Re: Setup a "recording studio" with fedora linux
Posted on 2014-12-05, 23:42
If the keyboard is midi capable, then a midi sequencer would be good - there must be a decent free one for Linux http://muse-sequencer.org/ - worth a look
Re: CRT Monitor VGA cable replacement, ADVICE NEEDED.
Posted on 2014-12-04, 18:44
Would it have a setup menu accessed with the front panel buttons? And yes, there is a lot of stuff in a VGA cable
Re: FSB: 66 vs 100 vs 133 MHz
Posted on 2014-12-03, 00:59
The overall clock speed has far more impact than the FSB - if that's a 450MHz (100 x 4.5) CPU, then it's underclocked, normal, overclocked. Now if it allowed a 3x multiplier at 100 and a 2.5x at 133, that would show the difference that FSB alone makes. Some CPUs, you can lower the multiplier on, but …
Re: Getting Starship Titanic to Work on XP SP3
Posted on 2014-11-29, 23:36
There is a specific mention of the Cinepak CODEC problem http://www.starshiptitanic.com/game/faq.html#1.7.1 Wonder if there are any sound codecs that are also broken / not present. If it's the "N" (no media player) version of XP, then you may need to install Media player to bring some of the support …
Re: Drivers for HP Pavilion WLAN
Posted on 2014-11-29, 00:28
Oh yes - and for that model, it looks like http://www.mediatek.com/en/downloads/usb-rt257xrt2671rt520x/ Not been updated in a while - wonder if station-drivers unearthed anything more recent - nope, same one on there
Re: Worth of adding (expanded)upper memory to laser 8086 XT/3
Posted on 2014-11-28, 17:30
Oh yes, forgot about the old system floppy swapping, yes. Actually, remember an old laptop that had a BIOS based ramdisk that was battery backed, loaded DOS & Kermit on it and set to boot from ramdisk, great until some twerp let the battery run out!
Re: Worth of adding (expanded)upper memory to laser 8086 XT/3
Posted on 2014-11-27, 17:52
EMS is used by a number of programs that support it - it's sometimes know as LIM EMS (Lotus Intel Microsoft) - Lotus 123 for DOS was one that could. Traditional EMS (3.2) allowed the 8086/8 to access several megabytes of RAM, mapping it to a 64k upper region as 4 16k pages. Because of the page …
Re: Worth of adding (expanded)upper memory to laser 8086 XT/3
Posted on 2014-11-26, 23:57
It's an 8086, so the entire addressable space is 1MB. Not sure if anything similar to "UMBPCI" would be possible - I had some success with UMBPCI on an ISA bus system where the BIOS allowed explicit allocation of segments of shadow memory. If there is provision for memory beyond the 512k + 128k is …
Re: Old SCSI Adapter
Posted on 2014-11-26, 23:45
Odd... references to that chipset point to it being ISA - PCMCIA rather than SCSI - could there be an additional front panel connector bay somewhere
Re: Case restoration
Posted on 2014-11-26, 17:56
If there's room, us a bit of thin plastic on the back as a patch, rather than trying to glue edge to edge alone. Cyanoacrylate based (superglue) sticks pretty well to the thin plastic that many things are packed in - used some as a patch. in applying though I used some tissue to press it, and ended …
Re: WDC WD90C31 strange benchmark results
Posted on 2014-11-22, 19:43
The only jumper block on the PCB :lol: (Below the VGA microprocessor) http://i.imgur.com/33aImi9s.jpg I didn't test the card with JP set to 2-3 ("Never ever mess with a PCB jumper you don't understand, even if it's labeled "SEX AND FREE BEER") It LOOKS like the jumper says "286/386/486" What would …
Re: 400MHZ Shootout! PC Chips vs. Dell! Pentium II vs. Celeron!
Posted on 2014-11-22, 19:12
A specific disk test might show something interesting... buffered speed, seq speed, and CPU utilization
Re: Which configuration would you recommend for older games until 2002?
Posted on 2014-11-20, 19:14
Of those Graphics cards, the Geforce 4 Ti is the most powerful by far... Full DX8 hardware, and a decent XP era card The GeForce 2 is full DX7 hardware (transform & lighting) Radeon 7500 - DX7 level, not sure if it's "full" Matrox G400 supports Environment Mapped Bump Mapping, but its basic DX level …
Re: Win98se + MVP3 issues
Posted on 2014-11-20, 18:54
On the VIA site itself ... 4.35 is the "retro OS version", but the actual chipset support is unspecified other than "you may need a later version for post 2002 systems" 4.43 is the "retro chipset version" with quite a list specified (including MVP#) Both are dated as 25 Oct 2001, so the chipset …
Re: The Parts Store Experience
Posted on 2014-11-19, 18:57
Internet killed the parts shops, and the computer fairs - not helped by the fact that my local area had TWO circuits of computer fairs competing, and they added more events not far away. Funnily enough, the one local shop that does survive - is the worst of the lot, a clueless guy that probably …
Re: Regionally common hardware
Posted on 2014-11-17, 23:29
The Sinclair ZX Spectrum computer was very popular in Britain and then cloned like mad behind the Iron Curtain. It was sold elsewhere, but never sold in the numbers like they did in the UK and Eastern Europe. The peculiarly British - BBC Micro and the Acorn Archimedes - and the Amstrads, mind you, …
Re: Regionally common hardware
Posted on 2014-11-17, 15:55
The peculiarly British - BBC Micro and the Acorn Archimedes - and the Amstrads, mind you, the fan on the Amstrad 2386 was a disgrace!
Re: Your favorite hardware generation
Posted on 2014-11-15, 17:48
The 386 era (lived through it) - you could really make a difference, getting things like page interleave right, and of course the era before graphics was just a choice of AMD or Nvidia ... testing various cards with Wintach in 3.1 - and finding a bunch of cheap WD80C31 cards that really blitzed …
Re: Got two free old PCs but can't get either to start
Posted on 2014-11-13, 18:27
Would probably be better to do a full recap, the ones that aren't visibly bad have to be suspect. For removal and hole clearing, a piston type solder sucker or braid is useful. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desoldering PS. 2 bewares for the solder sucker... Do not put it away primed, it'll weaken the …
Re: CL-GD-5429 doesn't like LCD monitors?
Posted on 2014-11-12, 23:59
The BIOS boot screen, in particular, should be in a mode compatible with ANYTHING, so if it doesn't even show that, it sounds like the onboard video could be faulty
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