Re: The merits of Socket 7 processors - Intel P54C/P55C | AMD K5/K6/K6-2 | Cyrix/IBM 6x86 | IDT Winchip

Posted on 2020-07-16, 12:44

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by BSA Starfire

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Well to be honest,I suspect most people here are gonna tell you Intel Pentium MMX, and that is fair, especially if your going to want to play quake as well as it can be on the platform(Quake was hand coded for the Intel Pentium FPU and performs far better on the intel part because of it, and as …

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Re: Your favorite retro socket/platform

Posted on 2020-07-13, 13:20

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by BSA Starfire

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Socket 7/super 7 for me, it has such a range of things to play with, Intel Pentium & Pentium MMX, AMD k5, K6, K6-2, K6-III, Cyrix 6x86, MX, MII, Idt Winchip C6, C6-2, RiSE MP6 CPU's. you can use ISA, PCI and AGP video cards, ISA and PCI sound cards. chipsets where available from many makers too …

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Re: SiS 6326 AGP great card!

Posted on 2020-07-13, 12:26

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by BSA Starfire

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I did a bunch of testing with 3 versions of the SiS 6326 recently, first the C3 revision that was built into my ECS socket 7 motherboard, this had 4MB VRAM and connected via internal AGP bus. Second a PCI 6326 H0 revision with 4MB VRAM and finally a PCI 6326 H0 Revision with 8MB VRAM. The C3 …

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Re: Demo for GUS on 286?

Posted on 2020-07-08, 19:52

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by BSA Starfire

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Indeed! I bought my Amiga A500 back in 1987, my first pay packet in fact! I recall my pal's having neat things on the Commodore 64 at that time or so, but not till the DX/2 66 was a standard computer do I recall seeing stuff on the PC, second reality is the one I remember.

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Re: Demo for GUS on 286?

Posted on 2020-07-08, 19:43

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by BSA Starfire

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WOW! I didn't realise the demo scene took in the 286! I always assumed it was a post 386 thing as all those guys were on Amiga/ST/64 till the 486 DX/2 66 came along and made the PC seem like a worthwhile proposition performance wise. I know we have had some awesome stuff for the old PC/XT class …

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Re: Anyone collect foreign computers?

Posted on 2020-07-04, 15:15

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by BSA Starfire

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I think Amiga was pretty much international? I know they were exceptionally common in the UK and Europe, I've seen them for sale in Japan(not often, but BEEP had a few last year) and Commodore was an American company so I'd assume they were fairly common there?

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-07-02, 15:22

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by BSA Starfire

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As my HP Proliant ML 115 G5 is so picky about graphics cards(it so far has only run properly with a Geforce 6800(NV 41) card). I bought this PNY Geforce 9600 GT off fleabay. hopefully it'll work OK, it obviously needs a full clean out and service, poor thing looks choked with dust. Filename geforce …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-07-02, 15:14

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by BSA Starfire

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This is a catch up post, all these cards have been bought over the last four months or so, most recent was the Radeon HD 5870, I'm not even that comfortable about putting these buys here as I'm using these cards in my daily driver machines, so yes they are kinda old, but I'm using them for modern …

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Re: ISA video cards in DOS - where is the cap?

Posted on 2020-07-02, 14:23

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by BSA Starfire

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Best speed I have found for 386 was a Western digital WDC90C30 512K, it has no problems with scrolling on commander Keen games or other compatibility issues(the Tseng while FAST is known to have some compatibility problems with certain games of the era). There is also a WDC90C31 that has Windows …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2020-06-30, 18:45

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by BSA Starfire

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Playing a steam game from the sale myself, first modern(ish) PC game I have played for years. Euro Truck Simulator 2(linux version), It's addictive as all hell but I have no idea why I like it, in the real world I hate driving, detest parking and I'm rubbish at making money! LOL Go figure...... …

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Re: Computer projects you would have liked to have been a part of ?

Posted on 2020-06-28, 15:49

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by BSA Starfire

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Videoton Hungary in the 80's. They lacked the resources western companies had but still developed quality personal computers and even kept up with IBM. Most of these computers (especially the VT-models) are super rare now. I'd like to hear more about that. Not a company I have heard mentioned …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-06-26, 05:31

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by BSA Starfire

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bjwil1991 wrote on 2020-06-26, 02:51: Bought this mystery box today for a damn good price. […] Show full quote Bought this mystery box today for a damn good price. More pics to follow plus a YouTube video. Awesome, I have that exact case, mine has a 286-20MHz in it currently, but the machine …

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Re: Riva TNT vs MX400

Posted on 2020-06-26, 05:29

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by BSA Starfire

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The 2 chips were some years apart. Btw you have any pics of the cards and are you planning on testing more cards? Tbf, TNT1 doesn't seem like a very useful retro card to me, but at least your had less of the weird artefacting you are decribing :P I meant to mention that in my post - edited. Amazing …

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Re: Identifying my XT clone

Posted on 2020-06-25, 12:33

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by BSA Starfire

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I think I can help identify the monitor, TRL (Taiwan Royal Limited).

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Re: Your oldest favorite computer game?

Posted on 2020-06-01, 06:10

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by BSA Starfire

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Star Raiders 1979 Atari 400/800. Elite Acornsoft 1984 BBC Model B.

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-05-26, 16:17

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by BSA Starfire

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Set up my Commodore 16 on a 14" CRT TV with composite cable and loaded and played some games off cassette. Pizza Pete(a Burgertime type game), Minipede(a centipede alike by Anirog), Skramble(Anirog), Cruncher(Pac-Man clone Solar software) ,3D Time Trek(Star raiders type by Anirog), Spectipede( …

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Re: A new covid lockdown project - help if you can

Posted on 2020-05-26, 14:42

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by BSA Starfire

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

OK, will do, thanks!

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Re: A new covid lockdown project - help if you can

Posted on 2020-05-26, 13:00

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by BSA Starfire

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Thanks! I'll make those disks up and take a look! Something new for the 286 & 386 😀

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Re: A new covid lockdown project - help if you can

Posted on 2020-05-26, 08:37

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by BSA Starfire

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Really pleased to find an old game in my pile of 5.25 inch floppies from about 1983 .. A very excellent and much loved by me back in my teens ...game. A well coded DOS version of the strategy game MAHJONGG. To be honest I can't believe it survived intact all this time without bit rot setting in. …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2020-05-23, 17:47

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by BSA Starfire

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Star Wars Episode 1 Racer on my Cyrix MII, SiS 6326 machine.

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