Re: Best video card advice for AMD 5x86 ?

Posted on 2019-05-07, 09:07

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by chinny22

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Problem is even a 5x86 struggles at 3D so really you'll be focusing on 2D You could try out some of those early 3d API's that didn't kick off https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=33483 S3 Virge S3D is the most interesting as it has the most games, I have this in my 5x86, the games run but struggle …

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Re: It is worth upgrading Pentium iii pc?

Posted on 2019-05-07, 08:57

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by chinny22

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Like others have said if you want a noticeable difference you'll need to get something with a larger difference in Mhz. Upgrading from Katmai to Coppermine isn't going to make much difference in real world gaming. I'm assuming the 1GHz machine is 133 FSB, which will give it a bit of a boost against …

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Re: The best PPro system (HP Vectra VA with cooling mods)

Posted on 2019-05-07, 08:36

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by chinny22

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Nice rig, Heat is why I moved to modern cases. My duel PPro for instance runs cool to touch with an Antec 3000 case. Although I totally understand the appeal of period cases with bad airflow. besides if was good enough back then then it should be good enough now. Adding modern fans with better …

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Re: The great Pentium Pro haul of 2018

Posted on 2019-05-02, 08:45

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by chinny22

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My little bit of the haul is up and running if people are interested in what happened to some of this stuff Duel Pentium Pro build

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Duel Pentium Pro build

Posted on 2019-05-02, 08:40

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by chinny22

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So here is my little part of the Great PPro Haul of 2018 https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=62788 The Motherboard, CPU’s, Ram were all NIB from the haul. 2 200Mhz 1MB CPU’s and 4 sticks of 64MB EDO RAM. That was the motherboard maxed out. Also got the VRM and heat sinks off liqmat as well. …

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Re: IPX network on MS-DOS

Posted on 2019-04-30, 13:21

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by chinny22

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet_frame#Novell_raw_IEEE_802.3 Gives an idea what all this is and why. but in over simplified terms 802.3 was Novell's non standard packet while 802.2 was the standardised fall back. Think of it like TCP/IPv4 & TCP/IPv6. Even though they are both TCP protocol, if …

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Re: IPX network on MS-DOS

Posted on 2019-04-29, 21:10

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by chinny22

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Try this the V3.80 files should be fine https://support.advantech.com/support/DownloadSRDetail_New.aspx?SR_ID=1%2BGE%2B482&Doc_Source=Download You want the files in NWClient\DOS folder. copy them into same folder as lsl and ipxodi The "Missing "net.cfg" is actually here as it's part of the NIC …

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Re: Games not detecting CD Rom ? Windows 98

Posted on 2019-04-29, 20:58

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by chinny22

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ah redbook, yeh that does complicate things. You can get cd audio with daemon tools but need WDM drivers. I'm a EAX kinda guy so I'm screwed as well. So its a clean install + SP3 with with all cards pulled out accept video? In which case it cant be the sound card conflicting. Yeh guess you could try …

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Re: Voting when you are uninformed?

Posted on 2019-04-29, 20:30

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by chinny22

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Ha! I found badmojo's post amusing as growing up in the same part of the world "lesser of 2 evils" was always my tactic as well. Also focusing on 1 or 2 topics. Dad was a teacher so whoever was screwing over the Education system the least Followed by Healthcare or Environment policies. Truth is …

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Re: Games not detecting CD Rom ? Windows 98

Posted on 2019-04-29, 20:10

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by chinny22

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What is MSCDEX? DOS CD-ROM driver. The lack of which should not affect the ability to run stuff from within Windows, AFAIK. Indeed, none of my Win9x installs even have Autoexec.bat/Config.sys files. Are the 2 connected on the same cable and if so are they jumped as Primary and Slave or cable select …

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Re: IPX network on MS-DOS

Posted on 2019-04-29, 19:38

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by chinny22

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LSL and IPXODI are generic. To put in into Windows 9x terms LSL is if you install Network support and IPXODI is loading the IPX protocol. Indeed these 2 NEED to be the same versions across all PC's The 3rd file, in this case PNPODI is the network card driver. I've attached all 3 in a zip here for …

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Re: OR840 / Voodoo 5500 Build!

Posted on 2019-04-17, 12:18

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by chinny22

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Loving the green theme. Definitely needed a windowed case to show it all off as well. besides has better airflow right. Duel CPU, Rambus, Voodoo5, Vortex 2. man that gets you into quite a few little elite groups here. I'm not even a member of the last 2!

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Re: Hyped for my new 98/XP computer!

Posted on 2019-04-17, 12:00

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by chinny22

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Re the GPU for Win98 your still to modern! the Geforce 4 Ti series is as late as you want to go, or for you the FX series as your stuck on PCI. Check this out for DOS, ATI does worse then Nvidia in this regard. https://gona.mactar.hu/DOS_TESTS Having 1 ATI and 1 Nvidia card in the same machine would …

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Re: Early 2000s Windows XP build?

Posted on 2019-04-17, 11:44

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by chinny22

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For me AGP is the Win9x/WinXP crossover period. good at doing both but far from perfect for either. WinXP really likes PCIe, that way you can max out the driver settings like AA, AF, etc. Recently played GTA SA on a GF 590 and it looks really nice indeed

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Re: The 3DFX Toaster

Posted on 2019-04-17, 10:29

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by chinny22

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Really nice, Sposes you could have a top extract fan if you wanted to keep the front clean. Although I'm liking the idea of 1/2 dozen of these with different builds all stacked up 😀

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Re: 90’s graphics cards

Posted on 2019-04-17, 10:20

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by chinny22

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Got a similar setup. Ti4600 AGP Voodoo 3 2000 PCI. I do have the occasional game that did require disabling a card but for the most part AGP is the primary card so will play D3d games by default. Glide games obviously only work on the Voodoo Games that support both will let you specify which card/3D …

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Re: VooDoo 1/2 CPU Choices

Posted on 2019-04-17, 10:08

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by chinny22

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512MB should be ok as well but as always there are acceptations to the rule which is what you may have seen. Personally I've run 768MB fine on a 845 board with a stock Win98 install with 0 issues, and had loads of issues on another (cant remember which motherboard/Chip set) As this is a Glide box …

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Re: Ryzen 7 most powerful windows 98 computer?

Posted on 2019-04-17, 09:54

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by chinny22

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Ok the subject is a bit out of date now but seems to be a bit of confusion. We have moved on from a Ryzen system all together. OP is now building a win9x box using a P3 with no AGP (hence the GF FX PCI) Tanman9990 Maybe create another post with the P3 build if you have any more questions, feel free …

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Re: Problem with SB16 and Wolf3D

Posted on 2019-04-17, 09:43

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by chinny22

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Does the set blaster line match the setup settings? What resources is it set to (IRQ/DMA) sounds like it may be conflicting with something else

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Re: Story time: Retro AIO Experiment - A Success... Until it failed.

Posted on 2019-04-17, 09:39

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by chinny22

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Your projects are always interesting, even the unsuccessful ones, keep 'em coming!

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