Re: Example/How To: DOS/Windows 98 Virtualization+Passthrough (over Thunderbolt!) with Proxmox (QEMU/KVM)

Posted on 2023-05-18, 20:00

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by hyoenmadan

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From that forum, it says: We still need to implement some words to Openbios for nVidia FCode ROM's, and I don't think the patch Zotan commited for the Rage128's words are upstream in Openbios, yet. This means passthrough wasn't working for Nvidia cards at time, only ATI, and looks like only Rage128. …

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Re: PCMCIA Graphics and Video decoding cards

Posted on 2023-04-27, 18:10

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by hyoenmadan

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Got VTBook, tried to install on PCG-505tr with 4 variants of W2K SP4/5, 1 WinXp SP3 - no luck, it always BSODs, any order installing the card itself and the drivers. No VTBook inserted - OK, the system boots and works excellent, inserting in Windows or before power on always leads to BSOD. Drivers …

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Re: 486 Intergraph TD1 issues getting network and sound to work (Linux, DOS/Win311, NT4)

Posted on 2023-04-25, 14:43

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by hyoenmadan

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.. not sure how to do it in NT4 and linux EISA DOS ICU Utilities store their values in NVRAM, and good behaved BIOSes take them from there next boot. So, once you change them in DOS, them will be available for NT4 and Linux (on NT4 you will need to install the ISAPnP Driver bundled in the OS …

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

Posted on 2023-04-21, 03:26

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by hyoenmadan

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I once dropped a piece of wire on the back of an open MacBook Pro and the whole thing burst into flames. So Apple cr*p battery cells don't have internal protection fuses in the cells themselves, which even Acer chinesium made ones have? This is yet another case of "think different" Apple genius …

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Re: VLSI SuperCore 590 Chipset - Cachable RAM Amount?

Posted on 2023-04-20, 20:22

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by hyoenmadan

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Also yeah, something tells me that the VLSI chipset wasn't really that widely adopted. That's especially considering how Intel was really starting to throw down the gauntlet in the chipset arena when they developed the Pentium. They were busier doing chipsets for non-x86 platforms, like M68k Macs …

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Re: Slot A thunderbirds

Posted on 2023-04-11, 05:16

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by hyoenmadan

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Isn't the fun of running a slot A AMD Athlon to use the AMD Irongate chipset? Wasn't the Irongate Chipset just a rebadged and "shrunk to one silicon die" DEC chipset for the Alpha, which was licensed by AMD to use it with their Athlon CPUs? I remember reading about some Alpha boards with the AMD …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-04-10, 03:20

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by hyoenmadan

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Picked this up for £5 today at a car boot sale. Seems to work just fine! Although it boots into a chinese install of windows XP SP2. These small laptops dont have batteries or floppy/cd drives so installing windows 98se will be fun. Pentioum 3 500mhz 320mb ram Unsure yet on VGA but google says 4mb …

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Re: Why this BIOS post looks widescreen?

Posted on 2023-04-10, 03:10

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by hyoenmadan

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I had one of these like 20years ago, but the 17" model. It failed with this very issue. Vertical deflection problems... More specific, my case was due failing caps (LG StudioWorks line used chinese trash caps... At least the SKU which was being sold in my area/country). At time I just trashed it …

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Re: Is there a good tool to inspect MPS (not ACPI) tables?

Posted on 2023-03-28, 14:33

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by hyoenmadan

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This is incorrect , given I posted the following screen shot clearly showing NT 3.51 + MPS 1.4 working I am at a loss as to how you can post this. Windows NT Service Pack 5 Service Pack 5 for NT3.51 brought MPS v1.4 support, backported from NT4 SP4, I would say rather "experimental" support. But …

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Re: IBM PS/2 Model 90 XP 486, no post, no beeps, just blinking cursor.

