Re: Questions about coding HTML for old websites

Posted on 2024-11-19, 11:44

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by Skorbin

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Back in the late ninties I used the free (for private use) Phase 5 editor to make our (admittingly small) company website. You really work with the source code but get nice support for setting tags and such. But it's been quiet a while I used that editor, so my memory might be a bit fuzzy, though. …

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Re: Is the interest in retro PC hardware decreasing?

Posted on 2024-11-12, 23:30

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by Skorbin

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I tend to build unusual stuff, just to see what is/was actually possibly with old hardware. This leads to sometime "not-period correct" builds, but hey, even my old builds were a mixture of old and new components. I didn't have the money to build full computers from scratch. So now I have some crazy …

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Re: HP Visualize P-Class Pentium III: Dual Windows 2000

Posted on 2024-11-06, 22:35

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by Skorbin

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Got Windows 2000 installed, used an 80GB IDE drive. Runs very well on Visualize P500 with two Katmai @ 500 MHz. Next: Put in Geforce mx460 in place of the Elsa GLoria Primergy AGP. Will post benchmarks soon. The P500 is still slightly loud with its 2 or 3 fans, I might need to look into getting …

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Re: List of known Thin Clients/Laptops/Chipsets with SoundBlaster support for MS-DOS games !

Posted on 2024-11-05, 14:31

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by Skorbin

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Hi, You might add some information about the VXL TC3200 think Client. It ist actually based on the Board CV860A from Bona/Lex. The used board was available from Bona in different variants. CPUs: 400, 533, 800, 1 GHz and 1.4 GHz Network ports: 1 or 3 Network Chips: Realtek or Intel The rest of the …

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Re: Can I skip Smartdrive?

Posted on 2024-10-22, 13:08

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Maybe you could start the game with a batch file, which - after closing the game - does the file copy of the savegame?

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Re: Were Power PC G3, G4, G5 chips really better than pentiums of the time?

Posted on 2024-10-21, 13:50

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by Skorbin

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About network performance: there was even a "MacServerIP" from Cyansoft, which ran on Windows NT and claimed to have 3-5 times faster throughput. So basically they used Windows NT to serve Macs with their own file system. This supports the claim that it was not the file system, but the actual …

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Re: Is the interest in retro PC hardware decreasing?

Posted on 2024-10-21, 12:46

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by Skorbin

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Well, I personally estimate the probability that someone breaks into my house and steals my HDD or other media is much lower then a provider taking my data from the cloud without asking me. And nobody stops me to automatically encrypt my data I store on my NAS. For the small amount of data I have, …

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Re: Using Ethernet on Windows 9x/XP PCs without connecting to the Internet

Posted on 2024-10-18, 14:27

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by Skorbin

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Some NAS systems have already two network cards, which you could put into different segments. Just download the stuff with the "safe" computers to the NAS and your retro pcs can get them later from the NAS.

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Re: Any interesting PCMCIA cards for XP machines? Anything codec related?

Posted on 2024-10-18, 14:12

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by Skorbin

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If I read the specifications of your machine correctly, you have quite some options to make use of your slot. Sound: Your onboard sound is a SigmaTel STAC9200. So installing an Audigy 2 ZS Notebook will probably be a nice improvment in the sound department, supporting even EAX 4.0. Graphics: You …

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Re: HP Visualize P-Class Pentium III: Dual Windows 2000

Posted on 2024-10-18, 12:10

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I run a IBM Netfinity 5000 and it is in a similar league with the Kayak: Dual P III 750, 3 x 256 MB + 1 x 128 MB PC-100 registered on a ServerWorks II LE chipset. Boy, that thing is a tank! Built sturdy as hell and no hickups. I installed Windows NT4, added 2 x Diamond FireGL 4000 (which probably …

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Re: Any interesting PCMCIA cards for XP machines? Anything codec related?

Posted on 2024-10-17, 15:11

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by Skorbin

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The only PCMCIA card I am aware of which might help in the graphics department is actually an eGPU adapter. It's called "beast" something and is available as mPCIe and also as cardbus adapter. From what I read on the net, the stuff seems to be somewhat fragile but seems to work in most cases. You …

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Re: Suicidal behaviour: Going into Windows 11

Posted on 2024-10-17, 09:15

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As I have a lot of different computers and use cases the OSes are a mixed bag for me: - my main rig is capable of Windows 11 but still running on 10 and the increased telemetry pushes me rather to Linux. I actually have a Gentoo already on a second disk. It's more work then the Debian I play around …

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Re: List of motherboards with fake cache chips

Posted on 2024-10-11, 07:58

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by Skorbin

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You can add the PCCHIPS M912 ver.6.0 I have that board and can confirm that it has fake cache.

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Re: Running CPU at lower speed ok?

Posted on 2024-10-11, 06:18

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by Skorbin

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Well, on some boards the fake cache is more problematic: My M912 v6.0 has no slot for a coast module, so that is not even an upgrade option. And to my knowledge there are some boards, which are not even traced for real cache chips, so you are really out of luck then. Anyhow, putting fake chips on …

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Re: MB-8500tvx-A question

Posted on 2024-09-27, 19:45

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by Skorbin

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Hi, the earlier revisions of the board don't allow to pull the BF pins high. So without a mod it is only possible to use a Pentium MMX up to 166 MHz. With a rather small mod it is possible to use the MMX200 and MMX233 as well. More details can be found on the following website (not mine, just found …

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Re: Tyan Trinity 400, hopelessly unstable, giving up

Posted on 2024-07-10, 07:18

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by Skorbin

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Just to pipe in about TYAN boards: Not all of them had high quality caps. My TYAN Tiger 200T (S2505T) did have low quality ones, so don't automatically assume that TYAN boards are allways free of this problem. After a recap it now runs stable with 2 kings and 4 x 1 GB registered SDRAM (yes, the …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-06-20, 12:48

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by Skorbin

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The PII P2b-D is a very nice setup, totally worth making your main rig, there will be a few here that will be happy to see the silly amount of Pentium Pros you scored in the hands of a collector they are worth cleaning up and selling off to other collectors. Nothing to say about the V2's we all …

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Re: BIOS Wanted for A.I.R. 486EI EISA motherboard

Posted on 2024-06-11, 06:48

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... Anyhow, if there is interest, I can check my old notes I have floating somewhere on my NAS. If I am not mistaken, the small program should be there as well. If you have a chance to do this, I would definitely appreciate having any other info about the board that you are able to dig up. So far I …

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Re: BIOS Wanted for A.I.R. 486EI EISA motherboard

Posted on 2024-06-10, 22:00

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by Skorbin

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... Anyhow, if there is interest, I can check my old notes I have floating somewhere on my NAS. If I am not mistaken, the small program should be there as well. If you have a chance to do this, I would definitely appreciate having any other info about the board that you are able to dig up. So far I …

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Re: BIOS Wanted for A.I.R. 486EI EISA motherboard

Posted on 2024-06-10, 09:04

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by Skorbin

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Just as a side note: I once had a AIR 486IEI running with 256 MB. But Himem.sys would only detect 64 MB by default. It seems that there was a certain bit not set by default to interpret the memory size correctly. Somebody wrote a small program (just a few byte) to set this bit and the memory was …

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