Re: Boards with cool graphics on them.
Posted on 2023-08-05, 14:39
AMD Solo 2 motherboard (engineering sample for Athlon 64) has two interesting prints: a hammer (codename for the architecture) and some music notes that represent the Intel-jingle.
Re: Has anyone tried Wing Commander on a 386 SX-40?
Posted on 2023-06-21, 09:57
Some motherboards allow you to select the bus frequency or have options in changing the oscillator crystal. This way you might have an option in clocking the SX40 at 33MHz if it turns out to be too fast. If you have a luxury motherboard (probably not, the SX40 was mostly used in budget systems) you …
Re: What game are you playing now?
Posted on 2023-04-24, 18:14
Unreal is indeed a graphical gem. I always loved the Glide graphics with Unreal but in it's day the game got overshadowed by Half Life since it has the better gameplay I think (and I like the interaction with professors and Barneys). But I do share your experience: since a week or three I started …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2023-04-02, 06:56
Kahenraz wrote on 2023-04-01, 20:40: Fixed a Dell Inspiron 5555 today. Not really retro. Just old. It was as easy as a motherboard swap, and this laptop is very easy to disassemble. The old board had a short on it… So basically it was Easy as Dell? 😉 (Last 5 seconds of this commercial) https:// …
Re: My K6-2 has a rare datecode, apparently
Posted on 2022-11-20, 09:18
MPM has nothing to do with the datecode. The four digits are the datecode:0003 is 3th week of 2000. I believe the MPM-part indicates which part of the wafer the die has been cut out. Inner parts are more pure than outer parts. Back in 2003 when overclocking the Athlon XP was the way to go you wanted …
Re: ATI Rage Fury MAXX
Posted on 2022-11-05, 17:21
On my Tualatin 1400 benchmark system with i815 chipset I had to disable AGP4x support in the BIOS to make the card shell out some pixels 😀. I used the Rage 128 / Rage 128 Pro 4.13.7192 (Win98) drivers. Can’t recall having major issues although I haven’t used the card for an extensive period.
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2022-08-14, 16:56
3DFX Voodoo2 - Gainward Dragon 3000 12MB PCI (Boxed) (1998) interesting, didn't the gainward 3000 cards usually have green heatsinks and a different PCB layout? Mine has a different lay-out but no heatsinks (or someone removed them…). The part number is ICUVGA-GW803N whereas Artex’ card doesn’t …
Re: paste in socket
Posted on 2022-04-12, 14:54
I think brake cleaner in a spray can will work, too. I've cleaned many parts with alcohol but some of the thermal paste will withstand alcohol quite good and brake cleaner often is the answer. All the parts I've cleaned (including total motherboards) with brake cleaner still work perfectly. Do make …
Re: SUCCESSFUL K6-2+ to K6-3+ Full Cache Enable Mod
Posted on 2022-02-22, 21:30
Would be interesting to see if the chip will overclock higher with 0KB L2-cache :). There wouldn't be much point in that. Lack of L2 cache will more than offset any gains from overclocking. Think Celeron-266 vs. P2-266. Of course but I wonder if overclocking that last 50MHz is fighting against L2- …
Re: SUCCESSFUL K6-2+ to K6-3+ Full Cache Enable Mod
Posted on 2022-02-22, 21:14
So has anyone tested what happens if instead of moving the 0 ohm resitor it's just taken away? Will it report 0 kb of cache? Legends say that if you connect all resistors you’ll end up with a magical AMD K6-IV with 384KB L2-cache :P. Serious note: Would be interesting to see if the chip will …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2022-02-07, 12:13
The 233MHz ceramic P1 MMX CPUs are all fake. This one was really made with that sspec and frequency in the ceramic package At first glance I don't see it as being a counterfeit, but perhaps I'm overlooking something here? Are you suggesting that all ceramic packages with an MMX label are fake or …
Re: 2D card performance under Windows 9X
Posted on 2022-01-13, 17:35
Did you install DirectX? How does your system perform in other area's? Try benchmarking with Doom and CPUMark '99 😀.
Re: Motherboards with good onboard graphics cards?
Posted on 2021-12-29, 06:53
The LifeTec MT29 (Pentium 3 500, 64MB in late 1999. Sold by Aldi in Germany and the Netherlands) had an MSI motherboard with Riva TNT2 M64 on-board. Not ‘really cool’ in 1999 but one could have worse ;). The later models (667MHz in mid-2000) had 128MB and a Riva TNT2 AGP card (so not on-board …
Re: Why some of my floppy disk are unreadable?
Posted on 2021-12-26, 08:30
Almost all disks I’ve encountered that we’re difficult to read have been stored improperly and suffer from mold infection. You can slide the metal cover away and take a look at the disk inside. If it’s not clean then stop immediatly. Using dirty disks will also contaminate the heads in your drive …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2021-12-21, 10:17
OMORES wrote on 2021-12-19, 13:15: This Number Nine video card (Savage4 Xtreme) with an unusual DVI to VGA implementation... The card works! Working…. Eight days a week! Look closely against a light 😉
Re: Best CGA & Hercules monochrome games
Posted on 2021-10-22, 10:52
Creative Contraptions The Incredible Machine for CGA ? I guess you can indeed see this as a precursor to the Incredible Machine, but with better graphics! ;) This topic needs more screenshots! Let those CGA-colors shine! Creative Contraptions: CGA all the way :). It also uses the blue background- …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2021-10-13, 05:58
This just arrived, another NOS Antec power supply. I only like to run new high quality PSUs in my retro systems to make sure the power is good. These were the biz back in the day and it has a very heavy 5V rail. https://i.ibb.co/QpB7RKg/20211012-183423.jpg Not all of the Truepower models are good. …
Re: What model is this ISA board?
Posted on 2021-10-10, 19:25
Looks like Gigabyte GA586-HX.
Re: Amiga 500 workbench help kickstart roms
Posted on 2021-10-10, 06:17
Hi I found this. https://amigastore.eu/en/826-dual-kickstart-rom-flash-adapter-switcher-.html Has this got both the Kickstarters already on the chip? It may be what I'm looking for thx Yes, that will work. Amigastore.eu is generally ok to order from.. but don't expect any support/RMA if something …
Re: Best CGA & Hercules monochrome games
Posted on 2021-10-08, 17:32
This topic needs more screenshots! Let those CGA-colors shine! Creative Contraptions: CGA all the way 😀. It also uses the blue background-color that is not always used in games. Filename Contrap.png File size 4.58 KiB Views 1165 views
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