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

Posted on 2024-03-09, 19:55

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Not a super big task but I dusted off this AWE64 Gold with an anti-static brush today. This one has blue colored capacitors which I don't see often. I also rubbed the connector with an eraser to shine it up a bit, though the card already worked fine. This is the slightly larger and older CT4390, …

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Re: Lucky Star LS-486E Rev C1 not detecting Plextor PX-W1610TA

Posted on 2024-02-25, 19:37

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Have you tried another drive to confirm it is the board or the drive? What is the Plextor connected to, directly to IDE or set up as a slave? If directly connected to IDE does connecting something else work on that connector? If set up as a slave (is the drive jumpered correctly?) does connecting …

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Re: Visual C++ v1.52 (1994) - Code View MS-DOS debugger

Posted on 2024-02-23, 20:50

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If I remember correctly, these type of debuggers were known as Symbolic Debuggers. When you build your EXE you can ask the compiler to embed symbolic information in the EXE (there are a few different formats, Borland used their own for Turbo Debugger) which would increase the size (and reduce the …

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Re: PicoGUS: ISA sound card emulator with Raspberry Pi Pico (Gravis Ultrasound, AdLib, MPU-401, Tandy, CMS)

Posted on 2024-02-22, 11:04

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Where is what? The picoGUS? It's in my machine. Playing MIDI files atm... :) Lucky bugger! I should have selected the fast shipping. Are you enjoying it? What are you using it for other than playing midi files? Yeah, it sounds great! Like I posted earlier, I will work my way through the …

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Re: PicoGUS: ISA sound card emulator with Raspberry Pi Pico (Gravis Ultrasound, AdLib, MPU-401, Tandy, CMS)

Posted on 2024-02-22, 10:56

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zuldan wrote on 2024-02-22, 10:50: pan069 wrote on 2024-02-22, 10:47: I am also in AU. Placed my order 9 days ago but I think I ticked the faster delivery option. Good thinking! May I ask where it is at the moment? Where is what? The picoGUS? It's in my machine. Playing MIDI files atm... 😀

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Re: PicoGUS: ISA sound card emulator with Raspberry Pi Pico (Gravis Ultrasound, AdLib, MPU-401, Tandy, CMS)

Posted on 2024-02-22, 10:47

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Pickup my picoGUS from the post office today. I had a quick play around with it, it's in my 386DX40 (OPTi 82C495XLC chipset) paired with a Sound Blaster Pro 2 (CT1600). Seems to work great! I have looped the picoGUS to the line-in of SB. So far I have tried Crystal Dream 2, Second Reality, Triton's …

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Re: PicoGUS: ISA sound card emulator with Raspberry Pi Pico (Gravis Ultrasound, AdLib, MPU-401, Tandy, CMS)

Posted on 2024-02-22, 10:37

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by pan069

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Pickup my picoGUS from the post office today. I had a quick play around with it, it's in my 386DX40 (OPTi 82C495XLC chipset) paired with a Sound Blaster Pro 2 (CT1600). Seems to work great! I have looped the picoGUS to the line-in of SB. So far I have tried Crystal Dream 2, Second Reality, Triton's …

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Re: Nostalgia for old Graphics Programs?

Posted on 2024-02-21, 09:19

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The first mouse I got in the very early 90's came with a paint program called Splash. I spend hours dicking around with that. REMOVED Also, The Draw. I used this to draw ansi text screens for my dail up bbs. REMOVED

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Re: Mod Master XT 1.0 Released : Play .MOD, .XM and .VGM on a 8088 4MHz

Posted on 2024-02-18, 03:16

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FreddyV wrote on 2024-02-17, 13:06: Hi, If you are curious how it work 😀 https://github.com/FreddyVRetro/MODMXT Very generous. Thank you!

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

Posted on 2024-02-17, 20:09

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Got this wireless PS/2 ball mouse from someone at work. Looking at the brand & configuration I expected the worst but it's not bad at all! The range is not more than 30" but more than enough on a standard office desk. It's surprisingly light and smooth for a ball mouse. Definitely a keeper. I am …

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Re: Aztech sound card

Posted on 2024-02-13, 19:55

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Looks like a late mid-90's cost reduced ISA sound card with integrated modem. No idea what the RADIO and TVAUDIO headers could refer to. From scanning DOSDays it looks like a different revision of the Multimedia Audio Telephony 3200/3260. https://www.dosdays.co.uk/topics/Manufacturers/aztech.php

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Re: PicoGUS: ISA sound card emulator with Raspberry Pi Pico (Gravis Ultrasound, AdLib, MPU-401, Tandy, CMS)

Posted on 2024-02-11, 09:04

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I think I got my order in in the nick of time... Looking forward to play with this cool piece of kit. Thanks @polpo!

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-02-09, 21:00

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Pulled this Sound Blaster out of a machine I recently picked up... Board is marked CT-1320U Is this considered a SB 1.0? or 1.5? Google says it's a 1.5, but it has CMS chips, so I think it's considered a 1.0? sbcard.jpg Amazing looking card. The sticker on the DSP is awesome and the blue caps are …

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

Posted on 2024-02-09, 08:13

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I was tinkering around with Visual Basic 4 (on my Pentium II 450MHz machine with Windows XP) attempting to make smooth movement code. It didn't work lol https://i.imgur.com/f2FYqbU.png Looks interesting. Haven't touched VB for a good 20+ years now so I have no tips or pointers for you other than to …

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Re: Future planning for my 486DX4 100 (Upgrading my first PC which I acquired in 1994)

Posted on 2024-02-05, 20:07

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The system currently doesn't have any external cache chips fitted, so I'll have to fit some! That's probably the best upgrade you can do. I assume that the onboard video is already vlb? What are you using for a display? Many vlb video cards from this time only had interlaced video for higher res …

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Re: Future planning for my 486DX4 100 (Upgrading my first PC which I acquired in 1994)

Posted on 2024-02-05, 19:22

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The system currently doesn't have any external cache chips fitted, so I'll have to fit some! That's probably the best upgrade you can do. I assume that the onboard video is already vlb? What are you using for a display? Many vlb video cards from this time only had interlaced video for higher res …

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Re: Dead 486! Anyone able to repair what I can't?

Posted on 2024-02-01, 22:06

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I tried it in the ISA slot, and we have some information! All but the Reset light is on (due to the reset jumper not being active, obviously) and I'm given the code "07 06". No, there's no beep; and that's after attaching the speaker wires. If previous footage/photos/memory of mine is anything to …

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Re: Dead 486! Anyone able to repair what I can't?

Posted on 2024-01-31, 09:19

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Your board doesn't seem to have corrosion from battery leakage but it's difficult to tell as the image you posted isn't very hi-res. I had issues with a 486 board recently, same behaviour you see on your board, no post codes, no beeps etc. My issue turned out to be RAM related. I see your RAM sticks …

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

Posted on 2024-01-21, 19:41

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Minutemanqvs wrote on 2024-01-21, 16:46: An Intel DP35DP mainboard with an E2200 and 4GB RAM. This mainboard is actually really nice, rock stable, solid design, many dif […] Show full quote An Intel DP35DP mainboard with an E2200 and 4GB RAM. This mainboard is actually really nice, rock stable, …

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

Posted on 2024-01-16, 19:39

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Something you sometimes see in older ones is the bottom bay, is actually the bottom half of a full height bay, so doesn't have the screw holes. I've kinda "collected the set" of similar design ones, mini, mid and full towers. Though there are at least three variations on that [ IIII ] style front. …

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