You found yourself a mouse yet matey?
You found yourself a mouse yet matey?
I'm just using the system.ini setting to limit maxphys and vcache. Win98 is reporting 512MB, but the system has 4GB.
Mouse it seems was never a problem, my Microsoft PS/2 one is fine, what isn't fine are the serial ports on the board! I need a superIO card or something.
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@paradigm what's wrong with the serial ports? My P200 MHz needed the serial ports with the rewired / intel setup to work the serial mouse.
It appears to be related to the design of the motherboard from doing some reading, something to do with signal trace length, frequency and the use of the secondary IDE channel. Anyway, upshot is they are basically useless without hardware modding the board, which as it’s in really nice condition (and stable, which is rare for a PC Chips 486 board) I don’t want to do. I’ve got spare ISA slots so might as well use them!
Indeed. I hate to say it, but I already have a nicer condition Voodoo 4MB card so I’m flipping this one on for a (hopeful) profit.
Had a really frustrating evening trying to install windows 98. None of my cd/dvd drives appeared to be working so I started to consider the cable or motherboard being the problem. Turns out swapping to a different MOLEX cable appeared to sort it (It was still acting up with nothing but molex plugged in so should fairly safely rule out IDE cable or mobo). However after the 2nd restart part of the windows install the drive started flashing and making noises like it was about to eject over and over. Very frustrating.
Did you get it installed in the end? Do you have a system with a working optical drive? Maybe put the hard disk in that and copy the contents from the Win98 CD to the HD and install it like that?
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I've decided I'm on the hunt for a reasonably priced C64. I've watched lots of RMC videos and I'm getting more interested in 8 bit machines.
But I'm aware I had a bangin' Amiga 500 setup and found it lacking so I'm definitely going to think a C64 is lacking!
But I'm aware I had a bangin' Amiga 500 setup and found it lacking so I'm definitely going to think a C64 is lacking!
Adrian’s Digital Basement is the Youtube Channel for C64. Nothing beats an 8-bit dance party.
Have you thought of TheC64 remake? It's a pretty good substitute for original hardware, with the advantage of running on HDMI and being able to load games off USB.
I've still got my original C64, but it's not working 100%, so I got TheC64 remake and it's a great machine and feels almost exactly like using the original hardware - close enough to get the real experience.
Bear in mind, that since the above review was recorded there have been major firmware updates that add extra games, better USB game loading support, and other features like soft and hard resets and joystick swapping via key/button combos.
Actual C64's are getting expensive, and you need a disk drive or cassette tape to use them, or a device which emulates those.
I'll need the drive for all of my games anyway and this PSU cant be healthy if its doing this. Wont take long when I get around to it
Oh, I try not to use the actual media for fear of dodgy/dying drives scratching it to death. Unless the game is really set against me running no-cd or through a virtual CD-ROM Drive that is!I'll need the drive for all of my games anyway and this PSU cant be healthy if its doing this. Wont take long when I get around to it
Today I bought an original Ageia PhysX PCI card. Had one back in the day and wanted to put one back in the collection!
For me the physical media is part of the nostalgia, a must have
Perhaps I should clone the media so that I dont risk damaging the originals.. Thats a good idea.
I remember the days of physx and seeing so many arguements on certain forums as to whether or not they where worth it
I think having a proper age appropriate HDD makes more sense than using original media for installations. One of the reasons I stopped using CF adapters. The only real exception is this benchmarking rig, as the board has SATA, might as well use an SSD.For me the physical media is part of the nostalgia, a must have
Real age-appropriate HDDs make the right noises, the CD-ROM drive makes the same noise regardless of if the media is original or a copy!