Re: Few Questions about Geforce 6200

Posted on 2015-06-20, 16:33

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by EverythingOldIsNewAgain

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I'm looking for a PCI (not Express) version of the Geforce 6200 for an OEM box. I read that manufacturers did not have to specify 64-bit or 128-bit memory addressing for the card. Some questions I had. Thanks in advance! 1. Can you tell 64-bit from 128-bit with just a visual inspection of the card? …

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Re: Help with an old 80386 motherboard (ATI-386/B2 rev. C00)

Posted on 2015-05-29, 00:29

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by EverythingOldIsNewAgain

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Thank you for your replies! I finally managed to get it stable enough to boot something, and EZ-Drive plus a slightly modified Windows 98 boot disk has it up and running with an 80GB IDE hard drive (fully partitioned) and a 16X DVD/RW. A bit overkill, but I plugged them in and it recognized them …

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Re: win95 or 98 for high end 486?

Posted on 2015-05-27, 16:08

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by EverythingOldIsNewAgain

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I always felt Windows 98 chugged on a 486. It never seemed to matter how much RAM I through at it, it felt demonstrably slower - mainly with shell dialogs. Which is ironic because I felt IE actually performed reasonably well on these same machines. One option if you can live with the quirks and …

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Re: Help with an old 80386 motherboard (ATI-386/B2 rev. C00)

Posted on 2015-05-27, 14:13

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by EverythingOldIsNewAgain

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Windows 2000 Setup won't even load on a 386. Nor will NT4. i486 instruction checks for InterlockedCompareExchange & InterlockedExchangeAdd were added at that milestone. NT 3.51 SP5 is the end-of-the line for 80386 PC's. As for Win9x, you can actually force-install up to Windows Me. Although I …

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Re: internet in 286 windows 3.1 ?

Posted on 2014-11-07, 12:16

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by EverythingOldIsNewAgain

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Won't work, even Cello and NCSA Mosaic already required a Win 3.x running on a 386 in enhanced mode. Better try DOSLynx or maybe Arachne. I did manage to get an early version Mosaic connected using winpkt.com and Trumpnet Winsock 1.1 but the results were less than stella, which is to be expected I …

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Re: Don't laugh... Anyone have any love for Packard Bell?

Posted on 2014-10-01, 08:24

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by EverythingOldIsNewAgain

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I dealt with lots of PB's back in the day. Contrary to what I've always heard (even then), I never found them all that unreliable. Quite the opposite actually. They were however often bizarrely proprietary which was a pain in the ass to deal with.

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Re: Modern graphics on a 486

Posted on 2014-09-30, 12:29

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by EverythingOldIsNewAgain

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cdoublejj wrote: i was expecting a PCI GT-440 🤣 pshh. We need a V5 6000K SiS 486 system with an AGP2PCI adapter. 😉

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Re: Does this annoy anyone else?

Posted on 2014-08-06, 07:25

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by EverythingOldIsNewAgain

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It really gets my goat when people post videos on YouTube of Windows 95 running under DosBox, especially on things like phones, tablets, and consoles, mainly because it gives people the impression that "ZOMG I CAN PLAY MY OLD WINDOZE GAMES ON MY PHONE!!!1!1!!" I've played around with Win95 in …

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Re: Most recent DOS game releases, ever?

Posted on 2014-08-06, 07:22

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by EverythingOldIsNewAgain

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Define commercial. :P. Petrila Entertainment which is basically one guy who apparently is now in politics released a number of DOS shooters around 2000-2002ish. Most were politically themed. All but one were freeware. Since the DOS Games Archive site is not working for me at the moment for some …

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Re: Free upgrades to Windows 9 possible

Posted on 2014-08-06, 07:08

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by EverythingOldIsNewAgain

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A "free" Win9, depending upon what it ends up being, would be a rather smart move on their part. They make very little from end-user sales. The money is in OEM licenses. It's a small hit with a potentially big gain. and work on making backwards compatibility with legacy software better for all. That …

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Re: AMD 5x86 Models & Production Dates

Posted on 2014-08-06, 06:58

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by EverythingOldIsNewAgain

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In that case, I'll check those out. No worries, I've done it myself before. 🤣

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Re: AMD 5x86 Models & Production Dates

Posted on 2014-08-06, 04:32

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by EverythingOldIsNewAgain

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ElectricMonk wrote: I think I found it. 😜 Har har! There's a bing one too. I'm aware of the general details (as I noted), I just wanted to know if there was a consensus around here as to which ones (if any) clocked better.

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AMD 5x86 Models & Production Dates

Posted on 2014-08-06, 03:15

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by EverythingOldIsNewAgain

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Of the non-surface mounted 5x86's, it appears there is the ADH, ADY, ADZ, and BGC models. My understanding is that the chips were manufactured through 1999 although I've read some reports of later dates (it seems AMD manufactured other 486's into the early 2000's). Is there a general consensus on …

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Re: 486 four-eighty-six or four-eight-six?

Posted on 2014-07-16, 22:47

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by EverythingOldIsNewAgain

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I always called it four-eighty-six as well. Of course Intel informs me that 486DX4 parts are to be referred to as IntelDX4™. 😈

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Re: Do-it-yourself PSU for Optiplex GXPro

Posted on 2014-07-16, 22:44

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by EverythingOldIsNewAgain

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@boxpressed - thanks for taking the time to scan that for me. That's exactly the information I needed! @cdoublejj - I now see that they do. I guess I was trying to overly complicate this... Anyway, problem solved!

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Re: Old computers for daily tasks?

Posted on 2014-06-19, 00:53

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by EverythingOldIsNewAgain

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My 486 DX2/66 running DOS 6.22/WFWG311 runs 24/7 right next to my Windows 7 64-bit Pentium D! I'm often working on stuff on them both at the same time, and often times their tasks overlap. The Pentium-D is not that new either , it's 7 years old. Oh sure, you can still do plenty of stuff with a …

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Do-it-yourself PSU for Optiplex GXPro

Posted on 2014-06-17, 00:15

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by EverythingOldIsNewAgain

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So I have an old OptiPlex GXPro whose PSU is going bad. Reading the manual, it seems that Dell used a proprietary quasi-ATX-but-not format. Given that Dell provides the power pin layout schematic, is it not possible to just take a new ATX PSU and connect the wires up the way the Dell specs demand? …

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Re: Hardware MP3 acceleration & the Diamond MX400

Posted on 2014-06-16, 09:50

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by EverythingOldIsNewAgain

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Thanks for the mention of these other cards. They all appear easier to obtain than the MX400. Sounds like I have a new experiment. 😀

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Re: Is Windows 2000 good for anything?

Posted on 2014-06-16, 09:48

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by EverythingOldIsNewAgain

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I was a hold out for a few years after XP came out but overtime my own (subjective) experiences as well as reading some of the architectural changes (such as they were from NT5->5.1) convinced me there's generally little reason to stick with 2000. If your system works well with 2000, it will …

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Re: Old computers for daily tasks?

Posted on 2014-06-16, 09:24

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by EverythingOldIsNewAgain

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I used a PII/400 (upgraded) Compaq laptop as a "daily driver" through 2007. I had other, up-to-date desktop machines, but as I didn't game much on laptops, it was still usable up until that time for word processing (Office XP), internet browsing (I believe I actually used a tabbed shell on-top of …

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