Re: Bought these games today
Posted on 2015-07-05, 22:04
Re: Doom 3 timedemo shootout with period correct hardware.
Posted on 2015-07-05, 19:19
Anything Goes: Doom3 Timedemo [v1] = 168.6 ECS P4M890T-M V2, C2D/E6700, 2gb PC4300/533 [single channel], 7900GTX/v92.91, XPpro/SP3 Waiting for some low latency dual channel ram to arrive - I'll re-run the benchmark again when it does. Apples to apples this motherboard performs quite a bit better …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2015-06-29, 16:51
I've been adding a 2nd internal hard drive to my retro builds for 1:1 backing up data and OS images. 3 down 1 to go. Data transfer will still be by FDD/CD/USB/external HD but now I'll be a able to quickly make and maintain complete copies of everything without resorting to these slow alternatives. …
Re: Fallout 4
Posted on 2015-06-22, 22:50
Jorpho wrote: ...In the meantime I shall pretend to work through my enormous backlog. Thanks, I finally know the correct "rationalization" I should be using for myself.
Re: Doom 3 timedemo shootout with period correct hardware.
Posted on 2015-06-19, 19:28
Stumbled on an interesting ECS P4 s775 mATX board [P4M890T-M v2] with dual channel ram support and pretty robust OC options. When I get the chance, hopefully soon, I'll swap motherboards with the Biostar E6700 build and see what I come up with demo wise. I'm interested in comparing results for …
Re: How is Windows 95 on a 486SX 25MHz with 4mb ram?
Posted on 2015-06-16, 22:45
W95 is cool. And it plays nice with a number of W9x era games that get a bit 'testy' with old W98se. Some 3dfx/Glide game patches only came out for W95 so compatibility can be better too with the early transitional 3D stuff..
Re: Anyone here have Dark Forces II Jedi Knight (US) they purchased at or near launch?
Posted on 2015-06-13, 01:22
There was a big CompUSA on 5th Ave I used to buy games at and may have picked up JJ:DF2 there year of release. Unfortunately I seemed to have removed the price tag so can't help with that. Also I only saved the box front and back to save space. The manual is dated 1997.
Re: How is Windows 95 on a 486SX 25MHz with 4mb ram?
Posted on 2015-06-12, 18:45
Yes. A 1 or 2mb video card is all you really need for a system like this - and that's including many games of the period too.
Re: How is Windows 95 on a 486SX 25MHz with 4mb ram?
Posted on 2015-06-12, 15:14
And be sure to disable unnecessary startup junk that may be slowing things down. Run msconfig.exe [start menu -> run -> msconfig] go to the Start Up tab and unclick all but the necessary item(s); I only have "System Tray" enabled for instance. Per Kixs comments above, with 64mb of ram I set cache to …
Re: How is Windows 95 on a 486SX 25MHz with 4mb ram?
Posted on 2015-06-12, 00:28
I have W95a on a 486 dx2/66 with 32mb ram and its popping. Maybe add a bit more ram - say to 16mb - and you should be fine. EDIT: if you can add cache to the motherboard 128 or 256kb will do wonders especially for W95 snappiness (I added 256kb). But for basic purposes the system will be good. I use …
Re: Doom 3 timedemo shootout with period correct hardware.
Posted on 2015-06-11, 16:36
Now we're cooking with gas! Here's the trash picked 775 system in its final configuration, with a Core 2 Quad and a fresh install of Win7 x64. This machine will probably handle basement HTPC duty. I'm not entirely sure why, but the Quad seems to be much faster clock for clock than the C2D E6600, at …
Re: POLL: What is your favorite x86 vintage processor?
Posted on 2015-06-09, 22:52
I remember I tried that old pencil mod too - and it worked. All praise graphite!
Re: Booting W98se off a sata HD w/ adapter?
Posted on 2015-06-09, 03:10
Like my edit says I got everything finally squared away. Switching to a few Matrox sata150 drives and the problem went away. I'll try the Seagates again some other time - but for now it's not worth the effort to get to the bottom of it since I have working sets now. I migrated 2 peripheral retro …
Re: Booting W98se off a sata HD w/ adapter?
Posted on 2015-06-08, 18:32
EDIT - SOLUTION: I tried a 40gb Maxtor sata150 (which I now remember I had already used as a W98se boot drive), and the migration/OS image restore went off without a hitch. Inclined to think some incompatibility exists with the Seagate sata300. Anyway it's done, but for the wasted hours..
Re: Booting W98se off a sata HD w/ adapter?
Posted on 2015-06-08, 18:01
This is turning into more of a puzzle. 1. sys c: trick didn't work. I rebuilt 3gb boot partition C: off boot floppy, formatted FAT32. C: is visable/accessible in dos/boot disk mode. 2. Restored W98 image of current working IDE - no dice, still get "missing operating system" 3. Repeated boot drive re …
Re: Booting W98se off a sata HD w/ adapter?
Posted on 2015-06-08, 14:24
haha - now that sounds like the crazy stuff that works! Delayed for now but will be back in the "lab" later today...
Re: Booting W98se off a sata HD w/ adapter?
Posted on 2015-06-08, 04:25
OK, I'll give that a try in the AM. Thing is I've restored C: OS images so many times before without issue I was a little surprised. I know the sata drives are different, but they seem to work so well in slave/data mode with the adapter it caught me out..
Booting W98se off a sata HD w/ adapter?
Posted on 2015-06-08, 04:10
I just spent a few unsuccessful hours attempting to replace an IDE drive with a sata using an IDE/SATA adapter. I began by booting off an Acronis CD, cloning the 80gb IDE [3gb C: partition and rest D:] to an 80gb sata HD [Primary/Active], then swapping out the drives and rebooting. The new drive was …
Re: Windows 10 upgrade plans?
Posted on 2015-06-06, 14:54
To get rid of the W10 upgrade notification icon that pops up on the taskbar delete update KB3035583.
Re: Doom 3 timedemo shootout with period correct hardware.
Posted on 2015-06-05, 19:04
I reinstalled v1 [from v113] and FPS jumped from 131.9 FPS to 147.9 - call it an 11% bump. Nuts the way the patched version is so much slower. And the patch doesn't appear to be critical for single-player mode any way, so why bother. Anything Goes category Timedemo [Doom3 v1] = 147.9 C2D E6700 2.66, …
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