Re: voooo 5 pci for sale

Posted on 2010-02-01, 15:39

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by Amigaz

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exxe wrote: Hast du das jetzt nur so gesagt oder hast du wirklich mal Deutsch gelernt? I doesn't help that I'm 1/4 german and I learnt german in school for two years...I had some trouble before I figured out what your sentence meant

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Re: New forum member, thinking of retro PC build (3.1 & 95 OS).

Posted on 2010-01-26, 17:43

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by Amigaz

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The only thing 95 does better than 98, to my knowledge, is run a lot better on 486s. Win98's shell is noticeably slower on them. There's little reason to run 98 on a 486 anyway. Also I have to say that, for DOS games, real hardware is at a disadvantage compared to DOSBOX. You get astonishing …

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Re: Anyone using FreeDOS?

Posted on 2010-01-26, 15:11

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by Amigaz

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Svenne wrote: What is shsucdx? Anyway, I have a FreeDOS CD somewhere. I'll might test it on my uncle's old pentium rig. SHSUCDX = MSCDEX replacement http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSCDEX

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Re: Anyone using FreeDOS?

Posted on 2010-01-26, 11:47

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by Amigaz

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Don't rely too much on using shsucdx it can cause problems with some games like Gunship 2000 for example, the game will only install/run with mscdex by some unknown reason. It can also be stubborn to load into HMA

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Re: FIC 486-PIO3 mobo

Posted on 2010-01-25, 18:49

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by Amigaz

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... and stuff an AMD 5x86 and run it at 40 or 50mhz FSB since you have a PCI divider jumper as I do on my PIO-2 Can you recommend which AMD 5x86 CPU to buy please? There seems to be various CPUs available, with different codes written on them. Here's one, at random: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/ …

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Re: mystery ISA card

Posted on 2010-01-24, 08:18

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by Amigaz

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Emulates a terminal that connects to old mainframes. Terminals were display and keyboard, any computing was done on the mainframe. Does it emulate the whole terminal --> mainframe? (some typical brand ICL etc) At my work we still use the same system we had in the 70's with Singer, ICL mainframes …

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Re: PowerVR Fun Thread

Posted on 2010-01-22, 10:18

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by Amigaz

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Waiting for this to arrive http://www.tradera.com/Matrox-Power-VR-pci-auktion_105036200 We'll be able to have real PowerVR feast soon 😁

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2010-01-21, 15:18

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by Amigaz

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@Malik @Keropi You showoffs! 😁

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2010-01-21, 11:04

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by Amigaz

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You Yamaha XG freak! :D No, no. You see, when it goes to hardware, I always try to have three of everything: (1) first, I try to have one hardware that comes with its box, purely for collection/display. Not all of them are in mint condition though, but they don't have to. (2) the second piece is to …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2010-01-21, 10:21

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by Amigaz

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You Yamaha XG freak! 😁 But you don't have any SW60XG prototype card 😎

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Re: MS-DOS 7.10 consumes 27kb of conventional memory, any fix?

Posted on 2010-01-20, 14:36

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by Amigaz

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keropi wrote: I will give UMBPCI a shot, but I am really using a SIS based mobo (Asus 4SAW2) with pci/vlb/isa and a 486/100 cpu... There's jemm and jemmex too...jemmex is both EMS/XMS in one driver 😀

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Re: MS-DOS 7.10 consumes 27kb of conventional memory, any fix?

Posted on 2010-01-20, 14:15

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by Amigaz

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Gonna check on my P166 box when I get home how much mem I have left in DOS (win98se)

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Re: MS-DOS 7.10 consumes 27kb of conventional memory, any fix?

Posted on 2010-01-20, 12:56

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by Amigaz

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

How does your autoexec and config look like? What drivers do you use?

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Re: FIC 486-PIO3 mobo

Posted on 2010-01-20, 11:56

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by Amigaz

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Don't know what's wrong but you should at least have a score of 7-8 in pcpbench

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Re: FIC 486-PIO3 mobo

Posted on 2010-01-20, 09:27

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by Amigaz

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Thanks a lot. I have now got univbe installed. Also, I put these lines in to my config.sys file: DEVICE=C:\Dos\HIMEM.SYS DOS=HIGH,UMB DEVICE=C:\Dos\EMM386.EXE RAM FILES=30 STACKS=0,0 BUFFERS=20 Pcpbench mode 100 (640x400x8) LFB = 5.6 Pcpbench mode 101 (640x480x8) LFB = 4.9 Pcpbench mode 103 ( …

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Re: FIC 486-PIO3 mobo

Posted on 2010-01-20, 08:58

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by Amigaz

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I noticed in your "120 mhz thread" that you are using a "Diamond Stealth 3D 2000 2mb 50ns EDO DRAM". I had a look in my box of junk, and found this, a S3 Trio64V+ card, but it's got the 2mb upgrade, and these 2 upgrade chips are marked with "bla bla...-50" That looks a bit like 50ns EDO to me. ( …

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Re: FIC 486-PIO3 mobo

Posted on 2010-01-20, 07:55

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by Amigaz

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I wonder how much performance you'd loose if you stick the 120mhz version of the cx5x86 I use here socket 3 system on stereoids *Updated* use the PCI divider.... Planning to test that cpu on my PIO-2 in the future btw. glad you got the cache working 😀

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Re: Dual 386 Motherboard??????

Posted on 2010-01-19, 21:37

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by Amigaz

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Out of the box NT 3.1 supports only custom multiprocessor servers like the SystemPro, Wyse or AST. You won't be able to run it on an MPS compliant motherboard unless you get the MP specification v1.1 HAL installation kit . Really? I'm running Win NT3.1 on my 486 Eisa system But it is uniprocessor, …

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Re: Dual 386 Motherboard??????

Posted on 2010-01-19, 21:15

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by Amigaz

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

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Or why not Windows NT3.1? NT4.0 is too "new" :D Out of the box NT 3.1 supports only custom multiprocessor servers like the SystemPro, Wyse or AST. You won't be able to run it on an MPS compliant motherboard unless you get the MP specification v1.1 HAL installation kit . Really? I'm running Win NT3 …

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Re: FIC 486-PIO3 mobo

Posted on 2010-01-19, 21:07

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by Amigaz

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Your Cyrix is probably running 3x33mhz = 100mhz I've just checked the mobo's "PCI BUS CLOCK SELECTION" jumper. It's set to its default setting, which is "<= 33MHz (PCI clock = CPU clock)". I have now changed this jumper configuration, and set it to: ">33 MHz (PCI clock = CPU clock/2)". I haven't …

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