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Re: SVGA Games for 286 ?

Posted on 2024-05-03, 21:27

in Milliways

in Milliways

Here's Digger, a DOS game that uses 640x480 16c and runs smoothly on a 286. Played it many times way back in the 90s on my 286-12. Originates from KC85 platform? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37BA-uh31ro I had to look up what you meant by this, because that is not classic digger for sure. This is …

Re: SVGA Games for 286 ?

Posted on 2024-05-03, 20:56

in Milliways

in Milliways

Well yes, high resolution was available, even before SVGA was standard. But this was expensive at that time, when the 286 would have been popular enough. Games picked up more color first, then a bit later, higher resolutions. The 286 kind of missed that boat in favor of the already cheaper 386+ …

Re: SVGA Games for 286 ?

Posted on 2024-05-03, 19:31

in Milliways

in Milliways

I think the fact that some games run on a 286 and have SVGA support is just a side-effect of that they were 16-bit games. No one was buying SVGA to put on a 286 when SVGA was cheap enough to buy to play some games. SVGA was popular when 386 was mainstream. It was around when Windows 3 was getting …

Re: Pentium 60/66 are DOS Only?

Posted on 2024-05-01, 14:47

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The P60 when it arrived was expensive. This also ended up being the start of the transition period away from DOS. If you were buying one then, you could even have been in the market for Windows NT. But then even Windows 95 was a bit late for it, but was very ideal at the same time, as long as you …

Re: Pentium 60/66 are DOS Only?

Posted on 2024-05-01, 13:11

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

the focus of discussion of this post is not on whether it is possible to install win95/win98 or xp on a Pentium60 (which I will certainly try to do out of curiosity) but whether in your opinion it is a machine that expresses its potential at 90% in the field of pure dos Your topic title asks "if …

Re: Pentium 60/66 are DOS Only?

Posted on 2024-05-01, 03:33

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

In my memory, if you had a P60 and 16MB of RAM when Win95 came out, you were doing pretty good. We didn't even have that. As far as today, it's just a matter whether you are running something like a more mature win32 app, or something that requires min Win95. In '95 there weren't exactly too many …

Re: Can someone tell me what all these parts are worth as a single lot

Posted on 2024-04-30, 22:57

in Milliways

in Milliways

I agree that there are unknowns, like what the video cards are, which you may find something nice. Mice are handy to have for old systems. I wish I could be more positive about the motherboards. Presence of damage, or mentioning of needing some work, isn't really "working". Did you get some picture …

Re: Is it safe to connect to internet under Windows 95 or 98SE?

Posted on 2024-04-11, 00:21

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

There aren't really any services enabled by default on Win9x, unless you configure with file sharing turned on or turn on the message program -- which you probably shouldn't. I don't remember any remote exploits in the network stack itself. I think I remember there being issues with IGMP maybe …

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

Posted on 2024-04-10, 13:58

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The first wave seems to be arriving... https://twitter.com/RetroTechChris/status/1777452393598206083 VCFED grumpy old fart society pronounces themselves unimpressed lol (Damn I hope they've got a sense of humour) https://forum.vcfed.org/index.php?threads/pocket-386.1247640/ Mine apparently got out …

Re: Motherboard Identification

Posted on 2024-03-13, 15:56

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Perhaps an elaborate effort to sell some knock off chips? It's not the only time this has happened right? Dump that bios...

Re: AST Six Pak Plus - 5150 won't post

Posted on 2024-03-12, 15:48

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Given the fans and hard disk spin up, but you have no beeps (correct?), doesn't rule out a problem with the card where a particular rail may be shorted. I'd use your ohm meter and check for shorts on all the rails through the card edge connector. https://www.minuszerodegrees.net/5150_5160/MDC/ …

Re: Strange socket 7 USB header issue

Posted on 2024-03-11, 17:31

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

What is the voltage from the vcc pin after you plug something in? Probably not enough. I think it's odd so many people are coming in wanting working USB on pre-2000 hardware. I never really used any USB before '99 at all on Win98 other than the odd mouse or scanner or peripheral that just came out …

Re: What hasn’t been done?

Posted on 2024-03-08, 16:54

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Has anyone capped RAM on a 386? I mean, until that point it was feasible to cap a processor (1Mb on a 8086, 16Mb on a 80286) but a 386 could address 4Gb of RAM. Did anyone build a mainboard capable or addressing 4Gb for 386 CPUs? 4GB was addressable by a 386DX, but the SX could only read 16 MB, due …

Re: My struggles building a 486 rig.

Posted on 2024-03-04, 15:52

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Frankly I would just wire up your internal com ports correctly. But if you insert that i/o card, you really should just turn off the com ports on the motherboard in the bios at that point. I'm not sure what your pci based com driver can support for i/o port addresses and irq so you'll want to check …

Re: My struggles building a 486 rig.

Posted on 2024-03-04, 14:26

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Frankly I would just wire up your internal com ports correctly. But if you insert that i/o card, you really should just turn off the com ports on the motherboard in the bios at that point. I'm not sure what your pci based com driver can support for i/o port addresses and irq so you'll want to check …

Re: Is this OK temperatures for graphics card?

Posted on 2024-03-04, 13:46

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I guess at this point, other people are saying that these are just stupid numbers being reported by the driver. I think at this point, the task is to just monitor the temperature both in program and directly yourself. If it doesn't get so hot to touch on the outside with heatsink and fan (what's …

Re: Is this OK temperatures for graphics card?

Posted on 2024-03-03, 21:39

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

You said you changed the thermal paste right? What was it doing before you changed it? Just a little more info on before and after, and where that picture comes in.

Re: Is this OK temperatures for graphics card?

Posted on 2024-03-03, 15:25

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I've never done packaging simulations so I don't really know if those kinds of thermals would be of any concern to the packaging. But when it comes to semiconductor design, the die isn't going to output heat in a uniform manner. It could be the core temperature sensor is next to a really hot portion …

Re: Is this OK temperatures for graphics card?

Posted on 2024-03-03, 13:15

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

How does the back side of the card behind the gpu feel?

Re: 32-bit OS that will run best on 8MB 386sx-16

Posted on 2024-03-01, 13:25

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Maybe it got more stable later on. I'm not sure I ever used it on a machine with less than 8MB of RAM myself. Not really. Except in the most earliest kernels, linux could not boot with only 2MB. I think they ended up hardcoding a check for 2MB minimum. The "hangs" and "crashes" wasn't because linux …

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