Re: Questions about a CMS-401 MIDI card
Posted on 2011-04-03, 11:05
@Old Trashberg np, have fun with your card 😀
Re: Questions about a CMS-401 MIDI card
Posted on 2011-04-02, 21:11
my card
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2011-04-02, 11:24
I've had troubles with 80-wire IDE cables in older system like the one you have in that caddy, I think it'll "magically" work with an old-school 40-wire cable ;) What kind of troubles did you have? Harddrives and cd-rom drives were not "seen" by the BIOS/drivers or the system froze during POST Same …
Re: Questions about a CMS-401 MIDI card
Posted on 2011-04-02, 11:00
Well, I'm mainly looking for two things... the first is, whether the trace connecting the two pins at position 0 of the address selection exists on other cards... basically, if you could prod those pins on your card with a multimeter, and see if there's continuity between them without a jumper …
Re: Questions about a CMS-401 MIDI card
Posted on 2011-04-02, 09:06
Well, I'm mainly looking for two things... the first is, whether the trace connecting the two pins at position 0 of the address selection exists on other cards... basically, if you could prod those pins on your card with a multimeter, and see if there's continuity between them without a jumper …
Re: Questions about a CMS-401 MIDI card
Posted on 2011-04-02, 09:05
Mau1wurf1977 wrote: Try "Gateway" from Legend Entertainment. If it works, you have a 100% compatible MPU401 card... I can confirm it's 100% compatible with the Roland MPU-401 spec
Re: Questions about a CMS-401 MIDI card
Posted on 2011-04-01, 20:36
I own one of these which I use in a 386 machine I'm going to dig out this weekend during my wild photo shoot for the retro rig photo thread we have going here. How can I help?
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2011-04-01, 12:39
I've had troubles with 80-wire IDE cables in older system like the one you have in that caddy, I think it'll "magically" work with an old-school 40-wire cable 😉
Re: Mau1wurf1977's first 486 PC - Lot's of pics - Tell me what I can do with it
Posted on 2011-04-01, 09:37
Question: Would something like this work in my 486: http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Ultra-ATA-133-PCI-IDE-Raid-Controller-Card-Adapter-/320597518599?pt=AU_Components&hash=item4aa519e907 It's a PCI IDE controller. It would allow me to install more CF cards towards the left side of the machine. I won't need …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2011-04-01, 07:01
@Mau1wurf1977 Damn...almost got a hard on from your pic's 😎
Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread
Posted on 2011-03-30, 20:37
Going to spam the hell out of this thread shortly with pic's 😁 Been too buried in work lately (arrghh)
Re: Are any of the really old Sound Blasters any good?
Posted on 2011-03-30, 08:18
Hehe! I got lucky. I didn't notice the capacitor size difference. Well spotted. Here's the back of the card. If you look in the top left corner, the "squiggle" looks like someone's signature. Back in the day, what did people use for sound effects? Was it either the PC speaker, or the Covox speech …
Re: Are any of the really old Sound Blasters any good?
Posted on 2011-03-30, 07:33
@retro games 100 Yours has the s/n sticker, unfair!! 😁 edit: and a slimmed capacitor 😎
Re: Are any of the really old Sound Blasters any good?
Posted on 2011-03-30, 04:46
Here's my 1987 Adlib
Re: Bought these games today
Posted on 2011-03-28, 19:11
Re: VLB 486 recommendation required please
Posted on 2011-03-24, 21:19
These boards don't have flashable BIOS chip, I hired some german dude to flash mine back when I was fiddling with these Asus boards
Re: VLB ATI Mach64 - won't POST if memory upgrade module is attached
Posted on 2011-03-24, 13:04
I can answer you about the memory size of the upgrade module...it's 2mb I believe I still own two if these cards...
Re: isa 386c cache apparently not working [now fixed]
Posted on 2011-03-24, 12:57
The external cmos batteries are usually 3.6volt which this mobo uses and I use on my own Asus ISA-386C Using such a battery here on the older, big brother of the ISA-386C https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/_QyE3126ASao/SuNM2_K5RyI/AAAAAAAABXY/xTRiGSAxGrk/s800/P1010002%20%282%29.JPG I believe these …
Re: isa 386c cache apparently not working
Posted on 2011-03-24, 12:41
ratfink wrote: Problem solved! Was just about to take the board out when I noticed the turbo pins. Now I have jumpered these, the cache works [and is reported by cachechk] and 3dbench gives me a more sensible score of 12.9. 😁 Groovy! 😁
Re: Bought these games today
Posted on 2011-03-22, 21:03
Very nice. Did you buy these games locally? Roughly, how many original PC games have you got? Are you buying more games these days, as opposed to getting more old hardware? Yep, bought them locally...it's not often you come by old PC games here in Sweden since the PC wasn't successful here as a …
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