Recent content by AriesMu

Hey guys, what do you think about this 6 minutes snap-on 386SX to 486 upgrade "chip" I saw on an informaticaviejuna's Instagram post? I had no idea such a thing even existed!!! (and how in the world would it work "disabling" the 386 CPU that is left underneath since the motherboard clearly...

Hello fellow retrocomputerers! With 40 MHz FSB 486 CPUs (such as Am486 DX2-80 and Am486 DX4-120), what VLB and PCI motherboards can surely have the actual VLB or PCI slots actually running at actual 40 MHz without needing to add crappy wait states or down-clocking the slots at 27 MHz? Do you...

Hello retro friends! :) I was wondering... Remember that in the good old days we were all puzzled by the following to be or not to be situation: • Either go with older SVGA cards which are great for DOS performance and DOS games (of course the first example that comes up is the Tseng ET4000)...

Hi all! I wonder what would have happened in those good old 486 systems with both CPU and FPU sockets if this scenario were to happen: • 486 SX CPU replaced with a 486 DX one • 487 FPU installed in its socket We would have then 1 CPU and 2 FPUs! 1) Would non-multiprocessing operating systems...