Re: Dune II and Windows 9x
Posted on 2020-01-02, 17:19
derSammler wrote on 2020-01-02, 14:47: Can't you change the IRQ of the RAID controller? It is a compaq deskpro en-sff the bios is very very restrictive..
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2020-01-02, 14:40
Spent most time today 3d-printing trays for my socket 7 CPU collection. Still some more to go... Socket 7 done, now doing socket 1-3. One done already, second is printing. After that, I need to modify the design to fit 68040/060. Very nice.. Can you share the STLs for these? I need a couple for my …
Re: Dune II and Windows 9x
Posted on 2020-01-02, 14:38
Usually setupds.exe allow to choice IRQ and after you put setupds.exe /s to your autoexec.bat sound card should work at Ms-Dos fine. If you get some errors, try to remove set blaster line from autoexec.bat https://flaterco.com/kb/audio/PCI/DS-XG_IRQ_error.png I will take screenshots from setupds. …
Re: New forum suggestions/Feedback
Posted on 2020-01-02, 13:45
https://makeawebsitehub.com/best-safe-web-fonts-html-css/ Check the part about Trebuchet. I personally prefer to use Helvetica Neue on every project I do, and sometimes Roboto. I know what Trebuchet is and why it is common on the internet. It just doesn't lend well to this site. (Coincidentally …
UMC U5S Overclocking
Posted on 2020-01-02, 12:49
I have been looking for a fairly priced UMC U5S-SUPER40 for a long while now without success. I do have a U5S-SUPER33 though. Are these chips good overclockers? How wise would it be to just set it to 40MHz FSB and pretend it is a SUPER40? And do 40MHz U5S chips require heatsinks? (I would think not …
Re: New forum suggestions/Feedback
Posted on 2020-01-02, 12:39
Oh shit, I almost forgot to post this. I hate the new typeface. I can understand why Trebuchet may be a reasonably good typeface for certain types of websites but for a forum where ease and speed of reading is most important this highly stylized Verdana derivative is cancer of the eyes. Can we …
Re: FYI: Steam drops XP/Vista in 2019
Posted on 2020-01-02, 08:07
Steam could do it entirely from their end by deactivating the game on the account of the player Steam won't do that. Never. They already have to allow you to deactivate games in France: https://www.engadget.com/2019/09/19/french-court-valve-steam-resold/ This is the ruling of France's High Court …
Dune II and Windows 9x
Posted on 2020-01-02, 07:15
Is there a way to run this game in Windows 9x and get digital speech to work? No matter what I try (official 1.07 update, unofficial speech PAK update, unofficial 1.07 update) it hangs after House Selection screen. Digital audio not working in the Intro is a known issue, and I can live with that, …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2020-01-02, 07:12
I replaced the Radeon 7000 PCI in my Compaq Deskpro EN-SFF with a Radeon 9250 PCI and something very uncanny happened. The card causes very weird artifacting in 2D only in the form of randomly colored pixels across the screen, particularly when moving windows around. It also does the same thing in …
Re: info about "Am5x86-P75 AMD AM486DX5-133W16BHC Chip"
Posted on 2020-01-02, 07:10
Pass-Through is probably for disabling Cache, which was not too uncommon as a lot of cheap boards shipped with no cache installed at all.
Re: New forum suggestions/Feedback
Posted on 2020-01-02, 06:59
The notifications page for topics I am following is incredibly hard to discern between things I have read and unread. Also, for whatever reason 90% of my thread subscriptions do not seem to have carried over or for some reason or another I do not get notifications until I go into the subscribed …
Re: What ram to use in a 486 build ?
Posted on 2020-01-02, 06:57
Use FPM instead of EDO unless you are sure the board supports it, otherwise parity makes absolutely no difference in 99.9% of cases.
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2020-01-02, 06:42
Does anyone know anything about this computer case ? It reads “techmedia” It looks like a SS7 or 1st gen Pentium case but I am going to use it for my Ultimate 486 build. I had a very similar, almost identical tower case with a front door for my first PC (486 DX33 in 1993). The only difference with …
Re: The Case Badge Thread
Posted on 2019-12-31, 11:52
Ohhhh Yeah!
Re: How to discharge a PSU completely before changing the fan?
Posted on 2019-12-31, 11:03
SirNickity wrote on 2019-12-30, 22:50: PCBONEZ wrote on 2019-12-29, 18:45: I plan to restore it and gift it to my son. Oh wow. What did he do wrong? haha ;-D My coffee. It's all over my screen!
Re: To end the AMD v. Intel debate.
Posted on 2019-12-30, 18:42
Please use better phrases than labeling something that someone did as stupid. You find it annoying, than keep it at "annoying". Let's discuss this in private. 'Annoying' and 'stupid' are not the same thing. There are a lot of times I think you are both but I refrain from calling you one of the two …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2019-12-30, 14:35
I had the ES688 model of this card (Edison Gold-16) but when I saw the ES1688 model (Edison Gold-16 Plus) for $3 I couldn't resist: My first ES1688 card too (had a lot of 688/1868/1869 etc. before)
Re: The Case Badge Thread
Posted on 2019-12-30, 14:23
No live for Cyrix mII? 🙁
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2019-12-30, 14:23
I have the mid-tower version of the top one, it's a cheap-o Athlon era ATX case but this one looks like it's in great condition! The second one looks like an SGI workstation or something, very nice case!
Re: What game are you playing now?
Posted on 2019-12-30, 14:20
Still playing Doom (2016) and I'm kind of amazed how good this game still looks despite being 3 full years old. It also performs amazingly on my mid-range Ryzen 2600, RX480 system. id haven't release many good games since Quake 3 (I really enjoyed the first Rage by the way) but they sure have re- …
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