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Re: Anyone using a RAMBUS system?

Posted on 2011-05-31, 22:02

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The N64 expansion pack bumped it up to 8MB. This mostly allowed for larger, more complex game worlds instead of more graphics quality. It didn't help with fillrate limits or solve the inflexible GPU texture cache that could only practically handle around 16x16 pixel textures. Just think about that …

Re: Name the game - Along the lines of Robinsons Requiem

Posted on 2011-05-31, 21:58

in Milliways

in Milliways

No, it was later than either RR or Deus - but definitely along the lines of those games, being an open world exploration adventure/sim type game. I don't think you played a human in the game - I think it was an alien planet.

Re: Anyone using a RAMBUS system?

Posted on 2011-05-31, 21:45

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Case in point, the SGI Indy with a similar (albeit faster and more feature rich) cpu used EDO. RDRAM was overkill and had it's own share of problems. Does the Indy use EDO? I thought it was FPM, same as the Indigo2 - which even with the much, much faster R10000 didn't have much of a problem with …

Re: Prices of used hardware???

Posted on 2011-05-31, 21:06

in PC Emulation

in PC Emulation

Found a cheap copy of OS/2 warp connect in a blue box online, if memory serves there was a version that required an existing windows install and a version that did not. I am pretty sure I don't still have my copy (of either OS/2 or win 3.11). Is this version likely to be the win 3.11 not required …

Name the game - Along the lines of Robinsons Requiem

Posted on 2011-05-31, 19:14

in Milliways

in Milliways

I'm trying to remember the name of a game I've seen a few years ago - it was somewhat reminiscent of Robinsons Requiem, in that it was quite an open-world, in a futuristic/non-earth setting, you had many different ways of playing the game. However, it was several years after the original game - as I …

Re: Prices of used hardware???

Posted on 2011-05-31, 18:11

in PC Emulation

in PC Emulation

I figure instead of trying to find an old HD, it might make more sense to get an IDE to compact flash adapter, and install the OS on it. Anyone know if you can put DOS and/or win95 on a compact flash drive? I remember trying to do the same thing w/ win xp and there is some convoluted process you …

Re: So you think you have a big collection of obsolete CPU's?

Posted on 2011-05-31, 12:36

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

fsb? the 386dx has a 32bit data bus, it certainly won't drop in to a 286 😀

Re: Star Wars - Tie Fighter Collectors CD - audio configuration

Posted on 2011-05-31, 07:52

in DOS

in DOS

I'm using a 100% MPU401 compatible Midiman MM401 using the standard MIDI port 330h with the MT32 and SC55 attached to it - the XR385 is mounted on the SB16 which is jumpered to 300h so that both MIDI interfaces are completely seperate and I can use either of them without having to remove or recable …

Re: Questions about disk access

Posted on 2011-05-30, 21:20

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

When IDE devices are talking about 32bit transfers, it doesn't refer to the width of the physical bus or controller chips that it is connected to, it refers to the number of words of data it transfers at once. It's quite possible to have 32bit transfers using a 16bit host interface (as long as the …

Re: Using ISO images in DOS

Posted on 2011-05-30, 21:12

in DOS

in DOS

Yep, cd audio won't work as there's no practical way of routing an audio stream. I was looking at this more from the point of view of having cd-rom support for those games that refuse to run without a disc in the drive, or have no way of copying (for example) movies or game data to disk.

Re: Questions about disk access

Posted on 2011-05-30, 16:13

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Back when Dos/WIndows 95/98 were still in vogue and Dos still had a big market share, most motherboard manufacturers supplied bus mastering IDE drivers for Dos. I imagine you could probably find generic Intel versions that would support the PIIX3 and PIIX4 devices on most Intel chipset motherboards. …

Re: Best Linux for 386 class machine.

Posted on 2011-05-30, 15:18

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Recent? Hmm, you'll struggle to find one I'd imagine - the kernel has gotten quite fat over the years with the huge array of features and hardware support that has been added. DSL (Damn Small Linux) used to be the one to go for, but looking at it now it wants 16Mb minimum ram. Best bet for a 386 is …

Using ISO images in DOS

Posted on 2011-05-30, 15:13

in DOS

in DOS

I'm a lazy person at heart, so I wanted to be able to play as many of my original DOS games as possible, without having to continually swap CD's around. So at the back end of last year when I was messing around with Freedos on my P4 Dos/Win system I encountered the CDROM driver/MSCDEX replacements: …

Re: Would ATX PSU fitt in AT tower

Posted on 2011-05-30, 13:21

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I get it, I really do - there's two SGI workstations sitting under this desk right now; the Octane probably sucks as much power as that amd x4 fileserver, my main q6600 desktop and the P4 dos machine all put together! (the PSU is rated for 720W!!!) - but for day to day use a lot of old kit is too …

Star Wars - Tie Fighter Collectors CD - audio configuration

Posted on 2011-05-30, 12:54

in DOS

in DOS

I'm having a bit of trouble getting the sound configured on this game. I'm installing from a CD image of my original boxed copy (the machine doesn't have an optical drive). The install all goes smoothly, when it gets to sound configuration the SB16 is detected correctly and can play both digital and …

Re: Would ATX PSU fitt in AT tower

Posted on 2011-05-30, 09:57

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

... You shouldn't need an insane amount of wattage, either. I probably wouldn't use more than 550W with any machine from a PIII backwards but I'm sure someone has a machine that requires more than that, I just can't think how they would need that much on a machine so old unless they were running a …

Re: A question for FreeDOS users

Posted on 2011-05-30, 06:16

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Freedos works quite nicely thank you! The shell has ome nice features, such as tab completion and history, it collects a lot of enhanced drivers/utils together (himemx, the shs cdrom extensions etc). However it *doesn't* appear to load Windows (at least win32, anyway).

Re: Would ATX PSU fitt in AT tower

Posted on 2011-05-29, 09:35

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The 'switch' on an ATX psu, and as shown on the ATX/AT cable above is simply a momentary push button - it doesn't stay live once pressed.

Re: Would ATX PSU fitt in AT tower

Posted on 2011-05-29, 08:59

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Definitely use an ATX psu if you can - you don't have live current flowing through the on/off switch and, as you say, they tend to be a lot higher quality than the old AT designs.

Re: Help me pick which of these sound cards to use

Posted on 2011-05-26, 21:08

in PC Emulation

in PC Emulation

I'll probably find a nice spot dedicated to my "old ironsides" after I get married later this year. If there's two things my future wife won't make me get rid of, it's my old gaming hardware and my car. I got her hooked on Sega Genesis. :3 I hope my girlfriend never sees this, but I'm currently …

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