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Re: The worst sounding hard drive I've ever heard

Posted on 2018-12-02, 01:58

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I agree with the other users, that hard disk drive doesn't sound too healthy. :( I'm speaking under correction, but maybe the manufacturer's tools may help to "fix" the drive (low-level format, bad sector marking, etc.). To me, it sounds like the drive is either loosing track/is misaligned or is set …

Re: Old feature phones / smartphones

Posted on 2018-12-02, 01:26

in Milliways

in Milliways

but I cannot use them for anything, even emergency telephone service as US carriers eliminated the 2G/EDGE network to make more space for LTE. Oh dear. I had no idea it looks so dark for ol' GSM (and alikes) around the world. Still using my phone from ~95/96 here, and thought that being able to do …

Re: Testing MediaVision Pro Audio Spectrum 16 MPU401 Hanging Notes

Posted on 2018-12-02, 00:59

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

If anyone has experienced these issues with a PAS16 in the past, I'd just like to know in what games and under what circumstances they experienced issues. Hmm.. I was a long time user of the PAS16, but had no MIDI synth back in the day, sorry. :( Anyway, I vaguely believe to remember that the PAS16 …

Re: Legend Gateway and Gateway II: Homeworld will not run

Posted on 2018-12-02, 00:46

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

realnc wrote: Have you ran INSTALL.EXE? What does it say? I wonder the same. Also, what does GATEWAY.BAT contain ? It should include something like "GATE VGA BLASTER 7 220 MT32 2 330" (for example). It's also possible that it contains just a part of it ("GATE EGA" for example).

Re: dilemma of EGA & VGA combo

Posted on 2018-12-01, 21:05

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Thanks a lot for this information! So far, I tried "Color-Monitor on EGA-Adapter primary" for internal videoconfig. But there are lots of other options (Multisync(70hz) w/ CGA-Emulation; Multisync w/ CGA-Emulation; MDA; Mono on EGA-Adapter, etc.) That being said, I'm looking forward to the results …

Re: Unboxing a new old Windows 98 PC!

Posted on 2018-12-01, 20:31

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Cool PC! Congrats for this lucky catch! :) That rounded front reminds me of our own Y2K PC we had back then.. (It also reminds me a bit of that Colani design from the 90s, hah. ^^) I love it! :) I never find anything on eBay :( Nah, don't worry. Successes are usually more often being talked about …

Re: Which Teac 3.5" floppy will work with power over 34-pin cable?

Posted on 2018-11-30, 02:44

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Sorry, I have no idea. Maybe others do and are so kind to reply. If everything fails, you perhaps can try to measure the pins with a multimeter somehow in order to find out which lines do cary power. Anyway, be careful doing so. It's just meant as a a last resort. If my mind was clearer now (no …

Re: 386 CPU gets to hot with possible problems

Posted on 2018-11-30, 02:27

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hi all, I have a 386 system running well but [..] the CPU gets hot up to a point that it might be why I see lines going up and down the screen [..] im guessing its the CPU getting to hot, If I put some double sided tape I got with my Raspberry Pie and put a heat sink from a socket 5 or 7 on the 386 …

Re: Retro OSes for retro computers

Posted on 2018-11-30, 02:14

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Ircaros is quite impressive, thanks for the insights! :D I knew of Aros (aka that-OS-with-the-s*xy-kitten-as-a-mascot) before, but had no idea that it evolved so far. It's been ten years or so, when I heard about it last time. Back then I totally was into alternate OSes (incl. MenuetOS, Minix, etc) …

Re: 486 era memory limitations

Posted on 2018-11-30, 01:16

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Also keep an eye on the amount of on-board cache memory, please. Normally, the "cacheable area" is between 16 and 64MiB, depending on kind of mainboard/installed cache. Installing more memory than this may cause a performance drop. Also note that Win9x/DOS7 Himem and Win311/DOS6 Himem use memory …

Re: Tandy 1000, Lo-Tech XT/IDE, CF and DOS 3.x

Posted on 2018-11-30, 00:59

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

XT Bios flashed with an eeprom writer. Wait, please tell - did you run the XT-IDE configuration utilitiy for DOS beforehand ? If not, this might be part of the issue. Afaik, it writes some vital data to the ROM file when saving the settings (checksum, etc.). Anyway, it's just a guess.. I had some …

Re: Logitech C7 serial mouse power-up sequence

Posted on 2018-11-26, 18:32

in PC Emulation

in PC Emulation

It's not much, but a bit of what you mentioned is described on page 12 of the Logimouse C7 technical reference manual.

Re: dilemma of EGA & VGA combo

Posted on 2018-11-24, 19:29

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Well, yes, I was a bit disappointed, too. Maybe it was also related to my EGA and EGA/VGA chips only, not sure. Sorry. :( The Schneider's chip is/was a socalled Super EGA chip, and can do 640x480 or 800x600 on a multisync monitor. Anyway, I don't know much about it. dr.zeissler or keropi may know …

Re: How stable is your Windows 98?

Posted on 2018-11-24, 09:54

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Back in the early 2000s, I had got most bluescreens with 98SE (which was released mid-'99 ). Most which were either related to broken drivers, the dependency on MMX/SSE that my CPU had no support for or missing features in kernel32. Funnily, my father's 386DX40 w/ Win95 RTM never crashed (as far as …

Re: Famous computer slogans and quotes ?

Posted on 2018-11-22, 15:32

in Milliways

in Milliways

"Never touch a running system." (aka "Never change a running system.")

Re: Fasttracker II clone for Windows/macOS/Linux

Posted on 2018-11-21, 21:31

in Release Announcements

in Release Announcements

Thank you very much! I wanted to try the Mac version, but only have got 10.4,10.5 (G4 Mac) and 10.6 (Intel w/ Rosetta) here. 🙁 May try the Protracker clone first.. 😀

Re: Floppies found on Space Station

Posted on 2018-11-21, 21:22

in Milliways

in Milliways

Cool. Speaking of vintage software, I wonder if they also got a copy of STSOrbit Plus over there. That satellite tracker was running on MIR space station aeons ago. Filename stsplusm.jpg File size 94.06 KiB Views 452 views Source: https://celestrak.com/software/dransom/stsplus.html

Re: Winevdm

Posted on 2018-11-21, 11:14

in PC Emulation

in PC Emulation

Now that's sick. Visual Basic 1.0 truely runs in otvdm.. 😁 Filename vb1_otvdm.png File size 194.49 KiB Views 5878 views Edit: Edited. Was off-topic, never mind.

Re: eisapc collection presentation

Posted on 2018-11-21, 10:03

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Beautiful machine, thanks for the picture. I just love such 19" rack equippment. ^^

Re: ScummVM support for

Posted on 2018-11-21, 09:50

in Release Announcements

in Release Announcements

I'm glad that I came across your post. I'll be working on a Windows NT 4.0 Workstation build in the near future and was planning on installing ScummVM. Sucks that they're going this route, though I understand why. Thanks for the heads up! I second that. I was using ScummVM since the old PocketPC …

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