Re: Cyrix MediaGX owners, I need your help! :)

Posted on Today, 04:39

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This is something I’ve wondered about is the timeline Of the different packages and types of MediaGX chips vrs the corresponding cpu socket and release dates. I strongly remember “MediaGX” talk before the official 97 release date back in 1996 and vaguely remember prototypes being evaluated at that …

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Re: IBM Valuepoint 433SX-Sp doesn't accept a CD-ROM drive

Posted on Yesterday, 14:14

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I had this problem historically where a single channel IDE system would boot normally but the cd drivers could not find the drive during boot up. Many older systems would not “see” a CD-ROM drive in the bios but this shouldn’t matter. In some cases I had to change the physical setup of the cabling …

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Re: Which isa video card for gateway 2000 with pentium overdrive?

Posted on 2022-08-09, 00:22

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Sphere478 wrote on 2022-08-09, 00:19: rmay635703 wrote on 2022-08-09, 00:18: The best ISA Video card for a 486 is a VLB or PCI card I’ve no doubt but this system doesn’t have those busses 🙁 What’s the onboard chip? It wasn’t unheard of for the onboard video and ide to be a local bus. Sometimes an …

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Re: Which isa video card for gateway 2000 with pentium overdrive?

Posted on 2022-08-09, 00:18

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The best ISA Video card for a 486 is a VLB or PCI card

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Re: Pentium 5 that never came to be

Posted on 2022-08-08, 19:21

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There was an early 2000’s Intel roadmap that used 686/786/886/986 monikers to refer to future Intel chips projected up to 10ghz by its end . Was an amusing place in history made moot by the stagnate and malaise era with parallelism and 64bit bloat taking the place of real progress . Do you even …

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Re: Pentium 5 that never came to be

Posted on 2022-08-07, 22:49

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There was an early 2000’s Intel roadmap that used 686/786/886/986 monikers to refer to future Intel chips projected up to 10ghz by its end . Was an amusing place in history made moot by the stagnate and malaise era with parallelism and 64bit bloat taking the place of real progress .

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Re: Is 98lite still worth using on Windows 9x builds?

Posted on 2022-08-06, 18:49

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I’ve always used 98lite on all my builds Never saw any reason not to

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Re: 486 133 MHz (33x4) on a system with 25MHz FSB?

Posted on 2022-08-04, 16:04

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Cyrix 5x86 with 4x multiplier are for the wealthy these days. I've seem Cx5x86-133 sell for over $500 :( Dafuq? I thought some of the lower speed grades sometimes had X4 enabled instead of just x2-x3 Don’t remember anymore how you identified one from the other https://forum.vcfed.org/index.php? …

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Re: 486 133 MHz (33x4) on a system with 25MHz FSB?

Posted on 2022-08-04, 13:34

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A Cyrix 5x86 with a 4x multiplier would likely be the best option if it works on your board but my experience is AMDs are much more compatible

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Re: Members of Vogons, what shows do you currently watch?

Posted on 2022-08-03, 21:35

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I do maintain that at the time, nothing was as funny prior or even after Seinfeld. I am a huge fan of the Office, P & R, Community, and Scrubs. I think each have their merits. It's probably the "Seinfeld is unfunny" effect. A lot of Seinfeld's humor was highly topical to the 90's era, and that …

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Re: CompuAdd 316s

Posted on 2022-08-03, 21:02

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I had 95 on a DTK 386sx-25 Slow but not unusable for business tasks. Although rare a 386sx with cache is usually a lot faster in 95, if you get good ram try to set 0 wait states. I’ve found many SX systems seem to puke out above 12mb of ram, it depends on your 16 bit perepherals and the system …

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Re: Which Pentium IIs can be underclocked?

Posted on 2022-08-03, 18:53

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nice work wbc. Its cool to see old Pentium II 333 saved. Good work on finding that resistor. Had to be difficult, or time consuming. Or, did you manage to figure it somehow , that R15 is damaged? Or had to measure all of them randomly? Weren’t the 333mhz versions available as either space heater …

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Re: Does modern printer works for retro computers?

Posted on 2022-08-02, 20:57

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It Depends, my Epson dot matrix works fine

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Re: Members of Vogons, what shows do you currently watch?

Posted on 2022-08-01, 19:25

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Star Trek, The Orville, Young Sheldon, BBT, There is a Fallout TV show coming I can't wait to see. I can already see the fallout, just like Halo, the lore people will say the live action version isn’t replaying the lore beat for beat and the classic “we didn’t ask for this”. I didn’t mind Halo tv …

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Re: Hey Vogonians, what are your other hobbies?

Posted on 2022-08-01, 01:29

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Antique electric car Hypermiling Hiking in distant steep rural places

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Re: Here's a weird one: Anyone know anything about "Extended EGA"?

Posted on 2022-07-31, 04:53

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The Atari ST's High-Resolution Monochrome Mode used a 640x400 pels resolution @72Hz/35.7 KHz. True multisync monitors were usually capable of displaying these timings, too. Yeah, I own a multi-frequency TTL/analog CRT color monitor that covers 15..35kHz and likely can deal with that mode, too. I …

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Re: Here's a weird one: Anyone know anything about "Extended EGA"?

Posted on 2022-07-30, 18:56

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You got it Like most early fixed frequency screens it only supports a single frequency. The only exceptions to this are sets with pot adjustments. That is why I recommended a cheap vga scan converter which can convert your vga signal on the fly to work with your screen

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Re: What are you eating/drinking? (the vogons food thread)

Posted on 2022-07-30, 18:18

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Tankatsu , Miso soup and Unagi roll

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Re: Pc printers get worse and worse

Posted on 2022-07-28, 00:24

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All of my blotchiness problems encountered have got cured by taking the toner cart out and shaking it vigorously. However, this is with toner carts that have good trapdoor seal type arrangments. ... I are unresponsible if you cover yourself in toner :P I used to do that a lot and even go so far as …

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Re: Here's a weird one: Anyone know anything about "Extended EGA"?

Posted on 2022-07-27, 14:58

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I haven’t ever had a need to tear into my original portable but I would check internally for pot adjustments on the tube. If it cannot sync to vga you would need to leave the tube alone and run your vga input through a scan converter to change VGA to 15khz interlaced. Another option… There are ( …

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