Sphere478 wrote on 2024-02-04, 02:57: Diy socket 7 motherboard Fpga cpu replacements with modern instruction sets Yes please and yes please. Especially interested in a FPGA or Pico-emulated cpu that can drop into something like socket 1-3. (is the Pi Pico fast enough to emulate a 486?)

plop boot manager I considered it but I couldn't get past the ugly interface. Hence why I want something that it's just a plain text menu with no attempts at being 'fancy'. You can turn off the fancy stuff, even run it in 80x25 text mode. The features on offer really outweigh any concerns about ' …

plop boot manager It has a windows, dos, and linux utility to install/reinstall it and manage it while booted into an operating system just in case one of them decides to trash the MBR. I use plop on a retro laptop with a hdd that is very difficult to remove and also does not support booting to …

Revisiting this one, I got it working using an aftermarket, custom driver, which I'll link here. In spite of claiming to work with a different version of the Broadcom PCI wifi card (Bcm94309mp), I can confirm that it worked well with mine (BCM94306). In terms of what kind of encrypted wireless …

I have a Windows ME install on a Pentium MMX 200MHz with 128MB of RAM. It's got a SoundBlaster 16 with a WaveBlaster card(X2GS) attached, which after some driver finagling I got to work. However, I'm noticing that there is no midi mapper in Windows ME. In Windows 95 and 98/SE there is a MIDI tab in …

Okay, the chips came in the mail today. I tried them out and luckily none of them exploded. However, I am still getting CACHE MEMORY BAD errors, curiously only for a few boot attempts. I think there's some kind of "warming up" that this machine has to do for things to start working 'correctly'. For …

I downloaded the drivers from http://www.vogonsdrivers.com/getfile.php?fileid=1567&menustate=6,1 here since I have learned that this version is supposedly supports the card better. However, I don't get any D3D support or OGL. Not really sure what's going on here. I have DirectX 8.0a installed(though …

I actually think the project should get picked up by FreeDOS.

Is it not ideal to have a similar design to the ISA Voltage Blaster?

Hasn't such machine PMMX an ISA slot? Why not use native SB or compatible and bother with SBEMU? Its for modern PCs without ISA... I feel like this is kind of side-stepping the question. In my specific case I actually don't have an available ISA slot. Anyway, another problem I have is that after I …

I guess the OPL emulation takes too much CPU; what if you disable the FM music and only work with Sound Effects? Or what happens if you start up Epic Pinball, which uses Digital Music? If that works you could perhaps combine SBEMU with OPL2LPT Yes, I considered the possibility that SBEMU might be …

Having trouble getting this working correctly with a SBLive CT4780. I can get it up and running, real and protected mode(no errors when running the commands in the howto) and I get sound. However, music is dreadfully slow on my Pentium 233 MMX and in 44100 mode it crashes the system. Descent, for …

I installed a set of rare 32-pin sram chips and one of them let out magic smoke and could cook an egg with how hot it got! The most lilkely cause is that you inserted the chip backwards. I know it's embarassing and at first you don't want to believe it, but it happened to me, too. I have a fried …

I have this 486 board by PCPartner(part of a VTech Laser 486SX/3). It has four 32-pin cache sockets and two 28-pin TAG/dirty sockets(I am speculating here). I lost the documentation for this machine years ago(and lament it every day), but I have tried various configurations of cache. Unfortunately I …

Cool! Thanks! Now I have a 486 jukebox.

Hi. Could I make a feature request? I want to be able to turn off the "too many errors" message. I am trying to play an m3u playlist with about 43,000 midi files with /random and /dontstop, but eventually it encounters too many incompatible midi files and closes. I don't care if it can't play them.