Re: 256 color driver for win3x
Posted on 2018-09-22, 17:27
Yes. http://www.win3x.org/win3board/viewtopic.php? … 408&language=en
Re: Struggling to find parts.
Posted on 2018-09-22, 17:27
cyclone3d wrote: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vtg-Motherboard-PCI5 … 93/283168883536 It doesn't have PS/2, but still a good board. That board is missing the keyboard controller and possibly another chip.
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2018-09-22, 15:17
You may want to read this: SoundBlaster AWE64 Gold SPDIF Clarification?
Re: Matrox Mystique: opinions?
Posted on 2018-09-22, 08:49
kjliew wrote: but video playback was not its selling point. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ir8NS3sIrk It was. Maybe they just didn't care about the XingMPEG player.
Re: Am486DX4-100 troubles
Posted on 2018-09-22, 08:42
That reminds me of my M919-based 486. Don't use any option in the BIOS that tries to configure settings automatically. 😁
Re: My W98 rig locks up every 4th-5th boot?
Posted on 2018-09-21, 20:55
Depends on the BIOS and how the option "Plug & Play OS installed?" is set (if present). Check the BIOS first. The Voodoo2 does not use an IRQ, so no. But I bet some on-board device shares the IRQ with the VGA card.
Re: Painting Motherboards
Posted on 2018-09-21, 20:42
- paint might be conductive - heat dissipation might be compromised - replacing capacitors through a paint job is problematic, to say the least - does not help resale value (understatement) I don't see how any of these points are valid. Paint, once dried, is not conductive. Heat dissipation won't …
Re: My W98 rig locks up every 4th-5th boot?
Posted on 2018-09-21, 19:30
Try to reduce the number of shared IRQs between the PCI cards. It's a common reason for Win9x to lock up randomly.
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2018-09-21, 19:28
Would love to get one of these for my Schneider Tower AT.
Re: Creating 80186 Based System
Posted on 2018-09-21, 15:08
There were a few 80186-based PCs, like the Tandy 2000.
Re: Creative Sound Blaster 16 ASP / CSP chip - how to remove safely?
Posted on 2018-09-21, 14:36
Well, with a PLCC chip puller I'd say. You can also use a screwdriver but that has the danger of breaking the socket.
Re: Matrox Mystique: opinions?
Posted on 2018-09-21, 14:22
DOS compatibility is better than what most people say. Seems to me many just repeat that without knowing better. Or maybe the sole fact that the Commander Keen games have scrolling issues is enough to say that a card has bad DOS compatibility. Also, as Scali wrote already, 3D performance isn't bad …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2018-09-21, 14:15
No idea to be honest. Could very well have been Europe exclusively. There's a seller on ebay from Germany who apparently got hold of quite a bunch of these and selling them for 10 bucks each (182566828398).
Re: Lucky Star 5mvp3 rev 4.1
Posted on 2018-09-21, 13:44
No, not even then. L2 becomes L3 in that case. The cache controller on the motherboard doesn't really care what's happening inside the CPU.
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2018-09-21, 13:24
Some odd-ware from 1997. Why did they even make this when the game did not support mouse input? 🤣
Re: Lucky Star 5mvp3 rev 4.1
Posted on 2018-09-21, 13:15
2) well, that cpu as cache built-in, i gues... it can get in some kind of conflit, betwwen the cpu cache and the board cache... because they are diferent in capacity and speed... maybe, you have to choose Please don't try to help if you are not into it. Every CPU since the 486 has built-in cache. …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2018-09-21, 09:20
A problem with English is that unlike German, Spanish and other languages, there is no universal body with authority to set standards of spelling and word usage. Every major university and newspaper in the English-speaking world has its own style of English peculiar to itself. There's no language …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2018-09-21, 08:26
but Wiktionary didn't have an entry for what Google Translate gave me for inflame in German (entflammen) and the Wiktionary entry for "ent-" only talked about an etymology based in meaning "and", so, without speaking German or knowing a more complete English-language site with German etymology, I …
Impossible to use a NIC in Compaq Deskpro EP 6400..?
Posted on 2018-09-20, 19:34
I have a Compaq Deskpro EP 6400 here that drives me crazy. First of all, the system works perfectly fine. No issues with the OS, games, graphics, sound, whatsoever. With one exception: there's no way to get a networking card working... Originally, I had Windows 2000 Pro installed. Tried installing a …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2018-09-20, 17:08
Errius wrote: Understandable mistake though for people learning the language. Mind you, the corresponding prefix in German, "ent-", has exactly the same ambiguousness.
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