Re: Overclocking PC133 SDR RAM: What is the best SDR memory?

Posted on 2021-09-17, 14:21

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Great work! I found myself pondering the need/want for modules that would do 166 recently. I know I've got some of that Infineon and possibly some of the same Kingston. Was having a brain stall for a moment trying to think why, but fairly sure it was because I found http://www.lejabeach.com/M810/ …

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Re: Cross-Lib: a universal 8-bit WORA development framework for about 200 consoles, computers, hand-helds, etc.

Posted on 2021-09-17, 13:33

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@BitWrangler Cross-Lib is not meant to be used *by* the vintage systems, the binaries produced after compiling code written with Cross-Lib are. It is meant to be used to produce binaries on a modern PC *for* the vintage systems. It is a set of tools made primarily by a C library that provides an …

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Re: 486 boot problem

Posted on 2021-09-17, 13:30

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Yeah just to be sure, I'd flip the spot on the AMD-INTEL row around, and put the spot where the X is to select DX. Although with that extra box there under JP-A you wonder whether it'd supposed to flip again for SX setting.... oh wouldn't it be nice to find original manual.. or original engineer to …

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Re: When horses are faster than the internet

Posted on 2021-09-17, 13:11

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I think LTT Linus ran into this when he was trying to organise offsite backup.

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Re: 486 boot problem

Posted on 2021-09-17, 12:39

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mat919 wrote on 2021-09-17, 12:12: This I don't understand. Resistor pack has visible pin one mark, but since this is undocumented I don't know if their position is correct. Pin 1 is the box or square on those headers, printed under them on the board, so in the picture if the pin one mark is to the …

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Re: Micron Millennia Transport CMOS battery replacement

Posted on 2021-09-17, 02:35

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You might be looking for something a tad smaller than dime sized with heatshrink over it mounted to the board, they can look a bit like a capacitor when they're done like that. Not turning anything up at the usual places for service manuals, am seeing that they were actually manufactured by Sanyo, …

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Re: Gotek floppy emulator colours?

Posted on 2021-09-17, 01:53

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That's probably 3, 5 or 15 teabags you steep it with overnight 🤣

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Re: 1:1 Replacement 3,5" IDE (HDD->CF, mSD,SSD)

Posted on 2021-09-17, 01:44

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There were some around like 8 years ago, in the lower capacities of 30GB or so, but $200 or so (Think SATA 30GB were still $150ish at the time) I don't think ppl rocking 300-500GB PATA drives thought of them as a good upgrade for the price, since they'd be topping out around 133MByte/sec and RAID 0 …

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Re: Broadcom Crystal HD decoder questions

Posted on 2021-09-16, 22:56

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Only need a bit over a megabyte a second to feed 4K video. Can push that over USB 1.1, a 10Mbit network card, or any P54 era EIDE hard disk (provided it's big enough) so SSD not required.... and if it uses a heck of a lot more than that, it's not compressed and you don't need a decoder.

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Re: [repair help] Iomega Ditto 800 head

Posted on 2021-09-16, 22:35

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Might need to do something like this... http://www.mattmillman.com/info/qic-tape-driv … ic-tape-drives/

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Re: Broadcom Crystal HD decoder questions

Posted on 2021-09-16, 22:05

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So here's the Nvidia version https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia_PureVideo and here's the ATI/AMD version https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Video_Decoder and Intel onboard, video codec capabilities in last column, you see the AVC starting with eagle lake chipsets... https://en.wikipedia.org/ …

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Re: Broadcom Crystal HD decoder questions

Posted on 2021-09-16, 21:35

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I don't think you'll need it if you've got any video cards considered alright in a Core2 machine GF8000 series up had decoders as did Radeon HD series from 6x00 at least but think it had weaker form in earlier HD series. Even intel G4x series onboard vid has it.

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Re: 3 (+3 more) retro battle stations

Posted on 2021-09-16, 20:38

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IIRC low temp hot melt glue is some kind of polypropylene with paraffin waxes usually.

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Re: S3 Savage4 xtreme fake videocards?

Posted on 2021-09-16, 18:57

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Yah I don't understand the ppl who are like "OMG no, run your GPU fan as low as possible, you'll wear it out!!!!111 Having it run full speed is over-stressing it!!" (and if it's a stock type on the cooler you'll probably find manufacturer spec is something around 9-15V range and you're not even …

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Re: ever buy job lots of Motherboards?

Posted on 2021-09-16, 18:45

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IMO if things go dead or need extra attention (looking up right settings for CPU replacement etc) while they are current enough to be useful still if you get them working, then they get stashed somewhere to look at or fix "sometime" then get forgotten about. If they are substantially obsolete when …

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Re: 486 boot problem

Posted on 2021-09-16, 18:22

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the psu cables when connected to motherboard incorrect socket order so be sure they are correct and i recommend a heatsink for that cpu is why it has that blemish on it could be dead from teatstroke lol What's that, this board doesn't have standard "blacks to the middle" PSU socket layout? Yes, …

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Re: 486 boot problem

Posted on 2021-09-16, 18:14

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I'd wanna check the orientation of the resistor pack, it may or may not matter depending on type of resistor pack, if it's all resistors to one pin then it matters, just resistors one pin to another, then not.

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Re: Cross-Lib: a universal 8-bit WORA development framework for about 200 consoles, computers, hand-helds, etc.

Posted on 2021-09-16, 17:50

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Interesting... I have one idea in mind that I might in the distant future use it for, making a kind of menu system to a local BBS type networking setup.. all your vintage systems can connect to it, get same/familiar interface.

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Re: Modern PSU for old hardware

Posted on 2021-09-16, 17:24

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Ferenghi Rule of Acquisition # 322 ... A PSU that weighs only the same as the box it came in is worth the box.

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Re: New retropc.....but which gpu??? :)

Posted on 2021-09-16, 17:15

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There was a dude selling off brand new in box EVGA 6200 PCIs a few months ago for around 20 a pop, could see if there's any of those left.

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