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UMC U5S
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| That 233MHz MMX was a waste because the clock multiplier can at-most be jumper configured for "66x3." 198MHz isn't crippling, but... oh well.
That VIC-20 SD card is pretty neat, in a similar vain do you know anywhere where I can get a external modulator SCART cable for my 1040 STF? They seem to have sold out a long time ago and have never reappeared
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IDT WinChip
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Location: USA | @486U
Set your multiplier to 1.5. MMX chips interpret 1.5 as 3.5. |
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TM Crusoe
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| Bought this as well.... :-P
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Chips 386
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Location: Wigan, UK | @Brostenen
I remember seeing a joystick like this a few years back at a carboot sale, passed on it as I already have a few C64 joysticks.
Not been up to much these past days, been playing DNF 2013 on my dual K7, that's about it really. (http://msdn.duke4.net/revdnfmod.php)
My VGA2USB has been giving me issues, I've been wanting to make a video about this dual K7 for months, but the odds seem against me. Refuses to work for more than 10-20 seconds before disconnecting, considering my motherboard's USB ports went dead the other day, and now they're struggling to provide enough power. PSU is fine, 5v rail seems stable enough so I really don't understand... Asrock motherboards aren't very well built it seems. |
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TM Crusoe
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| #RobWolf:
Ohh... This Wico command is like one of the best joysticks if you have large hands like I do. They are 20 to 21 centimeters long, including the fingers. If I use a zipstick or competition pro, I will get cramps in my hands before I have gamed in 5 minutes. If you look carefully on both joysticks, you can see a square "plate" at the bottom of the actual stick. That is in the way of my hands whenever I use them two joysticks. Yeah... Big hands need big joysticks. It is the same with a mouse. 90% of all mice on the market are just too small, and I will eventually get cramps in my hands and get neckpains after an hour or two.
Anyway...
People say that a competition pro or a zipstick are indestruckable. You can put the Wico Command Control on that list too.
Hard plastic and metal construction with microswitches, straight from the arcade. Just keep away from the pistol grip version.
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And it is heavy as f***
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9S7Gr4cqx1U
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UMC U5S
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| @RobW0lf
Considering that its likely 15 years old and still working somewhat is stunning. I had a 25 year old HP OEM HDD fail and rather than be disappointed I look at it surprised that a cheap consumer electronic 20 years past its expected expiration date made it this far.
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Chips 386
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Location: Wigan, UK | 486u - 2017-05-23 1:23 PM
@RobW0lf
I'm sure you've already checked the caps and its unservicable?
Talking about my ASrock board? This is my main system, some mid-range Haswell motherboard (can't remember the model of the top of my head) and it just seems to have unstable voltages, possibly due to how hot the VRMs are getting (probably due to the weather)
My Geforce 6600's caps seem to be fine, also. Potentially just a case of it refusing to work properly with that motherboard, the seller tested it and showed it working in the listing, and it cost the seller 10 Euros (in stamps to send it), out of his own pocket so I really do trust the seller that the card is fine.
Talking of old HDDs, I have a 1995 Toshiba laptop drive sitting on my desk, works perfectly. From a little 486 lappy I bought for £10 on eBay back in January, though it refuses to work properly, only displaying "keyboard controller error" on screen. Real shame, it worked for about a week then stopped again.
Edit - Talking about that VGA2USB, here it is. Pretty neat little USB capture card, perfect for lower resolutions. The max it'll really go is 800x600 @ 60fps, or 1280x1024 @ 30fps, which is still very good for such a small device. Friend in America sent me it for free, he only paid a few bucks for it in clearance anyway
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UMC U5S
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| If I understand you correctly, it sounds like a failing power supply |
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TM Crusoe
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Location: Hull, UK | @Brostenen; I still swear by my QuickShot for the most part, but for some reason Joysticks crash my C64 more often than not. I prefer the keyboard for the games I have anyway.
@RobW0lf; Definitely sounds like a PSU problem, might be worth checking with a multimeter.
@486u; I dread the day my hard drives fail. The one in my 286 is from the late end of the 80s as far as I am aware, it still works but I know that some day it will break and I am not looking forward to that. In fact, that will practically kill the system because the motherboard cannot see IDE drives, I doubt there will be many if any MFM hard drives left working by that time. The thing is, you can't even stockpile them as leaving them in storage does them no good either. |
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Harris 286
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| I bought a Sony Trinitron HMD-A200. |
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TM Crusoe
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Location: Hull, UK | Can't go wrong with a good Trinitron, excellent CRT monitors. |
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UMC U5S
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| @DXZeff
I've noticed that the older MFM drives are a lot more robust. Maybe its because they're less dense or because they're a lot larger? I disassembled one to the point the platter was exposed to give the drive motor a few rotations and that got it roaring back to life with no issues or data loss.
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IDT WinChip
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Location: USA | @HT I've got a box full of MFM drives if you ever needed / wanted one and can't find em in your part of the world. Probably about 8 or 9 total... |
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UMC U5S
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| @waybacktech
Do you have any ESDI HDDs you'd part with for a reasonable amount? |
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TM Crusoe
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Location: Hull, UK | And here we have proof, as if it were needed, that upgrading your L2 cache isn't necessarily worth it.
