Re: Does your collection / regular builds lean more towards AMD or Intel

Posted on 2020-09-24, 17:33

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It's quite mixed here in all the years I've been 'computing'. Running x86 systems at the moment: - Siemens 8088 (My first system, now with CGA) - Intel 386SX20 (retro DOS-machine, VGA, Roland RA50 and various other accessoires) - AMD Ryzen 1700 (Home-server, used to be desktop until I bought 3700X) …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2020-09-18, 20:36

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Star Flight on the Sega Megadrive. I was actually looking for decent gamepads for my Amiga 500 so I ended up buying a Sega and browsing through the games the seller had available as well, I noticed Star Flight. Never heard of the game before but it got my interest. I guess the game is not for …

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Re: Windows 95 optimization and 486DX2 performance

Posted on 2020-09-18, 19:13

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Yes, from what I remember, Win95 was quite quick and "stable" on 386/486 hardware if "enough" RAM was available. I think enough RAM is indeed the key. Of course instable drivers, malware, weird tweaks and whatnot will ruin a system but RAM ... I've seen enough ad's and PC's in person with so little …

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Re: Old CD-ROM drives and CD-Rs - try Taiyo media

Posted on 2020-09-15, 20:13

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I like to use my old CD-ROM drives as well and tried various different media, burners and burn-speeds. A while ago I've bought a Pioneer DVR-108BK burner which I use to burn at 4x speed. I can burn CD's that are readable in my Philips CDI and Philips CDD462 (a single speed drive, 1992 technology) …

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

Posted on 2020-09-10, 19:38

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Dug out one of my PCs from storage to have a look what was inside, as my records didn't list any specific information about it. I couldn't remember anything about what was inside this PC, other than the installed CPU, RAM & HDD. Opened it up and was greeted with this: https://i.imgur.com/FkfLDCMl. …

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Re: Pentium 3 550Mhz Win98SE Battlestation

Posted on 2020-09-09, 11:53

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Intel486dx33 wrote on 2020-09-09, 08:27: What is the name of that case ? InWin A500.

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Re: dogs in video games

Posted on 2020-09-05, 17:38

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How about Dogz? 😀

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Re: The World's Fastest 486

Posted on 2020-05-28, 15:52

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The 25253 parts number was used for 5V rated DX4-100 parts No such thing. kool kitty89 saw on my website that the DX4/100 (25253) runs at 5V but I've mistakenly mentioned 5V for this particular CPU. The image of my Am486 DX4/100 clearly shows 3V. I've corrected the information on my site. So the …

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Re: New sound card project: AWE64 Legacy

Posted on 2020-01-23, 11:45

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Also interested! Count me in 😀.

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Re: Best CGA & Hercules games

Posted on 2019-06-20, 18:51

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Adding a new one to the mix! Planet X3 :). It runs in various modes including Hercules and CGA. I enjoyed playing the game for a while and it runs really smooth on an XT. Excellent piece of programming (in assembly!). Also nice to have a game that can utilize the Adlib soundcard which really …

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Re: Low-power chip + small overvolt (Geode NX1750)

Posted on 2019-06-14, 16:27

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With alvaro84. The Geode NX is just like any other Thoroughbred with the only exception that it is of higher quality (=best part of the wafer) so that it can run at very low voltages. Usually this also works the other way- it can run at high speeds at high voltages. Thoroughbred's can easily run at …

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Re: Bought these games today

Posted on 2019-05-26, 21:27

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Great stuff BeginnerGuy! Love the retailbox 😀. I played Sigil today, too. Liked it a lot! Sigil won't run on the original DOS Doom. Even the 'Compat'-WAD is too complex.

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Re: ANyone recognize this video card backplate?

Posted on 2019-02-07, 14:04

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It looks like S-Video with the version that has two cables at the end- one for video-out and one for video-in.

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Re: Voodoo 1 Artifacting: Can we identify the issue here?

Posted on 2018-11-20, 15:24

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Not that I know of.

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Re: Voodoo 1 Artifacting: Can we identify the issue here?

Posted on 2018-11-20, 13:30

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Yes, you can set the variable SST_GRXCLK to 50 in order to set it to it's default 50MHz. You could try setting it to 40MHz or something like that. The correct syntax is: SET SST_GRXCLK=50 My guess is that at least one memory module or a trace between the 3Dfx-processors and the memory chips is …

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Re: Best options to feed old CD (2x, 4x) drive with CD-R media

Posted on 2018-09-26, 18:16

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In my experience many of the new CD-R's don't work in old drives. The older CD-R's tend to work depending on the brand. I've had great experience with Octron CD-R's in terms of reliability and compatibility. Especially the older ones (12x and 16x speed). Recently I even bought a pack of NOS 12x and …

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Re: Duron cpus

Posted on 2018-09-14, 16:04

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They are quite different. The Duron 1300 is based on the 0.18 micron Morgan core and uses a 100MHz (DDR200) FSB. The Duron 1300 will practically run on any socket A motherboard you can find. The Duron 1400 is based on the 0.13 micron Applebred core and uses a 133MHz (DDR266) FSB. It will require a …

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Re: Voodoo3 models overview

Posted on 2018-07-18, 10:02

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I give up, who makes it? What I found interesting when reading this old thread is that nobody produced benchmark evidence showing the speed benefits of SGRAM per the same clock speed. Anyone have these benchmarks? thandor.net - Voodoo3 2000 PCI . The scores in red are for SDRAM cards and the scores …

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Re: Best CGA & Hercules games

Posted on 2018-07-06, 10:35

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Thanks a lot, everyone! Screenshots are a lovely idea, I will do some, taken from a real hardware (just need to dig it out T3100 as well, specially for you Thandor!). @Thandor - Arctic Adventure, I remember that! Paganitzu looks pretty weird, need to check that one. I couldn't resist taking the …

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Re: Best CGA & Hercules games

Posted on 2018-07-05, 20:33

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On my T3100 I loved to play: - Chopper Commando. Already mentioned by PTherapist. Fun simple little game and I actually discovered this game years and years after it's release date but liked it a lot even despite it's age. https://image.dosgamesarchive.com/screenshots/choppercommando4.png - …

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