Re: Mi future 486...hopefully!

Posted on 2013-04-01, 16:50

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by carlostex

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Thats the truth.. i miss those times. I would not trade my fdd for an usb emulator, there is nothing like the real deal., is the sound and slowness also emulated?? :-D Oh it's slow allright. Remember it still uses FDD controller. Makes no sound though... Well i still have a normal floppy drive as …

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Re: VLB IO controller, TS-8310VLT, all jumpers are missing!

Posted on 2013-03-31, 12:42

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by carlostex

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Maybe if you look around here: http://stason.org/TULARC/pc/hard-disk-floppy- … ml#.UVgu61fwqAg

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Re: Video / Sound Card Advice on Two Retro PC's

Posted on 2013-03-31, 12:28

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by carlostex

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Really depends... What kind of applications you want to run in both systems?

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Re: Mi future 486...hopefully!

Posted on 2013-03-30, 12:47

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by carlostex

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Congrats Pingaloka, it looks very good. If you need help with that floppy emulator let me know.

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Re: SD / CF cards as hard drives?

Posted on 2013-03-28, 15:55

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by carlostex

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I'm actually using Industrial Grade SD Cards which use more reliable SLC instead of more common MLC. My 1GB card scores something like 0.60ms average access time on speedsys. Reads are very fast too, writes are not very impressive but i would say at first hand SMARTDRV is not needed too. It might be …

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Re: SD / CF cards as hard drives?

Posted on 2013-03-28, 11:27

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by carlostex

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OK i have a question about this. Is it worth to use SMARTDRV when using SD Cards of CF cards as hard drives? Because 28K of memory is worth saving...

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Re: Looking for 486 PCI Motherboard

Posted on 2013-03-27, 23:56

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by carlostex

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I own 2 Lucky Star's. One rev D and one rev F. Both have real cache.

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Re: My 386 board and Turbo Switch

Posted on 2013-03-25, 09:10

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by carlostex

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If i disable the cache in my system, performance is between a 386 DX-25 and a 386 DX-33. This is perfect to play Wing Commander. Great, with this system i can pretty much achieve several different system speeds.

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Re: My 386 board and Turbo Switch

Posted on 2013-03-24, 14:32

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by carlostex

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Thanks man for the answer. Thing is this board actually gets very slow when Turbo is disabled. I think not only it lowers clock speed it also disables the cache. According to NSSI software the system gets slower than a 286 @ 16MHZ. I was expecting it would slow it to the level of a 386 DX 16 or even …

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My 386 board and Turbo Switch

Posted on 2013-03-23, 20:07

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by carlostex

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To anyone that owns a Dataexpert UNI-386WB board. When you press your turbo switch do you see an immediate slowdown on system speed or does it stay the same? I'm asking because i have the same board and i just found that it refuses to switch speeds when i press turbo button except when i don't …

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Re: Getting rid of physical floppies ... how about hardware emulators?

Posted on 2013-03-17, 15:19

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by carlostex

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Remember everybody that this is my experience only, some of you may get disappointed if you expect these devices do more. For me these ones i got do enough. They allow me to replace my physical floppies in a way i don't have to be so scared that my old floppies have gone FUBAR and i need to search …

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Re: Getting rid of physical floppies ... how about hardware emulators?

Posted on 2013-03-17, 02:30

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by carlostex

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@pingaloka Computer specs range from my 386 through all my systems until it reaches my main Windows 7 rig. As long as you have a BIOS that supports 1.44M floppy drives and 34pin floppy connection i don't think this particular model i got will have any trouble. Now i don't know about older models …

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Re: Getting rid of physical floppies ... how about hardware emulators?

Posted on 2013-03-16, 14:32

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by carlostex

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On this subject, 2 days ago arrived a floppy emulator i got on eBay. It's this one in particular: http://www.ebay.com/itm/160981837011?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649 Yeah, chinese made, doesn't seem to be very good and after i bought it a saw a negative review of a Gotek model: …

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Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2013-03-10, 17:03

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by carlostex

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I used software to download the actual video. That way i could watch it. I cannot watch any shows in blip, flash is updated no adblockers tried different browsers and disabling extensions and addons but still i cannot watch via browser. I don't care about blip so i'll keep downloading videos if i …

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Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2013-03-09, 16:31

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by carlostex

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It's been a while since i haven't watched an ADG episode. Why? Because i just can't! I can't figure out why i cannot watch the videos, after i press play i just get the ring loading forever. Tried with different browsers, disabling plug ins... So i just stopped watching the show. But Wing Commander? …

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Re: Some questions about 2 386DX-40 mobos

Posted on 2013-03-05, 17:26

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by carlostex

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Yeah... Ok now i know what it is. Anyway i'm happy that i just successfully put a CR2032 on the 386 board using a schottky diode. It seems to be holding CMOS settings just fine. The internal clock is the only the only thing is worrying me though, as it seems to be lagging behind. Don't know why yet …

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Re: Some questions about 2 386DX-40 mobos

Posted on 2013-03-05, 12:03

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by carlostex

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Breadboard? Oh BTW, i'm not a native english speaker.

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Re: Some questions about 2 386DX-40 mobos

Posted on 2013-03-05, 11:00

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by carlostex

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Dude that's waaayy over my head. I thought i just needed to connect directly. THere's no way i'm gonna be able to do that. I thought that connecting directly would do the trick but it seems i do not understand electronics enough. I realize i don't need to be a rocket scientist and i can hold myself …

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Re: Some questions about 2 386DX-40 mobos

Posted on 2013-03-05, 10:08

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by carlostex

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Yeah i just need time to do it. I'm gonna try to do it this week still. First things first, if any one of you guys wants to give me the correct pins for clock and PS/2 data in the controller i'll be happy, as i can't figure what are the correct pins by reading the datasheet myself. OK so let's think …

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Re: Some questions about 2 386DX-40 mobos

Posted on 2013-03-05, 09:28

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by carlostex

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Does the BIOS need to assign IRQ 12 to the PS/2 mouse port? Thats's the question!!! I mean if i try it and it doesn't work there will be 2 chances why it doesn't work. 1. Regional controller does not support PS/2. 2. BIOS does not assign a proper IRQ to the PS/2 controller. I actually think it will …

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