Re: List of motherboards with fake cache chips

Posted on 2024-10-13, 00:12

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https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=641992#p641992 appiah4 : "I own a Hippo VL+ with that chipset and it uses EDRAM" Would be cool to find someone with DCA and DCA2 EDRAM setups to run some tests. Hmm... that thread comes before the one where he says the board would not POST and it's not clear …

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Re: TLS bridging proxy for internet access.

Posted on 2024-10-12, 00:48

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by jtchip

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retro-proxy.

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Re: List of motherboards with fake cache chips

Posted on 2024-10-12, 00:31

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by jtchip

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3. Octek HIPPO VL+ DCA wasnt fraud https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=1251781#p1251781 Afaik It was sold bundled with ED-RAM. Then again this particular one has 30pin simm sockets, so either they also shipped custom 30 pin ED-RAM or sold boards before ram was ready. The post below yours points …

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Re: Commander X16 of The 8-Bit Guy, can it be considered as the most nonsense neo-retro computer of all times?

Posted on 2024-10-07, 23:36

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Even after two years since I opened this thread I don't get it. Why to mass produce such a weird incompatible niche homebrew computers? Ultimately it's his dream computer, and he's trying to get others to buy into that dream. I also came across the X65 , which software-backwards-compatible with the …

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Re: Minimum hardware to get Netflix working, needs SSSE3? SSE4x? 2024 browser???

Posted on 2024-10-07, 23:27

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Had a quick look around on it, typical of my experience with Kodi prior though, my network shares don't show up. They show up on VLC, they show up on MXplayer, they show up in some default android vid players. IDK what Kodi does different, but anyway, not a problem I need to solve for this problem, …

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Re: SBEMU: Sound Blaster emulation on AC97

Posted on 2024-10-07, 23:23

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Looks like the 1.0 beta 5 archive is missing README.txt , this has instructions on how to load HDPMI32i.exe , the BLASTER environment variable (SBEMU sets that automatically, unless it's already set which means it'll use its settings), and some options for JEMMEX (which is only required for real- …

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Re: SBEMU: Sound Blaster emulation on AC97

Posted on 2024-10-07, 00:36

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Can't get audio at all under Windows 10 with the RV630 (Radeon HD2600XT) so can't even test SBemu but I did notice SBemu code has support for RV630 as {"ATI RV630", 0x1002, 0xaa08, AZX_DRIVER_ATIHDMI } but the actual card under Windows10 reports hardware IDs different - HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_1002&DEV …

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Re: Vogons.org on Windows 98

Posted on 2024-10-06, 02:22

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by jtchip

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There's a method of hosting a proxy on a modern computer that might get you through, forgetting the name. That'll be retro-proxy . There's also FrogFind! , which is a search engine for vintage computers. It will let you browse Vogons but it strips out a fair number of things including the ability …

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Re: Is the turbo switch still available for sale?

Posted on 2024-10-05, 00:50

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by jtchip

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I think you can use one of these https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B089RHBYGC/ . They're latching IIRC. I used them in my EMM8088 build in an ATX case. No, power and reset buttons are momentary switches, the description confirms it: Desktop PC motherboard ATX power reset switch cable, red green LED …

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Re: Commander X16 of The 8-Bit Guy, can it be considered as the most nonsense neo-retro computer of all times?

Posted on 2024-10-04, 22:57

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Hmm... does Betteridge's law of headlines apply here or not? :) I've followed this project since near the beginning when it was supposed to be a "simple" system that a single person could understand. The addition of the FPGA kind of erased that notion for me (and I suspect many other people). I …

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Re: How to fit 4 minutes of video onto a standard 3.5" floppy disk?

Posted on 2024-10-04, 02:40

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You're thinking post 2000 and a bit, think it was 02 or so that that lot came in, though I think spendy spendy ones did that, 98-02, the rage all in wonder, avermedia TV, that sort of thing, low capture resolution for video, but I think they could do still frames higher. I just checked and my …

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Re: How to fit 4 minutes of video onto a standard 3.5" floppy disk?

Posted on 2024-10-04, 00:05

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PCI TV capture cards would typically pass through the full 720x480i30 or 720x576i25 video (at least on the typical BT878 chipset of the time) and displaying that isn't an issue, whether the host CPU is powerful enough to compress that for storage is another matter. More expensive capture cards have …

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Re: Hi guys ! Strange problem. Toshiba 330CDT. dos 6.22. 2 games are stuttering when loading new area, only 2 games

Posted on 2024-10-03, 22:51

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by jtchip

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It's probably the hard drive power management, which can be quite aggressive on some laptops, spinning it down after a very short period, possibly less than a minute. Mute the audio for the game and listen for the hard drive spinning sound going away. When you go to a new area or the game autosaves, …

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Re: How to fit 4 minutes of video onto a standard 3.5" floppy disk?

Posted on 2024-10-03, 22:07

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1440 KiB over 240s is 6144 B/s or 49 kbps, which is just under the data rate for GPRS (2.5G). It was possible to stream video over that to a smartphone, usually MPEG-4 [Advanced] Simple Profile at 176x144, probably around 10 fps at those data rates. On Windows, a popular implementation of that codec …

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Re: Intel publishes a white paper on x86S, a 64-bit only architecture

Posted on 2024-10-02, 00:47

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Personally, I think the ecores should keep it. Let the p cores run free, and Microsoft figure out the scheduler requirements to support it or disable it. If required, have a bios option to set the boot core to p or e. Highly unlikely to happen, Intel has decided on 64-bit UEFI only, no CSM. Legacy …

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Re: Drivers for ethernet card

Posted on 2024-10-01, 01:13

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I was able to get the card working once by unplugging and plugging it back again a bunch of times it's kinda on and off whether windows will recognize it even though it looks like its always properly plugged in. However if I then connect my Aztech sound card (ISA slot) it starts failing again, so …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2024-09-30, 23:01

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Funny thing, the last few days I ended up building Linux 6.11 for i586/K6-2, booting it with loadlin from within DOS into a busybox initrd and from there initialized partition which now contains a rootfs built by buildroot (again, i586, as the K6 is missing i686 instructions like CMOV that were …

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Re: Intel publishes a white paper on x86S, a 64-bit only architecture

Posted on 2024-09-30, 22:20

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64-bit operating systems will still run 32-bit apps exactly as they already do, there aren't any changes to that. wondering if anything important changed to that in version 1.2? ;) i guess we gonna have to track the changes from now on, you never know what gonna happen in the next days ;) No need …

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Re: Minimum hardware to get Netflix working, needs SSSE3? SSE4x? 2024 browser???

Posted on 2024-09-28, 00:45

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edit: more RAM went in annnnnd IDK, the USB light seemed to flash longer before it did nothing.... The legacy nvidia one gave an extra error about windowmanager dependency failing, before the xorg errors repeating. Now I made it boot in "make filesystem on the USB and run off that" mode and it made …

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Re: Vfat Blue screen of pain

Posted on 2024-09-25, 01:29

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And when I put DOS=SINGLE back into the config.sys and try to run windows, the pc just restarts back to dos First I've heard of DOS=SINGLE but from searching around, it causes Windows 9x to start in MS-DOS mode so it's doing exactly what you told it to. Just it remove it then? (I usually use …

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