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waybacktech

Posted 2017-06-30 4:03 PM (#762 - in reply to #761)
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IDT WinChip

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I wouldn't mind trying my hand at building a GR8BIT kit. Looks fun. What I would use it for...IDK, try MSX software/games just to see what that world is like. The fun would be in building the kit though, for me at least.

Edited by waybacktech 2017-06-30 7:34 PM

Brostenen

Posted 2017-06-30 7:35 PM (#763 - in reply to #761)
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TM Crusoe

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486u - 2017-06-30 5:32 PM

You still need an MSX2 and a Famicom w/ DD. The MSX is critical because it was, at one point, the *only* popular 8-bit machine available in much of the non-anglo world. Lot of fantastic Japanese developers got their start developing for the MSX too.

Not really. I have never heard of anyone using those here in Denmark at any time. I am not even aware of any Danes collecting MSX machines for their retro collection. Danes never really used anything else than Commodore machines, back in the 80's. Except for a few PC owners. I was one of those outsiders, that used PC's, and everyone else used to look down on us PC owners. 90 to 95% of all teenagers, used Commodore machines from 1984 to around 1992/93. Adults only used PC's for work at home. You know... Teachers and so on. Apple machines in the 80's in denmark was unknown. Yeah... It was all about Commodore back then. It was so wide spread, that a total population of some 5.1 million people, was wnough to make 6 to 8 different computer magazines run with a good profit.

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Back in the 80's. All Danish students in primaery school (the english term), had to learn computing, using this machine.
It is a danish develloped and build system, sporting a 80186 cpu, special floppy system/controller and Comal-80.
It was sturdy and the keyboard were build in iron and not plastic. The label strip on the keyboard was a thin strip of metal. We used it to cut apples.

Edited by Brostenen 2017-06-30 8:07 PM

Brostenen

Posted 2017-06-30 7:40 PM (#764 - in reply to #762)
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TM Crusoe

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waybacktech - 2017-06-30 6:03 PM

I wouldn't mind trying my hand at building a GR8BIT kit. Looks fun. What I would use it for...IDK, try MSX software/games just to see what that world is like. The fun would be in building the kit though, for me at least.

Personally. I would go for a more pure Basic machine. I know it is a matter of personal taste. Hmmm... I am thinking about having fun with such a machine and a copy of the book "100 Basic Computer Games".

486u

Posted 2017-06-30 9:38 PM (#765 - in reply to #762)
Subject: Re: Recently Played/Bought/Messed with

UMC U5S

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waybacktech - 2017-06-30 4:03 PM

I wouldn't mind trying my hand at building a GR8BIT kit. Looks fun. What I would use it for...IDK, try MSX software/games just to see what that world is like. The fun would be in building the kit though, for me at least.

I wanna try out the DIY 5150 kit some day.

Just got the Core 2 Quad Q9550 system running (after 193 windows updates) and its still very usable by today's standards. So long as the game still supports DX10, the Quadro FX 4800 can still run the game at mid/low graphical settings. Since these parts are nearly a decade old I'd be willing to say they're vintage enough for collecting and discussing on a vintage computer forum.

Robman

Posted 2017-07-01 3:42 AM (#766 - in reply to #765)
Subject: Re: Recently Played/Bought/Messed with

Chips 386

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I love my q9550 and e6750!

DXZeff

Posted 2017-07-01 4:10 AM (#767 - in reply to #766)
Subject: Re: Recently Played/Bought/Messed with

TM Crusoe

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-Shudders- Umm... well... I wish you luck. Every one of those things I ever used felt like a broken Celeron, though my usage case was very different and my experiences outside of that are limited.

With DIY kits, yeah, I did always kinda want to mess with one of those 8088 kits. Probably never will, no use for it, already have a Turbo 8088 anyway.

