Re: IBM Aptiva with AMD K6-2@300mhz.

Posted on 2022-03-01, 23:17

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by BinaryDemon

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Hi, I have an Aptiva E2N 2153 that I’ve upgraded to K6-2 500 mhz. Just be warned these computers really don’t like to work with Nvidia cards. I had trouble getting any TNT, Geforce2, or GeForce4’s working. 3DFX is probably the best bet but I don’t have any. I settled on a Radeon 7000 but ultimately …

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Re: Help with 256 colors in CL VLB video card

Posted on 2022-03-01, 22:26

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by BinaryDemon

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Just confirming, you have tested dos games at some of those resolutions and don’t see any issues right?

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Re: Wordle for Windows 3.1

Posted on 2022-02-22, 06:50

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by BinaryDemon

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BitWrangler wrote on 2022-02-21, 02:01: Nice, next up wordle for DOS... ima dig out some qBasic hangman code.... http://www.doshaven.eu/game/wor-dos/

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Re: Running NT 3.51 on modern hardware (Ryzen 3900x)

Posted on 2022-02-22, 06:49

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by BinaryDemon

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There’s a ton of reasons other reasons why they might not run but I would try other games that support software renderers like: Half Life 1, Jedi Knight Dark Forces 2, Outlaws, Outwars?, Thief, Tomb Raider 2, almost any racing/simulation game pre-2000, Chocolate Doom or similar port, WinQuake or …

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Re: SUCCESSFUL K6-2+ to K6-3+ Full Cache Enable Mod

Posted on 2022-02-21, 14:00

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by BinaryDemon

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If the seller ever decides to unload them really cheap maybe some of you guys could make money converting them to K6-3’s.

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Re: Using Pentium for old DOS and Win 98

Posted on 2022-02-17, 18:07

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by BinaryDemon

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🤣 @ The four “warranty void if removed” stickers on the cpu. Such overkill.

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Re: new old computers

Posted on 2022-01-25, 07:05

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by BinaryDemon

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My 5yr old daughter uses my old C2Q 6600 (2.4ghz no overclock), 4gb ram, Radeon HD7850, 240gb ssd, win10. Obviously it’s not the original configuration, I’ve upgraded hardware where it makes sense and running Win10 helps. But CPU and motherboard are approaching 15years old. My daughter uses it …

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Re: How do you keep old machine Windows 95/98 stable and no crash?

Posted on 2022-01-18, 07:33

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by BinaryDemon

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With Win95/Win98 get a stable configuration and then backup. I think much of the stability issues come from the ‘dll hell’, if your constantly installling and uninstalling new software you will get a mashup of old and new versions of critical dependencies. If you start to experience stability issues …

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Re: ISA card VG-8000 driver

Posted on 2021-12-31, 17:47

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by BinaryDemon

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Isn’t there 3rd party utilities that let you create custom resolution profiles? I thought powerstrip let you do this, although I might be remembering incorrectly.

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Re: Graphics card freezes after installing drivers

Posted on 2021-12-08, 12:25

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by BinaryDemon

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On a modern OS, that usually means bad GPU. I thought for Win9x in some cases a bad GPU won’t cause an issue until you actually run something that makes use of 3D acceleration.

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Re: HP Kayak XM600 Win98

Posted on 2021-12-06, 23:42

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by BinaryDemon

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I’d guess Win98 wasn’t a standard configuration since it’s a Workstation, the restore CD is probably Win2k.

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Re: IBM L40SX - getting Ti486SXLC2 L1 cache working with 80387

Posted on 2021-11-30, 09:12

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by BinaryDemon

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I know everyone has a different definition of ‘playable’ but almost no one would endure Quake on a 486dx-33. Is it possible you are recalling that incorrectly?

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Re: The World's Fastest 486

Posted on 2021-11-29, 08:11

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by BinaryDemon

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IMO, I would disregard anything where the supporting chipset is custom designed for the cpu or gives significant advantage (MediaGX, Vortex86SX, any of the socket 5 486class cpus) because it would get difficult to separate if performance is cpu based or due to improved memory/bus latencies.

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Re: Retro paradox?

Posted on 2021-08-03, 17:46

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by BinaryDemon

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Well personally, for the Retro periods that I am most interested in, I was a teenager at the time and the internet was far less useful. It’s not surprising that I know more now.

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Re: Appropriate video cards for 1994

Posted on 2021-08-03, 17:21

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by BinaryDemon

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1mb was probably typical at that time. My 1993 family computer was a 486sx-33 with 1mb Cirrus Logic VLB. Do you remember if it was a 486 or Pentium?

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Re: Change a game's name by one letter, to make it something completely different (just for fun!)

Posted on 2021-07-29, 11:12

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by BinaryDemon

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BitWrangler wrote on 2021-07-19, 01:52: Golfenstein... some sort of sequel to Links 386. A Wolf3D -> Golf total conversion would be something that I would try.

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Re: Diamond Mozart - drivers needed

Posted on 2021-07-03, 14:41

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by BinaryDemon

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For DOS, I would try UNISOUND ( UNISOUND - Universal ISA PnP Sound Card Driver for DOS v0.77a ). I would guess it supports that CS4231. Scratch that, I only see the CS4232 mentioned.

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Re: IGEL WinNet III - need BIOS

Posted on 2021-06-28, 11:38

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by BinaryDemon

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I can't can't help with BIOS flashing or editing, but I would try two more things before going that route. 1) Change amount of ram (similar to removing the DOM, trying to have the bios detect a change) 2) Remove battery? Most bios that lose settings completely will prompt to enter bios and do …

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Re: Windows Paintbrush incompatibilities, workarounds and alternatives

Posted on 2021-06-27, 20:07

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by BinaryDemon

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Have you tried BoxedWine or Winevdm?

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Re: Odd issue on an old 486SLC2/66

Posted on 2021-06-14, 18:58

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by BinaryDemon

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Same VGA cable?

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