Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2019-02-18, 00:47
liqmat wrote: Fantastic ^^^ What model is that large PSU? Second one in from the left. It's a Suntek, listed as 230W, but I can't find a model number.
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2019-02-18, 00:13
^ pics pics pics! Took me a bit longer as apart from taking children to bed, I also had to do emergency triage on battery-eaten motherboards before I could get down to it. But that's done now - you want pr0n? Here you go... Systems, monitors and motherboards: https://tweakers.net/ext/f/ …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2019-02-17, 17:31
Heads up: after a 4h drive I got myself another car full again today :P It was "take everything or nothing" and I wanted something, so got it all. That does mean that over half the volume stays in the car and goes to the local thrift intake/recycler - mainly ink jet printers in bulky boxes, a …
Re: Sun PCI Mach64 VGA in PC?
Posted on 2019-02-16, 18:23
Right, card arrived today. Stuck it in my generic test system... Good news: according to my POST card the system boots as usual. Bad news: no video being output to 13W3, at least nothing my LSA800 considers a signal. Of course, I've also lost the regular PCI card I wanted to swap BIOS with :/ The …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2019-02-15, 22:26
Couldn't resist this one: https://tweakers.net/ext/f/Eb4GlEXZav4pwxyTnF7FyEmW/full.jpg Olivetti M240, Olivetti's first "normal" PC, the successor to the M24, which was years ahead of its time, with 8086 and 16b (proprietary) expansion bus - that no one except Olivetti ever made a peripheral for. The …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2019-02-15, 21:23
My son likes his DOS retro rig and more specifically playing OMF2097 on it. We already had one Gravis Gamepad Pro. Some time ago I found a second one, but never managed to get it working. Today figured out that the second controller really is broken (one of the fire switches is jammed on, probably …
Re: Intel TC430HX missing 2 CPU config jumper pins (J10C1D) pin 1 and 4
Posted on 2019-02-15, 08:47
That's very... cautious... Exactly what reason? [strike]It's possible that the VRM is implemented in an inferior way, meaning the the board can't handle the extra power draw of a CPU with 2.5x or 3x multiplier. But it's even more likely that there's no technical difference and that the lack of …
Re: Old platforms with 3.5" disks
Posted on 2019-02-14, 22:55
Er, just about everybody did until the early 1990s... It has nothing to do with OS, and everything to do with hardware. Generally, 3.5" floppies were media of choice prior to ubiquity of CD-ROMs due to highest capacity. Only legacy systems lacked them.
Re: Dual boot Win 98 / XP or select drives in Bios?
Posted on 2019-02-14, 20:17
Booting from different drives from BIOS is by far the most hassle-free way of doing different OSs on the same system, as the OSs themselves don't need to be aware of each other. TBH for the same reason I don't want the drives to even talk to each other, what I generally do is a single 'data' drive …
Re: AMD K6-III CPU
Posted on 2019-02-14, 20:12
Welcome to Vogons. This is a great place to discuss a project like that - but not a place to trade stuff. There are other sites for that, both well-known auction sites and something like www.amibay.com - which is where a lot of regulars here buy and sell their old hardware.
Re: Athlon vs Duron
Posted on 2019-02-14, 00:55
It's not much difference: The Morgan is 300MHz faster and has a SSE unit, could also make differences. I would compare the 1300 Duron with a 1300 Athlon, but better would a downclocked Athlon XP Palomino (because it also has SSE like the Morgan). Clocked down to 1300MHz for a fair comparison. The …
Re: Filling the DOS gap of Windows Accelerator SVGA cards
Posted on 2019-02-13, 20:57
Generally, S3's stuff was backwards-compatible, so you can certainly try. Worst-case it won't run or would perform badly, best-case you'll get the best out of it.
Re: Filling the DOS gap of Windows Accelerator SVGA cards
Posted on 2019-02-13, 19:02
[...] Wow, very useful analysis, thanks! Well, there were also Imagine 128 cards with a Cirrus GD5422 chip on them. I guess the Cirrus chip was for VGA/DOS mode. If on PCI bus, that shouldn't be too bad for DOS. Wow, you massacred S3 and Cirrus chips! That definitely wasn't the feeling PC magazines …
Re: Athlon vs Duron
Posted on 2019-02-13, 13:04
[...] So much performance increase with SSE? :exclamation: SSE allows you to manipulate multiple floating-point data with a single instruction. If you have an application that is bottlenecked on doing exactly that and supports these instructions, you will save multiple instructions so multiple …
Re: Retro-file server?
Posted on 2019-02-13, 12:57
.legaCy wrote: [...] The logic is cost. Sound logic when it comes to new stuff, but if you have enough old crap to need a server to service it, I'd assume that at least one of those devices could be (part) purposed as a server, which would save even the cost of the Nano Pi.
Re: Athlon vs Duron
Posted on 2019-02-12, 23:28
well [...] That's a little....suspicious. lol No, that's an exceedingly rare example of something actually using SSE to the full. Here are more regular benchmarks: https://hexus.net/tech/reviews/cpu/211-amd-duron-1ghz-morgan-core/ 1GHz Morgan about 0.5%-2% slower than 1GHz Thunderbird (assumedly B …
Re: AMD X5-133 Engineering Sample
Posted on 2019-02-12, 23:14
The regular 485DX5-133 (=5x86-PR75) isn't particularly hard to come by, particularly not when compared to the Cyrix 5x86-133, but an ES is quite special. Don't think it will give you any advantages when running, so you are probably best off letting a collector enjoy this and using a normal one for …
Re: Filling the DOS gap of Windows Accelerator SVGA cards
Posted on 2019-02-12, 22:21
[...] Oh no, with "novelty Windows accelerator" I meant those as soon as Windows Accelerator cards started coming out, such as: S3911, S3805, Ati Mach32, Cirrus Logic GD5426 and GD5428, Number Nine #9 Imagine 128-bit, and similar. I remember, I was reading every new monthly issue of PC …
Re: Retro-file server?
Posted on 2019-02-12, 12:45
Maybe I'm a bit Unix-centric, but NFS is my no-nonsense protocol for legacy and modern systems; I use FTP as backup for OSs without decent NFS client. As for the Pi, I don't see the logic in combining a current computer with legacy HDDs. I 'd either use a Pi with big, quiet, efficient modern drive, …
Re: Athlon vs Duron
Posted on 2019-02-12, 00:38
Yep, it's a bit like MMX a few generations earlier. Intel's marketing hyped the new instructions up massively, so that people associated the better performance of the P55C to them. Nope, it was just the doubling of the L1 cache that did it. Unless you had an AMR, no application you would have …
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