DXZeff

Posted 2017-07-02 12:41 AM (#769 - in reply to #767)
Subject: Re: Recently Played/Bought/Messed with

TM Crusoe

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This earth fault is becoming increasingly troublesome, another song ruined by noise I can't get rid of - https://www.mediafire.com/?0o87m0mfn1l54ui
I'm beating the hell out of the input, ramping the volume way higher than it ought to be to try and escape the noise, but no luck. I can remove the 50Hz quite easily because it is fairly constant, just invert it and stuff it there on another track, but this. You might have noticed it creeping in since I moved here and I think what you're hearing is RFI as well as whatever noise everything else on the circuit makes. With no earth there's no real shield against such things and, more importantly, no safety. Things do tend to leak somewhat and I've had so many electric shocks this week that my arm constantly tingles and the muscles in that arm don't quite work as they should, since the last one my chest now hurts and I feel kind of unsteady. My hand keeps going white like there's no circulation or something, not pleasant. No way am I going to kill myself for this, but there's no chance of them fixing the problem and no way I can do it, can't afford the fine for "tampering" that will come, even if I paid a qualified electrician to issue the repairs.

I don't know how much longer I can work in this death trap, not only is it a risk to me but it is a risk to my electronics. The number of stability problems and things that randomly don't work here, yet work when operated elsewhere, is mounting up and it makes me nervous about breaking something. Keep in mind that when I touch something and receive a lovely dose of 250V mains, that whatever I'm touching at the time gets a dose of it too - imagine if, say, my other hand was touching the die cover of a CPU at that time, or had my hands on an expansion card... yeah... I think you can see where I'm going with this. It's only a matter of time before something gets broken, either me or something I care about. I shall continue for the time being, but I'm going to have to be very cautious in future because this is getting ridiculous.

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On a more positive note, I'm about to set up that RAID array in my Pentium II, but I've got things that need doing and can't be sure I'll get Windows set up today.

Edit: Yeah, not gonna get this going today, can't detect all four drives at once, seems intermittent. I know the RAID card works and I know the drives work, so this only leaves the cables, I dragged them out from god knows where because I don't have many left, must be broken ones as I know there are a few I kept, planned to replace the cables anyway so I'll just have to wait for that.
Guess I'll get on with some painting in the shed, need to weatherproof some stuff, might work on my book too, had enough of electronic stuff for today. I may fit the K5's new video card;

But it's probably a job for tomorrow.

Edited by DXZeff 2017-07-02 1:50 AM

Brostenen

Posted 2017-07-02 2:57 PM (#770 - in reply to #769)
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TM Crusoe

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#DXZeff:
Does not sound safe at all. And thinking about that death trap fire just outside central London a couple of weeks ago, and all them apartments being evacuated after that. It really sounds like you need to call up the press or something now. Yeah... You were right all the time, when talking about the officials not being that interested in the publich safety anmoungst the working class. Hmmm... Really hope you can get that sorted out, because it sounds like you should have been at the hospital for observation of some kind. Hands tuning white is no freaking thing to take lighthearted. I too have had a couple of 240 volt shocks in my life, though I think my body can withstand stuff like that a bit more. As I have never experienced results like you have.

DXZeff

Posted 2017-07-02 3:22 PM (#771 - in reply to #770)
Subject: Re: Recently Played/Bought/Messed with

TM Crusoe

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I've been hit a few times over the years, generally nothing more than short-lived twitching. I'd suspect being hit repeatedly over the course of only a few hours will amplify the effects somewhat and the last one was from one arm to the other because I forgot to keep my hand in my pocket. Hospital would be pointless, they wouldn't care unless I was dead, or drunk, or foreign, or in police custody - average Joe has to go to the back of the line and wait on the floor for eight hours. Sure, it's free healthcare, but that comes at a cost. By the time they get to see you the issue has either resolved itself or else you've passed out/bled out and been dragged to the "life threatening" part of A&E, which isn't much better because last time I was there the bed had blood from the previous patient on the sheets... It is worth noting that I appreciate the people who do actual work in the NHS, but I strongly disapprove of the way it is run - and the people doing real work are usually the first to complain about it anyway, they should know, they work in that system and that is where my complaint lies, the system, not the people. Nonetheless, if it happens like that again I will head out that way, I would have done if the effects hadn't started to subside when they did anyway.

This country has been negligent for some time, just the way it is. Even here there's a glaring fire hazard because of the power problems alone, but the foam stuck to the back of the plaster wall panels (which the wire and conduit sits barely an inch away from, separated only by a thin air gap spanning the height of the building) is extremely flammable, not a desirable quality in a building that regularly throws breakers... and luckily the breakers do work and the wire gauge is adequate in here, unlike that other place where they had a 32A loop running on 6A wire. Going to the press will do nothing. Given the problems I've had already it seems employing a solicitor is growing ever closer, I've held off on it so far, but I'm out of options by now and there are far more problems than just a flaky electricity supply. At least the structure of the building is OK I guess, a bit flimsy, but not decaying too quickly beyond the average subsidence you'd expect in Hull (mostly former marsh land below sea level) with a 60-70 year old building.

