Re: 386 Inboard

Posted on 2010-11-10, 19:59

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by Anonymous Coward

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I used to have one of these but sold it recently. It's an interesting toy, but ultimately I didn't like having it installed in my XT. It's not exactly a motherboard on a card. It still relies on most of the components on the XT motherboard. To the best of my knowledge it only works in 4.77MHz XTs. …

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Re: 16meg sim on a 386?

Posted on 2010-10-24, 18:14

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by Anonymous Coward

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Well, I would provided I had a 386 board that could take them, and enough cash on hand. I dropped some cash on eight 16meg 30 pin SIMMs for my 486 several years ago. I'd like to buy another eight, but I won't pay more than $20 per set of four.

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Re: 16meg sim on a 386?

Posted on 2010-10-24, 16:23

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by Anonymous Coward

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The maximum amount of memory a board can take will not only depend on the chipset, but also the BIOS. I would guess that support for 16mb SIMMs on 386 motherboards is even more limited than the 486 boards that support it. In my experience though, if you plug 16mb SIMMs onto a board that doesn't …

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Re: Why an EISA 486?

Posted on 2010-10-19, 17:15

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by Anonymous Coward

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I saw that enterprise IV on ebay. It looks like a pretty nice board. AMI is pretty much cream of the crop for quality. But the previous poster is right, you have *almost* nothing to gain unless you have EISA cards. That being said, EISA SCSI controllers and network adapters are pretty easy to come …

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Re: MATH COPROCESSORS: A Question...

Posted on 2010-10-01, 17:37

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by Anonymous Coward

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On 8088/86 systems, the FPU always runs at the same speed as the CPU. On early 80286 systems, the FPU usually runs at either the 2/3 the speed of the CPU, or in sync. Apparently that is a built-in function of the 80287 rather than the motherboard. On later 286 boards, it was more of a function of …

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Re: BIOS for ET4000W32P VLB card

Posted on 2010-09-29, 13:40

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by Anonymous Coward

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Alright then, just PM me your mailing addresses, and next time I'm in the US I'll send both of you the chips. My understanding is that the CS4231 (unlike the CS4232 and later) is merely a codec chip, and the OPTi chip is needed to provide the SB Pro compatibility.

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Re: BIOS for ET4000W32P VLB card

Posted on 2010-09-28, 23:23

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by Anonymous Coward

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The Tropez Plus has a CS4232 + OPL3. I think the original Tropez uses CS4231 +OPL3 with that damn OPTi chip. Unrelated: What kind of tag RAMs do you currently have installed in your everex board? I think it usually comes with the 20ns parts. I bought several tubes of 12ns tag RAMs that fit this …

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Re: BIOS for ET4000W32P VLB card

Posted on 2010-09-28, 15:25

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by Anonymous Coward

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Samudra, have you tried removing all other cards in your Nice EISA board and just running with the Stealth32? Please let me know when you eventually get around to dumping the BIOSon that card for me to test. Don't hurry yourself though, because I have relocated my hardware to Toronto as of yet. I …

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Re: Creative Labs Test Point connector.

Posted on 2010-09-12, 21:53

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by Anonymous Coward

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I want a line out, because the amplified output on the old creative cards didn't have much in the way of filtering. They're noisy.

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Re: Creative Labs Test Point connector.

Posted on 2010-09-12, 19:21

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by Anonymous Coward

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It's been a while and my memory is a little rusty, but as I recall the results from playing around with the test point was not very encouraging. I was hoping that perhaps it would allow me to bypass the volume wheel, but sadly it seems to sit in between the volume wheel and the output jack, which …

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Re: ATI -- the Brand is dead, long live the Legend

Posted on 2010-09-01, 17:18

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by Anonymous Coward

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Btw, are there still a lot of boxed 9700 Pros left in Canada, AC? Or in your backyard maybe ... ? I doubt it. Canadians are cheap. We couldn't afford the 9700 Pros to begin with, and a lot of people here buy OEM parts to save money. I think most of my friends had Radeon 9000s back then.

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Re: ATI -- the Brand is dead, long live the Legend

Posted on 2010-08-31, 23:11

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by Anonymous Coward

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As a Canadian I can't tell you how offended I am that ATi (based right here in my backyard), was sold off to the fucking texans (AMD). Texas is like the anti-Canada. Dropping the name is just reopening the wound. I was also a fan of 3dfx, and I never thought I'd live to see the day where I went out …

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Re: FPM RAM upgrade

Posted on 2010-08-18, 16:03

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by Anonymous Coward

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Two years back I saw 128mb SIMMs on ebay selling for peanuts. I ended up going for some very nice compaq 64mb FPM SIMMs instead since I didn't have any systems capable of handling higher densities. Looking back perhaps I should have bought the 128mb SIMMs too.

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Re: FPM RAM upgrade

Posted on 2010-08-17, 22:27

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by Anonymous Coward

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I think there are 128mb SIMMs as well. I thought those worked on a lot of HX boards, do they not?

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Re: Best video card ever

Posted on 2010-08-17, 18:12

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by Anonymous Coward

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I've owned or used just about every single model of Mach64 that existed. In all the years that I used them I never ran into compatibility problems, they provided excellent clarity, excellent performance in windows, and usually pretty decent performance in DOS too (depends somewhat on RAM type). The …

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Re: Best video card ever

Posted on 2010-08-17, 14:25

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by Anonymous Coward

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I had a 9600 Pro for a number of years, and it was really one of the better post year 2000 cards I owned. I'd probably still be using it now if I hadn't bought a laptop as a desktop replacement. I had a nice passive cooling kit installed on it too. I am also a big fan of cards based on ATi Mach64 …

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Re: Holy Grail found!

Posted on 2010-08-16, 02:16

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by Anonymous Coward

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Refresh rate has nothing to do with the bus, but rather the quality of the RAMDAC. If you have a 2MB card with only an 80MHz RAMDAC, you're stuck with 43Hz at 1024x768. The Mach64 ISA has a rather good ATI68860 RAMDAC on it (135MHz), which I believe can handle 1280x1024x24 at 75Hz refresh rate.

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Re: Holy Grail found!

Posted on 2010-08-15, 22:47

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by Anonymous Coward

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Nice, how much did that set you back? I've had this card for a number of years. It's by far the best ISA graphics adapter I have ever used. I am lucky that I didn't pay much for mine, though it didn't come sealed in the original box. Would it be possible to get higher resolution scans? I also …

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Re: Did Thexder's EGA Dithering Really Work?

Posted on 2010-08-14, 20:12

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by Anonymous Coward

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From what I can tell, the home version of Thexder was first developed for the Japanese PC88 systems, and then ported to other platforms. The graphics mode used on PC88 was 640x200 8 colour. On a system that only has only 8 colours, the dithering effect worked. The fact that the IIgs, Macintosh, …

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Re: Old School Color Cycling with HTML5

Posted on 2010-08-06, 03:53

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by Anonymous Coward

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I really wish that the Tierra remakes would have used 8-bit VGA with colour cycling. They just don't have the same feel with true colour graphics.

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