Re: Graphics card in dos
Posted on 2018-05-18, 12:34
scandisk c: is slow but does the trick.
Re: Help me pick parts for 486dx4
Posted on 2018-05-17, 22:12
That's like saying you want to cook a meal and ask which ingredients you need. To get anything resembling a coherent answer (rather than everyone projecting their own ideas of what *they* would put into *their* 486DX4 system), you need to tell us what the machine is supposed to do, what you have …
Re: Graphics card in dos
Posted on 2018-05-17, 21:00
Generally not, but it depends on the card and the game. Some obscure accelerators (eg Weitek 9000 accelerators on things like the Diamond Viper) need drivers for SVGA, some cards need Univbe VESA stuff. But take a bog-standard S3 Virge (one of the easiest chips to find) and you should be OK for just …
Re: Hercules graphics on VGA monitors (mod)
Posted on 2018-05-17, 14:54
Can't be certain about *any* VGA monitor, but if you only send an image on green and have red and blue at ground, the worst that would normally happen is a green mono picture (assuming the monitor can make sense of the sync timing). SoG isn't relevant here as you have two discrete sync lines. You …
Re: Intel Q6600 and Q9650 info
Posted on 2018-05-17, 11:34
I still have a P5Q Premium as the main rig , with a Q9550 (changed with a Xeon E5450 for testing puposes and will be changed with a X5470 soon) and I'm actually happy with it. I have not much problem with games up to 2013-2014 (I always buy my games 4-5 years later when their prices are very low), …
Re: Need to quickly identify hardware
Posted on 2018-05-17, 11:07
kixs wrote: [...] I'd buy the lot. I noticed. You just beat me to the one on Amibay with DLC and co-pro instaled 😉
Re: Need to quickly identify hardware
Posted on 2018-05-17, 09:12
Board is babyAT, but a long one. Should fit in all but the smallest minitowers. Socketed 386DX (or 486DLC). Mid-period 386 (not the >100 component count of early ones, but also not the later little boards with soldered DX-40). Some cache and RAM installed. No idea about cache, but RAM looks like 8x …
Re: ALI Chipset vs AGP Card - K6-2 Commate S7AX
Posted on 2018-05-17, 08:30
Great :) Another example of suspected hardware issues in the Aladdin V that just turn out to be driver issues. Very impressed that nVidia fixed so much so long afterwards :) Out of interest, exactly which revision Aladdin V is on that S7AX? You can see that on the M1541 northbridge, it's the last …
Re: Sound Blaster 16: From best to worst
Posted on 2018-05-17, 08:15
Quick rummage in my box turned up 2x CT4170. Finding time for a test will be challenging (perfect storm of family, work and studying for an exam next week too...) but will try asap.
Re: Intel Q6600 and Q9650 info
Posted on 2018-05-17, 07:56
386SX wrote: [...[ I think i didnt read the cpu name correctly, i meant the 2,3ghz version. I already have this and the Q6600 but i was thinking to find a Q9650 or also the Q9550. OK, then do go with the Q6600 for now. But once again - what do you actually want to DO with this system?
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2018-05-16, 21:46
The Serpent Rider wrote: That's original Rage128 with 16mb VRAM. Now you mention it, I think I can just make out "R128" on the video BIOS. Are you sure that's VRAM though? Looks like regular SDRAM to me...
Re: Still looking for good crt monitor, is apple studio display 17 good?
Posted on 2018-05-16, 21:06
There are various different versions, with different connectors ;) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Studio_Display#CRT_models_(1999%E2%80%932002) CRT Apple Studio Displays in 17" (43 cm) and 21" (53 cm) sizes were introduced in January 1999 with VGA DE-15 connectors and "blueberry" and white …
Re: Intel Q6600 and Q9650 info
Posted on 2018-05-16, 20:56
[...] Are these still "fast" nowdays? Depends what you call "fast". You're not exactly going to get playable framerates in BF1 with one of these, but for basic desktop/office stuff pretty any Core-series dualcore is more than sufficient if provided with enough RAM (4GB is enough) and an SSD. The …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2018-05-16, 20:47
Turbo -> wrote: Today was a good day for me: Got all of them for free. Anything for free is good, and there's enough stuff in here that would have been worth paying for. Is that a Tseng ET4000 ISA card in the third pic? And what's the middle card in the fourth - oddly small heatsink...?
Re: Pentium I single or double voktage.
Posted on 2018-05-16, 20:43
P120: single, 3.3V P200MMX: dual, 2.8V Setting P120 at 2.8V is wrong, but it also means your mobo supports dual plane CPUs. Note that this doesn't matter - single-plane CPUs really only have one voltage plane, so Vcore is the same as Vio - so it doesn't matter what you set core voltage to, it will …
Re: Liquid incursion in PSU: toss it?
Posted on 2018-05-16, 15:24
Was the PSU on at the time? If so, probably dead. If not, probably nothing to worry about so long as you are 100% sure it's dry before powering it on.
Re: Sound Blaster 16: From best to worst
Posted on 2018-05-16, 14:54
Came across one more SB16 I don't see listed here: the CT2840. Looking at it, it has a CT1747 OPL3 and Wavetable header. I can't make out the 1703 version though...
Re: Mini ATX motherboards for old PC?
Posted on 2018-05-16, 14:37
I like my AOpen MX3S as a good retro mATX platform, offers me decent 3d, sb pro compatible onboars ac97 codec as well as a decent amount of agp and pci slots. Obviously no PCI. I alao have a PC Partner PM601TMS3-T898C that I like for this job. No AGP but Blade3D graphics and sb pro ac97 onboard, …
Re: Upgrade paths for the 386 - Yield?
Posted on 2018-05-16, 05:31
Most of the better 386 motherboards made before 1992 used something called "bank interleave" for the main memory. The optimal configurations for these boards is 8 SIMMs. However, as far as I can tell they will always work with 4 SIMMs with a small performance penalty. As far as I can tell, nearly …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2018-05-15, 23:07
They had a whole range of boards with weird colours and odd gimmicks around 2000. A friend of mine did a pink fluffy cube casemod with a completely pink AOpen So370 (or maybe SoA, it's been a while ;) ) board inside. They started a few years before, iirc there was a version of the AX6BC in black …
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