Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2019-12-06, 12:36
512K on an Atari 800XL? 😲
Re: A 286 computer, is it totally useless?
Posted on 2019-12-06, 12:24
What is PAS? Pro Audio Spectrum. It was arguably the better sound card that lost the battle for PC audio standard against the Sound Blaster. I sincerely hope someone does an Open Source, SnarkBarker-like clone of PAS one day so we all can build one. There is no such project at the moment, is there? …
Re: Tron: Evolution SecuROM DRM expiration
Posted on 2019-12-06, 09:12
The Serpent Rider wrote: He is annoying as fuck and gets obsessively hung up on things You know that he does this on purpose, right? Oh yeah, and personally I don't mind his eccentricity and antics. He's a character.
Re: PC Chips M321 - 3 short beeps after re-solder
Posted on 2019-12-06, 08:45
I can't see the motherboard itself and how you have your RAM installed so the video is rather useless. A photo of the board would be a million times better. Regardless, if you have the RAM installed on the upper memory bank, install them on the other one (i.e. lower 4 slots). As counterintuitive as …
Re: 32-bit OS that will run best on 8MB 386sx-16
Posted on 2019-12-06, 07:33
OS/2 2.0 would run OK with ample RAM (4MB+) I would guess. (7) What hardware do I need to run IBM OS/2 2.0? Do I need a PS/2? You need any PC, PC compatible, PS/1, or PS/2 with at least an 80386SX CPU, 4 MB (6 MB or more strongly recommended) of RAM (configured as 640K base plus the remainder as …
Re: Heads up: Vogons will be updated
Posted on 2019-12-06, 07:30
gdjacobs wrote: We need some of the mystical power of Zombo.com. I don't get the joke 🙁 I even looked at www.zombo.com but it's an empty page?
Re: A 286 computer, is it totally useless?
Posted on 2019-12-06, 06:18
What is PAS? Pro Audio Spectrum. It was arguably the better sound card that lost the battle for PC audio standard against the Sound Blaster. I sincerely hope someone does an Open Source, SnarkBarker-like clone of PAS one day so we all can build one. There is no such project at the moment, is there?
Re: M-audio Audiophile 2496
Posted on 2019-12-06, 05:47
IIRC it has no Windows 10 support? It worked for me in Windows 7 x64, so I see no reasons it wouldn't work in Windows 10. The Windows 7 x64 drivers no longer work with Windows 10 after the recent build updates. Refer here for more: https://getsatisfaction.com/m-audio/topics/audiophie24-96-windows10 …
Re: Crazy prices for some retro hardware stuff.
Posted on 2019-12-06, 04:39
To add to the above, this was particularly true in medical businesses.
Re: To end the AMD v. Intel debate.
Posted on 2019-12-05, 23:06
Re: Crazy prices for some retro hardware stuff.
Posted on 2019-12-05, 21:23
Of course not. Not a single responsibly acting business would ever do that and buy another piece of overpriced obsolete legacy hardware just to run into the same kind of issues a few weeks/months later. Sorry, you have no idea about what's going on in businesses from small to large with specialized …
Re: Tron: Evolution SecuROM DRM expiration
Posted on 2019-12-05, 21:21
UGH, F Jim. Why? He is annoying as fuck and gets obsessively hung up on things but he is right on the money about unacceptable AAA gaming “industry” ethics, practice and behavior. There are millions of people who are "right on the money" about these things. No need to choose a particularly annoying …
Re: When did front facing USB Ports become common in ATX cases?
Posted on 2019-12-05, 12:38
OK, so obviously the trend started in 1999 and was basically the default style by 2002. Nice to establish. I guess using this for a KX133 or KT133 (or maybe even a KT333) build is something that would have been fairly common back then: https://www.niyazisaral.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/t10_1.jpg …
Re: Heads up: Vogons will be updated
Posted on 2019-12-05, 12:34
I never understood the need for mobile sites, pinch zooming and scrolling on phones is so fast and easy , and a lot of desktop websites are just way easier to use and deliver more functionality than most mobile versions, I tend to switch to the desktop version on a lot of websites because the …
Re: To end the AMD v. Intel debate.
Posted on 2019-12-05, 09:39
No, you are being willfully obtuse because Westmere did not split the CPU's cores into chiplets and did not use an interposer or anything similar to the infinity fabric to mitigate the latency issues this split core approach would entail. Westmere was merely a cpu to gpu/io bridge and is in no way …
Re: To end the AMD v. Intel debate.
Posted on 2019-12-05, 09:35
No, you are being willfully obtuse because Westmere did not split the CPU's cores into chiplets and did not use an interposer or anything similar to the infinity fabric to mitigate the latency issues this split core approach would entail. Westmere was merely a cpu to gpu/io bridge and is in no way …
Re: Heads up: Vogons will be updated
Posted on 2019-12-05, 09:20
Better mobile is all I ask. Thanks to all who contributed, much appreciated.
Re: Very low VGA signal strength on S3 805 VLB
Posted on 2019-12-05, 09:18
If the signal is low on all colour channels then that points to a possible problem all the way back at the source, so either the chipset or probably RAMDAC is damaged as Tiido pointed out..
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2019-12-05, 09:17
Clean the card a bit while you're at it too, that's a lot of dust..
When did front facing USB Ports become common in ATX cases?
Posted on 2019-12-05, 09:15
I remember my first ATX case with front facing USB ports was my KT333/AthlonXP 1800+ PC in 2002. By then, two USB 2.0 ports were the standard even in el-cheapo OEM cases like the one I bought. I don't know how common they were prior to that though. I used an InWin A500 between 1998-2002 for my PII …
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