The PC Bible Thread (Formerly "If You Have Time To Waste...")
Posted on 2017-04-25, 11:00
...then you could probably do worse than flick through this beast: https://doc.lagout.org/The%20Indispensable%20 … d%20Edition.pdf
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2017-04-25, 08:28
melbar wrote: Have already cut off the barrel battery. Boot test was fine. Does anybody know a link to manual? Nice board, plus a bonus that you got controller and VGA as they can be hard to find / expensive when you do. Looks like this is the one you're looking for.
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2017-04-24, 13:07
Anyway, I reseated every socketed chip I saw, assembled it back and yeah, it is up and running now. But what is WAY more surprising, now when I learned more about sound cards I tried to set up my Yamaha OPL3-SAx card for maybe 50th time now, and what blew my mind, it worked for the first try after …
Re: Do you remember how/when you began your Collection ?
Posted on 2017-04-19, 12:22
I used to hear about MT-32 back then and used to dream of having it....and there were so many stuff back then that I dreamt of having, but all were prohibitively expensive. Ah, now this is where my retro hobby merges with my gaming hobby - I NEVER had the latest stuff and this started with playing …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2017-04-17, 11:54
appiah4 wrote: A vogoner helped me in obtaining an ISA I/O card so I'm dancing around in joy. Now all I need is an ISA VGA card. Dude, why didn't you say - I've got loads! In other news, I've been organising my screws. Yes really. I know I'm not the only one! Filename 20170415_174024-1600x900.jpg …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2017-04-16, 09:46
zerker wrote: And voila! A fully-functional CH FlightStick PRO! Did a full functional test in Descent and it worked GREAT 😀 Great work! I purchased one new back in the day and murdered it playing F1GP and X-Wing excessively. Would love another.
Re: Worst named hardware ever?
Posted on 2017-04-15, 09:24
Wang?
Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.
Posted on 2017-04-15, 08:38
Found a dismantled PS3 on the street. Has YLOD issue so I'm hoping an oven reflow will get it up and running again.
Re: How you define a 586
Posted on 2017-04-13, 14:34
What defines a 586 to me? A Pentium level CPU chip! Because that's what the Pentium was going to be before Intel wanted to put a trademarked name on it (you cannot Trademark a Number) - if they had not done that, it would have been called the Intel 80586 or 586 for short. That's true. Thanks to …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2017-04-13, 14:24
Got an Optiplex GX1 and an IBM NetVista, both PIII era machines. Cleaned them up and the Optiplex was FILTHY (even worse than the pictures) but look what an air compressor, magic eraser, and sand paper can do! http://imgur.com/a/Do1Jk Wow! Great work on the Dell in particular - it looked …
Re: How you define a 586
Posted on 2017-04-13, 07:47
jade_angel wrote: K6 was, architecturally, something like the bastard child of a Pentium and a P6 Quote of the month right there. Might even use it as my signature! (Crediting the speaker, of course)
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2017-04-12, 14:36
Anonymous Coward wrote: Probably one of the better 386 motherboards. At least it's in my top 5. I've been trying to get one for 10+ years. That's a bloody nice board - co-pro included, too! To be added to the thread about people that paid too much for something they had to have 😉
Re: Do you remember how/when you began your Collection ?
Posted on 2017-04-12, 14:11
Well after I upgraded from my 486DX4/100 (my first build from 1995), I always hung onto the motherboard of that system. I got rid of a lot of retro stuff in 2005 (when it was simply 'old') but always felt attached to the 486. It's a baby-AT board so I always wanted to build a cabinet around it so I …
Re: How fast is onboard video on a 486? (compaq prolinea 33)
Posted on 2017-04-12, 09:20
this http://www.totalgeekdom.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Motherboard-Close-up.jpg shows TSENG ET4000/W32, so some sort of VLB. Decent chip! Hah - I should have looked at the photos when I was reading that :) However, this says Tseng TC6945AF so I'm guessing there were a number of revisions of …
Re: How fast is onboard video on a 486? (compaq prolinea 33)
Posted on 2017-04-12, 09:05
Was going to do a benchmark on it for the caches disabled spreadsheet (and to compare to others) but I have no idea whether the onboard video would be equal to isa, pci, or something in between. I'm guessing a 486/50 would add about 50% performance? Hard to tell from what I've found. It could be ' …
Re: How you define a 586
Posted on 2017-04-12, 08:34
But the chip is not superscalar and lacks Pentium instructions, so perhaps its a "536" (halfway between the numerical values of 486 and 586). Oh no, you didn't just make this more complicated by creating a semi-generation did you?? ;) I don't know if I prefer 536 or 486.5. Given that the CPU-naming …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2017-04-12, 07:52
Hard drive inventory time: 20170412_080153-1200x2133.jpg I've been accumulating this lot for some time so it was a simple case of ensuring each one could be read / partitioned. I threw away about 5 or 6 drives that either weren't recognised by the BIOS, stopped the OS loading or something else …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2017-04-11, 14:12
- Minecraft (Forge modded server) with MCMyAdmin web interface; - Space Engineers (dedicated server running on VirtualBox Windows 7 VM); - Urban Terror (Linux native); - DOSBox IPX (to emulate serial and modem connections on DOS titles in DOSBox); - More to come... ( Half-Life , Project Zomboid , …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2017-04-10, 10:20
blurks wrote: I just received a Voodoo 3 3000 PCI which makes a great addition to my cabinet. I mean I know most of the stuff on here is somewhat geeky by comparison with normal life but OH MY GOD that's the geekiest thing I've seen for some time.
Re: pentium II style case?
Posted on 2017-04-07, 21:31
Proper PII cases are literally the MOST boring being items in the history of computing.
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