Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-01-06, 12:07

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Somebody has a "Pionex Gold Series 386SX" for sale for $40 near me. Anybody familiar with these? Do they use coin cell batteries, barrel or a Dallas RTC? Proprietary board or just a normal board? Debating getting it I don't believe a 386SX with coin cell exists. Best you can hope for is an external …

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Re: Vlb controller from 1993

Posted on 2022-12-10, 16:08

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I have multiple VLB I/O controllers. Some have dual IDE channel, some other not. I also bought one with SCSI alongside with IDE headers. But in my i486Dx2 66 MHz I'm using the PT-627 B revision with dual IDE channels with no issues.

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Re: List of motherboards with SB-link (PC/PCI) header

Posted on 2022-11-21, 15:39

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GA-6BXS has the link.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-11-10, 08:52

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I had 4870, 6870, 6950 and 6970 in CrossfireX. Great experience!!!

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Re: Using VIA VT8231 southbridge for sound blaster pro emulation (edit : sound blaster emulation available using softwar

Posted on 2022-10-27, 08:47

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Is there any driver for Windows 3.x?

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Re: Windows 95 setup guide for the 2020's

Posted on 2022-09-29, 19:46

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Thanks. I found the culprit for this behavior. The maximum size of the HDD, was 127GB, scandiskw needs less than 32GB to work under Windows 95. I made some tests, it runssss! But I have an issue now. I used Ontrack Disk Manager 10.46 to create the partition and now I cannot revert the total size of …

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Re: Windows 95 setup guide for the 2020's

Posted on 2022-09-28, 21:06

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Greetings, recently I bought a Tulip Vision Line xd 6/350 and I wanted to give a try the Windows 95 installation, because when this line released in January of 1998, Tulip was using the Windows 95c version and on summer of 1998 switched to Windows 98. I have an issue, I'm using the Windows 95c CD …

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Re: Fifa 99 Voodoo 3 Patch

Posted on 2022-09-12, 09:40

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I played Fifa 99 back then with both the Voodoo 2 and the Voodoo 3. I only used the patch I mentioned you. I also used on my latest 3Dfx vintage build with Voodoo 3 3000 AGP and it works.

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Re: Fifa 99 Voodoo 3 Patch

Posted on 2022-09-12, 07:32

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There's no 3Dfx Voodoo 3 patch, it works with the following. http://www.3dfxgamers.com/view.asp?IOID=130

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Re: Modding AMi bios of Pentium II 440bx era

Posted on 2022-09-11, 20:51

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Ok thank's I found the programs, earlier DOS versions that working with 256k AMi bios, but the unbranded bios hasn't entry to put Tulip Computers logo, only the name on the string. Anyway, the Tulip branded bios has the windows based AMI bios, strange I never saw it on non 486 class motherboards.

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Modding AMi bios of Pentium II 440bx era

Posted on 2022-09-08, 10:28

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Greetings, is there any way to mod AMi bios of an old motherboard, such as Tyan 1846s Tsunami? I bought a Tulip Vision Line ΧD 6/350, that has this motherboard, TP90, but it's bios is Tulip branded, so to be able to modify the original latest bios that supports bigger HDDs, to add Tulip branded …

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Re: Help finding the Resident Evil 2 Platinum 2.0 Patch

Posted on 2022-08-20, 14:42

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I believe that those patches were only meant to be used in the Japanese version. Latest for Windows was the 1.1.0.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-07-19, 20:11

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So apparently you don't understand the meaning of this word and you use it in place of word "old" or "vintage" then (at least in some cases :) Greek language and the vocabulary hasn't a translation for the word "vintage" neither for the word "retro". So, the "old" is the appropriate word for …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-07-19, 14:39

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I prefer pure hardware retro experience and not modern ones! And I don't like other platform than PCs! IBM PC compatibles I mean! Core2 supports 98se ..but its still fairly modern. Everything that is compatible with DOS and has Windows 9x drivers for me it's retro. I also have an Athlon64x2 4400, …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-07-19, 09:44

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I prefer pure hardware retro experience and not modern ones! And I don't like other platform than PCs! IBM PC compatibles I mean!

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-07-19, 08:10

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If its chipset supports Windows 9x and DOS, it's retro!!!

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

Posted on 2022-05-27, 12:50

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Look for "kt7_3c.bin" on that page, he refers to it as "last low temperature official BIOS", that means to say, the last BIOS that reports the temperature correctly and does not have Abit's ACPI "fix". To expose enabling/disabling ACPI, you need to open the file in a bios editor and unhide the …

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Re: Getting DOS games to work under OS/2 Warp 4.52

Posted on 2022-05-24, 06:04

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Disruptor wrote on 2022-05-18, 13:42: What sound support does the AWE64 have in OS/2? Can you load soundfonts? I didn't tested that. I can't answer. https://www.russharvey.bc.ca/os2/awe64os2.html

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

Posted on 2022-05-21, 10:38

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I tried the Japanese modded bioses. With the first one ACPI always gets IRQ 7 and I have issues with the Orpheus Soundcard, with the other patched, always works as the latest official, I will check the modded one by mockingbird user and the ACPI disabling selection.

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Re: Getting DOS games to work under OS/2 Warp 4.52

Posted on 2022-05-18, 12:58

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With a compatible (supported from OS/2 with drivers) SVGA card and sound card OS/2 is awesome! Better than DOS! I've tested OS/2 Warp 4 on my i486Dx2 build with S3 Vision 968 VLB and SB AWE64 GOLD and it was a great experience. You can try the 4.52 version with patches and the proper drivers or …

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