Re: Windows 98SE 486 requirement

Posted on Yesterday, 21:15

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by rmay635703

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I had Windows 98se running on 8mb ram with a 386, the mouse cursor would hop around and freeze any time there was some sort of activity 8MB is not enough for Windows 98SE. Even with a faster Pentium CPU. You should have done the test with 32MB RAM for example. EDIT: The video above is like that, …

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Re: Pentium PRO?

Posted on Yesterday, 20:30

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What mistake? The PPro is older than the MMX instruction set; Intel's engineers were at the top of their game back in 1995, but even they couldn't time-travel and include something developed a year later. Moreover, it was useless and the fact all Intel CPUs introduced from 1996 onward had it …

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Re: Windows 98SE 486 requirement

Posted on Yesterday, 17:13

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by rmay635703

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I had Windows 98se running on 8mb ram with a 386, the mouse cursor would hop around and freeze any time there was some sort of activity

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Re: What modern activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2024-04-25, 13:35

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AHCIFIX.386 is an interesting way to use Windows 3.1 directly on modern hardware https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vSqyZxbyHww

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Re: Pentium PRO?

Posted on 2024-04-25, 04:21

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Right, that figures. I need to get 100 mbps cards to stress the bus. I'm still going to install the EISA card because this is the only machine I have with that bus and I'm curious to learn how it works. 1GBS Ethernet still is within PCI specs Apparently VLB could run as fast as 1.7 Gbps. (200 MiB …

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Re: Pentium PRO?

Posted on 2024-04-23, 18:22

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Errius wrote on 2024-04-22, 04:46: Right, that figures. I need to get 100 mbps cards to stress the bus. I'm still going to install the EISA card because this is the only machine I have with that bus and I'm curious to learn how it works. 1GBS Ethernet still is within PCI specs

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Re: Plastic gotten sticky around laptop keyboard.

Posted on 2024-04-22, 15:36

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by rmay635703

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Acetone and lots of it will remove, had a 2008 Visio tv remote like this and nothing affected it accept acetone.

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Re: What brand / computer company used this logo?

Posted on 2024-04-22, 00:06

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I ran into an issue recently where I had found and bought some sticks of RAM labeled as PC133 SDRAM, but they had RAMBUS style metal heat-spreaders on them. I assumed they were just added for cosmetics since extra heat dissipation is not needed on PC133 SDRAM. Either way, I thought they looked cool …

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Re: Confused over Logitech USB receivers of recent years, anyone know them well?

Posted on 2024-04-22, 00:00

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by rmay635703

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There are multiple generations of these things at this point I have owned many a logitec unifying reciever that wouldn’t work as expected. I had one that could drive my mouse or my keyboard but not both, needed a separate dongle for each.

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Re: Additional RAM needed for my 486

Posted on 2024-04-21, 19:06

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So i'm looking at my current RAM module sitting in my newly acquired 486 - the sticker reads Legend and there are 8 Alliance AS4C14400 chips. Memory test shows i have 4096kB of RAM. Manual to my mobo (zida tomato 4dps 2.11) says it supports the following : The system board supports flexible SIMM …

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Re: Windows 3.1 Must Have Software -

Posted on 2024-04-21, 04:20

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I usually load up all the various windows games and entertainment packs I collected back in the day along with the vibra 16 utilities, players, recorders and editing stuff that came with my sound card. I like the XING mpeg video player that came with my video card My old scanner came with image …

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Re: Pentium PRO?

Posted on 2024-04-20, 19:36

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Here is a picture of my rare engineering sample given me by an intel engineer back in late 1990's (1997 iirc). Yes have had it in my possession that long..... It only works on a genuine Intel board like the VS440 AFAIK, note the lack of printing. It is an ES 528 version, the only other picture I …

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Re: Pentium Pro multiplier options

Posted on 2024-04-20, 01:38

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The Serpent Rider wrote on 2019-10-21, 08:37: Even with liquid nitrogen you can achieve only around 300mhz. I vaguely recall a few PPRO boards with 70mhz, 75mhz,80 or even 83mhz FSBs (sometimes undocumented) In theory you could then test some inbetween speeds like 240mhz , 245 or 250mhz assuming …

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Re: Pentium PRO?

Posted on 2024-04-20, 01:24

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My only reason for building a PPro system was to see how it performed relative to other systems of the era (e.g. 1996-1997). It does occupy a bit of a retro-no-man's-land in my opinion. Not a daily-driver retro rig by any stretch. The local Tech College had a sea of micronics pro180 /256k single …

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Re: Pentium PRO?

Posted on 2024-04-18, 22:07

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That model is less overclockable but runs a bit faster than a base 256k pro Single cpu ppro motherboards aren’t as difficult to find as multiprocessor machines, Long ago I had bought a pallet of them from a tech college. Sold them off cheap, wish I would have kept a few

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Re: Best CGA & Hercules monochrome games

Posted on 2024-04-16, 22:58

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I'm afraid DRAM would be too slow for palette. The color lookup table in RAMDAC chips is implemented as SRAM. The card itself would just mirror each rows pallet into the sram at the start of the probe when in blank it would be no different than the card having 641 (or 322) columns. Which is in spec …

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Re: Best CGA & Hercules monochrome games

Posted on 2024-04-16, 21:49

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Thanks, I admit I have a bit of a love/hate-relationship with CGA. One one hand, I love to tinker with it, while simultaneously wished there was "more". There were missed opportunities so to say. Like a 4 colour mode for 640x200 resolution or a 640x400 mono mode. Both would have helped at …

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Re: Pentium 60 vs DX4 100

Posted on 2024-04-12, 22:11

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Exactly how I remember it, p60 and dx4 were trading blows back and forth. It wasn’t until games like quake and certain audio/video codecs became commonplace that slow pentiums would consistently outperform faster 486 class.

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Re: How to limit DOS 6.22/Win 3.11 ram

Posted on 2024-04-10, 02:02

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by rmay635703

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If you use a vintage version of himem.sys you will get either 64mb or 16mb as that is all it supports. Your issue is actual cpu speed, disabling L1 & l2 should slow you down enough or there is this Throttle Blaster

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Re: AMD K6-2 533 upgrade problems

Posted on 2024-04-09, 20:16

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I checked the voltage on one of the molex connectors. 5.03 and 11.84V. Maybe that‘s the problem? I noticed the low 12V rail before when I tested the PSU but didn’t think much of it because there was only a test harddrive connected. The 12v rail didn’t matter as much back then, if your PSU allows …

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