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Hey, you can allways build a newer PCI based 486 rig. Or older ISA based rig. You have the freedom to just skip VLB era alltogether. Somehow VLB stuff never gave me any problems, well i never went over 33Mhz FSB limit. And usually only thing VLB in your rig should be the Video Card.

Re: Should I build a 486

Posted on 2020-01-29, 07:25

by Cyberdyne

in Milliways

It is all in the tastes and prefrences, in reality you can do everything with slot 1 440BX board, with hardware throttle and disabling internal cache. Sooooo... it it all in the prefrences and tastes, I own Computers from P3 era to 486 era, but mu main retro battlestation is a P3 600Mhz 440BX board …

Re: Compaq Prosignia 3080 / 486DX33

Posted on 2020-01-29, 06:59

by Cyberdyne

in Marvin \ System Specs

This thing looks like a precursor to ATX standard....

Socket 479 (Pentium M) Motherboard with DMA enabled ISA. Models?

Posted on 2019-12-17, 13:25

by Cyberdyne

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I want to make a all in ome modernish DOS machine, and i thing a Socket 479 Pentium M board wolud be perfect for that, because those Pentium 4 boards are power hungry and Core 2 is bit overkill. Maybe someone have some experience, and maybe there are models with built in speed throttling.

Re: Delusional performance of a 486 DX33

Posted on 2019-12-16, 14:18

by Cyberdyne

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

So strange to think i played all full Quake in 1996 from start to end with software rendering 320x200 and with a 486 DX-2/66 god, back in the day we were true masochists. :dead: I got a Pentium 133 in 1998... everything flied in there, but another sadistic period started, Half-Life with a Pentium …

Re: The Asperger's Syndrome Thread

Posted on 2019-11-27, 14:22

by Cyberdyne

in Milliways

Fucking love your original post, i struggle with depression and anxiety. I do have that same weird hobby, but i am not a garden variety nerd. But i also hate violence and agression, and Douchebag/Neandetrhal type peole, and the world is full of them. :lol: A show of hands please. How many have it, …

Re: 386dx cpu die architecture

Posted on 2019-11-27, 07:21

by Cyberdyne

in Milliways

386 does not have any cache.

Re: SVGA DOS applications don't work with GeForce 2MX (ELSA Gladiac 511)

Posted on 2019-11-12, 13:00

by Cyberdyne

in Marvin \ Video

Usually if in dos something is wrong, et problem is with a memory managers etc... maybe you will show us your config.sys and autoexec.bat.

Re: What to do when Windows 7 support ends in a few weeks time?

Posted on 2019-10-31, 07:29

by Cyberdyne

in Milliways

For me Windows 3.1 Button and control system, and Windows 9x user interface. Soooo... Calmira. We really did not have to go higher. Ok but i really like that soft Windows 7 look, and hate that boxy 8/10 look.

Re: 486 SX 16 & 20 MHz

Posted on 2019-10-27, 17:55

by Cyberdyne

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

They usually run totally good in 25mhz and even 33mhz.

Re: Retro machines usefulness/connectivity thread

Posted on 2019-10-22, 20:31

by Cyberdyne

in Marvin \ Software

Is it just me, but i can not connect to modern FTP servers with mtcp. I made a Bakop free FTP server, but no deal.

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-10-22, 20:17

by Cyberdyne

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Sooooo 8MB video ram for a S3 Vision.... Why?

Re: Ess es1868f or Soundblaster awe64 value ct4380

Posted on 2019-10-17, 09:03

by Cyberdyne

in Marvin \ Sound

The MONO only problem occurs only with like few games. Allmost all games are SB16 aware, even in Stereo 8bit mode.

Re: Why is Windows install ScanDisk lying about an error on my HDD?

Posted on 2019-10-17, 08:58

by Cyberdyne

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Make your last partition one cluster smaller. (Make tiny space in the end of hard drive). Some hard drives have that common problem. It is not critical.

Re: Faster - SCSI or IDE-CF

Posted on 2019-10-17, 06:26

by Cyberdyne

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

It is like with LAN cards, modems, 2D or 3D acceleration and everything. It all depends on the cpu. And how good is the acceleration. Think of IDE as a verry fast framebuffer and SCSI as a 2D accelerated. Thats simple.