Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-11-24, 12:09

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psychofox wrote on 2020-11-24, 11:54: Todays find - SB 2.0 combined with IDE and floppy controller. Pretty rare card i guess? Unfortunately it has no sockets for CMS chips 🙁 Nice find. I'm wondering where Avid used these cards. This one doesn't look like cards for video production, what Avid …

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Re: PVI-486SP3 1.22 Post Error

Posted on 2020-11-21, 22:13

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Have you tried using a 5V CPU? The VRM fails often on these boards, they won't work with 3.3V CPUs then.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-11-19, 21:34

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Not really anything special and condition of some cards is so-so but will come in handy for building some rigs for sale... I'm mostly interested in the MiroMedia Surround card - addon DSP for regular sound cards. It implements Dolby Surround for 2 or 2+1 speaker setup so I hope for it being a bit …

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Re: Sam and Max Hanging Notes SC-55

Posted on 2020-11-14, 11:51

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Was this issue ever solved? I just hit it with Dark Forces, tried the Dehacker patch which apparently has some fixes for MIDI, but it doesn't change anything. Hanging notes appear just after the intro or at the very beginning of the first level, basically making the game unplayable. I'm using an SC- …

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Re: IBM 486BL - What boards was it used on?

Posted on 2020-11-03, 06:50

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Nice find. Do you have another Socket 3 board to test, whether it needs exactly this motherboard?

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Re: Your opinion on buying my first "Retro" PC

Posted on 2020-10-08, 09:19

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It's a nice setup to start retro gaming without spending a lot of cash. 2 MB graphics is enough to play games at 800x600 in hi-color with double buffering, so I wouldn't worry about that much. Knowing the graphics chip would be more important, since various chips have compatibility issues with some …

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Re: DOS RPG Hidden Gems?

Posted on 2020-10-01, 12:09

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Have you tried the RPG Codex list? There are RPG from old to modern, but each entry has a release date, so you can quickly see, whether it's one for DOS: https://rpgcodex.net/content.php?id=11193

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Texas Instruments TMS34082 3-D Graphics Library

Posted on 2020-09-15, 12:23

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I normally don't care about 3D graphics that can't do texturing, but since I've got my IrisVision set and managed to setup its development environment (SDK + and compiler) I want another "early" 3D challenge. Most people know TIGA cards, elianda and GeekDot describe how to setup and program them, …

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Re: PS/2 MCA Soundoptions

Posted on 2020-08-26, 11:28

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Hi there, I have got an IBM PS/2 Model 57 486SLC2 and this machine has only PC-Speaker and no sound-card/device. I have looked for an Soundblaster-Card but these are very rare an expensive as MCA device. I have already found out that there exits a opl3-card for mca. But LGR showed in his video that …

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Re: VPI-486SP3 - drives spin up, no video

Posted on 2020-08-17, 21:16

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Try a 5V CPU (like an old DX/2 66). On several of my 486 boards the 3.3V voltage regulator failed, so they work only with 5V CPUs.

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Re: Windows NT on Motorola Powerstack II

Posted on 2020-07-06, 09:33

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I think the embedded Visual C++ tools might contain a newer PowerPC compiler. Jason managed to get working MIPS NT binaries by using the embedded toolkit and an old Visual C++ linker: https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/2009/08/09 … d-visual-c-4-0/

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Re: Standard ATX Pentium III Xeon boards

Posted on 2020-06-08, 22:34

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The last time I tried it was nearly 20 years ago, but I would start with checking, whether the BIOS has the required microcode for your CPU. If not, you should add it and flash the board with such modded bios. I think I've use cbrom to do it, this looks like a guide: http://mrufer.ch/pc/tualatin4_e. …

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Re: Treasure trove of vintage computers shutting down, what to get?

Posted on 2020-05-19, 09:06

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perhenden wrote on 2020-05-19, 06:03: GL1zdA wrote on 2020-05-18, 18:51: The one with the Plextor Ultraplex should have SCSI, so it might a high-end PC. The one with the QIC drive similar. Thanks! Which picture/machine has the QIC drive? I can't find it. Image 3 - looks like a Tandberg (or rebadged …

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Re: Treasure trove of vintage computers shutting down, what to get?

Posted on 2020-05-18, 18:51

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The one with the Plextor Ultraplex should have SCSI, so it might a high-end PC. The one with the QIC drive similar. The black tower is a Chieftec Dragon - a decent case I've used since 2005.

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Re: HWiNFO support of vintage hardware

Posted on 2020-05-15, 20:12

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What font is HWiNFO using? I've just ran it on a vanilla Windows 95 installation and HWiNFO uses the default "Fixedsys", so I don't have it installed. Mostly it's Tahoma. Would it be possible to fallback to MS Sans Serif if Tahoma is missing (MS added it to Windows 98)? It should look better then …

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Re: HWiNFO support of vintage hardware

Posted on 2020-05-14, 20:06

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What font is HWiNFO using? I've just ran it on a vanilla Windows 95 installation and HWiNFO uses the default "Fixedsys", so I don't have it installed.

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Re: How about a MR-BIOS ROM file repository?

Posted on 2020-05-14, 07:49

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I tried SiS Rabbit, C&T Peak/DM and Topcat MR-BIOS. None of them can enable the cache on the boards. It's kind of disappointing because these are all high performance chipsets that could have really benefited from MR-BIOS tweaks. Only the Topcat chipset can be excused, because this chipset doesn't …

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Re: Intel-built 486/Pentium/PPro/PII motherboard guide

Posted on 2020-05-13, 15:30

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I was going to recommend people download the Windows Help reader for modern systems (KB917607) but apparently it's not available for Windows 10. It is available for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1. Can the version for Windows 8.1 run under 10? (I am still on 8.1) https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/ …

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Re: Early Pentium Chipset Comparison

Posted on 2020-05-13, 13:03

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Very cool. It would be neat if you could source Triflex/EISA or Triflex/PCI and see how either compares. Unfortunately I don't know what memory modules I've used for it. It's from a Deskpro XL with the Pentium 133 CPU module installed. I don't have this system anymore. Here are the results: Cache/ …

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Re: Intel-built 486/Pentium/PPro/PII motherboard guide

Posted on 2020-05-13, 12:12

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I've uploaded it to archive.org, seems to be the safest host for such things: https://archive.org/details/old_intel_motherboards_resources I hope I've described it well enough for people to find it via google.

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