Re: Windows 95 setup guide (late 2013)

Posted on 2021-08-15, 15:22

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by leonardo

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Are you aware of this? XUSBSUPP - eXtended USB Supplement for Windows 95 OSR2 It's basically a soft-of NUSB for Win95. I haven't tried it. The site says rloew was involved with this kit - if past experience is any guide this sounds very promising... So I got a chance to reinstall Windows 95 again …

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Re: My second rig, a Wings no-name

Posted on 2021-08-12, 12:38

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by leonardo

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nice, that AX6BC Pro is drool worthy! Thanks. Although I did initially kind of detest the bling. The “Gaming-this”, “Ultra/Extreme-that” and all the Christmas tree lights RGB that make up today’s PCs just make me go ewww… Thankfully the most over-top-thing about the board really is the name and …

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Re: My second rig, a Wings no-name

Posted on 2021-08-12, 09:57

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2021 upgrades with new pics After having an existential crisis, Longbottom has rediscovered itself as a more powerful late 90's/early 00's gaming setup... longbottom_opencase.jpg longbottom_caseov.jpg The AX6BC Pro II Millennium-edition is a fantastic motherboard... except for the floppy connector …

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Re: Help with a 1999 Computer build

Posted on 2021-08-11, 20:49

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An example of what a reputable clone builder offered just over the edge of 1999: powerline2.jpg Looks like based on the ads the system you'd build back then would be one with... Motherboard: ASUS P3B-F Slot 1 CPU: Intel Pentium IIIB 667 MHz Slot1 RAM: 256 MB of PC-133 SD-RAM Video: ASUS V6600 …

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Re: Windows 9x AGP Low-Profile

Posted on 2021-08-11, 11:51

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AGP-LP GeForce FX5200 <- Works with Windows 95 (DX8), performs like a GeForce 4 Ti4200 Nope. Especially since almost certainly the LP variant is 64bit only (I don't know if 128bit LP exists). By my experience the 128bit variant trades blows with the 128bit MX440, though the MX is generally more …

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Re: My oldest rig, Hyundai HD-P5233M

Posted on 2021-08-10, 20:42

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Tweaks, Overclocking and Benchmark post A Brief History Upgrading the CPUs on a Socket 7 system was given an interesting twist after AMD introduced the K6-II / K6-III (desktop) and the K6-II+ and K6-III+ (mobile) CPUs. The CPUs were socket compatible with many systems that could officially only …

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Re: My oldest rig, Hyundai HD-P5233M

Posted on 2021-08-10, 18:14

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by leonardo

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Inspired by speeddemon's recent Socket7 build , I decided to see if I could push my set up even further still! First order of business was to deal with the fan noise, so I decided place a larger fan on the Voodoo3: metusalem_v3mod.jpg After this I checked the RAM to see if I could consider bumping …

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Re: Windows 9x AGP Low-Profile

Posted on 2021-08-09, 22:26

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AGP-LP Radeon 7000 <- Works with Windows 95 (DX7), GeForce/GeForce 2 MX competitor performance wise AGP-LP Radeon 7500 <- Works with Windows 95 (DX7), comparable performance to GF2 GTS/Ultra AGP-LP Radeon 9200 256MB 128BIT <- Requires Windows 98 (DX8/8.1), faster than GF2GTS, slower than GF3 series …

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Re: IDE support for more than 8 GB HDD storage on Biostar MB-8433UUD

Posted on 2021-08-08, 07:43

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by leonardo

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… set 100 GB as partition 3 from within NT4 to use for storage space, then set 100 GB as partition 4 from within Win95 to use for storage space ? I’m working on an update to the Windows 95 set-up guide that I originally posted here in 2013. Back then, even with all the updates, one could not use …

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Re: Compaq SLT386s/20 HDD problem

Posted on 2021-08-06, 22:07

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by leonardo

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Hi, please, does anybody knows which type hdd (1-66) i have to input in system diagnostic? I have conner cp30101g 120MB inside, but i cannot match hdd type. I tried 50, as stated in manuals for this disk, but it says primary hdd error. This disk worked normally, but after "loosing" power in Dallas …

