Re: Norton Commander 5.5 vs 5.51

Posted on 2023-08-29, 19:32

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by iulianv

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Well, I did indeed find the 1998 vs 1999 file timestamp difference; also, "5.50" vs "5.51" are mentioned during installation. I didn't notice any difference in behavior under Win95, so I'll stick to the one that says which one it is after installation (5.5) 😀...

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Norton Commander 5.5 vs 5.51

Posted on 2023-08-28, 18:49

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by iulianv

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Hello everyone, I'm trying to figure out whether the set of floppy images found online as NC 5.51 really are NC 5.51, as there is no mention of "5.51" anywhere after installation. I'm thinking of the "Info" panel - mine says "Version 5.5", while one of the screenshots on Wikipedia shows "5.51" (date …

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Re: Help identify unknown motherboard

Posted on 2020-02-27, 14:47

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by iulianv

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Closest I could find is https://stason.org/TULARC/pc/motherboards/E/EDOM-INTERNATIONAL-CORPORATION-486-486VL3-MP032F.html followed by https://stason.org/TULARC/pc/motherboards/B/BEK-TRONIC-TECHNOLOGY-INC-486-BEK-P402.html Unfortunately BIOSes don't seem to be available for either of them, so I guess …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-01-30, 18:47

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by iulianv

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I inquired about getting these in this thread last week, well, here they are in my possession: https://i.postimg.cc/2jbYqCR0/OPTi-495-SLC-Am386-DX-40.jpg Does anyone know the make/model of this? I will be removing the battery immediately tonight.. Looks a lot like this one (although your BIOS is …

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Re: List of S7/ SS7/ S8/ Slot1 ATX mobo with +4 ISA slots

Posted on 2019-11-25, 17:01

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by iulianv

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Biostar MB-8600TTX-A (socket 8, Intel 440FX) Спасибо! The Biostar I have, the Chaintech 6ITM I googled, but you can quickly expand your list by scanning for ATX boards with 4 ISA slots through the TH99 listings - for example, there are two pages dedicated to Slot1 mainboards here - https://stason. …

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Re: List of S7/ SS7/ S8/ Slot1 ATX mobo with +4 ISA slots

Posted on 2019-11-24, 21:11

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by iulianv

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Biostar MB-8600TTX-A (socket 8, Intel 440FX)

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Re: Post photos of your Rarest or Unique computers or components.

Posted on 2019-05-03, 09:34

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by iulianv

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Mine would probably be the ELSA Winner 1000: https://sites.google.com/site/iulianvshw/vide … _1000-front.jpg But I also like some of the mainboards (Gigabyte GA-386UM, ASUS ISA-386C, DTK PEM-0030YS, Biostar MB-8600TTX-A)...

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Re: Intel 810 and OpenGL

Posted on 2019-02-22, 13:58

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by iulianv

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In the end I decided to give up on WinXP and go for 98SE - with Fujitsu's video drivers (pretty much the same as Intel's latest at first sight) Quake2 runs like a charm in default OpenGL mode.

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Re: Intel 810 and OpenGL

Posted on 2019-01-05, 11:57

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by iulianv

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GPU Caps Viewer shows "OpenGL 1.1 (GDI Generic with 2 ext.)" (those two extensions being GL_EXT_bgra and GL_WIN_swap_hint). Intel's driver also installs an i81xgicd.dll file in system32 - I guess I'll try older versions of the driver, to see what happens...

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Intel 810 and OpenGL

Posted on 2019-01-04, 15:40

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by iulianv

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I'm trying to run Quake2 in default OpenGL mode on an Intel 810E2 based Fujitsu Siemens Scenic T computer - with either the OS (WinXP SP3) installed video driver or the latest one downloaded from Intel the game bails out with "GLimp_Init ( ) - no hardware acceleration detected" on the console. Tried …

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Re: How many Retro PCs do you got in your house?

Posted on 2013-06-11, 13:01

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by iulianv

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386DX-40, P/133 (HP Vectra VE 5), PPro/200 (IBM PC Server 325), Celeron/300A, P3/866... plus a Sun SPARCclassic 😀

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Re: Finally scored a 25 mhz Harris

Posted on 2013-05-20, 05:30

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by iulianv

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A kind request to the OP: would it be possible to take an image of your BIOS and attach it here? Many thanks in advance.

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Re: Hello from croatia

Posted on 2013-05-19, 12:51

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by iulianv

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Like this one? Looks nice, too bad there's no room for a CD drive... http://sysadmin-vit.blogspot.ro/2011/02/unisys.html Anyway, for AMI BIOSes 1long+3short beeps indicate a memory test failure, while for Award BIOSes the same beep sequence means video card or video RAM failure - I'd start with re- …

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Re: Another semi-unknown 486 board

Posted on 2013-05-11, 14:22

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by iulianv

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Well, the board is tossed, but I kept the EPROM. I just "hot-saved" its contents on some socket7 board, using UNIFLASH - I'm attaching the file, hoping that is will be usable for you.

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Re: Help me decide Pentium Overdrive 83@100mhz vs Pentium 90

Posted on 2013-05-11, 10:21

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by iulianv

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mr_bigmouth_502 wrote: I wonder, are there any Socket 3 boards out there that incorporate both VLB and PCI? http://www.phantom.sannata.ru/forum/index.php?t=2933 http://mail.lipsia.de/~enigma/neu/pics/mainboard_ga486im.jpg

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Re: Finally scored a 25 mhz Harris

Posted on 2013-05-08, 15:04

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by iulianv

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I have the exact same board at home, received some time ago without a BIOS chip. I have a couple of 27C512 EPROMs but I recently discovered that, rather than looking for an UV eraser and a programmer, it should be easier to just use a DIP-32 flash chip - it requires a bit of work to adapt, but …

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Re: Barrel type CMOS battery

Posted on 2013-04-20, 16:12

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by iulianv

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Speaking of soldering coin-like cell holders instead of barrel-type batteries - how long does it usually take for the inferno to occur? 😀 I did this on several 386 and 486 boards, and would run them for hours without the CR2032s even getting warm...

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Re: Game skills you really suck at?

Posted on 2013-03-22, 08:44

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by iulianv

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My orientation skills are non existant so I suck playing RPG exploration games without automap. I sucked also playing Wolfenstein because of this too. :happyhappy: I suck at orientation too... sometimes the issue can be successfully overcome by "sticking to the same side" (for example in …

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Re: Seeking docs for a 486 board

Posted on 2013-03-16, 18:46

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by iulianv

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More than one year later, while cleaning around my desk and having nothing better to do, I thought I'd play with this board a bit. It didn't start as it was, but I found another photo online, set the jumpers like in the photo, and it POSTed with a 486DX2 CPU. BIOS ID string is 41-S203-428075- …

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Re: K6-2+ 550Mhz RetroPC

Posted on 2013-03-16, 18:02

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by iulianv

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What I like about that mainboard is that, no matter the slot, nothing stands in the way of long expansion cards...

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