Re: What game are you playing now?
Posted on 2021-08-16, 00:17
Dimitris1980 wrote on 2021-08-15, 19:40: Doom 2 Macintosh version on my Performa 6116CD with Roland Sound Canvas SC88 for music How are you getting your MIDI out, if I may ask?
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2021-08-15, 07:19
Bige4u wrote on 2021-08-15, 02:32: Sealed D-LINK DSB 500 USB 1.1 / 2.0 just for my WIN95 system(sig). Gotta love that iMac in the stock photo.
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2021-08-12, 02:26
Today I managed to salvage a bunch of parts from an otherwise cap-blown Pentium 2 Machine that cost me $5. image0.jpg In there is an adaptec SCSI card that has magically transformed in to a Macintosh version using nothing more than an official firmware update utility in OS9, an S3 decelerator, a …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2021-08-10, 05:17
As for what I managed to do today, I finally bit the bullet and did the YMF71x Capacitor mod, and I am happy to report that all is well, and it seems to be sounding perfect. I still prefer the sound from an AWE when it comes to low-pass filtering, but I can now have a mostly single-card machine. …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2021-08-09, 23:36
Got Windows 10 setup and installed on my current i7-920 X58 build for a friend using free parts. Besides the $15 200gb intel SSD. One weird point about the XFX mobo, it takes a full 30 seconds once you press the power button to initialize the bios and ps/2 kb, and if you dont have an old GPU in the …
Re: Help getting my Gateway P5-75 to boot off a PCI card
Posted on 2021-08-08, 08:41
techweenie wrote on 2021-08-08, 08:05: Do you have the Aladdin or Zappa board? Aladdin has a BIOS string with BR0T. Zappa, as it’s BS0T
Re: Help getting my Gateway P5-75 to boot off a PCI card
Posted on 2021-08-08, 04:19
Caluser2000 wrote on 2021-08-08, 01:35: Find out what the entries are for a type 1 drive and manually set and see if that works. I tried that, and have even managed to update to the latest BIOS, and I can't get anything.
Re: Help getting my Gateway P5-75 to boot off a PCI card
Posted on 2021-08-08, 01:24
Caluser2000 wrote on 2021-08-08, 01:15: You need to disable auto detection of the dive and manually set C: to type 1...This is a standard drive type. There is no option for type 1, just IDE translation mode, sector setting, and Fast programmed I/O modes.
Re: Help getting my Gateway P5-75 to boot off a PCI card
Posted on 2021-08-08, 00:05
Do you have a hdd entry in the bios at all Generally cards like this use that entry to boot starp the hdd on the Promise card. It does, but all that I can do in the HDD is set up physical information, initialization timeout, set it to Standard or extended CHS/Logical Block, and I/O modes. I am …
Help getting my Gateway P5-75 to boot off a PCI card
Posted on 2021-08-07, 20:15
So the AT-style gateway that I picked up last week has been giving me odd issues related to booting, and google has been a rabbit hole of zero actual answers. I am attempting to get the system to boot off of a Promise Ultra 66 card that I picked up recently, and while the system boots the card, and …
Re: What modern activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2021-08-06, 01:40
I took the Core 1 test for CompTIA's A+ certification today, and managed to pass it with a score in the mid 700s. I'm happy, to say the least. Congratulations!! On getting your A+certification. I bet it's all super different from when I took mine in 05. Are you going for the Net+ or any other …
Re: What game are you playing now?
Posted on 2021-08-05, 21:20
Honestly I think both of those are kind of hideous. Pixel smoothing filters just feel viscerally wrong to me. Wish it was easier to emulate the effect of a CRT, but fake scanlines can only do so much. Then you should never play the Mac OS versions of a lot of those games if you ever get the …
Re: What modern activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2021-08-05, 21:18
I took the Core 1 test for CompTIA's A+ certification today, and managed to pass it with a score in the mid 700s. I'm happy, to say the least.
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2021-08-05, 04:34
Well, today went better than expected. I was grabbing an AAUI adapter for my 7100, and a promise UltraATA 66 card for my gateway, when I managed to find this absolute unit for $10. image0.jpg Yes, the sticker is telling the truth. It's a Socket 8 System. Well, not just A socket 8. No, this system …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2021-08-04, 01:14
Would the Vibra be worth using over my other OPL equipped cards? Depends on what those are.. Model numbers? Got myself a ASUS V8200 Deluxe, funny thing is the seller told me it's a GF3 Ti200 but when I checked HWInfo & GPU Z it was a Geforce 3 200/460 Mhz. I have a Rev. 1.01 version of the same …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2021-08-03, 18:40
a SB16 Vibra S (CT2890) That's a great find! One of the less common Vibra cards with genuine OPL3. I think that may have been the model which I had in my very first PC, but I can't be certain since I never opened it before I sold it. Not that special, I got one of those (with IDE interface). I also …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2021-08-03, 05:06
Well, since we've made it to the 2000 pages, I might as well show off something 2000 based. image1.jpg Today I managed to find a $40 Gateway 2000 P5-75, which I only paid $37 for. I wasn't expecting to get much beyond an AT style case and maybe a working power supply for the price of shipping a case …
Re: Identifying SDRAM that is NOT keyed normally.
Posted on 2021-08-01, 05:22
For one, they're not SDRAM. Those ram chips on board (HY514260B) are 60ns EDO chips, each being 256kx16, or 512KB. If I had to guess I'd say they're ECC/Buffered EDO sticks, for servers. That's why I would guess that mystery OKI AC-GMC-1 chip in the middle is there, for buffering. Do they have more …
Identifying SDRAM that is NOT keyed normally.
Posted on 2021-08-01, 00:49
As per the title, I have had some RAM in my collection that is perplexing. It’s 8MB in total, and googling gets me nowhere. The are Cubig LQW4M sticks, and they do not insert in to any SDRAM slots that I have available to me. Filename 01D64779-9786-4098-BE87-8D9E20387209.jpeg File size 1.47 MiB …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2021-07-31, 22:25
Well, for $5, I can’t say no to a nice project. 4C24AB22-7256-4163-A7CF-290A150F40E5.jpeg It’s missing a handful of keys, and I don’t have a way to connect or power it, but the price alone made it worth it. Now to recap it when the caps come in, find replacement caps and stems, and get it to …
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