Re: SB 2.0 CT1350 CMS chips dumped

Posted on 2013-09-20, 22:31

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I remember reading on the G540 manual (in wonderful Engrish) that you shouldn't leave a chip in the programmer when connecting or disconnecting the programmer from the USB host - the pin drivers start in an unknown state at power-up and could be putting out erroneous voltages before they stabilize, …

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Re: SB 2.0 CT1350 CMS chips dumped

Posted on 2013-09-20, 00:36

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I have a Genius G540 running perfectly on Windows 7 x64. I'm using version 5.20 of the software downloaded from the manufacturer's website, didn't have to do anything special to get it working. http://www.stg51.com/downloadshow.asp?id=6

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Re: Random idea: making a DOS "console"

Posted on 2013-09-17, 03:59

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Yes, but when I did that they were scarce, expensive and mediocre (at least the consumer ones within my reach). They'd interlace/underscan every video mode, even the 200~350 line ones which are meant for low-def progressive CRT displays, resulting in a blurry unreadable flicker-fest. When I got a …

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Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2013-09-17, 03:44

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Indeed, the toxic slime in Doom made always felt to me like it shouldn't hurt the player because it's too shallow, as in the marine's boots should be more than adequate against it (can't be sinking more than sole-deep). Radiation poisoning from the slime shouldn't have such an immediate effect. :-P …

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Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2013-09-17, 02:53

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Funny story, I actually remember one of my friends telling me a few years back that he literally had nightmares about the arch-vile when he was a kid. As a result, his mother made him uninstall Doom II. XD I can totally see though why that enemy could be considered the epitome of nightmare fuel to …

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Re: Random idea: making a DOS "console"

Posted on 2013-09-17, 02:31

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I've tried this three times in my life: Many many years ago with a retired 486DX4-100 + hacked keyboard + VLB VGA card ran through an RGB to NTSC encoder, dependent on a TSR to output 15 kHz video. It worked but it was very fiddly - roughly half of the games would bypass the 15 kHz video modes or …

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Re: Windows 95 setup guide (late 2013)

Posted on 2013-09-13, 03:44

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Considering that the OSRs weren't even sold as standalone products it might be more feasible to just go with Win98 or Win98SE. At least stuff "might" work on there without installing a whole bunch of 3rd party fixes. And honestly I have never seen a legitimate copy of those releases... One of my …

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Re: 486 Keyboard interface problems

Posted on 2013-09-09, 02:14

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Do the keyboard LEDs light up briefly when powering up the motherboard? If not, check the keyboard fuse near the DIN connector (might look like a resistor instead of a fuse).

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Re: JOYSTICK ... favorite?

Posted on 2013-08-28, 07:11

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I've been always a keyboard/gamepad die-hard due to the gaming genres I like so I saw little appeal in analog PC joysticks. My first home PC came with a horrible Genius joystick which I never used and promptly lost, and back in the 90s it seemed like 75% of the people I knew which owned a home PC …

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Re: Found a 386DX-40 in the dumpster

Posted on 2013-08-26, 06:09

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I have a M396F board with an Am386SX-40, manufacturing date June 1995 according to a sticker on it. 😀

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Re: Found a desktop style Baby AT case, future P1 build

Posted on 2013-08-21, 22:42

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Do you mean flash/pen drives? If so how did you do it? Yes. First I got the "ATX Form Card" so I could use the onboard USB chipset on the motherboard (in lieu of that a standard USB header could be hacked up), then I installed the USB support package for Windows 95B/C which comes on the Windows CD- …

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Re: Help me repairing a soundcard. (Covox Sound master II)

Posted on 2013-08-19, 05:23

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Could it be the same as the "ACT-1" part that can be seen in the second picture?

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Re: Vintage hardware lovers - do you really love vintage hardware or simply pragmatism?

Posted on 2013-08-14, 22:30

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I think I'm a bit of both. I don't like to call myself a collector but the stuff keeps popping up in my way and I can't help it but give it a good home! I'm a bargain hunter, I love a good weekend of scouring flea markets for cheap old beat up computer/console hardware and restoring them to working …

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Re: HyperRace 586 - anyone seen one of these before?

Posted on 2013-08-13, 16:45

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I have the Evergreen version with two broken pins. 🙁

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Re: SDI/broadcast CRTs

Posted on 2013-08-08, 03:47

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I see that at least some of those Sony PVM/BVM monitors can do 9-pin D-sub digital RGB. Wonder if this could allow for TTL CGA and composite CGA on the same monitor? or does the digital RGB input know nothing of the Intensity signal? I had the opportunity to repair a PVM-1342 once so I tested the …

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Re: SDI/broadcast CRTs

Posted on 2013-08-07, 22:42

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Ah so you're from PAL-land, that might have a little bit to do with it, at least for older consoles that displayed horizontal black bars on 50Hz. Such systems displayed the European 'standard' 288 active lines with the 240 lines of the Japanese game in the middle (hence the black bars), and due to …

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Re: SDI/broadcast CRTs

Posted on 2013-08-07, 21:28

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I'm genuinely intrigued now. I've never managed to not get a solid 240p image out of plain vanilla NTSC curved/flat/ultra-slim CRT TVs from the 80s, 90s and 2000s, from generic Chinese crap to big name brands, unless it's something fancy like a 100Hz set or if I go through some video processing …

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Re: SDI/broadcast CRTs

Posted on 2013-08-07, 07:30

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Your typical cheap consumer grade CRT SDTV does display real 240p video in all its sharp scanline-y glory if you feed it some. CRT TV is an analog device, if the video signal from the gaming console tells it not to interlace you get every field in the same place: progressive scan. What these …

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Re: SDI/broadcast CRTs

Posted on 2013-08-07, 05:34

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I have a Sony PVM-1354Q, superb picture and full of inputs. I don't use it as much as I'd like to because the screen is a bit small for my taste (even though I grew up playing on a 14" screen) so I end up doing my console gaming on lower end but larger CRTs. If you're into retro home computers where …

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Re: Help identifying ATX PSU

Posted on 2013-08-05, 03:32

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That's a Logisys. Made by Keerda, IIRC. Thanks! With that piece of info I've found the exact model too, it's a Logisys PS650U12 . With that I started looking around for reviews and a good number of them are negative. I was kind of expecting that, but on the other hand it's supposedly 80+ certified …

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