First post, by StickByDos
One year ago, I started building a retro PC.
At the begining I just wanted a Pentium 200 with an ISA sound card to run my dos games unmute and to run old Windows games.
I have now collectected lots of computers parts and It became more powerfull than expected.
ASUS P/I-P55T2P4 rev 3.10 (a legendary socket7 mobo)
BIOS patched for large HD
512kB L2 cache onboard
Tag Ram 32k8 15ns
K6-2 350@375 (4.5*83) don't remap 2x to 6x
PentiumIII fan/heasink (there is an Intel sticker on it)
256MB FPM 60ns ECC (2*128MB)
Voodoo5 5500 PCI MAC 64MB
SB AWE32 PnP CT3980 with 8MB (speaker routed to it)
DB-50XG
SB Live! 5.1 + LiveDrive IR (and its remote RM-900)
NIC 3C905B-TX-NM
SCSI AVA-2904 only used to share some files with an amiga HD
20GB Seagate IDE HD
Win98SE set up to start in DOS (BootGUI=0)
Screen NEC MultiSync LCD1560NX connected to V5's dvi port
Routeur Linksys BEFSX41
Maybe I'll make it all SCSI
I was using a 3D blaster Voodoo2 12MB with a Matrox G200 until I get a Voodoo4
I got a 2nd 3D blaster V2 and I installed them in my Athlon64
It has became too powerfull for some games, I was able to watch DivX movies (not under Windows, too slow!)
I decided to begin building an older computer
I started last week a 486
Gigabyte GA-486IM: UM8881/UM8886, 4 PCI, 4ISA, 2 with VL
256kB cache
Turbo switch disable cache
486DX2-66 actually a P24D : 486DX2 write-back cache
80MHz with fan/heatsink unstable
I also have a 486DX-33 so I can swap
48MB (2*16MB + 2*8MB 32bit simm interleaved) only the 1st 32MB are cachable
230W PSU (from 1993)
Matrox MilleniumII PCI 4MO
SB AWE32 CT2760
VL-bus multi-IO GVU863VL (I'm still looking for its jumpers setting)
3C905B-COMBO PCI
2GB Fujitsu HD
I tried some modern PCI card in its slots
In the 2nd slot I have only make working:
NIC RTL8029, NIC HP2978A, USB2 Zioncom Uc 0401, with any other card, it doesn't start up.
In the other slot no problem:
my Voodoo2: I played Tomb Raider with an average of 17fps (7 to 30)
SB Live! value with its native support in mpxplay
VIA usb2, I used an usb pendrive under win98se
I have heard of Banshee running on 486 (I don't remember where) using an old version of the drivers (1.05.00 ?), I tried a Maxi Gamer Phoenix but I only a red screen (incompatibility with its BIOS and 486 ?)
I'm trying to build a 386 rig:
I have 3 mobo:
- Forcom M396
i386SX-25
4 simm slots
PC CHIPS TCL14L100
- DFI 386SX-ANE
Am386SX-33
4 simm slots
ALI M1217-40
- (unknown)
Am386DX-40
256kB cache
8 simm slots
40MHz needs 60ns memory, 70ns memory can work with 1 ws
UM82C482AF
MR BIOS
8 SIMMs 1MB 60ns Topless and 4 SIMMs 4MB 70ns Samsung (4 other in my AWE32s)
fpu IIT 3C87SX-33 (sadly, it's only for 386SX)
gfx:
Tseng ET4000AX 1MB, vesa through a tsr
Trident 9000C 512kB VESA 1.2 bios
ARCHE VGA 256kB CL-GD 510/520 w/ switch to emulate CGA HGC EGA
nic:
3C509B-TPO and SMC EtherEZ
scsi:
AHA-1520B and AHA-1542CP
sound:
SB2 CT1350B
SB16 +ASP CT2290
SB AWE32 PnP CT3990
AT like case
200W psu from 1990 with orange power switch in the rear right corner and noisy fan
Type win to loose the power of your computer !