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Windows • How to get off-chipset IDE ports working on DOS/Win9x? (88SE6121)

Vogons about 11 months ago

I'm trying to run Windows ME on an ASUS P5Q3 Deluxe motherboard. So far with rloew's patches I'm able to install it without encountering any major issue. Haven't installed any other driver yet, but the system in its current state is stable and fast.Howeve …

General Old Hardware • Getting cache working on this 486 board

Vogons about 11 months ago

I have this 486 board by PCPartner(part of a VTech Laser 486SX/3). It has four 32-pin cache sockets and two 28-pin TAG/dirty sockets(I am speculating here). I lost the documentation for this machine years ago(and lament it every day), but I have tried var …
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Orange Pi Reveals Updated Handheld Designs

Retro Dodo about 11 months ago

We have finally gotten some updates on the highly anticipated handheld console line from Orange Pi, and things are looking a lot different. Truth be told, we took quite a lot of flak for our article about their upcoming ultra powerful gaming handhelds. …

General Old Hardware • Voodoo 2 crash

Vogons about 11 months ago

After quite a bit of time I finally got time to explore my issue again so I need some advice in case someone stumbled upon this issue before.Last year I've built Voodoo 2 (Innovision Mighty 3DII V3) configuration with AMD K6-2 500, 128 MB SDRAM, PCPartner …

General Old Hardware • Trangg Bow TB-486-OB (aka ADI TK8881 FA20) 486 PCI motherboard EDO ram issues

Vogons about 11 months ago

I picked this motherboard up a couple of months ago. It is supposed to support EDO memory having a UMC UM82C881 chipset. I have tried several 72-Pin EDO SIMMs and the board is just not stable running EDO memory. Even at the safest memory timings I had a …

Sound • Sound Blaster Live! CT4830 - Driver issues - No sound in NFS games

Vogons about 11 months ago

Hi =) I used to have an SB Live! (I think pretty much this exact same value version) back in the mid 00's running on my P4 - XP Machine back then...I played many games with it, including lot's of NFS title's... I don't remember ever having trouble with it …

General Old Hardware • AGP port stuck in 1x mode

Vogons about 11 months ago

Finally recapped the mobo in my Athlon rig, and now I'm trying to solve a long standing problem. AGP is stuck in 1x mode. In BIOS the AGP port is set to 4x mode. CPUz reports 4x as max supported.The relevant hardware is a Chaintech 7AJA2 KT133A mobo, a T …
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Powkiddy RGB10MAX3 Pro Review

Retro Dodo about 11 months ago

Today I have the pleasure of introducing our readers to an awesome new handheld emulator stepping onto the scene, the Powkiddy RGB10MAX3 Pro. I was fortunate enough to get my hands on this device quite early. Which means that I am one of very few peopl …
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Game Boy Camera 2.0 Is Here Thanks To A Talented Modder

Retro Dodo about 11 months ago

If you’re a fan of the Game Boy Camera, then you will absolutely love this DIY project that entirely reshapes its design into the all new Game Boy Mini Camera. This exciting new mod comes from a friend of Retro Dodo, Chris Graves. Who you may rem …

General Old Hardware • Getting Windows 98 running on XP machine

Vogons about 11 months ago

Hi, I’m just starting to learn about retro computers and bought a old Windows XP machine. I want to get Windows 98 running on it but I’m having a couple problems. Here are the specs….CPU - Athlon 64 LE-1640Motherboard- Asus m2n68-am se2Ram - 2GB Kin …

General Old Hardware • Need help to identify a 286 motherboard (VLSI VL82C10X chipset)

Vogons about 11 months ago

One day ago I received my first 286 motherboard.Truthfully, I've never found the 286 platform particularly interesting (and for good reason), but I finally gave in and decided to add one to my collection and play with it. ?I managed to get the board going …

General Old Hardware • Fastest cpu for Gateway 2000 with P5 75mhz?

