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Re: 16-bit ISA EGA card?

Posted on 2024-02-14, 13:54

I would say that EGA had a long life. The problem was when it was king as a standard, it was expensive, and could only get around some color limitations on a CGA TTL monitor, unless you wanted to buy a more expensive EGA TTL monitor (and RAM expansion, which is even more money). EGA got more use …

Re: What vintage CPU socket saw the biggest increase in CPU horsepower from release to retirement?

Posted on 2024-02-10, 18:15

Here comes the ultra-scientific MHz comparison. Let's make this quick and easy. All chips that fit in a socket without an adapter are included. Official, real rated clock speeds only (no overclocking / downclocking / fake parts / PR speeds). Single core comparison. Socket 7: 75 MHz to 570 MHz === 7. …

Re: Newly made ISA CGA cards with real 6845s?!

Posted on 2024-02-01, 19:18

Indeed, it is likely these are the same people that built the Book 8088 trying to push more product onto the market since there seems to be a demand, and they decided to go this route. The only thing, bringing back a functionally more limited CGA in ISA form this way doesn't seem serve anyone really …

Re: Newly made ISA CGA cards with real 6845s?!

Posted on 2024-02-01, 00:55

So if they are essentially cloning the IBM CGA card to make an RGBI output in ISA form, it would be great for someone that has a CGA monitor with an old PC. Otherwise, I don't see why they don't just output VGA frequencies or pretty much anything else what people more likely have. They didn't even …

Re: Confirm a question about this forum

Posted on 2024-01-26, 02:42

The machines people were running dosbox on when it was initially written are now old. There are now many generations of old computers, which many of these machines of the past still work. I think the key is this is a place where people want to keep their games, and their computers, running.

Re: Do you think prices will stay high?

Posted on 2024-01-21, 16:58

Things are worth the price people pay for it at the time of transaction. Prices fluctuate because of the buyer and seller. I remember the first time I saw the 5162 in the mid 90s. Yes, not particularly common as I had not seen it before then. Someone had bought at least a dozen of them surplus. I …

Re: end of DVD storage

Posted on 2024-01-16, 22:33

Optical media at this point is long cold storage backup for me. No sense wearing out your drives playing an old game. No sense using it like a floppy drive to transfer files. But these disks are very useful if you understand the methods for archival and recovery the dvdisaster people advertise. Good …

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