Re: Slow video performance
Posted on 2008-08-20, 18:58
COAST they were called. Cache On A STick. 😀
Re: Windows 98SE and Large Hard Drives
Posted on 2008-08-20, 18:57
I made a 180 GB FAT32 partition for 98 to read. :) I have a 200 GB drive on a Pentium Pro (VS440FX) mobo. 20GB for 98 partition, ~180GB for CD ISO storage (I hate using the actual CDs.) Works fine. I used a Promise Ultra 66 and Partition Magic to get the partitions made and then switched to the old …
Re: Best AudioPCI card?
Posted on 2008-08-20, 18:52
Did they just tell you to buzz off with your unrecognized card? Or did nasty things happen?
Re: Compiling for an EeePC (Celeron M) : Results
Posted on 2008-08-20, 18:44
Yeah that's what I'm seeing. The only time compiler options that made a tangible improvement were O2 + profile guided optimization + omitted frame pointer with GCC 3.4.5 and DOSBOX 0.72. That gave me a small improvement of about 5% over the 0.72 compile on the DOSBOX site. Everything else, even …
Re: Compiling for an EeePC (Celeron M) : Results
Posted on 2008-08-19, 18:54
Yeah I did some file compares and rigged up a 0.72 with some fixed CPP files with the added includes. It worked. The compiler was warning about some sort of typedef mis-use too but it didn't seem to cause anything to fail. GCC 4.3.1 won't make me a faster EXE though. I tried lots of stuff. Used the …
Re: Fastest 2D ISA, VLB, PCI, and AGP graphics chipsets?
Posted on 2008-08-19, 18:48
NVIDIA's chips from TNT onward usually run DOS games pretty well from both the speed and compatibility angles. They are actually very fast DOS cards. Maybe the fastest. I ran a whole slew of different cards in a P3-600 months ago and found the these NV cards to work almost as well as the S3 cards …
Re: Slow video performance
Posted on 2008-08-19, 18:31
Do the cache chip traces actually go to the chipset? Some of the fake cache boards had fake traces too that went in loops back to each other 🤣.
Re: 3D cards in 486s
Posted on 2008-08-19, 18:16
i740 was designed around AGP. It's a strange chip. The PCI version has to use a bridge chip to map the chip to PCI. And they have extra RAM onboard to make up for the lack of AGP texture memory.
Re: Compiling for an EeePC (Celeron M) : Results
Posted on 2008-08-15, 20:08
core-inline doesn't help because you are running a game with the dynamic cpu core. core-inline inlines the memory read and write functions in the normal cpu core only. So to test the effect of that you have to set core=normal instead of core=auto. Ok. Thanks for the heads up. I'm experimenting with …
Compiling for an EeePC (Celeron M) : Results
Posted on 2008-08-14, 19:53
I've spent a few hours compiling DOSBOX. I have a EeePC 900 and wanted to see if I get get a bit more speed out of the little 900MHz Celeron M inside it. I've only compiled DOSBOX one other time, years ago, so I needed to relearn how to do it. The wiki and some forum threads here were invaluable. I …
Re: Slow video performance
Posted on 2008-08-14, 18:21
that is the cachechk program i'm referring to 😉
Re: Slow video performance
Posted on 2008-08-13, 21:15
the "cachechk" DOS utility specifically tests the performance of various memory accesses per access size. It tries to determine how many cache levels you have and how fast they are. If you run it and it says you only have L1 cache, well that's just not good and probably means either the cache isn't …
Re: My very own Socket 4 mobo....
Posted on 2008-08-12, 20:16
yeah it's a Dell! Dell and Gateway are great sources of Intel OEM boards. I found some Intel Advanced/EV "Endeavor" boards on ebay now too, but no audio. Just S3 Trio64 video. Endeavor is interesting to me because I had a friend with one back when they were new. http://cgi.ebay.com/Dell-08800- …
Re: Slow video performance
Posted on 2008-08-12, 20:11
ECS was worse back then than they are today. Fake cache was their specialty. http://www.redhill.net.au/b/b-bad.html
Re: 3D cards in 486s
Posted on 2008-08-12, 18:33
Don't forget that the 486 L2 cache, if there even is one, shares the processor bus with everything else. It's the same with a Pentium, but that 64-bit, 66MHz front-side bus gives a lot more headroom than the usual 25/33 MHz 32-bit 486 bus. And Pentiums usually have pipelined burst cache vs. plain …
Re: My very own Socket 4 mobo....
Posted on 2008-08-11, 22:22
Amigaz wrote: I'll be you'll throw in a Voodoo 1 card also, right? 😉 A strong possibility, indeed.
Re: Slow video performance
Posted on 2008-08-11, 22:15
Hmmmm. Well maybe you could do some other benchmarks. Cachechk comes to mind. Maybe something that measures video card bus bandwidth / fillrate, like vidspeed. Or was it vspeed. It comes with Fastvid. Anything else on PCI ? Do VGA and VESA SVGA games both run slow? The Cyrix CPU can be troublesome …
Re: My very own Socket 4 mobo....
Posted on 2008-08-11, 22:11
Yeah people really did go nuts over the heat they put out. Something tells me that those people couldn't foresee the 65-150W CPUs of today, however. I'll load up Win95 and play some games, of course. Nothing long term or specific really. I've never touched a Socket 4 sys before so that's the big …
My very own Socket 4 mobo....
Posted on 2008-08-11, 20:15
I've been occasionally looking at eBay for a Socket 4 setup for a long time. They aren't out there in huge volume. I stumbled on an auction last week and dropped in a $1 bid and won! Apparently it is an Intel "Batman" Classic/PCI Pentium mobo with the 430LX Mercury chipset. I wonder if it works or …
Re: 3D cards in 486s
Posted on 2008-08-11, 19:56
Has anyone else here attempted such feat? Is it even feasible? Are third-party drivers a bad idea for any possible modern CPU function overhead taking over? Ran a Voodoo3 in a 486 once. I had to go to some older drivers because they'd apparently started using Pentium instructions in later versions. …
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