256KiB versus 512KiB. With 32MB of EDO RAM I am sure 256KiB is enough anyway, I just wanted to see what would happen and what happens is... literally nothing. The 0.8 point drop is well within the margins and fluctuates a little anyway.
This doesn't matter as I have other boards that will see a benefit from the larger chips, so I'll just restore the original 256KiB in the K5 and use the 512KiB chips elsewhere.
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UMC U5S
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| This socket 7 motherboard is quite a chameleon because it seems to have been sold under brand names like Chaintech, PCChips, Biostar, etc, the list I saw was massive and I can't quite remember all of them. All I can tell you is that the quality is "impeccable!" A VIA RTC module with a strange shim lodged into the socket alongside the module is a total fucking mystery to me.
While it sounds like shit, and it probably is shit, I'll still try to make the most out of it because what it is is a 430VX which seems to be pretty good and I've already bought the 512k COASt cache.
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It makes sense, with EDO RAM I doubt the mobo could transfer data in to populate the cache all that much faster than your processor could pluck the cache out. |
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TM Crusoe
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Location: Hull, UK | I've come to the conclusion that brand isn't necessarily a guarantee of what you will get. PCChips were known for making bad boards, but the M919 and M520 are brilliant boards, there are probably more but I don't own them to know. On the other side of this would be DFI, known for making great boards but managing to make the terrible NFII Ultra which barely worked out of the box and even has a lovely collection of last minute bodge wires that the designers added.
With the cache, the other factor is likely that with 256K the max ram that can be cached is 32MB, which I have. At 512K this doubles to 64MB which I don't have. I'd probably see more of a boost if I were using 64MB of RAM, but with only 32MB it just wastes the extra cache and does nothing aside from introducing some slightly slower timings, meaning some applications even lose a fraction of their speed - nothing noticeable but just visible in benchmarks. I have no plans to upgrade the system to 64MB and thus have no reason to keep the 512K cache installed here. My Pentium OverDrive on the other hand... That has 48MB of RAM so the upgrade will be welcome there despite the fact I will rarely dip into it, not many programs for that which use so much memory and it's more a case of "because I can" than anything with that machine. |
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UMC U5S
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| Bought one of those Syba CF-IDE adapters... Well
After mounting it into the machine and plugging it in, configuring the jumpers, and inserting the 2GB CF card I turned it on and it seemed to be fine during boot until it came to checking the IDE CF drive. Didn't work. Started smelling burning plastic and when I grabbed the CF card the thing was very toasty.
The damage was already done. The power supply is failing because to start the damn thing you have to flip it off and on 20 times. I've taken the cards, drives, 486DX2, and RAM out because at any moment it could zap everything in the system.
I didn't make an error installing this adapter. This fuck-ass company ruined a rare OEM machine. |
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TM Crusoe
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Location: Hull, UK | Not even my machine and yet this is infuriating. Something like that happened to me once and the worst part is that there is no hope of them compensating you for their design error. |
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UMC U5S
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| During the brief moment before I got this piece of shit and I recommended this, please avoid it. Use a 3com (if your system is 8-bit ISA) or a Novell ethernet card and FTP your files! |
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TM Crusoe
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Location: Hull, UK | Working on the K6 video, it should be done within the next week.
Also, I have finally found one of these;
YMF744 instead of YMF724, but the drivers and tools I used with the old 724 also work with this as far as I am aware. The tools definitely will as they don't really know the difference anyway. No Pentium II to install it in as yet, but maybe some day. I have a plan of sorts... |
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IDT WinChip
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Location: USA | impressive looking sound card. I should try to sell a couple of the 724's I have, I don't need 5 of them  |
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Chips 386
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Location: Wigan, UK | I'm currently planning to watercool this crappy little Sempron I have, it really does need a proper copper heatsink, and they're a little pricey these days (for good ones). I reckon that £20 of Chinese watercooling parts will perform better than any of my ghetto-rigged solutions, plus I've never watercooled a system before so it'll be a learning process. If all goes well I might end up watercooling my Phenom II X4, or even the dying 9800gtx that's in there, who knows.
Been in the process of tidying my room and getting rid of a lot of shitty furniture from my room, living in a 4x4m room is pretty hard, especially when you own a lot of hardware... |
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Location: UK | RobW0lf - 2017-05-30 10:44 PM
I'm currently planning to watercool this crappy little Sempron I have, it really does need a proper copper heatsink, and they're a little pricey these days (for good ones). I reckon that £20 of Chinese watercooling parts will perform better than any of my ghetto-rigged solutions, plus I've never watercooled a system before so it'll be a learning process. If all goes well I might end up watercooling my Phenom II X4, or even the dying 9800gtx that's in there, who knows.
Been in the process of tidying my room and getting rid of a lot of shitty furniture from my room, living in a 4x4m room is pretty hard, especially when you own a lot of hardware...
I've got a 9800 GTX+ if you want it? Was working fine when I last used it about 2 years back. |
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