Turbo button, slowdown programs, disabling cache - only for games?

Posted on 2024-02-24, 18:29

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by MyOcSlaps6502

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Since the ability to slow down your system for compatibility has been around for a very long time and the phenomenon also presents itself on machines used predominantly in business I wondered, what kind of non-game software ever required you to slow down the speed of your computer to work? I haven't …

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Upgrading an Aptiva in the 90s

Posted on 2024-02-08, 13:13

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I can't find much information about upgrading an IBM Aptiva in the 90s, the whole computer that is. I know the aptiva was mainly (or exclusively?) sold as a package with monitor. So, let's say you bought a pentium 1 aptiva in c. 94 and wanted to upgrade to pentium 2 in 98. Was there an option to buy …

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Re: Quake 3 massive fps drops w/ voodoo 3?

Posted on 2024-01-26, 11:37

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r_picmip 0 usually thrashes a Voodoo card to single digit hell, r_picmip 1's the default due to that, but that shouldn't happen on a 16MB Banshee/V3 This was what made it unplayable. In Q3DM3 at high quality preset, if I look at the fire wall thing present in the thumbnail it sends fps down to 20, …

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Re: Quake 3 massive fps drops w/ voodoo 3?

Posted on 2024-01-26, 00:09

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mwdmeyer wrote on 2024-01-26, 00:05: What resolution and quality settings? 640x480. No settings seem to fix it. Tried lowering textures, 16bit,vertex lighting etc. I can't change brightness. Is that normal with voodoo 3?

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Quake 3 massive fps drops w/ voodoo 3?

Posted on 2024-01-26, 00:00

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by MyOcSlaps6502

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I am experiencing absolutely massive fps drops seemingly at random places in some maps. For example if I look at just some insignificant seeming spot in the map I can drop to 12 fps but move my mouse a bit to the right instantly back to 90+. Overall fps stays above 60 mostly until randomly theres a …

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Re: Help approximately dating this case? Late 90s or early 00?

Posted on 2024-01-24, 23:07

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There is a lot of overlap... when a style came out, it was probably expensive and seen as a high end case, then a couple years pass and it's the mid range, then they're banging them out by the tens of thousands trying to get ahead of the copies and they're cheap/low-end. So you could see it as a …

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Re: Help approximately dating this case? Late 90s or early 00?

Posted on 2024-01-24, 23:04

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by MyOcSlaps6502

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Why ignore the stickers? They are very diagnostic here, particularly for earliest possible date. Because I put those stickers there myself in recent times. They are convincing, I bought them from geekenspiel. They do represent the hardware found inside that I didn't change, apart from the gpu. But …

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Help approximately dating this case? Late 90s or early 00?

Posted on 2024-01-24, 20:40

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by MyOcSlaps6502

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https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/315546909735387138/1199814337372626974/image.png?ex=65c3e92d&is=65b1742d&hm=f3910000415601651f16f8833b83ae9ef613a905a6e76e80bc8017f871f560e1& Was wondering if anyone have any idea of the earliest possible use of this case? I'm building a computer targeted at …

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Re: Getting a little annoyed by CF card spam, am I alone?

Posted on 2024-01-24, 16:08

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I apologize if this sounded like one of those Linux apostle posts; Again, this has nothing to do with actual Linux, just with a specific alternative family of bootloaders that have a useful feature that can be abused for starting DOS and other real-mode OSes, as an alternative to using CF-IDE, or …

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Re: 2024 - End of the era of Retro Computing Youtube channels?

Posted on 2024-01-23, 21:35

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Not for me, I find plenty to watch. I don't really enjoy those plentiful restoration or benchmark videos unless there's a personal experience or historical perspective to it, I also like a bit of ramble. Smaller channels doing this are plentiful. My favorite bigger vintage computing youtube …

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Re: Do you think prices will stay high?

Posted on 2024-01-23, 21:27

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Although this depends on the item, I have found that locally prices have actually gone down by an amount that can be felt. Ebay is insane though! If we didn't have such a terrible international marketplace prices might have been better everywhere. I don't think known items are ever going to drop …

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Re: Getting a little annoyed by CF card spam, am I alone?

Posted on 2024-01-23, 21:18

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Am I weird that I've never really liked the sound of HDDs? Especially the low-frequency vibrations they produce. Over the years I invested a lot in silent PC cases designed to decouple HDDs from the case and prevent vibration noises. When hard drives were the standard I had no real thoughts about …

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Re: Getting a little annoyed by CF card spam, am I alone?

Posted on 2024-01-23, 21:06

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On the other hand, I wouldn't use drives that are intended for server use (very high-RPM ones for example) due to the annoying noise. Oh yeah I had an old high rpm drive taken out of a server that made my computer sound like an eternal train horn... that was a little much for me haha What really …

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Re: Getting a little annoyed by CF card spam, am I alone?

Posted on 2024-01-23, 20:33

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Personally, I think CF cards make sense if you: a) are using DOS or early Win95 class hardware b) want the ability to switch between multiple operating systems quickly and easily c) prefer a quiet machine At the same time, I do understand people who are nostalgic for the crunchy read/write sound of …

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Getting a little annoyed by CF card spam, am I alone?

Posted on 2024-01-23, 19:13

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I know that CF cards can be a quick and easy way to replace hard drives but I see so often someone specifically mentioning they want to use spinning drives, why they want to use mechanical etc. More often than not this is completely disregarded and the offered solution is a CF card and they boast …

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Re: Inspiron 8100 stuttering on battery power

Posted on 2024-01-21, 12:22

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by MyOcSlaps6502

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Errius wrote on 2024-01-21, 03:16: Those batteries will be 20+ years old now. I'm surprised they work at all. They last for hours

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Inspiron 8100 stuttering on battery power

Posted on 2024-01-21, 01:54

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When used on battery power the computer really likes to randomly lag/stutter for no apparent reason. I've disabled every power saving feature in bios and windows that I could find but no difference. Any idea what could be causing this?? Windows or the laptop itself? No stutter on AC

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Voodoo 1 with Voodoo 3 in an Aptiva - does it work for anyone?

Posted on 2024-01-17, 16:08

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Has anyone gotten this to work on a Pentium 1/2 era Aptiva? My model is 2138 for reference The problem is likely the integrated gpu. Only the V1 struggles and only when installed next to V3. V1 works fine until I install the V3 card. When I run a game requiring the V1 it boots up and starts like …

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Re: What was your experience and thought process like when buying or upgrading a computer in the '80s / '90s?

Posted on 2024-01-08, 22:39

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by MyOcSlaps6502

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Computers in the 80's (IBM PC's and their clones) were still very expensive for the average home user. Back then, owning a computer (I'm not referring to the 8-bit range of computers like your Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, etc.) was more of a luxury than a necessity for most people. Remember there was …

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Re: IBM Aptiva faceplate 5.25" cover

Posted on 2024-01-08, 06:29

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Soldered ATI Rage something video that had bad drivers for 95/98 that ATI never fixed, no AGP slot, a very lousy onboard sound card (Crystal something?) In my aptiva I can disable the onboard audio but for some reason I cannot disable the ATI Rage, which does indeed give me nothing but problems so …

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