Uncreative Labs

I think that the most practical version of Windows you should run on that hardware is Windows 98 SE, not Win2K. Most Windows 2000 software assumes they're running on a machine with around 128MB RAM ( ...

You need to hook up with the local recycler

Any ideas on how to find recyclers are appreciated Smile

I feel your pain...

But if there are any computer renaissance stores left in business near you hang around them and you can get a lot of vintage stuff, sadly most are gone (they used to be a fairly ...

All of you must not be in the midwest. As previously stated, the midwest SUCKS in terms of trying to find anything vintage. I went by the goodwill the other week and was absolutely elated to find a ...

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Essentially all of it is available as "conventional" memory.

It's possible I'm missing something and not you. I was under the impression that the NCR-based chips used a memory hole in upper memory instead of DMA, which potentially makes them pretty darn fast. ...

386er is mostly correct; the speed is faster than a typical MFM drive, but the speed of the ISA BUS eventually limits me to about 280KB/s.

Some people report speeds of up to 500KB/s using a bus-mas ...

how big of a cf are you gona use, if its over 512, you might not get it to work with such an old ide card, might be stuck as low as 40mb with ide. but ive never tried it with compact flash though. as ...

I believe EMM286 is in FreeDOS as well. But I wouldn't use it, since it's a hack (no actual page frame; it just copies data around, just like XMS). It's good to load if you have a program that will ...

some guy at the CPU-Museum forum said he tried it and it worked.

What forum is that? URL?

Finally, this is not an addition...but some guy in the Vintage Computer forum discovered that it i ...

There's not much you can do on a 286 to free up low DOS RAM because you can't emulate EMS in hardware (a 386 can, but you're not running a 386). The best you can do is to use a DOS version that suppo ...

Check those; wasn't the ViRGE an early 3D chipset? I recall precious view DOS games that supported 3D accelerators (only a single racing game comes to mind) but it might be a neat experiement to try ...

I seem to have bad luck with recordable media. nearly every cd-r I have ever burned is dead. Also I have noticed most of my dvd-r are also starting to fade. I store my dvd collection (and my shrinking ...

What do you guys do for old software? Do you scroung around ebay or other places for legit media or do you just pirate it?

Both. It depends on the situation. Sometimes I have pirated software for ...

So trixter what special cards do you have hiding in the basement?

My pride and joy ISA card is a new-in-box Hercules Dynamite Pro card. 16-bit ISA card, 2MB RAM, Tseng Labs W32I chipset (the &qu ...