Re: CAD or drawing programs on Windows 3.0?

Posted on 2025-04-16, 00:05

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while there may be some cad software compatible with windows 3.0, i think most if not all people used cad software in dos, especially on a XT class machine you need to take in account that the software is limited to real mode and 640k of ram

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Re: Dell Mini 900 and issues with windows

Posted on 2025-01-08, 03:58

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Sure of the resolution? Some Dell Minis had a stupidass 1024x560 or something which is a pain in the ass. Not sure if that's an issue when installing with non-Dell media. I'm pretty sure as reported by windows 7 and Linux, but the screen is a weird 8.9 inch one still technically if the issue is the …

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Dell Mini 900 and issues with windows

Posted on 2025-01-07, 23:47

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Hi, I thought it might be a good idea to ask here. I have a Dell Inspiron Mini 900, it's a pretty run of the mill netbook but since I have it, I want to use it. However, can't get Windows XP running on that thing, it simply freezes with a black screen with a cursor, Windows 7 will install but since …

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Re: Gta 3 on a Dell Latitude C640 laptop

Posted on 2024-10-10, 00:26

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i've had that problem with newer machines, when gta is loading from a network drive (fast ethernet) or when the hdd is slow or with low amount of cache gta 3 seems to be particularly broken in slower drives, whereas gta vc fares better

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Discard FireGL driver in favor of standard Radeon drivers...

Posted on 2024-07-27, 03:28

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Hi, I have an IBM Thinkpad T41p that has an ATi Mobility FireGL T2 as the gpu When testing some games, I find that some are slightly under 60 fps whereas the Thinkpad T42 that I have has a Mobility Radeon 7500 and it plays these games way better for example that happens in Serious Sam both the first …

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Re: What do you drive?

Posted on 2023-11-05, 01:05

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264048221_5065473880149169_7663713069837020162_n.jpg keeping with the original subject, as i haven't read the latest posts, i drive a rather old and simple Volkswagen Gol Diesel 1.6 model 1998 it's the base model, without power steering or anything but it serves its purpose which is to drive me to …

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Re: Getting the most out of a K6-2 machine

Posted on 2023-08-26, 19:57

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so... it's something with my build or the version of UT that i'm using BTW i'm using UT99 GOTY from GOG I vaguely remember hearing that the GOG version of UT ships with a Glide wrapper. I don't own it, so I can't say for certain. If that is the case, you want to remove that wrapper when playing on …

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Re: Getting the most out of a K6-2 machine

Posted on 2023-08-26, 19:45

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still is practically double the fps than my machine, it may be due to a better gpu, more cache and higher frequency on the cpu, don't know if there is something else going on, like bios optimizations It's not the GPU. I had 40 FPS average in Unreal Tournament with a Celeron 466 + Voodoo 3 2000. …

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Re: Getting the most out of a K6-2 machine

Posted on 2023-08-26, 19:28

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This was the best I could achieve with my MVP3G-M, a K6-3+ @616 MHz, and a GeForce 3 Ti 200. still is practically double the fps than my machine, it may be due to a better gpu, more cache and higher frequency on the cpu, don't know if there is something else going on, like bios optimizations …

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Re: Getting the most out of a K6-2 machine

Posted on 2023-08-26, 17:36

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To echo the above advice for a game like UT, your best bet is going to be running it on a Pentium 3 / Athlon era system. A K6-2 is better for 1998 and earlier era of 3D games (e.g. Half-Life, Quake 2, etc.). A TNT2 would probably be more appropriate for a K6-era system. interesting... i thought …

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Re: Getting the most out of a K6-2 machine

Posted on 2023-08-26, 17:00

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To echo the above advice for a game like UT, your best bet is going to be running it on a Pentium 3 / Athlon era system. A K6-2 is better for 1998 and earlier era of 3D games (e.g. Half-Life, Quake 2, etc.). A TNT2 would probably be more appropriate for a K6-era system. interesting... i thought …

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Re: Getting the most out of a K6-2 machine

Posted on 2023-08-26, 16:53

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The TNT2 M64 would be a decent fit for that K6-2. Pair it with period-correct drivers like 3.68 and compatibility with games made before the year 2000 should be pretty good. I see, so i have to do some more testing then... The Duron 950 would make that Voodoo 3 fly. yeah, the thing is, it's a …

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Re: Getting the most out of a K6-2 machine

Posted on 2023-08-26, 16:40

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i see, so it's overclock and lower the quality more or put the voodoo in a better machine... what would be a better fit for a k6-2? a savage4? or a tnt2-m64 maybe? (the thing with nvidia is that i have to play with different drivers to see which one performs the best, and i don't like that) i have …

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Getting the most out of a K6-2 machine

Posted on 2023-08-26, 15:54

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Hi, i'm building a machine with a K6-2, the specs are: K6-2 550 (2.3v) Motherboard Soyo SY-5EH5 v1.3 (512KB cache) 128MB Spectek 133MHz (running at 100MHz) (2 sticks, using interleave memory enabler set to 4-way) Vooodoo3 3500 AGP SoundBlaster Live 3Com Etherlink 10/100 PCI 80GB Hitachi Deskstar IDE …

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Re: Odd performance phenomenon

Posted on 2023-08-21, 04:35

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there are several things that may cause the performance difference pentium m are faster than pentium 4, it's architecture was the basis for the later core 2 duo processors ati 9600 is very fast and fx5950 is not very good, also nvidia drivers are not very good

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Re: Best Graphic Cards for a 486DX4-133 System

Posted on 2023-08-13, 18:49

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Thx @jakethompson1, but why no Voodoo 1 (1996) for 3D and a e.g. S3 Trio64 for 2D (loop cable)? Should I run MS-DOS 6.22 or Win95? the trio64 is a good card, as the others said the thing with the voodoo is that the games that benefit from it also benefit from the stronger FPU that the pentium has …

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Re: ps/2 mouse on a SY-5EH5

Posted on 2023-08-13, 03:31

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https://www.betaarchive.com/imageupload/2012-02/1329677183.th.24457.png https://www.betaarchive.com/imageupload/2012-02/1329676968.th.15360.jpg these were the pinouts that worked (in the second image is the right one) the adapter was wired correctly, the issue was that the data cable was cut, …

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Re: ps/2 mouse on a SY-5EH5

Posted on 2023-08-13, 00:56

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And of course Soyo did not include the pinouts of either PS2 or USB in the manual. First I would check is for +5v and then GND. Of the the six pins only two left needed are clock and data which if you mess up will not hurt anything but a visual to see where the traces go will help figure which two …

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ps/2 mouse on a SY-5EH5

Posted on 2023-08-12, 23:18

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Hi, i'm having a hard time figuring out what's the pinout on the PS/2 mouse header in the motherboard, it's a Soyo SY-5EH5 v1.3 I had the original mouse bracket with both PS/2 and serial ports, but it seems to be lost in my warehouse i've been trying to make a custom adapter so I can use my PS/2 …

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Re: S3 Savage 4 GT Win 98 Unable to Activate Hardware Acceleration.

Posted on 2023-08-06, 21:37

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Wow, didn't know Savage4 had so many issues with AGP. Guess I was lucky that all my S3 cards (968, 775, and 397) were PCI. well not really, matrox, intel (740), ati and nvidia cards are affected too, it's simply the way agp was implemented in non-intel chipsets, even amd irongate was problematic …

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