://ps-2.kev009.com/pcpartnerinfo/ctstips/4312.htm "2.1.6.2.3 …

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Re: What's the best way to clean corroded DIMM and PCI-e slots?

Posted on 2019-01-29, 13:02

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by rasz_pl

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via chip is for useless firewire and can be ignored, if you see green inside pcie slot it needs to be replaced, but this is AM2 board, replacements are plentiful and almost free

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Re: Tube Time: Announcing The Snark Barker, a 100% Compatible SB 1.0 Replica!

Posted on 2019-01-29, 12:57

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Would it be possible to dump the code from a SB2.0? Or are they read-protected? Would be nice to be able to upgrade the card later to 2.0 capabilities. https://twitter.com/tubetimeus/status/1019310664521662464 + I cant find it anymore, but I remember reading a post on MAME/MESS mailing list? or …

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Re: Do ISA Bus Extender Ribbons Exist?

Posted on 2019-01-26, 10:33

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IBM used special master/slave cards for that purpose https://github.com/schlae/ibm-extender

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Re: Project: First Person Shooter History

Posted on 2019-01-26, 10:28

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Game 4 This was the first game I could use WASD and the mouse comfortably thats because you skipped: Its not quite a FPS in the strictest sense, but Ultima Underworld beat Wolf 3D to the market and had a much more sophisticated game engine to it. Many of the developers went one to create famous FPS …

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