Re: Fastest DOS VLB Graphics card ever?
Posted on 2017-10-22, 02:31
There were on the market 2 or 3 years before the Amd dx5 was.
Re: Story behind your avatar?
Posted on 2017-10-22, 02:26
It's the Cobra Mk III from Elite, although I prefer Elite Plus on the PC, also return to Frontier Elite II and FFE a lot, it's like crack I tell you.
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2017-10-22, 01:34
Is this a new thing then, reliving your favourite BSODs from the past??? 😁
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2017-10-22, 00:17
OldCat wrote: Prince of Persia on plasma - CGA vs EGA vs VGA 20171021_203215.jpg Nice, I dig those old clamshells/man size laptops.
Re: How much ram do i need for P2 dos machine ?
Posted on 2017-10-21, 23:44
Deksor wrote: Yeah but some other games (such as carmageddon) will have limitations with only 16MB Yah I thought I remembered 64MB being a common requirement in the approx 98 to 2000 span.
Re: 3x Athlon AM2 - IPC comparison
Posted on 2017-10-21, 22:41
Where it feels like a bigger drop is from the Windsor to the same model/clock in the Brisbane due to the less L2.
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2017-10-21, 20:38
w00t, anything less than $50 is a great deal on those, considering the CPU is meant to have a gram of gold in it.
Re: Fastest DOS VLB Graphics card ever?
Posted on 2017-10-21, 20:33
Panasonic KX-P2180 Color Dot Matrix Printer Ever had a color dot matrix? They are agonisingly slow in color mode and you get 2 good prints out of them before the ribbon is messed up and the colors have dirtied each other. I'd wanna go for a classic HP Deskjet like a 550C for color or a LaserJet for …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2017-10-21, 20:15
Funnily enough I got a Maxtor 80GB "maybe new" at a thrift a little while back. Diamondmax 10, didn't realise until I got it home, just thought AS bag would be taped up, realised it was sealed and label on it matched model number etc.
Re: PcChips sucks!
Posted on 2017-10-21, 17:36
Yah, the next speed up after you have to add wait states is usually not that much faster or equal to speed before, but if it gets you 2 or 3 steps up, it gets more worth it.
Re: Slot 1 build HDD and CD doing nothing
Posted on 2017-10-21, 13:06
Koltoroc wrote: It is worth a shot to replace the cmos battery. My k6 system does the same with an empty cmos battery Yah there is a few boards out there with real bastard behaviour with dud batteries, like appearing completely dead, or flashing the GPU splash then nothing.
Re: Great collectors of Vogons! What's missing in your collections? :P
Posted on 2017-10-21, 12:57
But I could also live with one of the IBM or Dell branded Black Trinitron CRTs. I just want my new system to not look as outdated as my poor desktop format compaq. I was using a couple of IBM P70 Trinitrons for years, those were great for a CRT, low eyestrain, night and day over your generic 15" …
Re: "ESC" key not working in DOS prompt on Windows 98
Posted on 2017-10-21, 12:48
Although now when I launch a program that uses exclusive DOS mode (as if I do "restart in DOS mode"), the computer goes black and nothing appears until I hard reset it. Dang, keyb shouldn't have made it do that. At what point does it blank, before BIOS screen, after the first splash but before the …
Re: So I had a stupid idea about how to build a really fast 486...
Posted on 2017-10-21, 12:43
Reading that through google translate because mein deutsche ist schlect, it appears that he's saying it's not actually stable at 200.
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2017-10-21, 02:55
I bought a Gateway M685-E 17" Notebook off eBay for 42ish shipped. That's barely retro considering the poor excuses for CPUs they put in ~$300 laptops now, like tablet class celerons that are atoms in disguise, same thing with the pentium label on that aren't any better. That can probably run rings …
Re: old servers as gamming pc's
Posted on 2017-10-21, 01:24
Yes, MP boards might have used buffered DDR which was slower also. A sweet MP setup that would probably have done you near a decade for relatively low outlay would have been the modded 1.3 Duron Morgans soon after they were out. Or at the time the alternative dual Tualatins would have been about the …
Re: Win9x games requiring specific DX versions?
Posted on 2017-10-21, 00:41
Thanks, a couple of my past problems were setup barfing, so maybe the clues there will fix that at least.
Re: Great collectors of Vogons! What's missing in your collections? :P
Posted on 2017-10-20, 23:18
kixs wrote: HDD: - Conner 42MB 3.5" IDE If you're just looking for a Type 17 IDE drive, the ST-351 works and is fairly common.
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2017-10-20, 23:09
Heh, I had to zoom in on that, Siemens Nixdorf Scenics also had a socket 5 board with virtually identical layout. I wouldn't really call it a high quality board though. What are your experiences with similar board? I judge it by PCB stability, how many capacitors, simplicity of design and …
Re: Remote DOS shell
Posted on 2017-10-20, 23:00
Well if you're doing some kind of uC, then pipe console to serial and use one of these for serial to wifi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESP8266 (Can't instruct further on that, it's the kind of thing I'd fumble my way through eventually.) However, these seem to go fairly cheap, but then you need to …
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