The long and the short of it is, Vogons is not a marketplace simply because it does not need to be one. This is a place where people come to discuss, not to buy, sell, trade, and bargain. Vogons is more a marketplace of ideas, fun, and code. In the spirit of that, it would be nice if we could help …

BeginnerGuy wrote: pico1180 wrote: leileilol wrote: No it doesn't. why not? Cuz it doesn't! 🤣 you sound like my boss.

leileilol wrote: No it doesn't. why not?

As this forum expands and the hobby takes hold with more people, i feel this needs to be addressed. i have read forum posts here about the topic and the answer sees to be some sort of perceived liability. Vogons doesn't want to create an environment where its users can be ripped off by other users. …

some OEMs/hardware manufacturers tried to pass old VXD-based drivers as "compatible with ME" even though it was designed to be used with WDM drivers instead of VXD This leads to an interesting question that came to my mind: what about Sound Blaster compatibility for DOS games running from inside …

That was pretty funny. The sad part is, if you didn't live through that time you wouldn't get it. ME was historically one of the worst, if not THE worst OS Microsoft ever released. Notorious for its instability and lack of refinement, despite how long they had to make that platform rock solid. And …

Thanks for the great forum.. this will be my first post. I'm just starting into retro builds to bring back the childhood memories. For now, I just built a dual boot 98/XP gaming PC, but I'm in the process of doing a Socket A build with a Voodoo 5 5500 that will be running 98SE, then I'll re-setup …

Retro =/= No longer officially supported. A 2001 Ford Mondeo is by no means a new car. A lot of people would call it an old car. But it is in no way, shape or form "retro".. I take issue with this! That shit late 90's sedan look is classically represented in the 2001 Ford Mondeo. Classic retro, my …

Something I like to ask my self when picking parts is, "would this be a reasonable upgrade for this system?" The 7900GTX is period correct too. According to Wikipida the FX 3450 launched in June of 05. The 7900GTX launched sometime in early 06. The 64 X2 4200+ launched in May of 05. The Opti 180 …

Thanks for all the advice guys. Most common choice seems to be an S3 VIRGE 325 so that's what I went for. Just need to find a Voodoo1 or maybe a Voodoo2 now (the former would be more period correct but the latter a little easier to find and obviously higher performing) I have a brand new beige …

Something I like to ask my self when picking parts is, "would this be a reasonable upgrade for this system?" The 7900GTX is period correct too. According to Wikipida the FX 3450 launched in June of 05. The 7900GTX launched sometime in early 06. The 64 X2 4200+ launched in May of 05. The Opti 180 …

I did set the tag to the cache setting. I did set the jumper to the cache setting as well. At least to my understanding.

Sorry to keep asking mundane questions, but mucking with cache is new to me and I want to understand it the best I can. I tried to set up, what I believed would be 128k, but it didn't change anything. I thought the IS61C256 were 32x8, but am I mistaken? Could you look over the settings and the chips …

In your experience would these appear to work for the cache, or are they a different thing? https://www.ebay.com/itm/SRAM-32kx8-Static-RAM-32k-x-8-Hitachi-HM62256LP10-used-4-pieces-/253466177965?_trksid=p2349526.m4383.l4275.c10#viTabs_0 https://www.ebay.com/itm/SRAM-32kx8-Static-RAM-62256-Family-32k …

Thank you very much for that information. I did try to google it, but I honestly couldn't find anything that I would take to be solid authority. I did find product advertisements though. For example, Amazon says they are 8kx8, and they are abundant on eBay, but the sellers do not advertise their …

Back in the day, I ran a Diamond Viper v330 (Riva 128) card. It is period correct and was top of the line for the time. I paired it with a Voodoo 1. When I recently rebuilt that system, I did the same thing. I'm under the impression you are building a 9x system. What adds to the nostalgia for me is, …

The motherboard is an Asus ISA-486S I was hoping to get a lesson in how to read cache nomenclature. Or at least find a place that publishes the specs. I don't know how reliable stason is, or who has mucked around with this mother board in its 30 years of existence, but the cache configuration that …