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

Posted on 2022-04-29, 03:07

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by bakemono

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I saw Zilog Z280 CPUs in PLCC-68 for sale on auction site, and then found a blog post about people using them for small homebrew boards. I was starting to feel the urge to design my own board. Then I looked through the Z280 manual and changed my mind... The banking/paging scheme they used to extend …

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Re: Nec PC-9821 support and compatibility

Posted on 2022-04-27, 20:51

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by bakemono

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yeah, PC-98 use x86 CPUs like others, but the system architecture is very different that you can't just run I386 software as-is, and NEC98 software won't run as-is on standard I386 PCs, either. Windows has a hardware abstraction layer. Hence there is an enormous category of software for which the …

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Re: Nec PC-9821 support and compatibility

Posted on 2022-04-26, 23:38

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by bakemono

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AFAIK PC98 family is not entirely the same as standard x86. What do you mean by standard x86? (NEC) PC-98 is certainly not the same as (IBM) PC-AT. But x86 is common to both. I never heard of any NEC98 English DOS/Windows versions. Do they really exist? I thought I saw PC-98 as an official platform …

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Re: MAMEUI for Win98SE? Can't refresh ROMs list in an old MAME32 version

Posted on 2022-04-25, 00:30

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by bakemono

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It used to be called MAME PLUS, and it had the full windows gui version in it called mamepgui. I don't know where the cutoff is exactly but version .106 runs in Win98 at least.

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Re: Nec PC-9821 support and compatibility

Posted on 2022-04-25, 00:14

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by bakemono

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The keyboard is not compatible with PC keyboards, and it uses MS bus mouse, but you can install English Windows on a PC-98. Win 2000 was the last one with PC-98 support; it was dropped in Win XP.

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

Posted on 2022-04-21, 16:27

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by bakemono

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

My Pentium M laptop is showing its age a bit these days. It has a column of discolored pixels on the screen, and today while I was browsing vogons the left mouse button stopped working. I clicked on a thread and nothing happened. Browser freeze? OS freeze? No, keyboard still working and so is the …

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Re: Favorite 4:3 games from the XP-era?

Posted on 2022-04-12, 22:02

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by bakemono

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in Marvin \ Software

Mount&Blade Ys Origins Trails in the Sky series Unreal 2

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Re: What is ATI M1 and how it should be cooked?

Posted on 2022-04-09, 13:56

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by bakemono

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in Marvin \ Video

Rage Mobility M / M1 is similar to Rage Pro. I had a Dell Latitude L400 with Win98 and Win2000 installed. For 98 I found a driver specific to the Rage Mobility and used that, but in Win2000 I just installed the Xpert '98 driver for generic Rage Pro and it worked. 3D performance seemed to be slightly …

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Re: 486 Motherboard with abysmal ISA performance

Posted on 2022-04-09, 13:46

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by bakemono

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

So it looks like your writes are 4 clocks apart, whereas ideally with the zerows mode it should be less than that. But at this rate you should still be getting close to 4MB/s? Unless these are only byte writes? It seems reasonable that the designers would force a recovery time with their glue logic, …

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Re: List of Web Browsers For All Operating Systems

Posted on 2022-04-07, 17:42

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by bakemono

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I just snagged the initial (unstable) release of the new MyPal 68 . This is a FireFox port for WinXP. I use Windows 2000, so I went in with CFF Explorer and patched some missing imports in MOZGLUE.DLL and XUL.DLL with bogus ones. This was enough to get it running. CredReadA -- CredFree CredWriteA -- …

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Re: Geforce4 MX 440 SE 100mhz core speed?

Posted on 2022-04-06, 10:57

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by bakemono

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in Marvin \ Video

It's possible that the card throttles when there is no 3D rendering taking place. I've seen that on GeForce FX cards. Or it could be a fake/rebadged card. Maybe run GPU-Z, dump the bios and check it with nibitor?

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Re: OPTI AT931

Posted on 2022-04-04, 10:05

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by bakemono

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If it's the same thing as Opti 82c931 then it is essentially an SB Pro clone. It is an ISA card right? Probably need to run the SNDINIT or SNDTUNE program from the Opti drivers to enable it.

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Re: 486 Motherboard with abysmal ISA performance

Posted on 2022-04-04, 09:52

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by bakemono

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

as long as its a storage scope even 2 channels are fine. Grab Clock and one of the R/W strobes, count cycles during long read/write, this will let you see where the slowness comes from (rarer transactions or artificial waitstates) http://www.ee.nmt.edu/~rison/ee352_fall09/PC104timing.pdf I see what …

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Re: People underestimate hardware they have and it's annoying

Posted on 2022-03-29, 06:38

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by bakemono

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songo wrote on 2022-03-29, 04:07: Is there a SINGLE aspect of it that isn't MODERN? Does it have the built-in backdoor?

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Re: omg in heaven duck duck go is worse then google!!!

Posted on 2022-03-27, 15:18

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by bakemono

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They all stink. Many times it seems to be a flip of the coin whether you'll get a bunch of irrelevant results for something that contains a related word, or get no results at all. I'll put English search terms into DDG and get Russian results. I'll put Russian search terms into Startpage and get …

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Re: People underestimate hardware they have and it's annoying

Posted on 2022-03-27, 14:57

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by bakemono

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Can you explain more about this? Did it just test for SSE and not use it anywhere? How did you patch something like this out? I've also encountered applications which refuse to run without SSE, and I would like to know more. The main program didn't test for CPU support, it just crashed with an …

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Re: People underestimate hardware they have and it's annoying

Posted on 2022-03-27, 04:48

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by bakemono

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

During the study the google people had to decide to make the change, they had actually proposed raising the SSE requirement even higher at which virtually every machine I still run would not theoretically support it. (Phenom II might not support it??) They decided not to go there, but based on the …

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Re: Is there software that will change Windows 98 desktop wallpaper on every reboot or on a timed interval or something?

Posted on 2022-03-15, 19:46

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by bakemono

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in Marvin \ Software

You could put something in your AUTOEXEC.BAT that replaces the current wallpaper image file with a different one each time the system boots. If a fixed sequence of images is good enough then you could do it with batch files. If you want a 'random' sequence then maybe you'd need to make a small …

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Re: Cyrix/ST/IBM Aiming for the stars!

Posted on 2022-03-12, 16:20

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by bakemono

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Whatever performance difference you are finding here is margin of error. I know this because the Cyrix M2 2.9V and the M2 2.2V chip are the same electrical design. The 2.2V chip is simply manufactured on a new node (die shrink). The fact they are not scoring the same in your results, and that you …

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Re: Cyrix M II Aiming for the stars!

Posted on 2022-03-10, 19:36

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by bakemono

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have a couple old results. MII-400, Shuttle HOT-591p, GeForce 2 GTS 3Dmark '99 - 1205 3D marks, 1296 CPU MII-400, Shuttle HOT-591p, Radeon 9200 3Dmark '01 - 1535 3D marks Last time I tried to use the MII-400, Win98 got corrupt and wouldn't boot anymore, LOL. Right before that I had benched an MII- …

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