Re: Pocket 386, the brother of Hand386 and Book8088, the story so far ...

Posted on 2024-05-01, 14:22

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With most RAM configurations, the data and address lines are conserved, and individual chips respond when the chip select ( CS ) line is raised. So, if you just stack them up like dead bugs, and bend the CS lines out, and put bodge wires on leading to the appropriate leads from the DRAM controller, …

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Re: Pocket 386, the brother of Hand386 and Book8088, the story so far ...

Posted on 2024-05-01, 13:42

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Disk Genius looks potentially useful for messing around with images, I failed with it last night due I think to adapter crapping out, but in theory it seems to do useful things. DiskGenius is very useful and it's the default choice for partitioning tools in the Chinese enthusiasts. My own workflow …

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Re: Bought these games today

Posted on 2024-05-01, 03:18

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What is it with Value Villages and Sims games? :sweat_smile: The local Value Village I go to mostly tends to mix up games with CDs and DVDs. I always scan those sections just in case. "casual" gamers gonna casual lol ... I mean it's maybe the only games some ppl with school or home office computers …

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Re: Can someone tell me what all these parts are worth as a single lot

Posted on 2024-05-01, 03:13

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I would say you want every large item, like system unit in it's own listing, then break up parts into smaller lots of related items, ideally that would pack in about shoebox size, but maybe as large as banker box, the shipping gets crazy otherwise. Otherwise about the only shipping option that …

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Re: Cyrix appreciation thread

Posted on 2024-04-30, 19:12

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The 3DMark CPU scores can have a huge variance between machines with the exact same processor, so I do not personally rely on them for comparison purposes.

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

Posted on 2024-04-30, 19:03

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Not all GF4 ti 4200 are created equal. So I have been using MSI version now for 5 years or so in my 933Mhz Asus P3b-f rig (note overclocked AGP). I have never managed to get core above 285Mhz also 128MB cards have 4ns memory with 444 default speed. According to reports 64MB versions tend to have …

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

Posted on 2024-04-30, 15:21

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My NOS Case Logic 280 CD Wallet from 2005 arrived, so I am now able to have all my game CD's in one place instead of spread out over 3 different CD wallets. I moved over roughly 260 game CD/DVD's to my new wallet! I love my physical media and wishes games still came on it. I think the last game I …

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Re: Pocket 386, the brother of Hand386 and Book8088, the story so far ...

Posted on 2024-04-30, 15:15

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Yes I was pleasantly surprised by the screen and keyboard feel, though the arrow keys are a bit fiddly, not sure if there was an original design choice made for this machine or whether it was an available keyboard that best fit. USB shenanigans, so after going through a few 15min timeouts where it …

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Re: K6-III+ and cooling

Posted on 2024-04-30, 03:43

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Oldschool super top secret K6 overclockers trick was meant to be to ground the sink or spreader to squeeze out the last 20Mhz, but I never had good enough boards to be sure it did anything (i.e. there was still 50Mhz on the table from running on a better board.)

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

Posted on 2024-04-29, 17:51

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When I got this card one of the caps was damaged, so I replaced all of them with these beautiful ELNA caps. IMG_20240429_152016.jpg Those are some of the prettiest caps I've ever seen! Nice work! :) Family story, grandma to uncle when telling him to tidy up the electronic components in his bedroom …

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

Posted on 2024-04-29, 15:08

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Depends on the P4 though. I'm running a Cedar Mill with a TDP of 65W. I feel like the power hungry rep is somewhat misplaced and contributes to these processors being underrated. Put the system on a socket power meter and run some games in DOS, you will be surprised. I am admittedly curious, but …

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Re: Pocket 386, the brother of Hand386 and Book8088, the story so far ...

Posted on 2024-04-29, 04:24

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I've been having a bit of a horrible week really with getting any time on mine, things kept coming up and kept me away from playing. Then the pollen has been getting to me, and every slight complication gave me an instant sinus headache. I have been fighting various systems, compact flash adapters …

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Re: Pocket 386, the brother of Hand386 and Book8088, the story so far ...

Posted on 2024-04-28, 23:13

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Can anyone confirm what USB drives are compatible? Don't laugh, just getting back into the hobby and don't have anything suitable on hand so I need to order. I see now 2GB or less Sandisk USB drives are now uncommon and don't really see anything reputable and low capacity on Amazon. How fussy is …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-04-28, 18:56

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It could actually be a 12x Sempron in that board then, if it was a caps blown, cheapest replacement board kind of situation. If you can see ceramic it's it's morgan, if you see that organic fibre stuff it's the sempron.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-04-28, 15:53

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Well that's an easy one, your BIOS date is March 2001 and the 1200 Duron Morgan launched in November 2001

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-04-27, 12:44

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Got that exact case here, with the corpse of the house domain controller from ~20 years ago in it. It could do with some re-animation, was a Duron ~800 running Windows 2000 Data Center Server! I was always fond of Duron, even though PC Gamer said it sounded more like a contraceptive than a …

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Re: K6-2 for notebook

Posted on 2024-04-27, 02:47

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Shame 🙁 ... ah well you can try taking it the other way 450 on 1.6 to 1.8 for fanless system.

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Re: Pocket 386, the brother of Hand386 and Book8088, the story so far ...

Posted on 2024-04-26, 17:00

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There was a bit of a time lag between VBE 2.0 being useful from about '96ish and the VGA chipsets most ppl had being from about 1994ish apart from newest ones that had VBE 2.0 in BIOS. So there were cards and install disks created before VBE 2.0 was a thing or worth worrying about, that continued to …

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Re: Pocket 386, the brother of Hand386 and Book8088, the story so far ...

Posted on 2024-04-26, 14:26

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Hello, I am new here. I just got my pocket 386 and my impressions so far: The screen is only held by 2 screws instead of 4 like the book 8088, so the screen's upper shell is loose because there are no screws to hold it in place. Mine comes with the right speaker rattling, so I just disconnected the …

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

Posted on 2024-04-26, 14:15

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5160s don't have onboard IDE but I have seen a lot of later Turbo XT clones with IDE on board, along with a full whack of i/o and even video. There are also some 8 Bit IDE cards, but they are nowhere near common. You've seen a lot of XTs with on-board IDE? Could you share some of them? Integrated …

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