Looking around today and found I had two MVP3 boards. Coincidentally they both had the exact same clock generator: ICS ICS9148BF - 37. I haven’t powered them up yet but one of them at least should work for some testing. Believe this is the data sheet although it’s missing the “BF” Edit: the two VIA …

Makes sense. Great job!

Enaiel, I can confirm an on the fly, software adjustable FSB for Socket 7 AMD K6 thanks to your work on VIAFSB. Thank you! My W156C sits on a no-name MVP4 board that supports AMD K6-2,2+, and 3+. The board boots via jumper at 120Mhz, and I was able to switch between 83mhz and 120mhz in software. …

I thought I saw a reply from you, but it seems to be deleted now. Did you try using the dump command? Correct, I deleted it until I could try the dump command. I just did and it doesn’t work, the machine crashes before it is able to dump is my guess. SMBus is enabled… is the last thing I see before …

cwsdpmi - it complains about this in DOS however, in Windows it appears to execute without it Thanks for testing! Yes, I forgot to mention that it needs CWSDPMI.EXE to run. If you don't already have it, it can be downloaded from here: https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/ …

cwsdpmi - it complains about this in DOS however, in Windows it appears to execute without it

Just curious since no one asked yet, what are you going to be using the system for? What games do you intend to play on it? It'll mostly be used for games from 2000-2004 which my K6-2+ would be too slow for, like Halo CE, Doom 3 (this one is probably too much for a P3 so the P4 would be better), …

I’m not a snob on much but OP, your picture raises my blood pressure and is the reason I stopped buying AT boards lately. It’s just too frustrating.

I recently played with a TNT2 M64 and came away very impressed. Disabling v-sync, toggling the settings to high performance, and using coolbits registry to adjust the clock frequencies all the way up got me pretty decent framerates at 640x480 which is great for me.

Hmm how about that YouTube channel I’ve been meaning to start. Any day now..

At some point I wrote an imaginary book in my head “How I stopped caring and learned to love ANY silent disk solutions”. I was like this, had to have the SSD because “it was fast” or “it has garbage collection”. To my great sadness, in practice there was no apparent speed difference when I loaded …

Getting Samba going (on a Pi) literally reinvigorated my love of this hobby. I didn’t realize how frustrating it was to sneakernet files via USB and how off-putting that was in practice.

Improved memory speed of my SIS 5598 M5SIB via my first experience with WPCredit and using a data sheet for that chipset. Was able to improve float FPU from around 100 stock to 136mb/s. Which is of course pretty slow compared to a highly tuned MVP3. Largely followed the recommendations on k6plus.com …

do you need Display.sys? I have several Toshibas from the same era and I don’t run that on any of them. I would disable the stretch in BIOS and tryVEXP since it’s a Chips and Tech. Scaling with VEXP is much better

I don’t know why y’all talking about SCSI. I found a 2.4 GHz dual core computer on the street (literally), with a SATA 320gb hard drive. For fun I got Windows 98 installed on it and I swear to god it booted so fast I couldn’t believe it. And this was in compatibility mode. I bet a good IDE drive …

My vote is ESS Solo all day. It’s a fantastic card with jaw dropping DOS compatibility and sounds great

But for me this is convenient as ZIP drive is actually part of the retro experience to me and this way I always have to use only one system at the time. Also it is inconvenient for me having to be running 2 certain systems at the same time since 1) usually multiple retro systems would need to share …

Amazing. Great find!