Re: Win95. yea or nay?
Posted on 2016-11-13, 17:23
oeuvre wrote: Windows 95 is the best OS ever. No.
Re: Good internal hard drive for modern pc
Posted on 2016-11-13, 16:34
I'd say Hitachi or Toshiba. Backblaze has good results with the former. I have good experience with the latter, as does Backblaze, although their sample set is quite small.
Re: DreamBlaster X1 : a rare card
Posted on 2016-11-13, 13:46
A quick look at a prototype of the X2. Anything is subject to change, so keep that in mind. I've also done two quick recordings of Doom and Descent Setup. It's smaller, so fits without issues on Audician 32 Plus and ESS cards. I used the ESS card shown below to record the two songs. Programmable …
Re: rkrenicki's Retro Computing Adventures
Posted on 2016-11-13, 01:26
This performance drop off is a consequence of the graphics pipeline not being fully accelerated in the GPU. The Voodoo 5, as Phil noted, plus the G400 and Kyro don't have hardware T&L, so geometry operations have to be emulated in the CPU with 3DMark 2000. The same with programmable pixel and vertex …
Re: 7-zip benchmarks for over 60 CPUs
Posted on 2016-11-13, 01:10
Cool! Got any more pics and specs for us?
Re: Asus XG-DLS users, should the board POST with old BIOS and 700/1MB CPU?
Posted on 2016-11-12, 15:28
Just an FYI, those are unpopulated because they're hard set. JP5, for instance, has a hard link soldered in.
Re: Windows Server 2008 on old PCs
Posted on 2016-11-12, 15:24
That's the advantage of an appliance like FreeNAS. There is a CLI, but it's essentially a menu based interface to get the base system up and running. From that point, everything is configured via the web interface.
Re: 7-zip benchmarks for over 60 CPUs
Posted on 2016-11-12, 15:12
P54C! That Aptiva might make a great DOS time machine. What's the onboard sound chipset?
Re: The American Brexit
Posted on 2016-11-12, 15:08
I would say it like this - Israel does not face an immediate existential threat, because and as long it maintains vigilance and a powerful military. However, if Israel (theoretically) disbanded its military and border control forces, it would be overrun in days to weeks. If in the future it loses …
Re: Seting up a game server for VOGONS, what do you play the most?
Posted on 2016-11-12, 04:30
Re: Win95. yea or nay?
Posted on 2016-11-12, 04:29
Oh, well I have to check. I recall Jiji1+2 was, Spexp1, some BreakOut! clone and I think Lander 3 was also speend sensitve. That's a Win 3.0 game, though. So it is more of a PC/XT thing. I really have to check! I wished Mobygames had a "speed sensitive" rubric.. Anyway, what I meant was that I …
Re: Master/slaving or CS DVD burner with ZIP 250 drive
Posted on 2016-11-12, 04:25
Because of the performance issues mentioned previously, the queue feeding the burner would sometimes dry up if the data source was sharing the same IDE channel. Older CD burners didn't have the capability of restarting the write in the correct position or pausing the write like modern ones do, so …
Re: Windows Server 2008 on old PCs
Posted on 2016-11-12, 04:19
If longer paths is all you need, why no switching to Linux? Ubuntu Server will run like a charm, esp if you do not run Xs there. I want to be able to play around with and use my files, so Windows is a must have. So, you need to be able to use it as a workstation as well? If so, probably Windows XP/ …
Re: PSU - bust the myth
Posted on 2016-11-12, 04:17
That would allow 30W for the 12V, 3.3V, and negative polarity rails. I wonder if the load table was overstating things a bit.
Re: Seting up a game server for VOGONS, what do you play the most?
Posted on 2016-11-12, 04:14
Re: Win95. yea or nay?
Posted on 2016-11-12, 00:33
Jo22 wrote: gdjacobs wrote: [..]I agree. In many ways, I think there isn't much reason to not move to Win95.[..] Having a 286 is a reason. Well, at least it was.. For me. 😁 Do you have any Win 3.1 titles which are speed sensitive and require a 286?
Re: Best DOS video card?
Posted on 2016-11-11, 23:07
Again, the only minus is that the 5446 isn't available with VBE 2.0.
Re: The American Brexit
Posted on 2016-11-11, 23:04
Well, I've staked my position. We could go ten rounds, Peter, but I'm just not going to right now. The website and the mods are too cool for me to begin testing them that way.
Re: The American Brexit
Posted on 2016-11-11, 17:44
Automation, robotization, lack of skill, low cost manufacturing all have a huge impact of jobs. As does urbanization. It is not just about jobs. It is also about the paternalistic dogmas of liberals that blame white males for all ills in the world. Their repudiation of Christianity, traditional …
Re: The American Brexit
Posted on 2016-11-11, 16:42
They are undisputed. I don't disagree with the data you've linked in this post, but it doesn't address any of what I wrote in mine. The raw data essentially shows no causative relationship between demographics and unemployment. You've also glossed over a fairly substantial wave of African …
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