Re: Leak of Windows 11
Posted on 2021-06-16, 12:28
Re: Leak of Windows 11
Posted on 2021-06-16, 10:47
I just wondered when they will reitroduce round edges again. 2000s are comming back 😁
Re: Acceptable 3d accelerator for Pentium MMX era.
Posted on 2021-06-16, 10:37
Better get a TNT or a Geforce MX.
Re: GPU for 440BX machine with 133 MHz bus?
Posted on 2021-06-11, 10:08
I will give my two cents, a underclocked system is a long living system. Many of my Socket 7 and Slot 1/Socket 370 are most of the times underclocked. Few of them have switches at the front to change FSB and X.
Re: Asus p5a reboots running quake on IDT C6
Posted on 2021-06-08, 06:27
Yep. That does not make any sense. And the BIOSes are the same, compared them, they have the same checsum and CRC, sometimes a BIT can make a difference? Or just switch the BIOS chips, and try again.
Re: Asus p5a reboots running quake on IDT C6
Posted on 2021-06-08, 05:50
Maybe it does not have the needed instruction set, because IDT C6 is basically a 486. But a 486DX will run Quake. Maybe there are some math instructions missing, a 486SX will crap out, if you try to run Quake.
Re: Strange issues with 486 Tomato Board (help)
Posted on 2021-06-03, 06:30
x36 only mean, that you need PARITY memory, it mean 3 or 9 or 18 memory chips, not 2, 8, 16. EDO will only work with some few newer UMC based motherboards. Maybe some more. For 486 only use EDO.
Re: Windows 3.1 max requirements
Posted on 2021-05-27, 11:20
With a garden variety of Socket 7(Not Super) motherboard and a Pentium 7 motherboard yo can not do anything wrong, just do not change the voltages. Usual Pentium 200 will even run at 233, but I do not recommend it to use at long periods.
Re: Modern Ports (Engenes) for Classic Games
Posted on 2021-05-27, 11:10
Warcraft 2 BNE does not need a modern port.... and the "modern port" has a totally different feel and AI. It is the same with Tiberian Sun and Red Alert 2, these games are perfect as they are.
Re: Im making a frontend/manager for win9x games
Posted on 2021-05-27, 11:01
Re: FastDoom. A new Doom port for DOS, optimized to be as fast as possible for 386/486 personal computers!
Posted on 2021-05-27, 10:03
DOS/32A warning (9003): real mode interrupt vector had been modified: INT xxx These will occur with allmos all games where you replace DOS4GW with DOS32A I just (null) these text strings out from the DOS32A.EXE, I am kind a OCD with those kind of "annoyances".... These errors are not fatal in any …
Re: Sound card with low noise, non-stereo reversed wavetable support?
Posted on 2021-05-24, 11:46
Tiido, find me a known game, that ES1xxx cards can not handle. I have plenty of ES1868 and ES1869 based cards, never had a game, that crapped out with them. Yamaha OPL-SAx cad do have some issues, not only Duke Nukem 2. Have few Sound Blaster 16 and AWE 32/64 cards and ALS100 cards, but have not …
Re: Safe to use 100v AC adapter on 110/120v AC power?
Posted on 2021-05-21, 07:22
Are they switching or transformer PSU-s? And usually deviations in mains voltages are allowed. Today 2,5-5% in developing countries even 10%. but with old hardware you better not risk it.
Re: Adding a second HDD to a Compaq Deskpro 4000
Posted on 2021-05-20, 06:25
Better get a modern 80wire cable, that has those connectors close together and use that. Repressing old cables is basically just breaking them.
Re: Any suggestions for replacing a tiny power supply in an AT computer?
Posted on 2021-05-20, 06:15
Moore than sure that Black is Ground, Red is +5V, Yellow is+12V, Blue is -12V and White is -5v. Usually those mini motherboards start to work only with +5v and +12v. Few of them even start to work with only +5V.
Re: Aladdin (DOS) music - SB16 vs. SBPro vs. WSS
Posted on 2021-05-20, 06:10
Vogons is a wonderful place, we fix and update things that have been broken or need an update for over 25 years.
Re: Sleeper pc trend
Posted on 2021-05-20, 05:28
Never intended for my main PC to be a sleeper, but why buy a new mATX case for a 65W AMD Ryzen APU based computer. And the PSU is good quality, but "only" 350W.
Re: When publishers break software on purpose (Adobe in this case)
Posted on 2021-05-18, 12:37
You now there are good alternatives for opening and using DWG files. So AutoCAD is like MS Office, yo really do not have to use it, hey even our multinational company uses DraftSight.
Re: Windows 3.1 max requirements
Posted on 2021-05-18, 12:25
All Socket 5/7 CPU-s have a minimum speed grade at 1,5X and minumum FSB 50MHz, otherways they are unlocked. Only 233MHz Pentium MMX have some "magic" inside, but I have never owned one. But I have few motherboards that even produce some unofficial FSB-s like 40 or even 33. But at least you can …
Re: Windows 3.1 max requirements
Posted on 2021-05-17, 10:53
Underclock it to 166MMX and yo do not have those anoying Borland CRT error 200. But yes, I would say that Windows 3.1x will run on allmost anything, I mean really, i have tried it with a Core2Duo with a Nvidia card. Modified 256colos SVGA driver and PC-Speaker sound driver. And i did have 4GB on RAM …
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