Re: Advice upgrading Pentium MMX Voodoo2

Posted on 2017-09-22, 13:45

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by Nipedley

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Could it be down to the motherboard chipset? It's an SIS 5511/5512/5513, it also officially has no support for the MMX processors or their voltages so I'm running it past it's intended usage here a fair bit I'm also using more RAM than the motherboard can cache (128MB vs I believe a max of 64MB?). I …

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Re: Advice upgrading Pentium MMX Voodoo2

Posted on 2017-09-20, 13:46

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by Nipedley

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I thought I'd update this thread with my findings. I lost a little performance downgrading to the SiS 6205 onboard video in DOS, but the performance difference using the PCI ATA133 IDE adapter was enormous and made up for it. I then upgraded to a Voodoo3, while my 3D benchmarks didn't change (233MMX …

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Re: Advice upgrading Pentium MMX Voodoo2

Posted on 2017-09-07, 19:02

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by Nipedley

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I actually have an ISA network card already (3c509 I believe?) it is super super slow though. I was thinking of using the extra PCI slot either for a ATA133 card or USB for better file transfers. I'm transferring some games at the moment and it's taking about 3 hours for 3gb :dead: About the …

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Re: Advice upgrading Pentium MMX Voodoo2

Posted on 2017-09-07, 09:26

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by Nipedley

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Thanks for your reply, I guess my problem is that my system is too slow to run many of the later Windows glide games (possibly even with the eventual K6-3+ upgrade) so the main point of having the Voodoo is for the earlier ones most of which were DOS based. I've been lucky with my Voodoo 2 and …

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Advice upgrading Pentium MMX Voodoo2

Posted on 2017-09-07, 09:14

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by Nipedley

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Hey guys I want to free up one of my 2 PCI slots in my Aptiva 2176. Currently I have a Voodoo 2 and an S3 Virge/DX 4MB in my PCI slots, but my system has no USB and would really like to get a USB card in there. Option 1: Go back to using onboard video (SiS 6205 1MB) - what real world difference …

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Re: New Project: Windows XP machine with max compatibility

Posted on 2017-07-31, 11:22

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by Nipedley

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That's what I did. Core i5 2500 (sandybridge), GTX 960, Audigy 2 ZS with WinXP & Win7 dual boot. I expected to run into some driver problems with older games using the 960, but so far I haven't had any trouble at all. I keep my Pentium MMX IBM Aptiva next to it for Win9x stuff, and between them they …

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Re: Yamaha soundcard - Good or bad?

Posted on 2017-07-22, 07:15

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by Nipedley

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That's a great card. It's a Yamaha Audician 32 Plus variant, uses the same drivers. I have the same one as well as a regular Audician 32 Plus and they're both lovely

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Re: fx5200

Posted on 2017-07-10, 12:47

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by Nipedley

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I bought a Pentium 4 Sony VAIO back in the early 2000s that came with an FX5200 and it was god awful. Even playing my old (at the time) games was a task with that thing. I took that machine up to an FX5900 and then an ATI X800 Pro before I upgraded to an Athlon 64 with a 7800GT. Good memories 😀

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-07-06, 06:28

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by Nipedley

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Slot 1 boards give you versatility, I can either run a Pentium 2 233 at 133mhz (with a lower multiplier) or a Pentium 3 1.4GHz tualatin on my slot 1 board, with ISA slots for DOS sound, PCI and AGP graphics

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Re: What hard drive size do those old isa ide cards allow?

Posted on 2017-06-09, 20:53

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by Nipedley

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DDO's are easy peazy to setup. Let's me use a 120GB drive in my pentium, a 16GB in my 486 and a 4GB in my 386. It's no trouble at all

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Re: Goldstar 16-bit ISA multi I/O PC controller card, model IDE Plus V3L, 002.

Posted on 2017-05-17, 18:54

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by Nipedley

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I just got a near identical one of these myself last week, a V4. Apparently they were made by Kentech Here's the jumper list for V4, the layout of ports looks slightly different to your V3 but the jumper bank looks the same and it should give you a good idea http://www.uncreativelabs.net/index.php? …

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Re: Olivetti M6 680 Suprema hard drive mounting

Posted on 2017-05-14, 16:43

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by Nipedley

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Might be a good idea to post a description or picture for any of us that happen across your thread in the future looking for the same info 😀

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Re: Does a Pentium III 933MHz cover anything that only plays on Windows 98/ME and doesn't play on Windows XP?

Posted on 2017-05-10, 17:31

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by Nipedley

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I started using XP when it went RTM back in the early 2000s and have been playing my older games on it ever since, the only problem I've never been able to patch out is: "The procedure entry point SUnMapLS_IP_EBP_12 could not be located in the dynamic link library KERNEL32.dll" This affects a few …

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Re: What newer GPUs are too new!

Posted on 2017-04-26, 14:13

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by Nipedley

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I've actually been running a GTX 960 under XP for a while (i5 2500k, WinXP & Win10 dual boot) Makes a great media PC (9 series has H265 / HEVC decoding built in) and also XP gaming rig. I have my Audigy 2 ZS in there for EAX support. I've played a bunch of stuff without any issues so far

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Amstrad PC7386SX Hard Drive issues

Posted on 2017-04-24, 10:58

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by Nipedley

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Hi guys I'm trying to revive an Amstrad PC7386SX motherboard but can't get it to work with any hard drive. I've tried multiple IDE cables of various vintages, and drives ranging from a 640MB Quantum Bigfoot to 8GB Maxtor's and CompactFlash adapters which is what I'm really intending to use here. …

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Re: Where To Find?

Posted on 2017-04-18, 20:55

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by Nipedley

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Sometimes the actuator can get stuck inside the switch. I'd take the front of the case off so you've got direct access to it and see if I couldn't pull the actuator back out unsticking it. If it's definitely dead then it won't hurt anything. By the way those switches act like jumpers as far as the …

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Re: Old machine for pure dos gaming and Win 9x pre XP gaming

Posted on 2017-03-26, 17:20

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by Nipedley

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I'm running 1GB of ram on my Pentium 3 build, but only because I run Windows 2000 as a dual boot. I installed the 98se unofficial sp3 pack which supposedly fixes the issue with running more RAM, so that it doesn't cause any problems in 98 I'd say your 440BX would make a nice DOS & 9x platform, with …

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Re: Old machine for pure dos gaming and Win 9x pre XP gaming

Posted on 2017-03-26, 14:11

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by Nipedley

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A 440BX is a great platform for DOS gaming. Some games are speed sensitive (we have a list here http://www.vogonswiki.com/index.php/List_of_CPU_speed_sensitive_games ) but many are not. Depends what you want to play, you may not need to build a new system at all (though that's not as much fun!) For …

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Re: Command & Conquer Gold won't run on Win95

Posted on 2017-03-05, 17:57

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by Nipedley

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Hey there, if that's really you then I love your work. I've used your patched version on Win10 before and it runs great :-) In this case I'm trying to run C&C 95 on my Windows 95 box, infact the computer I used to play it back in the day. I did try your patched version on Win95 but couldn't find a …

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Re: Your worst selling experience on ebay?

Posted on 2017-03-01, 10:30

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by Nipedley

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I've not had too many bad buying experiences, probably worst was UK royal mail leaving a package outside in the soaking rain. When I open it, it's that rare book that I ordered that's now totally ruined.. For selling, my worst was a Creative Decoder/Amplifier, quite rare and expensive. I packed it …

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