Ok so no matter what I do, this new forum seems intent on showing the thumbnail of Boot Screen upside down. I've rotated it, save it, and re-uploaded and it still orients upside-down. Seems OK when viewed fullsize. 🙁

Yes, I've had that problem with my own pictures. I think it's a gentle hint from the site owners that we should use external hosting.

^^ Or you could, you know, report this as a bug instead of assuming malice. It looks like the forum caches its thumbnails and didn't update this one when the image was re-uploaded. @BinaryDemon - did you try changing the filename?

xjas wrote on 2020-01-07, 03:34:

^^ Or you could, you know, report this as a bug instead of assuming malice. It looks like the forum caches its thumbnails and didn't update this one when the image was re-uploaded. @BinaryDemon - did you try changing the filename?

Yes, original pic was 1q, then I tried 1qa, and I stopped with 1qb. It might have to do with the attachment id number (0), that never changed.

What an interesting little machine! The VGA chip is the WDC 90C11(Western Digital paradise).

BSA Starfire wrote on 2020-01-07, 06:51:

What an interesting little machine! The VGA chip is the WDC 90C11(Western Digital paradise).

Oh thanks a bunch for that info. For some reason I was guessing Western Digital was the ide controller.

Ill post some pictures later, but I used FreeDos and Phils Computer Lab Benchmark Suite to get some quick scores.

3DBench 1.0 (Slower PCs) = 7.5
Chris's 3D Benchmark 320x240 = 5.4 (3.2 fps)
PC Player = 1.5

System Information 8.0 = 16.9

Landmark System = CPU 30.60mhz, FPU 50.54mhz, Video 3298.79 chr/ms

TopBench = 49
Speedsys = CPU: 3.25
Doom min. details = 2134 gametics / 6979 realtics (~10.7fps)
Doom max. details = 2134 gametics / 26915 realtics (~2.8fps)

CacheCHK reports 16kb cache. Neat.
I still can't tell how much vram is onboard, the utils in the benchmark suite simply report > 256kb.

It seems to be doing very well for a 386sx-20, I guess the 16kb cache explains that. Still any gaming will be restricted to the pre-DOOM era.

Does it actually have any cache or it is just detection going crazy?

mpe wrote on 2020-01-07, 16:14:

Does it actually have any cache or it is just detection going crazy?

It looks like it does because in cachechk the memory access speed drops after 16kb. It’s 105-106 us/KB and then it drops to 179 us/KB after 16kb. There’s also the cache .... OK on the boot screen which had me curious.

Some progress. I had to remove one of the fans to route ide and power cables over to the isa slots. Internal CF will be 512mb. Replaced the Rayovac 844 brick that no longer held a charge with a 3xAAA battery case. Generic Yamaha MF-009 installed. Hopefully I'll get some time Wednesday to install and configure software.

I grabbed a few minutes this morning to setup some software and learned some tid bits.

The bios is not Y2K compliant. 😀

I have 512kb of video ram.

Also I don’t think my Yamaha MF-009 is functional. SETUPSA.exe didn’t detect it. I didn’t get a chance to try swapping ISA slots or a different sound card. Could also be a result of running isa bus at 10mhz instead of 8mhz.

Update:

The Yamaha MF-009 doesnt work. ISA ports fine. I swapped in an ESS Audiodrive 1869F and that's working as expected. I tested a cheap optical serial mouse, and I hate it. Unless someone can recommend a specific optical serial mouse, I'm going to have to go with the traditional ball mouse.