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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-02-02, 15:10

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'd almost rather get a dirty board to clean up than to remove shrink wrap. Am I weird? Lol. You are not alone. That's why I prefer buying separate items. Hunting for drivers, investigation is the part of the game. And here you have everything clean, working and having all you need to start. Though …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-02-01, 23:24

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The BIOS chip needs to be of the same type as the original one. If you have a board that share this type of BIOS you can hot-swap them to flash the "empty " BIOS. TL866 and you don't need these dangerous tricks, only the BIOS dump from retroweb. And as for BIOS type - with DIP packages it's …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-02-01, 23:19

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

ubiq wrote on 2024-02-01, 23:14: Oh. 🤦‍♂️ Was it shown in the original listing? Better call Bits and Bolts. That's what he likes 😀

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-02-01, 23:17

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I bought this DFI PB60-VB board from some recycler How do they relate to DTK? All these Taiwanese companies were a real miracle - such a motor for the industry, inventing, stealing and faking at the same time - just like a modern China but probably somewhat more Creative (lol, pun intended). Like, …

Re: Help identifying 286 board

Posted on 2024-01-30, 23:16

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/aquari … -ham-12-ti#docs - it's this board, just in case

Re: Request: Programmer's Journal (1987-1988) or Power Graphics Programming book by M. Abrash

Posted on 2024-01-30, 21:21

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Lol, just in case somebody needs it: https://www.unz.com/print/author/AbrashMichael/ Yahoo rules, I am overestimating Google for sure

Request: Programmer's Journal (1987-1988) or Power Graphics Programming book by M. Abrash

Posted on 2024-01-30, 18:23

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hello there. Michael Abrash wrote a lot of articles on assembly and graphical programming topics. But before working with Dr. Dobbs Journal he wrote several articles for Programmer's Journal. As I understand, based on these he created the book "Power Graphics Programming". I am really interested in …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-01-30, 15:43

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

There are black 1.2MB floppies around but they are a lot less common, maybe an eighth or a tenth as many as beige or grey. You can probably swap the face plate and lever from a 360kB black one to a 1.2MB that is from the same manufacturer. EMS board is something you don't really want to use on a 16 …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-01-30, 09:01

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Did not want to move beyond 386. Like, not a huge fan of XT or earlier machines (the only exception is Commander X16 and homebrew 6502). But yesterday I could not resist and it started. First I thought about MDA videocard for my 386 setup to try 2-display debugging. Then I thought about EGA graphics …

Re: MCE2HDMI

Posted on 2024-01-29, 19:11

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Lol, I am pretty sure it will - just like any stuff I ordered already 😀 I mean buttons - what do they do? Is it possible to choose the color of the monochrome mode and so on?

Re: MCE2HDMI

Posted on 2024-01-29, 11:46

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Any manual or description? I need a second monitor for debugging, so I consider buying the MDA ISA adapter, but I need a display adapter to use either VGA or HDMI display. There are several options but this one looks the only available. 😀

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-01-28, 23:07

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Just won the eBay auction for ATI Mach32, ISA edition. Want to play with its 8514/A compatibility. When I learned Pascal programming back then in school, there were 8514 BGI drivers. Now it's time to try them :) Anything special about these cards? I found an ISA version of this in my childhood 386 …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-01-28, 16:51

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have a Mach32 PCI variant. It's 8514/A compatibility is excellent in Windows 2.x, Windows 3.0, and OS/2 1.x/2.0. I prefer the native ATI Mach32 drivers in later OSs (it's almost like an extension of the 8514/A feature set), but the ability to use alternate modes is quite nice. I thought about VLB …

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

Posted on 2024-01-28, 13:56

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Reading PC World (January, 1990), lauging.

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-01-28, 11:08

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Just won the eBay auction for ATI Mach32, ISA edition. Want to play with its 8514/A compatibility. When I learned Pascal programming back then in school, there were 8514 BGI drivers. Now it's time to try them 😀

Re: New powersupply killed my motherboard

Posted on 2024-01-26, 12:52

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Is caps the only problem of old PSUs? Will it be safer to recap them all?

Re: New powersupply killed my motherboard

Posted on 2024-01-25, 21:36

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Shponglefan wrote on 2024-01-25, 21:32: I now only buy old power supplies where I am 100% certain it's an authentic unit. They are mostly Authentic Taiwanese replicas of early 1990s 😀 Though I clearly see that Taiwan is not China on that matter, 🤣.

Re: New powersupply killed my motherboard

Posted on 2024-01-25, 21:10

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

ebay and AliExpress suppliers sell lots of these PSUs, I was wondering to buy a new one. But seems like it should be better to buy an old one and test it carefully.

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-01-25, 13:04

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Just got this lovely DFI ITOX 67S620-N motherboard. LGA 775, Intel 865G chipset, supports Pentium 4/D processors, and even has a pair of ISA slots. Wow, that's interesting. I remember how my friends, musicians, had some ISA sound card with FX processors on it, rather expensive I suppose. It was …

Re: Hardware by Year Build Guide

Posted on 2024-01-23, 21:25

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

H3nrik V! wrote on 2024-01-23, 21:14: That was upgraded to a Celeron 450A (which for some reason was marked 300A 🤣 ) Lol, yeaaah. Such a friendly CPU 😀

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