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Properly jumpered the T-398 for a Cyrix 6x86. Having a tabbed jumper surely sped up the process. Sadly the PA-2005 doesn't have a turbo switch pinout.

working on messing around with the classic Small-C compiler.

Have installed a 32K expension in my 16K speccy. Going to work on a youtube video about it.

nforce4max wrote:

clueless1 wrote:

This summer sale got me nearly every game on my wishlist. Pretty soon I'm going to need a bigger monitor just to display all the GOG titles. 🤣

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Now that is impressive 😳

It pays to wait for GOG games to go on sale. Yes, I have more games than I could probably ever play (154), but I paid an average of $1.605 per game. So for less than $250, I have almost every game I've ever owned or wanted to own, and it takes up much less space than $250 worth of retro hardware. Plus most of the DOS-era games are playable in real DOS and they're all non-DRM so I can easily install on any of my future PCs. Sweet.

Yea just put them on the wishlist, you will get an e-mail notification when the game is on sale. Often you save 80% on the price.

Flashed v1.07 ROMS for my MT-32, upgrading over my v1.05 factory roms.

At work today, but in the past 6 months, I have resurrected my old PII computer from its grave and it's 4x more beast-mode than it ever was back in 1999 (first build date).

Motherboard: ASUS P2B Version 1.02 440BX (as if I'd have had anything less back then)
CPU: Intel Pentium II 350MHz Slot 1 MMX (disassembled and replaced old dried out TIM with Arctic Silver 5 and reassembled)
RAM: 256 MB PC-100 ECC (disabled in BIOS)
Primary IDE Master: 40GB WD Caviar IDE (C: Windows)
Primary IDE Slave: 40GB WD Caviar IDE (D: Identical drive to C: but has Win98 CD files installed on it so no disk swapping during driver installs!)
Secondary IDE Master: 42x CD-RW
Secondary IDE Slave: 250MB IOMEGA ZIP drive
VGA1: Diamond Viper V770 (nVidia RIVA TNT2) 32MB AGP
VGA2: STB Voodoo2 12MB PCI
VGA3: STB Voodoo2 12MB PCI (SLI Mode)
Sound: Creative Labs Sound Blaster AWE64 (4 MB version) ISA
NET: 10/100 Fast Ethernet PCI
Case: Mid-tower ATX standard (2x HDD, 2x 3.5", 3x 5.25" bays)
Power: 500 Watt

Super-frickin' overkill, but also CPU limited. 🙁 But my old hardware (motherboard, CPU, RAM) still work like a charm. I had to replace the CMOS battery and flash the BIOS to the last version to read the 40GB hard drives, but it worked out really well. I also have a Diamond Monster 3D II 8MB card (Voodoo2) and I'm wondering if a pair of those would be better than the STB 12MB cards due to the "slower" Pentium II holding the system back. Fantastic speeds playing Quake and Quake II, though. Unreal Gold looks BEAUTIFUL at 768 resolution in 3dfx Glide mode. Half-Life just looks like I remember it back in the day.

Of course, none of this holds a candle to my current system, but what could? I built it last November.

Maybe picking up a Dell Optiplex gx240. 1.5 P4, onboard 16mb Rage 128 and 2-3gb of ram

FFXIhealer wrote:

my current system

Skylake?

keenmaster486 wrote:

FFXIhealer wrote:

my current system

Skylake?

You becha.

Intel Core i7-6700K 4.0GHz
Corsair H100i 2x120mm liquid-cooler
16GB DDR4-3200
Samsung SM951 256GB m.2 PCI-Express 3.0 x4 (C: Windows 10 boot)
Samsung 850 EVO 1TB SATA (D: Games)
Seagate 3TB 7,200 RPM SATA (L: User profiles, movies, mp3s, system backups)
MSI Z170A Gaming M7
MSI nVidia GeForce GTX 980Ti 6GB

Played on this:
Center monitor: ACER Predator 27" 144Hz G-Sync 1440p gaming monitor
Left monitor: Samsung 23" 1080p 60Hz LED
Right monitor: Dell 23" 1080p 60Hz LED

In a full-tower Antec 1200 case modified to fit the Corsair H100i to fit onto the stock rear 120mm fans with its own high SPL fans on the other side in a push-pull configuration. PSU is a 1,000 fully-modular bottom-mounted style. I added USB 3.0 ports to the front in the 3.5" drive bay. Kept the stock USB 2.0 ports on top. Has a Blu-ray burner as an optical drive and 4x 120mm blue LED fans for intake (3x in the front, 1x over graphics card on the clear side-window). Has the stock 240mm huge fan on top as an exhaust, even with the big radiator behind and beneath it. Pictures will probably follow later once I'm home to take them and post them. This job pays the bills, so it kind-of comes first.

Wowza. That's a pretty awesome system, good work 😀

Thinking around and looks like the Zalaman cnps 7000 mounts onto socket 423 boards without much fuss, used the portion of the kit that was meant for socket A (through hole mounting kit) and it is only off by a few mm but still center enough to mount the cooler using only one screw per side. Freedom from stock cooling 😀

nforce4max wrote:

Thinking around and looks like the Zalaman cnps 7000 mounts onto socket 423 boards without much fuss, used the portion of the kit that was meant for socket A (through hole mounting kit) and it is only off by a few mm but still center enough to mount the cooler using only one screw per side. Freedom from stock cooling 😀

I would be worried about force distribution of the cooler mount vs the motherboard. You should also think about transport. The cooler might break off if it's only held by two sides.

I might also be wrong and it will work just fine.

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Installing the Watcom C++ compiler in Dosbox because I need to compile a 1994-vintage DOS program and I only have my Win7 laptop with me.

Arctic wrote:

nforce4max wrote:

Thinking around and looks like the Zalaman cnps 7000 mounts onto socket 423 boards without much fuss, used the portion of the kit that was meant for socket A (through hole mounting kit) and it is only off by a few mm but still center enough to mount the cooler using only one screw per side. Freedom from stock cooling 😀

I would be worried about force distribution of the cooler mount vs the motherboard. You should also think about transport. The cooler might break off if it's only held by two sides.

I might also be wrong and it will work just fine.

It will be fine at least for the pcchips board I got plus I am not going to use a cnps7000A 🤣.
The alcu is light enough 😉

This could be the go to option for those wanting to escape the stock cooling in their 423 rig if they got room for it.

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PeterLI wrote:

The PC did not recognize the sound card. I threw it out already. Now I remember why I exclusively use Creative and Roland: it always works right away: no TSR BS. 😀

What card was that? I'm not aware of any card with wavetable header that has only Windows drivers.

stamasd wrote:

Installing the Watcom C++ compiler in Dosbox because I need to compile a 1994-vintage DOS program and I only have my Win7 laptop with me.

nice. i have 10+11 (a/b/c) and a I have built open watcom 2 for dos as well. 10 can make 8088/8086 code but 11+ow2 cant, which is interesting. 11c also dropped some other things from 11a/b (11c is open watcom basically).