Re: AnDosbox - need help

Posted on 2012-02-28, 15:28

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Is it inconceivable that someone may want to run DOSBox on a tablet, virtually all of which outside the iPad run Android? The ASUS Transformer series, for example, have a custom keyboard & touchpad dock that, when connected, make the device indistinguishable visibly from many of that company's …

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Re: AnDosbox - need help

Posted on 2012-02-28, 09:59

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what I don't get is, why are so many people desperate to run DosBox or Windows on their smartphones? XD Seriously. Running DOS games was bad enough in the actual DOS era on a 14" screen, it must totally suck on a 4" one. Using a thumb board is not the same as using a genuine clickety-clack keyboard …

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Re: AT&T PC 6300: The Resurection.

Posted on 2012-02-28, 09:55

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Mine does that, too. I think the battery may be dead but I haven't opened it up to check. It did work when I put in storage but that was over 20 years ago.

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Re: Matrox Parhelia and older game compatibility

Posted on 2012-02-27, 10:41

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

What I remember is only a few weeks after Parhelia was released, ATi released the Radeon 9700 and that was it for Matrox. Any chance they had at remaining competitive after that went out the window. They bet their future on that card and lost. The only things Parhelia had going for it were 2D image …

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Re: Cyrix Appreciation Thread

Posted on 2012-02-27, 10:21

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The topic has gotten quite derailed. It seems nobody takes Cyrix appreciation very seriously. Perhaps the subject like should read Cyrix Fun Thread instead of Cyrix Appreciation Thread . It might help interest if the thread was moved to the Marvin forum rather than System Specs. (which doesn't …

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Re: Athlon's disappointing performance

Posted on 2012-02-23, 18:58

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

AFAIR the 750 has some higher noise levels on the AGP port that could lead to the wrong data transmitted at AGP 2x. Still noise is a somewhat analog problem and is highly dependent on the mainboard layout, graphics card used, probably even the used power supply. Still the hardware manufacturers …

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Re: os9 games on a Mac mini ppc

Posted on 2012-02-23, 16:43

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ratfink wrote: Nobody said otherwise. The person I quoted did. "Rosetta works up until 10.6.8 but it is not installed by default."

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Re: ABITS WEBSITE GOES DOWN 28TH February..

Posted on 2012-02-23, 16:24

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Hi all, I also ripped Abit's FTP server, all directories. Compressed the data a bit, still takes somewhere 'round 18 GB. 4 zip files are corrupt (on all of Abit's FTP servers) but kept them in just in case. \picture\motherboard\in9-32x-max_box_jpg.zip: The archive is corrupt \picture\motherboard\lg …

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Re: os9 games on a Mac mini ppc

Posted on 2012-02-23, 16:16

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You're confusing Classic and Rosetta. Last OS X to support Classic is 10.4.11, Rosetta works up until 10.6.8 but it is not installed by default. Classic is MC68K emulation for PowerPC based Macs where you run a special version of MacOS 9 installed alongside 10.4.x that starts up automatically when …

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Re: Cyrix appreciation thread

Posted on 2012-02-22, 23:01

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

GA5-AA just sold for $33 + $26 shipping (=$59) http://www.ebay.ca/itm/220955094298 I was watching this item, but there's no way I was going to pay $60 for a high risk item, maybe $30 shipped. It looks like all this chatting in forums is raising the price of this stuff. Heh, it's probably more …

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Re: 386 40mhz to 486???

Posted on 2012-02-20, 12:52

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

noshutdown wrote: don't worry, you can even run quake2 on your 386 machine, you just need: 387 fpu 32mb ram ati mach64 vga card 500mb harddisk wi […] Show full quote don't worry, you can even run quake2 on your 386 machine, you just need: 387 fpu 32mb ram ati mach64 vga card 500mb harddisk …

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Re: Cyrix appreciation thread

Posted on 2012-02-19, 13:51

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

OK, I will. I have a CRT here and a shoebox full of common 486 CPUs. I'll leave the CPU there for a day or two and test it again. My money is on a perfectly functional CPU afterwards. Don't forget to turn the monitor on. There wouldn't be much point to the exercise without turning it on would there …

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Re: Why are old computers so expensive?

Posted on 2012-02-18, 19:18

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in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

I'm balking at the ebay prices too. The dos computers are soooo rare, ebay even has a vintage compter catagory, which is a big joke. I see the same pc's listed and relisted over months. No one is going to pay those bullshit prices. One person starts scalping on Ebay and others that have surplus …

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Re: case with all the connectors and drive doors on the same side

Posted on 2012-02-18, 17:30

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Could be an arcade box. The Quantum3D Quicksilver II and Graphite have everything on one side like that.

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Re: Games for Permedia 2

Posted on 2012-02-18, 17:25

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Permedia was never intended to be a gaming card, so these scores compared to a Riva 128 aren't surprising. Permedia was a business class card and performed better in business benchmarks than gaming benchmarks. It also has better image quality than the early nVidia stuff, but still not near the …

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Re: Games for Permedia 2

Posted on 2012-02-18, 13:14

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okay then, i would post a few of my benchmark results, all on aopen 815e/pentium3s-1.4g/512mb sdram/windows98se platform. diamond permedia2 agp 8mb canopus riva128zx agp 8mb 3dmark99 1400 1800 3dmark2000 650 1270 glquake640*480 24 64 quake2 crusher 14 35 quake3 18 32 all tests in 800*600*16 mode …

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Re: Cyrix appreciation thread

Posted on 2012-02-18, 12:51

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-Actually, they don't seem to realize that the 400 and 433 were ever released in volume (though they do note the 366 being fairly common in the US). The fastest I have ever seen in any quantity is the 366. 400 shows up for sale once in a rare while but the 433 seems to be practically non-existent. …

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Re: Cyrix appreciation thread

Posted on 2012-02-17, 17:37

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I've seen that before too, and I wonder how Cyrix established that 433 rating. Different motherboard combinations and settings could play a significant role in performance (but probably not THAT much), but a bigger possibility would be that the rating was established by a processor other than a …

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Re: Cyrix appreciation thread

Posted on 2012-02-17, 13:26

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DonutKing wrote: OK, I will. I have a CRT here and a shoebox full of common 486 CPUs. I'll leave the CPU there for a day or two and test it again. My money is on a perfectly functional CPU afterwards. Don't forget to turn the monitor on.

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Re: Cyrix appreciation thread

Posted on 2012-02-17, 08:33

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

DonutKing wrote: Leave them on top of a CRT, somewhere in the vicinity of the magnetic field. what is the magnetic field going to do to a CPU? Maybe you're thinking of a floppy disk. If you don't think it will do anything, then go ahead and try it.

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