Re: Most beautiful Dos-Games for a 486...what are your favorites?
Posted on 2021-01-23, 21:50
Re: 486 Multimedia dream build ( 1993/94 ).
Posted on 2021-01-23, 21:48
Tali wrote on 2021-01-21, 19:27: Oh, and regarding the subject and my original rant. Back in the day, I'd run Visual Studio, Photoshop and, perhaps, Word all the while listening to mp3 in Winamp, on a 486 with 16 megs of RAM. Makes one think 😀 Bullshit.
Re: What game are you playing now?
Posted on 2021-01-23, 10:40
Re: Best and most cost-effective graphics card for Win98SE?
Posted on 2021-01-21, 08:18
The Serpent Rider wrote on 2021-01-19, 11:18: For "best" I think you should get a Radeon X1950PRO AGP X1xxx series is not supported. That's true, X800 Series is final to support Win98. My bad.
Re: 486 Multimedia dream build ( 1993/94 ).
Posted on 2021-01-21, 08:04
There is truth to what Tali says. Linux used to be the clean and lean OS. Not so much now-a-days. Neither Tali nor you have any idea what Linux is, it is just a kernel. Linux is still (fairly) clean and lean. When you are talking about Linux being slow you are basically complaining about your …
Re: Music Quest MPU clone cards, anyone interested in them?
Posted on 2021-01-21, 08:00
Apollonios wrote on 2021-01-21, 01:23: where can i find the updates for this card? Updates?
Re: New sound card project: AWE64 Legacy
Posted on 2021-01-20, 15:20
darkpilot wrote on 2021-01-20, 13:35: But still there are tons of them now. Its just sad that no one have cloned AWE32 and AWE64 chips There isn't really a shortage of EMU800 chips either. I mean, I get your sensitivity but it's not a huge deal, really.
Re: New sound card project: AWE64 Legacy
Posted on 2021-01-20, 13:26
darkpilot wrote on 2021-01-20, 13:20: There are lot of of cloned OPLs (like LS262) on cheap sound cards They were manufactured in the 80s and nobody knows who manufactured them and how.
Re: New sound card project: AWE64 Legacy
Posted on 2021-01-20, 11:55
I hardly can find any AWEs locally (have found only 3 during last few years ). And paying over $100 on ebay is too much for me (#thirdworldproblems :D). So I feel kinda sad when I see old card being used as donor to make the more expensive one. Simmconn was the other thing as the new version costs …
Re: 486 Multimedia dream build ( 1993/94 ).
Posted on 2021-01-20, 07:32
Worse still, Linux used to be the "peanut OS" for some time, now if something runs Windows 10, it in no way means being able to run a gui-rich flavour of your penguin of choice. And the difference between the meanest i9/Threadripper to the lowest end of the low is such that you take a 10 years old …
Re: SB16 issues
Posted on 2021-01-19, 15:12
Lol my cheap multimeter broke and haven't replaced it yet. I'll try to find the machine with the other SB16 in. I wonder if the battery leakage might caused some damage... You should have mentioned battery damage earlier. Battery leakages tend to corrode power delivery lanes from the AT power …
Re: Replace a Core2Duo E6600 for a Quad Q9400, worth it?
Posted on 2021-01-19, 15:10
I still daily drive a core 2 E8600 based system and it still does all that I need. Makes me wonder how you actually browse this forum on that hardware.. We have zero issues with browsing web pages, you tube, ABC Mouse, ECT. We do all of our daily normal things with it I'll take your word for it. I …
Re: SB16 issues
Posted on 2021-01-19, 15:07
First order of business would be to try that card in another PC. I have a suspicion that either ISA power delivery on your motherboard is damaged (corroded power rail from the power connector, bad caps, etc.) or some other device in the build (floppy with bad caps, etc.) is messing with the 12V rail …
Re: SB16 issues
Posted on 2021-01-19, 14:56
These are jumpered. That is strange.. It sounds like the amp IC on both cards is misbehaving. Can you post photos? My 2290 had a TEA2025B IIRC which means it uses 12V. You may have filtering issues on your 12V line, or a device that is shorting it somehow. Can you try running the card without any …
Re: SB16 issues
Posted on 2021-01-19, 14:25
Check out JP18 and JP19. Both JP18 and the third and fourth pins (counting from top to bottom) of JP19 have to be jumpered for the SPK out to work AFAIK. Like this: Copy code to clipboard 1 O 2 O 3 X X 4 X X 5 O 6 JP18 JP19
Re: 486DX PC running really slow. Thoughts?
Posted on 2021-01-19, 12:54
alvaro84 wrote on 2021-01-19, 12:35: But I should give a "486DX-60" a try. 66...? I'm not sure. Because VLB and all. That's why he said PCI motherboards.
Re: Replace a Core2Duo E6600 for a Quad Q9400, worth it?
Posted on 2021-01-19, 09:55
chrismeyer6 wrote on 2021-01-19, 01:25: I still daily drive a core 2 E8600 based system and it still does all that I need. Makes me wonder how you actually browse this forum on that hardware..
Re: 486DX PC running really slow. Thoughts?
Posted on 2021-01-19, 09:54
Caluser2000 wrote on 2021-01-19, 01:26: Intel486dx33 wrote on 2021-01-18, 23:28: Well, the 486dx is a 33mhz bus. 25, 33 and 5o buddy. And 40 (Cyrix, AMD and UMC)
Re: ESFM details
Posted on 2021-01-19, 09:40
Joseph_Joestar wrote on 2021-01-19, 08:39: appiah4 wrote on 2021-01-19, 08:25: Descent and Screamer do. Descent does support ESS688 for digital sound, but it has no native ESFM support for music. At least not in version 1.4 that I'm using. My memory failed I guess. I vaguely remember Tomb Raider 1 …
Re: What game are you playing now?
Posted on 2021-01-19, 09:38
Such a huge time commitment. It's really impressive. Might I ask in which era you began playing computer RPGs? Secret of the Silver Blades was my first PC RPG. Or going back a touch further: the Phantasy Star games on the SMS. I'm not sure it's in the scope of this thread, but it would be …
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