The Grenfell fire was awful, not helped by the media using it for their agenda on both sides of the line. I have some fairly strong views about this, but I'll leave those alone rather than stooping to the level of your average news outlet.

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RAID array set up, it was the cables and one of the 3.5-2.5 adapters had a dry joint.

waybacktech

Posted 2017-07-02 7:43 PM (#772 - in reply to #771)
Subject: Re: Recently Played/Bought/Messed with

IDT WinChip

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That fire was insane. I watched that live on Youtube. Saw video taken earlier in the fire and how it traveled up the side of the building like a flame thrower along the pipes or something, wasn't sure what I was looking at except lines of bright orange shooting up the sides to the top, watching the fire gut that building. Amazing. It was interesting how that one lower corner of the building remained unscathed with how fast the rest of it went up.

I wonder if the grounding rod to the building has been eaten away and was just never replaced. What ever the problem is though, seems like you really need to fix it, or at least rig up a ground for the time being. Hate to see ya turn into a crispy critter while working on that K5 for example. Talking about you getting shocked over the years makes me think of that first episode of Home Improvement when he is installing a new Dishwasher. Just shake it off lol

Can't say I've ever been shocked by house power, I am very concerned about such things and think ahead, however, I have made a lot of sparks and light shows. I have been zapped with ignition voltage though, which is in the thousands of volts, but as there is basically no amps, it's more of a numbing and a tingle for a moment than anything. I think getting shocked by electricity is a right of passage every real man has to go through

and testing a 9v battery on your tongue doesn't count. ha ha.

Edited by waybacktech 2017-07-02 7:48 PM

Brostenen

Posted 2017-07-02 9:29 PM (#773 - in reply to #772)
Subject: Re: Recently Played/Bought/Messed with

TM Crusoe

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waybacktech - 2017-07-02 9:43 PM
Can't say I've ever been shocked by house power, I am very concerned about such things and think ahead, however, I have made a lot of sparks and light shows. I have been zapped with ignition voltage though, which is in the thousands of volts, but as there is basically no amps, it's more of a numbing and a tingle for a moment than anything. I think getting shocked by electricity is a right of passage every real man has to go through

and testing a 9v battery on your tongue doesn't count. ha ha.

The worst I tried with electric shock, have not been the power outlets though. (in denmark you can draw up to 10 or 15 amps on 240volt)
The worst was accidentially pissing on an electric fence that keep cows in. We do not use barbed wire here, we use electricity.

486u

Posted 2017-07-02 9:31 PM (#774 - in reply to #71)
Subject: RE: Recently Played/Bought/Messed with

UMC U5S

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I've done what I can to prevent an electrical fire which would happen from overloading the single outlet I use for all of my systems. 1000W is the line I don't wanna cross and so to maximize what I can do within this limitation I've ditched all CRTs and space heaters and other dumb shit that isn't necessary.

I used to use CRTs but now they hurt my eyes, give me a headache, and the whine in every failing flyback transformer in nearly every CRT is too much for me. Had no qualms the day I decided to toss all that shit at the recycling center.

Edited by 486u 2017-07-02 9:45 PM

Robman

Posted 2017-07-03 4:38 AM (#780 - in reply to #774)
Subject: Re: Recently Played/Bought/Messed with

Chips 386

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Location: Canada

120v x 15a = 1800watts is the normal house circuit for around here. (With multiple circuits to a home)

I agree, that fire in Grenfell was horrendous, London is no stranger to fires.
The only good thing to come out of that was that an atrocious, communist style, ugly utilitarian high rise was done away with.

Ugly architecture affects societies.

Edited by Robman 2017-07-03 4:39 AM

DXZeff

Posted 2017-07-05 3:37 AM (#794 - in reply to #71)
Subject: RE: Recently Played/Bought/Messed with

TM Crusoe

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Location: Hull, UK

Normal circuits for electrical outlets in the UK are 230-250V AC 32A (~7000-8000 Watts) which is more than enough to completely melt screwdrivers. Currently the line voltage here measures at 252V, likely due to it being night and less people pulling the line voltage down.

