Re: 486DX-50 MHz EISA system
Posted on 2021-10-19, 12:58
Sounds like insufficiency of EISA NV RAM and/or the correspondig battery. Did you changed the Dallas 1225 too? Also check the Voltage of your Battery, this should be over 3.2V.
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2021-10-17, 17:29
Finished tieing up the cables in my late XP Core2Duo tower so they're all routed nicely and out of the way. Installed XP on a SSD (didn't even need to inject SATA drivers which I wasn't expecting) and verifying the drivers needing to be installed since I had to get them all from third party …
Re: My Very Long Bus Adventure.
Posted on 2021-10-15, 13:37
Its a known bug. The path of your directory is too long. Try to move the demo near your root directory and/or shorten your PATH line in your autoexec.bat.
Re: My Very Long Bus Adventure.
Posted on 2021-10-14, 04:53
The SV2GX4 doesn‘t support L1WB correct with POD. That means in this case that applications with DMA (Floppy, SCSI, Sound) cause memory incoherencies and errors. With L1WT there are no problems with DMA. With revision 1.8 and earlier the L1WB mode for POD is hard wired and you cannot switch to L1WT …
Re: My Very Long Bus Adventure.
Posted on 2021-10-11, 19:35
Make sure, that JP5 and JP6 are set to 1-2 JP11: 2-3 JP16: 1-2 & 4-5 JP17: 1-2 & 5-6 JP18: 1-2 JP19: 1-2 & 3-4 & 5-6 JP20: 1-2 JP21: 3-4 (L1WB) or 2-3 (L1WT) JP22: 1-2 & 4-5 check correct setting in BIOS feature setup C9474DC1-8C4F-4AF4-BA13-107CE00CBDE4.jpeg 9B260C12-2488-4DD8-9F0B-8E2EFEA0EBBB. …
Re: Behold the VGR - My Pentium III 1GHz Vintage Gaming Rig
Posted on 2021-10-11, 13:39
Interesting and nice system. The GF4 Ti 4200 is nearly on par with GF3. So I think the GF4 Ti series fits well too. Bottlenecked by CPU means additional power for eye candy (e.g. AF and AA) without performance decrease. I would add a Radeon 8500 to the list of suitable graphics cards for this CPU.
Re: Athlon 64 3400+ with 9800 GTX?
Posted on 2021-10-10, 20:18
Bottleneck? Sure! I have a FX-60 (little bit faster single core performance) with 9800GT SLI. I can crank up all eye candy in full HD without any malus. And the 9800GTX has PhysX support too. Use it and be happy, It is not fully senseless.
Re: My Very Long Bus Adventure.
Posted on 2021-10-09, 07:39
I used Phils DOSBench Suite for the Benchmarks above. For Doom i used the modification with (+) button one time for the Full UI and HUD. I tesded with normal bootmenu and drivers (mouse, smartdrv, scsi, S3VBE or UniVBE …). With clean bootmenu (himem and keyboard only and UniVBE for SVGA Benches) the …
Re: My Very Long Bus Adventure.
Posted on 2021-10-08, 13:53
Ohh thanks, but i have one! 😀
Re: My Very Long Bus Adventure.
Posted on 2021-10-08, 12:46
It has the S3 Vision864 Accelerator and a good vga signal quality (better than Genoa, Orchid and Number Nine derivates) and i had it in my childhood … and i like Miro. Alternativly i would recommend Elsa Winner 1000 and Spea Mirage with the S3 864. Speedwise the Diamond Stealth 64 should be the …
Re: My Very Long Bus Adventure.
Posted on 2021-10-07, 18:36
For Windows, the S3 968 VRAM followed by Mach64 VRAM should be the fastest option. Both are available with 4MB VRAM, so that 1280x1024@24bit is possible. The Trio64 and S3 864/868 DRAM should be nearby speedwise (if you don‘t chose the maximum available resolution/color depth combination) but …
Re: My Very Long Bus Adventure.
Posted on 2021-10-04, 15:49
I think this topic could fill another thread or you can add it to https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=70318 A comparison between this two boards would be very intersting. The test above with the VLB cards was done with Phils Benchmark set and the system had 1024kB cache and all stable BIOS …
Re: My Very Long Bus Adventure.
Posted on 2021-10-04, 14:40
Replace "much" with "many", if it makes you happy. That being said, there are actually many better alternatives to the GD5429 in every way, especially on this board with this CPU. If 20% doesn't matter, why does he have this top notch board and overclock the CPU? Discussing what is much for one and …
Re: My Very Long Bus Adventure.
Posted on 2021-10-04, 05:55
You managed to get your hands on the fastest 486 board ever, currently trading for prices well over $200. And you're saving on the graphics card now? The integrated RAMDAC of the CL542x chips gets blurry at resolutions from 800x600. There are also much faster graphics cards for DOS, especially for …
Re: Graphics card for Pentium III 1ghz
Posted on 2021-10-01, 18:32
GF2 (GTS, Pro, Ti, Ultra) GF3 (all) GF4 (Ti, MX460) Radeon 8500/9100 Voodoo 5500 For GF Cards make sure to take a driver from pre 2003, the others have too much driver overhead which unnecessary costs a small amount of CPU Power, especially the drivers for GF FX series and obove. I am using a Radeon …
Re: A dream came true - my ultimate Pentium 1 build covering the 90's
Posted on 2021-09-04, 07:34
Did you thought about a VIA/ALi/SiS Board with caching Option for 256MB RAM? Within Win98 you lose up to 20% Performance with non cached RAM. To max out your P1 desire you can take a 266MHz Tillamook (you have to patch it a little for S7) - and overclock it to 300MHz.
Re: Ultimate Packard Bell P3 / Voodoo3
Posted on 2021-09-02, 08:49
The Matrox G400 cards have 5ns SGRAM chips (Samsung KM4132G112Q-5) with 32MBit per Chip - would be a sufficient and easy obtainable donor.
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2021-08-25, 13:59
A Compaq professional workstation ap 550. Just looked quickly and it has a p3 of some kind, SCSI cd burner (what the duce) and a quadro 2. It seems to be upgraded ram wise, not sure about the processor situation.. IMG_20210825_123528.jpg Nice System: Dual Slot1 PIII, Rambus (i840) and 133MHz FSB, …
Re: What should I upgrade in my new Windows 98 gaming build?
Posted on 2021-08-16, 14:03
Win9x supports official 512MB only and you need a workarround to run it with more MB stable. And all Games of this era running well with 256MB. So 512MB are enough and prevent trouble. The M64 is very compatible and sufficient for pre 1999 gaming at low resolution (640x480) and lower color depth ( …
Re: What should I upgrade in my new Windows 98 gaming build?
Posted on 2021-08-16, 13:10
I like the System - especially the beige desktop case style. How managed the internal airflow to keep the components cool? Maybe some points by individual priority: - reduce the RAM to 512MB - switch the maybe sufficcient (for low resolutions), but cheapo M64 against another, more valuable card: …
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