Re: Best CF card in "Fixed Disk"?

Posted on 2016-04-21, 18:07

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by BloodyCactus

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You mean running fdisk /mbr in DOS? I had to do this with all of factory new SD and CF cards. Also one hard drive. yeah but you cant do 'fdisk /mbr" against a CF card, that was the whole point you had to use a utility to actually create it on CF cards, USB sticks etc. in linux you can do the …

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Re: What's your favorite DOS RPG?

Posted on 2016-04-21, 18:05

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bards tale ii was great. wasteland was one of my ultimate favs, that with Magic Candle 1, Pool of Radiance/Azure Bonds and Demons Winter are so much fun to play! Magic Candle 1 is so overlooked.

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Re: Best CF card in "Fixed Disk"?

Posted on 2016-04-21, 17:29

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by BloodyCactus

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I think there is some confusion here. It used to be that old CF cards did not always have an MBR, they just had a boot sector. some did, some didnt. Best thing to do is just add an mbr. (fdisk in linux will do it just fine). same with usb sticks. you can try the good old "HP USB Disk Storage Format …

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Re: Is anyone familiar with watcom c compiler?

Posted on 2016-04-21, 12:25

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by BloodyCactus

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nothing simple. your missing libs/headers or your setup is not correct. the things your missing like PCI_AGP_CMD are present, but your not getting them in the output you need because they are not being defined and included by correct compiler dependancies. you dont seem to have the C knowledge to …

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Re: Commodore 128D repair

Posted on 2016-04-21, 01:46

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by BloodyCactus

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I checked all the solderings tonight (with the help of my friend Francis) No problems where the solderings looks bad. According to Commodore 128 trouble shooting guide i have decied to replace the ROCKWELL R65C22P2 DIP-40 Versatile Interface Adapter (VIA) 16 I/O. I orderes two on eBay just know - …

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Re: My woes with GeForce-4 and Unreal Tournament 99 and how to solve it.

Posted on 2016-04-20, 19:45

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by BloodyCactus

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hmm the 5xxx geforce is pretty much universally regarded as the worst geforce series ever. ti4800 was a beast of a card tho. loved my g400max but no t&l really hurt 🙁 my hats off to you for testing so many driver versions tho! 😀 nice work

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Re: Sound blaster 16 Wave Effects

Posted on 2016-04-20, 17:59

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by BloodyCactus

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its also CQM based... not something I think one would actively hunt down...

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Re: Amiga computers - which one to get?

Posted on 2016-04-20, 17:55

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by BloodyCactus

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you have to be careful swapping agnus around as the plcc chips have different pinouts between some versions! dkb megachip is good.

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Re: Commodore 128D repair

Posted on 2016-04-19, 21:33

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by BloodyCactus

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that last pic in tour top post of the pcb, def looks like something has been wiped over it, i can see better where it looks like some traces might be gone like at U20 between the two top middle chips.

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Re: What's your favorite DOS RPG?

Posted on 2016-04-19, 17:13

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martian dreams + savage empire are super buggy. its weird that they came out after u6 but have way way way more bugs than u6. lack of testing and qa. savage empire is the more fun of the two but your not missing anything not playing them.

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Re: Commodore 128D repair

Posted on 2016-04-19, 12:42

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Jinxter wrote: External Floppy connected to the serial port workes fine - when the Internal floppy is disconnected. is the external floppy jumpered to be device #9? as the internal is hard wired to be device #8, and you cant have two device #8's on the IEC bus.

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Re: Amiga computers - which one to get?

Posted on 2016-04-19, 12:40

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by BloodyCactus

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Thanks for the input everyone! I guess I'll try to get an 1MB 500 model - they seem to be the best option for me since all I plan to do is run old games off a floppy. Not interested in running an OS, wifi or other neat things they can do. I'll try to snag a 600 if I can find a complete on for less …

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Re: Amiga computers - which one to get?

Posted on 2016-04-18, 14:42

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I love Amiga's. One thing to remember if your getting vintage amiga gear is they want 15khz monitors by default. The 3000 had a scandoubler built in, and you can now get scandoublers for other machines from Jens via (amigakit, vesalia etc). Im in the process (i work on it so rarely... lol) of …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-04-18, 01:13

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corrosion? doh. rottendog make spare boards. shame its not an 8ball deluxe! 8bd is fun. was never a fan of bally pacman or the babypac's. hows the playfield wear and tear?

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Re: Is anyone familiar with watcom c compiler?

Posted on 2016-04-17, 17:21

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by BloodyCactus

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openwatcom doesnt ship with the win32 headers/libs etc unless something has changed. do you have your watcom environment setup? (LIB + INCLUDE environment vars)?

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Re: Is anyone familiar with watcom c compiler?

Posted on 2016-04-17, 15:41

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by BloodyCactus

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I took a quick look, I cant build it because I dont have a windows install. It wants to run under nt/98 which none of my systems that have watcom on it are. but, in the mftg directory run setenv.bat, then run clean.bat then build.bat looks like you might need NMAKE from MSVC 4.2, as well as some …

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Re: What does your "workshop" area look like?

Posted on 2016-04-17, 14:46

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I'm in the midst of a wife ordered cleanup so it looks a mess. from left to right; the 'table that accumlates stuff that must go', roland sound canvases on top of 3 fluke power supplies, dc load, gpsdo server, loads of mouser parts, behind is is lots of amiga parts, pinball parts, 3d printer, top is …

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Re: Is anyone familiar with watcom c compiler?

Posted on 2016-04-17, 14:17

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by BloodyCactus

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that _printf is missing says your not linking in the base libraries. is your watcom environment strings setup correctly? ohh also, your compiling windows source, __imp__GetVersionExA, is a win32 call. I guess I assumed you were doing DOS, but its win32. do you have all the win32 libraries installed …

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Re: CF to IDE adapter - how to get HDD led working

Posted on 2016-04-17, 03:02

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by BloodyCactus

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the led cable should plug into the motherboard. the cf adapter has nothing to do with the led, the led is controlled by the ide chipset (northbridge/southbridge).. maybe you plugged the cable in back to front. its only two pins, did you try flipping it over?

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Re: Is anyone familiar with watcom c compiler?

Posted on 2016-04-17, 02:58

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by BloodyCactus

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watcom has two kinds of libraries, register based libs and stack based (for calling convention). cant help without knowing the real error your getting. my guess is your tring to link against the wrong kinds of libraries. but, again, you need to paste the real output from wlink or wcl.

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