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Re: New forum suggestions/Feedback

Posted on 2020-01-05, 15:30

in Milliways

in Milliways

There's something about this that should be clarified: short-wavelength violet *can't* be reproduced by computer monitors. In reality it's a very deep blue, which the brain perceives as violet (=with a reddish tinge) because the red photoreceptors in our eyes have a secondary small peak in the far …

Re: New forum suggestions/Feedback

Posted on 2020-01-05, 12:47

in Milliways

in Milliways

The new color scheme is nearly as unreadable as the old one was. I really like my purple and violet shirts, but displays that have background colors with lots of red (and blue) are really bad for readability and eye comfort. This is because our eyes' contrast sensitivity is primarily in the green …

Re: New forum suggestions/Feedback

Posted on 2019-12-29, 13:40

in Milliways

in Milliways

The new color scheme is nearly as unreadable as the old one was. I really like my purple and violet shirts, but displays that have background colors with lots of red (and blue) are really bad for readability and eye comfort. This is because our eyes' contrast sensitivity is primarily in the green …

Re: What Hard-drives have the best retro "ticking" sound ?

Posted on 2019-12-26, 04:43

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have a Seagate ST43400N full-height SCSI drive that makes the best assortment of sounds I've ever heard from a hard drive. Similar gurgles and such as the ST225/251's make at startup, with some deep, soft, solid thunks during seeks at times. I think it might be the voice coil actuator that does it …

Re: 80387 question

Posted on 2019-11-27, 14:32

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

derSammler wrote: If that chip is actually a 387 at all. The imprint is completely fake. That was my first reaction too. Put a drop of IPA on the bright white printing, I bet it will come right off.

Re: Install 98SE over 95 OSR2 ?

Posted on 2019-11-09, 22:58

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I've done many clean 98Se installs and understand the benefits. Since this is a low-priority project, perhaps even short-lived, I was looking for an expedient path. I remember reading once that Americans eventually do the right thing, after having exhausted all other possible alternatives. Perhaps …

Re: Install 98SE over 95 OSR2 ?

Posted on 2019-11-09, 18:31

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

chinny22 wrote: If your swapping hardware, especially the motherboard, I'd do a fresh install. Give yourself a nice clean foundation to build off and clone this nice fresh pure Win98 install That is, no doubt, good practice and good advice. But I'm still looking for a way out of following it 😀

Re: Install 98SE over 95 OSR2 ?

Posted on 2019-11-09, 16:32

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

It appears my question is answered in the "Setuptip.txt" file on the install CD (which is not an "Upgrade" version): " If you are upgrading from Windows 95 and want to preserve your current settings, run Windows 98 Setup while running Windows 95, and install to the same Windows directory on your …

Re: Install 98SE over 95 OSR2 ?

Posted on 2019-11-09, 01:47

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I thought the upgrade version was for upgrading 98FE to 98SE, no?

Install 98SE over 95 OSR2 ?

Posted on 2019-11-09, 00:53

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

(Yes, I did search first, I thought this question would have been asked many times before) I've always done 98SE as a clean install, but I have a working 95 OSR 2 system that I want to upgrade to 98SE. Everything else is the way I want it. The thinking is, it will save me grief if the program …

Re: P3-450 or K6-2+ 450, which to use?

Posted on 2019-10-29, 16:13

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I used the SetMul commands to enable L1 and L2 caches and it made no difference. Checkit still reports the same very slow performance.

Re: P3-450 or K6-2+ 450, which to use?

Posted on 2019-10-29, 13:48

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Good idea. This thread says the SetMul utility will do it: SetMul - Multiplier control for VIA C3 / AMD K6+7+8 Mobile / Cyrix 5x86 I'll try it tonight.

Re: P3-450 or K6-2+ 450, which to use?

Posted on 2019-10-28, 23:05

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

And more good news - the Coppermine 667 in a slocket set to 1.8V boots, ID's as "Unknown" running at 500MHz, and works fine. EDIT - it benchmarks very slow, though, so something is amiss. EDIT 2 - I see why now. Since it doesn't recognize the cpu, it disables the 256k cache. Or doesn't enable it. …

Re: P3-450 or K6-2+ 450, which to use?

Posted on 2019-10-28, 20:00

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

There is one BIOS dated february 2000 available on Driverguide (see below) oooooooooooooooooooo Vectra VE 6/xxx Series 8 HT.01.08 Bios February 4th 2000 https://www.driverguide.com/driver/detail.php?driverid=1372706&auth=At82snaUidNtrCvtF7wFYmllar0f3% …

Re: P3-450 or K6-2+ 450, which to use?

Posted on 2019-10-28, 19:58

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

ragefury32 wrote: Why a K6-2+ instead of a K6-3+? Because that's what I have.

Re: P3-450 or K6-2+ 450, which to use?

Posted on 2019-10-28, 19:15

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

SirNickity wrote: Hope you have a way to synchronize those word clocks. 😀 One problem at a time... 😀 Compared to the sound degradation of the LM741-based mixer I originally used, such issues are trivial!

Re: P3-450 or K6-2+ 450, which to use?

Posted on 2019-10-28, 01:54

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The VID->Voltage chart on the ADP3152 datasheet is interesting. It looks like it will stay at 1.80V for any Vcore value that is below that level. 1/3 of the chart is 1.80V entries, all matching different VIDs that are in the 1.3-1.8V range. {snip} If your CPU is already S370 then this doesn't …

Re: P3-450 or K6-2+ 450, which to use?

Posted on 2019-10-27, 17:48

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Good find, PARKE. Dunno why google didn't put that one up for me. I'll check what BIOS is installed on this one, I have it apart for a thorough cleaning at the moment.

Re: P3-450 or K6-2+ 450, which to use?

Posted on 2019-10-27, 14:38

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

If you can read the part number on that chip (or take a photo) we might be able to look up what voltage range it supports. It uses an ADP3152, which is designed for PII cpus. If you try it and run into a BIOS problem, make sure you have the latest version because sometimes CPU support gets added …

Re: P3-450 or K6-2+ 450, which to use?

Posted on 2019-10-26, 16:15

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I would expect the 440BX to be a lot better than a VIA MVP3 for I/O. I had a good experience with a 440GX 450MHz system doing video capture a long time ago, and that's really the same thing as a 440BX. My system before that was a Tyan S1590 board like yours, but I never tried using it for an I/O …

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