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Re: Help fixing a wd90C00 jk

Posted on 2020-02-08, 08:25

in Marvin \ Video
I don't know about the WD90C0 JK (Paradise PVGA1B ?), but generally speaking, the WDs and Paradise cards aren't bad, though. Considering that they evolved from the very first SVGA cards and have a history going down to the years '87-88. For its ancestor, the Paradise PVGA (PVGA1A; Professional VGA …

Re: History of ANSI/ASCII art

Posted on 2020-02-07, 14:18

in Milliways
Thanks a lot for the link, it looks very interesting! 😎 It also seems to support many, many things (have to check the readme for details)! (I also remember Banacom and Telemate, though I don't know if they supported ANSI..)

Re: My Amigas

Posted on 2020-02-07, 06:13

[..] my brother ran his home business with one. [..] Surely that's possible somehow. People used to do the same with a VC20, a tape reel and a bunch of ancient golem ( animatronics ). Or so I heard. Men like Mac Gyver, Chuck Norris or Spongebob probably could have done that with less, say a hamster …

History of ANSI/ASCII art

Posted on 2020-02-07, 05:51

in Milliways
Hi there! Just found something interesting.. https://hackaday.com/2013/08/20/retrotechtacular-the-history-of-ansi-and-ascii-art/ The comment section is most interesting, IMHO. - What's ANSI Music ? Is is similar to PLAY command in BASICA ? Also, in case you wonder.. ANSI art was technically possible …

Re: My Amigas

Posted on 2020-02-06, 22:33

I've recently started exploring Amigas, I've never had one before. I picked up an A500 with monitor and "other stuff" for £100. Amiga 500.. :rolling_eyes: That game's console. I had one, too. It was sold a million times, like the original beige Gameboy. Someone couldn't even keep up trashing them …

Re: Turbo XT Build

Posted on 2020-02-06, 22:04

Yeah only have a 42" TV and it looks very bad, the Picture Jumps up and Down :) Haha, I see. ^^ I've got the same issue anytime I use a CGA card. Unlike MDA/Hercules, it doesn't use a proper 50Hz refresh rate, but is always de-tuned for some reason that's beyond me.. ;) Anyway, using that V-Sync …

Re: Some guys opinion about DOSBox

Posted on 2020-02-06, 18:18

in Milliways
I'm not necessarily a purist, but Doom is just a bad example because seeing as there's a source port for modern systems, there's no need to run it in dosbox in the first place. Not only that, Doom is *generally* a bad example. Too much violence, too little brains. Exactly the opposite to DOSBox. ;) …

Re: Jazz Jackrabbit and SB 2.0 without config.sys?

Posted on 2020-02-06, 14:04

in PC Emulation
Hi! Not sure if this helpful, but I used to play Jazz Jackrabbit with a Pro AudioSpectrum 16. As you know, it also incorporates a ThunderBoard chipset, which is roughly SB 1.5 compatible. Again not sure if this is helpful. Just wanted to note that actual SB 2.0 compatibility is perhaps not needed, …

Re: My Amigas

Posted on 2020-02-05, 22:30

black suits the amiga really well... oh how I wish they weren't that expensive ^^ I think the same. To me, the Amiga platform -or say Commodore hardware in general- became the epitome of profiteering. By comparison, the historic Macintoshes (or is it "Macintoshy" ?) are really cheap, even. Anyway, …

Re: How to (manually) align a FAT filesystem?

Posted on 2020-02-05, 13:52

in PC Emulation
I guess someone has to differ between physical and logical sector sizes. Ideally, both overlap each others seamlessly. Some really old DOSes, likely OEM versions, used bigger sector sizes to overcome the ~30MB limit of original FAT16 (before FAT16B existed). This was in the times before MS-/PC-DOS …

Re: How to (manually) align a FAT filesystem?

Posted on 2020-02-04, 23:29

in PC Emulation
I wanted to format my SSD's and SD cards (have IDE adapters for my older computers for these) with 4K partition Alignment and couldn't get it to work. Not sure if this of any help, but on Windows, there's SD Formatter.. It's meant to correctly format SD cards with FAT (FAT32). The older version 4 …

Re: How to build a Win16 or Win32 App?

Posted on 2020-02-04, 21:51

Game Maker 5.3 is a nice tool to create Direct3D applications for Windows 95 and 98. It is made in Delphi, and the games made with it have low system requirements. Cool! Kinda reminds me of Klick&Play , an easy to use event-based IDE/Runtime thing from the early 90s. It was made for Win 3.1 …

Discwashers (tape deck care sets) - any experience ?

Posted on 2020-02-04, 14:56

in Milliways
Hi all! Does anybody have experience with these or tape drive de-magnetizers in general ? - I'm having a few old computers with datasettes and (built-in) tape drives.. Before buying such NOS stuff (does it still work after that long period of time ?), I'd like to know if they are -or were- useful or …

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