Re: Fastest emulators period

Posted on 2024-04-07, 17:22

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in Console & Arcade Emulation

in Console & Arcade Emulation

I've quickly searched those 5 pages and couldn't find, but i hope I havent missed the information I am looking for: I have a Commodore 386SX/25 equipped with 8MB RAM + 8GB CF-IDE "adaptered" HDD. Do you know of any emulator that will run on this? I also have mouse, joystick and a soundblaster 16 on …

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Re: Can a faster ISA Graphics card be built?

Posted on 2024-04-07, 17:17

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in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Cornerstones high resolution ISA cards outperformed pretty much everything in Windows, so 2d windows acceleration could get moderately advanced.

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Re: Socket 5 CPU limit?

Posted on 2024-04-07, 17:15

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

At this point some pentiums are expensive, if you luck out your p133 may have open multipliers and be overclockable. That is what I would do in your case.

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Re: Socket 5 CPU limit?

Posted on 2024-04-06, 23:34

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Seems like the old k6-233 was only 8-9 amps at 3.3 volts. Add extra cooling to the vrm and it might work. Cyrix pr166 might work as well if he can’t find pentium classics. I couldn’t tell but it looks like the board may have an undocumented FSB setting, if that setting is 75mhz he might have some …

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Re: internet in 286 windows 3.1 ?

Posted on 2024-04-04, 16:56

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Don't know if anyone still monitors this, been playing with my 286 recently using a dedicated DOS or Windows 3.1 CF Card depending what I want to play with. Recently been playing with Windows and yes I can get Google up and do a search using winsock and NCSA Mosaic (v2 alpha), pretty fast as well, …

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Re: Cyrix 6x86MX PR300 opinions?

Posted on 2024-04-03, 16:03

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'm not really looking for more power as such. I'm just curious about how a Cyrix would perform compared to my non-MMX Pentium 200. I never used a Cyrix socket 7 CPU back in the day so curiosity is the main driving force here and the novelty of it. Having a new toy to play with :-) The Cyrix MX …

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Re: Cyrix 6x86MX PR300 opinions?

Posted on 2024-04-03, 15:51

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'm not really looking for more power as such. I'm just curious about how a Cyrix would perform compared to my non-MMX Pentium 200. I never used a Cyrix socket 7 CPU back in the day so curiosity is the main driving force here and the novelty of it. Having a new toy to play with :-) The Cyrix MX …

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Re: 2024 - End of the era of Retro Computing Youtube channels?

Posted on 2024-04-02, 14:30

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in Milliways

Be careful as There are also YouTube alternatives recommended by folks like yewtu.be indivious and piped.video but all appear to be scam farms (and I’m too terrified to check them further). Would love to be proven wrong and there actually is a legit low resource solution to YouTube . I've used …

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Re: 2024 - End of the era of Retro Computing Youtube channels?

Posted on 2024-04-01, 14:15

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in Milliways

I assume you’ve already tried minitube (which probably doesn’t help much) I’ve seen mention of smtube but no idea if it’s safe. https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/watching-youtube-in-very-old-even-32bits-pcs-and-in-more-recent-ones-too/ Be careful as There are also YouTube alternatives …

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Re: 286 motherboard does not recognize any memory

Posted on 2024-04-01, 04:34

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Could try a slow oscillator and underclock the board, if something is flakey that can get it stable enough to run a post card

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Re: 2024 - End of the era of Retro Computing Youtube channels?

Posted on 2024-03-23, 20:26

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in Milliways

(seriously, I've been called anti-science for trying to explain that leaving your refrigerator door open will not cool your house, even though I have a degree in physics). The trick is setting up a tent in the kitchen and cool that with the fridge, thus isolating the tent interior from the rest of …

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Re: Via MVP3 Cacheable Area

Posted on 2024-03-19, 02:27

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Never noticed or cared about this, If it concerns you I would run a memory speed test over the whole 256mb addressable range. If I had to guess the first meg or a memory whole is left out of the L2 cache for coherence, it likely doesn’t matter as much as you think. also are you able to set L1 to …

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Re: U-Board ST1A JK-042e settings with Intel DX4-S, not booting at 100Mhz.

Posted on 2024-03-12, 20:38

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by rmay635703

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The Intel dx4 can be jumpered for 2x or 3x, only one jumper pin on 486 systems If you get the Overdrive version it has no jumper at all. Some motherboards have issues with the Intel dx4 and L1 internal cache, other very old boards improperly detect the dx4 with the wrong speed and crash (need a bios …

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Re: PicoMEM : Pi Pico on ISA, with full Memory and I/O bus access

Posted on 2024-03-12, 01:19

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

@STrRedWolf About the EMS memory, is a maximum 4 MB a real limitation? Remember that most of the EMS ISA cards at the time were between 1 and 4 MB. Of course it would be better to have 16 MB, but does any software can uses this amount of memory anyway? 4MB was the LIM EMS v3.2 limitation. LIM EMS …

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Re: Patched together a 286-20MHz. What should be the expected performance?

Posted on 2024-03-12, 00:06

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in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Hence my reasoning that Intel should have made the 286 just a faster version of the 8086; that's what the market wanted. The 286 was just used as a fast 8088 most of it’s existence but that wasn’t what the market really wanted, in fact they were complaining about it already in late 82 which delayed …

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Re: Patched together a 286-20MHz. What should be the expected performance?

Posted on 2024-03-09, 19:29

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in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Turns out people really liked their legacy software. Maybe the 286 protected mode was a necessary step in the learning process to understand what needed to go into the 386. And maybe the first few 286 chips were just to slow to really benefit from prememptive multitasking anyway. If your …

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Re: Rarest CPUs?

Posted on 2024-03-07, 23:35

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

In 93 and 94 maybe, many more P60 selling... but then I wonder if they had a glut of P66 and they got sold off cheap enough for a lot of people with 60 to spring for a 66 in 95 or so, putting a lot of P60s on shelves, and then again when the Socket 4 overdrive came out. Because I think the …

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Re: Rarest CPUs?

Posted on 2024-03-05, 14:25

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Sometimes I wonder why there are so many P60 to find at all since socket 4 must have been a dead end right from the beginning. For "no-compromise" workstations or servers maybe, albeit at the compromise of not going all the way to 66 MHz, which was probably crazily more expensive? I’ve often …

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Re: If you had $100000(at your disposal), what retro act would you do back in 1990?

Posted on 2024-03-04, 20:11

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Wait up, just thought, can you tag another couple of zeros on the end ? I want to throw down with the Commodore UK Donald Pleasance buyout bid to save the Amiga. Ideally the Eurozone Commodore should have been spun out and bought out by 1990 to save it from the most boneheaded BS. Honestly Euro …

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Re: If you had $100000(at your disposal), what retro act would you do back in 1990?

Posted on 2024-03-03, 20:03

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in Milliways

Go back to 1983 and release 8088 domination

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