Re: FastDoom. A new Doom port for DOS, optimized to be as fast as possible for 386/486 personal computers!

Posted on 2024-05-21, 14:15

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Maybe I'm missing something, but I've never heard of refresh rate being tied to the thickness of scanlines. Think of drawing on newspaper type paper with a felt-tip or fibre-tip pen, if you draw a line fast, it's thin, if you draw it slow it's thick where the ink soaks in. It's kinda the same with …

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Re: What happened to the Spez FTP archive?

Posted on 2024-05-17, 03:50

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One thing that happens is that one IP can have 50 hosts on it, and one or two of them are porn or nastier, then ISPs and some nations will block them and the IP. Or family safe features in some routers, or by deliberate choice of DNS provider do.

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Re: What happened to the Spez FTP archive?

Posted on 2024-05-16, 00:16

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I've been using the CoffeeCup Free FTP https://www.coffeecup.com/freestuff/ ... I can tolerate it... IDK depends what you're used to, seems as good as the win3x trumpet ones from back in the day.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-05-15, 23:14

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Don't need it, but I'm a sucker for hardware still in the box with everything originally included from this time period. And it's cool because it has VGA and digital output. Cool to get boxed. That chipset I have had on other cards, seemed very "middle" speedwise of everything on ISA that will put …

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Re: Absolute best, Most reliable fans

Posted on 2024-05-15, 13:21

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I forgot Comair Rotron. Does ADDA still exist? I think they do, but my only experience with them is replacing them after they fail. For some reason, almost all of the Adda fans I've seen were sleeve bearing. I think they were Sunon or Delta equivalent up to mid 90s then went all "race to the bottom …

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Re: Absolute best, Most reliable fans

Posted on 2024-05-15, 03:55

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Papst metal frame seem to go forever. Comair-Rotron are also brutes, and have models specifically designed for nasty environments.

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Re: Pocket 386, the brother of Hand386 and Book8088, the story so far ...

Posted on 2024-05-14, 21:43

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derp, completely missed it. It was just first time it showed up on my manual webscrapes so thought it was newer info.

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Re: Pocket 386, the brother of Hand386 and Book8088, the story so far ...

Posted on 2024-05-14, 20:37

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Real Time Clock, RTC news https://yiff.life/@nallwolf/112395318290646459

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Re: What happened to the Spez FTP archive?

Posted on 2024-05-14, 20:27

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Something is definitely not OK with this ftp, browsing is OK but downloading happens at dial-up speed with constant failures after aprox. 1'. @AngelaTheSephira if you only want a specific file, try some client that will automatically reconnect and resume. Cool, authentically retro lol ... but …

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Re: 3 (+3 more) retro battle stations

Posted on 2024-05-14, 16:19

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I think the notion I had about adaptecs being crappy might have come from early Linux SCSI documentation, where the authors were obviously preferring PCI solutions. However, there was in the mid 90s somewhat of a plague of crappy SCSI cards that came "free" with SCSI scanners and other peripheral …

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Re: Pocket 386, the brother of Hand386 and Book8088, the story so far ...

Posted on 2024-05-14, 14:39

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I am getting near zero time in on mine due to too much stuff going on at once here. However, some thoughts on various stuff. Battery life: Mine seems reasonable, think I am getting over 2 hours, but unsure by how much. Green artifacting/shadowing: Not seen on my unit yet, but I have seen it back in …

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

Posted on 2024-05-14, 13:28

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Appreciate the reply. Haven't inspected inside the dead PSU yet, interestingly, it actually ruined the power cable too. You're in the UK right? Maybe think about changing the plug fuses on the cables for old AT supplies down to 3A or if you can find them 2A or 1.5A that way if they start to go …

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

Posted on 2024-05-13, 21:16

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So today I received a P60 system listed as not working on eBay. As soon as I plugged the power lead into it, before I even had a chance to switch the system on, the PSU went bang and released a little magic smoke. Anybody seen this before? Probably the filter cap. They are hot all the time and will …

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Re: Will the Book 8088 be a future classic?

Posted on 2024-05-13, 17:55

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Interesting, looks like it may share case and screen, maybe video adapter with Pocket386. Vid is showing CPU recognising as V20, not sure if that means that is what it is coming with, or that was a tester, or it has a more integrated chip like the P386 does so maybe one with V20 core like V40.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-05-13, 13:47

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demiurge wrote on 2024-05-11, 19:10: Asus PCI-AV264VT MediaBus 2.0 Triplex (啓亨) Tseng ET6000 Oh wow, an actual MediaBus card, have seen the slots, but first time I've seen the card that goes in them. What board are you going to put that in? Does just the VGA half work if you put it in a regular PCI …

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Re: Intel wants to drop 16/32bit. A possible opportunity...?

Posted on 2024-05-12, 21:48

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To my recollection, they cost more than Atom boards, which was a bit silly.

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Re: Will the Book 8088 be a future classic?

Posted on 2024-05-10, 18:28

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Back in the day we'd assume regular XTs to top out at about 19,200 based on 8088@4.77 and 8450 uart tech. This was going through DOS/BIOS routines. Some utils existed to hammer on hardware directly and get more like 38,400 .... and that was kind of the generic reliable limit under DOS/BIOS with AT …

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Re: what do you think is the best 440bx mainboard in the world?

Posted on 2024-05-09, 04:28

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I'll take whatever can run a PIII-S at 150fsb, handle an overclocked GF4600 for AGP power demands, and run 1GB RAM unbuffered. Though oddly I like my P2-99 with the ZX... coz it's the only one out of 7 P2B series turkeys that will run. Yeah so highest preference in a BX board is that I already have …

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Re: 3 (+3 more) retro battle stations

Posted on 2024-05-09, 04:12

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Very interesting, I thought AHA-1542 cards were meant to be kind of crappy, but they do okay here. I have a couple kicking around. May have to plan to put one in my potential ISA 486DX50 build...... Might be an idea for my 386DX40 board as well, but I was tending toward keeping that "middle of the …

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Re: Do you think prices will stay high?

Posted on 2024-05-08, 14:18

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I can usually finagle 20% or so off the buy it now price, but sometimes I'll find a seller who won't accept offers that are even slightly lower. What's the point of making your item OBO if you do that? Hah, I've challenged ppl before on the use of words like "OBO" "Mint" etc, and got back snotty …

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