Posted on 2023-03-28, 14:21

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by hyoenmadan

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luckybob wrote on 2023-03-28, 02:47: oh I've had a rough weekend, I really needed that laugh. Glad to hear you got it going. Well... Sometimes miracles happen 😜.

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Re: Is there a good tool to inspect MPS (not ACPI) tables?

Posted on 2023-03-28, 13:59

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by hyoenmadan

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Having the MPS table is one thing. Whether the MPS table is correct enough for OSes like old NT (3.51/4.0) to actually boot with the respective HAL is another. NT3.5 and NT4.0 [HALMPS] will only work with MPS revision 1.1 of the specification , full stop. Windows 2000 [HALMPS] MAY work with MPS …

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Re: IBM PS/2 Model 90 XP 486, no post, no beeps, just blinking cursor.

Posted on 2023-03-28, 02:36

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by hyoenmadan

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IBM PS/2 era planars are very prone to develop solder micro cracks and pad rupture, specially around the IBM propietary ASICs. YT @CuriousMarc has documented how sneaky those board failures can be. Take this in account when diagnosing problem with your board.

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

Posted on 2023-03-25, 20:57

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by hyoenmadan

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Of course it is, draws on all the same interface conventions as it's predecessors like Visi On and Gem Actually, one of the reasons why Windows beaten the ***p on GEM was that, for some reason, Digital Research decided to no port their MP/M-86 multitask kernel to PC so GEM could provide actual …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-03-25, 20:36

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by hyoenmadan

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P-EISA boards like those with the HiNT Caesar chipset do not use Dallas NVRAM modules, however. They have starkly different NVRAM setups. Because later boards store the ESCD data into BIOS main eeprom. This means if you change your hardware too much, the main eeprom would get tired in certain areas …

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Re: 2D Acceleration - first chipsets

Posted on 2023-03-20, 04:51

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by hyoenmadan

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But that's the problem. What does "successful" really mean? Money? Fame? Ask Jobs and Apple. They never really invented anything, but people attributes them as inventors of personal computing, MP3 players, tablets, smartphones and many other stuff (In future probably they will be seen as the ones …

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Re: Get more than 16 IRQs in Win98SE?

Posted on 2023-03-19, 03:04

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by hyoenmadan

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From ReactOS archived knowledge, you learn Win98 actually implemented ACPI 1.1 in SCI mode. This is what you would call "ACPI Legacy Mode" or "ACPI in PIC mode". Windows 2000 and XP also implement this mode in the so called "ACPI Standard PC" HAL (HALAACPI). In this mode chipset hardware arbiters …

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Re: 2D Acceleration - first chipsets

Posted on 2023-03-19, 02:32

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by hyoenmadan

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how is it acceleration works only for the GUI or Windows? Your answer is in http://www.os2museum.com/wp/display-drivers-os2-and-16-bit-windows/ and https://www.os2museum.com/wp/undocumented-vflatd/ . The whole articles and the comments. TL;DR: Back then graphic vendors were supposed to implement …

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Re: Get more than 16 IRQs in Win98SE?

Posted on 2023-03-19, 01:59

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by hyoenmadan

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Win98 isn't compatible with APIC, nor with any technology related to the MPS specification for standard x86 multiprocessor architectures. When Win98 was in use, APIC was an extra chip which only was installed in SMP boards. Thus basically it meant SMP, which wasn't supported at all by Win98. I don't …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-03-05, 03:31

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by hyoenmadan

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I would like to talk to some Dell experts to learn where this system fits into their history, because there is absolutely zero information about the existence of this machine online aside from the trademark registration in 1993 and one 20 year old post from someone saying they repurposed the …

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Re: Best Windows ISA Sound card

Posted on 2023-02-24, 02:24

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by hyoenmadan

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They're bad drivers, by design. They have full permission, can see/interfere with any memory location etc. Ofc, them were designed to work faster in machines with low specs and low ram requirements. In fact them still fly if you get the right versions and combinations. Nlited Win95/Win98SE with WDM …

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