Re: Modding support for AMD K6-2 into a Socket 5 Award BIOS?
Posted on Yesterday, 18:43
We should invite someone from wimsbios over here considering how many bios modifications everyone would like to make
Re: What games do actually run on a 80286 with 16Mhz?
Posted on 2021-10-22, 14:03
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=S_ZEWvokp3o games for a 12MHz 286?
Re: Why does a 286 processor need 4MB of memory?
Posted on 2021-10-21, 00:56
As you already know There were a few Windows games that were more pleasant with 4mb of ram but most msdos 286 games that could use more than 1mb had it as optional with additional features when you had more ram. Arkinoid was one, xwing another Can’t list a single game where it was mandatory
Re: Trying to remember an old Forum/Bulletin Board IBM PC Hardware, any clues?
Posted on 2021-10-20, 18:48
The way bravenets 2page infinite scroll worked was old messages just got deleted We used to have games of keeping everything under a couple threads so you could exceed the comment limit but bravenet then started erasing the original topics creating disjointed conversations Sadly those forums could …
Re: Trying to remember an old Forum/Bulletin Board IBM PC Hardware, any clues?
Posted on 2021-10-20, 18:28
Sounds like uncreativelabs from the 1990’s defunct brave net host and it’s related web ring cousins Neil Cavuto, Steven Pierce, Harshbarj, Raven, Lanmaster, dejeepbrat, MikeChambers, anonymous, RoadWarrior, Puckdropper and I will have to think of the other 2 dozen regulars many of which had their …
Re: Has anyone tried ArcaOS for retro gaming?
Posted on 2021-10-19, 17:28
Why have it open for anyone to buy? Their sales model hints to only wanting to sell to a captive market that “knows what they are doing” but instead they offer it to anyone in the general public willing to fork over $2XX , knowing full well 99% of the public can’t use the OS as intended? Seems …
Re: 486DX-50 MHz EISA system
Posted on 2021-10-19, 14:34
Anyone besides me overclocked a dx50 motherboard to 60mhz FSB using a different clock crystal? I never benchmarked but am curious if it gives a performance boost or is actually slower (my dx50 was ISA, boo, and ran OK at 60mhz but that was early in my Pc days)
Re: VGA wonder+
Posted on 2021-10-18, 12:22
If it’s a 256k card specialized drivers won’t do much 800x600x16 colors Even at 512k you get 256 colors at the same I don’t think the wonder plus did any funky high res monochrome modes so nothing too far from vga at that point.
Re: Retro engineering of old AMI bioses ?
Posted on 2021-10-17, 00:55
Folks have done what you speak of for different purposes treating the bios as a series of modules I would ask Jan at wimsbios
Re: Nondos-non IBM Compatible 286 systems made before 1984
Posted on 2021-10-16, 04:41
Hmm July 1983 Matrox made an Intel 286 based video card Filename F7809EB9-B85B-4ECD-9160-B03B2DFE4BEC.jpeg File size 289.82 KiB Views 87 views
Re: Who here has heard of this drive? :)
Posted on 2021-10-15, 12:38
I never really used cdrw or zip Floppies yes Many times I had 2 PCs and would use a laplink cable to keep both mirrored Transferring a full 1.2gb of data at a time over a link cable was fun (let it run all night into the next day) Laplink was especially useful when setting up an antique computer …
Re: Use an old XT Keyboard with a Modern PC
Posted on 2021-10-14, 16:44
would be cool to have an AT with an XT keyboard controller chip & keyboard i wonder if anyone achieved that :) I would think you would just need a protocol adapter like this one only wired to go the other way https://hackaday.com/2017/01/21/attoxtkeyboard/ What’s more fun is there were historically …
Nondos-non IBM Compatible 286 systems made before 1984
Posted on 2021-10-13, 01:52
In the late 90’s I read several articles about both 286 systems released before the IBM 5170 AT, NON IBM Compatible 286 systems (usually running UNIX) and of coarse multi processor 286 systems like Intels failed attempt at a 286 server. What started me looking historically was a 4mhz Unisys 286 I …
Re: Monopoly Deluxe, and all it's wonderful flaws
Posted on 2021-10-09, 22:34
R Lowe probably made something to fix memory issues, and of coarse himemx
Re: Babylon 5 remake?
Posted on 2021-09-29, 23:16
What's the bet they "Stargate" it? Honestly an SG1 style stargate or really any of the overly exuberant 90’s “action hour” style programming would be a welcome change What I meant by that comment is what they did with the Stargate reboot, aka Stargate Universe....i.e. it was utter rubbish and …
Re: Babylon 5 remake?
Posted on 2021-09-29, 19:10
What's the bet they "Stargate" it? Honestly an SG1 style stargate or really any of the overly exuberant 90’s “action hour” style programming would be a welcome change Over the current style of whiney sad characters coupled with millions of non-plots to nowhere and zero character development and …
Re: games I should play on dual cpu servers
Posted on 2021-09-28, 15:57
If you can disable that video card or run dual video Meh your system will run 80% of the games a normal 2.8 p4 would run, just might have to run lower res/detail. So it isn’t TTHHHAAAT bad and likely much better than the thing I ran in the day, just gotta temper expectations See video https://m. …
Re: Would you like a custom version of win98
Posted on 2021-09-28, 15:03
A bunch of KernelX pre set apps ready to hack in would be wonderful
Re: What is minimum VRAM size for 1600x1200 mode in truecolor under WinNT/2k/XP?
Posted on 2021-09-26, 23:15
BitWrangler wrote on 2021-09-26, 21:16: Don't some only have 90Mhz RAMDACs anyway? If you have a 32 bit video card but 4 banks of 32bit memory and you interleave the memory you can support any speed dac, need more speed? Add more memory banks
Re: Is it possible to go over the 640KB barrier on an 8088 using some software ?
Posted on 2021-09-26, 19:16
If you have mda or CGA there are small utilities to have more than 640k base Ram
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