Re: How to slow down NEC V20?

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Hi! Thanks a lot for all of your help and sorry for the delay. - I've wanted to program a new EPROM (2764 ?) and try it in my XT first, before posting back.. But unfortunately, I was totally busy because of a birthday party, so I hadn't been able to post back. Anyway, I think I can try it in the …

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Re: The Covox Speech Thing on ISA Bus, Dual ISA DAC Card

Posted on 2020-11-25, 08:52

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BTW, I've found a special LPT card which can be set for both standard and non-standard addresses: 3BC 378 278 268 27C 26C 3BC kinda was the original port address for LPT1.. It was hard-wired on Hercules compatible graphics cards (HGC, MGA).. They also lacked an IRQ, not sure, speaking under …

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Re: hdd replacment - sd card, cf card or scsi

Posted on 2020-11-25, 08:06

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There must be some slight difference between different partitioning/formatting tools that the FC1307A either likes or does not like . Offset from beginning of disk may be one of them or not . FAT16 has several possible partition table IDs: 04: FAT16, < 32MB 06: FAT16, >= 32MB 0E: FAT16, >= 32MB, …

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Re: 5.25" Floppy drive support.

Posted on 2020-11-25, 07:57

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I absolutely understand your needs, but also keep in mind: Period-correctness = no progress, dead At some point, it is required to travel an unconvenientonal path. If your 486 has a 5,25" drive, why not simply let it do the work? WinImage 3 can run on a 286 with Windows 3.1 (checked), for example. …

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Re: hdd replacment - sd card, cf card or scsi

Posted on 2020-11-25, 07:32

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I agree, each to his own. :) I also still have an old, large HDD in my XT.. It must be something between 5,25 inches and 8 inches in size. It's heavy and has 20MB capacity, I think. But due to DoubleSpace, it appears much bigger in DOS. What I like is the squeeky sound when it moves the heads. …

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Re: Booting FreeDOS from a vinyl record (YouTube video)

Posted on 2020-11-24, 14:12

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Impressive indeed. And I thought loading 8-bit software from a C15 was retro. Maybe for his next trick he could try a wax cylinder? Or these ancient music programme sheets that were once used for automatic pianos? The only older technology I can think of is the one that served in ancient weaving …

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Re: 5.25" Floppy drive support.

Posted on 2020-11-23, 18:06

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I don't concern myself with period correct, though I agree that 1GB is better. XP will run anything that 2k (and for the most part 9x) will while offering superior UX and reliability When XP was new, we upgraded our family's PC from circa 256MB to 768MB. This was in the early 2000s, on a Pentium …

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Re: 8-Bit Guy video's are becoming a chore!

Posted on 2020-11-23, 16:35

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Maybe it's not the right place to ask, but and are there any good german speaking retro youtubers there? I try to keep my german alive somehow. I know Tuhl Teim DE but he's focused on more modern hardware. I would actually love to make a German spinoff of my English YT channel, however I don't have …

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Re: How to slow down NEC V20?

Posted on 2020-11-23, 09:27

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Thanks for the information! :) Did you get anywhere with this? Hi! Thanks a lot for all of your help and sorry for the delay. - I've wanted to program a new EPROM (2764 ?) and try it in my XT first, before posting back.. But unfortunately, I was totally busy because of a birthday party, so I hadn't …

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Re: english, the planetary language

Posted on 2020-11-21, 06:38

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As a native English speaker, I have no conception of how difficult the language is for foreigners to master, I've heard there are pros and cons. Apparently there are a lot of 'sss' sounds in English? idk. At least we don't have to memorize noun genders. This me reminds me of my English teacher from …

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Re: VGA card doing only monochrome

Posted on 2020-11-19, 11:43

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You can also turn on without the VGA cable plugged in. Later on, plug in the VGA cable and see if colour is available. Alternatively, run some games. Some of them do directly program the VGA card and by-pass the VGA BIOS.

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Re: english, the planetary language

Posted on 2020-11-18, 12:14

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The Metric and Imperial systems never really line up correctly. It would make more sense to color code label nuts and bolts and products so people don’t confuse the sizes. A simple color code label would help to organize items so people will know that these item will work together. Maybe even a bar …

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Re: Mitsumi CD-ROM Drive Not Being Recognized

Posted on 2020-11-18, 07:38

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By the way, some of the early Sound Blasters with multiple CD-ROM interfaces had a Mitsumi interface, too. Not sure if this of any help, though. I can't remember ever using this one. If memory serves, I (we) always used the controller card with the Mitsumi LU005.

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Re: english, the planetary language

Posted on 2020-11-18, 07:32

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Yes, I think the Metric system is driving North Americans crazy. North Americans are use to the Imperial system. Is just more unnecessary choices Americans need to make. To many options. We want a Simple life. How about also using the 24 hour system instead of am/pm ? :D Seriously, though, does the …

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Re: english, the planetary language

Posted on 2020-11-17, 09:38

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Das finde ich auch. :)

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Re: Current best emulation of DOS era GPUs?

Posted on 2020-11-17, 06:34

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Different emulators are suitable for different purposes – though Bochs certainly has very little practical utility. Is there something specific you are trying to do that requires particularly accurate emulation of certain "DOS era graphics cards"? Generally all you really need is support for VBE …

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Re: Sony Playstation Classic gamepad works perfect on WIN98!!!

Posted on 2020-11-17, 06:14

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This discussion reminds me of a hack that I sae a while ago. Somebody built a joystick with two mice.. joy06.jpg Source: http://danyk.cz/joy_en.html EDIT: Just wanted to add -- the only people I ever knew back in the 90's that used actual joysticks were those who played stuff like flight sims. I …

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Re: Mitsumi CD-ROM Drive Not Being Recognized

Posted on 2020-11-17, 02:04

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I have a Micron PC with a Pentium 66MHz and a Mitsumi CD-ROM drive (model FX001D) running off an ISA controller card. I'm trying to install Windows 95 on the machine but I can't seem to get the CD-ROM drive to work, I install version 1.16 of the drivers that are supposed to be for this CD-ROM drive …

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Re: Are there any more aspect ratio ultratolerant people?

Posted on 2020-11-15, 09:17

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- Internally, old consoles often used screen resolutions with another aspect ratio (5:4 or 8:7). No, the aspect ratio of (mostly) all old consoles is 4:3. That's the aspect ratio any TV would display those resolutions as. It's also what the games were designed around, and thoroughly iterated on. …

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Re: Are there any more aspect ratio ultratolerant people?

Posted on 2020-11-13, 22:15

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Circles... ovals... so what. Hey, next level. everybody is talking about LAG...... I play allmost all my games on a ultra cheap 55" or 32" TVs with VGA in. Use an USB keyboard and controller, or use software emulators, even with those ultra action games like Contra, I do not notice, that my gaming …

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