Re: Which games are better on a Macintosh?

Posted on 2023-07-01, 08:52

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by abasak

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What? Seriously? I've never even heard about the Mac version. How does it look like? Got any screenshots? If you look at the Enhanced version that Nightdive put up it uses the high resolution assets, such as character portraits, intro, ingame v-mail and so on. If I recall correctly the Mac version …

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Re: Which games are better on a Macintosh?

Posted on 2023-04-21, 20:03

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by abasak

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System Shock is arguably better on Mac than on PC, if we take the original vanilla CD-version.

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Re: Crazy CMOS battery drain - help needed!

Posted on 2022-12-29, 14:53

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by abasak

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Okay, I might’ve solved it. I am tentatively optimistic. After having removed the dead/Old NVRAM-chip and having put in yet another new battery it seems like it keeps the settings. Before the new battery was already depleted, so when I removed the chip it couldn’t keep the settings anyway.

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Re: Crazy CMOS battery drain - help needed!

Posted on 2022-12-29, 13:39

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by abasak

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I have the newest bios. I have measured from + on the battery to a pin on the clock synthesizer. My multimeter is crap but it measures 0.97-1mA Multimeter set to 20mA

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Re: Crazy CMOS battery drain - help needed!

Posted on 2022-12-29, 00:04

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by abasak

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Thank you for your reply. A: It is a no brand cheap multimeter. Here is a link in Danish to it https://www.xl-byg.dk/shop/millarco-0-visning-af-ohm-volt-og-ampere-multimeter-1825564 1) Yes, I am sure it is a CR1/3N, I will buy a bunch more tomorrow. 2) Thanks for that link. 3) No there was no date …

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Re: Crazy CMOS battery drain - help needed!

Posted on 2022-12-28, 22:54

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by abasak

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Update it uses a W83195BR-25 which is a "Clock Synthesizer for Intel 815 Solano chipset", is that where I should probe with my multimeter? And what ampere setting should I put it on? https://datasheetspdf.com/mobile/370422/Winbo … d/W83195BR-25/1

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Re: Crazy CMOS battery drain - help needed!

Posted on 2022-12-28, 22:29

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by abasak

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That's a great suggestion. I am not that knowledgeable with voltmeters, so two things: 1. does this require a new battery? 2. where do I measure/check the draw? Re: BIOS update, it is updated to the newest BIOS, which didn't fix it.

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Crazy CMOS battery drain - help needed!

Posted on 2022-12-28, 22:10

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by abasak

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I just bought a funny little Point of sale PC, a Wincor Nixdorf Beetle/M. It's configured with a PIII 1Ghz CPU, 512Mb RAM and both an ISA slot and a PCI slot. Right now it is working "fine" with a Voodoo3 PCI and a SB16 CT2940 (OPL3 version). That is all well and good, however when I replaced the …

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Re: Can a CPU override the multiplier settings?

Posted on 2022-12-27, 10:18

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by abasak

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Thanks for the suggestions and help.

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Re: Can a CPU override the multiplier settings?

Posted on 2022-12-26, 23:37

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by abasak

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Thanks for your reply. That would be pretty interesting. I only have this model. However after having changed the voltage to 2.1v nothing really seemed to happen, BUT when I took out one of the RAM sticks it behaved fine. So I guess this board is very difficult, because it can only see 128mb per …

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Re: Can a CPU override the multiplier settings?

Posted on 2022-12-26, 22:19

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by abasak

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Thanks. What makes this extra strange is, that the motherboard actually supports up to 133mhz FSB. Sounds like I should try to get a different board then, sucks that they are so pricy now. EDIT: Do you know of any BIOS settings that could make it more stable at 100Mhz

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Re: Can a CPU override the multiplier settings?

Posted on 2022-12-26, 21:58

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by abasak

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How much would you set the voltage to? 2.00? Another thing that is an issue is, whenever I set the FSB to 100 Mhz the motherboard seems very picky about which video card it will work with. Geforce 4 MX440s kinda works but crashes in hires mode in Hi-Octane. My Matrox G550 doesn't even post. My 3DFX …

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Re: Can a CPU override the multiplier settings?

Posted on 2022-12-26, 21:23

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by abasak

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Ah okay, thanks. I just thought I could change it since the slot 1 board lets me set the multiplier.

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Can a CPU override the multiplier settings?

Posted on 2022-12-26, 21:03

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by abasak

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I have a Celeron 300A on a slotket adapter (ms6905 ver 1.1) in a FIC KA-6100 board. The slotket is set to auto voltage. However no matter whatever I do, the CPU overrides the multiplier settings making it impossible to do anything but 4.5 x of whatever bus speed I set and sadly 4,5 x 100Mhz crashes …

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Re: External CD-ROM driver with only male VGA and RCA?

Posted on 2022-12-14, 22:42

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by abasak

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Yes, I was thinking that it was using the dsub 15pin interface for something else, but was hoping anybody had come across one of these before.

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External CD-ROM driver with only male VGA and RCA?

Posted on 2022-12-14, 22:22

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by abasak

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I just stumbled over (might've bought) an external CD-ROM drive, with a (for me) strange selection of ports. It only has VGA male (D-SUB 15 pin) and RCA connectors. What was the purpose of that? And how do I get it to work?

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Re: 486 board with no FDD connector

Posted on 2022-04-17, 09:54

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by abasak

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Thanks for the allegro-hint! Much appreciated! I will definately check that out.

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Re: 486 board with no FDD connector

Posted on 2022-04-16, 06:55

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by abasak

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Thanks for all the great replies! I’m trying to find a cheap controller here in EU, but seems like they start at around €50 on eBay. For a stand alone PCI IDE controller, how do you set the drive size? Is that just automatically detected?

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Re: 486 board with no FDD connector

Posted on 2022-04-14, 20:17

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by abasak

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yes of course, how stupid can I be… brain fart. Thanks.

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486 board with no FDD connector

Posted on 2022-04-14, 19:55

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by abasak

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I just got an old SOYO 030H2 486 board, that had some battery damage, that I was able to fix with some isopropyl alcohol, and a patch wire. However the board is proving a bit of a hassle to boot. It has a HDD limit of around 1.7gb to 2gb, which is a problem since I don’t have any 1-2gb SD cards for …

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