Re: Retro OSes for retro computers

Posted on 2020-05-01, 12:00

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AndrewK2685 wrote on 2020-05-01, 10:03: How about Novell Netware? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetWare We used to have this in my high school computer lab running on 386SX25 computers. I don't have very fond memories of it, but it worked. We could print to a dot matrix printer from Professional …

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Re: What music are you listening to?

Posted on 2020-05-01, 11:58

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Wilderun - Veil of Imagination is an amazing album.. Listening to it today and it really added some wrinkles to my brain.

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Re: Best CPU for high end 1995 486 build?

Posted on 2020-05-01, 07:53

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A Very nice Board. This Board will be a good partner to your IBM 5x86. I played with a Shuttle HOT433 with the same UMC chipset and a Cyrix 5x86 a long time without any quirks, also in L1 WB mode and mostly enabled Cyrix registers. But i highly recommend an upgrade of your cache to 256kB dual …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-05-01, 07:14

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I've finally found out why none of my three mismatched Voodoo II's would work reliably in SLI mode regardless of the combination: It's the FastVoodoo drivers. They claim to support mismatched SLI out of the box, but I only got that working one time for some dubious reason. In all other cases my …

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Re: Best CPU for high end 1995 486 build?

Posted on 2020-05-01, 06:00

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A lot of very informative and insightful posts overnight, thanks to everyone who chimed in :) This might make for some interesting reading material: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=28470 Oh I know this great benchmark but thank you for reminding me once again! I do agree that, for a 486, …

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Re: Best CPU for high end 1995 486 build?

Posted on 2020-04-30, 18:16

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I know what Pentium is period correct for 1995, I have a Pentium 133 1995 build already. I am trying to pick a high end 486.

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Re: Best CPU for high end 1995 486 build?

Posted on 2020-04-30, 16:13

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The DX4 is an &E revision so WT only. I also have an Am486 DX4 SV8B but Im not sure if WB 8K would trumo 16K WB.. Also the Cx5x86 is an IBM chip but I dont plan to OC anything.. I doubt FPU will be critical for me so Am5x86 I guess?

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Best CPU for high end 1995 486 build?

Posted on 2020-04-30, 15:02

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I will put together a high-end 1995 PCI 486 and I can't decide between an Intel 486DX4-100, AMD 5x86-133 and a Cyrix 5x86-100. Yes I am spoiled for choices, but what are the pros and cons of these CPUs? I will be dual booting DOS/Windows3.x with OS/2 Warp 3..

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Re: What sound card do you use on your modern PC ?

Posted on 2020-04-30, 14:04

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Can you please give more information on your Xonar AE it's what I am considering as a semi hifi sound card to use with both desk speakers and good headphones. Hearing about a weak headphone amp was kind of a meh for me. I was really fond of my Xonar DG and its headphone amp, if it is at least …

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Tualatin/Tualeron CPUs and Slotket/Slockets

Posted on 2020-04-30, 10:08

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Is there a special kind of Slocket/Slotket required for running Tualatin/Tualeron CPUs in Slot-1 motherboards, or do Coppermine Slocket/Slotkets simply work if you have a BIOS that supports it and a voltage regulator capable of 1.3V all it takes? Asking because I have a P2B-F with a HIP6019BCB …

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Re: Sound Effects in DN3D playing in Mono when using Labway A151-A00

Posted on 2020-04-30, 09:20

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As per the title, I have been having some problems with the YMF719 based card that I’ve had for most of a year now. Specifically, when I get to the setup portion of installing Duke3D on my system, it properly detects the card, but when I try to play the sound effects in the test, I only ever get …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-04-30, 09:17

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Looks like an ES1688/1868 IC.. Awesome card.

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Re: Video card for a PII/PIII (400 to 600Mhz)

Posted on 2020-04-30, 08:31

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Considering everything grab a geforce2 MX, not the 400 just the plain mx. It will use older drivers and speed is on par with a 256 SDR which would feel correct in an early P3 or late p2. Those chips weren't affordable until mid 99 anyway. Why not the 400? Some of them are more powerful than the …

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Re: VESA feature connector devices

Posted on 2020-04-29, 13:23

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I have a Dell XPS D333, it is the top of the time model that shipped with a DVD-ROM in late 1997 and it came with a Riva128 AGP that is connected to a DVD/MPEG2 Decoder PCI card via the Feature connector header. Amazingly cool system.

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Re: HWiNFO support of vintage hardware

Posted on 2020-04-29, 13:18

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I didn't know about this thread until today.. I will submit a report from the Win32 version using my retro daily driver (a cookie cutter Pentium MMX build) later today. I will also try the DOS version. Not sure if that actually crates a debug report but if it does I will try that as well.

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Re: Do I need a 3dfx graphics?

Posted on 2020-04-29, 13:16

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Ark125 wrote on 2020-04-29, 13:14: imi wrote on 2020-04-29, 12:16: you can always start with a single voodoo 2 if you find one and then maybe get another one later 😉 Can be paired different brand cards? Yes, if you use latest FastVoodoo drivers.

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Re: Asus P2B rev. 1.04

Posted on 2020-04-29, 10:30

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PC Hoarder Patrol wrote on 2020-04-25, 19:00: This page has all the info you need https://web.archive.org/web/20191114013933/ht … pgrade_faq.html Thank you so much for this link, I now can confirm what my P2B-F can and can't run..

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Re: What is your everyday driver ?

Posted on 2020-04-29, 10:22

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AMD Ryzen 7 2600 MSI Tomahawk B450 Crucial Ballistix 16GB DDR4-3200 Sapphire Radeon RX480 8GB FSP Hydro 600W 80Plus Bronze Crucial BX500 240GB WD Blue 1TB

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Re: Are these Slot 1 coolers compatible?

Posted on 2020-04-29, 10:10

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Yes it is possible, but it is very easy to damage the exposed SECC2 cpu dies when mounting these things, so be careful..

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Re: Do I need a 3dfx graphics?

Posted on 2020-04-29, 10:09

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Long Answer: You don't 'need' a 3dfx card but a lot of games from the early 3d hardware acceleration era (96-98) have poor/inferior/buggy/slow rendereres for other APIs such as OpenGL and Direct3D and some games have no alternatives to 3dfx Glide whatsoever. For example, playing Longbow Gold and F- …

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