Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on Today, 03:09

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Besides, as mature PC users we can step out of the "utterest piece of crap in the known universe and gave my gerbil cancer" mindset of describing how it was a couple of percent slower on a review back in the day. This is VT82C693A on extreme budged (pcpartner was priding itself on making bottom of …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on Yesterday, 22:54

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This is my first hardware purchase in maybe six months ... listed as faulty for about 10 bucks... PCPartner AP133MS3-C910.jpg I hope I wont offend you when I ask WHY? This is extreme budget pcchips level garbage with worst socket 370 level of performance possible with bad AGP implementation, and …

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Re: The Joy of MMX

Posted on 2023-05-28, 02:56

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I disagree that MMX was a "scam", In case of gaming it totally was. Intel repeated this trick when introducing P3 with SSE. Intel paid Rage Software to develop "demo" for Comdex fall'99 and pretend its an upcoming game, demo showcasing how great SSE is. That one non public demo, Disptched, was used …

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Re: The Joy of MMX

Posted on 2023-05-27, 20:50

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MMX as a Matrix Math eXtension was useful for all sorts of DSP applications, ... dial-up modems in software, for video decoding, Mandelbrot generators, audio effects for soundcards etc. Yes, It was best used as audio dsp. On games front we got 1997 Ubisoft POD with a huge "Designed for Intel MMX" …

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Re: The Joy of MMX

Posted on 2023-05-27, 09:26

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pentium MMX was intel's attempt to sell the p5 architecture for another year with overhyped MMX marketing agreed, MMX was useless, additional cache was doing all the work tillamook is interesting but did people actually use them in desktop systems back in the day? https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic. …

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Re: FastDoom. A new Doom port for DOS, optimized to be as fast as possible for 386/486 personal computers!

Posted on 2023-05-26, 02:32

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Also I still have to make Ken Silverman's ideas to work (https://github.com/viti95/FastDoom/issues/143), so any help with this would be awesome. >Do aligned 32-bit writes to video memory. Easy for ceilings. Yes it's possible for walls (which are rendered in the vertical direction) too! The trick is …

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Re: FastDoom. A new Doom port for DOS, optimized to be as fast as possible for 386/486 personal computers!

Posted on 2023-05-25, 17:26

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BTW this executable includes a new configurable option, now it's possible to use render code for each CPU architecture. This allows for more performance on the selected CPU. The available command lines are: Fantastic! Is this automatically detecting CPU and only being overridden by command line? or …

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Re: 486 Cpu Upgrade

Posted on 2023-05-22, 23:09

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[quote=iwcham1979 post_id=1165011 time=1684771910 user_id=51266] So it doesn’t appera to have the voltage regulator [/quote] other than that huge voltage regulator next to 5V-3.3V jumpers? :]

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Re: ide cf adapter udma 66/100 compatibility flop

Posted on 2023-05-20, 21:49

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The second one, the HX-2118P with Transcend 4GB/8GB/32GB cards makes it into UDMA 5 as reported by the bios on a 430TX Socket-7 system. UDMA5 430TX Transcend CF 32GB.jpg Would be impressive considering TX only supports DMA Mode 3 :) That text is meaningless, its Drive capabilities reported by " …

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Re: No Keyboard at 8088 System

Posted on 2023-05-19, 16:48

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if you have any tinkering inclinations you can do it with $5 arduino clone board. Afaik teh only difference between AT and XT is scancodes and maybe message format? http://www.ccgcpu.com/2019/02/14/the-xt-part-4-adapting-a-modernish-keyboard/ https://oshwlab.com/sundbyk/xt-keyboard-converter …

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Re: Asus PCI sound & network cards

Posted on 2023-05-18, 20:58

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Funny, Im typing this on ASUS KB-9885 from 1998 :] its a rebranded Chicony KB-9885, remember buying it to match my Asus P2B 😀

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Re: SUCCESSFUL K6-2+ to K6-3+ Full Cache Enable Mod

Posted on 2023-05-18, 20:54

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It isn't about silicon hardness. It's about organic vs. ceramic base packaging. Organic allows for greater non-uniform pressure. It just bends slightly. Ceramic doesn't bend at all and it results in silicon cracks on edges. Coppermines also have near square die size which helps. how will you …

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Re: Original Voodoo 5 6000 prototype for sale on eBay

Posted on 2023-05-17, 14:11

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With the same Q3 settings Velocity 100 at 800x600x16 will score around 60 fps and the image quality won't be much worse. Uhm... but those really aren't quite the same settings, are they? :-) Granted, I do understand your point. Even with its 16 bit color limitation, the Voodoo 3's image quality is …

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Re: Original Voodoo 5 6000 prototype for sale on eBay

Posted on 2023-05-16, 19:07

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Gmlb256 wrote on 2023-05-16, 15:22: BTW, 32-bit textures look better even in 16-bit color with dithering, notably with gradient and alpha blending effects. 😉 Afaik TNT/TNT2 in 16bit mode did all internal operations (blending) with 16 bit precision. TNT and to some extend TNT2 look bad in 16bit mode …

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Re: SUCCESSFUL K6-2+ to K6-3+ Full Cache Enable Mod

Posted on 2023-05-16, 09:30

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Material, monocrystalline silicon, is the same. 'The Amazing, Humble Silicon Wafer' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIRfWyyOFPg 'The 300mm Silicon Wafer Transition' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0s5TO9h6fco Difference is how its treated, processes (Infusion, implantation, thermal deposition, …

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Re: SUCCESSFUL K6-2+ to K6-3+ Full Cache Enable Mod

Posted on 2023-05-15, 22:26

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by rasz_pl

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Transistors are on the other side, what you see is the back. Thick wafer and luck. K7 had fragile thin weak wafers crumbing at the slightest twist of radiator. I saw multiple tens, maybe over a hundred broken AMD chips with slightly cracked corners. Intel socket 370 Coppermines were bulletproof.

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Re: Original Voodoo 5 6000 prototype for sale on eBay

Posted on 2023-05-12, 14:11

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Yes, but it was $55 vs $75. Imo fair deal for maybe what, 5% less fps in 480p? higher resolutions werent all that usable on those low end cards.

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Re: Original Voodoo 5 6000 prototype for sale on eBay

Posted on 2023-05-12, 12:44

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Speaking of TNT2 M64/Vanta, 3dfx had answer in form of ~$55 Velocity 100. Much better proposition for ss7 users than tnt/tnt2, especially after unlocking second TMU. The problem at that point was STB acquisition - Everyone and their dog were manufacturing cheap noname M64 cards in Taiwan, while 3dfx …

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Re: Original Voodoo 5 6000 prototype for sale on eBay

Posted on 2023-05-12, 07:20

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50% is certainly exaggeration. Also there are four separate products - M64, M64 Vanta, M64 Vanta-16 and Vanta-LT. Afaik two of those are same thing :), 8MB should be called LT but I remember buying them in oem bulk (noname cards in plastic bags) just called Vanta and nothing else. From what I …

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Re: Vga to composite monochrome monitor

Posted on 2023-05-11, 07:00

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Old 386 PC with CRT Tv

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