Re: SE440BX-2 BIOS
Posted on 2019-05-06, 08:21
That's the BIOS version I have, and it works with coppermine.
Re: The World's Fastest 486
Posted on 2019-05-03, 05:22
After all this talk about quake I had to go run it. My fastest VLB board (Genoa X4) with AMD 5x86 at 133 does 14.0fps with status bar, 12.4fps full screen. At 120MHz it does 13.2fps with status bar, 11.7fps full screen. Sadly, this one doesn't run at 150 or 160. And the board doesn't boot with a …
Re: Add Lo-tech 1MB ram on IBM PS/2 Model 30 (8086) ?
Posted on 2019-05-03, 04:53
Are you saying that you already installed the Lo-tech 1MB card? I've never heard of the utilities that you mentioned. Maybe you could make a test program in QBASIC to verify the D000 RAM
Re: PC Chips m912 fake cache/BIOS replacement
Posted on 2019-05-02, 17:12
Hello, I got one of these motherboards with fake cache chips so I decided to desolder them and put some sockets with real ram (and possibly change the BIOS to be able to actually enable the cache). I know the m912 came also with real cache, so Im looking for its BIOS file to use it on mine. Check …
Re: 60hz boot is possible?
Posted on 2019-05-01, 15:42
Running a utility to change screen modes in AUTOEXEC.BAT would be easier than hacking the BIOS, if you don't need to interact with anything before that. AFAIK all the standard text modes are 70hz. If you set a graphic mode instead of text then DOS/BIOS functions can still display text but they …
Re: Can I install MS-DOS 6.22 onto CF using USB to CF adapter on modern pc ?
Posted on 2019-05-01, 15:23
If you can format the CF card with FAT16 then you can copy the DOS files over. The only issue is readying the MBR and boot sector. Unfortunately, even in 2019 I'm not aware of a utility that does this (I do it manually with a sector editor). The alternative is to write a bootable disk image to the …
Re: Reset time for the first personal computers.
Posted on 2019-05-01, 04:53
I thought this thread was going to be about the time/date shown after a system has lost RTC power. Did you know that January 1st, 1980 was a Tuesday? I do recall seeing some kind of "please wait" message after hitting CTRL+ALT+DEL. Could be caused by SMARTDRV having to flush its write buffer to …
Re: any tweaks to speed up windows file sharing?
Posted on 2019-05-01, 04:43
Why Win2k? It's the best Windows, of course! (If you're not sure, just take a look at the EULA for any of the later ones...) Besides, the system wasn't built specifically as a file server. No disk arrays or anything like that. It's more like a sidekick for my main system (also Win2k!). I'm …
Re: underwhelming performance of ali m1429 386 board
Posted on 2019-04-30, 03:56
i wanna know why this board performs so fast in cache/ram tests(cachechk, speedsys) yet so slow in game tests Those tests cover only read performance? What about writes? Maybe you could also try the old SPDUP.COM mov al,0x74 out 0x43,al mov ax,0x00A0 out 0x41,al xchg al,ah out 0x41,al mov ax,0x4c00 …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2019-04-27, 14:51
More tinkering with my YouTube to NetShow 2.0 thing. Now that's interesting. I knew that many old browsers could display video after downloading a video file, but Is this an actual streaming format? ASF perhaps? I recall that ASF was patent encumbered and had little support (though I suppose …
Re: any tweaks to speed up windows file sharing?
Posted on 2019-04-25, 21:03
cyclone3d wrote: To improve file transfer speeds, you can also enable large packets but you need to do it for all devices. It might also help file listings as well. Yes, the Tcp1323Opts and TcpWindowSize are good registry tweaks, especially for internet connection performance. I already did those a …
Re: any tweaks to speed up windows file sharing?
Posted on 2019-04-25, 17:06
To add some background info, the host is a socket AM2 system running Windows 2000. HDD and CPU speed are not bottlenecks, and in fact I tested with the CPU at 2.5GHz or throttled to 1GHz and it made no difference. I did some more research and found out about a registry key under local_machine/ …
any tweaks to speed up windows file sharing?
Posted on 2019-04-24, 13:36
I'm not big on patience. The time to get a directory listing on a network share has been bugging me lately. I have Gb ethernet, so copying large files is quick enough, but waiting for a file dialog box to come up or even doing DIR at the command prompt still takes a little while. In a local …
Re: sony cdu33a-81 - interface?
Posted on 2019-04-24, 13:11
With a 2x CD-ROM drive it stands to reason that you can copy any CD contents to the HDD in 37 minutes or less. Then install Windows from HDD, which is the smart way of doing it. A 2x CD-ROM is infinitely better than floppies in any case. I had a 2x sony drive and interface card. IIRC it came with …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2019-04-24, 03:14
I am currently singing "It's a miracle! a mirrrracle!" because I was finally able to boot my A2000 and run stuff for the first time in months. During the last episode of this saga, after putting much work into getting the system to power on without a blinking power LED, the GVP A3001 decided it was …
Re: Celeron 700 vs Pentium 400
Posted on 2019-04-23, 12:30
rasz_pl wrote: you still didnt say what graphic card you are using Radeon 9500 was mentioned earlier in the thread.
Re: Celeron 700 vs Pentium 400
Posted on 2019-04-22, 23:56
I got UT when it was on sale on GOG not too long ago. I only played it on my main system with 2010-ish specs, but after reading through this thread I decided to give it a try on an older setup to see if it gives any insight into your performance woes. Here is my old P3 system: 440BX, Pentium 3 600e …
Re: Internet Explorer 5 + Windows 3.11 + 386
Posted on 2019-04-19, 11:26
I have confirmed that the Adaptec 1520B SCSI card (no DMA) works with IE5 and 32 MB RAM while the Adaptec 1540C (w/DMA) works with IE5 only when the RAM is limited to 16 MB. Loading EMM386 in DOS didn't change the situation. Since the ISA bus can only address 16MB, it's probably not possible for …
Re: Post pics taken with your retro cameras!
Posted on 2019-04-15, 08:46
3) overcast day in Tokyo by a KD-500Z 2) a Florida-shaped patch over a rust hole by KD-500Z 1) pic of a Canon taken by a Konica KD-400Z
Re: need idea: what can i do with a 286?
Posted on 2019-04-12, 10:25
how frequent do you need to perform loadall in real mode? for each time you want to address somewhere above 1mb? and what about compiler support? LOADALL would be needed when changing segments. For instance, if you want ES to point to 4MB, you setup the data structure and execute LOADALL. Now you …
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