Re: post up pics of your "computing area"
Posted on 2011-06-23, 00:06
You're missing a 32X. I've also seen this before:
Re: Duke Nukem Forever...and ever......and ever.........and ever............?
Posted on 2011-06-21, 23:28
^ There were a couple of different versions of Duke 1. It was originally Nukem before they changed it to Nukum, then they changed it back to Nukem for DN2.
Re: What optical drives are you guys using?
Posted on 2011-06-21, 03:24
OP, have a read of this: http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=226542 Its possible to throttle the CDROM drive speed by passing a paramter to the DOS driver. Personally, I'm using a Sony CDU-33A in my 386, it uses the proprietary 34-pin header off my Sound Blaster Pro. Pretty quiet although for some …
Re: Cyrix C3 and 486/AMD K-6 builds in progress
Posted on 2011-06-20, 00:36
I'd like to see some bencmarks of the C3 at 133MHz... like speedsys, 3dbench and Norton Sysinfo 😀
Re: Building a Vintage fleet
Posted on 2011-06-19, 21:04
Are you set on the Cyrix? They had poor fpu performance which made 3d games suffer. I had a pr166 M2 back in the say and it was faster for most things, but it was significantly slower in 3d than a pentium 120. Where abouts in Australia are you ? If you are near gold coast I have a few old socket 7 …
Re: Lee Jackson EBaying audio cards he used to use
Posted on 2011-06-19, 13:23
wow only went for $100.... I shoulda bid on these 🙁 As for Jackson's cards, I remember reading somewhere that he composed his music for apogee/3dr using a Gravis Ultrasound. Can't find it now though.
Re: Which Intel DX-50 CPU to get?
Posted on 2011-06-17, 22:56
I have this board and it supposedly supports 66, 80 and 100 MHz bus speeds, although I haven't tried them. It does run at 4Mhz though 😀 (no boot at 2MHz) http://stason.org/TULARC/pc/motherboards/F/FI … 486-GIO-VT.html
Re: (Solved) What is this ISA card - it looks like a network card.
Posted on 2011-06-17, 12:00
Cat5e is for 100mbit/second while cat5(no-"e") is for 10mbit/second Actually, Cat5 is rated for 100MBit/sec while Cat5E is rated for 1GBit/sec. Cat3 is the 10MBit/sec standard. Cat6 is rated up to 1GBit/sec, just like Cat5E, but is much more robust against interference, and Cat6A is rated for …
Re: Complete newbie question about 286s and EGA video adapters
Posted on 2011-06-17, 11:55
If its like the one I have you can set the DIP switches on the back of the card to output in CGA mode.
Re: Power cable question - 3 pin cable in 2 pin connector
Posted on 2011-06-17, 06:43
Actually thats probably for the Turbo digital LED speed display.
Re: Help with 286 board
Posted on 2011-06-16, 14:30
Ah ok I have seen those before but they don't appear to be any taller than the normal ones. I think I need something about 20mm tall to mount the motherboard properly.
Re: Help with 286 board
Posted on 2011-06-16, 12:41
Yes I think you are correct, if you manage to find some please show me.
Re: SB Vibra 16S - CT2800 vs CT2860
Posted on 2011-06-16, 12:40
I believe that there are certain games that are hard coded to use IRQ7 as that was the default IRQ for Sound Blasters prior to SB16. I can't think of any of the top of my head though. The vast majority would let you pick and choose in their setup or just check the BLASTER variable. Its also possible …
Re: Help with 286 board
Posted on 2011-06-16, 08:46
Hmm a wood tray or spacer may be worth a try, I just gotta pull my finger out and do it 😀
Re: Complete newbie question about 286s and EGA video adapters
Posted on 2011-06-16, 08:11
I have a couple of ega cards, one is a dual output 16 bit ISA video card, with 9 pin and 15 pin connectors. The dip switches do indeed change between ega, VGA, cga, mono modes etc. I'm just using an ega only card but I don't notice much difference in performance. I believe I saw a couple of those …
Re: Help with 286 board
Posted on 2011-06-15, 23:32
Well I've hit a couple of stumbling blocks. The case I was going to use seems to have no threads to screw in the motherboard standoffs- it just has holes with no thread, about 3-4mm in diameter. That sounds like the old style AT standoffs ... they'd usually use one or two screws, and the rest were …
Re: SB Vibra 16S - CT2800 vs CT2860
Posted on 2011-06-15, 21:53
I've played Tyrian on my CT2800 and I don't remember having this problem. I'd sometimes get a stuck note after exiting a game but I'd never notice one during - unless I was using General MIDI. I don't have the CT2800 in my 486 any more so I can't test it right now but has anyone else noticed this?
Re: Are there any games that are too fast for a 286 based PC?
Posted on 2011-06-15, 21:50
Depends on the motherboard, my 10MHz 286 board has an option in the BIOS setup for slow, normal and high speed. http://i.imgur.com/O5Xjj.jpg sorry for large image and crappy picture quality, but this setting seems to change the clock speed - according to norton sysinfo anyway. Slow is 6MHz, normal …
Re: Help with 286 board
Posted on 2011-06-15, 21:43
Well I've hit a couple of stumbling blocks. The case I was going to use seems to have no threads to screw in the motherboard standoffs- it just has holes with no thread, about 3-4mm in diameter. So I bought some nuts to try screwing on the underside of the standoffs but then I found that the …
Re: Complete newbie question about 286s and EGA video adapters
Posted on 2011-06-15, 10:46
Generally speaking, are EGA (also also CGA) monitors a bit poor? And generally speaking, if they are a bit poor, would they be even poorer today, many years after they were originally sold? Well my EGA monitor is definitely not as good as a VGA CRT. I've noticed that older CRT's tend to get blurry, …
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