Re: EIZO MD-B10 ROMs needed
Posted on 2023-02-24, 18:38
Thanks, I found a(n apparently) more recent BIOS of an AX in another thread, but the card still won't POST and seems to have another problem - will look more into it over the weekend 😀
EIZO MD-B10 ROMs needed
Posted on 2023-02-19, 19:48
I have a Tseng ET3000AX-based EIZO MD-B10 ISA card that doesn't post and would be curious to see it running. It has two chips, one BIOS and one "PR" (? might be the sync-bios). I googled everywhere for dumps but I couldn't find anything. Does anyone have this strange video card and would be kind …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2022-08-12, 15:43
A few years ago (~2018?) I was on the lookout for red PCB hardware to make a build. Back then I scored a Iwill P4HT2 i845PE s478 motherboard and a Powercolor R96-HD3 (Radeon 9600/256MB) for next to nothing, but both were shot so I quit the idea. Three days ago I found them in the storage and decided …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2022-06-28, 22:42
Found this fun little gadget for 2€: Gemtek Wizard Radio (WR100), no cables Looks like a 25-pin serial FM radio receiver (came with an 9pin adapter) with a 16bit control software which can run on Windows 3.1/9x. It has two 2.5mm jacks, one for antenna and the other for line out (goes directly into …
Re: Windows 11 - MS wants to get rid of HDDs for drive C:
Posted on 2022-06-14, 11:29
Well after a clean install Windows is still doing work. If you get 100% I/O when your Windows 10 PC is idle, I would suspect the drive is starting to fail. Or it's a SMR drive you've you just done an excessive amount of writes to. Not really, ever tried to install any version of Win10 after …
Re: Windows 11 - MS wants to get rid of HDDs for drive C:
Posted on 2022-06-14, 08:21
About time... Wasn't Win10 unbearably slow with mech HDD since at least last year's updates anyway? I recall constant 100% I/O in taskmgr after bootup right after a clean install
Re: What modern activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2022-06-07, 10:49
My best friend was about to trash his old i7-920 tower but I kind of liked the case, so I took it home and upgraded it a bit: bought a Xeon, swapped the PSU from my slow i5, updated the BIOS, replaced its ATi 5870 with a 750Ti, replaced its 3x2gb of DDR3 with 6x8gb, added an SSD, added a second …
Re: Jazz Jakarta PCI Drivers
Posted on 2021-12-02, 12:40
Unfortunately I can't get it to boot without hanging, either shows a solid color (green or cyan sometimes) or POSTs with character artifacts at particular spots. Most probably the RAM chips will have to be changed.
Re: Jazz Jakarta PCI Drivers
Posted on 2021-11-17, 08:29
Thank you all! I'll try to get this card to work at weekend. @cyclone3d, the BIOS chip is labeled: "JAKARTA #26-042604-3 JAZZ v 1.11D", might be able to get a ROM dump as soon as I get it to POST.
Jazz Jakarta PCI Drivers
Posted on 2021-11-16, 17:10
Does anyone have the installation diskettes for the Tseng ET4000/W32p-based Jazz Multimedia Jakarta PCI card? Only found these filenames in scenelist.org but no downloads anywhere apart from spamish driver downloader tools: JKV2DSK1.ZIP 1214649 02-08-97 ┌───────────────────────────┐ │ Jakarta Video/ …
Re: What game are you playing now?
Posted on 2021-08-19, 18:26
Lately I've been playing Firo & Klawd and Robotron X... Have owned these since I was a kid, hadn't touched them for ages though
Re: Change a game's name by one letter, to make it something completely different (just for fun!)
Posted on 2021-07-27, 17:38
Core Design's MC Racers - spit rhymes on the run, rival against Nas, Dr Dre, Jay-Z on the streets while dissin' them at the same time! also... uh... Alley Rat, for a bit of role-reversal?
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2021-03-15, 11:54
As the final step of these posts , and after recapping the motherboard and fitting a few more parts, I closed the A500's box. This rev.6a now has: Gotek with keirf's awesome FlashFloppy firmware Vampire 500 V2+ on a CPU relocator (so that I could fit a...) Individual Computers ACE2b 2MB chip ram …
Re: Gallant SC-6600 rev 2.0
Posted on 2021-03-15, 11:26
I hope it's not too late... I can't remember if these are the exact drivers I used as I currently don't have access to my whole driver archive, but there you go
Re: Which old game would you like to see a remastered version of?
Posted on 2021-01-07, 12:23
Jazz remastered? No way. I even hated 2 back in the day. Jazz1 is what it is and we love it for exactly that. I'd say Tempest but it's been done with Tempest 4000 (I hate it), however X3 on emulation is nice. So there's that. Sam and Max had several sequels in form of episodes, that's already …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2021-01-03, 21:56
I eventually managed to get the 2600Jr to work, replaced its on/off switch and did the composite mod. That's two dead machines rescued! :P Since the output quality was much cleaner than RF, I returned to the six-switch one to do the corresponding AV mod with the 2N3904 transistor. Now to service the …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2021-01-02, 14:25
Today there was no great success but slow progress... :P Replaced the 5->12VDC circuit in the VTech Laser 200 with a step-up/dc booster board. That's progress, I get very fuzzy RF output but it turns out that the floating board with the PAL demodulator chip is also responsible for the colour, so now …
Re: VTech Laser 200 trouble
Posted on 2020-12-30, 21:33
That sounds about right, thanks. Just a little update since I don't have the SRAM chips yet, I fiddled around not really knowing what to do. Tested the ram chip input voltages according to Hitachi datasheets and they seem about right at 4.99V, so the board appears not to have any more problems, so …
VTech Laser 200 trouble
Posted on 2020-12-28, 19:41
Hello, happy holidays! I tried to repair a VTech Laser 200 which wouldn't turn on. I replaced a faulty 7805 voltage regulator and disconnected the power cables from the RF modulator, which is shorted and is what caused the regulator to overheat in the first place. Now it powers up and outputs …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2020-12-20, 18:37
Last retro hardware purchase for 2020, arrived today... Sonnet Encore/ST G4 Duet 1.3GHz - two 1.3GHz PPCs on a G4 CPU card This went in a side-of-the-road find 400MHz Sawtooth PowerMac which had its HDDs taken out and a dead PSU. I have already restored/upgraded it with: a bigger PSU (ATX pinout …
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