Re: Movies for a 486 computer ?

Posted on 2021-06-03, 13:48

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Yah the gfx chip builtins didn't do 100% of the heavy lifting, think it was with an S3 Virge card that my buddy's DX2 needed to be run at 80 to smooth it out for VCD playback. At DX2-66 it almost managed, but would stutter every 7 or 8 seconds. I think he had an AMD, not sure, anyway, possible that …

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Re: Movies for a 486 computer ?

Posted on 2021-06-03, 13:17

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I think it was what you might call "second gen" PCI graphics cards, like some versions of S3 Virge and Trio, and TGUI 9680, CL5440 had MPEG-1 acceleration and often had a player included. Hard to define what I'm thinking of as second gen, but first gen would share chipsets with ISA/VLB, and second …

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Re: PIII Tualatin and other upgrades - Win98 Gaming PC

Posted on 2021-06-03, 03:45

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Oh man I wish I had access to a plug and play tualatin board, even just for testing CPUs. Got a 1.1A that I don't know if it works, and there's a mighty tempting 1.2 on offer locally. Less locally there's a guy with a poorly described bunch of slotket stuff, but IDK if he will ship and whether …

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Re: MS-DOS 5.0 Complete Reference Manual Availability?

Posted on 2021-06-03, 03:35

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You might be able to dig what you want to know out of here.. http://www.o3one.org/hwdocs/bios_doc/dosref22.html (Unofficial programmer reference) or here.. http://www.retroarchive.org/dos/docs/index.html

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

Posted on 2021-06-03, 03:03

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What's next, spraying them blue and flamey to match a Hotwheels monitor? 🤣

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Re: Possible to expand S3 Trio64V+ on-board video memory? (re: motherboard)

Posted on 2021-06-03, 02:59

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Has to support VBE 2.0 I think to get 800x600, seems pretty fluent on my PII, but guess that's not much help.

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Re: Movies for a 486 computer ?

Posted on 2021-06-03, 01:57

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This one? https://winworldpc.com/product/xingmpeg-player/2x I don't remember it, tried a heck of a lot of different ones back in the day on DOS, win 3.x and in slackware, nothing would do full frame rate on the 5x86 and I had it at 2x60, with all the goodies turned on I could turn on with set686. …

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Re: Movies for a 486 computer ?

Posted on 2021-06-02, 23:32

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Nah, 5x86 won't quite do it, software MPEG 1 decoding is cycle thirsty, software only needs P133, any hardware codec help helps though, even SiS6326 PCI cards will enable it, if you get the right drivers.

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Re: BRAND NEW KDS 19 inch monitor MAJOR problems

Posted on 2021-06-02, 22:42

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Heh, any project involving computers or anything with an engine, this rule applies.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninety%E2%80%93ninety_rule

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Re: Intel G41 8GB low density ram limit (?)

Posted on 2021-06-02, 22:31

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The other problem is where the board wants to put it's PCIe memory mapped address space, some horrible old Dells stuck it in the 2GB to 4GB region, some brands that shoulda known better put it at 3.5GB tp 4GB, then when 8GB was expected, "Right above 8GB sounds great then, shouldn't give anyone any …

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Re: Possible to expand S3 Trio64V+ on-board video memory? (re: motherboard)

Posted on 2021-06-02, 22:18

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One could say that filling those holes is almost as useful as an 8087, keeps the dust out of the socket, and every couple of years or so, you can run that one thing that takes advantage of it, to show off to fellow geeks. 😁

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

Posted on 2021-06-02, 22:05

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Most likely fit a Socket 7 or Super Socket 7 mobo in that case. Or maybe that vlb 486/386 mobo I have c/w vlb video card and ide multi i/o card I have in an anti static bag in the same box. Well the front two look good, I guess it depends where the drive cage comes to whether the rest work out, or …

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Re: Movies for a 486 computer ?

Posted on 2021-06-02, 21:38

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There was metropolis in black and white on a magazine cover CD once. That's about all the movie it could handle. Multimedia clips in Encarta etc, were generally postage stamp sized. Unless you have some MPEG hardware then video CDs might work. Edit: Best guess on the CD with Metropolis on was last …

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

Posted on 2021-06-02, 21:35

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Sysadmin like "To avoid everybody having to carry a floppy everywhere, I'm allowing you each two whole megabytes of disk quota." 😁 IDK why you wouldn't fling the sx16 on eBay though, looks like anything is selling.

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Re: BRAND NEW KDS 19 inch monitor MAJOR problems

Posted on 2021-06-02, 21:31

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Half of that is the depth of the darn things, you need a 4ft deep desk or your nose is almost touching the screen when you lean in to the keyboard. 🤣 Now if you're talking guaranteed 4:3 support on a widescreen LCD, I think you could do worse than a 21" TV, they're about 20" wide.

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Re: Building a 486 PC - how much does motherboard really matter for my plans?

Posted on 2021-06-02, 19:48

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Damn, prices aren't slowing down are they, if I didn't already have enough junk to keep me busy years, I'd have to take up a cheaper hobby, like racing vintage Ferraris. I think you're going to have to hit up the car boot sales me old son. Also look out for ham radio flea markets, boot sales etc. …

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Re: 486 Multimedia dream build ( 1993/94 ).

Posted on 2021-06-02, 18:17

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I used to like the Corel WordPerfect office suite 7, in theory, it's in the archives somewhere, archives meaning an anonymous brown box in amongst the other anonymous brown boxes.

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Re: Bought a box of stuff

Posted on 2021-06-02, 18:04

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I think eurocrypt was for smartcard satellite card decoding, i.e. pirating satellite TV without paying. edit: and yay, a fast Virge, it was almost as fast as a slow SiS 😉

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Re: Help (re)building a 486

Posted on 2021-06-02, 17:52

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Might get a DX4 100 to run at DX2 100 on a board that's normally solid at 50. However, all of those apart from upgrade versions which may have multi nailed down, are 3.3V not 5V

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Re: Yet another Abit de-Teapofied (almost)

Posted on 2021-06-02, 17:48

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And this KR7A might not be an exception. Because I'm having issues. Thing is, its been absolutely rock solid in all my installing, gaming and bench marking. But Memtest86 and Memtest86+ both throw tons of errors when doing the "Block Move" tests. But ONLY when using a T-Bred CPU... with a Palomino …

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