Re: Quick way to tell if a 486 board supports Pentium OD?

Posted on 2014-12-31, 17:18

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by Shodan486

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Not sure if the board has to do something with the L1 cache since it's inside of the CPU. Anyways I'd for the http://www.stason.org . I'm pretty sure you can find all the info. Then you can find some chipset info on your mobo. These were the google ways (or you can ask on VOGONS ;) ), the visible …

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

Posted on 2014-12-19, 18:52

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by Shodan486

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Anyone know or can determine a good capacitor replacement for this AWE64 Gold I got? The one for the right (red) channel had a broken leg, and no matter or what, I can't get solder to attach. So I think it's best to just replace the thing. But being a little square cap... I can't really tell. I …

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

Posted on 2014-12-18, 17:22

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by Shodan486

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Reinstalled win95 OSR2.5 like 3 times due to IRQ / Memory address conflicts (coz I change stuff all the time 😜 ).

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Re: FSB: 66 vs 100 vs 133 MHz

Posted on 2014-12-16, 22:23

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by Shodan486

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Hey eFatal2ty! Thought it was you :D - I'm still looking for those CL2 RAMs, it's gonna take a while. Apart from that I see some interesting endeavor here - I may contribute with the with that PIII 900 FCPGA mentioned above to further increase the value of this test. PM me on the details. Regarding …

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Re: Crazy system requirements for its time

Posted on 2014-12-11, 03:12

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by Shodan486

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Jedi Knight Dark Forces II, lists itself as playable on a Pentium 90 when it first came out. This game gets like 6-15FPS (unless you look at a wall, or sky which doesn't count lol) at 320x240 on the first stage, in software render mode, it doesn't do any better on a P90 with a 3d card to help it …

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Win95 <---> Win7 Drive Sharing Issues

Posted on 2014-12-09, 01:38

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by Shodan486

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Hi all, Again, an itch of 486 system fiddling need has been released from my inner myself. Forgot about my SCSI CD-RW drive giving me hardtime reading CDs burned with top speeds. Thus wanted to use my 10Mbit LAN to connect to my win7 laptop. Of course win7 to win95 connection is flawless, I can …

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Terra Nova Promotional Items

Posted on 2014-04-12, 01:07

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by Shodan486

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Somebody bought a Terra Nova statue and a tshirt from ebay - was it somebody frome here? Possible resell? 😁 I just love that game, but due to tech. difficulties I was unable to at least bid on it. Yeah, I sound quite desperate - and in this case I prodly am.

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Win7 Profile Issue

Posted on 2014-04-08, 18:44

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by Shodan486

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Got a question about Domain / Profile issue, specifically regarding the removal or renaming of the profile in Win7 - is this the right place? I know we are discussing oldies thingies, but anyways... just asking 😀

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Re: ALLADIN V with Radeon 9800 FREEZING

Posted on 2014-04-08, 13:26

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by Shodan486

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Sorry for the delay guys, had work-related trainings, didn't have time for myself. Just a quick update - Managed to get it working stable - the issue was that I needed to layer the DX7 to DX8.1 and finish with the latest working DX9 for win98SE. That got me stable at Kingpin only, which is actually …

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Re: ALLADIN V with Radeon 9800 FREEZING

Posted on 2014-03-17, 18:17

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by Shodan486

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Man :D I explained it runs, but it gets stuck under mentioned circumstances. Thus the card had to fit and had to work ;) BTW, this is Her Majesty: http://img.clubic.com/00057558-photo-carte-hercules-3d-prophet-9800-pro-vue-1.jpg It has an external power supply connector, it's an AGP universal, thus …

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ALLADIN V with Radeon 9800 FREEZING

Posted on 2014-03-17, 16:52

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by Shodan486

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Hello guys. Was looking for a DDR2 for my friend, long lost amongst my junk, and couldn't resist the lure of my socket7 stuff, thus decided to bring something out of it and build it. Well the story was not that much of a success. I just wanted to pick out something I had tested before and worked for …

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Re: F22 Lightning II IPX Issue

Posted on 2013-10-05, 19:53

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by Shodan486

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Reinstalled the OS and works fine.

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F22 Lightning II IPX Issue

Posted on 2013-10-04, 20:15

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by Shodan486

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Hi Also having problems with this game = in multiplayer, when I click connect the game and the OS freezes. The other computer with the same version is absolutely OK with it. All other games run fine with the IPX, just this one.

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Whacky Wheels Serial Connection Issue

Posted on 2013-10-04, 20:09

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by Shodan486

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Hi all This is my first post about having issues with a game, usually I figure anything, but actually dont have time, im on a retro LAN \ LPT party, so gotta be quick. I cant run this game multi, cant sync the connections. Right now, im copying a win98 iso over the LPT, but the game cant find the …

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Re: CF-IDE troubles with old Phoenix 486 BIOS

Posted on 2013-09-22, 23:35

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by Shodan486

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Be sure that the CF card is set as a Fixed disk...you may use some utilities, but using FDISK is what i recommend. And be sure that the afterwards partition is set to Active.

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Re: Owners of the Highend 486 Systems - Please Advise

Posted on 2013-09-21, 23:05

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by Shodan486

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So it's pretty cool outside nowadays, thus bearable for all living beings and plus extremely positive for the system - so far no errors after doing whatsoever. Will try to locate to possible source of the issue, but since I kind of neglected this inconvenience, the chances to trace it are diminished …

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Re: New Boxed CPUs

Posted on 2013-09-09, 20:40

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by Shodan486

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Look, they're flying. ? Also, didn't Fallen Haven kind of ... suck? It always depends on the POV. It was rather a simple macro-micro economics with classic turn based combats, certainly not an X-Com sophisticated title. If you played it, what would be the things that sucked, just to be precise? As …

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New Boxed CPUs

Posted on 2013-09-09, 18:37

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by Shodan486

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Just got these two babies 😉 Had to put them to my other favourites:

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Re: Drivers for ATi Mach64 2Mb VLB

Posted on 2013-09-08, 13:41

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by Shodan486

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Yes. Since you've gone this far, you'll be able to figure it out, no worries.

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Re: Drivers for ATi Mach64 2Mb VLB

Posted on 2013-08-27, 21:14

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by Shodan486

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I think you won't be needing any ''exact'' driver for you version, but anyways I provide you a solid base of several drivers to be tested on variety of OSes: http://ftp.mpoli.fi/hardware/DISPLAY/ATI/ I can't speak of win3.11, but I sure do know you won't be installing any drivers on win95 - they're …

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