Re: Tillamook 266MHz and working L2 cache?

Posted on 2022-11-01, 08:54

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by ChrisK

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Sphere478 wrote on 2022-10-31, 10:55: Pentium 1 366mhz The Infamous Golden Tiger/Warrior 🥳 Where did you find this? The paint job and the print really look horrible. Have you already tested it?

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-11-01, 08:51

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by ChrisK

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Oh, forgot to write down the board name: it's a Gigabyte GA5SMM. The manual book is around so it's even easier to set it up. 😀 Shuttle HOT-599 is another mATX example. Got this a while ago with a hardware bundle virtually for free after selling some other stuff from this lot. Very nice and compact …

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

Posted on 2022-10-19, 12:43

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eSATA wasn't such a bad thing. The extremely stiff cables without a reasonable power supply scheme were. There was an eSATAp "standard" with 12V & 5V, though, but that wasn't very much used. I'm one of those misguided individuals using eSATA occasionally for 2.5" SATA HDDs/SSDs needing 5V only. (The …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-10-19, 11:52

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by ChrisK

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Right now Im trying to learn Japanese but they have three alphabets, Hiragana, Kanji and Katakana and each one is used for different things but Kanji is used to form entire words with one symbol. ...I actually find Kanji easy but Hiragana still confuses me. I tried to get these Kana into my head …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-10-17, 14:37

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by ChrisK

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...or put it below a starting Delta Heavy for more than 5.391247 x 10^-44 s

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

Posted on 2022-10-14, 20:42

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by ChrisK

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Are you using IMD to do this? it's the best alignment tool I've yet used since you can see in real time how the alignment is per head and per track. Adrian's said he uses it but I don't recall a video on it. PCRetroTech did a good video on how to use the tool here: https://youtu.be/VZ9xhFkHZ5c?t= …

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

Posted on 2022-10-13, 11:19

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by ChrisK

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I think I can remember this name. I have spent quite some time on youtube and other sites on the web searching for some advice regarding this but most only deal with track zero problems. I also found some specs regarding theoretical alignment of upper and lower head but none of that "knowledge" lead …

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

Posted on 2022-10-13, 07:07

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by ChrisK

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Repairing floppy drives is really delicate work. I once ruined one after cleaning, but not directly through the cleaning itself. After reassembly it just wouldn't rotate the disc so I took it apart again. Couldn't find the issue at first but noticed that the upper head was bend a bit, that little …

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Re: Voodoo 2: mouse not working in SLI mode issue

Posted on 2022-09-08, 07:03

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by ChrisK

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I think the mouse must have generated massive USB transactions because of some dirt triggered the mouse wheel's sensor and that made the machine almost unresponsible. Or something in that way. But why this only affected SLI mode maintains a mystery.

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Re: Voodoo 2: mouse not working in SLI mode issue

Posted on 2022-09-06, 10:38

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by ChrisK

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It always worked like it is before. I did not change any hardware component. Besides that, IRQs look ok. BUT, guess what: think I got it working again. THIS is so weird, I can't tell. It just fu..ed up my hole last day... 😠 In a last attempt and in the hope to not have to reinstall Win98 I tested …

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Voodoo 2: mouse not working in SLI mode issue

Posted on 2022-09-06, 09:19

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by ChrisK

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Hi, I have a really not so funny effect with my system. Does anybody did ever have something similar and what could be the reason? The problem is that my mouse stops working when running ANY game/demo (3dfx Donut) that uses the Voodoo 2s in SLI mode. The system starts lagging seriously an no mouse …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-08-26, 12:41

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by ChrisK

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I bought this nearly full-length Toshiba DVD decoder. One of the first; this thing was over $1300 new - now less than $20 w/shipping. It works and looks pretty good connected to a S3 Virge or ATI Rage card. It uses the Windows DVD player. The cable I had to buy separately; it cost about half as …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-08-26, 07:22

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by ChrisK

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PS2 Slim, in working condition. Looking forward to do some REAL console gaming. Oh yeah, Final Fantasy X... Spent tons of hours on it but never really finished it while beeing close to the end. Wanted to level my team as much as possibly before this step to fight those almighty dragons/ghosts ( …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-08-26, 07:17

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by ChrisK

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I bought this nearly full-length Toshiba DVD decoder. One of the first; this thing was over $1300 new - now less than $20 w/shipping. It works and looks pretty good connected to a S3 Virge or ATI Rage card. It uses the Windows DVD player. The cable I had to buy separately; it cost about half as …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-08-17, 08:30

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by ChrisK

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No it really is not a Cirrus. I just referred to your current one. Picture was from the link given by debs3759 but I have the exact same one in one of my boxes. Seemed a bit strange to me when I got it because I never heard of this manufacturer but it works as far as I have tested it. Vgamuseum is …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-08-16, 15:35

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by ChrisK

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... (Anyone got ideas for other cards in funky colors I should have in this 286?) ... How about this one: td3588a2_tamarack.jpg This wonderful yellow-golden-brownish color would make a nice contrast to that standard PCB green. 512kB of RAM should also not be too generous for a 286 and a Cirrus VGA …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-08-09, 07:24

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by ChrisK

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Also bought a 12 Mb Voodoo2, PowerColor branded for 33 usd/eur this week. The card is missing it's bracket, but it's working! Can you just buy a bracket, 3d print one, or just buy a blank bracket and dremel it out? What do people usually do? Not the very best solution in terms of sturdiness but …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-08-09, 07:13

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Added 12MB STB Black Magic 3D Voodoo2's and a couple of Intel NICs to the collection. I bought them because of the 12MB all being located on the front of the board Nice cards! Is there any advantage to having the memory on only one side? I looked at the other thread and only noticed the memory is …

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

Posted on 2022-08-08, 07:53

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by ChrisK

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Certainly not any miracle work like others perform around here, but I saved this Asus V9280 AGP 8x Ti4200 64MB from the "recycle bin." I bought this on eBay some while back for $28.00/shipped from Ukraine. The seller advertised and demonstrated it worked, but it was missing a capacitor. When it …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-08-06, 15:10

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by ChrisK

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frankmonk wrote on 2022-08-05, 15:46: Got pretty lucky on ebay and got me a Roland MPU-401AT new in the box IMG_20220805_174356.jpg Nur echt mit dem Grünen Punkt 😁 I always wonder how people find these things in original boxes.

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