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Re: Loved the feeling of using internet in 1990s.

Posted on 2025-06-09, 16:54

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Another thing in the 1990's was playing games in browser, i remember there being card games and the like that could be played online against real opponents - i remember yahoo games as being a big hub for that. There were also some graphical games, though i think flash games waited until the early …

Re: Pocket 386, the brother of Hand386 and Book8088, the story so far ...

Posted on 2025-05-21, 20:00

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I've simply swapped cf cards that I formatted, set up with os and files and used in regular 386/486 machines over to the pocket 386 without any issues, so maybe that is an easier way to configure a new bootable cf if you need one. I recommend the picogus for the isa expansion (it also provides sound …

Re: Just waxing poetic about horizontal beige cases

Posted on 2025-05-16, 14:02

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Edit: Once you get a few years later, post millennium and into the Pentium 4 era, I can find basically no examples of horizontal beige cases! Understandably, I think. By that time, 14" and 15" CRT monitors were out of fashion. Putting a 17" or 19" monitor on a small desktop chassis looks weird. Heh …

Re: Toshiba Libretto 70CT Black Screen

Posted on 2025-05-16, 13:42

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Do you have the docking station with a VGA out? I'd use that to at least finish configuring the machine and ensure everything else but the screen is working. No specific thoughts, but high level in addition to checking the board where it was damaged by the battery, I'd check any ribbon cable that is …

Re: What is the exact science why HDD does not empty when stored unpowered for decades ?

Posted on 2025-05-16, 13:35

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hmm, interesting topic. I use CF cards for all my vintage systems. So it sounds like I should take full backups of each card and periodically write them back to the card to avoid degradation of the data, and that simply using my vintage systems periodically isn't enough to retain the full data on …

Just waxing poetic about horizontal beige cases

Posted on 2025-05-15, 19:22

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'm a big fan of rectangular horizontal cases. Its the quintessential computer look to me to have a beige horizontal case with a crt monitor on top of it. I love booting up the superscape benchmark and seeing the computer doing misty flips. I might actually have some kind of addiction to PCs with …

Re: Please recommend me a CMF player

Posted on 2025-05-11, 20:35

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Download Xmod over here https://k1n9duk3.shikadi.net/xmod.html Its a level editor for modern windows for Xargon that was made recently. In addition to this level editor, the archive includes a dos command line CMF player for testing out CMF music (which is what several early Epic Megagames games …

Re: Trinitron monitor sometimes gets bad picture

Posted on 2025-05-11, 19:53

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

This monitor is totally fixed now. First off, the built in VGA cable did have very poor continuity, so a new cable from another monitor has been grafted in instead. That completely solved problems I'd have where the monitor would lose the video signal periodically, as well as bad v sync and bad …

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

Posted on 2025-05-08, 23:57

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I recently received a large collection consisting of an IBM 486slc2 cpu desktop PC circa 1992 and a large games collection on floppies that the original owner played on this PC. Given how unusual it is these days to get a giant time capsule collection like this from the og owner, I made a few videos …

Re: Fixing up a Gateway 2000 AnyKey keyboard

Posted on 2025-05-08, 14:17

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Awesome! Maybe I'll try the tissue paper trick in the future. I picked up some of my gateway stuff from a gateway 2000 collector and he had multiple "broken" anykey keyboards in his parts bin. Hope people give this a shot as I think it may not be that uncommon to have non responsive keys on these …

Re: Fixing up a Gateway 2000 AnyKey keyboard

Posted on 2025-05-07, 20:10

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have another type of gateway 2k keyboard from the mid 90s with a similar design (rubber dome, flex circuit, same manufacturer but the layout is a conventional keyboard layout). Every once in awhile several of the keys including the down directional arrow will stop working and the quick fix is to …

Re: Stopping with retro PC building/hoarding

Posted on 2025-05-07, 12:49

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I don't have a lot of systems but I am starting to accumulate low value parts, like isa serial port cards, broken CD-ROMs, isa video cards that don't work anymore, pentium 75 CPU... mostly from when I get a new system and customize/repair it by replacing what's not working or taking out some cards …

Re: about the compatibility of CF cards with an 80286

Posted on 2025-05-02, 17:43

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Thank you so much for your support. I've now figured out what's going on. I installed a 40MB physical hard drive and selected a preset configuration, and it worked! I then tried a 16MB CF card and configured the custom CHS in the BIOS without success. It seems that configuring your own CHS doesn't …

Re: need help for picking my first crt monitor for gaming

Posted on 2025-05-02, 11:43

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

The Sony Trinitron stuff is good. There are various versions Sony made for Dell and gateway so you can search those names too. Id say the larger the better unless you are trying to balance it on top of a horizontal desktop PC, in which case I'd recommend 15 inches. Nec, Samsung, Mitsubishi also made …

Re: PicoGUS: ISA sound card emulator with Raspberry Pi Pico (Gravis Ultrasound, AdLib, MPU-401, Tandy, CMS)

Posted on 2025-04-30, 19:50

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Anyone tried the card in gus mode with Mortal Kombat 2? I seem to get frequent momentary pauses in that game only, I think it's related to when certain sfx would play or different music would start.

Re: Compact flash issues

Posted on 2025-04-30, 16:42

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

How old is the PC and it's bios? I have a 386 PC from around 1991 with an early version of Phoenix bios on it and it does not work with my startech cf adapter or various cards, which all work with my 486 and pentium computers. The fix for using CF with that machine was to use the xt ide bios with …

Re: Compact flash issues

Posted on 2025-04-30, 16:37

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

How old is the PC and it's bios? I have a 386 PC from around 1991 with an early version of Phoenix bios on it and it does not work with my startech cf adapter or various cards, which all work with my 486 and pentium computers. The fix for using CF with that machine was to use the xt ide bios with it …

Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on 2025-04-28, 15:54

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Update to my post above. It lives! At least the important parts. I've had very bad luck with the peripherals. Almost all the isa cards don't work other than the HDD controller. Even the sound card isn't recognized. Will see if cleaning helps. Edit, the card is a media vision jazz 16, which might …

Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on 2025-04-23, 17:51

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Update to my post above. It lives! At least the important parts. I've had very bad luck with the peripherals. Almost all the isa cards don't work other than the HDD controller. Even the sound card isn't recognized. Will see if cleaning helps. Edit, the card is a media vision jazz 16, which might …

Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on 2025-04-23, 15:48

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Update to my post above. It lives! At least the important parts. I've had very bad luck with the peripherals. Almost all the isa cards don't work other than the HDD controller. Even the sound card isn't recognized. Will see if cleaning helps. Edit, the card is a media vision jazz 16, which might …

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