Architecture? Yeah, I've had to watch them slowly removing everything we have in this city, nearly all of our old buildings are gone for the construction of ugly plastic glass crap. There was recently an attempt to gut Holy Trinity in the old town here;

With the intention of turning it into a dance hall. Or so I heard. There have been several attempts in recent years to mess with the church but they have so far been unsuccessful, its recent assignment of Minster status should make it much harder for them to mess with, but we've already lost two on my side of town in recent decades. You might remember me saying I played a church organ once? Well that's where it was, a mighty instrument going back as far as the 1600s. Here's hoping it stays, regardless my thoughts on religion I have to give C of E one thing, they don't tend to give up their land all that quickly.
That organ though... I want one in my living room, that thing was insane. Start messing with lower chords and odd harmonics and things start moving, like you can actually feel the ground shaking. Strangely I was thrown out of a music store for playing certain songs on their keyboards, yet I was not thrown out of the church. Have to wonder if they'd let me have another go, probably not by now. Bastard to play properly, though I know it was falling into disrepair by then, who knows what state it could be in by now, I'd hope they managed to fix it up at some point.

The problem with Hull is that the council operate a vile scheme to get rid of listed buildings. Generally, demolition or modification is prohibited, so the council instead opt to board up the building poorly whilst raising prices to keep people away, all in the hopes of vandals setting it alight. If that doesn't work, they simply wait for tiles to start falling or other such problems and declare the building a hazard, therefore, without sufficient funds (apparently) it must be demolished. Castle Street has a few of these, such as this one;

They'll replace the scaffolds, but never work on the building. It has been this way as long as I've been here.

I was also recently pissed to see them digging up grave yards again and simply carting the bones away, destroying the grave stones, some of which have been there hundreds of years. Apparently I can't be mad because it's against progress and I'm somehow racist (err... some of those people were relatives...) for reasons unknown, but at the same time I'm supposed to be mad about them digging up some burial ground in the US for an oil pipeline. I'm not saying it was right to do the latter, but it gives you an idea of how things work here that I'm supposed to be getting mad about that and just ignoring the destruction of my own city. Seems like more glass apartments nobody will buy, they keep putting them up and they keep not selling.

City of culture, my ass. You've already turned our culture into rubble and used it as hardcore for some crappy parking lot you built on our green belt. No, seriously, all these buildings nobody is using, so what do you do when you want to open a store? Why, build a new one on the green belt of course. Why not?

@486u; Still fully CRT here, none of that LCD crap for me, gives me a headache and I can't stand the color, or slow response times. I use one LCD for video previews, so I can see what everyone else sees. Before this, there were some color balancing issues, mostly towards blacks and blues, which weren't apparent on a CRT.

@Brostenen; The railways here are often guarded by electric fences. One such fence lines a few miles of a path leaving the city to the west. In my teenage years, me and a few friends used to dare each other to grab the fence. That hurt far worse than the mains did though if you were lucky and very, very quick, you would sometimes miss the pulse.

@WaybackTech; I'm considering running a wire to the screws on the light switch as those are grounded. You're not supposed to do this and it makes for a very weak earth, but it could be better than nothing. Problem being, I'm not sure it will throw the breaker properly if something goes wrong - meaning I have to deliberately cause a fairly substantial earth fault to see if it does. Should be fine, I'll just make sure there's a fuse to blow out if it all goes horribly wrong.

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Worked on the Pentium II. Notable occurrences thus far;
> RAID card not working - removed. Guess it's back to manual mirrors.
> LAN not working - replaced. I miss the D-Link I had, but this SMC one seems fine. Motherboard doesn't like 3Com, DEC or Intel cards for some reason.
> GPU slow - possibly driver version, haven't done any 3D yet and probably won't, given Atlantis uses DirectDraw and software, even when 3D models are on screen.
> Sound Card not working - unknown. PCI Ven/Dev ID 0x1073 0x0010 which matches no other known Yamaha on the list I have. Force install of YMF744 drivers doesn't work either, assume it's broken.

Not sure what to do about that, might as well just use a generic ESS ISA card by this point.

