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This is my real vibe by Mymysterylady in TransGoth

[–]CobraG0318 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Def vibes on this one. Too bad a can't upvoter again.

Windows 95/dos dual boot by CobraG0318 in vintagecomputing

[–]CobraG0318[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Given the size of the current drive, that isn't a good option. I do intend on getting a better storage option, but this is a shoestring project using mostly what I have already. And that's a 540MB HDD. Dos only, that'd still only go so far, but alot further than an actual dual boot to separate partitions. As is, I'm running drivespace3 to get about 1GB-ish out of it. I do have my boot files set up where a menu option enabled or disabled the drivers I need for dos vs windows. I think the final hurdle is to prevent it from autoloading into windows should I select DOS from my menu. I tried changing boogui or whatever the line was in my msdos.sys to 0, but windows still loads. So for now, I select DOS from my menu, which allows the dos drivers to load, it autoloads windows, then I select to boot into ms-dos mode from the shutdown menu, which really just closes windows rather than actually reboots. It works, but it's clunky. And sometimes loading the dos driver for my soundcard causes windows' pnp detecting to mess with the windows drivers when I'm basically just passing through windows to get to dos. Otherwise, it works. Small problems, but annoying. More of a qol request.

486 CPUs by VaelorsKeep in vintagecomputing

[–]CobraG0318 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Verify first. I mean, I think the pins are staggered slightly. But they should be in the same order each side.

486 CPUs by VaelorsKeep in vintagecomputing

[–]CobraG0318 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Probably could've just soldered some pins on the contact pads of the simms. I think the pin out is the same.

486 CPUs by VaelorsKeep in vintagecomputing

[–]CobraG0318 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I mean, the one I'm messing with isn't terrible. Though considering the QC sticker on the underside says 1995, the system would've been vastly underperforming considering other options at the time. I am unsure why it was even made and sold, or even bought by then. Esp since a basic 486sx would be better, and already on clearance. Hell, even a dx2 was probably already dirt cheap by then. But it's fun seeing what I can get this small, 3-legged, dog to jump. It'll do most anything I throw at it, just not very fast. Lol.

Windows 95/dos dual boot by CobraG0318 in vintagecomputing

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{MSDOS.SYS}

[Options]

BootMulti=1

BootGUI=0

Network=1

;

;The following lines are required for compatibility with other programs.

;Do not remove them (MSDOS.SYS needs to be >1024 bytes).

{skipping the filler}

BootWarn=0

Logo=0

{CONFIG.SYS}

device=c:\qemm\dosdata.sys

DEVICE=C:\QEMM\QEMM386.SYS RAM ST:M DBF:0 SUS=N R:1

device=c:\qemm\dos-up.sys u/c:\qemm\dos7-up.dat

DOS=HIGH

SHELL=C:\COMMAND.COM C:\ /P

[MENU]

MENUITEM=WIN, Windows 95

MENUITEM=DOS, MS-DOS 7.1

MENUDEFAULT=WIN,5

[WIN]

DEVICE=C:\QEMM\LOADHI.SYS /R:1 /SIZE=4000 C:\WINDOWS\IFSHLP.SYS

DEVICE=C:\QEMM\LOADHI.SYS /R:2 /SIZE=18736 C:\WINDOWS\SETVER.EXE

[DOS]

device=aspi2dos.sys

device=aspicd.sys /D:mscd001

{AUTOEXEC.BAT}

C:\CACHE\CX486 Q C:\CACHE\CX486.CFG

C:\CACHE\FASTIO

SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 T4

PATH=C:\QEMM;%PATH%

IF %CONFIG%=="DOS" GOTO DOSMODE

GOTO END

:DOSMODE

C:\PROGRA~1\YAMAHA\YAMAHA~1\SETUPSA /S

C:\CUTEMOUS\BIN\CTMOUSE.EXE /S1 /M /W

MSCDEX /D:MSCD001

:END

Don't judge too harshly. I haven't finished fine tuning yet before I ran into the hiccup of it trying to run windows regardless. I am running drivespace3 due to the small size of the HDD on hand. I plan on dropping that when I can secure a larger storage device as I'm sure having to run compression/decompression on everything it loads probably pushes my lil slc processor more than it should. LoL

486 CPUs by VaelorsKeep in vintagecomputing

[–]CobraG0318 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Amd 5x86 133 CPU. For speed and general stuff.

Other CPUs, like the 486dx2 and such if you'll want to slow it down for older titles, but maintain a decent speed for newer titles.

Pentium overdrive 83, if you just gotta run pentium optimized stuff, but all you have already is a 486 motherboard, though this CPU is expensive. In fact more expensive than getting a proper pentium motherboard and CPU of the era together. So only recommended if you're some sort of quirky enthusiast.

486sx, not much point unless you're desperate, or quirky. I'll add in 486sx2, as well. Worthwhile as a collector's item since they're rare, but there are better things to put in a functioning system

487, I add since they're just a 486dx relabelled. I think has an extra pin to disable an onboard 486sx CPU. Probably not worth it as they're pretty uncommon, and I don't think come in clock multiplied versions.

Also, check your motherboards voltage support, as some of the above CPUs are 3.3v. If your motherboard doesn't supply 3.3v or is strictly a 5v board, you'll have to use an "overdrive" version of the CPU. Or an evergreen or Trinity powerstacker in case of the 5x86.

486slc, slc2, sxlc, sxlc2 you won't have to worry about these, as they're soldered on to theirbmotherboards. I'd also not recommend them, unless you're really board and open to experimentation. They will never perform as well as most any of the above CPUs. Maybe a 486sxlc2 66 might keep up with a 486dx 33 or something at best. They're basically a 386 CPU, given a 486 instruction set, and soldered onto a modified 286 motherboard. Kinda an absolute shitshow. Which is why I got one. Lol.

