Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2017-06-27, 20:48

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by amadeus777999

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Received two small Seiko-Epson 486(AMD DX4) computers which were built for industrial duties. Size and build quality is very nice(super compact only featuring a 2.5" IDE harddisk) BUT the machines themselves hid a dirty secret - they're cache-less . It's not a tragedy since their use is mainly …

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Re: My AlphaPC - 164LX with 21164 533 MHz

Posted on 2017-06-21, 20:29

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Great thread - never saw a running Alpha system in "real life". Only reason why I know the name is an ad from the 90ies where, for a very short time, Alpha Systems were sold as high end alternatives to the, back then, new Pentium - a system went for €10,000+ though. Second impression was Quake's …

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Re: Hello, World! :D - Robert B's PC builds - oogle away freely :)

Posted on 2017-06-18, 20:50

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I think there's a little more to it than nostalgia - there are certain eras which could be seen as "paradigm changers" specific to certain fields. The 486+/VGA timeframe was one of former mentioned specific to entertainment/visualization related technology - a quantum leap in connection with " …

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Re: Hello, World! :D - Robert B's PC builds - oogle away freely :)

Posted on 2017-06-17, 14:49

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Great content, especially the 5x86 system - you could easily start a high quality youtube channel with your beautiful gear. Any chances to see a socket 4 build in the future?

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Re: Are GeForce 256 DDR cards that rare?

Posted on 2017-06-16, 16:00

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For what the cards do their is nothing special about them, their were gaziillions of GeForce sdrs/ddrs/2/gts/ultra/ti/2mx/4mx440/MX 4000 basically any dx7 NVIDIA card you can buy dirt cheap. No, but they were the first GeForce, the first 'GPU', the first with hardware T&L, the first with per-pixel …

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Re: Do same sized 4:3 lcd's generally have the same maximum resolution?

Posted on 2017-06-14, 19:21

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Eizo has a 26.5" 1920x1920 display - EV2730Q-BK. Not really 4:3 but a nice square screen. You could "abuse" it as a letter-boxed 1920x1440 display. Although a bigger 2560x1440 one might only cost half as much while displaying the same canvas pillar-boxed. As mentioned before - there are some nice 20 …

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Re: Programming MS-DOS systems

Posted on 2017-06-03, 17:01

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What's the spec of the machine you're developing on? ad3) Not books per se, but... Chris Hecker , wrote some interesting stuff although not to the extent you're searching for. Another "in depth" guy who covers many different topics in assembly is Paul Hsieh . Fabien Sanglard has a website that …

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Re: Quake in DOS 640x480 FPS

Posted on 2017-05-22, 17:04

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I'm sorry for posting in the wrong forum. Anyway, for those who care and helped, I finally played all Quake with fastvid without any problems, flawlessly. It looks great at 800x600. Fastvid really makes a difference for high resolution playing in pure DOS. I'll start evangelizing about its benefits …

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Re: Good 4:3 LCD Monitor

Posted on 2017-05-12, 13:43

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As already mentioned buy a larger 16:x display and just use it pillar-boxed. As long as the display is big you get a nice "canvas" for your pixels. I personally use various second hand 19inch panels from Eizo(IPS). Latter even produces a sweet square 26.5 inch 1920 x 1920 display(EV2730Q-BK) which …

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Re: What commercial doom levels really stressed hardware back in the day?

Posted on 2017-05-08, 13:22

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As far as I can remember Map11("O' Of Destruction"/Romero) is the first more taxing one with all the spacey sandbox levels by Peterson taking care of the rest. Map14("The Inmost Dense"/McGee) was also pretty stressful especially when facing the array of sectors forming the "concave" opening which …

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Re: Socket 4 motherboard and Pentium 1 66mhz

Posted on 2017-05-04, 14:49

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Little bit on the exotic side but seems high quality(IBM server). You might have to ask the seller if he has all components to get the thing running unless you're familiar with that specific setup. http://www.ebay.de/itm/Mainboard-Motherboard- … at/132155903292

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Re: Do anybody still makes new WADs for DOOM/HERETIC/HEXEN ?

Posted on 2017-04-09, 16:18

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Still working on my megawad for Doom II and doomworld is full of new wads - Doom still has a vivid community. I would be interested in what you come up with and how you design your maps. I'm primarily interested in the design process as I'm still trying to gauge a "chaotic" on spot creation vs a …

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Re: Blood lagging on MS-DOS 6.22 with Celeron Coppermine CPU

Posted on 2017-04-09, 16:04

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There may be no solution as the stuttering could have to do with drawing transparent elements/overlays and slow read/write speeds to graphics memory. I currently have no working system(+Blood in DOS) but I remember running it on an overclocked A64 and a GF7600(+mtrrlfbe) on freeDos and frame rates …

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Re: Build Log: The Kraken DX4-100

Posted on 2017-03-10, 11:48

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Remember those cases from way back - solid build.

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Re: Pentium 60 build: the other side of 1993

Posted on 2017-02-23, 13:45

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Interesting - I remember the P60 lingering around the 40 frames mark, which another P60(Mercury chipset) in the list lived up to. According to the person who submitted the erstwhile discussed results(42.6 on a PackardBell)... he even achieved a quite respectable 46 frames with sound disabled. Could …

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Re: Pentium 60 build: the other side of 1993

Posted on 2017-02-21, 16:50

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Ah, I see... (gameticks / realticks) * 35 = magic number The timetics are scaled by 1/35 so the appended multiplication.

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Re: Pentium 60 build: the other side of 1993

Posted on 2017-02-21, 16:06

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Thanks! Mine had a Mozart sound card and Cirrus Logic video. The Matrox wouldn't work. I overclocked mine to 66 even though it had only a passive heatsink. The additional FSB bump was a nice boost back then... when even single digit increments mattered. When you get back to your machine could you " …

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Re: Pentium 60 build: the other side of 1993

Posted on 2017-02-17, 19:43

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Awesome system - many years ago I bought 2 similar boards(no idea if the were "revenge" or not) because I always liked the P60 - it was, for me, The Pentium. Played through DoomII on one of them(overclocked to 66Mhz) and loved every minute of it! Could you post some benchmarks?

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Re: What is retro collecting for you?

Posted on 2017-01-30, 13:37

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by amadeus777999

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A deeply rooted fascination which transcends logic and reason. For me the "old days" were the golden information age as the transition from small scale entrepreneur to "enterprise" happened. Like in music the best days are the ones where a big thing is still in some kind of niche but violently …

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Re: pentium pro 256, 512 and 1024 dos and win98 benchmark lineup

Posted on 2017-01-02, 21:30

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Interesting! I would also appreciate some game benches... Quake would be a welcome title.

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