Re: XTIDE Hard Drive Recommendation

Posted on Today, 04:40

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by Jo22

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Does that XTIDE card support IDE/ATA or just 8-Bit IDE? It's the commonly known IDE for common HDDs. The name comes from "adding IDE to XTs" and not the 8bit protocol. Ah, ok. I was worried that the physical XTIDE card was implementing exactly that 8-Bit variation only (since it's sufficient for CF …

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Re: XTIDE Hard Drive Recommendation

Posted on Yesterday, 14:32

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Does that XTIDE card support IDE/ATA or just 8-Bit IDE? CF cards support both, as far as I know. XTIDE as such was an old version of IDE that lived for a very short time. A few XT mainboards had a connector for it, I think. Those Commodore PCs with 8088 had them, I vaguely remember. Or were it Atari …

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Re: Gotek, but in a card slot?

Posted on Yesterday, 10:17

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Modern cases are ditching the bays. Usb and 2.5” handles everything these days Idea #2 (or #4), as my father would say - get a jigsaw and make the case have a 3,5"drive bay (aka fix the damn case). 😁 Edit: Or a Dremel tool, not sure. Anyway, not sure what else to say. Slot brackets for SD/CF …

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Re: Voyager probes 40th anniversary

Posted on Yesterday, 09:56

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^😃 Quick update. Found an interesting article about ancient spacecrafts. Covers the Voyagers, too. https://interestingengineering.com/oldest-undead-spacecraft

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Re: Gotek, but in a card slot?

Posted on Yesterday, 08:10

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by Jo22

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My new case doesn’t have drive bays. Wait. Why in Wayne's Worl.. , err, why on earth would anybody do that? 🤷‍♂️ Designing a PC case without any drive bays, I mean. How to install a fan control, a card reader etc? Especially card readers must be replaced every few years, due to them becoming …

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Re: Windows NT 3.1 running on a real hardware: Haswell i5-4570/H81, directly from SSD

Posted on Yesterday, 07:50

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Awesome! 🥳🎉 Kudos to you for getting it working! 😎👌 NT 3.1 was my very first Windows NT.. Got it because I really loved Windows 3.1, so I had to get his bigger brother, too! 😁 Also, fine selection of hardware! 👍 If only the newest NT had such a neat interface!

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Re: Mspaint alternatives (Win32/Win64)?

Posted on Yesterday, 06:11

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GIMP truely is a mighty tool, even though I like my copy of CS2 on Mac! 😁 It's just that MS Paint was the defacto standard* for pixel artists. A whole community/society is based around MS Paint! As someone who preferred the old Paintbrush from Windows 3.x (based on ZSoft Paintbrush, ≠MS Paint), I …

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Re: One color randomly goes off on my CRT

Posted on Yesterday, 05:56

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Turned out the problem was a cold solder joint somewhere on the neck board (the PCB that's directly connected to the cathode). I resoldered everything on that PCB, and the monitor has worked well ever since. Glad to hear! 😃👍 Just to be absolutely sure, I consulted my father yesterday's evening, too …

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Re: How to install DX7 but there is limited space?

Posted on Yesterday, 05:49

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this is a terminal BTW and DOM modules are too expensive for me or just not available locally, HP T5700. And how to change TEMP under win9x? I know how to do it on XP up only. :) I've got a similar one. Installed a CF card adapter because of the same reason. - I'll try to find my thin client and …

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Re: What is the best image format for older computers?

Posted on Yesterday, 05:07

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Ah, I see. Now I understand. Hm. That reminds me of the menus of shareware CDs from the late 90s/early 2000s. They had their catalogue in HTML format, so they weren't bound to a single platform. Maybe some of them can be found on archive.org for further analysis. Edit: Or was it XHTML, CHTML? In the …

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Re: Mspaint alternatives (Win32/Win64)?

Posted on 2022-05-26, 15:25

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Hm. Maybe check the beta versions of Windows? Maybe from the early Longhorn days? Could be that some of the betas had new functions but the old look of MS Paint, not sure. MS Paint was very popular among pixel-artists, who created sprites for indie games etc.

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Re: One color randomly goes off on my CRT

Posted on 2022-05-26, 15:15

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Cold solder joint? Picture becomes pink, maybe? If it's a cold solder joint on the PCB, a cooler spray can help narrowing the error. Try the little PCB that's connected to the CRT socket. If the monitor is safely discharged and unplugged, you could try resoldering everything by heating the joints …

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Re: What is the best image format for older computers?

Posted on 2022-05-26, 08:54

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Oops. I just learned that the internet/online services just had started as late as 1995 in some places, while in inner parts of Europe (France) it started in 1992-94, with the WWW being around circa ~1993/1994 with the advent of early browsers like Mosaic.. New Zealand even started in 1989, …

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Re: What is the best image format for older computers?

Posted on 2022-05-26, 07:53

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I wanted to load a lot of images in an HTML page, they are small 64x128 images, but as there are a lot of images at the same time, I realized that I can have a big difference in performance if I choose the ideal format. CompuServe used interlaced GIF to solve this issue, I think. So you could see …

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Re: 1MB Video RAM upgrade - are they all standard?

Posted on 2022-05-26, 07:21

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SteveC wrote on 2022-05-25, 15:09: Onboard is a Trio64 (no V or V+) anyway Ah, sorry. My condolences. 😢

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Re: What is the best image format for older computers?

Posted on 2022-05-26, 07:18

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Ah, sorry for being a little bit off-topic.. The nostalgia is just so strong.. Here's some picture too of the pager I had in ~'96. Everyone wanted a fancy Skyper so badly, but all I got at the time was a numeric model. 😢

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Re: What is the best image format for older computers?

Posted on 2022-05-26, 06:42

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By the way, that was a common online experience in my place in '96.: No internet, nope. We just got that brand new "KIT" system for Datex-J (aka BTX). - The BTX central computer was stationed in Ulm, I think. Software in '96 was T-Online 1.2 on Windows 3.1/95 or Mac. If you clicked on that globe, …

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Re: What is the best image format for older computers?

Posted on 2022-05-26, 06:01

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Older computers = Computers from the mid 90's, between 486 dx2 66 and pentium 166 .. In '96, my father had a 386DX-40 with Win95 and Netscape 2.01! And data/fax modem with ~28k8! :smiling_face_with_tear: Please let's don't forget Macintoshs. You may not like them, but they were authentic, period- …

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Re: Apple QuickDraw 3D Accelerator Card

Posted on 2022-05-25, 21:41

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So Classic environment is allow 68k and PPC software to work on Mac OS X (PPC based)? With out RAVE, GLIDE, OPENGL Rosetta allows Mac OS X PPC based software to run on Mac OS X Intel CPU? The Mac OS 9 running on PPC executes 68k apps directly? much newer MAC's ARM based is not support OpenGL, and …

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Linux kernal v5.18 switches from C89 to C11

Posted on 2022-05-25, 09:08

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Hi everyone, Just saw this news. https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-5.18-Does-C11 Maybe it's relevant to some of us who compile their own kernals for vintage PCs etc. Personally, I just love old K&R C. ♥️ For my personal homebrew projects. It's so much more compact and tidy. …

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