Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2018-12-04, 02:43
Are those early ATX backplates on sale anywhere? Need one for my K6 🙁
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2018-12-01, 15:05
Got this. Seller’s image. I actually got a cheap YMF724 PCI car last week but I wanted a better one with functional gameport, so I got this. The Cheapo card will likely go into my daily PC for use as a genuine FM Synth in DOSBOX.. 3B84CC97-CAC4-4947-AA0B-B2CAAA87BCEC.jpeg Not even sure what the card …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2018-12-01, 06:43
Are there any VT133T slot1 motherboards I wonder?
Re: Rage Fury Pro/Xpert 2000 pro 32MB: Any good?
Posted on 2018-11-30, 12:03
Quake 1 has no 32-bit color mode IIRC.
Re: Compaq Deskpro!
Posted on 2018-11-30, 11:39
I'm having issues with the onboard IDE controller of a Deskpro EN, so I added a PCI ATAPI control card to the system. However, the BIOS seems to have absolutely no option to boot from IDE devices that are on other controllers - they do not show up on the Boot Priority BIOS option.. Am I missing …
Re: Best Socket A (462) Motherboard?
Posted on 2018-11-29, 22:03
20A 5V won't cut it.
Re: Rage Fury Pro/Xpert 2000 pro 32MB: Any good?
Posted on 2018-11-29, 08:34
C0deHunter wrote: Can someone please post the latest drivers for this card? Thanks! Still available on AMD's website: https://www.amd.com/en/support/graphics/legac … ti-rage-128-pro
Re: What game are you playing now?
Posted on 2018-11-29, 05:35
I'm back to playing Dawn of War 2 Retribution: Elite Mod and I'm getting my ass handed to me so hard.. Wow, and I used to be OK at this game (50/50 W/L) now I am a total noob again (5/95 W/L).
Re: Rage Fury Pro/Xpert 2000 pro 32MB: Any good?
Posted on 2018-11-29, 05:20
Rage128 cards are not good for OpenGL games in general. Plus something like Daikatana will practically "kill" it on any resolution. They were not 'great' for OpenGL at the time, but they were always decent. Check out Anandtech's review of the chip at the time of release: https://images.anandtech. …
Re: Rage Fury Pro/Xpert 2000 pro 32MB: Any good?
Posted on 2018-11-28, 14:47
Avoid anything ATI related before the original Radeon. Eh? No. Rage had driver issues at its time, but they have been fairly ironed out later on. Latest drivers for Rage cards are mostly trouble free and Rage 128 PRO is a fairly fast chipset, fairly comparable to a TNT2 or V3-2000. https://www. …
Re: 486 era memory limitations
Posted on 2018-11-28, 14:38
The Serpent Rider wrote: 32mb FPM sticks (16 chips) will work fine practically on anything. They don't work even on some i430VX motherboards I have (recognized as 16MB); I even have 1 sided, 2 chip 16MB EDO sticks that register as only 8MB.. Is it really this simple?
486 era memory limitations
Posted on 2018-11-28, 14:07
For SDRAM, I know that for i430 era boards high density is anything over 2MB/chip, so that is often 4Mx4 at most.. I also have some 1Mx16 per chip sticks that are registered as 1Mx8 per chip sticks on 430VX boards for whatever reason. So I'm guessing it's 2MB/chip or 1Mx8/chip - whichever is lower, …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2018-11-28, 10:44
I also lacked a YMF-7xx PCI sound card which I now have, albeit a cheap Chinese OEM.. Erk...be sure to check whether that one actually uses a YMF-7xx chip, and not a CMI-87xx chip or similar with changed text on top of it. Some modern Chinese cards are fake and use rebranded chips from other …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2018-11-28, 08:48
Likely the last two PCI sound cards I will need, I now have pretty much every chipset I would want to try.. (Well, except CS4624, for which I would happily buy a Terratec DMX XFire, but it's not a pressing matter as I have a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz with CS4630 which is basically a CS4624 but better …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2018-11-28, 07:49
Nice, I hope to build a 486dx-100 VLB build soon. I need to find the right motherboard. What model is yours ? I have quite a few, I haven't completely decided on which one to use myself.. Octek Hippo VL+ DCA ECS 486UL-1 Chicony CH-471A PC Partner 486CV (the one pictured above is the Chicony …
Re: Simmconn AWE64 Adapter
Posted on 2018-11-27, 12:46
Masterpiece SF2 would be my favorite for thatbsize and yeah it would be comparable to a Sound Canvas more or less IMO. +1, Masterpiece is great. A font that size takes ages to load on my Goldfinch though so I usually just stick to the 4MB GM one that appeared with my AWE64 software - sounds pretty …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2018-11-27, 08:56
Windows9566 wrote: both the bioses are pretty restricted, the hp one is a bit more than the gateway one Can they be flashed to their non-oem Award/AMI/Phoenix BIOSes?
Re: Simmconn AWE64 Adapter
Posted on 2018-11-27, 04:28
doaks80 wrote: What would be a nice soundfont to store in a 32mb(24mb) ram module? Would it sound as good as a sc55? Masterpiece SF2 would be my favorite for thatbsize and yeah it would be comparable to a Sound Canvas more or less IMO.
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2018-11-26, 23:10
Desolder the Lithium battery assembly (post, battery, the whole 9 yards), purchase a 3.6V Lithium battery and a battery holder for the battery itself. The 3.6V Lithium batteries aren't as prone to leakage, but, that can take a serious amount of neglect to get those things to leak, such as exposed …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2018-11-26, 21:27
Ooops, forgot to ask this question: The motherboard seems to have a barrel battery but it's not NiCd (or NiMh), but Lithium.. Do these leak? It's old but appears to not have leaked so far. It's probably worth replacing regardless, but should I just unsolder it completely and use an external battery, …
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