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Re: Getting cache working on this 486 board

Posted on 2025-05-05, 17:10

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Well, with the help of jakethompson1 we were able to track down some 8kx9(MCM6265CP15). It was expensive, and it still doesn't work, so I'm pretty bummed out. HOWEVER, the machine consistently reports its "CACHE MEMORY BAD. DO NOT ENABLE CACHE !" line after memory check. I don't know what this …

Re: Getting cache working on this 486 board

Posted on 2025-05-02, 00:59

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

So you put an 8Kx8 RAM chip into U42, and the new 8K*9 chip into U43? Do not use an 8K*9 chip for both! Yes, 8Kx8 in U42, 8Kx9 in U43. The message looks like the verification of the data cache now fails. jakethompson1 mentioned jumpers to switch between a 32K*8 and 32K*9. Are you sure those jumpers …

Re: Getting cache working on this 486 board

Posted on 2025-05-01, 21:03

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Well, with the help of jakethompson1 we were able to track down some 8kx9(MCM6265CP15). It was expensive, and it still doesn't work, so I'm pretty bummed out. HOWEVER, the machine consistently reports its "CACHE MEMORY BAD. DO NOT ENABLE CACHE !" line after memory check. I don't know what this means …

Re: UNISOUND - Universal ISA PnP Sound Card Driver for DOS v0.81b

Posted on 2025-05-01, 20:53

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

For some reason UNISOUND is setting up my AWE64 with DMA1/HighDMA1 on the first try. Starting BLOOD results in a crash complaining about high DMA being incorrect. Running UNISOUND again after that sets up DMA1/HighDMA5 as expected from my BLASTER variable: BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H5 P330 ...which is the …

Re: UNISOUND - Universal ISA PnP Sound Card Driver for DOS v0.81b

Posted on 2025-04-30, 03:08

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

For some reason UNISOUND is setting up my AWE64 with DMA1/HighDMA1 on the first try. Starting BLOOD results in a crash complaining about high DMA being incorrect. Running UNISOUND again after that sets up DMA1/HighDMA5 as expected from my BLASTER variable: BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H5 P330 ...which is the …

Re: UNISOUND - Universal ISA PnP Sound Card Driver for DOS v0.81b

Posted on 2025-04-30, 01:24

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

For some reason UNISOUND is setting up my AWE64 with DMA1/HighDMA1 on the first try. Starting BLOOD results in a crash complaining about high DMA being incorrect. Running UNISOUND again after that sets up DMA1/HighDMA5 as expected from my BLASTER variable: BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H5 P330 ...which is the …

DOS-compatible Descent 1 and 2 source ports?

Posted on 2025-04-14, 18:12

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

I have been looking for a source port of Descent available for DOS. I know it sounds strange at first but there are many quirks about the original 1.5 DOS release of Descent that make it difficult to run on systems with too much memory(Descent 1 seems to use EMS) or other CPU-related things. The …

Re: COM Ports on Tomato/Zida 4DPS

Posted on 2025-04-10, 03:20

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

geekretro wrote on 2025-02-08, 12:41: This is the COM1 from the separate ISA card right now, this is working as alternative solution from using the one onboard. Thanks for the info! I will keep them as useful info Meanwhile, my ebay seller of the 4dps told me he will send me a cable to use with …

Re: Need help bypassing amplifier on ES1868F-based card

Posted on 2025-04-04, 20:00

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

I'm pretty sure you also need to disconnect the outputs of the amp chip before things begin to work correctly. Pins 1 and 3 are the outputs. I moved the resistors and cut pins 1 and 3 off the amplifier. I only get right-channel mono sound. Descent setup puts right and center on the right and …

Re: Need help bypassing amplifier on ES1868F-based card

Posted on 2025-04-04, 19:47

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Okay, through some quick testing I was able to figure out that the 2.2k resistors were the best for volume. Here's my (ugly) work. Ignore the lifted pad on R11, I don't know where that came from(he lied). I get stereo sound and the card is now poly-modded.

Re: Need help bypassing amplifier on ES1868F-based card

Posted on 2025-04-04, 16:54

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

I'm pretty sure you also need to disconnect the outputs of the amp chip before things begin to work correctly. Pins 1 and 3 are the outputs. I moved the resistors and cut pins 1 and 3 off the amplifier. I only get right-channel mono sound. Descent setup puts right and center on the right and …

Need help bypassing amplifier on ES1868F-based card

Posted on 2025-03-17, 07:28

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

I'm attempting to bypass this card's amplifier so it doesn't sound so terrible. At first I thought it would be straightforward, moving the resistors from R9 and R11 to R8 and R18 but that resulted in no audio output at all. I'm tempted to just desolder all of these SMD components around the amp chip …

Re: PicoMEM : Pi Pico on ISA, with full Memory and I/O bus access

Posted on 2025-02-24, 02:47

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

How exactly are you doing it? You need to remove the PicoMEM from the motherboard (can't stay in the computer even when powered down). Then attach the USB cable to the PicoMEM, press the BOOTSEL button and then attach the USB cable to your desktop. Keep the BOOTSEL button pressed the whole time btw …

Re: VLB OD6500A Multi IO IDE Controller Card Bios Chip

Posted on 2025-01-16, 14:10

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Which one? 74LS244 or 74LS138?

Re: VLB OD6500A Multi IO IDE Controller Card Bios Chip

Posted on 2025-01-16, 13:13

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

So you didn't need the 74LS chips?

Re: VLB OD6500A Multi IO IDE Controller Card Bios Chip

Posted on 2025-01-14, 16:21

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

douglar wrote on 2025-01-14, 13:59: megatog615 wrote on 2025-01-14, 13:55: Have you tried with a 28C64? Because you dont want you use more upper memory thatn necessary? no because it's all I have 😅

Re: VLB OD6500A Multi IO IDE Controller Card Bios Chip

Posted on 2025-01-14, 13:55

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Have you tried with a 28C64?

Re: VLB OD6500A Multi IO IDE Controller Card Bios Chip

Posted on 2025-01-14, 00:07

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Ah, I am trying with a Atmel 28C64 like you did and I'm getting nowhere. I have these 74LS chips coming from Mouser. Turns out they're extremely cheap, around a dollar a piece.

Re: VLB OD6500A Multi IO IDE Controller Card Bios Chip

Posted on 2025-01-13, 01:48

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hi. Sorry to necro, but did you ever get this working after the chips arrived? If so, I want to send this information to The Retro Web's page for this card so other users can know. I am also trying to get XT-IDE to work with this card.

Re: SBEMU: Sound Blaster emulation on AC97

Posted on 2025-01-07, 01:56

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

digger wrote on 2025-01-07, 00:47: don't those Vortex86 SBCs have PC/104 interfaces, which are basically ISA slots in a different form factor? Not all of them. Some of them are even smaller and lack any sort of expansion.

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