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

Posted on 2024-04-04, 01:49

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Oh no, I'm a whole 21 hours behind the times, there's vids up on youtube.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhKROl_rFGk That is an early model and he has several game test videos posted also. edit: also just noticed an internal serial adapter http://www.8086cpu.com/lm6/101.html I do not know if I …

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Re: SUCCESSFUL K6-2+ to K6-3+ Full Cache Enable Mod

Posted on 2024-04-04, 00:01

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Mechanical specs should be on the datasheet.

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

Posted on 2024-04-03, 18:02

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Of course, yes... but I think my brain didn't go down that alley because USB hub needs to be recognised by host, a fact hammered into me a few years back when trying to use them with early android computer on a stick gizmos.

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

Posted on 2024-04-03, 16:26

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USB controller on a 386? How does that even work? It's not true USB, it's only for storage media. It uses a CH375 chip which you could already find on ISA cards for a while. Tech Tangents among others made a video about them https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgtvVi_mjjg FreddyV developed a better …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-04-03, 14:01

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That sounds backwards to me, should be to support it on a 5V only board.

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Re: Asus USB/MIR reverse engineering

Posted on 2024-04-02, 13:49

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I don't know if there are really any critical dimensions other than you can fit it on a bracket. Personally, I would size it so as many as possible fit on the "$2" PCB size, what's that? 100x100mm, so you could get maybe 3 on it with perforations drilled to separate them. Also, I would try to get …

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Re: 2024 - End of the era of Retro Computing Youtube channels?

Posted on 2024-04-01, 22:33

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It has come to my attention, and specifics will be avoided as per the preferences of Vogons mods, to keep drama off here, search "retro scammer" etc to dig more up, that there is an undercurrent of unease, drama and ppl bowing out of the scene due to how one or several sociopaths have been playing " …

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Re: 6 minutes snap-on 386SX to 486 upgrade "chip"

Posted on 2024-04-01, 20:36

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You can probably still build a decent 486 system for half the price of one. They pop up every few months, there's probably a dozen members on here trying to outbid you too.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-04-01, 17:51

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I juste bought this 386 board with an am386sx-40 on it. Unfortunately not a DX one. But the am386 history is interesting and i always wanted to have one (even more a 40 MHz one) Not tested, the battery seems to not have leaked too much, and at 20€ I'm not risking a lot of money. IMG_20240401_193344 …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-04-01, 17:47

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My box of crap arrived, this one... This lot ended up tempting me, so I am now awaiting their arrival... was just idly pondering needing another PCI soundcard or two... and this popped up.. In order, Audigy SB0090, Live CT4780, Live CT4780 , ewaste*, NIC, NIC, RadeonVE DVI, Radeon 2400Pro PCI 32bit. …

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

Posted on 2024-04-01, 14:23

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With kudos to Horun for posting the M6117 datasheet in another thread, here it is... https://www.dmp.com.tw/app/webcamera/pdf/m6117d.pdf .. to check out the shiny features. First thing I am getting is that while I don't spot any system clock control apart from the SMM states, there appears to be ISA …

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Re: A Mystery, hoping someone can solve for me

Posted on 2024-04-01, 14:19

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Yeah there is no cpu core in ALI m1217 afaik, my ECS 8517 board has the soldered 386sx40 as do the others I looked at. added: https://cpushack.com/ULi.html = good explanation added2: thanks for the mention, found the datasheet ! https://www.dmp.com.tw/app/webcamera/pdf/m6117d.pdf TYVM for the …

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Re: 286 motherboard does not recognize any memory

Posted on 2024-04-01, 04:39

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Wait, it's not being a dumbass because it's CMOS settings are invalid is it? There was one machine I came across way back would only count first 64k, would give checksum failed on the same line, then if I waited another minute or two, got POST screen, loaded defaults in setup and it was all good. …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2024-04-01, 04:09

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Sounds a bit anticlimactic... Not as bad as some of the later levels on The Settlers though, you are halfway to getting everything built up for a massive final assault and the jerk goes and surrenders.

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Re: PCem

Posted on 2024-04-01, 03:59

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Just in case you plumbed a difference source for your single core performance list, here's another page where you can see ranking of laptop CPU by single core performance.. https://www.cpubenchmark.net/singleThread.html#laptop-thread Just in case there's one or two more sneaking in there you might …

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Re: 286 motherboard does not recognize any memory

Posted on 2024-04-01, 03:42

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Looks like you've got buffers on your memory bus, they can be trouble. Look socketed so maybe swap them over see if the error changes. Edit: Oh wait, someone maybe replaced an F with an HC there, maybe it isn't quick enough. EditII: if error goes away when you put 60ns in it, I bet that's it, can't …

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Re: A Mystery, hoping someone can solve for me

Posted on 2024-04-01, 00:11

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See that M1217 chip? It's actually the CPU. Well, not quite, rather, it's a 386SX core with the supporting chipset circuitry bolted on. It seems like this motherboard could either have a standalone chipset and a real 386SX, or this ALi M1217 386SX+Chipset package. You sure? The 1217 was available …

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

Posted on 2024-03-31, 22:47

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They have been known to do 2.4-2.5Ghz without needing more voltage, but Nforce boards can start to top out around 220, some went a lot further but there's a lot of messing around with swapping RAM to get them stable.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-03-31, 22:42

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In my head those things are indestructible enough that whatever airplane or truck was carrying it when it got bounced around bad enough to do that, is now a write off. That's what I thought too initially, but I guess I wound up being one of the 0.00001% in the "shit happens" camp. To be fair, the …

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Re: Will the Book 8088 be a future classic?

Posted on 2024-03-31, 21:11

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Thread started for Pocket 386 info and chatter so this one isn't derailed.. Pocket 386, the brother of Hand386 and Book8088, the story so far ...

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