Re: Best imaging software for old operating systems
Posted on 2020-02-13, 03:16
Herne Data systems maxi disk is excellent for floppy disks The proper version of Ghost is great for even non-ibm HD’s in an IBM PC
Re: CGA "optimal" palette (fantasy)
Posted on 2020-02-09, 22:00
Digger and the shareware version of Jill of the Jungle had near ideal CGa pallets.
Re: Upgrading Socket 4 L2 cache to 2048k (ECS SI5PI MB)
Posted on 2020-02-04, 23:59
In the scenario that you have this much cache one would wonder the effect if you could map half of it as base ram
Re: L2 cache and 386 performance
Posted on 2020-02-01, 21:14
I used to have a very compact 386 board that had a couple kB of cache integrated into the chipset. Made the board suprisingly fast. I kind of regret selling this board because it was such an interesting oddball. I wonder if that chipset would support additional cache? If only I could remember the …
Re: What is the function of this card?
Posted on 2020-02-01, 21:10
Looks like an interposer. Some early p60’s needed 5.5volts, the real early motherboard models are hard to find to verify
Re: Monitor compatible with IBM 8530 (PS/2 Model 30)? Two LCD panels show Input out of Range
Posted on 2020-01-29, 01:25
MCGA Is just plain VGA I wonder if the lack of a few key pins is doing it?
Re: New ATX power supply standard will be 12v only
Posted on 2020-01-28, 04:03
The question is why call this new thing ATX? A unified voltage PSU may as well have a bullet connector or worse an external supply. I’m imagining a humming $5 space heater inside the case. What’s even better is led computer lights will either grow in cost or become incandescent . Seems like a big …
Re: IBM 5150 vs Amiga 500
Posted on 2020-01-27, 18:34
Next week C64 vrs SNES
Re: VGA games with only 16 colors
Posted on 2020-01-25, 14:36
Games with 640x480 16colors on 286? can't remember these... I had a variety of slow paced games for my VGA equipped Tandy 1000rlx that used 640x480x16 A bunch that also used higher resolution ega modes. Most were card games, “Japanese games” board games, hangman, “learning games”, typing games and …
Re: Found an online store with multiple VLB ATI Mach64 cards (pricey)
Posted on 2020-01-24, 18:31
Funny thing is there is1 company that makes new “vintage” graphics cards for about that price. Ah well
Re: Weird idea: 83mhz overdrive for 386 sx.
Posted on 2020-01-18, 01:01
IBM Blue Lightning 486slc3 is really the only viable option here. Still would need an adapter and a rare Japanese upgrade to get one.
Re: What do you drive?
Posted on 2020-01-15, 22:38
A yellow one of these
Re: VGA games with only 16 colors
Posted on 2020-01-14, 00:37
Some “256” color games only used a fraction of that but more than 16 I remember well into the VGA ERA 16 color graphics seemed to be a selling point even when vga/ega was on the box https://www.google.com/amp/s/trixter.oldskool … the-ibm-pc/amp/
Re: ISA Hard Drive controllers
Posted on 2020-01-09, 04:46
I could swear my 5x86 had DMA & EIDE support (pio4) When did udma/ ATA33 come out? I would think a PCI equipped 486 could run a UDMA disk controller I would HOPE a VLB could as well but it was too early
Re: Cyrix 120+ project
Posted on 2020-01-06, 13:24
If your using the included version of dos with Windows 95 you don’t need a partician or anything to boot to dos, just keep it all together
Re: 6x86 PR200 66mhz or 75mhz FSB option
Posted on 2020-01-03, 02:01
60x2.5 pr166 has to be the strangest Cyrix chip I’ve ever seen. Considering mine was 75mhz x2 was for pr200
Re: Voodoo 2 freezing in games
Posted on 2020-01-01, 17:13
As dumb as this may sound check the edge connector for coorsion/wear/etc and clean I’ve encountered a few dirty cards that came from very questionable storage
Re: Cyrix 120+ project
Posted on 2020-01-01, 17:00
From what I remember the original Cyrix chips had a 1x multiplier, that may not seem like much but I had a stack of pc100 motherboards back in the day. A p120+ gets a bit lively on a 100mhz FSB Not historically accurate but some of the old SIS motherboards would overclock to 90mhz All this said FSB …
Re: Pentium MMX 200MHz Overclock Fail
Posted on 2020-01-01, 05:23
Later Pmmx chips were multiplier locked. Your PCI bus overclocking at 41mgz might be causing more trouble along with not upping the voltage. Past experience is that the P200mmx does not over clock well, even after upping the voltage. Best performance for me was 100mhz x 2x for 200mhz on a pc100 …
Re: Should I upgrade my 286's processor?
Posted on 2019-12-28, 18:57
With a wait state you should be able to clock to the full 16mhz with stock memory, sound card may not work though . If you cannot add a wait state you will need faster memory and likely can’t exceed 12.5 MHz.
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