Re: Gateway 2000 P5-60 and Tekram DC-290N

Posted on 2023-06-30, 09:18

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by coherentbaboon

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I figured that it would be a good idea to follow-up on my previous posts with an update on the machine. I'm still not 100% there, but a lot closer. I did indeed verify that there were no IRQ conflicts and came to the conclusion that as this machine has date codes for November 1993, I likely have a …

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Re: Gateway 2000 P5-60 and Tekram DC-290N

Posted on 2023-05-26, 07:40

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by coherentbaboon

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the original batman board is quite rare, i don't even recall it being discussed here beyond people mistaking batman's revenge for it. if it really turns out that these boards can't run any PCI IDE controller that'd be an interesting discovery. you could try some SCSI hardware if you have it, though …

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Gateway 2000 P5-60 and Tekram DC-290N

Posted on 2023-05-22, 18:57

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by coherentbaboon

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Hello all, This is a problem that has had me pulling my hair out for some weeks now and I am finally calling for help. I own a late 1993 Gateway 2000 P5-60 complete with FDIV bug enabled Pentium 60. I have been trying to supplement the ISA based IDE controller on the Intel Batman motherboard (not …

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Re: Olivetti M4-40/PCS-44C/Familia2 setup disk

Posted on 2023-04-28, 08:05

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by coherentbaboon

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biessea wrote on 2023-04-28, 07:47: Please someone can help me? I'm stuck on that connector, I cannot use that nice old Olivetti! I have had a look at my PCS-44C and I have a plain PS/2 connector. It may be worth starting a new thread and also showing exactly what computer you have. I'm so sorry, I …

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Re: The K6 DOS Gaming Machine

Posted on 2021-11-19, 20:47

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by coherentbaboon

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Well this has been an entertaining week. I am not much further with the build, though this is not for want of trying. A few points to note; Sound card issue was a hidden IRQ conflict. This is now resolved and I have decided to just keep the Orpheus in the system. My S3 AGP graphics card has not come …

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Re: The K6 DOS Gaming Machine

Posted on 2021-11-12, 14:12

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by coherentbaboon

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Did the AWE/Vortex combination would have work? Would think that was a tried and tested setup? Or maybe it's just no one has tried the dos version of Simcity 2000 on a multi card setup Anyway nice list of hardware in that rig even without the 2nd sound card. I would have gone with the Virge over …

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Re: Orpheus Soundcard: a new DOS soundcard with SPDIF/OPL3/MPU support

Posted on 2021-11-12, 11:28

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by coherentbaboon

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Hi all. I received my card a few weeks back and I have to admit to starting to pull my hair out with it. The card does work, but for quite a few (but not all) DOS games, I just simply get no sound effects out of it at all. Doom, Duke Nukem 3d and Simcity 2000 all refuse to play any sound effects, …

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The K6 DOS Gaming Machine

Posted on 2021-11-12, 08:09

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by coherentbaboon

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I'm posting this in old hardware - but this project is of interest to people into vintage sound cards and 3DFx. I'm going to give some background and bring you up to speed with where I'm at today. A couple of years ago, I built a computer that was meant to cover almost the whole spectrum of 90's PC …

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Re: Olivetti M4-40/PCS-44C/Familia2 setup disk

Posted on 2020-05-04, 18:02

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by coherentbaboon

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I just want to say thank you very much for this. I am terribly grateful.

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Re: MS-DOS Time-Machine Gaming - Mau1wurf1977's YT Videos

Posted on 2013-05-22, 04:33

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by coherentbaboon

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I don't suppose you could point me to the relevant driver could you? I can't seem to find it. I'll test Throttle some more, but to date it's worked well for me. The programmer has created a new version that works specifically with the board (ALI are breaking the PCI specification which is stopping a …

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Re: MS-DOS Time-Machine Gaming - Mau1wurf1977's YT Videos

Posted on 2013-05-21, 19:38

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by coherentbaboon

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I've been following this with great interest as I'm in the finishing stages of building my own setup. Something that may be of interest to you is throttle. At present it doesn't work with the motherboard you're using, but I'm currently working with the developer to see if it's possible to make it …

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Re: Future Retro PC Project

Posted on 2012-12-12, 00:17

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by coherentbaboon

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I'm inclined to agree. I don't know how recent the games are that you want to play, but an 8800GT or better yet a GTS250 would be pretty awesome for most games as this seems to be a baseline modern developers target and stupidly quick for older games with broad compatibility. I say better yet for …

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Re: Future Retro PC Project

Posted on 2012-12-11, 22:45

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by coherentbaboon

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There's very little difference between the 5670 and 6670 in terms of performance, the latter is faster but it is a marginal increase. There is certainly something to be said for going the nvidia route if you want better opengl performance and compatibility. One thing I would watch out for is the …

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Re: GAG and multiple legacy OS support

Posted on 2012-12-08, 15:43

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by coherentbaboon

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Appreciate the feedback. Well aware of the Windows 3.1 memory issue and the inability to use more than 256Mb of RAM is not an issue. I simply placed an artificial limit on how much memory the OS was allowed to use to stop it from crashing. Will be interested in patches for the operating system …

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Re: GAG and multiple legacy OS support

Posted on 2012-12-08, 14:44

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by coherentbaboon

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OK, so I thought I'd provide a brief update. I've had limited time so I'm still experimenting, but I have thus far had considerable success using the boot manager utility supplied with xfdisk , which has been extremely light, simple and effective. The hardware has been changed out to a dual 700MHz …

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Re: GAG and multiple legacy OS support

Posted on 2012-11-21, 18:14

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by coherentbaboon

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Well these points are absolutely valid, but let's see how it goes. I like the sound of PLOP and in all honesty I don't anticipate messing with files on one OS from the other OS, so I suspect the hiding of partitions won't be a big issue. I still can't see a reason to go with Windows 95 over Windows …

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Re: GAG and multiple legacy OS support

Posted on 2012-11-21, 17:25

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by coherentbaboon

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Windows 3.x was a trainwreck in my mind, and I would suspect that a 16-bit application capable of taking down Windows 95 ought to be just as capable of ruining Windows 3.x. But to each his own. Windows 95 would get brought down because of its attempts to retain backwards compatibility. It was …

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Re: GAG and multiple legacy OS support

Posted on 2012-11-21, 16:53

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by coherentbaboon

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As an addendum - not had chance to work on the computer yet, every time I try to do anything something - or someone else does something to stop me. May try again tomorrow before I go to work.

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Re: GAG and multiple legacy OS support

Posted on 2012-11-21, 16:52

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by coherentbaboon

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The issue with the other boot drives being hidden is frankly a bonus to me rather than a serious issue. Once the system is set up then I will want the drives to be hidden from the other operating systems if only to satisfy my OCD. If I need to mess with files on the drive from Windows then I will …

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Re: GAG and multiple legacy OS support

Posted on 2012-11-21, 14:06

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by coherentbaboon

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I'll be looking into PLOP with great interest. I've held off installing GAG for now so that I can go through the documentation and try this out. Thank you very much indeed, the tip is much appreciated.

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