Re: Some questions about a Hercules card

Posted on Today, 15:17

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I can't help you much but judging from the naming of the pins in the jumper block I'd say that this card is a dual Hercules/CGA. M/C should be mono/color, PTR should configure the parallel port (enable/disable/address). From there on I can only guess that CG might enable/disable CGA and EMU could be …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on Yesterday, 07:26

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Just received in the mail a sad Schneider EuroPc II. This must be a fetish of mine, my eyes only see pain, but yet in some way this machines are appealing to me. Anyway it is my first "II" variant of the EuroPc. Oh god it's almost as if these EuroPCs had a special evil kind of leaking Vartas and …

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Re: Help... unkown ISA sound card...

Posted on 2020-10-22, 18:47

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by konc

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Well the model is a "Sound Image Orchestra 32+" as it's written on the card. But you're right, there's very little information about it. It appears to be made by a Russian company called "antares", which is equally unknown to me. Maybe it's a rebranding of another card? If you're after the features …

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Re: Should I build multiple PCs to play different era pc games or just one?

Posted on 2020-10-20, 12:56

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This is a recurring question that has no "correct" answer, as many before me already wrote it depends on what you want to do and how. For example I want hercules and cga, I can't do that with 1 pc no matter how well I can adjust its speed

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Re: Request for information about old computer hard disk data

Posted on 2020-10-20, 06:36

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by konc

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Just saying, if you had started using floppies (with or without some compression utility like zip or rar) back when you first asked how to transfer the files you would have finished by now 😀 Seeing all the problems that you ran into until now, maybe it's an option to reconsider?

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Re: Best CGA & Hercules games

Posted on 2020-10-19, 11:07

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Fun fact: the Olivetti M24 that I played games on as a kid back in the day didn't support the undocumented cyan/red/white CGA palette. Games that tried to use that palette would be shown on that machine in the cyan/magenta/white palette instead. I didn't even learn that the original IBM CGA card ( …

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Re: Difference between Ensoniq Soundscape ROMs?

Posted on 2020-10-12, 07:24

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I believe the 2MB ROM chip has "2M" written on it and the 1MB "1M" or "1M2", I've never seen a small 44-pin chip being 2MB though. Er, did you read the list of different chips I compiled in the topicstart? Take a look at the Elite, or for that matter on the Soundscape DB rev A, both 'small' 44-pin …

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Re: Difference between Ensoniq Soundscape ROMs?

Posted on 2020-10-11, 20:36

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by konc

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I believe the 2MB ROM chip has "2M" written on it and the 1MB "1M" or "1M2", I've never seen a small 44-pin chip being 2MB though.

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Re: Request for information about old computer hard disk data

Posted on 2020-10-11, 07:06

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by konc

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Check the size of the files you want to transfer, if it's only some office files it might be easier to just use a couple of floppies. Even if you need to do this 3-4-10 times it might be easier than everything else

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Re: Minimum Hardware for 486 Motherboard to Post

Posted on 2020-10-09, 06:49

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by konc

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Also to be on the safe side, make sure you use FPM SIMMs

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Re: Where to find ide/xt type controller card?

Posted on 2020-10-07, 08:19

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by konc

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There is no such thing. For XT machines, you could have MFM or RLL controller/drives, but not IDE. IDE was born with the AT machines (aka 286+). That's why XT-IDE was created. Of course there is, it's also known as XTA. OP, maybe this XTA would be a better search term than XT-IDE so that you won't …

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Re: Moderator "It's not okay to bump a thread that's been dead without any new replies for 12 years."

Posted on 2020-10-07, 07:25

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The way I see it it more about stopping seeing posts like "yeah me too", "I also had this as a kid", "nice photo" in dead threads. I believe that in cases where new and valuable information is added to the thread it's tolerated (and should be), in fact I think I've even seen this exact thing …

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Re: Moses Network Operating System

Posted on 2020-10-04, 19:53

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by konc

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btw, NOS in this case stands for Network Operating Software, not system (OS)

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Re: Jason Scotts BBS documentary..

Posted on 2020-10-02, 13:38

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Resurrecting this for a good reason, quoting from http://www.bbsdocumentary.com/order/ " After 10 years, the BBS Documentary DVDs are no longer for sale. We sold over 7000 copies of the movies across that decade, and they're in the hands of many happy people. Thank you! The BBS Documentary was …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-10-02, 09:34

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I know this is a joking remark, but are you sure your OAK VGA is even slower than the original IBM EGA? I consider (Super-)EGA or early VGA cards to be period correct for XT-class machines. Your OAK likely has the OTI037 chip, which is likely on the high end of XT graphics card, and might even be …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-10-01, 19:04

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I was always jealous of some of the lots you guys were finding, after all these years in this hobby I got my first one as well from a local ad. Among a bunch of terrible CQM SB16 Vibras, a descent ESS ES1868F, an ISA 256kb OAK VGA perfect to slow down even an XT, a desired but common AGP Voodoo3 …

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Re: Running Windows 95 on CGA?

Posted on 2020-10-01, 07:14

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by konc

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Ηere's a similar thread about a 386 compaq portable and win95 attempts on cga, in case you haven't seen it. Not that it worked though 😀 Upgrading Windows 3.1 to Windows 95 using CGA on Compaq Portable 386

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Re: Ontrack disk manager overwrites drive

Posted on 2020-09-30, 19:26

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by konc

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Ontrack disk manager overwrites the drive I select and formats it , but it removes the windows installation...... So now what? the drive doesnt have windows , the machine can't even install windows without cd rom support. I'm confused how this is all supposed to work. I'm not getting something here …

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Re: 8-bit guy gets ultra-rare NOS IBM (prototype?) from Computer Reset then proceeds to obliterate it

Posted on 2020-09-29, 10:15

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by konc

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Where can I bet about the next thread getting locked?

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Re: Taking screenshots on DOS

Posted on 2020-09-29, 07:39

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by konc

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For what it's worth I can confirm that Screen Thief runs/works in protected mode on real hardware (a 386 and a PII)

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