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Re: Video cards known to operate stably on an overclocked AGP bus

Posted on 2021-08-05, 15:56

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I solved it! I thought about reinstalling DirectX 7.0, then remembered that the GeForce 3 is a DX8 level card and that the 21.83 drivers are likely also DX8 compatible, so I went ahead and installed DirectX 8. 3DMark2000 now completes without issue. 1024x768 @ 32-bit color: 7025 1024x768 @ 16-bit …

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Re: Video cards known to operate stably on an overclocked AGP bus

Posted on 2021-08-05, 14:54

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... The only thing that fails so far, regardless of if the system is overclocked or not, seems to be 3DMark2000. Does anyone have ideas as to why this might be? OK. Once again assuming the problem might be with the video card, I lowered the clock speeds of both the core and memory below stock …

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Re: My K6-III+ Socket 7 project

Posted on 2021-08-05, 11:42

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Oh wow. Yours is damn near identical to my eldest , although you've built yours for the modern age, whereas I upgraded mine over time. I also have a K6-III+ in mine now, but I run mine safely at 2x(6x)66 for the rated 400 MHz speed. I also put a fan on my V3, but you have a bigger one. :D It's …

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Re: Geforce 6200 AGP - Win9x Problems

Posted on 2021-08-05, 11:16

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Being the old fool I picked up a Geforce 6200 AGP 512MB to try out in Win 98SE. The drivers "77.72_win9x_international.exe" pick up the card and install fine, any older versions complain they can't find the card. And sure enough it shows up as an AGP 2x card in the properties with 512 memory, …

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Re: Video cards known to operate stably on an overclocked AGP bus

Posted on 2021-08-05, 09:15

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by leonardo

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Both my ASUS V7100 (GF2MX) work just fine at 100MHz AGP bus. As in 100MHz FSB and 1:1 AGP multiplier. That's amazing! o_O ...and unnecessary? With a 100 MHz FSB you could run the AGP bus within spec at 66 MHz with the 2:3 divider. Why do you do it? Because you can? Is there a difference in …

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Re: My K6-III+ Socket 7 project

Posted on 2021-08-04, 23:59

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I’ve had a great time working on my first Socket 7 build in over a decade. This project started with me struggling to get certain retro games working on Windows 10. Source Ports, hacks, ScummVM, and DOSBox allowed Windows 10 to meet and even exceed my needs for a long time, but I was re-organizing …

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Re: Video cards known to operate stably on an overclocked AGP bus

Posted on 2021-08-04, 21:18

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OK. So I tried a Radeon 9200 and it could not operate stably when the FSB on my mobo was set to 133 MHz. In fact, besides lowering the FSB I also needed to set AGP to 1x and upgrade to Win98SE, but the improved graphics performance made it all worth it... Until I tried to play some C&C on the LAN …

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

Posted on 2021-07-25, 21:40

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by leonardo

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...so I swallowed my pride, reformatted and reinstalled Windows 95 OSR2. There are no compatible graphics drivers for the Radeon 9200 for Windows 95, but since C&C for DOS only requires VGA, we were able to try that game and sure enough, we could once again reliably game without any hiccups. After …

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

Posted on 2021-07-24, 19:31

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by leonardo

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I got two new people introduced to RTS gaming via the original C&C on the LAN! :-) cnc_LAN.jpg Unfortunately after a resent operating system and video card upgrade (Win95->Win98SE and TNT2->Radeon 9200) to retro rig #2 , the aforementioned would keep dropping out of the LAN game usually within a …

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Re: Unreal graphics glitching (black rectangles) with OpenGL and S3TC textures

Posted on 2021-01-31, 15:28

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The S3TC textures on the 2nd CD of UT suffer the same problem, if you somehow avoided it that's news to me. I'm pretty sure someone has been trying to make UT actually properly render 1-bit alpha DXT1 though, but this means actually somehow properly importing 1-bit alpha'd DXT1 textures into the …

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