Re: The frustrations of the GPU market
Posted on Today, 06:10
My GPU gon' live forever... wait... ... jinxed it dammit.
Re: What is this? Creative? Sound blaster Vibra 16? AI-200
Posted on Today, 04:55
Looks like an OEM card using a Vibra chipset. I have an ASUS A16C that uses an Vibra chipset. Seems that Creative allowed other manufacturers to licence their chipsets, which makes sense. If there is an FFC ID on the card you can try to look up the manufacture otherwise, I'm sure the card is PNP, …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on Today, 02:57
Solid bit of NECromancing there.
Re: COASt module misery
Posted on Today, 01:47
It's one of those things where everyone seemed to think that the standard was so important that they ought to have their own version of it. Personally, I think COAST ought to stand for Cache Only Apocryphal on the Stupid Things... you can see it, but getting it working on a given board is a crap …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on Yesterday, 23:55
Looking at buying a AWE32 .. found a CT3900 on ebay for 350 USD .. seems kind of expensive till I looked for the other WT versions and the CT2760 is 400USD. Not sure if its worth it, could go for a AWE64 gold too but no wavetable header. Oof... had me realise I was neglecting my unicorn herding …
Re: Looking for a videocard that can do composite out by default with 3d accelleration.
Posted on Yesterday, 23:28
During the Geforce 2, 3 and 4 era these were known as "VIVO" models, but some also just had plain TV out also. Often this was through one of those 4 pin Din style SVHS video connectors, where you'd use an adapter cable (common) to connect to RCA jack composite in. Or some TVs would take the SVHS …
Re: Connecting power switch on AT PSU to the case
Posted on Yesterday, 23:21
I have a stash of cheap "metal construction toy" Meccano rip offs for just such occasions, meaning I've got a ready supply of handy bits like... meccanospares.com/6b-ZN-N.html Even if not the right length you can offset/rotate a bit so looking down on it, it's like a Z Alternatively I'd look at it …
Re: 3 (+3 more) retro battle stations
Posted on Yesterday, 22:07
Cool, is the AT bus nailed to half the 14.xxx mhz reference clock or something? 7-ish Mhz?
Re: Methods to enhance retro-flexibility on Pentium 4 class hardware...
Posted on Yesterday, 22:00
Thanks, hard to know whether the 300mhz clock drop held it back, or the 133Mhz bus jump didn't do much. ______________________________________________________________ Found some handy Pentium 4 chipset references... https://flylib.com/books/en/4.57.1.47/1/ https://flylib.com/books/en/4.57.1.48/1/
Re: Which platform for "aio" pc
Posted on Yesterday, 19:49
Probably not, merely a decade ago ppl were still complaining that games relied too much on single core performance and didn't take enough advantage of multithreading... and HT had been a thing for practically a decade then, and enthusiasts had been putting together dual PIII and athlon systems a …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on Yesterday, 19:44
Also pulled two laptops down, my Compaq N800c ... .... Still, better than I expected for machines meant to run XP, but forced to run ME. I think the N800c was just old enough and business class enough that Compaq offered Win98 as an option on it. Corporates clung on to 98 for several years until …
Re: Do 40 Pin Compact Flash to IDE Adapters need power?
Posted on Yesterday, 19:38
The 3.3v/5v setting is used if you are using a CF card that need 5v to run, not seen one like this myself so best to leave it on 3.3v. (Turns out CF can run at either voltage, 3.3v is default) I think 16 or 32 Megabytes was HUGE for a 5v era card, and 2 or 4MB more common, so I kinda doubt many …
Re: Methods to enhance retro-flexibility on Pentium 4 class hardware...
Posted on Yesterday, 18:35
Awesome, we muddle along thinking "all these speed utils do more or less the same thing". So I musta not really taken notice of that. It seems to be one that combines multiple techniques, so a one stop shop for everything you can do, fantastic!
Re: Methods to enhance retro-flexibility on Pentium 4 class hardware...
Posted on Yesterday, 17:44
Oldsflash... It's like a newsflash, but for recently rediscovered retro stuff lol Some Prescott CPU may support a lower 14x multiplier in some motherboards. In some cases this may be forced. It's a power protection feature, when 115W chips are stuffed into 95W boards. http://www.xtremesystems.org/ …
Re: FastDoom. A new Doom port for DOS, optimized to be as fast as possible for 386/486 personal computers!
Posted on Yesterday, 17:18
There might be some surprisingly fast Hercules cards around... reason being that hercules/MDA remained a "thing" for retail terminals, travel agents, banking until the millennium. Though I guess most of the hardware would have been last made by mid 90s and just continued in service. Still, this …
Re: Methods to enhance retro-flexibility on Pentium 4 class hardware...
Posted on Yesterday, 16:16
I am a little mired in analysis paralysis... On the one hand, there's the pushing the boundaries approach and working out all the kinks in getting a later 775 board like the P4M890 working smooth, on the other hand there's the "common sense" of using what's maybe a better board for 98 with better …
Re: The frustrations of the GPU market
Posted on Yesterday, 14:31
As mentioned above, the majority crypto Bitcoin isn't eating GPUs and hasn't been for most of a decade, it's all custom hardware. It could be more energy efficient, but how energy efficient is it already? You can see it all together and say "that's one big lump, this big lump has to go" but what if …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on Yesterday, 04:49
It's getting more like that here, used to be quite common, now it's tailing off and tailing off, until it's weeks between seeing anything worth a second glance.
Re: 3 (+3 more) retro battle stations
Posted on Yesterday, 04:43
Remember looking at 4x50 but didn't capture notes/metrics because it was slower than 3x66. One of the 5x86 ADW CPUs here can do 3x60 on air cooling but is not 100% stable if pushed hard enough. Considering the benches from that Russian dude linked in the fastest 486 thread, and considering the …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on Yesterday, 03:48
Nice, it's even got 12V input for taking it camping.
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