Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2024-04-16, 18:43
This HDD-FDD Controller NCL NDC5425 dated cca. 1988
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2024-04-08, 20:31
Just got this Legend QDI P6i440bx/B9 for free from a neighbor...
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2024-04-03, 18:27
This Genius EasyMouse, serial, for 1$. https://fccid.io/FSUGMZE3 - a hot item from 1996...
Re: Can NVME drives be partitioned as MBR and boot in Legacy mode?
Posted on 2024-04-03, 12:44
Are we talking about a special legacy OPRom embedded in some Samsung NVMe drives - that will enable booting when the motherboard is not NVMe aware? Otherwise, I have to 2 NVMe drives: Samsung MZALQ256B (OEM, 2021 release) and an Adata SX8200 PRO (2018) and both are booting just fine into legacy mode …
Re: Is there a good tool to inspect MPS (not ACPI) tables?
Posted on 2024-02-22, 18:31
MPS is still alive... I found MPS 1.4 tables on a socket 1700 motherboard ( Asus H610M -C D4-CSM ) with an updated BIOS for Intel 14th Gen CPUs. On this socket 1700 motherboard/Intel 13th Gen CPU - I updated an existing NT 4.0 installation to multiprocessor kernel - and everything worked fine, from …
Re: Ultimate Windows XP Machine Project - "Maximus"
Posted on 2023-11-15, 22:06
You should go with a 13/14th gen Intel CPU and maybe a 980Ti... I mean if it's possible why not go for the best hardware in a "ultimate" setup ? Otherwise I like very much the Haswell generation, there are some motherboards very retro friendly with „IDE compatibility mode” option. I was able to …
Re: Win98 works on h87 performance(haswell), on z690 I get vcache protection error
Posted on 2023-11-15, 10:13
Rebooting will not work, but shutting down and using Ctrl+Alt+Del at the Safe to shutdown screen is an easy workaround. It think this is an issue with your specific build/software, because I can restart and shutdown normally on my configuration: H610/i3-13100F/Radeon X300. BTW, Windows 95A is …
Re: Win98 works on h87 performance(haswell), on z690 I get vcache protection error
Posted on 2023-11-08, 21:00
Good news! Now you can install Windows 98 even on Intel Raptor Lake configurations using a tiny patch named `cregfix`. (5 min video) It looks like the solution was found by a guy "mintsuki" (probably him: https://github.com/mintsuki) ... after the page fault triggering the VCACHE issue, noticed that …
Re: Vogons Video Announcement Thread
Posted on 2023-03-29, 19:35
A short video about installing Windows 98SE on a Intel Coffee Lake Refresh (9th gen) computer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAHbJ_S2a6E
Re: Windows 98SE is running on Intel 9th gen platform (bare metal)
Posted on 2023-03-22, 18:23
What did you do differently from the other folks who failed? - Alex I think my "special" approach was to use a Windows 98 compatible disk controller. This is how I managed to pass the "Windows protection error" message which was causing a dead end. Wow, that's very cool to see. Is there any issues …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2023-03-16, 14:19
This Soyo SY-025P2 Socket 3 motherboard - looks brand new. I replaced the leaky Ni-Cd battery with a 2032 socket. The socket has no lever... but comes with metallic holes... Didn't test it yet.
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2023-03-14, 17:50
Just installed Windows 98SE on a Intel 9th gen platform... That's pretty cool! Did you patch something to make only 512 megs visible to the OS? I don't expect ddr3 to exist in that size? [Edit] DDR4, I guess After the first restart -> edit C:\windows\system.ini -> under [386enh] insert this line …
Windows 98SE is running on Intel 9th gen platform (bare metal)
Posted on 2023-03-14, 16:22
Windows 98 installation process usually ends into a "Windows protection error"/ "VCACHE error" on the latest Intel generations. There are a couple of videos on YouTube with failed installations on 9th gen platform. (using real hardware) It took me like a working day (5PM to 1AM) to make it happen... …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2023-03-14, 15:56
Just installed Windows 98SE on a Intel 9th gen platform...
Re: NT4 drivers for Intergraph RealiZm II ZX25 (MSTM415) ?
Posted on 2023-03-04, 12:51
Thank you for the drivers. I installed the new drivers and they read now the correct DCC info so I can enable full HD resolution, but I end up with some vertical black bars. The image need to be stretched about 10% to cover the full display area. I experienced this also with my Voodoo 3 @ 1920x1080. …
Re: NT4 drivers for Intergraph RealiZm II ZX25 (MSTM415) ?
Posted on 2023-03-02, 23:54
It would be best if you updated to SIV 5.69 Beta-06 first. Done. @Horun download web.archive.org links unfortunately are broken. Now a big deal would be to find any NT 3.51 drivers. Being released in late 1997 it's not a guarantee to be NT 3.51 compatible. But if there are drivers this should be …
Re: NT4 drivers for Intergraph RealiZm II ZX25 (MSTM415) ?
Posted on 2023-03-02, 21:05
Well, good news. I found some working drivers on a Japanese website. http://www.fmworld.net/biz/vpro/lib/int3d/int3d.exe These drivers are meant for the MSMT496 model. The card I have is a MSMT415 with 32 frame buffer + 64MB texture memory. I think this is the maximum. I don't know what performance …
NT4 drivers for Intergraph RealiZm II ZX25 (MSTM415) ?
Posted on 2023-03-02, 18:31
Can anyone help me with NT 3.51 / 4 drivers for Intergraph RealiZm II ZX25? The card was launched in 1997 and obviously must be compatible with NT4 (even NT 3.51), but the only drivers I could find are some later universal drivers for Windows 2000/XP. The whole Intergraph RealiZM line up is not very …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2023-02-23, 22:02
I received an unusual "graphic" card:20230222_213809.jpg PC Weasel 2000 was a line of graphics cards designed by Middle Digital Incorporated (Herb Peyerl and Jonathan Levine) which output to a serial port instead of a monitor. This allows servers using PC hardware with conventional BIOSes or …
Re: Windows 98 SE VM on a Ryzen 3000 not working
Posted on 2023-02-22, 22:00
Sorry for coming late to the party. Didn't know about this "CPU issues" when I bought my Ryzen 3900X about two years ago. So... I went for a fresh install on real hardware (X470/3900X/Voodoo3) and everything worked fine in the end, as I was expecting. As of today Windows 98SE is still running …
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