Re: Uneven framerate / missing frames in WinXP

Posted on 2020-03-28, 13:03

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by jaZz_KCS

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Excuse me? Is the USB mouse is via a USB to PS/2 adapter? We said need to try PS/2 moues directly. Otherwise the motherboard is the issue due to chipset quite not right especially with XP even it got a chipset driver installed? Your has dreaded 686B southbridge which does not play well with audio …

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Re: Wrestling with PCI video cards

Posted on 2020-03-26, 12:51

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by jaZz_KCS

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If memory serves, the fast and reliable DOS compatibility of NVidia cards lasted until and including the FX series. So, if you aim for a higher up PCI variety of a NVidia card (example 2MX400, 4MX440, MX4000 or 5200,) they should have you covered with regards to DOS compatibility. the Savage cards - …

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Re: A new covid lockdown project - help if you can

Posted on 2020-03-26, 12:45

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by jaZz_KCS

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All the contents of the Conner rescued.. Formatted ok Currently running SCANDISK ..with a surface scan ..a good idea under the circumstances. If all goes well at least I should have 104mb for my DOS 6.22 OS rgds VS Considering the horsepower of this little beauty, this seems enough for any purpose …

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Re: 3DFX Voodoo Banshee on DOS can't work

Posted on 2020-03-26, 12:43

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Cause I have this Voodoo Banshee for free, a friend of mine gave it to me. Tonite I managed to make work GTA, I am running through 3DFX on 800x600x16 in my system now upgraded to K6-2+ 450MHZ cpu. I am really impressed, on DOS it work really smoothly for that resolution. This is the right way isn't …

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Re: 4MB voodoo and k6-2 400MHz ?

Posted on 2020-03-24, 14:34

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by jaZz_KCS

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Eh, especially when running it at 2x interpreted as 6x (6x66), the AMD K6/2-400 Chomper Extended will not exceed "luke warm" temps. I ran it with a PMMX cooler without a fan attached and it was fine. After adding a fan the passive heatsink remained cold.

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Re: A new covid lockdown project - help if you can

Posted on 2020-03-21, 11:05

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by jaZz_KCS

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Nice machine, keep us updated! Stay at home, if you can, especially if you are a member of any highrisk group. PS: Set the font size - as well as any other visual option in the board settings - to "small" and choose the "oldschool" colourscheme, and the board looks as close as before as it gets.

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Re: A very persnickety PIII machine

Posted on 2020-03-21, 11:01

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by jaZz_KCS

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Every single part has been changed out and mix-n-matched at some point. The only static item has been the floppy drive, which in and of itself hasn’t given me any functional issues. But hey, at this point, if someone thinks I should change that out too, why not? I went stir-crazy over the dumb …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-03-18, 13:41

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dionb wrote on 2020-03-18, 13:20: Just received this beauty today: 15845370400300.jpg […] Show full quote Just received this beauty today: 15845370400300.jpg Looks pristine, but untested by last owner due to not being able to find a suitable CPU. That's not going to be easy, but challenge accepted …

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Re: Uneven framerate / missing frames in WinXP

Posted on 2020-03-16, 14:39

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Might be worth a shot / related...might be not... But I had similar issues with performance steiffelt by using USB HIDs like keyboard and mouse. It resulted in poorly timed mouse operation as well as sometimes copy errors, but mainly steiffelt performance for botht the HIDs as well as file transfer. …

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Re: Paradise VGA

Posted on 2020-03-15, 10:55

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by jaZz_KCS

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MT4067 looks to be 64kx4 chip, nothing fancy, there should be plenty other 4464-class DRAM chips available. I'm pretty sure you need to populate all the sockets, that would but the VRAM from 256k you currently have to 512k. ...which would enable you to use 256 colours for 640x480 under Win3.1 IIRC, …

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Re: Black Screen on Libretto 50CT

Posted on 2020-03-01, 12:15

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by jaZz_KCS

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What is the boot behavior when there is no drive attached? If the FS / MBR is not readable - even with the old HDD - this can lead to it not booting and stalling at a black screen. You mentioned that you are still able to boot into BIOS, which is a good sign. Besides reflashing, I would also check …

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Re: Toshiba Satellite Pro 430CDT - Salvaged Floppy and Firmware Update

Posted on 2020-02-25, 20:36

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by jaZz_KCS

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I just discovered a whole bunch of old slim floppy drives tucked away in a drawer at work. Some of them seem promising so I'm going to see if I can start with those. In anyways, thank you for the kind offer! There surely ought to be some fitting ones amongst them. And direct drive. Most newer ones …

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Re: Toshiba Satellite Pro 430CDT - Salvaged Floppy and Firmware Update

Posted on 2020-02-25, 19:59

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by jaZz_KCS

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Depending on where you live regarding postage, I can hit you up with a floppy that fits. Or, you buy yourself one of these that I usually use as substitutes for Satellites. One of those cheap USB superslim USB Floppy drives. They seem to be mostly TEAC old stock, and have the same formfactor and …

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Re: Creative's intended market for 16 bit audio?

Posted on 2020-02-16, 14:33

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by jaZz_KCS

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The CT1740 at least I know has been released in mid-to-late 1992

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Re: Creative's intended market for 16 bit audio?

Posted on 2020-02-16, 10:15

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The Serpent Rider wrote on 2020-02-16, 10:05: 16-bit 44kHz was the requirement for CD audio, which was growing in popularity since late 80s. and no support SB Pro 2 Lack of proper SB Pro 2 support is practically not an issue. Especially due to the fact that it does actually work, but just doesn't …

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Re: Missing Operatin System error on UM386 Board with 256MB CF IDE

Posted on 2020-02-16, 10:13

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by jaZz_KCS

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1) Drive size limit of the BIOS (can be overruled with the help of Overlay software a la EZ-Drive) 2) CF cards need to be set to boot-mode in order to be albe to boot OSes like MS-DOS directly from it. --> Industrial cards usually arrive in the other mode.

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Re: Arrived ISA 8 bit RTVGA boards

Posted on 2020-02-16, 10:04

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by jaZz_KCS

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Opening this thread, reading the first page / repsonding, your homepage asks for the log in credentials... You might want to fix that, I do not think this is allowed.

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Re: Dreamblaster X2 Loader on Windows 98 not working

Posted on 2020-02-15, 12:11

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by jaZz_KCS

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Dochartaigh wrote on 2020-02-15, 10:35: Do you have a link? (or is that spelled wrong by chance?) I googled "Dreamblaster Hamtaro soundfont" and literally not a single result popped up which is weird! Do you mean these? --> Unofficial Soundbanks for Dreamblaster X2/X3M

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Re: VIA 4-in-1 driver experiences

Posted on 2020-02-14, 10:26

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by jaZz_KCS

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- For VIA MVP3, MVP4, Apollo 133 - use 4 in 1 4.35 or older. - better AGP compatibility and performance. Don't use any nvidia driver newer then 5x.xx!!!! 6x.xx drivers for example don't mesh well with 4 in 1 drivers and might bsod - For VIA Apollo PRO, KT133 and KT266 use 4.43 - For KT333, KT400, …

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Re: Any love for AM2?

Posted on 2020-02-14, 10:06

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by jaZz_KCS

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Currently writing from / using a 2x Opteron 285 dual Dual Core system with 32GB of DDR1 memory This is a PCI(X)-only system. Filename 2020-02-10-17-06-48_scrot.png File size 88.51 KiB Views 221 views Filename uglyspitze.png File size 300 Bytes Views 221 views

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