Starting to wonder if this is actually a Yamaha at all, or if it is a Chinese knock-off.
Found the FCC ID, apparently a Labway despite it not claiming to be Labway. Drivers incompatible.
Found some drivers that work, somewhat, but not very stable. Missing many features, no FM, flaky DOS support, strange wavetable. Might as well install a CMI8738 - which it might actually be - for all that it's worth. This is either a knock-off or else Yamaha really fucked up with cards beyond the 724, not that this would surprise me because they made absolute crap most of the time aside from this brief period in the 1990s, perhaps this model is from just a little too late.
Would have been rough anyway, given the non-standard CD/AUX headers and such and that strange add-on board which uses its own circuits in blatant ignorance of Yamaha's spec
Noisy output. Enabling SPDIF disables all other sources.
MIDI lacks reverb, chorus, harmonic and brightness so far as I've tested up to now.
Sound Recorder locks up at random when attempting to record from line-in, input is also noisy.

Runs Atlantis and a few other things (Windows only) so I'm going to forget about this hassle and just play some games for now. I'd love to know what I did in a past life, something always goes bloody wrong.

Edited by DXZeff 2017-07-05 5:38 AM

486u

Posted 2017-07-05 2:24 PM (#795 - in reply to #71)
Subject: RE: Recently Played/Bought/Messed with

UMC U5S

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Yesterday I had a 40MB Seagate HDD fail on me, got a nice bite from an AT power supply, and found out that PCChips board won't support the new PC66 SDRAM I bought. The website with the specs and tolerances for this board and many others also disappeared off the web recently so I don't know if 4x16 is the best it can take (I tried 16x64). Maybe a BIOS update will help? These PCChips seem to be notorious for eating shit after a re-flash. It's working fine but maybe I oughta save myself some time in the future and lay a fucking boot to it in the front yard now.

Edited by 486u 2017-07-05 2:31 PM

DXZeff

Posted 2017-07-05 4:49 PM (#796 - in reply to #795)
Subject: Re: Recently Played/Bought/Messed with

TM Crusoe

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Location: Hull, UK

A lot of websites have disappeared in the past couple of years. More concerning is the number that are no longer stored on Archive.org that I swear did exist there before. If it's a Socket 7 board (think you had one of those) then, yeah, might not be happy with SDRAM anyway, I've had a few that are just awkward with that and tend to just use EDO on anything up to K6-2 boards.

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A development has been made;

It looks like we will be able to use EasyCD after all, as this drive is from '96 and has a 1995 firmware. Also, On-the-fly copying is possible, as well as temporary image to disc copies, when hooking up an external drive like this, so that will have to be tested. Probably going to switch to this burner, but its tolerances for burned discs made in faster recorders is lower than that of the Matsushita.

This one requires some heavier drivers and took some time to get going. I had to shuffle around Config.sys/Autoexec.bat very specifically, even more than before, and can just get 499K conventional with the drivers loaded, literally just enough to get WFW going with no "Insufficient Memory" warning - literally every byte saved counts here.

I probably will use these burners, because discs burned in them tend to work in everything else and I can't turn down the speed of my newer drives this low. Matsushita will go in my K5, allowing me to move the faster ~Y2K Yamaha to my P2 as it reads things better than the Ricoh.

I think I've seen every CD Audio connector now, this is a 3-pin one that I have a cable for, but have never seen used in real life yet. The other end works out better as I currently have to feed it through the MPEG card, as the Panasonic uses a weird-ass cable. This makes it quiet and I'd rather feed the wavetable and TV card to the MPEG's mixer and hook it to AUX on the PAS16. With the Yamaha I can do this, hooking the drive to the CD-IN of the PAS16 and then the audio/video add-ons to the AUX-IN header.
Could snag a photo, it just looks weird seeing three pins like that.

Also, anyone want a recording of that dodgy "Yamaha" sound card in the P2? It just sounds weird.

Edited by DXZeff 2017-07-05 4:54 PM

CyrixInstead

Posted 2017-07-06 2:43 PM (#797 - in reply to #71)
Subject: Re: Recently Played/Bought/Messed with

Intel P5

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I have a elderly Yamaha CD writer, I think it's from 1997/98 or thereabouts in my k6-2. It's the most reliable drive I have ever had for burning discs that anything will be able to read consistently. A couple of my systems have really picky CD readers, the Samsung 32X in the MII & the Sony 2-speed in the 5x86 are the worst offenders, but disc's from that Yamaha are always OK.
Bought this Cirrus Logic 5446 PCI card off fleabay last night for 99p, last of the alpine series as far as I'm aware so should make a nice little DOS card. couldn't argue for the price, even the P+P wasn't excessive!
Seems old PC parts have gotten VERY expensive on ebay these days, much worse than when I last bought stuff this time last year.

