Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2021-02-12, 16:27
Nice "job" on the bench. Came across a DX4 WB after a pretty long time for a good price.
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2021-02-12, 14:37
imi wrote on 2021-02-11, 15:44: NMC are relabeled Epox boards, essentially an Epox MVP3 Luckily, yes.
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2021-02-11, 15:36
Bought two interesting (not the usual Cirrus Logic) VL-Bus cards. They've never been used apparently. Need to get memory upgrade for the Tseng so that it can benefit from bank interleaving. https://dependency-injection.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/DSC_9117-scaled.jpeg Great looking cards! After a …
Re: The World's Fastest 486
Posted on 2021-02-08, 16:51
A well tuned P60 can run Quake at ~19fps which is faster than most 486 (except for 486 record holders above). 20fps was luxury framerate for games in early 90s. I agree that framerate expectations were lower in the 90s . That said, Quake was released in mid 1996 , around the same time as the …
Re: The World's Fastest 486
Posted on 2021-02-07, 16:19
The Serpent Rider wrote on 2021-02-07, 11:56: and Quake feels a bit wrong / wonky on it. You didn't played it on P60, huehuehue. The P60 was my introductory machine in regards to Quake - pretty slow but relative to the clockspeed it was great. If the Intel LX board I ordered works I'll give Quake …
Re: Nexgen - the 486 killer - WIP
Posted on 2021-02-07, 11:33
Beautiful system with some very nice components! Timing Doom Shareware's demo 3 would be nice.
Re: The World's Fastest 486
Posted on 2021-02-07, 11:17
The 486 core simply can't compete. For me a 486 is a "Doom machine" and Quake feels a bit wrong / wonky on it.
Re: The World's Fastest 486
Posted on 2021-02-06, 21:38
According to urban legend Mr. Eberhartinger was able to squeeze out 20.8...
Re: Overclocking the Rise mP6 (Lynx)
Posted on 2021-02-06, 13:15
Interesting cpu - any favorite kind of software you fancy running on it?
Re: Help setup sound cards on AMD 5x86@160mhz.
Posted on 2021-02-01, 12:25
I remember having trouble with a Soundblaster CT3900(maybe also a CT3600) in my 486 and P60 computers. While on the MSI PIII board it was running fine.
Re: What microprocessor is in my 486? (The answer might surprise me)
Posted on 2021-01-31, 17:29
The Turbo chip is most likely a 5x86-133 working in WriteTrough mode.
Re: ALi M1489 486 chipset performance
Posted on 2021-01-28, 13:56
Ram speed seems pretty good... shame about the L2 snail syndrome. Could you up the fsb to 40(160 cpu) and post some more screenshots of speedsys and benchmark Doom shareware?
Re: Dual CPU Socket 5/7 Boards
Posted on 2021-01-10, 15:42
Predator99 wrote on 2021-01-10, 08:19: This is the required "POWER CARD 5V to 3.3V" I was referring to. I got this one long time ago and now I am happy I have kept it, never knew what is was used for... IMG_3184r.jpg IMG_3185r.jpg Interesting - a novelty to me.
Re: 486 Build pointers
Posted on 2021-01-09, 19:41
If you're developing what kind of game are you working 2D or 3D?
Re: IBM(CyriX) 6x86 quary.
Posted on 2021-01-03, 21:50
6x86 CPU’s were pretty exciting at first from a price performace ratio. But the extra heat and early compatability issues put a damper on things pretty quickly. And it didn’tplay quake very well either, which wasn’t so awesome. I always though the last generation of the M2 packaging had …
Re: Custom 486DX2 (99.9%)(Christmas Special) Finished.
Posted on 2020-12-29, 10:00
Well done! 30fps is a lot for a DX2-66. Aeons ago I tested an old board(VLB) with a dx2 and it got ~27fps. Highest seems to be 34.6fps according to "Doom Benchmark Results".
Re: Wanted to share my ultimate Pentium 1 system
Posted on 2020-12-10, 11:33
Very nice system!
Re: Have I just killed the VLB side of my motherboard?
Posted on 2020-12-03, 16:27
To err is human.
Re: Building a 486, Any tips & recommendations for a newcomer?
Posted on 2020-12-03, 16:00
If speed's not your main focus then an OEM board with built-in PS/2 ports might be a viable option. On top of that you most likely can get on-board Audio and maybe even Video(you can still plug-in your Trident if you want) but you'll have score a fitting riser card obviously. On the other hand a …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2020-11-28, 18:20
"Revived" old ASUS P5A with a new BIOS (1007.bin) - diagnose card was showing 0xffff but no picture so I assumed it must be the BIOS since it was the last step in the procedure. Happy news aside the board's cache is nonetheless smoked but I'll use it without and instead up the fsb. Good enough for a …
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