Re: Do you think it needs cleaning ?

Posted on 2022-06-24, 21:11

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Cool, might be a bit flakey for web development though until the residual protection wears off 🤣 How fast is it? The "Oh god I wish this was a decent turbo XT clone" 6mhz, or the blazing fast 8?

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Re: The moment you were hooked

Posted on 2022-06-24, 18:41

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On home PCs at all, it was a defender clone on a ZX Spectrum back in 82 or a little earlier. Still trying to find that one, all I can remember is it had alternate city and mountain levels and was actually a type-in from a mag. On IBM-PC as a platform, I dabbled a bit, Tetris was quite fun, Spectrum …

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Re: Help! PC won't power on with Slotket

Posted on 2022-06-24, 18:33

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Oh right, the halfassed AGLT+of later coppermines that was supposedly backward compatible but messed up some older boards maybe.

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Re: Matrox Parhelia Pci-X on windows 9x/Me

Posted on 2022-06-24, 18:28

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I was under the impression you can sometimes get early 2k and XP drivers installed on 98SE with official SPs that supports WDM. .. but it's kludgy and a PITA. Another dark alley to get mugged in explore would be Compaq SoftPaqs in case they came up with something because they seemed to support Win98 …

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Re: Do you think it needs cleaning ?

Posted on 2022-06-24, 18:07

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Yah, that's FRU SXYZ-1866, Black Widow and general arachnid control device, designation mud dauber.

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Re: Help! PC won't power on with Slotket

Posted on 2022-06-24, 16:11

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The auto setting just passes VID from the CPU on, the signal will be the same as if you jumpered it to 1.75V. I trust auto about as much as I'd trust a wild polar bear to lick peanut butter off.... any part of my body. I've had boards tell me to just use auto settings whereupon they refuse to work …

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Re: 486DX2 SX955 and compatibility problem

Posted on 2022-06-24, 13:29

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I guess properly means something different to you then 🤣

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Re: Help! PC won't power on with Slotket

Posted on 2022-06-24, 02:55

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You probably need microcode support in the BIOS than not only does coppermines, but supports the specific stepping of coppermine. (I've come across "coppermine compatible" boards that work fine with a C0 stepping, but put a D0 in and they act dead unless updated)

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Re: Quake 1/2 + ATI Rage XL + 80486

Posted on 2022-06-23, 23:52

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Rage II and up, ATI was specifying Pentium II minimum, but it was working on other MMX class CPUs.

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Re: 486DX2 SX955 and compatibility problem

Posted on 2022-06-23, 19:15

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Those boards didn't support Pentium Overdrive properly without an interposer, so I am thinking it's a year or two too old to support write back also.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-06-23, 18:09

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Hi! I finally try mode co40 and got a blank screen. The console color is set to default. The card has a lot of jumpers, I am trying to figure out what they are for. Thank you! Regards, Okay, so probably jumpered to mono only at the moment or doesn't autoswitch at all. I've got no further clues …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-06-23, 01:03

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I think that pointer trails are an absolute necessity for some of these passive matrix panels. I wonder if that feature was designed for this purpose specifically, or if it was just a happy accident. I recall it being compaq who started offering it as an enhancement in the mono panel 386 days on …

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Re: oldversion.com down?

Posted on 2022-06-23, 00:59

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There was some people saying browsers were blocking it a few months back due to no SSL cert, but even on Internut Exploder it seems dead from here now.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-06-22, 16:25

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Yah, some are worse than others. Some of the enhanced types of Dual Scan kinda overlap with the crappier active matrix implementations. Cold is the enemy of LCD performance though and some have warmish backlights which help. So for DS screens, don't rush to do LED backlight mods. Anyway, I doubt it …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-06-22, 03:48

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Depends how you define capability I guess, some might say the PCI is tapped out when all master capable slots are full, regardless of total number of PCI slots.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-06-21, 20:24

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Board of the Amiga 500 was nicknamed "Rock Lobster" after the B52s song.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-06-21, 01:28

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I haven't "got into" it yet, it's all passworded up, so have some cracking to do. Heh, had it on for a minute or two and now *1337 haxx0r voice* "I'm in" ... I am in fact ashamed it took me 5 attempts when the password was in fact password.. I tried Pa55word, pa55word, pa55w0rd, password123 first. …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-06-21, 01:24

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It is also CGA according to this https://www.oldcomputers.co.za/item/hmc-hm6311 though it seems to me it might have anough memory to do better than CGA too... but doesn't seem to have the oscillators on for EGA, maybe plantronics or other less common modes. Thank you for your answer. Is there any …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-06-20, 19:12

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This weirdo followed me home on the weekend... It's a Toshiba Satellite R10 tablet convertible. Wacom pen digitiser system. Has the pen, though I think it's just resistive, so could probably use a PDA stylus. Means Dothan Pentium M class machines are getting heavily over represented here, but I've …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-06-20, 18:53

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I remember reading a story where someone said that they saw someone trying to sell and Apple Lisa for $5 at a flea market and no one wanted it. This was a very long time ago, but long after it had aged itself into junk compared to what was on the market at that time, long before such a thing would …

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