Re: Can someone explain to me about the capacity of old hard drives?

Posted on 2021-09-08, 18:25

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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

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Re: Are any of these 486 and early Pentium-class CPUs intetesting?

Posted on 2021-09-04, 19:52

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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 …

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Re: RAM on 286

Posted on 2021-09-04, 19:43

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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 …

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Re: YOUR favorate game era.

Posted on 2021-09-02, 14:53

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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

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Re: YOUR favorate game era.

Posted on 2021-09-01, 18:49

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1990-1996 After that I was following the trailing edge but loved emulation after that

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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

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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 …

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Re: 3Ghz Northwood P4 prices back in the day.

Posted on 2021-08-29, 04:48

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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 …

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Re: TIGA driver needed: Texas Instruments tigacard ("TIGAStar")

Posted on 2021-08-28, 13:16

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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

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Re: Limit DOS RAM memory (XMSDSK / HimemX / JemmEx), DOS RAM size limit

Posted on 2021-08-26, 22:55

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I wonder why Mr Loews solution never was mentioned in this multi year thread

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Re: Help me, trying to understand the history of 486 3volt to 5volt socket upgrade kits

Posted on 2021-08-25, 18:39

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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 …

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Re: POD83 - best set to 3.3V or 5V?

Posted on 2021-08-25, 00:52

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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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Re: What happens when your MB doesn't support the K6-2+/3+?

Posted on 2021-08-24, 17:46

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But be aware that the SiS5598 doesn't officially support 83mhx FSB, it onlt supports 75mhz and 83 is actually overclocking it. With the right ram it should work fine however. Link to my thread if you are interested. https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=81973 I ran that same board at 83mhz …

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Re: I dont want to do a error, for original xt speed games, 8088 vs 8088-2 and other cpu. I have several questions. Than

Posted on 2021-08-24, 04:00

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My favorite XT class systems are the Tandy 1000 series Now days though most XTs are quite expensive so whatever machine you can find that is reasonably priced go for it.

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Re: Why is Amiga so popular with retro community ?

Posted on 2021-08-19, 04:27

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The incompatibility of the Mac with the Apple II was deliberate policy not just carelessness. Apple were trying to break into the business market with the Mac, and the Apple II had a reputation as a school/kids computer. The more incompatible the better. Similarly, putting a monochrome monitor in …

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Re: Why people still love XP

Posted on 2021-08-19, 02:29

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I skipped XP and Vista at home and work Work Went 2k -> 7 -> 10 My main home rig was 98se right through 2016 when the internet broke hard I still have most of my highly specialized software on 98 with no migration possible (besides a virtual 98) I have had 2k on secondary systems for many years and …

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Re: Why is Amiga so popular with retro community ?

Posted on 2021-08-18, 22:56

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No, there's definitely an interest in the amiga in the retro community... at least in the circle i'm part of. There's a newfound guilty pleasure of all those 'up to jump' phoned-in licensed europlatformer games that have inappropriately hot jams (for example). Not to restate the obvious but Amiga …

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Re: Identifying 486 main board

Posted on 2021-08-18, 04:08

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Not seeing a big ol keyboard controller is a little strange on an ancient board of that vintage Not sure if anything unpopulated is actually needed for operation

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Re: Monkey Island DRM is corrupted but cracked game plays fine

Posted on 2021-08-16, 21:25

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This seems about right

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Re: The forgotten companies of computing - New Entry for DTC!

Posted on 2021-08-16, 01:17

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Vertex I owned 2 white box systems from them mid to late 90’s They had a strange history going into the 80’s and sold from the computer shopper as an afterthought to their core business carrying mostly Amptron and Fujitsu their cases were notable for weighing a ton when cases were getting cheap and …

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Re: Art of CGA

Posted on 2021-08-15, 14:50

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This thread infected me, now I see something like this... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfH3_GWNHpk ... and I want to turn it into a CGA screen, maybe minimally animated, so it looks like road is moving, maybe add an adlib soundtrack lol There are midi files for that, just need the animation 8088 …

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