Re: Voodoo 5 emulation

Posted on 2021-12-08, 04:59

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FPGA is more likely, although still won't happen anytime soon, because software emulation of VSA-100 is just redundant. It doesn't bring anything useful, which can't be done with simple API wrapping. Do you still have the overhead if using a wrapper ? Like does that mean that glide and the …

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Re: So, like, does the K6 3+ 550mhz really exist?

Posted on 2021-12-08, 00:07

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At this rate, I really wonder how rare did the K6-2 + have become. Most of the K6-2s I've had were standard 500MHz part, and only recently I've had the pleasure of owning a plus variant. the k6 2+ 570 isn’t even remotely rare. There is a guy on ebay that has thousands of them. 50 units sold this …

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Re: At my wits end! Need help!

Posted on 2021-12-07, 12:10

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If you copy the cd contents to the hard drive on another computer you can browse to setup on the hard drive and start setup without a cd

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Re: So, like, does the K6 3+ 550mhz really exist?

Posted on 2021-12-07, 11:32

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There is one on ebay right now

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Re: The K6-III build

Posted on 2021-12-07, 03:11

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AlessandroB wrote on 2021-12-06, 19:12: You have a prefect psycho profile, Inspector Callaghan would think you're Scorpio plenty of us appreciate attention to detail. What you said was mean and uncalled for.

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Re: New processors for old sockets.

Posted on 2021-12-07, 03:08

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I can't think of a single platform I know of where the number of CPUs out there do not vastly outnumber the number of motherboards. If you have a motherboard, you can definitely find a CPU but not vice versa, so I don't think this is a real necessity. That said, some computers/platforms never had …

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Re: Voodoo 5 emulation

Posted on 2021-12-05, 21:41

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songo wrote on 2021-12-05, 10:35: The Serpent Rider wrote on 2021-11-29, 21:11: It's not all that useful to emulate Voodoo 5 fully in software. I wonder what would be more likely to be released sooner or later: PCem-like emulation or FPGA Voodoo5? Yeah, I bet that we see fpga voodoos soon with the …

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Re: The K6-III build

Posted on 2021-12-05, 21:33

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Grab a k6 3+ and overclock it a little more! :p Cool I've been looking for a similar motherboard Ali v seems stable but it seems it can't do 112 fsb according to some article I read. What motherboard is this? Oh and that is some almost pornographic cable management. Can I have a close up? lol The …

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Re: Old games that had CD Audio tracks?

Posted on 2021-12-05, 21:22

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I remember discovering this once on my own, I put a game into a cd player and it started playing something. I don’t recall what it was but it’s fun you dredged up this decades old memory for me. Thanks!

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Re: USB ISA cards?

Posted on 2021-12-05, 21:15

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USB 1.0 isn't THAT useless. I've used flash drives on Socket 7 + USB1.0 systems before, and it is still faster and more convenient than floppies (specially because my main PC doesn't have a floppy drive... or controller). Network is still king though. Seriously, When I first got back into retro I …

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Re: New processors for old sockets.

Posted on 2021-12-05, 12:21

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Nexxen wrote on 2021-12-04, 11:25: weedeewee wrote on 2021-12-04, 11:15: Nexxen wrote on 2021-12-04, 10:27: What about FPUs? Mabe a better performer with new tech? faster quake on a 486 or maybe even a 386 ? 😁 We start a huge campaign for a super performing FPU just to have Cpugalaxy go nuts on …

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Re: Dual amd K6 computer

Posted on 2021-12-04, 04:19

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cyclone3d wrote on 2021-12-03, 23:58: I have a dual socket 5 SBC and a dual socket 7 motherboard.... I also have a couple of those interposers that came with AMD K6-2 CPUs. I will be trying both of those setups with the AMD CPUs but I have very little hope that they will work in dual CPU mode. 🤞

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Re: Dual amd K6 computer

Posted on 2021-12-03, 09:34

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Lets put this train to rest. K5/K6/K6-2/K6-2+/K6-3, basically everything prior to AMD's K7 with the DEC licensed EV6 processor bus lacks both the Signalling pins for SMP and the appropriate LAPIC (Local APIC) functionality inside the core to handle dual CPU Interrupt request handling or the ability …

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Re: The quest for an affordable (and possibly cheap) SFF retro PC! (DOS up to Win98)

Posted on 2021-12-03, 03:51

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There was a guy that made a retro build out of a pc104 based form factor setup. It was pretty cool but looked like a fair amount of work. Someone could post some links to cards and part numbers used and some 3d printer files and probably make a kit though.

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Re: K6-2P Mobile CPUs

Posted on 2021-12-03, 01:26

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What is the pci latency patch? A driver? A utility? Bios update? Hardware mod? It's a Win9X "driver". Pretty sure it's just a small VXD that checks what chipset you are using, and writes values into memory to overwrite BIOS settings to fix a PCI bug in many VIA chipsets. You know, circling back to …

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Re: Dual amd K6 computer

Posted on 2021-12-02, 22:53

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In second reply, the motherboard behind the rumor is described. Any thoughts as to what motherboard that may be? I’m struggling to find any dual socket 5/7 boards with three isa and three pci that matches the description Most likely dual socket 5 “no AGP, three PCI, three ISA, no USB, AT form factor …

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Re: K6-2P Mobile CPUs

Posted on 2021-12-02, 22:48

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What is the pci latency patch? A driver? A utility? Bios update? Hardware mod?

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Re: K6-2P Mobile CPUs

Posted on 2021-12-02, 16:36

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Huh, I too will thank you for the heads up about that k6 2+ 570. Looks like it runs at 95x6? How many SS7 mobos even do a 6x multiplier? Looks like mine only goes up to 5.5. Or does that model of the K6-2 do the usual thing where the 2x multiplier is actually 6x for it? I wonder if my humble PC …

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Re: K6-2P Mobile CPUs

Posted on 2021-12-02, 08:55

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I had Mobile chips (normal k6-2 )with voltages as low as 1.6 volts with 333mhz as the speed Up voltage to 2.2 volts and 400-500mhz was not uncommon and the chip ran no hotter than a normal desktop chip AMD didn’t make special chips for mobile k6-2 they just binned examples that ran stable at low …

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Re: Lowest spec Windows XP pc.

Posted on 2021-12-01, 08:11

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You can get one of the beta releases to work on a 486. If you have less than 128mb of ram you will probably be on the page file whenever a game is open. That said it will probably boot on very little ram. There are people who got windows 7 to boot on like 96mb of ram was it? So, if you told me xp …

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