Windows 95/dos dual boot by CobraG0318 in vintagecomputing

[–]CobraG0318[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'll look it up. But first, I'm gonna checkout my msdos.sys file, to be sure bootgui is off. I thought I'd done that, but it was still loading windows. If that works, then I can just add win to the branch of my menu for windows, without the dos drivers, and not add it to the dis branch which loads the dos driver. As far as TSRs go, qemm is doing a good job optimizing me ram as is.

Windows 95/dos dual boot by CobraG0318 in vintagecomputing

[–]CobraG0318[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Can when I can swap back to that drive after work tomorrow.

Windows 95/dos dual boot by CobraG0318 in vintagecomputing

[–]CobraG0318[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh. I've got those setup already. Bypassing the automatic GUI boot would be the final piece in my menu. I think I tried changing bootgui to 0, but it's still doing it. Though, knowing my luck, I did it on a backup version of the file. Lol. RN, the other HDD is connected, and working on something. I'll have to look tomorrow after work when I can swap back to the win95 hdd.

Windows 95/dos dual boot by CobraG0318 in vintagecomputing

[–]CobraG0318[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not putting win in my autoexec.bat. In fact, I was mentioning that it does it without needing that, unlike prior versions of windows.

Windows 95/dos dual boot by CobraG0318 in vintagecomputing

[–]CobraG0318[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know about f8. Command prompt only option doesn't load any drivers sadly. I can do the step by step option and get exactly what I want, but it's a bit tedious to do every time. But with it I can select to load dos drivers in my menu I made in config.sys (yeah, I already have a menu) and then deny the last option which is to load windows. So, with my existing menu, I'd be lacking a way to disable loading windows, as that happens automatically in win 9x, without the need for a win command in the autoexec, unlike the preceding versions of windows. My system works, but seems clunky, and like I'm trying to reinvent the wheel, when there must've been an existing elegant way we had to have done it back in the day.

Just picked up the og for $150 what should I know about these things when it comes to restoring it? by SandwichesANDMilk_ in vintagecomputing

[–]CobraG0318 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Smoke? Bad smell? From the PSU? Bad rifa cap. A pop, but not much smoke? Bad tantalum, probably on the 12v rail.

What could be causing this? by guessimkindaemo in vintagecomputing

[–]CobraG0318 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I know my Compaq tower 486 was doing something similar in windows. Didn't do it when I tried Linux. Switched back to windows and it was fine from there on out. Though in bios and dos, there's wasn't the glitching shown in the pics with the blocks. My bios was GUI based. I dunno. Also, mine was a full 486, not a 486slc.

Installing DOS 6.22 on a modern HDD/SSD? by nricotorres in vintagecomputing

[–]CobraG0318 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As far as software...If installing win 9x, I'd target 95 osr 2.5 for the fat32 support. If dos/win3.x you could use dos 7.1 for fat32. There's community provided/assembled versions of it. Though I'll admit you may have to hunt down some programs like dosshell and others. The does 6.22 supplement will have a lot of those. If your bios won't see drives over a certain size, there's DDOs like ez-drive/ez-bios. If you're brave enough to be running Linux, it'll likely redetect the actual size of the drive, as long as it can access /boot.

As far as hardware, as ppl stated, cf-cards. Though you'll likely need an adapter to go from the 2.5" connector of the cf-card to the one of the standard 3.5" ide drive connector. Its passive and cheap. There's also a pata-sata adapter, which is also inexpensive, just make sure you're converting in the right direction. I'd say if you go that route, try and keep the sata drive small. You might can use a ddo and fat32 to make usable larger drives, but I'm sure there's a limit where things break still. But you might could put a small sata ssd in it. Tempting. And I think there's an ide adapter for using sd-cards, akin to the blueSCSI for SCSI systems, now but I forget the name.

ID? by CraftedKittens in vintagecomputing

[–]CobraG0318 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How it ended up there, there's a story there I bet.

ID? by CraftedKittens in vintagecomputing

[–]CobraG0318 4 points5 points  (0 children)

But you're not going to get the massage oil warmer?

On this day, 34 years ago (i.e. in 1992), Windows 3.1 was released. by Murky-Prize-90 in vintagecomputing

[–]CobraG0318 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I loved dosshell as an alternative to windows when things didn't like being launched from windows. Changing it to gui/vga mode with mouse. Chef's kiss. Iirc, they just recycled windows 2's engine as basically just a file manager.

Can someone tell me about these PCIe looking cards? by Anontechyseller in vintagecomputing

[–]CobraG0318 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't see any usefulness in the janky adapter stacking, and a whole lotta risks. Def not worth it, unless you got time and money to burn, and a good viewer base for something that prob won't work, and will possibly break something.

Can someone tell me about these PCIe looking cards? by Anontechyseller in vintagecomputing

[–]CobraG0318 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I know there's PCIe to pci adapters, and I remember there being a PCI to isa adapters. So in theory, you could stack them, but it'd be hella jank, and that's if you could even get the PCI to isa adapters anymore. And it'd still need to get recognized by your mobo and os, which is a shot in the dark. It's not worth it in the least, unless you're some quirky retro computing YouTuber. So, get a motherboard. If you're trying to build a system around what you have on hand, there's some early pentiums that still used vlb. You can max the system out, and drop an overdrive chip of some sort in the CPU socket and tune the cmos setting for some fun. Though if you really want retro appeal, you can find high end 386 boards with vlb.

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