Re: New CDROM ODE Emulator using Raspberry Pi

Posted on 2025-04-20, 11:58

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I noticed you mentioned the long boot times. While it would be quite a major change, it may be worth looking into using something like buildroot to create a much leaner (both userland-wise and kernel config-wise) custom system to reduce the boot times (and potentially have other positive side …

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Re: New CDROM ODE Emulator using Raspberry Pi

Posted on 2025-04-19, 00:41

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Did you mean to post a link to the project or is this closed source or ?

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Re: ZuluIDE: A proper IDE device emulator for retro PCs

Posted on 2025-01-16, 19:02

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* Operate at bus speeds up through PIO 3/UDMA 0 Any possibility of including MWDMA support for us PIIX3 chipset users? * Physical, Gotek-like hardware interface I didn't see anything on the site or stores regarding this, so maybe I'm misunderstanding this feature. Does this mean a (separate?) …

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Re: Need help finding name of PC with a BIOS that spoke errors using PC speaker

Posted on 2024-10-28, 18:53

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wbahnassi wrote on 2024-10-28, 13:57: Here it is: https://youtu.be/P_so2nUob1Y?t=11m38s Not that machine either. The one I'm thinking of was in a desktop case, had an older CPU than that one, and definitely used the PC speaker instead of a sound card.

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Re: Need help finding name of PC with a BIOS that spoke errors using PC speaker

Posted on 2024-10-28, 13:37

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wbahnassi wrote on 2024-10-28, 06:20: I remember LGR covered one such PC. It's night for me now, so digging the video will be left as exercise to the reader. Hrmm.... all of my searches through his channel only uncover speech-related peripherals.

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Re: Need help finding name of PC with a BIOS that spoke errors using PC speaker

Posted on 2024-10-28, 13:31

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Horun wrote on 2024-10-28, 04:46: Generally you cannot get a gov computer as they destroy them to prevent any data leakage, even back then... just sayin. Back then anything that would have come from the government would have arrived without a hard disk generally.

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Re: Need help finding name of PC with a BIOS that spoke errors using PC speaker

Posted on 2024-10-28, 03:00

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Emerson 500EC ? https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=1193654 Photos of it don't look familiar, so I'd have to say no. I could barely hear the voice clear enough in the video clips I could find of the Emerson actually speaking, so not totally sure that the voice is even the same, but it could be …

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Need help finding name of PC with a BIOS that spoke errors using PC speaker

Posted on 2024-10-28, 02:33

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So a long time ago (back in the 90s) I came across a second hand desktop PC that I now can't seem to find anywhere on the internet. I was thinking the manufacturer was Wang but my memory may not be 100% correct on that. I want to say it was probably either a 286 or 386. Either way, the one thing …

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Re: Erratic behaviour booting from CF card

Posted on 2024-10-27, 10:06

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When the IDE harddisk was still working, I didn't have any of these issues. What size was the IDE hard disk? Did it just have DOS installed or Windows or ? Also, have you tried using DOS 7.1 and then optionally formatting the CF card as FAT32 to see if that makes any difference (7.1 was the first …

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Re: Populating empty USB sockets on a PIIX3 motherboard (Micronics W6-LI, 440FX)

Posted on 2024-08-21, 16:18

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Repo Man11 wrote on 2024-08-21, 15:41: Do you know the release date of that computer? No idea, I'm not even sure exactly what models it would have been used in. I was only given the motherboard, audio daughterboard, and riser. Based on the chips though the latest date code I can find is 33rd week …

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Re: Populating empty USB sockets on a PIIX3 motherboard (Micronics W6-LI, 440FX)

Posted on 2024-08-21, 12:34

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Interestingly my Packard Bell PB810 motherboard has the SU093 variant and can verify the two onboard USB ports definitely do work. However the strange thing was, when I originally got the motherboard the USB ports were completely hidden behind the original rear metal backplate. I'm not sure why they …

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Re: smallest computer that can run windows XP with supported hardware (especially video card?)

Posted on 2024-08-11, 21:26

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Smallest computer that can run XP? How about one of those OQO handhelds? 😀

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Re: Supermicro X7QC3 - Quad-socket 604 build thread

Posted on 2023-06-25, 13:15

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This is a problem I need to solve and I'm not sure how at the moment. I need fans with high throughput to adequately cool these sticks down, but I can't just use Dynatron server fans because these are way too loud and my neighbors will probably kill me if I tried that. If you have any suggestion …

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Re: 5" FLOPPY under modern linux

Posted on 2023-05-21, 23:11

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(100+ skill points on gcc, makefile and uboot are required to get your system running) I have to disagree. Creating a bootable Linux system is very easy with buildroot. The entire configuration process is menu based -- buildroot's, the kernel's, and busybox's. After that, buildroot automatically …

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Re: VIA Epia 800 experience

Posted on 2023-05-21, 22:56

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justin1985 wrote on 2023-05-21, 21:38: First off, what is "OC"? I believe it stands for "open connection", meaning nothing should be connected to it. EDIT: Looks like some manufacturers use it to mean "overcurrent" for USB overcurrent protection/detection, so it could be that too....

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Re: 5" FLOPPY under modern linux

Posted on 2023-05-21, 17:51

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Since you know the drives works fine on the K6-2-based machine, I would suggest moving the drive back to that machine, verify that it's still working (presumably you tested under DOS there?), and then booting to Linux on that machine (without changing floppy cables or anything) instead and verify …

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Re: 5" FLOPPY under modern linux

Posted on 2023-05-21, 16:41

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For what it's worth, I've used 5.25" (specifically high density Chinon and Epson) floppy drives under a modern Linux kernel without any issue, I just had to make sure to enable all of the relevant kernel configuration options when compiling the kernel. However, that was on an older socket 7 …

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Re: Neoware CA2 Thin Client

Posted on 2023-04-23, 15:17

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This machine appears to have the VT82C686B (according to the pictures on this site ), which is the south bridge that handles the built-in audio. You should be able to use this VIASBCFG utility and/or make sure your BLASTER string is set in DOS (according to your "Sound Blaster" BIOS settings) to get …

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Re: Neoware CA2 Thin Client

Posted on 2023-04-22, 14:08

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It's a special slot that carries both ISA and PCI signals (LPX motherboards use the same slot I believe) and in this case you'd need a low profile riser card like the one shown at the bottom of this page:

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Re: What's the value of a socket 423 P4 system?

Posted on 2023-04-19, 10:56

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And there is at least one super cool Socket 423 motherboard called the ASUS P4T that will tell you in a robotic voice through the headphone output what the POST error is :D That reminds me of this particular brand of old pre-Pentium PCs I used to work on that would speak (using pre-recorded …

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