Re: If you were building a 486 - would you go VLB or PCI?

Posted on 2024-05-29, 00:34

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by AvocadoLongfall

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In my opinion, the classic 486s were those up to 66MHz. Anything faster released later, was a cheaper substitute for a pentium system. I totally agree. If you want a system, which was high end in its days, DX2+VLB is the way to go. If you just want a fast 486 then you can build a >=DX4+PCI system ( …

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Re: 3D Game Engine Development

Posted on 2024-05-02, 17:47

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by AvocadoLongfall

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Looks like a really interesting project going on here. Will this be targeted towards the fast Pentiums or slower side and even 486 architectures? Only one can wonder what kind of games will be made out of this engine.

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Re: External battery packs for 486 motherboard

Posted on 2024-04-07, 17:09

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by AvocadoLongfall

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While it is off or on?

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Re: External battery packs for 486 motherboard

Posted on 2024-04-07, 09:34

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by AvocadoLongfall

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Oh, just found out that despite setting the hard disk and other settings in the bios without the cmos, the computer still remembers it after restarting and all games so far work and play well.

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Re: External battery packs for 486 motherboard

Posted on 2024-04-07, 02:06

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by AvocadoLongfall

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I meant a Not-A-varta battery cell socket. https://github.com/wiretap-retro/Not-A-Varta-CR2032

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Re: External battery packs for 486 motherboard

Posted on 2024-04-07, 01:58

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by AvocadoLongfall

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Will a not a varta work too?

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External battery packs for 486 motherboard

Posted on 2024-04-07, 01:20

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by AvocadoLongfall

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I have this motherboard whom the seller took out the battery safely and I am looking for an external battery pack that can be plugged into a motherboard header. The battery pack only has two prongs for the header bu the board has three. Will two be enough? The motherboard itself https://theretroweb. …

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Re: having issues with a handful of certain games

Posted on 2024-03-27, 21:01

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by AvocadoLongfall

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The colors on the screen, I personalized windows and two its the refreshing from the monitor. And yes there is no heatsink on the DX2 66 presently. Also I am using fast page memory. All 32 megabytes. I also need to get thermal adhesive for the heatsink cause I already have a heatsink somewhere.

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Re: having issues with a handful of certain games

Posted on 2024-03-27, 19:27

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by AvocadoLongfall

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I have played the games from pure dos and no luck. I tried every setting for irq in the sound fx area for setup of doom and still crashes. I have 32 megabytes of ram and I do not see emm386.exe in my autoexec.bat

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Re: having issues with a handful of certain games

Posted on 2024-03-26, 19:55

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by AvocadoLongfall

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Does this mean there is an issue with the board or the sound card?

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Re: having issues with a handful of certain games

Posted on 2024-03-26, 02:36

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by AvocadoLongfall

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The model number is CT2290

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having issues with a handful of certain games

Posted on 2024-03-26, 01:48

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by AvocadoLongfall

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Whenever I attempt to setup these games sound blaster 16 sound FX on my i486DX2 66 computer which uses this board; https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/fic-486-gvt#bios , some of the games crash and even hang the system unless I disable sound FX and either have no sound at all or using only midi …

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Re: Attempting to flash my 486DX2 66 board by Award

Posted on 2024-03-14, 17:39

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by AvocadoLongfall

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Would I be able to use something like this; https://a.co/d/1R341tr maybe, most of us use this:IMG_2803.jpeg You will need an UV eraser also though. It’s a really bright UV light. Not like a black light or sunlight. It’s very intense. Yep, that's what I use. A cheap source of UV erasers is UV …

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Re: Attempting to flash my 486DX2 66 board by Award

Posted on 2024-03-14, 01:49

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by AvocadoLongfall

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Would I be able to use something like this; https://a.co/d/1R341tr

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Attempting to flash my 486DX2 66 board by Award

Posted on 2024-03-13, 23:32

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by AvocadoLongfall

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the board I am flashing: https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/fic-486-gvt#bios Is there a particular flash program just for this particular bios and motherboard cause I was told that this would be the ideal forum to discuss this. I was also told I can try the AMI rom bios as well as the Award bios …

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Re: Need help with this socket 3 board

Posted on 2024-02-21, 06:25

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by AvocadoLongfall

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It booted up from a cf card with an installation of windows already on there.

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Re: Need help with this socket 3 board

Posted on 2024-02-20, 00:39

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by AvocadoLongfall

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I only have one AT keyboard and when I press the escape key on the keyboard in the bios setup like for example, leaving the standard settings menu with the hard disk and such, it already takes me to the prompt save to cmos and restart when i only pressed once on the escape key. I was using windows …

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Re: Need help with this socket 3 board

Posted on 2024-02-18, 23:29

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by AvocadoLongfall

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It is clocked at 66mhz.

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Re: Need help with this socket 3 board

Posted on 2024-02-18, 23:24

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by AvocadoLongfall

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It underperformed and it was not in turbo mode. It says 256k of L2 cache though under speedsys it says otherwise as well as cachechk.

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Re: Need help with this socket 3 board

Posted on 2024-02-18, 21:35

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by AvocadoLongfall

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I tried unsoldering the battery and adding in fpm ram but no luck. I still get the weird keyboard issue. Is there anyone who may be able to solve it? I have a vesa local bus controller card, cirus logic diamond speedstar pro and sound blaster 16 isa. Also it feels awfully slow despite having 256k of …

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