Re: FX 5500 on old Mainboard

Posted on 2020-06-27, 23:14

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"Comparing this machine to my other Socket 7, the gap in performance is pretty small. A Soyo SY5EMA, K6-2+ 550 @ 560 (5x112 MHz) 512 megs of PC133, and a Radeon 9200 AGP with 128 megs of memory. It actually gets a lower score in 3D Mark 2000 than the 128 meg 9250 SE PCI does in the Biostar board, …

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Re: Collecting rants

Posted on 2020-06-27, 21:47

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If you buy from GOG - you truly own it. You get a full and DRM-free offline installer that will never stop working. That's why GOG is the only digital game store I will give money to. That is true and I also have a few games there. The only thing that worries me is that they're starting to push …

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Re: Help to Identify Aztech ISA Sound Card

Posted on 2020-06-27, 21:25

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by darry

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Windows setup probably installs the DOS utility as well. If you don't want to muck up your retro system, install in VM with Windows and copy what you need .

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Re: Apple is getting off Intel CPU’s ?

Posted on 2020-06-27, 21:20

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I realyl think Apple is more and more moving away from pro customers. When Jobs took over, Apple really found a niche with pro-customers & artists, i.e. Sound, Video, FX etc. Even a lot of programmers swiched, because you could finally get a Unix workstation without having all driver/compatiblity/ …

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Re: FX 5500 on old Mainboard

Posted on 2020-06-27, 18:37

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by darry

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In the end, getting an AGP capable board and selling the one you have might be both easier and cheaper.

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Re: FX 5500 on old Mainboard

Posted on 2020-06-27, 18:36

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Considering the limitations of that PCI motherboard, your best bet would, unfortunately (price-wise) be a Voodoo2 or Voodoo 3 . Windows 9x gaming was mostly an AGP affair (Voodoos being the exception, along with other early 3D cards) . A PCI Radeon 7000, 9000 or 9250 should work under DOS ( …

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Re: FX 5500 on old Mainboard

Posted on 2020-06-27, 18:13

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Considering the limitations of that PCI motherboard, your best bet would, unfortunately (price-wise) be a Voodoo2 or Voodoo 3 . Windows 9x gaming was mostly an AGP affair (Voodoos being the exception, along with other early 3D cards) . A PCI Radeon 7000, 9000 or 9250 should work under DOS ( …

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Re: Apple is getting off Intel CPU’s ?

Posted on 2020-06-27, 16:03

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Apple is going to become more of a closed system and fully proprietary. An appliance. ( disposable and recyclable ). I will leave the appliance market to those who like this sort of thing (sure there are many) and keep doing what I have been doing for years: not buying Apple products (retro …

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Re: Apple is getting off Intel CPU’s ?

Posted on 2020-06-27, 15:46

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If people are going to spend $3000 to $6000 for a computer they would like to be able to upgrade or repair it. Frankly, this is an assumption that I don't believe has any basis in reality. I don't think there is any correlation between how much people spend on their electronics or their …

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Re: entry level sound card from year 1993 or early

Posted on 2020-06-27, 04:28

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I think anything entry level from around that time had to have been CS4231 based WSS clone cards, but that's probably bleeding into 1994. There are likely regional/country differences on that front . The first WSS clone cards I saw, with CS4231 codecs, were not entry-level or accessible to my ( …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-06-27, 04:20

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If I remember correct, my Powerleap PL-IP3T (which will likely end up in my P3B-F) came from (or passed through) a smoking environment. It cleaned up fine and with little effort, even the fan . The Aopen case that currently houses my main retro machine was also smoked and quite strongly caked in …

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Re: 10GB drive + Award BIOS problems

Posted on 2020-06-27, 04:02

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Thanks for helping me. I'm attaching pics of the BIOS screen on both BIOS (the original one and a modified one for 128GB drives). As you can see, the original one is from February/98, the modified one seems to be from June/98. I included a full screen because I am not sure of the meaning of all the …

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Re: Addonics A151-910 YMF718-S Card Resource Conflicts

Posted on 2020-06-27, 02:20

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by darry

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If you want, you could create another thread for your NIC issues .

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Re: IDE optical drive gone from device manager after enabling DMA

Posted on 2020-06-27, 02:18

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by darry

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deleting the busmaster IDE drivers from device manager and letting them reinstall is what i would try here. ATAPI drives disappearing in win9x after swapping things around seems to be quite commonplace. Definitely worth a shot. If that does not fix it, I would still test under DOS to make sure the …

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Re: 10GB drive + Award BIOS problems

Posted on 2020-06-27, 02:07

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Well, that seems to be bad news for me, I guess. The board is a TMC AI5TT version 1.2, nothing fancy at all but it works well. The latest BIOS version is from February 1998, so to me it seems strange that it is limited to 4.2GB, since by then that was already a normal size IIRC. There is an …

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Re: IDE optical drive gone from device manager after enabling DMA

Posted on 2020-06-27, 01:56

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I was trying to add another drive for IDE storage to my 98SE rig, it kept taking the d: drive letter from my DVD burner. After a lot of troubleshooting, reading forums posts, repartitioning under fdisk and enabling and disabling options - I’ve gotten to where I can’t see my DVD drive under Windows. …

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Re: Pentium III + Windows 98, Slow network transfers

Posted on 2020-06-27, 01:51

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has anyone ever wondered how much of all this load comes from the filesystem? I get over twice the ftp throughput under Linux as I do under Windows 98 SE (46MB/sec vs 20MB/sec). I am writing to the same FAT32 filesystem and CPU usage under Linux is around 70% or so . See my previous post for more …

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Re: entry level sound card from year 1993 or early

Posted on 2020-06-27, 01:38

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by darry

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Back then we had Mediavision, TurtleBeache and Creative cards. Some Aztechs as well (?). But can you think of an entry level sound card from that time ? Thanks. In 1993, cheap no-name (or almost) sound blaster clone cards were a thing. I got my SB clone for about 100 CAN$ (probably less) in 1992 or …

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Re: Windows 98SE and DVD RAM

Posted on 2020-06-26, 23:03

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Hi there, I recently bought myself a DVD RAM Drive: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Panasonic-SW-9576-C-DVD-RAM-Drive-IDE-ORIGINAL-DRIVE-Price-includes-VAT/264471153824?epid=21022231166&hash=item3d93b58ca0:g:OWEAAOSw98FbaCho to be able to use this caddied DVD RAMs that I have at home at first I thought I …

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Re: CGA/EGA capture with 6€ logic analyser

Posted on 2020-06-26, 22:55

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by darry

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That is really nice (color excepted as you said) . I do not have any EGA/CGA machines, but I see the potential in this .

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