Re: Modern Retro PC cases, whats your favourites?
Posted on 2024-11-26, 15:23
I'm sure most of us have seen news of the Silver Stone FLP-01 retro case. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/11/big-b … -real-in-japan/
Re: What would be enough ram for most Pentium II configurations?
Posted on 2024-11-17, 01:09
I wouldn't worry about your board's 384MB limit being a problem with Windows 95 and era games. Check out leonardo's 2020s Win95 Setup Guide post for some good info/guidance- Windows 95 setup guide for the 2020's
Re: ASK M1487/89 - No L1 cache
Posted on 2024-11-15, 18:07
Great video tony359, so glad this board is working!
Re: XT 8bi t ISA MULTI-IO, RTC , FLOPPY controller - DIP switch settings
Posted on 2024-11-15, 17:48
Came up blank here too. I can't imagine there were many multi I/O cards with the a 58167 RTC and a FDC card edge connector.
Re: First time with a SCSI tape drive - still in prep phase
Posted on 2024-10-28, 16:18
IMHO, I would not even bother with a PCIE SCSI HBA if this Compaq DDS-4 tape drive is your only device. The Asus K8N4-E has one PCIE x16, three PCIE x1 and three PCI slots available. Since DDS-4 tape drives top out at 3.2MB/s, it just makes sense to put a well-supported SCSI PCI HBA there. Consider …
Re: the best motherboard for K6-2 400 and voodoo 2 ?
Posted on 2024-10-25, 22:32
alphaaxp wrote on 2024-10-25, 11:41: I think ALI's Super7 motherboard is the best, GA-5AX, P5A etc Agree, not sure you'll find a better SS7 ATX board layout than the Asus P5A and Gigabyte GA-5AX rev 4+. For Baby AT check out the P5A-B and GA-5AA.
Re: Now we can call it as a fast 486 system,
Posted on 2024-10-19, 15:10
Hmm, I don't want to crush your enthusiasm, but the result seems equivalent to the reference AMD Am5x86-160. How many people have a stable 160Mhz AMD 5x86? Me too. Nevertheless it's fun to OC and play around with this stuff. 50 MHz bus speed is indeed a challenge, the ISA/VLB/PCI bus will also …
Re: Mounting floppy disk reader in modern computer cases?
Posted on 2024-10-17, 21:54
White case with only 5¼" bays? The Epson SD-800 would be a perfect fit. Otherwise 3.5"/5.25" bay adapters are easily found or printed.
Re: ITX-Llama (Vortex86EX ITX motherboard) - DONE!
Posted on 2024-10-17, 19:06
Thanks DesertPanther for putting this group buy together. And of course to Eivind! I know some folks may have missed the first buy and do not have the vision, dexterity or skill to hand assemble like snipe3687 and ahmadexp did. Guys, btw, totally amazing work there.
Covox Speech Thing Versions
Posted on 2024-10-17, 18:42
I know there was some talk of the various different versions of the actual Covox Speech Thing in the CVX4 thread. And our own MobyGamer/OldSkool was kind enough to post some really good pictures and even a YT video about his two versions. I recently came across a Covox Speech Thing, in a full shiny …
Re: My super fast highend 486 build!
Posted on 2024-10-13, 18:55
Very nice Tyrhus! If you get a chance, can you try running nocash's MP3 encoder benchmark and report back? Mp3 decoder Tiido and I got wildly different results on our higher end 486s.
Re: FIC PA-2013 will not boot with "External Cache Enabled"
Posted on 2024-10-08, 21:06
Yes, check that tag sram... there are five chips.
Re: ITX-Llama (Vortex86EX ITX motherboard) - DONE!
Posted on 2024-10-06, 14:28
SYZYGY wrote on 2024-10-05, 17:41: Slowpoke here: does the NIC have packet driver support? I know it says “10/100 Ethernet” but who makes the chip? Thanks! Yes. It should be an on-chip integrated RDC R6040 10/100 Fast Ethernet NIC similar to other Vortex86 units.
Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread
Posted on 2024-10-06, 14:22
devius wrote on 2024-10-05, 10:42: There's gigabyte optical drives?? 🤯 Faceplate looks like it might be OEM'd by Lite-On.
Re: Zenith Data Systems - Oddball 386SX AT Mainboard & Power Connector
Posted on 2024-09-29, 17:42
I'm using a PAS16 card, which does this neat PC speaker output over the ISA bus trick. So I am getting all the beeps and boops even without it being connected. And without a case, the MFM diagnostic lights are more than enough to let anyone know it is powered on. Smart solution! I haven't heard …
Re: ITX-Llama (Vortex86EX ITX motherboard) - DONE!
Posted on 2024-09-26, 14:54
I didn't even know I wanted this until I saw JM's YT video. In for the group buy.
Re: Drivers for ethernet card
Posted on 2024-09-26, 14:47
Oh no, that also removed Windows 98 and Windows NT compatibility! Just kidding, that is really strange. The RTL8139 drivers are pretty agnostic as far as card manufacturer and chip revision go. Maybe a peek at Windows 95 device manager item conflict details might help?
Re: Zenith Data Systems - Oddball 386SX AT Mainboard & Power Connector
Posted on 2024-09-26, 14:16
Thanks all, this is great stuff! I still haven't had time to further probe out the P106 speaker/led header on my board... I'm using a PAS16 card, which does this neat PC speaker output over the ISA bus trick. So I am getting all the beeps and boops even without it being connected. And without a case …
Re: Identify this RAM
Posted on 2024-09-25, 19:55
douglar wrote on 2024-09-25, 18:02: Holy Relabeled Ram Chips, Batman! That's just egregious. This is as sketchy as 486-era SRAM with bright bold "WRITE BACK" printed on them.
Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread
Posted on 2024-09-23, 19:55
Here's a couple of pics of the 486 rig in my sig. I've been working on this one for a while and I think it's about where I'd like it to be now. AOpen AP43 with 1MB L2 Cache AMD Am5x86 at 160MHz 128MB FPM RAM Diamond Stealth III S540 80GB Western Digital Caviar SE HDD Promise Ultra66 Acer 40X CD …
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