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Brostenen

Posted 2017-07-06 10:47 PM (#799 - in reply to #797)
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TM Crusoe

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#CyrixInstead:
CL-5446 are one of the best cards for Dos, if you ask me. I only use these cards exclusively in 486dx4/5x86 to Pentium1-166

- CL-5446 2mb PCI
- S3-Trio64v+ 2mb PCI
- S3-Virge325 2mb PCI (number nine card)

What I found, is that the 5446 are better in 486dx4/5x86 systems, compared to Pentium1 systems.
In a Pentium1 system, the S3 cards are better. Yet we are talking marginal differences in terms of speed.
By that I am talking about. Is that in real life experience, you will not really experience any speed differences.
Yet when benchmarking these cards, there are really differences to be noticed.

So it is not really speed in normal useage, I am focusing on, when talking about these three cards.
What I did notice however, is that the S3 cards, have a sharper picture on TFT/LCD monitors.
However... The CL-5446 makes a better image, when we are talking about colour quality.
It is like the CL reproduces the warm and cozy picture quality that we see on CRT's compared to TFT/LCD's.
Though the S3 cards output i picture with higher and sharper contrast.

All in all.... When it all comes down. It is only a matter of taste. Wether you prefer the S3's over 5446's.
Because speedwise. You will not really notice the difference when playing stuff like Monkey or Doom.
Unless you really want to go for highress. Because I am only speaking about standard non-highres gaming.
If so... I can not really give you any advise. (I don't do stuff like Duke3d in 640x480 and above)

EDIT:
Forgot to mentium that I am fortunately enough to own two 486 boards with PCI slots.
Hence the one being used for a 5x86-133 and the other a 486dx-120.
None of them are overclocked, so they run 133mhz and 120mhz.

Edited by Brostenen 2017-07-06 10:59 PM

486u

Posted 2017-07-07 1:36 AM (#800 - in reply to #797)
Subject: Re: Recently Played/Bought/Messed with

UMC U5S

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@CyrixInstead - It happened with ISA cards a few years ago when AT compatibles were getting trendy with the faux-vintage crowd (shit that sits in a corner collecting dust). Seems to have shifted to the mid- late 90s era systems because I've seen a bunch of articles recently on "building your own late 90s gaming computer" and I've seen the OEM Pentium Deskpros' price rocket. These people will get bored and move on and prices will come back down.

Brostenen

Posted 2017-07-07 1:04 PM (#801 - in reply to #800)
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TM Crusoe

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Recieved new Amiga600 (or just Amiga) rubber feet's. Now my 600 has some new shoes...
The old ones were shit, was begining to turn into some surt of gue.
The previous owner had attached filt rings in order to counter out the guish old ones.

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DXZeff

Posted 2017-07-07 7:22 PM (#802 - in reply to #801)
Subject: Re: Recently Played/Bought/Messed with

TM Crusoe

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Location: Hull, UK

@CyrixInstead; Nothing wrong with the 5446, I have that same card but I am missing the BIOS, the generic one I found doesn't work for some reason, possibly my card is dead but the other 5446 was good when I used it.
Prices are definitely getting silly.

@Brostenen; Indeed, in real-world use I didn't notice much difference versus an S3 card. DAC output was a little different when viewed side-to-side with stills, mostly in color balance.
For feet I buy these crappy little packs of adhesive felt feet from Morrisons... yeah, a grocery store. They've been good so far but don't offer the grip of rubber ones if you place them on a slippery surface of course. They're also handy for supporting or insulating cards and stuff - I use two for propping up the exceptionally long WinTV in my P66 for one, they prevent the board flopping around and bending with heat, it does get rather hot that card.

@486u; I noticed P3/K7 parts had skyrocketed a while back, don't know what they're like now though.

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Replaced the ATI Mach64 in my K5, the Virge is as good as I remember but there are still performance problems in LBA2. I'm willing to say that the system simply doesn't like that game in particular, most everything else is fine. As it was built mostly for other things and it is very good at those things, I'm just going to ignore it and I may even re-install the Mach64. Not sure yet, I'll see how it goes.