Vogons about 11 months ago

I have a Gateway 2000 desktop with a 75 mhz pentium.The motherboard has 6 dip switches. Other manuals and guides I've seen discuss 8 dip switches.This listing is similar to the one I have. https://www.ebay.com/itm/17... is the chipset. Doe …

General Old Hardware • Help identifying this Socket 370 HP OEM motherboard please

Vogons about 11 months ago

Hi everyone,I purchased this on a whim, at a decent price, for a board that had an ISA slot.The only details I had on the lisinting were - HP D7580-60003 Intel Socket 370 Motherboard, Celeron 466 CPU and 64BM RAM and includes a 4MB SGRAM SODIMM module.Fro …

General Old Hardware • The ECS Local Bus - Overview and Benchmarks on a 486DX-50 system

Vogons about 11 months ago

The pre-VLB/PCI 486 era is of great interest to me, in particular the attempts of several manufacturers to overcome ISA bus limitations by introducing their own proprietary local bus implementations, none of which seems to have been successful as shortly …
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General Old Hardware • Supermicro X7QC3 - Quad-socket 604 build thread

Vogons about 11 months ago

I saw this weird and interesting board on eBay for 120€ and just had to get it.I have a thing for obscure old hardware - as most of you people here probably do, too. ?Filenamex7qc3-top_lowres.j... size1.19 MiBViews89 viewsFile commentSupermicro X7QC3 …

General Old Hardware • Unknown Suntac 286 board

Vogons about 11 months ago

Does anyone have jumper manual for this Suntac chipset motherboard?FilenameIMG_202... size353.34 KiBViews25 viewsFilenameIMG_20230623_1... size483.34 KiBViews25 viewsFilenameIMG_20230615_2... size772.51 KiBViews2 …

General Old Hardware • Biostar M7VKB 133fsb? my first post

Vogons about 11 months ago

Hey! My first post! I've been into computing since I was a kid. I've never really been into collecting or using old PC parts as a hobby until recently. I was nearly killed by covid a couple years ago, and about a month prior to getting to sick I had bough …
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Review: PowKiddy RGB20S - Cheap Design, Impressive Performance

Time Extension about 11 months ago

Pow!If Anbernic is the headline act in the world of emulation handhelds, then PowKiddy is the support group you've never heard of. That's probably an extreme analogy, but PowKiddy certainly doesn't have the market awareness that Anbernic enjoys – despite …

General Old Hardware • Sharp PC-FJ100V has a 'Sound Blaster PRO compatible' sound card. Is it OK for DOS?

Vogons about 11 months ago

Check this Sharp PC-FJ100V laptop:https://jp.sharp/sup... a 1999/12 model. 800 x 600 and quite small (12.1"), 440MX chipset, ATI Mobility-M PCI graphics.It says Sound Blaster PRO compatible sound, and it can play music wi …

System Specs • Voodoo5 6000 PCI - E8600 - Win98SE - Asus P5K WS P35 - 2GB DDR2 1066 - Audigy 2ZS

Vogons about 11 months ago

I just want to open a new thread about my project. To much changed, many testing done and overall this would be more complete.So the goal is to put a V5 6000 to the limit! But it has to be a win98SE build. What makes it difficult if you want the 66MHz PCI …

Sound • Error loading SB16 Emu (MSDOS mode in W98SE)

Vogons about 11 months ago

Hello,i get some trouble trying to load SB16 emulation booting in MS-MODE from Windows 98SE (please read at bottom for technical details), basically, during boot, i get:"error: Could not allocate code/patch RAM below 4 Mbyte boundary. Try loading SBEINIT. …

System Specs • Blood silver "Double T"

Vogons about 11 months ago

I almost finished building my daily driver based on socket 754. It is intended for dual boot W98SE/WXP, based on board MSI K8N Neo V2 with chipset nForce3 250. The CPU is an AMD Turion 64 ML-30, in the original at a frequency of 1,600 MHz. RAM is Kingston …
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Feasibility of connecting a PCI GPU to a MiniPCI slot

Tinker Different about 11 months ago

I was recently gifted a 2003 Acer TravelMate 290 to use for windows 98 game development, but sadly it does not support D3D hardware acceleration under Windows 98 with the only available drivers for the integrated GPU, Intel's own drivers. It has an 855GM c …

PC Emulation • 3dfx glide vs. Intel IGP on Dos6x/Win9x

Vogons about 11 months ago

Hi there,I am testing the 3dfx-glide emulation on dos6x/win9x with my small desktop (scenic XS).The machine has an i815e chipset witch includes an i752 gfx-core (successor of the famous i740).My machine is set to use up to 32MB shared RAM (512MB in total …

Video • Winnov R10 capture card? isa

Vogons about 11 months ago

Hi, i see this card on sale for cheap, look like a video capture card, but nothing in googlein the card i can readwinnov wavia r10 on main chipsetin card pCBA-500001 and m2b-500001Any idea guys? drivers? thanks!!!FilenameScreenshot... …