Re: When will high power supplies become single ICs?

Posted on 2021-12-03, 01:22

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Isn't Intel trying to make power supplies just a single voltage and then the motherboard cuts it up further? Once you have only 1 specific voltage you can make much simpler power supplies. It's already the case on some low-profile motherboards. A single DC 12V input powers everything. Depending on …

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Re: M.2 NVMe working on old school regular pci

Posted on 2021-11-22, 03:25

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Recently I got myself such a combination to run a large NVMe SSD over PCI for data storage. The adapter itself works and the disk is being correctly recognized. I think it should theoretically use all the PCI bandwidth if possible, though I don't know if it'll affect the operability of other …

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Re: M.2 NVMe working on old school regular pci

Posted on 2021-11-22, 01:21

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Recently I got myself such a combination to run a large NVMe SSD over PCI for data storage. The adapter itself works and the disk is being correctly recognized. I think it should theoretically use all the PCI bandwidth if possible, though I don't know if it'll affect the operability of other devices …

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Re: Has anyone tried ArcaOS for retro gaming?

Posted on 2021-10-21, 12:53

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Yeah... ArcaOS is still OS/2... so it still has a good amount of issues that OS/2 Warp or eComStation had. While LVM is an interesting feature for users to customize their disks and partitions and not constrained by the usual DOS way of assigning drive letters, it kind of made the OS less friendly …

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Re: Has anyone tried ArcaOS for retro gaming?

Posted on 2021-10-20, 06:27

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I have bought it and so far with mixed results for the range of stuffs I intend to try on. The system should be stable once configured properly, but as I'm new to OS/2 I encountered many issues. The major blocker is LVM (used by OS/2 in general, not to be confused with the Linux one): - None of …

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Re: MS-98L9 V2.0 , a new 1151MB with an ISA slot

Posted on 2021-10-19, 03:24

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...it seems to be a firmware-based virtual implementation probably leveraged SMM similar to VSA . As I haven't seen actual devices I can't know for sure... Yes exactly. The article I still haven't found again talked about this and that this was the part that took most development resources. Taking …

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Re: MS-98L9 V2.0 , a new 1151MB with an ISA slot

Posted on 2021-10-18, 00:52

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Isn't it possible to have some software handle the DMA transfers. The chipsets in their pdfs state they actually support dma transfers and it's not like the pcs are too slow to handle it since the dma used to run on an... 8MHz bus. The bus in question (LPC) has been superseded by a new one: eSPI . …

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Re: MS-98L9 V2.0 , a new 1151MB with an ISA slot

Posted on 2021-10-17, 15:30

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Isn't it possible to have some software handle the DMA transfers. The chipsets in their pdfs state they actually support dma transfers and it's not like the pcs are too slow to handle it since the dma used to run on an... 8MHz bus. The bus in question (LPC) has been superseded by a new one: eSPI . …

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Re: X-FI Extreme Music drivers

Posted on 2021-10-15, 01:02

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Try daniel_k's X-Fi Support Pack. Xtreme Music should be similar to other X-Fis, but be sure your card isn't Xtreme Audio which is a software-based variant that needs a different driver.

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Re: MS-98L9 V2.0 , a new 1151MB with an ISA slot

Posted on 2021-10-12, 03:45

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Hello, I am a little bit off topic, but this is the only place where I noticed that this board is discussed for hobbyist purposes. I was wondering if a floppy disk controller will work with the DFI CS620-H310 board (or MS-98L9 V2.0)? I am planning to buy this controller: DeluxeFloppy - 8-bit ISA …

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Re: Windows 3.1 on FreeDOS

Posted on 2021-10-09, 15:58

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Never mind. I managed to get the OpenWatcom variant to build. GCC variant currently doesn't compile. Need to set -DWIN31SUPPORT for both ALLCFLAGS and NASMFLAGS. For some reasons the latter is not documented in config.mak but in somewhere else.

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Re: Windows 3.1 on FreeDOS

Posted on 2021-10-09, 15:27

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Unfortunately something's still missing... with -DWIN31SUPPORT I could not compile even though with a correct build environment. The build process simply complains about those newly added stuffs being "undefined references". :-( I've filed an issue regarding the question. Don't know if this requires …

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Re: Windows 3.1 on FreeDOS

Posted on 2021-10-09, 07:23

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A bump on this. Guess the latest kernel CI build doesn't really have Win3X stuffs built-in (WIN31SUPPORT not defined by default). No wonder I kept failing to get Windows running with the CI builds (aside from finding ways to limit available memory). Guess I'll have to figure out how to build a …

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Re: USB KM (= KVM without the V part) switches - suggestions wanted for a quality model

Posted on 2021-10-08, 03:46

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OP wants a no delay setup though. That requires a DDM capable switch or KVM. Yeah, sorry I didn't read that thoroughly. I also have a PS/2-USB mixed KVM that does what OP expects, exposing standard PS/2 or USB input to connected systems with no delays in switching. While it certainly won't work …

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Re: USB KM (= KVM without the V part) switches - suggestions wanted for a quality model

Posted on 2021-10-08, 03:33

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Isn't that what I was saying? I currently use a USB KVM that doesn't do any special handling of devices, and it works fine with my gaming keyboard and mouse (both Corsair). Switching works in all systems and all OSes, just that when switching there would be a delay of a few seconds as it "attaches" …

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Re: USB KM (= KVM without the V part) switches - suggestions wanted for a quality model

Posted on 2021-10-08, 01:14

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Actually a dumb USB switch (that simply acts as a switchable hub) should work fine with gaming keyboards as long as necessary Legacy USB support is in place for all PCs connected to it. Some basic KVMs that don't offer special features should also do. Still, you'll need one with good quality parts …

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Re: Gotek floppy emulator and Linux?

Posted on 2021-09-30, 06:09

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by LSS10999

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Thanks for your detailed reply. Do you know of a GUI linux program which will let me create blank 1.44 MB and 2.88 MB floppy diskette images, allow me to drag/drop files to them, and have this image work with FlashFloppy? Sadly I don't know of any good GUI tools for creating images, but from what I …

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Re: MS-98L9 V2.0 , a new 1151MB with an ISA slot

Posted on 2021-09-30, 05:43

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@LSS10999 I do not know, to be honest, what internal check DIAGNOSE failed. It said it could not verify the I/O address. Maybe it tried to do DMA and this failed? Regarding the IT8892/3 and the IT8888, I did some more research and from what I read in the technical details (manuals, whitepapers) of …

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Re: MS-98L9 V2.0 , a new 1151MB with an ISA slot

Posted on 2021-09-30, 00:06

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But: :crying_cat_face: Using the awesome guide @elianda wrote , I then tried to configure the sound card. CTCM finds the sound card, but DIAGNOSE complains, and in Windows the sound card has a yellow exclamation mark :( Tomorrow I'll try playing with different IRQ/DMA settings, as, for example, …

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Re: Gotek floppy emulator and Linux?

Posted on 2021-09-29, 09:07

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You have to pay for HxC, either as standalone hardware or a firmware upgrade for the Gotek. I have no experience with it. I once bought a HxC license. The license is required for the flasher that installs the bootloader necessary to use the HxC firmware. It is per-device and 1 license will be …

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