Re: my compact flash experience is a dud

Posted on 2022-05-10, 23:46

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by Zeerex

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I don’t know if it’s entirely scientific but I had a home server a few years ago with an onboard CF slot so I used that as the primary disk. I used for a while a UDMA labeled 8GB and it was fast as heck. But I needed for more space and got one of these supposedly fast 233x cards 32GB cards (not …

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Re: Epox EP-58MVP3C-M - undocumented 5.5V multi, 112FSB?

Posted on 2022-05-09, 04:02

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by Zeerex

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I also try to avoid 6x. Crazy thing I do is get out a piece of paper and write out all the combinations possible of the jumper positions (ie if it is 4 jumpers you have a max 16 combinations) then I set the multiplier low like 3x so my voltage is adequate if I hit a high FSB. Try each combo, when …

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Re: Would you go for any of these Socket 7 boards?

Posted on 2022-05-09, 03:53

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by Zeerex

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These are interesting choices. Would definitely go for the MVP4 just for kicks. I’m zooming into the clock generator on ultimate retro and it seems to have a W156? which might be able to go to 125mhz fsb. Turn on memory interleaving and you’ll get into Aladdin memory performance territory. I know …

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Re: my compact flash experience is a dud

Posted on 2022-05-07, 02:02

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by Zeerex

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I have an almost identical NEC Versa except with a Pentium 90. One of my favorite laptops no doubt. I use network to transfer files about so I have a 3C574 10/100 PCMCIA card in there. I just performed the following tests on both 98 and Nt4 which i have dual booting on it - the hard drive is an 8GB …

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Re: my compact flash experience is a dud

Posted on 2022-05-06, 03:17

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by Zeerex

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How attached are you to the RTM installation on this laptop? You should have enough storage on the HDD to store the Win95 OSR2.5 setup and cab files (I’m thinking about 150mb?), copy them over once then install it. Doesn’t fix the speed situation but you will immediately benefit from FAT32.

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Re: Best way to transfer files to PC without USB?

Posted on 2022-05-02, 20:24

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by Zeerex

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My vote is networking always. If you already have a NIC in there, the easiest way to transfer files is simply sharing the C: drive or some subfolder and you can access the share from OSX and Linux natively, and can be enabled in Windows 10 via turn on windows features (SMB 1.0) - then drop files to …

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Re: I've gone mad! Making a Windows 98 SE and Windows XP PC.

Posted on 2022-04-24, 16:56

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by Zeerex

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I don't want the best graphics just playable. Let others have the best of the best. I can get a 256mb XFX 128-bit fx5200 for 30 bucks but I'm not sure that'll run Oblivion very well. Others online have commented that Oblivion runs on a GeForce 6200 in low settings, and that’s available in PCI for …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2022-04-22, 04:31

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by Zeerex

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Completed my testing of dos 6.22 + Windows 3.11 on a 23mb hard drive. Using drvspace for compression still had about 13mb free after trimming down the help files and the lesser useful apps. My experience with this OS (Win3) was on a PS/2 for many years, so I never had networking or audio. This time …

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Re: How do you backup your retro machine-park?

Posted on 2022-04-22, 02:02

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by Zeerex

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@Tetrium do you have a working with WfW3.11 samba config you might want to share? I'm trying to geht this to work for days now but it seems impossible... WfW won't even enumerate the shares on my server, even though the shares are public and protocol version is set to CORE... you might consider …

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Re: Scripting ISO mounting and application launch possible?

Posted on 2022-04-21, 03:59

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by Zeerex

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Thanks for this, I’ll give it a shot

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Re: Abit KT7A (KT133A/VIA686B), Athlon XP Mobile 2500+

Posted on 2022-04-20, 17:11

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by Zeerex

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I gotta say this thread is a bit amusing, I had this board 20 years ago and it was crash city. It would blue screen all the darn time

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Re: ITX DOS & Windows98 mini PC

Posted on 2022-04-18, 13:48

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by Zeerex

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havli wrote on 2022-04-17, 20:37: After patching the Jazz Jackrabbit runs. The scrolling looks a bit funky... Thanks for trying, that’s too bad - Jazz has an infamous graphics mode (from what I hear) that would appear to be to blame.

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Re: 4:3 vs. 5:4

Posted on 2022-04-16, 17:44

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by Zeerex

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I do most of my retro activities on a Dell 17 inch CRT. The other day I picked up a Samsung 193P curbside which is another 5:4 LCD. I am quite impressed by this monitor. Nice bright picture, and the scaling to 640x480 actually looks decently good on it for an LCD, and I was surprised to notice that …

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Re: Windows 3.1 / 9x games that require Quicktime

Posted on 2022-04-16, 13:43

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by Zeerex

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Animaniacs Tonka Construction

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2022-04-10, 03:53

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by Zeerex

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Have a 23mb C: drive going to try to compress it and install WIndows 3.11 on it

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Re: ITX DOS & Windows98 mini PC

Posted on 2022-04-09, 19:01

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by Zeerex

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There seems to be some kind of horizontal scrolling problem with Commander Keen 4. Jazz Jackrabbit doesn't run at all (runtime error 200 at 0009:37F2). This is the first time I run these games, so I am not familiar with them at all. First of all, huge thanks for trying this! Ok bummer about Keen 4. …

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Re: Fdisk freezing when partitoning a CF card.

Posted on 2022-04-09, 17:28

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by Zeerex

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If you have an OSX x86, I highly recommend getting virtualbox to attach the CF in “raw mode” so you can attach it to a VM as a physical disk. Then attach a Windows 98 boot Floppy image so the VM boots from that, and of course that includes FDISK and format for partitioning. I do all my imaging and …

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Re: ITX DOS & Windows98 mini PC

Posted on 2022-04-09, 04:09

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by Zeerex

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Wondering about S3 unichrome recently as several thin clients seem to have them. If you have them in shareware even, does Jazz Jackrabbit and Commander Keen 4 run on it ok?

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Re: Getting Windows 98 SE working on Physical Hardware

Posted on 2022-04-06, 16:52

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by Zeerex

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There are plenty of supported configurations and even cheap PCIe graphics devices that work in 98 and will perform great with games. Using this link I was able to use a PCIe GeForce 6200 perfectly on 98 and I mean perfectly. 3D accelerated and stable: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=44407 …

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Re: VIAFSB - DOS FSB utility for VIA chipsets

Posted on 2022-04-04, 23:23

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by Zeerex

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No dice still for ICS9148BF-37, results attached for SET safe and unsafe. I'll keep searching in cyberspace for the correct datasheet with the 'BF' in the meantime.

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