Shagittarius wrote on 2022-10-21, 16:48: Linux is only free if your time is worthless. Yes, it is, but only if you are screwing with it. Leave it alone and it will do the job. My grandma is happy with Lubuntu. If she can handle it then you are probably doing something wrong.

I've hacked a bunch of diodes on a breadboard and checked the postcode and it is 05. I've seen that for some BIOSes it means "CMOS interrupt disabled". That would suggest that it may need a working battery pack as a CMOS battery, to boot up.

Hi, I have an i486DX2 laptop, and it does not boot. Drive spins, but there's no backlight. There's only a continuous beep for a few seconds, then a few seconds break, and another beep, and so on. When I got it, I thought that's gonna be something easy like a RAM stick, BIOS battery, or some …

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zhq1q2TvH4k&a … l=WiktorTomanek That looks like a virus from that era.

Hi, [This thread is a continuation of that one: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=62&t=82823 .] So I have a 2005ish AMD Athlon 64 PC, with Nvidia 6200. It fully works in win98 and has nice 3dfx Voodoo graphics in DOS, but because of Sound Blaster 128 Vibra and too modern motherboard, it is …

I thought about using Russian 1j24w (1Ж24Б) pencil tubes because they are great for such application, they are small, through-hole and they work perfectly on 12V on the anode and 1.2V heather (and I can buy them here for ~$1.5), but I've already done headphone amp using them and OPA2134, so I can …

C560/AD558 is pretty much Covox in one IC.

[..] I want to build one with a headphone amplifier based on lm386 and buffer based on some generic opamp and I want to mount it to PCI card bracket. Hi, you maybe can use that internal Covox schematic for this: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=540267#p540267 Thx. Indeed, C560/AD558 is a …

So I thought about Covox Speech Thing because it is very simple to build [...] BTW.: The original uses an R-2R resistor ladder with R=100kΩ in combination with a 25.5kΩ load resistor. If you are looking for a PCB-based solution, you can take a look at my clone designs: https://www.vogons.org/ …

Gigabyte ga-k8ns rev2 - parallel port and dual floppy

Ok, thx. I saw a GitHub sound blaster emulator page that stated: intel 80386, so I thought that it is 386 only.

Hi, So I've got a 2005ish AMD Athlon 64 PC. It fully works with Windows 98SE, because It has PATA (IDE) drives and win98 drivers for the graphics card, the only problem is obviously the sound. While it works in win98, the sound card is Sound Blaster 128 Vibra and the motherboard is not allowing its …