Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2017-07-02, 19:53
He said that he modded the bios to support 100MHz CPUs, not to run them at that speed. Though maybe this is still what he did
Re: am486 Bios update for Gateway 2000?
Posted on 2017-07-01, 20:24
Many 486s came with a UV-ROM bios, so I'm not sure if you'll be able to flash it that way. You may need an USB EEPROM flasher for this
Re: DOS 6.22 onto hard drive from different computer
Posted on 2017-06-30, 22:32
I'm not sure to understand you problem properly, but if I understood properly, you want to make a bootable DOS USB hdd, right ? then I'm pretty sure that if you have command.com, msdos.sys, io.sys and sys.com on DOSBox, you could do this. Or maybe you could do this with a virtual machine ?
Re: Recommend a PCI Sound Card for DOS
Posted on 2017-06-30, 17:13
I'm using the SB_link connection, aka PC/PCI. (the DDMA works too though), but I still have to use the "setupds" program to initialize the card. Oh I thought that you were saying that setupds was a tsr, now I understand X)
Re: Recommend a PCI Sound Card for DOS
Posted on 2017-06-30, 17:02
Mine has a BX chipset, maybe the BX chipset behaves better with this ?
Re: Recommend a PCI Sound Card for DOS
Posted on 2017-06-30, 16:06
I didn't knew that it was flaky, I never had that problem (though I did'nt use that function that munch but every time I did, I did not encounter problems)
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2017-06-29, 22:00
Received a Creative voodoo 2 12MB to replace the metabyte 12MB I had in my SLI so now it's not mismatched anymore ! I don't need to disable SLI whenever I want to run a DOS game that uses glide so that's sweet ! and also it brings a few more frames per second for these games ^^ I wish I had found …
I made a little comparison between some of my OPL3 based sound cards
Posted on 2017-06-27, 19:08
I made a little comparison between some of my OPL3 based sound cards. As I'm far from being an expert in the sound domain, I wanted to know your opinion on how they sound. Here are the recordings : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2v6FqmQbs2w&feature=youtu.be The CT1600 is inside an HP vectra. Both …
Re: Found a weird laptop
Posted on 2017-06-25, 22:12
Oh I see that your CPU is socketed ! You can actually replace it with another one that would be faster (if the cooling of that PC is sufficient and that the power circuit can go low enough, you might be able to fit a K6 of some sort inside of this !)
Re: Found a weird laptop
Posted on 2017-06-25, 16:19
I've got a laptop that is weirder :) Mine is a 386 Laptop/printer. Yup, you can fit paper inside and print stuff with it X) This looks like a sweet machine though, I wish I had a pentium laptop with a TFT screen, but all I have are CSTN crap. The only one that has a TFT screen has it's screen broken …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2017-06-24, 20:37
@Predator99 I wonder if that card could be fixed, maybe the traces aren't damaged too badly and all it would need would be a good cleaning ?
Re: 486 Motherboard with AGP and ISA?
Posted on 2017-06-24, 14:08
Some rare 386 motherboards had VLB like this one : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NudEusAMzr0 (okay that's a 386 and 486 combo motherboard but it's a 386-like CPU that's in there so this proves that it can work). Some other 386 motherboards had EISA and again, IBM did some 386s with MCA bus Some …
Re: Fake cache RAM... on Pentiums?
Posted on 2017-06-23, 14:54
This confirms what I said, the two UMC chips doesn't look anywhere close to fake cache chips and puting a real tag ram would be pointless if they faked the cache. There's probably something wrong somewhere, but the board doesn't have fake cache for sure
Re: Problems with storage space on a Windows 98-era retro box.
Posted on 2017-06-22, 22:34
Allright so the network is working great, just that there are incompatibilities in how new and old computers communicate between each other I guess. But the basic stuff still works apparently (normally you can even connect to the internet. Try to ping google.com and it should respond too ^^). All …
Re: What are some of the most annoying instances of cost reduction you have encountered?
Posted on 2017-06-22, 20:36
Every sound blaster 16's issues (noisiness on the first models, hanging note bug, the removal of OPL3 at some point ...) That's maybe not a cost reducing thing, but soldering Varta batteries on boards of many devices of that era was definitely a HUGE problem. It's the same for DALLAS batteries that …
Re: Overdrive DX-4 100Mhz unstable
Posted on 2017-06-22, 17:37
Maybe try to update the BIOS if you can. My AP43 board was hanging at POST when I installed my 5x86 with the 4x multiplier set. However with the 3x multiplier it worked flawlessly. The bios was from august 1995 and the 5x86 was released only few month later. I updated the board with a bios from 1996 …
Re: What are some of the most annoying instances of cost reduction you have encountered?
Posted on 2017-06-22, 17:33
Fake Cache and thin PCB that break traces for no reason
Re: Fake cache RAM... on Pentiums?
Posted on 2017-06-22, 17:30
Sure companies faked cache, but as far as I know, ATrend didn't do this and in the photo I can see two UMC chips that looks like regular SRAM chips. Usually they did show "Write-Back" on them and that was all. Take a look at the manual (I've found this http://www.elhvb.com/mboards/a-trend/manuals/ …
Re: Problems with storage space on a Windows 98-era retro box.
Posted on 2017-06-22, 16:14
Just try to ping the ip adress of the router and with your win 10 machine to ping your 98 box and normally they will respond
Re: Problems with storage space on a Windows 98-era retro box.
Posted on 2017-06-22, 12:27
98SE doesn't see your router ? That's strange. To avoid the compatibility issue between shares found on windows vista or beyond and shares on win9x, dos, etc machines, I took a raspberry pi (even the old B model with the 700MHz can work) and I created a samba share on it. This works flawlessly …
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