Re: ET4000/W32i + 386 + 1024x768 + Win3.11
Posted on 2015-10-18, 13:30
FGB, do your cards run interlaced mode at 1024x768+ in Windows 3.1? I had to use VMODE 65M to get the Win3.1 driver working at 1024x768x256c.
Re: ET4000/W32i + 386 + 1024x768 + Win3.11
Posted on 2015-10-18, 10:54
Do you have a 2 MB card you can try for 32K or 64K colours at 1024x768?
Re: ET4000/W32i + 386 + 1024x768 + Win3.11
Posted on 2015-10-18, 03:20
Elianda, what colour depth at 1024x768 on your ET4000AX card?
Re: Can't Get 486 to Boot from HDD
Posted on 2015-10-17, 21:48
What is the size of the CF card that you are having trouble with? I don't like to go above 8 GB on my PCI 486 systems.
Re: 386 motherboard chipset comparison
Posted on 2015-10-17, 20:40
The results were at 8 MHz. At 10 MHz on the UMC board, I get 5223 (no sound), which is 14.3 fps. Actual game play feels a lot faster though.
Re: Humour Thread: Outrageously priced retro gear for sale online
Posted on 2015-10-17, 20:22
Re: ET4000/W32i + 386 + 1024x768 + Win3.11
Posted on 2015-10-17, 11:15
elianda, have you personally confirmed that VMODE lets you run non-interlaced 1024x768 resolution on your TSENG ET4000 series ISA cards?
Re: 386 motherboard chipset comparison
Posted on 2015-10-17, 10:53
I ran 3dbench again and received a score of 24.3 on the UMC system. I am not sure why it jumped from 19.6 to 24.3, however when I was trying to run 3dbench just now, it would hang up right when the program started, and a mouse pointer whould show on the screen. I disabled my mouse DOS drivers and …
Re: 386 motherboard chipset comparison
Posted on 2015-10-17, 10:18
Interesting. My best DOOM timedemo3 score was 5462, which is better than your results, however your 3DBench is much better. I do not understand this. For PCPbench, I am using VESA Modus 100 (640x400 8bpp LFB), which is what my program defaults to. What are your Landmark v2 results for ALU and FPU? I …
Re: 386 motherboard chipset comparison
Posted on 2015-10-17, 08:34
Yes, L1 is enabled. Some boards have L1 on/off option in the BIOS, while others I used software. I confirmed L1 is enabled based on the Speedsys L1 move speed and by using Landmark. Landmark always shows a big ALU speed jump when L1 is enabled, and a drop when it is disabled. The best Doom scores …
Re: 386 motherboard chipset comparison
Posted on 2015-10-17, 07:33
I found all the Tridents to be either noisy or have verticle lines when running DOOM, or PCPBench. Perhaps there is a work-around for that? The Tridents with the MUSIC chip did not have this problem - in fact, they had very clear displays.
386 motherboard chipset comparison
Posted on 2015-10-17, 06:54
Since my old Abit FU340 motherboard died, I decided it was time to test my stockpile of 386 motherboards to find the best replacement. I used a TSENG LABS ET4000/w32i as the test grahpics card and a Ti486SXL w/Cyrix FasMath FPU as the test processors. While I tried to hold 256 KB L2 cache w/32MB RAM …
Re: ET4000/W32i + 386 + 1024x768 + Win3.11
Posted on 2015-10-17, 05:37
Thanks elianda. I will see if Vmode works. Are the drivers in that directory for the Micro-Labs ET4000/w32i card? Micro-Labs has inconveniently removed their Win3.11 drivers from their website. http://microlabs.com/tseng.html
ET4000/W32i + 386 + 1024x768 + Win3.11
Posted on 2015-10-16, 18:40
Has anyone had success running the ET4000/W32i (or ET4000AX) in Win3.11 at 1024x768 at 256+ colour on any 386-based motherboard? I have tried 6 different 386 motherboards, using the Cyrix 486DLC or Ti486SXL. At 256+ colour, I get unsupported mode. At 1024x768x16colour, I get a flickering screen. …
Re: Best motherboard chipset for Cyrix 6x86?
Posted on 2015-10-16, 18:09
I have the Cyrix 6x86MX screensaver, however I am not confident in my legal ability to post it. Cyrix grants you the right to copy the Software onto a single computer. You will not use, copy, modify, sell or transfer any part of the Software except as provided in this Agreement. You may use the …
Re: Surviving the late 90's without 3Dfx
Posted on 2015-10-14, 21:48
I was using an Am5x86 'til the end of 1998. It had a Matrox Mystique. I did not play any 3D games. Survival was easy for me. Post Dec 1998, I was using a dual PII-400 with a Permedia2 in NT4. I had no desire to play games. Recently, I have been setting up various systems from the past. Not having …
Re: Best motherboard chipset for Cyrix 6x86?
Posted on 2015-10-13, 22:40
I like the fan sticker. I have a Cyrix 6x86MX processor banner in my exercise room which looks like your box.
Re: Can't Get 486 to Boot from HDD
Posted on 2015-10-13, 22:33
It may be revisions of the SiS496/497 chipset which have this slightly slower PCI performance. I have a SiS496-based board which does not exhibit decreased PCI performance; this board also does not have a VLB slot. Another SiS496-based board I have contains the VLB slot and it does exhibit slower …
Re: am5x86-p75 vs Pentium Overdrive 83
Posted on 2015-10-13, 21:40
Hopefully something will turn up between now and the second iteration of the 486 benchmark comparison, which I intend to include every possible socket3 CPU speed, the UMC U5S, as well as 386-486 chips, like DLC, SXL, DRx, BL3, etc.
Re: the 14.318 refference oscillator in the 486, a silly question
Posted on 2015-10-13, 13:26
If I recall correctly, the PLL on my 486 board uses the 14.318 MHz crystal as the basis for its FSB generation. It is connected to 2 pins on the PLL. Increasing the 14.318 MHz cyrstal to 14.8 MHz increased the FSB from 33.3 MHz to 34.5 MHz. 14.8 or 14.7 MHz was the highest I use before the diskette …
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