Re: Help me to choose 90s PC

Posted on 2022-06-18, 17:28

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by psychofox

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I would keep Pentium III 1000 and sell the rest. It can handle most of DOS games, some with disabled cache. Having 2nd machine would be justified in my opinion only if you wanted to play games on network. In that case I would have two almost identical machines so that no one would be in …

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Re: Help me to choose 90s PC

Posted on 2022-06-17, 06:05

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by psychofox

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Thanks for all your suggestions. I did yesterday lot of testing with 3 different PCs (486dx30, 486dx4 100 and Pentium 120) and ended up with dx4 So, PC 2 is: Minitower case with Turbo button and display :) Mainboard: Shuttle HOT-419 (that one is one of the first PC components, that i purchased with …

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Re: Help me to choose 90s PC

Posted on 2022-06-15, 08:55

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by psychofox

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Impossible to know without knowing more specifications for the boxes. For example, what video/sound card does the P3 have, what OS is installed on each etc. Yes, sorry. PC 1. IBM XT 5155 Portable Nec V20 CPU 640kb RAM 20Mb Seagate ST225 MFM HDD Tandy replica soundcard or SB 2.0 with Gameblaster …

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Re: Help me to choose 90s PC

Posted on 2022-06-15, 08:33

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by psychofox

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5155 is from the early 80s, so it shouldn't even be on the list. But, I tend to agree it's rather nice. Yes, the title of topic is a bit misleading. My main goal is to cover period from PC XT to about year 2001 (and maybe some games from Windows XP era). Pentium 3 can actually run quite lot DOS …

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Re: Help me to choose 90s PC

Posted on 2022-06-15, 07:15

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by psychofox

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Have you ever used an IBM 5155 (or 5150) ? IMHO the user experience, the operating sound, monochrome CRT monitor etc are things you cannot emulate on relatively modern 486 computer with VGA CRT even if the cpu speed can be slowed the same level.

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Help me to choose 90s PC

Posted on 2022-06-15, 06:06

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by psychofox

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Hello, my name is Psychofox and i am an addict. I have to many retro comptuters on my computing area (8) and i need to narrow it down to 3. There are IBM 5155 portable, 286-16, 386DX40, 486DX4 100, Pentium 200MMX, Pentium II Celeron 300, Pentium III 1Ghz and Pentium 4 3Ghz. They are all great …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-05-06, 10:57

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by psychofox

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It literally have Super sticker on it.. Is some cheap crap brand i saw them making ISA audio cards and other S3 cards and stuff.. Dont know what exactly you like in this card aside from the chipset of 3Dfx the PCB and everything scream CHEAP ... Prefer Gigabyte Blue PCB Banshee or Creative 3D …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-05-06, 05:57

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by psychofox

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Bought this nice little Voodoo Banshee. Since it has been sold as an unknown graphics card unknown condition, got it cheap. Luckily works like charm, nice sharp picture these cards have ! Anyone knows the manufacturer of this card? https://i.ibb.co/ZVrtSgJ/Untitled-1.jpg Plus deck 2c. Strange device …

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Re: Voodoo Banshee compatible memory chips

Posted on 2022-04-09, 05:59

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by psychofox

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Dang... no luck then. Any ideas is there available some cheap-o graphics card, that has compatible RAM to harvest?

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Re: Voodoo Banshee compatible memory chips

Posted on 2022-04-08, 05:55

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by psychofox

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What are the part numbers of the memory chips on your Banshee and on the potential donor boards? Same package is a good start but there are some other important parameters that need to be matched up as well Here they are, the most top one is RAM chip on voodoo card, others are from ATI and Matrox. …

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Voodoo Banshee compatible memory chips

Posted on 2022-04-06, 07:14

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by psychofox

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I have a problematic Banshee card, it seems to have one or more bad RAM chips (shifting color bars on display). I have also couple common cheap graphics cards that have visually same memory chips (same amount of legs) but different manufacturer. Can i use these chips on Voodoo card for repair?

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Re: GA486-AM/s mainboard strange PCI behaviour

Posted on 2022-03-08, 05:35

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by psychofox

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pentiumspeed wrote on 2022-03-07, 21:45: But this is all moot if certain video cards cannot initialize at all on start up to get into bios screen. Try another video card from that list as I suggested. Thanks, i keep my eyes open for these cards you mentioned. Whitch one is the most compatible in …

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GA486-AM/s mainboard strange PCI behaviour

Posted on 2022-03-07, 17:24

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by psychofox

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Hello, I just purchased this nice Gigabyte 486 board. Of course battery on Dallas chip was dead - fixed that. But there is also this strange thing is with PCI slots that i cant figure out. Only one graphics adapter works, Matrox G2 (whitch is totally fine card for me). All other cards show no …

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Re: Sound Blaster 16 Clones

Posted on 2021-11-04, 06:52

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by psychofox

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keropi wrote on 2021-11-03, 21:51: Dang.... I am all out of ideas 🙁 No problem, i can live with it, i just need to hit ESC on every boot. 😀 My wild guess is, that this card was originally sold with specific driver package and software. There is probably some mute "switch" that needs to be triggered …

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Re: Sound Blaster 16 Clones

Posted on 2021-11-03, 17:56

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by psychofox

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No luck with unisound. It detects card, sets sound levels but real master is very low, i can barely hear some sounds with headphones.

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Re: Sound Blaster 16 Clones

Posted on 2021-11-03, 07:56

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by psychofox

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just making sure when you run ALSCONFIG and you save the settings the program creates an ALS.INI in the ALSCONFIG directory let's assume that said directory is the default C:\ALSOUND so you need this line for ALSINIT to use this config: ALSINIT C:\ALSOUND this does not work for you? Yes, alsconfig …

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Re: Sound Blaster 16 Clones

Posted on 2021-11-03, 06:37

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by psychofox

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I was eventially able to cofigure the card in pure dos with no windows install. You can change IRQs and DMAs with the ALS config tool, however if your card isn't detected using dosinit you cannot use config. I don't have any experience with those other tools, maybe I should take a look at them in …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-09-12, 08:13

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by psychofox

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Is it repairable? It always gives me shivers seeing MOS electronics lying on highly-electrostatic bubble foil. Usually I avoid purchasing hardware which I see presented this way. Got too many shot stuff and stuff with strange problems delivered in such packaging. Is it really that big problem? I …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-09-10, 17:31

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by psychofox

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This weeks old HW picks arrived: 1. Voodoo Banshee I cant find any information about manufacturer or icc code. It works perfectly on text mode but there are these horisontal lines when windows boots up. Is it repairable? 2. This interesting Yamaha 751b-s sound card with radio decoder . Cant find any …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-04-23, 10:57

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by psychofox

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Bought recently this dusty old IBM, sold as is, untested. https://cache.osta.ee/item/1/9482/73839482.jpg I hoped that it has at least 486 processor so i could fill that gap on my IBM collection. Opened the case and there was this tiny 386 sx processor, unfortunately. Damn. But there was this strange …

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