Re: My Gravis Ultrasound and 16 bit daughter board

Posted on 2020-11-12, 00:31

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by brassicGamer

in Marvin \ Sound

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After hearing about the daughterboard when I read my first Ultrasound review in 1993/4, I have never seen one until now. I was beginning to think they might have been vapourware!

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Re: The 286 Laptop Restoration Thread

Posted on 2020-10-19, 11:08

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by brassicGamer

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This might be a longshot as you stated your projects are in storage but here it goes: Yes, they are still in storage, sadly, BUT I am planning to go there in the next couple of weeks to grab some stuff so I will let you know the component details ASAP (unless someone else gets there before me of …

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Re: Everything You Wanted To Know About Tualatin

Posted on 2020-10-03, 17:30

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by brassicGamer

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I found a ' source ' that mentions Tualatins being able to cache 64GB of RAM, but it doesn't say where this info came from. The Intel datasheets don't include such info. It is mentioned in this Intel Datasheet [Intel Pentium III Processor with 512KB L2 Cache at 1.11GHz to 1.40GHz - jun 2002] …

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Re: Everything You Wanted To Know About Tualatin

Posted on 2020-10-03, 15:10

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by brassicGamer

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Not only Coppermine-T processors, there is at least 1 regular Coppermine that also comes with IHS, the SL5B3 I didn't want to get into making a list of all the versions that did come with a heatspreader. I think as long as people know that it's included on late Coppermines as well then they can be …

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Re: Everything You Wanted To Know About Tualatin

Posted on 2020-10-02, 23:15

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by brassicGamer

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An interesting "fact" I seem to recall about Tualatin--but can't remember where on earth I read it--is that it can cache up to 64GB of RAM. Coppermine could only cache up to 4GB. And yet another thing I can't seem to remember is if that extra cacheability only applied to PIII-S, or if all Tualatins …

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Re: Everything You Wanted To Know About Tualatin

Posted on 2020-10-02, 23:10

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by brassicGamer

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Nice article. However I don't know if you meant it that way, but it suggests the vrm and AGTL changes are related, which I don't believe to be the case. Also, the voltage clamp on some slotkets is for the so-called non vcore voltages, not AGTL. I don't think any slotket including Powerleap changes …

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Everything You Wanted To Know About Tualatin

Posted on 2020-10-02, 20:38

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by brassicGamer

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The Tualatin has historically been a bit of a hot topic round these parts and reading up on other people's builds is what introduced me to this legend. It became a bit of an obsession and so I decided to try and get as much as possible into one place regarding this special CPU. I hope that some of …

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2020-09-10, 18:17

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by brassicGamer

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Nice story behind this one. In the UK we have household waste recycling centres, where people take their trash. When I was a kid it was all landfill and is still called the dump or tip informally. There are strict rules preventing people from removing items from the tip - I was shouted at for trying …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-08-22, 23:14

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by brassicGamer

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Holy shit, Artex! 😳 Sealed VLB 3D Blaster!?!? You the man 😁

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Re: 486 cache question

Posted on 2020-07-21, 12:08

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by brassicGamer

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In my experience they're not that rare, but it's finding them that's the tricky bit. The main problem is that scrappers or even collectors come across them and don't know what they are. Like many other such things, it's quite possible you could pick up a bargain if you are looking over a long period …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-06-29, 12:44

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by brassicGamer

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Anyway, such cards always remind me how immensly flexible x86 architecture was and is and it's uses extends far behind home/office or even server room use. Something that people with those silly old Amigas or Macs will never understand :] Wait til they find out the first AirPort base station has a …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-06-16, 12:40

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by brassicGamer

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Wow. Came here for vintage hardware 10 pages so and instead got some arguments about prices and ESD. Gatekeeping is bullshit. Carpet is bullshit. Anyone who believes gatekeeping is effective is the kind of person who thinks segregation and incels are good things. Anyone who thinks that carpet and …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-05-26, 15:10

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by brassicGamer

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Picked up this TOP853 on eBay, has only been used twice and is virtually new in box. Looking forward to repairing some of my motherboards and graphics cards, plus dumping some ROMs using this. Not exactly vintage in itself, but will be used extensively for Vintage purposes. This is one of those …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-04-26, 18:28

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by brassicGamer

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I got this adorable little IBM Aptiva for a great price off eBay, with keyboard and mouse even. Has a 500Mhz K6-2 and 128MB of RAM. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EWVbGzzXYAQbYRw?format=jpg&name=large I've got one of those :) cute little machine. Can probably be upgraded to a K6-III although I've not …

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Re: Does anyone read or write a retro blog

Posted on 2020-04-15, 17:34

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I settled on Blogger because it was a) simple and b) I didn't need more complex features going forward. Took a while to get going but being able to tweak the HTML is useful and the mobile layouts are acceptable. Plus it seems that getting entries indexed by search engines works nicely. Apparently …

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Re: VCS - A capture utility for certain Datapath capture cards

Posted on 2020-04-14, 18:00

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by brassicGamer

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This is nice - I've got a Datapath card that was, until now, pretty useless!

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-04-14, 15:00

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by brassicGamer

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DPT PM2122 EISA SCSI controller with CM4000 cache module. Filename IMG_20200414_155524.jpg File size 1.86 MiB Views 895 views Plus, something I didn't know until just now, it has one of those freaking awesome strobing LED blocks! Can't wait to bench this against VLB and ISA caching controllers... …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-04-13, 14:01

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by brassicGamer

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So what kind of card is this? https://i.imgur.com/5ImSffq.jpg I believe that's an IBM floppy drive interface or clone. The edge connector on the end of the card is what the floppy cable connects to. FYJ5KXWQOYES1762UI.LARGE.jpg I'm intrigued by the motherboard as it looks very similar to an AT …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-04-02, 17:10

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by brassicGamer

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https://i.imgur.com/xO8LGRJm.jpg Don't know if it works yet. Got it from what looked like the original owner. He told me it worked, but sometimes you need to reseat the cpu card to get it going. Something that should be easy to fix. The origional craigslist ad only listed the cpu, monitor, and …

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Re: New Performance Issue In Mac OS Catalina

Posted on 2020-03-13, 21:23

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by brassicGamer

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I only ask because the SDL2 SVN build seems to be the first build where enabling vysync actually has an effect in macOS. It works great in some games (i.e Epic Pinball, Lemmings Chronicles) but horribly in others (i.e Lemmings 2, Warcraft 2) where it causes major slow downs and sound problems. As …

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