Re: Amstrad Mega PC
Posted on Today, 05:24
No idea sadly, I would think these tests will work with every pc out there tbh
Re: Amstrad Mega PC
Posted on Yesterday, 19:45
Today fellow user retro-enthousiast DK Shadow reached out and offered a rarity: a floppy image of the official Amstrad Diagnostic Tools for the PC6486SX, PC7286 and PC7386SX systems (last system is of importance since it's what the Mega PC is based on). This was a floppy given to technicians along …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2022-05-21, 18:42
thanks for the info Grzyb indeed over here cards even up to VGA had Greek-enabled roms ... it was good back then but it is annoying now since they interfere with ascii gfx 🤣 🤣 🤣
AdLib GOLD clone is now a reality
Posted on 2022-05-21, 18:30
Hiya! let me present you the latest addition to the hardware clones lineup of unobtanium things LOL https://i.imgur.com/ZanUh6F.jpg https://i.imgur.com/Sej5xhS.jpg This is a fully-fledged AdLib GOLD clone reverse engineered by JimWest from his original card. It works with the original AdLib Gold …
Re: ARGUS Project thread - now accepting pre-orders (for north/south American and Europe)
Posted on 2022-05-21, 17:53
ok so the chip does not care and bank is detected just fine - good news then no idea about md5 checksum, maybe try on some other pc?
Re: ARGUS Project thread - now accepting pre-orders (for north/south American and Europe)
Posted on 2022-05-21, 17:47
yeah, WE# needs to be HIGH for read operation:
Re: ARGUS Project thread - now accepting pre-orders (for north/south American and Europe)
Posted on 2022-05-21, 17:39
My ARGUS-PCB finally arrived today from @keropi :) Soldered it together in 4,5 hours and it seems to be working and is correctly detected by the installation disks. Ram is also working fine with 16MB according to the mem-check in setup.exe One thing seems to be not correct or I'm doing something …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2022-05-21, 16:22
I got an original Hercules card That's Hercules Graphics Card Plus, with the RamFont feature. the what? LOL is there more info on that? I had no idea I just assumed discrete logic was moved to an asic/cpld for cost reducing reasons edit: OK I see, it has the ability the name suggests: load new font …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2022-05-21, 07:05
I got an original Hercules card https://i.imgur.com/5YS2Qwm.jpg and a boxed ISIS soundcard: https://i.imgur.com/247Etoi.jpg Sadly it is plagued by some hardware? design? bug and it's not always getting detected by the system, seems to be a PnP failure. I read online about a fix, or later rev. cards …
Re: ARGUS Project thread - now accepting pre-orders (for north/south American and Europe)
Posted on 2022-05-20, 18:04
yeah this package is in "postal limbo" between countries there is no need to worry yet - it just takes time, some countries need more than others....
Re: MK8330 : new soundcard based on the CMI 8330 chipset
Posted on 2022-05-08, 20:48
I cannot tell you exact price about the pcmidi addon... it all depends on the prices we get for parts :( it's not only the modern chips that got inflated - it is also the OLD ones that got an increase from 2x to 4x :o it will certainly be cheaper than the corresponding Orpheus, that much I can …
Re: MK8330 : new soundcard based on the CMI 8330 chipset
Posted on 2022-05-08, 20:07
well it's been already delayed once but I want to say during the next week we will order some PCBs parts for these are already bought - except for the pcmidi addon because there is a cpld shortage atm it will come down the road once we get some more chips from a different trusted source since mouser …
Re: MK8330 : new soundcard based on the CMI 8330 chipset
Posted on 2022-05-08, 19:43
I am glad you are enjoying the prototype card appiah4 and it did not set your house on fire 🤣 🤣 🤣 I have a really soft spot for the pcmidi daughterboard , I just looks awesome to my eyes 😁
Re: Alone in the Dark - problem
Posted on 2022-05-08, 18:24
try a bog standard 6.22 boot disk with cd-rom drivers installed and see what happens? also I do not see on the box any EMS requirement , all it states that is needed is 575kb of conventional ram so this could easily be achieved with no tricks
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2022-05-07, 10:26
bjwil1991 wrote on 2022-05-07, 08:50: I wonder if it's 100% compatible? nope... I had one at some point and it failed in some games (WC comes to mind) still it is better than no "intelligent" mpu since many many other games will work just fine 😀
Re: Roland SC-55 Refurbishment
Posted on 2022-05-05, 10:58
very nice refurb!
Re: wolfmidi+wolfdosmpu - Wolf3D/SoD music in General MIDI (fully-automatic converter) + WOLF3D.EXE with MPU-401 support
Posted on 2022-05-05, 08:46
Re: Orpheus Soundcard: a new DOS soundcard with SPDIF/OPL3/MPU support
Posted on 2022-05-03, 18:34
^ yep, this can be done - analog sources are no issue to be heard from s/pdif
Re: Vodoo 5 fans, really necessary?
Posted on 2022-05-02, 09:04
in my experience the fans are absolutely needed as the VSA chips do get hot they probably don't get hot enough so they die but they are old chips and heat is never good for them - so a good airflow will prolong their life in other words: put some fans back there 😁
Re: How can I safely transplant a 160-pin QFP chip?
Posted on 2022-05-01, 08:52
oh that takes me back... I used to do the same in the 2000s but like others said, hot air is the best way even a cheap station will do wonders in cases like this
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