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Re: (SOLVED - defective FPU) How hot should an 8087 FPU be at idle? I'm getting 55-60 deg C... And other 8087 questions

Posted on 2021-03-01, 02:49

You're welcome! ^^ That is the NCC-1701-A - the nacelles have swept back pillars :D Ah, I see. Thanks for pointing that out. ^^ I've been watching TOS, TNG, VOY since I was little, but I'm still learning. The books/novals of the TOS era, for example.. Really fascintating, IMHO. (Btw, if you like TNG …

Re: Any others given up on the hobby?

Posted on 2021-02-27, 12:45

in Milliways
Collect less, play more, do you must. Rather good advice. These days you have to maintain what hardware you have as it certainly won't improve over time. All the hoarders with piles of crap they have no time to restore ... won't work next time they look. I often collect parts, too. But not as a …

Re: Best OS for a 286?

Posted on 2021-02-27, 02:35

in Milliways
Sorry to hear! :( Unfortunately, I don't have got a T3200 for testing at hand.. So I can't really make any recommendations. However, I found a site of a user that says Windows 1.0 was officially supported. : http://oldcomputer.info/portables/t3200/index.htm Maybe you can take advantage of this …

Re: AMB - the Ancient Machine Book format

Posted on 2021-02-26, 12:58

That's very interesting, IMHO! 😎 Your work reminds me a bit of the old DXF and HPGL graphic formats, by the way. (In the spiritual sense.) They used to be in plain ASCII, too and were meant to be platform independent. Another program thing that comes to mind is the SFML description language in LCARS …

Re: Do you want an EGA monitor?

Posted on 2021-02-25, 15:12

in Marvin \ Video
So not only does CGA have snowy artifacts and limited color graphics modes, it also shows scanlines? It truly was a shitty graphics standard. Yes, yes, it kinda was! 😁 To be fair, though, the original CRTC chip, the Hitachi HD46505, wasn't really designed with graphics in mind. It was more of a …

Re: Winevdm

Posted on 2021-02-24, 16:56

in PC Emulation
OTVDM being acknowledged on an article on Microsoft.com gave me the chance to mention it on Wikipedia in the Windows 3.1 article. Although some idiot there on Wikipedia is causing problems saying it is not relevant. 🙄🙄🙄 I'm with you. Long long ago in a galaxy.. WAIT! Wrong story! :blush: Well, long …

Re: (SOLVED - defective FPU) How hot should an 8087 FPU be at idle? I'm getting 55-60 deg C... And other 8087 questions

Posted on 2021-02-24, 16:30

https://dougx.net/gaming/coproc.html The old ceramic NPUs draw ~2,5 ampere and get quite hot, I think. Not sure if this a bad thing per se, though. I'd be worse if the heat produced by these NMOS designs would stay in the casing. In this context, It's perhaps good that no plastic package was used. …

Re: muti boot idea for windows 3.x

Posted on 2021-02-22, 19:20

Windows 3.1 needs a bit of memory below 1MB. This memory should be contiguous, also. Another utility, Fix1MB also tries to help here. For the inner workings, please have a look at the help file of that WMI program in this link: Re: Viewing the Upper Memory area

Re: Do you want an EGA monitor?

Posted on 2021-02-22, 08:36

in Marvin \ Video
I don't believe I recall ever seeing an actual EGA monitor in action, at least not in person . Does EGA really look different on an actual EGA monitor versus on backwards compatible VGA card ? Are there any compatibility issues ? I'm also curious. I've always considered EGA to be a sub-mode of VGA …

Re: XTulator (yet another PC emulator)

Posted on 2021-02-21, 12:14

in PC Emulation
Neville wrote on 2021-02-19, 14:09: Glad to have another PC emulator on the scene. Exactly my thoughts! I like the idea that XTulator comes close to the real world scenario of back then, when XT users made most of their XTs. Enlarged memory, 80186 instructions set.. Just named a few. 😀

Re: Who can help me out with a GWBasic project?

Posted on 2021-02-20, 12:35

in DOSBox General
Tokenized or ASCII doesn't appear to matter. Hm,okay. Sorry to hear. :( Well, I heard that OEM versions of DOS (around prior MS-DOS 4/5) included custom utilities and modified MS-DOS programs. Perhaps one of these is more optimized or compiled with 80186 instructions? I don't know. I used GW-BASIC/ …

Re: Running os 7.x on pentium 1 hardware

Posted on 2021-02-20, 03:00

Hi! 🙂 Well, there's also an old copy of vMac that runs on Windows NT 3.51/4 and Win 95.. But it runs System 5.x, at best. 🙁 https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=898314#p898314 System 7.0/7.1 was interesting, IMHO, because it was the arch rival of Windows 3.1x, so to say. Things like TrueType, …

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