Re: Gotek floppy emulator and Linux?
Posted on 2021-09-23, 03:27
Did you unmount the 000 image and remount 001?
Re: Can it be done?! Should it be done?!
Posted on 2021-09-23, 01:27
All the above, in a wrist watch, with a motion stabilised, micro laser, MDA through 8K projector capable of 6ft display in daylight, with a week runtime between charges and neural impulse sensors so you can just keyboard, mouse or pad/stick in mid air.
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2021-09-23, 01:03
It's fairly simple, you pin your hopes of addressing the lack of memory by address shifting address pins to address the addressing problem not addressed by merely pinning the pins of the data and lower address buses together.
Re: Market value for popular or rare classic computer hardware
Posted on 2021-09-22, 22:33
1: Collect underdogs. 2: ??? probably involving sending one to LGR and Phil 3: Profit.
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2021-09-22, 21:23
Well still modern in today's context has become upper half HD6xx0 and GF5x0 upwards, and creeping back into the HD5850s and GT460s out of desperation. 10+ year old stuff now, when 18 months ago, ppl would have been calling 2015 stuff ancient relics.
Re: Keyboard crashes on old 386 motherboard
Posted on 2021-09-22, 21:14
What I'd try next is seeing if the tag ram is a bit on the marginal side, that's the one alongside the ISA slot there. If it's identical to the rest of the cache chips (Usually is, but sometimes isn't) I'd number them all one to five and try each one out in the tag socket, see if one or two work …
Re: Overclocking the Videologic PowerVR PCX2?
Posted on 2021-09-22, 21:01
The trick back in the day was to cut thermal epoxy with thermal compound, so it weakened it enough to be able to get the sink off if required, but still hold well in regular use.
Re: 486DLC gets uncomfortably hot, occasionally crashes
Posted on 2021-09-22, 20:55
If it's consistently a few programs giving you crashes, you can flip the L1 on and off to see if it makes a difference https://www.philscomputerlab.com/cyrix-486dlc.html Otherwise, you can't really go wrong in keeping a CPU cool, passive cooling solutions do have to generate a bit of delta T before …
Re: FM-V Towns - a tale of rare Japanese equipment
Posted on 2021-09-22, 18:50
Looks fun, will have to give it a go, right after I've put Win95 on a DEC Rainbow, and Mac OS X on an OG Xbox.
Re: SiS 6326 AGP great card!
Posted on 2021-09-22, 18:25
Well maybe you can think of a way to tell them they're not allowed to run on 430TX and 430HX etc, because the little rascals do anyway.
Re: Playing video as the game story, but how?
Posted on 2021-09-22, 17:27
Find the one used in 8088MPH and you can put Lord of The Rings extended edition on a single floppy 🤣
Re: The Ultimate 686 Benchmark Comparison
Posted on 2021-09-22, 17:24
So I saw this the other day and began wondering about it... The last Cyrix-badged microprocessor was the Cyrix MII-433GP which ran at 300 MHz (100 × 3) and performed faster than an AMD K6/2-300 on FPU calculations (as benched with Dr. Hardware). from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrix#Merger_with_ …
Re: Overclocking Pentium III / Celeron: Coppermine and Tualatin cores - Socket 370
Posted on 2021-09-22, 17:01
Nice survey, thanks! It's getting harder to find old overclocking info. I remember several sites trying to run user o/c databases, but trolls would spam them out with 486 @ 2000mhz etc. Not sure archive.org managed to save any of them either, they were backend scripted, perl etc. You can sorta find …
Re: SiS 6326 AGP great card!
Posted on 2021-09-22, 15:40
I mean even the K6-233 beats up the PMMX-233 on some stuff.... some stuff doesn't count you say? Really wanna go there when Quake is the only thing Pentium has going for it ?By K6-2-300 it was totally in AMDs rearview mirror, not even eating it's dust, it had all settled back down 3 miles down the …
Re: SiS 6326 AGP great card!
Posted on 2021-09-22, 15:27
PhysX stuff kinda bogs on Athlon X2s, so it helps those out a bit.
Re: Market value for popular or rare classic computer hardware
Posted on 2021-09-22, 14:01
Love to know where you can get a good Core 2 system for only $10... As in, not OEM and not crappy components. I'm sad your area sucks for this, but I'm not the only one seeing them go real cheap https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=1003416#p1003416 Antec case, Intel board, I wouldn't say that's …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2021-09-22, 13:35
I'm building my 5th PC, since the last one was an XP machine this time i went for a Win7 one: Intel Core 2 Quad Q8300 DDR2 dual channel 4gb 800Hz hd 5750 It's pretty much me recovering old pieces i had lying around and putting them together, what i have in mind now is this, what's the most powerful …
Re: Lots of cheap Rage XL PCI graphics cards for Socket 7 on eBay and Aliexpress
Posted on 2021-09-22, 03:57
If I had to make a guess, it would be that the chips are coming off noughties P4 class Xeon server boards. Therefore I would be trying drivers intended for those if no others were working.
Powerline/Homeplug 1.0 vs 1.0 Turbo, any experience mixing?
Posted on 2021-09-22, 02:24
Hi dudes and dudettes, So I am using at present a couple of homeplug 1.0 turbo adapters to get interwebnet into the wrangling zone. I just picked up an additional adapter for a couple of bucks, which turns out to be a plain jane 1.0 capable unit. 14mbps theoretical vs 85mbps theoretical (but get …
Re: Market value for popular or rare classic computer hardware
Posted on 2021-09-21, 02:21
I kept a load of stuff over the years because I thought it was underappreciated and it was a waste for it to go to landfill, so in some respects I'm happy to see high $$$ value as an appreciation score. I bet a lot of guys though are just selling the one thing at inflated price and buying something …
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