Re: Humour Thread: Outrageously priced retro gear for sale online
Posted on 2017-12-24, 18:06
No.
Re: Humour Thread: Outrageously priced retro gear for sale online
Posted on 2017-12-23, 21:44
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Computer-Par ... SwTO9aNYSp 7 untested mobos from the Socket A and LGA time period sold for $230
Terrible ebay "sold" prices thread
Posted on 2017-12-23, 21:23
Not trading or selling, merely showing really high prices of eBay listings that actually sold. For ex: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Computer-Part-Job-Lot-7x-MotherBoard/173036486497?hash=item2849c73f61:g:59UAAOSwTO9aNYSp 7 untested motherboards, most Socket A or LGA xxx which sold for roughly $230. …
Re: Any G3/G4 emulators?
Posted on 2017-12-23, 16:53
Shagittarius wrote: I don't see the interest in running anything OSX related Could be good for some later games like Quake IV for the G5
Re: Yet another 486 DX4 100 build
Posted on 2017-12-23, 12:03
Wouldn't a 2gb HDD be more than what was the norm during the 486DX4 time period? I'd expect something between 500mb and 1.2gb.
Re: Rarest CPUs?
Posted on 2017-12-22, 21:17
-_-
Re: Most frustrating part of working on old computers?
Posted on 2017-12-22, 20:56
USB 1.0 or 1.1? Because IIRC USB 1.0 was not used widely at all.
Re: Most frustrating part of working on old computers?
Posted on 2017-12-22, 12:41
brostenen wrote: Speaking of frustration. AT cases and ATX cases of low grade are usually sharp as a box cutter knife. Yet one is not a true nerd, until one or two cases have been baptised in blood. Yesterday my AT case got baptised in blood from my thumb...
Re: Rarest CPUs?
Posted on 2017-12-22, 12:35
Well, this website: http://rarecpus.com/ is certainly useful by the looks of it.
Re: Good SB card to use with my 486SX rig?
Posted on 2017-12-22, 12:28
Yeah, the AWE32 is great. The Aztech isn't bad - most of them are SB Pro clones, IIRC. The MWave is weird - I remember there were some oddities with them, but I can't recall what. IIRC Mwave was often rather faulty, plus being proprietary IBM Aptiva stuff finding drivers for it would be really, …
Re: SB32 - CT3600 vs CT3930
Posted on 2017-12-21, 11:49
I think card whines are because of aging caps...
Re: Slot 1/Voodoo 3 machine
Posted on 2017-12-21, 11:37
They're not super common, but one like this (aware of the lack of AGP) https://proxy.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F … 0296386.jpg&f=1 might do. Either way they're uncommon and you'd have to be quite patient to find one.
Re: Storing your pc parts.
Posted on 2017-12-21, 11:32
I use wooden shelves/scaffolding (like those IKEA ones) and they do the job of storing boxes of parts quite nicely. I also store some computers there; http://i.imgs.fyi/img/24mi.jpg
Re: Slot 1/Voodoo 3 machine
Posted on 2017-12-21, 11:24
Slot A and Socket A motherboards alike do sometimes have ISA slots, so Slot 1 isn't the latest!
Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread
Posted on 2017-12-21, 11:23
Picture of my 486's innards: (Not screwed in, lacks a lot of stuff)
Re: Good SB card to use with my 486SX rig?
Posted on 2017-12-21, 11:12
Not actually sure as I've test none of the cards- It could very well be SB32 or something else. I'll stick to AWE32 since I may also try playing some early Windows games on the 486 machine.
Good SB card to use with my 486SX rig?
Posted on 2017-12-21, 11:03
The 486 rig has a baby AT mobo with 6 ISA slots and I happen to have a few sound cards. The first is an IBM MWave from 1999 or so, probably AWE32, the other is some AZTECH sound card from ~1995 that is most likely AWE32 or SB16, and the last is an OEM Packard Bell AWE32 card. Which should I choose? …
Emulators you can run on Windows 95?
Posted on 2017-12-21, 11:01
May be the wrong part of Vogons this post is in. Anyone here know of emulators for other machines you can run on Windows 95 other than NESticle? (I'm not talking about Windows 95 emulators, I am talking about emulators **that** **run** **on** Windows 95)
Dual 486 motherboards?
Posted on 2017-12-21, 10:57
I am aware dual 386 mobos exist as well as dual Pentium mobos, but anyone know of dual 486 mobos and if so how rare are they? I'd imagine pretty rare because IIRC WinNT 3.5 was the first Windows release that could make use of dual processors and by that time it was All about the Pentiums.
Re: Cyrix appreciation thread
Posted on 2017-12-21, 10:49
Some 486 motherboards had fake cache http://redhill.net.au/b/b-bad.html Wouldn't that be technically illegal due to misinforming customers (At least in the US)? Also, going back to the main topic I think Cyrix was very good at making budget CPUs (later on ofc) to compete with i486s, Pentiums and …
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