Re: Place your bets :D

Posted on 2013-02-28, 13:33

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Great. Nice find. I wish I could find a key for a keylock. So far I've been able to get two sets, but they're larger so they won't fit. And on my 286 pc, whose motherboard has a 5 pin header for a front keyboard connector, I replaced the keylock with a ps/2 connector...

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Re: Place your bets :D

Posted on 2013-02-27, 17:52

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Perhaps it's some sort of cpu upgrade based on a amd 5x86-133. That maybe explains the initial statement that it's a 486, but also the fact that the name resembles a pentium.

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Re: Mi future 486...hopefully!

Posted on 2013-02-25, 20:55

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This is a 1MB card which can be upgraded to 2MB if you install 2 chips like those that are soldered over there.

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Re: VGA System font or MSDOS font that stays resident on ancient machines.

Posted on 2013-02-25, 14:50

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Yeap, we had the same issue with Greek language on ms-dos. I remember 2 possible solutions, one using software and one involving hardware changes. In both cases I think the target was to replace the extended ASCII table, with the characters needed for displaying the language correctly. Using …

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Re: Old fart topic: What was your hardware specs in 1992?

Posted on 2013-02-25, 13:34

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8 of 41256 chips was only 256KB, so you need to have a complete 32 of them for the huge 1MB... :evil: Excactly. I said probably 36, because I have another 286/12 board right now which needs 36 in order to work (32 like you said for a total of 1MB plus 4 parity chips). And Imagine having just one of …

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Re: Old fart topic: What was your hardware specs in 1992?

Posted on 2013-02-25, 11:32

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My parents bought me my first PC in December 1991. 286/16 (I think Siemens) on unknown motherboard 1mb RAM (I think it was in chips not simms, and way more than 8, probably 36). Chips & Technologies 256kb vga card Multi I/O card (I think 8bit) with no HDD/FDD controller Seperate HDD/FDD controller ( …

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Re: Biggest wastes of CD-ROM media

Posted on 2013-01-22, 09:31

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I suppose this one will do : Just 5.91 MB.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2013-01-22, 08:57

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I admit that's weird. My card is the same. I have installed it on my Pentium III pc (QDI Advance 10F motherboard) and it boots fine. And I don't remember setting the BIOS option to boot from a SCSI device.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2013-01-21, 19:46

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A friend of mine had bought a PCI SATA-USB 2.0 combo card, and told me that it doesn't boot from it. He was so certain about that, and when I told him I ordered a SATA PCI card insisted that it won't boot. Finally my card arrived, and not only the disk I connected to it was bootable, but it was …

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Re: NEC XR385 Capacitor broken

Posted on 2013-01-19, 00:13

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I wasn't reading from the picture. I happened to have one of the three NECs I own around here, and I quoted the numbers.

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Re: NEC XR385 Capacitor broken

Posted on 2013-01-18, 21:41

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It looks like they're the same as C14. It's written "n4 10 16v" on top of them. I hope that helps.

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Re: Spam, spam, spam

Posted on 2013-01-18, 10:27

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Post 290989 and Post 290988 user bundle2

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Re: Capturing below 640x480 resolutions and CGA/EGA on the Avermedia Gamebroadcaster HD

Posted on 2013-01-14, 12:13

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I think you need to use a sound card in order to capture pc speaker sound. Most of them have a pc speaker input. There you connect a cable whose other side is connected on the pc speaker header on the motherboard(I think you just need a single cable, connecting just one of the two pc speaker pins). …

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Re: Easter Eggs at Christmas!

Posted on 2012-12-12, 22:22

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xmas lemmings

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Re: Secret of Monkey Island. AWE32 troubles with music

Posted on 2012-12-09, 20:50

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Yeap, you need to have a specific file on a specific directory inside the SB directory. I had played MI on a soundblaster 32 (non-AWE) a couple of years ago, and I remember trying to enable the mt-32 emulation. I think those 3 files needed for GM,GS and mt-32 emulation were missing from the standard …

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Re: Barrel style CMOS battery question

Posted on 2012-12-07, 11:00

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I'm sorry, I didn't scroll down the page enough to see that actualy on this board you have to remove that jumper(J24). Nice pics. It's been a while since I've last seen a cd-rom drive with a caddy.

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Re: Barrel style CMOS battery question

Posted on 2012-12-07, 01:00

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Here you are : http://www.uktsupport.co.uk/pb/mb/410.htm Seems to me, it's worth replacing the cpu with a faster 486 and also adding some cache memory chips. You don't need to close any jumpers in order for the external battery to work. You just connect it and that's it. Then it should maintain the …

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Re: Secret of Monkey Island. AWE32 troubles with music

Posted on 2012-12-05, 23:13

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Run the aweutil program like this : aweutil /em:mt32 . Then run the game by typing monkey r .

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Re: Help identify this early nineties powerhouse :-)

Posted on 2012-12-04, 19:20

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According to wikipedia AMD 386sx cpus were available at 20-40MHz. A guy was giving me for free a 386sx-16 pc a year ago, and I didn't take it as I didn't like the case. He had it painted with several different colors. I guess I'm an idiot. It should be more rare than any other 386sx(if only Intel …

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Re: Help identify this early nineties powerhouse :-)

Posted on 2012-12-04, 19:10

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Here it is : http://stason.org/TULARC/pc/motherboards/B/BIOSTAR-MICROTECH-INTERNATIONAL-CORPORATION-386-MB.html#.UL5K6oZ_dbw edit : I didn't notice you guys had already found it. Getting the co-processor will hardly improve performance. Only if you run any programs that make use of it. Most games …

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