Re: The quest for the perfect retro laptop: a saga
Posted on 2021-09-06, 19:18
On yer basic VGA CRT in 1993, no digital controls or setting memories, Doom would be just like that anyway.
Re: Is there any reason to use pre-TNT2 from NVIDIA or pre-Rage 128 from ATI?
Posted on 2021-09-06, 17:44
Not really I guess unless you want official and mature Win 3.xx drivers.
Re: Compaq Portable III Motherboard / CPU Problems
Posted on 2021-09-06, 17:38
Your old scope should be fine for checking for ripple, it's either gonna be in the 50/60 Hz AC range or in the 10s of Khz range from the PSU conversion switching.
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2021-09-06, 15:07
Frequently we find that the disk pack, all the mechanics, was the same across a manufacturers MFM, RLL, ATA and SCSI drives of similar vintage and capacity.
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2021-09-06, 02:54
Some of them (Edit: random wireless keyboards) have a USB compliant HID interface that you can internally solder up a USB cable for. It's a bit of a PITA to dig out the data sheets and brain it all out though.
Re: Is it worth it for me to get a Voodoo card?
Posted on 2021-09-05, 22:04
The datasheet would make a point if it wasn't dated June 97, i.e. after all the P54 multipliers had been introduced and some 3+ years since the beginning of the family.
Re: 5.25" drive "door latch" not closing
Posted on 2021-09-05, 18:31
I'd just glue the cam piece back in position.
Re: For your amusement: SIMMs with "interesting" design
Posted on 2021-09-05, 18:17
Since things like that had been happening since the 8 bit days http://www.breakintoprogram.co.uk/computers/zx-spectrum/hardware/ram you could almost call it "established industry practice" It's easy to forget in these days of dirt cheap PCBs that PCBs were not a trivial expense then and but for the …
Re: Help to set up a NAS server
Posted on 2021-09-05, 17:58
I have a WRT54G here, could you send me links about modifications for it? I always see people wanting this model, but I never understood why they like it so much. I stopped using it because it started to lose its settings, I believe it must be just some capacitor, I even changed its firmware once …
Re: Core2Duo or Core2Quad?
Posted on 2021-09-05, 15:27
I'm actually using the E8600 @ default clocks and is quite a fast cpu considering how obsolete it is. I might upgrade to the Q9650 but for now this is quite a solid processor. Too bad the GT610 passive card I'm using on this config even changing thermal paste, have absurd high temperatures and not …
Re: The worse placement of capacitors on motherboards
Posted on 2021-09-05, 12:21
When I recap boards like this, I bend the leads and lay the cap down.
Re: Core2Duo or Core2Quad?
Posted on 2021-09-05, 12:16
If you want "stupid high" clocks, you can mess around with running allendale and wolfdale pentium dual core 800 fsb chips at 1066. That's an interesting idea, provided that the chip can handle a 33% overclock. Did C2D support downward unlocked multiplier? I think so, then you could do something in …
Re: Quantum Trailblazer 850AT on a 386 DX 40 motherboard shows only 504 MB in dos.
Posted on 2021-09-05, 01:39
Strangely enough, limitation means limitation, you're gonna need something like "anydrive" to use all of it. Edit: Though you can also stick an XT-IDE BIOS in the ROM socket of a Network card or one of those Mini ROM cards wiretap designed.
Re: Dimension 4650: A Compact Pentium 4 / AGP Build
Posted on 2021-09-04, 22:29
I've got a Dell p4 case in a very similar style. Unused at present because it's only almost mATX, by eyeball it's mATX, by trying to get anything into it, it isn't, there's not enough room between where the ps/2 connectors sit and the PSU, it's an annoyingly small amount like 3mm or something. …
Re: Ultimate Dual Pentium II@333mhz
Posted on 2021-09-04, 21:33
Look at your date codes, take the earliest PII you've got, blow on it like a nintendo cartridge, ram it in the slot like you're trying to install it in the motherboard underneath and try again.
Re: Is it worth it for me to get a Voodoo card?
Posted on 2021-09-04, 21:27
Each time a new multiplier was introduced the CPU was on a new stepping and the older steppings just didn't do that multi, they weren't locked, they never had the capability. It would be a few months after they capitalised on the faster chip that newer steppings filtered down to slower models, so …
Re: Are any of these 486 and early Pentium-class CPUs intetesting?
Posted on 2021-09-04, 19:01
At a buck each I'd take all of them, at $5 each I'd take the MII-366 and the two overdrives, but I ain't really motivated to buy otherwise, even though they all go for $15 and up on eBay these days. However if you're looking for things that could potentially go in ATX boards in future, row 1: 4 and …
Re: Core2Duo or Core2Quad?
Posted on 2021-09-04, 17:32
If fan noise bothers you, you might wanna stick with the dual, as the lower power quads don't have very high core speeds. So you'll need a bit of a jet turbine on the faster ones. If you want "stupid high" clocks, you can mess around with running allendale and wolfdale pentium dual core 800 fsb …
Re: english, the planetary language
Posted on 2021-09-04, 17:09
We can't find umlauts over here, in English it's Dusseldorf, next you'll be expecting me to call Munich, München, like it's some kind of snack luncheon. We give way on this and we'll have to indulge the French with all those accents, graves, circumflexes and << strange seabirds >>.
Re: 3 (+3 more) retro battle stations
Posted on 2021-09-04, 11:55
On the one hand, you'd probably want to consider best compatibility with earlier glide games as they are the ones that would most likely actually play any good on a 486. On the other the 2D compatibility and speed of Banshee and Voodoo 3 are meant to be top notch.
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