Re: i5 Sandy Bridge with Windows XP - SATA AHCI mode issues
Posted on Today, 01:16
There is a proper and a not-quite-proper way of installing AHCI drivers in Windows XP. See: Re: Slipstreaming appropriate SATA drivers to install XP
Re: List of Currently Free Games
Posted on 2023-06-06, 13:39
GOG- Twinsen's Little Big Adventure Classic Twinsen's Little Big Adventure 2 Classic If you get the free "DLC" packs, it seems you get access to the full offline installers: https://www.gog.com/en/game/twinsens_little_big_adventure_classic_original_edition https://www.gog.com/en/game/twinsens_ …
Re: SetMul - Multiplier control for VIA C3 / AMD K6+7+8 Mobile / Cyrix 5x86
Posted on 2023-06-05, 19:44
Thanks. I will get the VIA C7 Datasheet first, and see what it says there. How similar or different the method is, compared to the C3.
Re: SetMul - Multiplier control for VIA C3 / AMD K6+7+8 Mobile / Cyrix 5x86
Posted on 2023-06-01, 16:17
I've just tried SetMul on VIA C7. Sadly it's not supported. I can disable L1 cache only, then I get 7.5 points in speedsys. Looks like L2 is disabled also. With L1 enabled it's somewhere between 600-700, can't remember exactly. That's a really huge drop. Is there any chance to support C7 also? Can …
Re: Will PCem or 86box emulate ATI Rage 128 Pro or Nvidia RIVA TNT?
Posted on 2023-05-30, 18:30
miller11568 wrote on 2023-05-30, 18:06: Does PCem look forward to add video cards such as Nvidia's Riva TNT? PCem itself does not care 😉 Progress is slow lately, as can be seen from the commit log here: https://github.com/sarah-walker-pcem/pcem
Re: SetMul - Multiplier control for VIA C3 / AMD K6+7+8 Mobile / Cyrix 5x86
Posted on 2023-05-22, 21:19
Hi. Would it be possible to add multiplier control for Mobile Intel Pentium 4 processors? I have a few of them in socket 478 packaging, and they POST in any regular socket 478 board that supports the Northwood (or Prescott) core - but most motherboards the CPU posts at 12x, and multiplier settings …
Re: Doom 'MBF' for DOS, Maintenance release 2.04
Posted on 2023-05-04, 23:06
@gerwin Your download link in the first post is broken. Can you fix it? Until then, here is the link to the archive.org mirror (latest version 2.04, Upload no. 019, 2017-09-10): https://web.archive.org/web/20210722050621/http://www.gb-homepage.nl/download/MBF204.zip I rearranged something on my …
Re: cpu temp in XP SP3 32bit
Posted on 2023-03-26, 01:36
There is also OpenHardWareMonitor. v0.9.2 is the last one to work properly in windows XP. https://openhardwaremonitor.org/downloads/ On a Core 2 Duo, I found it to work more reliable then CPUID's HWMonitor program.
Re: VOGONS github
Posted on 2023-03-20, 00:03
fHeroes2 project https://github.com/ihhub/fheroes2 The release v1.00 from December 2022 was still easy to get working in Windows XP, with the usual Windows version 6->5 hexedit in the PE header. The release v1.01 has four NT6 specific calls, and needs a KernelEx wrapper to run on NT5. The release v1 …
Re: Cirrus Logic GD5429 VLB significantly slower than a TSENG ET4000
Posted on 2023-03-19, 22:11
The cards are paired with a DX4-100 and 32MB of EDO RAM. Wasn't there some limitation with the Cirrus Logic VESA frame buffer? https://nerdlypleasures.blogspot.com/2014/01/meet-better-video-card-prolink-systems.html "UniVBE 6.53 reports that Linear Frame Buffer will not work reliably with CL 542x …
Re: Gaming on my Intel Atom
Posted on 2023-03-01, 22:58
Anyway, I don't want to derail the thread. I just mentioned this because Intel released the Atom within a year or two of us painstakingly building this crazy ITX project PC and I remember thinking "oh great, NOW people care about mini ITX". But in the end, the old P4 was probably still faster in …
Re: Gaming on my Intel Atom
Posted on 2023-02-28, 20:49
Yah, thinking about my DG45FC board which runs in an Apex box with steady fan whoosh but nothing insane, E8400 in that, but I thirst for power so it's getting an L5420 (It's a 15W drop too) Nice board indeed. Only downside is the PCI-E slot being a 1x lane one. I ended up with Aopen i45GMt-HR aka …
Re: Gaming on my Intel Atom
Posted on 2023-02-28, 17:35
Northwood should only be around the watts of the C2Ds that were popular in ITX builds... they seemed hot at the time, because prev CPUs were like 30 or 40W, like how original P5 5V pentium perceived "It's a furnace" but now, 15 watts? LOL AFAIK the nice C2D mini-ITX systems were the ones based on …
Re: Gaming on my Intel Atom
Posted on 2023-02-28, 16:32
Uhg... now that I think about it, an earlier project PC my brother and I put together strictly as an emulation system was probably faster per-thread than the first couple generations of Atom CPUs. That project involved a full desktop Pentium 4 2.4Ghz Northwood in an obscure and fairly inexpensive …
Re: Gaming on my Intel Atom
Posted on 2023-02-28, 15:08
Yes, these problematic drivers which they ended support prematurely for the GMA 3600 series, no 64 bit drivers and officially Windows 7 only drivers, these things limit the use of this Atom. I don't know if there are drivers for xp. But I will try to install it on xp. Otherwise I will have to …
Re: Open source DOS games
Posted on 2023-02-27, 01:02
Wow. I'm impressed. Thanks for your work guys Also: I just fixed important issues in the Dos version of 1oom and it needs to be tested because I have some improvements for the SDL2 version, but I don't have much time for everything. Thanks for dropping by. Is that fix included in your 1oom release …
Re: Dune II HD port at last!
Posted on 2023-02-27, 00:56
I never tested this one but it feels like it cant be too bad: https://github.com/stefanhendriks/Dune-II---The-Maker Dune Dynasty is broken that's why i abandoned it. Also, Allegro 5 doesn't support DOS and there is no Allegro 4 support in Dune Dynasty 1oom pleases much more I recon you are github …
Re: VOGONS github
Posted on 2023-02-26, 00:29
DosFreak wrote on 2023-02-24, 00:02: I've attached the above versions. I didn't go to each individual download page and look it up in archive.org to see if the next ver up works if someone is bored and wants to do that. Much appreciated! No I am not that bored 😉, this is good enough I recon.
Re: Gaming on my Intel Atom
Posted on 2023-02-26, 00:05
I may dig it up and look at alternative OS or something to make use of it. I'm not even sure how to get anything reloaded on it. It may take some sort of root access or something. Some sort of Linux distro may be the ticket. I messed around with two Atom N270/ N280 netbooks, Asus eee PC 1000H and …
Re: Motherboard question: Lucky Star LS-486E
Posted on 2023-02-24, 01:12
Any idea what this small heat sink is cooling? And I'm wondering if its supposed to get as hot as it does. Like VERY hot. I almost want to put some thermal paste and a tiny fan on it It converts supplied 5 Volt to 3,x Volt for the processor, when configured to do so. It is the voltage regulator. On …
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