Re: 486 mothervoard
Posted on 2011-09-03, 16:32
I probably will not bid on it - I am not really sure what I would really do with it. Did you notice one of the corners is broken?
Re: best hard drives
Posted on 2011-09-03, 16:00
The only WD drives I have ever had died within a year - that was enough for me, And yet last year I salvaged a computer off a garbage pile - that turned out to an old 11-gig WD drive that was still running. I gave it to a friend to use in and old 233 MHz computer.
Re: Good reading for people new to retro computing
Posted on 2011-09-03, 14:02
I've always enjoyed reading redhill - for some strange reason I never get tired of reading it 😦
Re: best hard drives
Posted on 2011-09-03, 13:49
The last time I got a maxtor it died in a few months. The replacement they sent died in a few months. I got a second replacement but never used it - by that time I said forget it.
486 motherboard
Posted on 2011-09-03, 13:34
What do you guys think about this motherboard? 😁 http://www.ebay.com/itm/Shuttle-HOT-433-v4-0- … =item35b4e3a249 The only thing that bothers me about it is that is has one of those Dallas CMOS batteries 😦
Re: best hard drives
Posted on 2011-09-02, 01:01
best hard drives
Posted on 2011-08-31, 22:36
I am sure this will open a big can of worms and may have been covered before - but who makes the best hard drives? Western Digital? Seagate? I have always been a Seagate fan - I have a whole slew of ST340016A (40-gig) drives - some approaching ten years old. Not one has failed. And yet I hear after …
Re: problems with DOS and TASM
Posted on 2011-08-22, 12:28
I want to thank everyone who made comments or offered suggestions here. I finally did get the program to work - by reserving a block of memory and having the BIOS call dump it there (as opposed ti dumping it directly to screen memory) Also - I believe the problem with PROC and ENP was actually due …
Re: Best version of Windows 95?
Posted on 2011-08-19, 01:52
I really don't see why people say win96 or i98 were so bad - I never had a problem with either of them crashing. I am still using 98 today. 😜
Re: problems with DOS and TASM
Posted on 2011-08-19, 01:35
I appreciate all the feedback :happyhappy: I had read about the stepper motor startup and did try calling the routine several times And I was trying to read only one sector. I was setting up the video screen (b800h) as the buffer, ES=B800h Actually in the original program I was reading it into A000H …
Re: Your first high performance pc.
Posted on 2011-08-18, 22:58
You guys are going to laugh - it was a 486 d4x/100. BUT consider the progression - I went from a C64 (used for a long time) to a used XT (short time) to a used 286 (short time) to the 486. 286 to 486 DX/4 was a big jump 😎
Re: These all in theory fit the same socket
Posted on 2011-08-18, 22:55
Re: problems with DOS and TASM
Posted on 2011-08-18, 22:44
What I don't understand is the fact that the code worked perfectly under windows 98 DOS. This is what I cam currently thinking. I'll bet windows 98 is not giving me the real int13h - it may even be replacing BIOS code with its own equivalent. Is it not possible that as motherboards advanced, int13h …
Re: What old game would you like to see remade?
Posted on 2011-08-17, 11:25
problems with DOS and TASM
Posted on 2011-08-16, 22:42
Hey All, I have a very puzzling problem and was hoping someone could shed some light on it. I was running Turbo Assembler (TASM) 2 under windows 98 and had written a program to read and write individual floppy disk sectors using the BIOS call. Now after building a real DOS box - the program will not …
Re: CPU limited
Posted on 2011-08-03, 12:24
I don't know about voodoo2's, but I have used voodoo3 in everything from a 233 MHz PMMX all the way to a 1000 MHz P3. The last gaming box had a p3-650. I was planning on replacing it with something faster - but that processor seemed more than fast enough for what I was doing (half-life, unreal, …
Re: buying versus building
Posted on 2011-08-03, 01:41
Thanks for all the replies here! I wasn't checking it because it says zero replies in the forum. What is up with that? My impression of pre-built PCs came from trying to replace a hard drive in a Compaq pentium-90. Turned out the ROM actually resided on a proprietary partition on the hard drive. …
Re: Slot A Athlon rig
Posted on 2011-07-27, 21:45
I have several cases just like that - Enlight 7250 😀
windows XP on Atlon XP 2400+
Posted on 2011-07-27, 16:42
I have an Athlon XP 2400+ that I was thinking about upgrading to Windows XP. Question - does this processor really have the horsepower for Windows XP? The board is an Asus AV7333, which I believe supports a maximum of 3 gigabytes of ram. One of the things I wanted it for was to run the Canon digital …
buying versus building
Posted on 2011-07-27, 16:37
What do you guys thing about buying versus building? Which is better? I have always built my own computers - that way you control what goes into them. But the last computer I built was an athlon XP and i am still running windows 98. I am not even sure what would a good board and CPU to get anymore. …
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