Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on Today, 19:16

by

by HanJammer

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I usually wipe old drives without looking what is on them. Stories like this do make me wonder how often I should check them though. Very heart warming to me :) I NEVER do that. Why would I? People who sell/bring machines with all the data on HDD don't care about their privacy or data anyway. I did …

---

Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on Today, 15:57

by

by HanJammer

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I diagnosed and repaired a mainboard in my second Amiga 2000 (which I'm going to sell now). It wasn't working. Works flawlessly now.

---

Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on Today, 15:53

by

by HanJammer

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Friend left the country and his father wanted to empty the basement where he had some of his stuff, so friend called me to go and grab anything I want. Heaps of junk, trashy cases, cheapo CRTs, but some decent nice motherboards inside (ASUS CUBX, Abit BH6 and such) and some stuff I remember he had …

---

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on Today, 15:46

by

by HanJammer

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

This thing which was insulting me saying "f**k you, don't buy me"... it's largely uninteresting 486 VLB system, but it had SW20-PC inside!

---

Re: VOGONS Driver Library

Posted on 2021-01-22, 10:39

by

by HanJammer

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Generally the PowerDVD, Nero and similar software bundled with the optical drives is licensed to use with the drive it was bought with. It's not really a freeware and hosting it in VOGONS driver library may get the site into legal issues, not to mention that BlueRay drives don't really count as …

---

Re: Suntac 80286 Mainboards

Posted on 2021-01-15, 12:01

by

by HanJammer

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

MR-BIOS and the AMI bios that i downloaded from one of your boards (was the second one) work ok. (thanks for that). System goes on.. Both non-working keyboard (locked) and also got a keyboard error. With the original Phoenix roms its works just fine, and also the keyboard working fine. So the …

---

Re: Suntac 80286 Mainboards

Posted on 2021-01-15, 09:11

by

by HanJammer

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Is it maybe possible to dump the Keyboard bios rom? The main roms works fine, but input of the keyboard is locked.. I think that the current Keyboard bios for the Phoenix bios isnt compatible with the AMI bios set. It's not a keyboard BIOS - it's keyboard controller. Think of it like Atmega on …

---

Re: 80386 BIOS image collection

Posted on 2021-01-02, 14:22

by

by HanJammer

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

#79 Manufacturer/Identifier: Generic (PC Chips? Amptron?) VLSI SCAMP 386SX 16/20/25MHz Chipset: VLSI SCAMP VL82C311-25FC4+VL82C113A-FC BIOS Version: AMI 07/07/91 BIOS String: 30-0400-428027-00101111-070791-SCMPSX

---

Re: 80386 BIOS image collection

Posted on 2021-01-02, 14:16

by

by HanJammer

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

#78 Manufacturer/Identifier: G.W-386/486 Chipset: SARC RC4018A4 (UMC-491) BIOS Version: Award 08/10/93 BIOS String: 08/10/93-UMC-491-214X2002-00.0000

---

Re: 80486 BIOS image collection

Posted on 2021-01-02, 14:06

by

by HanJammer

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

#75 Motherboard: TMC PAT48PG4-V1.20 BIOS Version: Award 10/13/95 Chipset: OPTi 82C895+82C602 EPROM Label: 486 AWARD SOFTWARE 1984-1995 BIOS ID String: 10/13/95-OPTI-802G-2C4UKM21-00.00-00

---

Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-12-11, 12:22

by

by HanJammer

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

With me its the opposite. The more I use the older Windows 9x versions, the more I hate the actual version. Hah? Windows 3.11 = Great!! Windows 95 = Good Windows 98 = Very good Windows 2000 = Awesome Windows Me = Garbage Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8 = Sh*t Windows 10 = Even with all the Tylenol in the …

---

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-12-09, 15:06

by

by HanJammer

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Socket 7 MoBos with VLB and look NOS for 5Euro - such a great bargain! Congrats! I would really love to own one! It seems some info is available here: https://ujeb.se/prKnn, here: https://www.elhvb.com/mobokive/Archive/Spring%20Circle/mainboard.htm#sf586 and here: https://www.elhvb.com/mobokive/ …

---

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-12-09, 11:07

by

by HanJammer

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Bunch of crap for 20 USD 2/2 3dfx required repairs as 20-something pins had cold solder joints, but works well now Which pins, if I may ask? I never knew cold solder joints could be an issue with Voodoo cards.. On this particular card multiple pins on the PixelFX (500-0003-03) chip were loose. On …

---

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-12-09, 01:34

by

by HanJammer

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

1/2 Nice cards as usual! Can you post more about the TIGA (if you have drivers and get it running) and about the EIZO Hercules in action? It will take some time before I will test them. Eizo MD-B05 card supposedly (info from previous owner) supports 18kHz MDA/Hercules monitors as well as 31kHz VGA …

---

Re: Early 2000s tat-off: let's see your colored translucent plastic things

Posted on 2020-12-08, 14:32

by

by HanJammer

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

This one keeps popping up on my ebay "People who viewed this item also viewed" feed. it's nice but I'm not in the market. looks cool tho: https://www.ebay.com/itm/MacEffects-CLEAR-Apple-Computer-Macintosh-Mac-ADB-Mouse-G5431/274318165934 clear-mac-mouse.jpg It's funny how the whole world calls this …

---

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-12-08, 11:17

by

by HanJammer

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

2/2

---

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-12-08, 11:15

by

by HanJammer

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

1/2

---

Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-12-08, 11:08

by

by HanJammer

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Built MCE2VGA, which required me to solder this SRAM IC, I think I never soldered anything this small so it was 'first time' for me, but I think it came out nicely... Now I need to find somebody to program Altera FPGA for me as the cheap clone of USB Blaster causes bluescreens in my system (or maybe …

---

Re: Fabricating a New Turbo Display

Posted on 2020-12-04, 11:28

by

by HanJammer

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'd be interested in purchasing several (4-5 units), but with a 3 digit display... I have several pentium 233 and k6-II/III PCs in AT cases with missing MHz displays.... ^this and what we really need are those (attachments) as they are very rare and everything else is relatively easily sourced from …

---

Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-11-30, 20:33

by

by HanJammer

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Designed and printed a couple of these... Grab the design here: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4669790 Looks very nice! I just got an sdcard-ide adapter and have been highly impressed with its performance and compatibility (socket7 system). Are CF cards still used by the majority here? I like …

---