Re: Is a MIDI Wavetable board worth it on a 286 AT?

Posted on 2020-01-17, 15:16

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by maxtherabbit

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appiah4 wrote on 2020-01-17, 11:28: dr.zeissler wrote on 2020-01-17, 09:27: Is there a list, what games do make use of the standard set and do not require intelligent mode. I believe there is another thread in the forum currently with someone else asking this question. If there is a list, I do not …

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Re: SSD, Windows 98, Worth it?

Posted on 2020-01-16, 19:50

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by maxtherabbit

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yeah ok except when you're talking about a small <16GB CF card that has shit for linear transfer rate to begin with it's a whole different story Is it? All the same, at this juncture, no one seems to know what the story is. There's minimal documentation on it. And CF cards have lived in all kinds …

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Re: SSD, Windows 98, Worth it?

Posted on 2020-01-16, 19:08

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by maxtherabbit

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yeah ok except when you're talking about a small <16GB CF card that has shit for linear transfer rate to begin with it's a whole different story

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Re: SSD, Windows 98, Worth it?

Posted on 2020-01-16, 18:07

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by maxtherabbit

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my interest in this is nothing to do with longevity, it's all about avoiding slow copy-erase-write cycles on well used cards/drives

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Re: SSD, Windows 98, Worth it?

Posted on 2020-01-16, 17:33

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by maxtherabbit

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Rudolf had utility to run TRIM in pure DOS, but it has some limitations. link? also I've been looking into this further - if you can take the drive out of the PC and/or dual boot into linux of some quasi-modern variant you can use fstrim to force a discard on all unused blocks of a mounted …

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Re: Windows 98SE: 64MB SDRAM fully cached or 256MB on 430tx

Posted on 2020-01-16, 00:54

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by maxtherabbit

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The purpose of this build is an AWE64 value + SIMMCONN to play games that use general MIDI with soundfonts

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Re: SSD, Windows 98, Worth it?

Posted on 2020-01-15, 21:08

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by maxtherabbit

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How would one perform a low level format on a CF card?

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Re: SSD, Windows 98, Worth it?

Posted on 2020-01-15, 19:01

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by maxtherabbit

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The Serpent Rider wrote on 2020-01-15, 18:09: RTFM. […] Show full quote How much limitations were there for that? RTFM. I need to TRIM my 2GB CF card CF cards can't do TRIM. At least not 10-15 years old junk. Even if the CF cards can't use TRIM isn't there some manual way of forcing a block erase?

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Re: Windows 98SE: 64MB SDRAM fully cached or 256MB on 430tx

Posted on 2020-01-15, 15:18

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by maxtherabbit

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Buying extra stuff for this build is off the table. I scrounged up the board and k6-2, they aren't getting replaced. I have a hoard of SDRAM so I can do whatever there, but so far the system seems snappy with 64MB. My HDD is a 7200RPM UW SCSI job with cache so swaps aren't too slow.

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Re: What specs to look for to play DOS Quake, Diablo II, Warcraft III, etc. at HIGH native resolutions?

Posted on 2020-01-15, 03:28

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by maxtherabbit

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Yeah just get the adapter, you're not going to gain anything from going with a PCI card

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Re: Welcome to the updated VOGONS

Posted on 2020-01-14, 21:55

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IMO, think of it like participating in a real discussion. Even if you just stand there listening to them, it's nicer to say "Great idea, I like it" than just putting your thumbs up :) I deadass will give people the silent thumbs up in real life. Sometimes it's actually better because you can show …

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Re: 487SX 169pin socket: any way to use a normal 486DX2 there?

Posted on 2020-01-14, 21:53

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by maxtherabbit

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I just finished the upgrade, this trick works and you can install a normal 486 cpu in the 487 socket. The system went from a 486sx25 to a dx2/50 , sadly even though it uses a VLSI82C480 chipset that TheLastByte supports it cannot be detected and if forced then the system hangs. So no UMB memory for …

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Re: Do i have bad CPUs?

Posted on 2020-01-14, 21:49

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by maxtherabbit

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I killed an athlon of some kind back in the day from overheating when I had a water cooling system that ran dry. (from evaporation not leakage) Think it was an Athlon 64

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Re: What specs to look for to play DOS Quake, Diablo II, Warcraft III, etc. at HIGH native resolutions?

Posted on 2020-01-14, 21:46

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by maxtherabbit

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You're not going to find new production IDE drives under 128GB, they are not made anymore. Either use the 20GB drive you have, buy a used HDD with a warranty, or get a new larger one and jumper it to limit the reported size as kolderman suggested. Stay away from CF card as HDD for a system this new. …

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Re: Windows 98SE: 64MB SDRAM fully cached or 256MB on 430tx

Posted on 2020-01-14, 16:22

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by maxtherabbit

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So I went ahead and did an install of Win98SE on 64MB just to see how it does. Everything seems to be running smoothly in the GUI, I haven't installed any heavy apps or games yet, but no disk thrashing is apparent. However using the system information tool that comes with 98 (god it sucks compared …

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Re: New forum suggestions/Feedback

Posted on 2020-01-13, 16:11

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7F20 wrote on 2020-01-13, 15:25: franpa wrote on 2020-01-13, 09:06: Also replace the Login button with something other than a Power symbol. The power symbol is web 2.0 / 2003 in very dated way. I think the new norm is a box with an arrow going in or out of it from the side to indicate in/out. yeah …

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Re: Windows 98SE: 64MB SDRAM fully cached or 256MB on 430tx

Posted on 2020-01-13, 16:03

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by maxtherabbit

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The speedsys test reports a pretty large speed gap between L2 cache throughput and main memory throughput. 264MB/s vs 159MB/s. I'm always down to "max it out" so to speak, but if memory above 64MB is going to be mostly useless in a 98SE environment, I'd rather go for throughput over quantity.

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Re: Windows 98SE: 64MB SDRAM fully cached or 256MB on 430tx

Posted on 2020-01-13, 14:57

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by maxtherabbit

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Tiido wrote on 2020-01-13, 14:30: I have found that more RAM even with some uncached is waaaaaaay faster than less RAM where swapfile is used often. I'm sure it is, but I don't remember enough about the Win98SE memory footprint to know if there would be much swapping with 64MB

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Windows 98SE: 64MB SDRAM fully cached or 256MB on 430tx

Posted on 2020-01-13, 14:22

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by maxtherabbit

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Got a K6-2 (non-plus) running at 4.5x83.3=375MHz on a 430tx board with a cacheable limit of 64MB. Do you guys think Win98SE would see more benefit from running 64MB of SDRAM fully cached by the L2 or maxing the board out at 256MB SDRAM?

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Re: What specs to look for to play DOS Quake, Diablo II, Warcraft III, etc. at HIGH native resolutions?

Posted on 2020-01-12, 19:28

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by maxtherabbit

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The ESS cards have ESFM instead of OPL3. ESFM is good in its own right, but not the same

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