That's about it, it has been one of those weeks again where things keep requiring attention. Hopefully I might actually get that damn PPro out of the corner soon.

As a last note, expect the forum to run slow for quite a while, I have an 8GB file to upload for Mirror's Edge and I'm sure it will drag the whole block down, thus including the line the web server uses. Could be upwards of 30 hours... Thank fuck there's only one more 4GB file after that.
May even drop offline during this time, though I'll post a warning in the info board (Ignore the current Backup Complete, I won't use that thread title again this time around, forgot to clean it up last time. I will probably call the thread something like "Going offline at X:XXPM or whatever, then I'll post another once the process is complete) an hour before this commences as it will probably take a while due to certain problems with bridging the two networks that currently exist - predominantly software-related. No can do at this very moment though, so that's probably upwards of 12 hours away at least.

Edited by DXZeff 2017-07-07 7:27 PM

waybacktech

Posted 2017-07-07 8:11 PM (#803 - in reply to #802)
Subject: Re: Recently Played/Bought/Messed with

IDT WinChip

Posts: 237
100

Location: USA

I think it is a real shame Youtube does not support h265 format. I did a test video with that codec and it is so much smaller and better quality than 264. That 8GB file would be probably close to 800MB - 1GB with h265 with the same or even better quality. Youtube needs to get with the game with video codec's instead of constantly dicking with the comment / notification stuff. That was one main reason I switched to Linux for video editing was so that I could experiment with h265.

I've been on hiatus with the computer stuff. Sold a few things, cleaning, some tossing of dead or worthless stuff. Haven't been much in the mood to mess with stuff the last month or so. Maybe I should start making videos about calculators since that seems to get a hell of a lot of views....

Edited by waybacktech 2017-07-07 8:12 PM

DXZeff

Posted 2017-07-08 9:18 AM (#804 - in reply to #803)
Subject: Re: Recently Played/Bought/Messed with

TM Crusoe

Posts: 618
500

Location: Hull, UK

They're not H.264 because that invariably became blocky, even when encoded at incredibly high bit rates with all kinds of settings, with files exceeding 20GB. These are encoded as MPEG2 Blu-Ray files, H.262, which instead requires extensive color correction.
I liked XVid and used to encode everything with that, small files and good quality, but I had to stop when I moved to a 64-Bit OS as the MP3 encoding would no longer work, leaving me with plain PCM or some ancient low quality codecs. Most stuff now, aside from Mirror's Edge, is encoded as H.264 though.

I've faced a motivation drop as of late, happens every so often. Of course things like this don't help;

Starting to lose patience with this, forgot how broken NT 3.51 was, especially the installer. If I don't get it working soon it will be a Windows 95 only machine, it was intended to dual boot. Might go 95/NT4 dual boot instead as I was going to move up to NT4 after a while anyway, only really wanted to start out with NT3.51 to demonstrate a few things I've wanted to mention for a while.

CyrixInstead

Posted 2017-07-08 1:07 PM (#805 - in reply to #71)
Subject: Re: Recently Played/Bought/Messed with

Intel P5

Posts: 85

Location: UK

How about Windows 2000? I have always had good results with that, used it for 6 years if not more from release.

CyrixInstead

Posted 2017-07-08 5:42 PM (#806 - in reply to #801)
Subject: Re: Recently Played/Bought/Messed with

Intel P5

Posts: 85

Location: UK

Brostenen - 2017-07-07 1:04 PM

Recieved new Amiga600 (or just Amiga) rubber feet's. Now my 600 has some new shoes...
The old ones were shit, was begining to turn into some surt of gue.
The previous owner had attached filt rings in order to counter out the guish old ones.

I really should pull my Amiga 500 out sometime soon, it's the original I bought back in 1988, cost me 2 weeks wages!!! Some Road Rash & Apidya would go down well.Still got my Atari 520STFM too, that dad was so fond of, he bought that as the family computer back in late 86.I still reckon Starball on the ST is the best pinbal gamel ever! Hopefully those boxes of 3.5 discs are still OK.

I did pull out the CBS Colecovison, my friend Val was visiting and she loves Donkey kong & Frogger on the system, we've been playing a few games for a while now with the help of some Gin & tonics!

She always wins too, always...........

Best,
Chris

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