Re: Which of these 3com cards is the fastest for a 486 66mhz? ?

Posted on 2023-10-08, 19:12

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rasz_pl wrote on 2023-10-07, 23:29: Your first link includes hot seat split screen games like Altered Beast 🤣 Yes unfortunately, but it also includes more serious information.

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Re: Which of these 3com cards is the fastest for a 486 66mhz? ?

Posted on 2023-10-07, 23:12

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Why do you think I can't do online gaming on a 486? Plenty of games back then had online multiplayer, even on weaker CPUs. Perhaps you mean IPX multiplayer. (IPX = Internetwork Packet Exchange) But this is not IP / UDP multiplayer. (IP = Internet Protocol, UDP = User Datagram Protocol) I think you …

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Re: Which of these 3com cards is the fastest for a 486 66mhz? ?

Posted on 2023-10-07, 04:49

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Why do you think I can't do online gaming on a 486? Plenty of games back then had online multiplayer, even on weaker CPUs. Exactly which DOS games had internet multiplayer? Name a few. https://www.mobygames.com/game/attribute:123/from:1982/platform:dos/platform:win3x/platform:windows/until:1995/ …

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Re: Which of these 3com cards is the fastest for a 486 66mhz? ?

Posted on 2023-10-07, 03:37

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Mostly online gaming where it would be using the cpu for the game and the internet card you will be doing approximately about zero online gaming on a 486 ISA system. Not to mention high CPU usage comes into play only when saturating the card with high rate of full size packets, something no game …

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Re: Which of these 3com cards is the fastest for a 486 66mhz? ?

Posted on 2023-09-03, 18:03

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Agree with no adantage of one of those 3com over another. Would get about same performance from any generic 10Mbit NE2000 compatible ISA card.... just my opinion. I thought that this wasn't true because the 3com cards put less load on the CPU than ne2000s due to the 3com cards having the parallel …

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Re: Which of these 3com cards is the fastest for a 486 66mhz? ?

Posted on 2023-09-03, 18:02

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I thought that this wasn't true because the 3com cards put less load on the CPU than ne2000s due to the 3com cards having the parallel tasking chip that does the work for the CPU. I could get ne2000 much cheaper. What is your use case where you think this actually matters? Where you need CPU …

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Re: Which of these 3com cards is the fastest for a 486 66mhz? ?

Posted on 2023-09-03, 05:39

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Agree with no adantage of one of those 3com over another. Would get about same performance from any generic 10Mbit NE2000 compatible ISA card.... just my opinion. I thought that this wasn't true because the 3com cards put less load on the CPU than ne2000s due to the 3com cards having the parallel …

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Re: Which of these 3com cards is the fastest for a 486 66mhz? ?

Posted on 2023-09-02, 02:50

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Running a 486 66mhz, which of these would be the fastest? Etherlink III 3c509B-TP Etherlink III 3c509-C Etherlink III 3c509B-C The shipping is expensive where I live (canada) so I wanted to know which would be the best one to get. All three are likely to be quite similar. They are all 10 Megabits/ …

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Which of these 3com cards is the fastest for a 486 66mhz? ?

Posted on 2023-09-02, 01:33

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Running a 486 66mhz, which of these would be the fastest? Etherlink III 3c509B-TP Etherlink III 3c509-C Etherlink III 3c509B-C The shipping is expensive where I live (canada) so I wanted to know which would be the best one to get.

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Re: AOpen AX6BC Critical Failure: Refuses to boot past splash screen after RAM mishap

Posted on 2023-08-25, 19:15

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all3 ram slots produce such behavior? Yes I don't want to be a downer but it seems that the north bridge got damaged. But check all the contacts in the slot you've installed the RAM and see if all of them are stuck separately. Yeah I assumed it got damaged, so I bought a new board a while ago. I …

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Re: AOpen AX6BC Critical Failure: Refuses to boot past splash screen after RAM mishap

Posted on 2023-08-25, 17:53

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how hard did you bump it exactly? either you cracked one of the joints/tracks, or reconnecting DIMM short circuited something put the board on hard flat surface (for example edge of desk so graphic card bracket can freely hand down), just before turning it on press on chipset radiator with moderate …

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Re: AOpen AX6BC Critical Failure: Refuses to boot past splash screen after RAM mishap

Posted on 2023-02-05, 20:28

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rasz_pl wrote on 2023-02-05, 04:47: all3 ram slots produce such behavior? Yes

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AOpen AX6BC Critical Failure: Refuses to boot past splash screen after RAM mishap

Posted on 2023-02-05, 04:28

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So here's the story. I was working on this PC, and then I tried to put new ram it. It posted fine, but I hit the ram with my hand, and then it gave critical failure beep and froze the system. I eventually realized the ram wasn't fully seated in the slot, and me hitting it put it fully in. So I …

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Re: Sertek S521 - midi daughterboard not working? How to set up?

Posted on 2023-01-14, 02:41

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I had the card set to SB-MIDI, was confused by this myself. Under DOS I had to change the config of the driver to enable the MPU but the Windows 98 driver should take care of that. Wavetable audio is on the AUX input so make sure that is unmuted. Alright, I set it to SB-MIDI, and now I just hear …

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Re: Sertek S521 - midi daughterboard not working? How to set up?

Posted on 2023-01-14, 02:14

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Kamerat wrote on 2023-01-02, 07:51: Have you tried to unmute all inputs of your sound card or even tried connecting directly to the sound out of the X2GS? I cannot do this as cables can't fit in the connector due to the case and bracket being in the way.

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Re: Sertek S521 - midi daughterboard not working? How to set up?

Posted on 2023-01-03, 22:33

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I had the card set to SB-MIDI, was confused by this myself. Under DOS I had to change the config of the driver to enable the MPU but the Windows 98 driver should take care of that. Wavetable audio is on the AUX input so make sure that is unmuted. I don't know how to access windows 98 driver …

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Sertek S521 - midi daughterboard not working? How to set up?

Posted on 2023-01-02, 07:38

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I don't really understand how to set this up, but I installed the midi daughterboard correctly, specifically a dreamblaster x2gs, set the jumpers to mpu-401 as opposed to sb-midi, then I selected the ess mpu401 in the midi settings on windows 98, but nothing plays when I try midi files. What am I …

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Re: SB Live! Windows 98 DOS mode SB16 emulation woes

Posted on 2022-12-23, 07:34

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the3dfxdude wrote on 2022-08-23, 03:02: Do you have another ISA sound card? Also, if you still want to run the PAS16 and another ISA card, you could rather splice in the the -5V at the ATX power connector to get rid of the voltage blaster. The only adapter I can get that does this is only …

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Sertek S521-sa not detected by Windows 98 in device manager?

Posted on 2022-12-23, 04:54

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It's simply not there, not even as an unknown device. There's a capacitor that looks like it might've leaked but it isn't bulged or anything and everything around it looks fine, so I doubt it really leaked. Even if so, I don't see why it'd prevent it from being even discovered. I've attached …

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Re: Colorimage Tseng ET4000AX weird colorful pixels top of screen when transitioning between different screens and effec

Posted on 2022-12-19, 20:15

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I've seen a similar behaviour on Trident cards when there is a palette change without waiting for the VSync. I'm pretty sure it's the same issue, nothing you can do about as is a problem on the video chip design. Actually, as the "noise" is just at the top of the screen, this is a palette change ( …

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