Re: Did I make a good video choice for my 486 project?

Posted on 2016-12-16, 16:17

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by clueless1

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I'm currently building a 486 PC and over the course of the summer acquired all of the parts I am planning to use. The controller card is dead and I need to replace it but that's a different story. I was able to pick up a Trident TGUI9440 VLB 1mb card new in the box with drivers and everything for …

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Re: Virge 325 locks up Win98 after drivers installed

Posted on 2016-12-16, 01:51

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Here's pics of the card. Filename virgefront.jpg File size 1.28 MiB Views 232 views Filename virgeback.jpg File size 1.25 MiB Views 232 views

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Re: Virge 325 locks up Win98 after drivers installed

Posted on 2016-12-15, 20:45

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by clueless1

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What motherboards do your Dell Dimension 4100 and HP Vectra VL use? Maybe it's a chipset thing or perhaps or some BIOS setting? Do you have another Virge to test in the rigs your misbehaving Virge is misbehaving in? Have you inspected the card for any signs of damage? Does the Virge come with …

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Virge 325 locks up Win98 after drivers installed

Posted on 2016-12-15, 18:19

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I've been doing some testing of various cards. One of them, a Fastware S3 Virge 325 PCI, has an issue on two out of three PCs I've tried it on. Symptom: install card and Win98 driver, reboot Win98 and within a few seconds, the desktop freezes. Only way out is to force a reboot. If I boot into Safe …

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Re: Win10 Tips, Tricks, and Workarounds

Posted on 2016-12-14, 19:31

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@beastlike: yes! Uses Windows PE for recovery disk. http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.aspx Regarding UBlock Origin vs HOSTS file, the advantage to having it in your HOSTS file is that ads get blocked in web-based apps too. Like Skype. What I do personally is have MVPS in my firewall, and if I ever …

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Re: Win10 Tips, Tricks, and Workarounds

Posted on 2016-12-14, 19:21

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5. Install the hosts file from http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm - this can get annoying sometimes when there's links like "Google shopping results" that stop working, but I feel this fundamentally prevents a lot of problems. I'm willing to deal with the side effects. I use MVPS too. Love it. …

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Re: Win10 Tips, Tricks, and Workarounds

Posted on 2016-12-14, 19:10

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This is probably covered somehow in the lengthy list of advice above, and for all I know Microsoft might have changed it already, but perhaps it bears repeating: Never tell Windows 10 you want to sign up for any kind of online Microsoft profile, because apparently once you do that, there's no way …

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Re: Win10 Tips, Tricks, and Workarounds

Posted on 2016-12-14, 15:03

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Great stuff, thanks FFXIhealer!

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Re: 1994 PCI Video Cards

Posted on 2016-12-13, 11:59

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elianda wrote: Are you sure there were no S3 Vision 968 cards available in 1994? My earliest Vision968 are from 7th week of 1995 while the PCB states (c) 1994. Maybe there were already a few in 1994? I'm going by the History Tree at vgamuseum.info. That says the 968 is a 1995 card.

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Re: 1994 PCI Video Cards

Posted on 2016-12-13, 02:58

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The Imagine 128 is more of a Windows card, I have no idea how it does in DOS. But I remember it having issues in 3D games, so that's why I said more out of curiosity. ;) The ET4000/w32p is middle of the pack as a PCI DOS card when you compare it to newer PCI cards. But in 1994, it was one of the …

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Re: 1994 PCI Video Cards

Posted on 2016-12-13, 02:08

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by clueless1

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ET4000/w32p ATI Mach64 CX ATI Mach64 GX S3 Trio64 S3 Vision 864/868/964 Are all 1994 cards. Also, more as a curiosity, the Number Nine Imagine 128 came out in '94. First 128-bit card.

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Re: "Chief Blue Meanie", My Voodoo2 powered IBM 300PL.

Posted on 2016-12-13, 02:01

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by clueless1

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Beautiful system, man. Very clean, good job. 😀

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Re: Win10 Tips, Tricks, and Workarounds

Posted on 2016-12-13, 00:06

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Trouble is, things are changing too quickly for one tip to be relevant for long, or so it seems. Good point. This could still be a thread where problems are reported while they are still in the wild, as a heads up to others, so they can get confirmation that it's not just them. Quick workarounds …

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Re: NVIDIA TNT PCI Card Use

Posted on 2016-12-12, 19:44

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by clueless1

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The TNT PCI is one of the fastest DOS video cards, very compatible, and has built in VESA 2.0. It makes the perfect graphics card for a Pentium-based DOS PC.

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Win10 Tips, Tricks, and Workarounds

Posted on 2016-12-12, 19:26

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What tips, tricks and workarounds have you found for Win10? Here's a couple of recent ones I've found while helping clients: -Problem: "internet" goes down for hours at a time, sometimes rebooting helps. -Background: this started being reported in early December on random Win10 machines. In …

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Re: Phil's YouTube and Website updates (philscomputerlab)

Posted on 2016-12-12, 16:49

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I put a ton of hours into benching the test registers. This might save you some time, Phil. SETMUL VPD= slightly slower Pentium (P166) SETMUL BPD= slightly slower Pentium (P166) SETMUL VPD BPD= moderately slower Pentium (P133) SETMUL DCD= midrange 486 (combinations of DCD, VPD AND BPD are negligibly …

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Re: "Dexter", My freshly assembled 486 VLB based System.

Posted on 2016-12-11, 17:23

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yawetaG wrote: That's why I wrote "that can be used as serial mouses". I'm pretty sure early Microsoft mouses (the glossy white that yellows strongly over time ones) also came with those adapters. Sorry dude, I wasn't trying to correct you, I was just elaborating with more detail.

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Re: What do you use UNIVBE for?

Posted on 2016-12-11, 17:01

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by clueless1

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It's needed on video cards that do not support VBE2.0 for any games that do support VBE2.0. For example, Quake. Regarding VLB cards, yes it can be used with them. My VLB CL-GD5428 needs it to run Quake in SVGA. Quake is unplayable in SVGA on a VLB system, so that's not the best example, but it's the …

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Re: "Dexter", My freshly assembled 486 VLB based System.

Posted on 2016-12-11, 14:45

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Well you don't really need a "AT compatible" KVM. A normal PS/2 KVM would work well enough for most stuff. You can just get an adapter for the keyboard. The only problem would be serial mice but you can just have several mice next to each other, they're easier to keep around than keyboards. PS/2 …

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Re: What are the most demanding Win98 exclusive games?

Posted on 2016-12-10, 19:04

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by clueless1

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Maybe focus on games that were released around the time of, or just prior to Windows XP. Games like Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Max Payne, Clive Barker's Undying, and IL-2 Sturmovik.

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