Re: Transfer files to and from an old pc with no USB

Posted on 2022-07-19, 20:41

by

by Grzyb

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

- Network, but I'd rather not connect that old computer to anything "that old"??? No PC is too old for LAN. And a Pentium one is very easy to network - PCI NICs can be found for pennies, and OSes from that era usually have networking built in. Sure, there's plenty of other options, but my favourite …

---

Re: 486 - Not detecting floppy and HDD?

Posted on 2022-07-17, 14:36

by

by Grzyb

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Ok gotcha. Perhaps it is written on the HDD which of these 46 types it is, or at least have the information necessary for me to add it myself? You need three numbers: cylinders, heads, sectors. Chances are, they are on the sticker. If not, find the drive model, and Google it... And don't worry …

---

Re: Cars now have micro-transactions!

Posted on 2022-07-16, 06:41

by

by Grzyb

in Milliways

in Milliways

I'll keep my 2006 Toyota Tacoma (and the C5 z06 Corvette I plan to buy) until I'm too old to drive or until I die, whichever comes first. ...or until it breaks beyond repairs. It's already 16 years old - is it still as reliable as a new car? Sure, it's perfectly possible to use even a >100 y.o. car …

---

Re: Cars now have micro-transactions!

Posted on 2022-07-16, 06:34

by

by Grzyb

in Milliways

in Milliways

180 limit is reasonable, because car crashes are a thing. Really? What's the ratio of crashes that occur at >180 km/h? I guesstimate like 0.000001% of total crashes. And even those crashes that occur AT greater speeds are not necessarily CAUSED by such speed. By your logic, the most reasonable …

---

Re: Cars now have micro-transactions!

Posted on 2022-07-15, 17:26

by

by Grzyb

in Milliways

in Milliways

I'm with you in that cars shouldn't be limited to 180. They shouldn't be limited at all. If the car can physically do it, it should be able to do it Well, there's one problem: WARRANTY. It isn't terribly difficult to make a car that can go 300 km/h, but making a car that can frequently achieve such …

---

Re: Cars now have micro-transactions!

Posted on 2022-07-15, 16:00

by

by Grzyb

in Milliways

in Milliways

People are "Sheeple" because they obey laws and regulations? =) Primarily, they are sheeple because they tolerate laws they DON'T obey. But also that they fend of the Big One: a mandatory electronic backseat driving nanny that records your every move in the car. Its coming for sure, but not yet. I …

---

Re: Cars now have micro-transactions!

Posted on 2022-07-15, 15:08

by

by Grzyb

in Milliways

in Milliways

Also 180 km/h is way faster then the max speed-limit in any country I can think of except unrestricted autobahn. Oh yeah, and the speed limits, completely detached from reality. NOBODY obeys them! One would think that in a democratic country, it's impossible to impose a law that nobody obeys... ... …

---

Re: Cars now have micro-transactions!

Posted on 2022-07-15, 14:18

by

by Grzyb

in Milliways

in Milliways

BMW did that for a long time, only they limited them to 250km/h. Actually, the 250 km/h (or thereabouts) limit is common in many brands. And this is not much of a problem - hard to find a road where it's possible to drive faster anyway, and it would severely impact car's reliability. 180 km/h, …

---

Re: Cars now have micro-transactions!

Posted on 2022-07-15, 13:48

by

by Grzyb

in Milliways

in Milliways

Spyware (a.k.a. eCall) built into every new car... Volvo artificially limiting their cars to 180 km/h... Probable ban on petrol/diesel cars, to force people into buying electric poor excuses for cars... There's plenty of retarded ideas, and very little resistance. Sheeple are sheeple.

---

Re: How to enter Bios on 286

Posted on 2022-07-12, 10:12

by

by Grzyb

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Ctrl-Alt-S ?

---

Re: What games will run on an IBM PS/2 Model 30 5830 (8086)?

Posted on 2022-07-07, 10:27

by

by Grzyb

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

It's easy to add a VGA - no need to change any settings, just install the VGA card, and the onboard MCGA gets automatically disabled. I'm not sure, however, if it would make sense - the perfect match for 8088/8086 are CGA games, for EGA games a faster CPU would be nice...

---

Re: 386MAX source code released

Posted on 2022-07-01, 23:06

by

by Grzyb

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Last time I checked, the JEMM included in FreeDOS lacked GEMMIS support. Hopefully the code from 386MAX can be used to add that support to JEMM. Alternatively, completely replace JEMM with 386MAX...

---

Re: Network card - isa or pci?

Posted on 2022-06-30, 19:20

by

by Grzyb

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Use PCI. ISA is too slow for 100 Mbps. PCI NICs work fine in DOS, if only there's a good driver available. Some packet drivers for PCI 3Com cards are known to be buggy, some work very well... Getting a 3COM Fast Etherlink XL 10/100Mb TX (3C905-TX) Card to run in DOS?

---

Re: Longshine LCS-6610F floppy controller (For 4 floppy build)

Posted on 2022-06-30, 18:06

by

by Grzyb

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Some generic multi IO cards do actually allow one to set the FDC to the secondary port, same for the IDE, for example the Goldstar Prime 2 https://arvutimuuseum.ee/th99/c/E-H/20334.htm I/O address can be changed from 3F0-3F7h to 370-377h. IRQ, however, can't be changed, it's always 6. DMA can't be …

---

Re: Longshine LCS-6610F floppy controller (For 4 floppy build)

Posted on 2022-06-30, 17:09

by

by Grzyb

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

That's awesome that his BIOS supports secondary FDC, but you're going to have to edit it further to tell it both FDC are at IRQ6/DMA2. The LCS card is hard wired to those (as are 95% of FDC) and they can be shared with proper port writes to the respective DORs (if Sergey's BIOS does this) What's …

---

Re: Longshine LCS-6610F floppy controller (For 4 floppy build)

Posted on 2022-06-29, 22:43

by

by Grzyb

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I think I tried to use such a card as Secondary FDC, and failed... but it was many years ago, before this - https://forum.vcfed.org/index.php?threads/dos … c-driver.74244/ Looks like it's worth to give it a try...

---

Re: What is the difference between SoundBlaster and Adlib ?

Posted on 2022-06-09, 20:21

by

by Grzyb

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

"Sound Blaster compatible" cards have FM synthesis (OPL2, OPL3, or similar) + PCM. Philips SAA1099 isn't FM, and Creative dropped it very quickly, so clone makers didn't bother providing these chips - even sockets for optional installation of SAA1099 were very rare.

---

Re: XT is 8088 IBM clone, SRAM in ROM slots?

Posted on 2022-06-07, 16:36

by

by Grzyb

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

There was that FASTV20.COM program to slow down RAM refresh on an XT, making it run a little faster. So, it should be possible to replace DRAM chips with SRAM, and use that program to the extreme...

---

Re: DOS on a modern PC

Posted on 2022-06-07, 16:22

by

by Grzyb

in DOS

in DOS

MS-DOS 6.22 is limited to 8 GB of disk space, divided into 2 GB partitions. I want more, therefore MS-DOS 7.10 - seems more compatible than FreeDOS...

---

DOS on a modern PC

Posted on 2022-06-07, 10:45

by

by Grzyb

in DOS

in DOS

I'm thinking about building a modern PC especially for DOS... So, what do I need? FreeDOS still seems problematic... so, the recommended version would be MS-DOS 7.10 from Windows 98SE, right? What's the maximum usable disk size? Is there any additional software necessary, like some HIMEM/EMM386 …

---