Re: SB16 crashing - hidden refresh, incompatibility with ARK1000VL card?

Posted on 2021-10-02, 05:50

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Hi retardware, Ah no oscilloscope is beyond me :) Prior to the ARK1000 card, I was using a Tseng ET4000 w32 which worked fine with SB16 and hidden refresh, albeit with graphical corruption in certain DOS games and demos (a future project to fix either RAM or RAMDAC issues). I've an AWE64 value or …

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SB16 crashing - hidden refresh, incompatibility with ARK1000VL card?

Posted on 2021-10-02, 04:35

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by Byrd

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Hi, I've been playing around with an ASUS VL/I-486SV2GX4, Pentium Overdrive 83 @ 100Mhz, Sound Blaster 16 PNP CT2940 and most recent addition ARK1000VL VLB graphics card. The recent addition of the ARK1000 graphics card proved nice and speedy for DOS, but Windows 3.1 and the ARK1000/2000 driver …

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Re: No display output on this ATI Rage 128. Is it a Mac product or just defective?

Posted on 2021-09-22, 04:37

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by Byrd

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Yep, confirming that'd be an Apple OEM Rage 128 AGP as used in early G4 Towers. Wouldn't bother flashing it over.

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Re: Any games a Pentium 4 PC can play that a modern PC can't?

Posted on 2021-09-21, 02:02

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I've a MSI Mega SFF based Pentium 4 + AGP 6800GT GPU for Windows XP, thought it great until I built up a Core2Duo + PCIe 9600GT GPU system for a friend running Windows XP. System was much more responsive, so much quieter and put my system to shame in every game without any issues. Now all I want is …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-09-12, 00:56

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imi wrote on 2021-09-11, 16:09: got in a nice lot today, some of the contents, the main prize at the end ^^ after a long and exhausting search, I finally got one ^^ The ARK1000VL? If so I just joined the club - same card but with empty DRAM sockets on far left. Seems a great fast card.

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Re: Most retarded (and cheapest) way to build an EPROM eraser (Warning: DO NOT DO THIS!)

Posted on 2021-09-08, 13:00

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by Byrd

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Gah, new to this, I must be referring to wiping EPROMs in a UV phone sterilser, not EEPROMs - thanks for advice.

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Re: Most retarded (and cheapest) way to build an EPROM eraser (Warning: DO NOT DO THIS!)

Posted on 2021-09-08, 04:09

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by Byrd

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Put it in a box ... please? I just bought TL866 programmer, and realised I also need a ghetto EEPROM wiper - from reports I've read, the cheapo "UV phone steriliser" from Kmart works well. Of course I saw stacks of these for a couple of bucks earlier in the year, thought what a joke, but had to buy …

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Re: I want to drill holes into my PowerVR PCX2 to mount a heatsink. Does anyone have access to an x-ray machine?

Posted on 2021-08-26, 01:45

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by Byrd

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Don't. What's wrong with the old school use normal thermal paste, wipe away two corners, two small dabs of superglue on said corners- heatsink on top?

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Re: Reasonable price for old desktop computers

Posted on 2021-08-25, 23:46

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Everyone's price point and value assignment is different of course. Looking at what's on eBay now, I think the $40 i paid for a complete packard bell P166 last year was pretty good. Overall, 'working' vintage systems are pricey now, but you can also compare that to trying to source parts for a …

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Re: Old Laptop Pentium 1 266 MMX with BIOS from Hell? Help Needed! >>SystemSoft BIOS for Intel 430 TX <<

Posted on 2021-08-25, 23:30

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by Byrd

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Experiment with a small partition at the start or end of the hard disk (eg. unformatted 200MB at front, rest FAT/FAT32, unformatted 200MB at end) - it's looking for something ...

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Re: POD83 - best set to 3.3V or 5V?

Posted on 2021-08-25, 01:03

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by Byrd

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Thanks for confirming - it's a late revision POD83, so I'm lucky to be getting it up to 100Mhz without too much hassle, will set to 5V now

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POD83 - best set to 3.3V or 5V?

Posted on 2021-08-25, 00:48

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by Byrd

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Hi all, I've a Pentium Overdrive 83 on an ASUS VL/I-486SV2GX4 motherboard, currently set to 3.45V overclocked to 100Mhz. I'm currently enjoying trying to max out the performance of the setup, tweaking BIOS settings, etc - best Quake run at 20.8 FPS. It's currently set to 3.45V but I'm confused if I …

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Re: Is it worth repasting retro PCI graphics

Posted on 2021-08-22, 23:34

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Got a S3 Savage 4 and a NVS280/Fx5200 Now if they used paste, it will be old and crusty, but does it matter? Both are 2x push pin fitting - one has 2 part pins, the other single part "arrowhead" style. Do they get so fragile that they won't re-use If you want it to keep working, then yeah cleaning …

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Re: Simplest method to get SC88 working on 486, Pentium laptop?

Posted on 2021-08-18, 04:32

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You need to hook up in Windows or in pure DOS? You should be able to use the computer connector on the SC-88 to hook it up to serial and then use SoftMPU to be able to use the serial port as a standard MIDI port. In using in Windows, I would just get a USB PCMCIA card and then a USB to MIDI adapter …

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Re: Simplest method to get SC88 working on 486, Pentium laptop?

Posted on 2021-08-17, 09:29

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Thank you, all and OCAU people 😀 Looks fairly straightforward. I might even have that cable, Pierre32, in my box of crap.

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Simplest method to get SC88 working on 486, Pentium laptop?

Posted on 2021-08-17, 00:31

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Hi all, I've an SC88 which I enjoy using on my 486 desktop, plugged into the SB16 gameport of my system. What would be the easiest way to get the SC88 working on a more limited system? My beloved IBM PC110 has a docking station with parallel, serial ports and PCMCIA slots. I also have a Toshiba …

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Re: A 486 system only properly starts while horizontally positioned

Posted on 2021-08-11, 23:56

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by Byrd

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Hmmm, I'd want to pop the slider off the top of the socket and have a look inside there, maybe some random debris blocking the CPU from sitting all the way down. Good advice, that CPU should be flush in the socket. Apart from mystery crud, one of the pins inside the socket might be mangled causing …

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Re: Identifying SDRAM that is NOT keyed normally.

Posted on 2021-08-01, 03:33

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by Byrd

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It's probably DIMM memory from an early PowerPC Mac over server RAM (based on small capacity and early PPC DIMM Macs didn't come with much RAM stock)

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Re: Identifying this 16 bit ISA card

Posted on 2021-07-28, 10:47

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by Byrd

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Without the breakout box, largely useless, unless you could find pinouts and make up your own basic dongle with audio jacks etc.

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2021-07-27, 00:16

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Found a hand scanner with interface card... not sure if I wanna get it set up or not when a reliable ISA system is "finished"... back in the day I really, really wanted a handheld scanner They're truly horrible to use, software is dog slow (on period PCs) but they're a good thing to have to show …

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