Re: Windows 98 versus Windows 98SE? DOS compatibility differences?

Posted on 2010-05-10, 18:24

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by swaaye

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If you want some REALLY good info, try msfn.org ;) ;) ;) http://www.msfn.org/board/16bit-heaps-expander-thread-t130991.html Yeah I found that on there awhile back. It blows my mind that MS managed to further their monopoly with those operating systems. They are just horrible software riddled with …

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Re: Which Pentium IIs can be underclocked?

Posted on 2010-05-10, 00:10

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by swaaye

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How come we don't have any Katmai fans here? I feel like I was the only guy with a Katmai P3 back in the day. There were even a few steppings that overclocked super well, such as SL35D which was a 450/100 that would happily do 600/133 very frequently cuz it had the faster cache chips. A nice upgrade …

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Re: Windows 98 versus Windows 98SE? DOS compatibility differences?

Posted on 2010-05-10, 00:04

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No I don't hate ME but it definitely wasn't really a big improvement over 98SE. I don't really see a good reason to use it over 98SE, that's all. If I want to play games that won't work in XP, 98SE also gives me easy access to DOS so that's just what I use for my needs. Something like that. :) Did …

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Re: Windows 98 versus Windows 98SE? DOS compatibility differences?

Posted on 2010-05-09, 21:33

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heh. I haven't used 98FE since 98SE came out. Never looked back and never noticed any extra compatibility problems. Windows ME was the one that was a bitch because of how it tried to hide DOS (a curious idea overall). I've haven't touched that one for many years because there are few reasons to …

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Re: Which Pentium IIs can be underclocked?

Posted on 2010-05-09, 19:24

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by swaaye

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I've killed a XP-M before myself. Cracked the core a little too much. I really don't miss the naked core days at all. I killed a K6-III+ that way too. Removed the heatspreader because I wanted to cool it better (completely pointless with those chips btw). They are VERY easy to crack. I had even set …

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Re: SB PCI 512

Posted on 2010-05-09, 19:09

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http://thumbnails17.imagebam.com/5102/49245751011082.gif Creative Live!Ware 3.0 CD ISO+update.7z This will only install on the original SBLive! or Live! Value. Doesn't detect 5.1 edition Live! cards. It's for Win9x. I uploaded this a while back. It's about authentic as you can get. I paid Creative …

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Re: SB PCI 512

Posted on 2010-05-09, 18:46

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by swaaye

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I'm not sure that a Live CD will work. Creative loved to mess around with people by being tricky with what device ids their software works with. Even if SB512 is identical to Live.

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Re: 133 MHz Challenge - 5th/6th gen CPU per clock performance

Posted on 2010-05-09, 00:53

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by swaaye

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K5 has very impressive ALU performance so maybe there's something to consider there.

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Re: My first 486 rig!

Posted on 2010-05-07, 23:11

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by swaaye

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There's also the fun of reliving the excitement that was around when 95 first came out. That OS was such a huge jump up from Windows 3.1 on every level.

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Re: My first 486 rig!

Posted on 2010-05-07, 20:06

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by swaaye

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98SE is definitely considerably slower on a 486 than 95C. There's nothing to argue there. Unless you want to blow time modding 98SE into using 95's shell. And yes all 9x OSs are fundamentally unstable. But considering all we do here is game on these systems it doesn't really matter. It tends to get …

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Re: My first 486 rig!

Posted on 2010-05-07, 20:03

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by swaaye

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True, but I was wondering wether Windows 98SE would possibly be more stable. And it should be possible to tweak 98 into running much lighter. Also iirc 98 is a lil more efficient with memory leakage One of 98lite's options turns 98 into 95 essentially by using 95's shell. Arguing about their …

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Re: My first 486 rig!

Posted on 2010-05-07, 19:00

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by swaaye

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Voodoo3 works on my MSI-4144 486 PCI mobo with SiS 496/497. I even got it running 3D games once I got some old drivers that didn't require Pentium instructions. But it is ridiculous overkill and puts off too much heat. S3 Virge or some such all the way. Oh and I definitely recommend Windows 95 on …

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Re: FREE* Intel VS440FX mobo + CPU + RAM

Posted on 2010-05-07, 18:55

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You can already make it effectively silent with a 80mm at 5v. If you took that fan away you would still need a fan of some sort cooling the voltage regulator or it would burn up for sure.

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Re: My first 486 rig!

Posted on 2010-05-07, 18:33

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by swaaye

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S3 all the way. Only Tseng Labs stuff might be comparably compatible. Matrox is not worth considering for anything IMO. POD83 is messy. All it's really good for, if it works, is 3D games. a Am5x86 160 is faster otherwise. If you want to play 3D games, you don't want a 486 platform at all. I wouldn't …

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Re: FREE* Intel VS440FX mobo + CPU + RAM

Posted on 2010-05-07, 02:56

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by swaaye

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I'm not sure that CPU was entirely stable at 233..... Yeah the 1MB chips put out a good bit more heat than the other PPros. It's not that much heat compared to what came from say Athlon Tbird or Palomino though! I believe it's somewhere around 40W. If you have a 80mm fan strapped on there running …

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Re: My first 486 rig!

Posted on 2010-05-06, 18:38

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Stay away from old ATI cards. Bad for DOS games. S3 all the way. I'd look for an S3 Virge of some sort because then you can try out the shitty 3D on a faster machine someday if you're curious. ;) When it comes to cacheable L2 cache range, a 486 with 256K L2 usually does 32MB in writeback mode and …

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Re: Random Thoughts - Modern 3D Graphics in DOS?

Posted on 2010-05-06, 18:32

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by swaaye

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Eh there are many other completely 3D games in DOS going back to the mid '80s. CPU rendered 3D was no problem. It's when they have to interface with more and more hardware in DOS that it becomes horribly complex.

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Re: My first 486 rig!

Posted on 2010-05-06, 03:05

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by swaaye

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But it does make Verite a less than ideal choice for a 486. 😁 Oh poor poor Tetrium 🙁 🙁 🙁 😁

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Re: Advice on a 486 Build

Posted on 2010-05-06, 02:54

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by swaaye

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You can usually use larger drives. The controller just won't be able to use all of it. People would use drive overlay software to get around this back in the day, but I would stay away from that because it's troublesome. FDisk will just show you the max that the BIOS allows.

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Re: Trouble in Paradise!

Posted on 2010-05-05, 21:46

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by swaaye

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NVIDIA drivers don't do anything to DOS.... The drivers will only affect the GUI environment. Are you running DOS games within Windows (a DOS box) or are you rebooting into DOS? You should really just setup up a DOS boot menu and skip Windows altogether for DOS games IMO. You could have a hardware …

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