Re: Newly made ISA CGA cards with real 6845s?!
Posted on 2024-02-02, 14:25
keenmaster486 wrote on 2024-02-02, 06:49: It seems they also sell... bearings? I think the bearings are the webstore's version of "Lorem ipsum"
Re: Are there any quick SD adapters?
Posted on 2024-02-02, 02:37
darry wrote on 2024-02-02, 02:14: Must the solution absolutely need to imply using an SD card ? Good point. If you have a GB ethernet port on the motherboard, should be able to transfer at up to 80GB/s with a cheap switch and a generic config, maybe 120MB/s if you have a good switch and you tweak …
Re: Are there any quick SD adapters?
Posted on 2024-02-01, 19:56
I am looking for a relatively fast solution to transfer relatively large files from a SD card to a older PC. So we are talking a motherboard with out a PCIe slot or USB 3.0 ports to use. Are there any relatively quick SD to IDE, Sata, CompactFlash, SCSI, FireWire or any other solutions that will …
Re: fastest isa video card in windows? (2d acceleration included)
Posted on 2024-02-01, 15:49
I've never seen an ISA version of the S3 Trio. This might be S3's best ISA card: https://www.vgamuseum.info/index.php/companies/item/345-s3-p86c801 There's a pcmcia one, I benchmarked it some years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S3_Trio Motherboard interface: ISA, VLB, PCI, AGP (Trio3D only) So …
Re: fastest isa video card in windows? (2d acceleration included)
Posted on 2024-02-01, 12:43
- Finally there are no (or I couldnt find them) real benchmarks available showing the GDI 2D performance of ISA cards under e.g. W95 via Winbench, Wintach, Wintune oder whatever What bench mark would you like to see? The fastest ISA card in Windows is of course ATI Mach64 VRAM. What about an S3 …
Re: List of VLB IDE Controllers
Posted on 2024-02-01, 12:33
Hi, actually Peter's card is currently with me. So below I present its photos. That's a curiously stripped down card. The chip should support 2 IDE headers, but it ain't there on your board. I've got a SIS611 card and a SIS601 card. On both boards, the jumper to disable the second IDE controller is …
Re: Newly made ISA CGA cards with real 6845s?!
Posted on 2024-01-31, 21:28
I don't know what to make of their website at all ... http://8086cpu.com/ Half constructed ? But they do have spec sheets: http://8086cpu.com/lm6/79.html
Re: VOGONS Driver Library
Posted on 2024-01-31, 15:13
We have some new driver categories: Home-->Storage-->Optical -- CD-ROM, DVD, BluRay, etc Home-->Graphics-->WesternDigital -- It's paradise and then some Home-->Other HW-->Monitors -- for monitor INF files Home-->Other HW-->RAM (EMS/XMS) -- for Memory Expansion Boards, EMS and XMS drivers Home--> …
Re: VOGONS Driver Library
Posted on 2024-01-31, 12:37
Honest question: Do these drivers have any advantage over these drivers? CL-GD5480 Drivers for Win9x 1.24 I don't know. I just thought maybe older versions are also archived. These weren't that straightforward to find. If they don't belong there, that's fine. Cirrus Logic GD546x - Windows 95/98 - …
Re: List of VLB IDE Controllers
Posted on 2024-01-30, 20:45
The board had a 85c418F chip that does UMC SVGA and IDE and a 64KB EPROM. The VGA portion was at C000 and the IDE portion was repeated at C800, CA00, CC00, and CE00 After I moved the card to a board with AMI BIOS, I could clearly see that both ROMs did start at different times like you described. I …
Re: Video RAM chips for a UMC TK-85C408VGA ISA Video Card?
Posted on 2024-01-30, 20:38
dJOS wrote on 2024-01-29, 04:05: I’d be surprised if it was compatible, VLB is very different from plain ISA. I don't know. BIOS claims to have support for UM85C4x8 chips and some of those early VLB video cards had jumpers to enable or disable VLB.
Re: WD Paradise VLBUS3300
Posted on 2024-01-30, 20:32
The picture is pretty bad, hard to see something, also the Bios was missing therefore I thought it is not the actual card, but never mind. I mean the upgrade is 99% in vain, but you could try it and then post into my "useless upgrade thread" https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=95561 OK, so …
Re: WD Paradise VLBUS3300
Posted on 2024-01-30, 20:05
Can you post a picture from your card? What is the RAMDAC? With a 80MHz RAMDAC I am sure, that the upgrade is useless, you won't have additional resolutions/modes. Even when there is a 110MHz RAMDAC on the card, I guess that the upgrade will be useless. There is a picture of the card in the …
Re: WD Paradise VLBUS3300
Posted on 2024-01-30, 18:36
I have this board Filename DXL9IL677.png File size 946.97 KiB Views 307 views I put a copy of the BIOS here: https://www.vogonsdrivers.com/getfile.php?fileid=2145 I had some spare chips. Siemens 514256B-60 I put them in, but the board didn't detect them. I guess they are too slow ? I figured it …
Re: List of VLB IDE Controllers
Posted on 2024-01-30, 13:04
Thank you very much. My controller looks a little different. I have a question about how to disable the second channel in the controller. My controller is single-channel. When installing the driver, the computer freezes and looks for an entry for the second channel. Without a driver, the controller …
Re: VOGONS Driver Library
Posted on 2024-01-29, 14:30
eddman wrote on 2024-01-25, 20:54: I managed to find more Cirrus Logic 5480 Win9x drivers. I don't have an account, so if anyone can please upload them if they're ok. Honest question: Do these drivers have any advantage over these drivers? CL-GD5480 Drivers for Win9x 1.24 Cirrus Logic GD546x - …
Re: ISA or PCI expansion cards that support USB keyboards? (re: DOS, Socket 7 motherboard, etc)
Posted on 2024-01-29, 14:10
My experience with USB keyboards on DOS is not great. I agree. 1) USB 1.0 was touchy. Hard to predict what would and what wouldn't work. The drivers were often a hot mess. Crashes while hot plugging devices were not unheard of. So that's the baseline that the OP is working with. 2) Next you have …
Re: How about a MR-BIOS ROM file repository?
Posted on 2024-01-29, 12:10
appiah4 wrote on 2024-01-29, 08:20: Umm.. Nope I dumped and posted 486 MR-BIOS ROMs in the past? From an OCTEK DMA2 board.. I'm working through the ROMS there and so far all of the one look like ROMs that have already been found, just with different file names. I got excited for a second. Looks …
Re: Video RAM chips for a UMC TK-85C408VGA ISA Video Card?
Posted on 2024-01-29, 03:34
If you want to try a newer bios, we were recently given this VLB one: http://vogonsdrivers.com/getfile.php?fileid=2143 Would it work on ISA?
Re: AWARD BIOS chip missing
Posted on 2024-01-29, 03:26
Does the board boot? Its probably just a matter of buying a new EEPROM and flashing in wth the correct BIOS. Looks like that’s a F29C51002T eeprom. You can find bios images here: https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/dfi-pa61
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