Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow
Posted on 2021-09-18, 02:00
I get an age verification warning for inner worlds, how stupid
Re: Matrox Parhelia P650/750 and Retro Gaming?
Posted on 2021-09-18, 01:34
Parhelia was “value 3D” priced back in the day, I almost bought one not long after it’s launch for my Duron but a lack of 9x support made me buy a $45 G400 off pricewatch . I wasn’t a heavy gamer and it worked fine.
Re: Overclocking PC133 SDR RAM: What is the best SDR memory?
Posted on 2021-09-17, 15:17
I have PC166 CLK2 5ns labeled SDRAM in one of my systems Don’t remember if it’s king max or ??? Will have to look but there was SDRAM rated in pc150 and pc166, just a bit expensive
Re: How generally reliable is Gateway/Gateway 2000 as a brand?
Posted on 2021-09-16, 11:36
Early models were using Micronics (relative of Micron) usually with WD/WDC components like the video card very reliable if not a little boring . Going closer to either side of this century things went ass tastik though if your power supply survived you might get a survivor
Re: 32-Bit is dead
Posted on 2021-09-13, 16:31
retardware wrote on 2021-09-12, 14:19: 4-bit power still rocks. Yep but 32 bit dead Filename FAFD565E-6F90-46A5-A4BB-5BE93C3F3CCB.jpeg File size 79.55 KiB Views 921 views
Re: CRT monitor practices
Posted on 2021-09-13, 03:01
While filament definitely prefers to stay at the same temperature all the time instead of being turned on and off all over again I never seen a single CRT monitor failing due to the filament getting open. I have definitely seen the trace to the filament bubble and fail full open, usually on large ( …
Re: Bought ViewSonic monitor - image too wide
Posted on 2021-09-12, 17:59
retardware wrote on 2021-09-11, 22:57: Faulty connectors or potentiometers are not very probable, either, imho. Faulty no but they can be used to find the components causing the fault, On some “bad” screens turning the drive voltage up can make cool pyrotechnics and drive the fault making it a …
Re: Bought ViewSonic monitor - image too wide
Posted on 2021-09-11, 21:14
What resolution/refresh rate are you using? I’ve had screens that work fine at 60hz vga 640x480 but flake out at 800x600x72 If you can’t fix it or don’t care to internally there should be pots for various geometry settings along with the cathode voltage. You can manually shrink the screen size …
Re: Bought ViewSonic monitor - image too wide
Posted on 2021-09-11, 18:54
What resolution/refresh rate are you using? I’ve had screens that work fine at 60hz vga 640x480 but flake out at 800x600x72 If you can’t fix it or don’t care to internally there should be pots for various geometry settings along with the cathode voltage. You can manually shrink the screen size …
Re: Can someone explain to me about the capacity of old hard drives?
Posted on 2021-09-08, 18:25
I have that same drive I did what you said on purpose Yep bios “reports “ 10gb roughly Run a disk surface check and everything past 3gb fails. This seems like a big waste of time to spoof the drive size listed for zero gain and possible data corruption
Re: Are any of these 486 and early Pentium-class CPUs intetesting?
Posted on 2021-09-04, 19:52
Although of zero interest to you the DX50 is uncommon That non bespoke 286 could be interesting depending on its speed grade (4mhz and 25mhz are the most interesting) High clocking of Cyrix are uncommon 200mhz + Pentiums of any flavor are practical The newer stuff is up to you, P4 is pretty …
Re: RAM on 286
Posted on 2021-09-04, 19:43
Most old motherboards do not automatically detect ram and required a bios program to be run off a disk to set the ram size. There are a few generic utilities around Also, slightly newer “old” motherboards would again not detect ram and require the size set in the bios itself If you can find no way …
Re: YOUR favorate game era.
Posted on 2021-09-02, 14:53
Anonymous Coward wrote on 2021-09-02, 11:46: Anything before 1995 is okay by me. I prefer 80s games. Depends on which system I was Channel F and NES in the 80’s lots of fun to be had with both 80’s computer games were more creative but I rarely got to play them until the 90’s :0
Re: YOUR favorate game era.
Posted on 2021-09-01, 18:49
1990-1996 After that I was following the trailing edge but loved emulation after that
Re: I making my new build 8088 xt with a vga card ( Some questions about this 8088 build and about my 386 build too )
Posted on 2021-09-01, 13:11
1. These days Getting a working 8 bit VGA that doesn’t have compatibility issues is key, many Oak cards in my experience are more EGA compatible than true VGA, in fact my friends packard bell 486sx25 had oak VGA onboard and couldn’t run Monkey Island in VGA mode. 2. Speed is less important than …
Re: 3Ghz Northwood P4 prices back in the day.
Posted on 2021-08-29, 04:48
I always hoped pricewatch circa 1999-2003 would have been archived sadly the price lists for various components never were. That was the place to get cheap parts after the computer shopper crapped the bed and eBay became astronomical Before lycos classifieds became a virus fest (can’t remember the …
Re: TIGA driver needed: Texas Instruments tigacard ("TIGAStar")
Posted on 2021-08-28, 13:16
These cards had “support” under high end proprietary software back in the day just like Targa. Beyond a generic Windows driver all of that stuff is pretty much lost
Re: Limit DOS RAM memory (XMSDSK / HimemX / JemmEx), DOS RAM size limit
Posted on 2021-08-26, 22:55
I wonder why Mr Loews solution never was mentioned in this multi year thread
Re: Help me, trying to understand the history of 486 3volt to 5volt socket upgrade kits
Posted on 2021-08-25, 18:39
i guess these adapters were not so compatible after all It was not past IBM to go out of its way to prevent non-IBM sanctioned upgrades If a bios update exists it may help Also worth noting some “upgrade” devices could be damaged in some way before you installed, others pull all the power from the …
Re: POD83 - best set to 3.3V or 5V?
Posted on 2021-08-25, 00:52
That overdrive is designed for 5v, on 3.3 it’s probably undervolted If you want to overclock you need to mod for more than 3.5v to the chip
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