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

Posted on 2024-04-17, 15:22

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I woke up to my desktop wallpaper being replaced with a badly-scaled (blurry) and badly-cropped (the bottom was cut off under the taskbar) message about Windows 10's end of support (in a year and a half). It really didn't look like anything Microsoft themselves would do, but it had functioning …

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Re: Another "cannot get CF2IDE to work in DOS" topic

Posted on 2024-04-16, 11:44

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So you just typed some random numbers for geometry? As for MBR, I did not do that because its a secondary drive and the suggester "FDISK /CMBR [drivenum]" did not work, reported CMBR as an invalid parameter. Or maybe the C there was a typo..? I tried the CF as the only master there and it would not …

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Re: Another "cannot get CF2IDE to work in DOS" topic

Posted on 2024-04-16, 09:39

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So you just typed some random numbers for geometry? My suggestion is to use some utility like IDEINFO and see what geometry it reports. And just to rule out master/slave issues with the adapter until you have everything setup you might want to work with the CF as a single/master HDD in the system. …

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Re: What tool debugs a miscalculated area of memory in a game program written in C?

Posted on 2024-04-16, 06:44

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A general advice for "inexplicable" failures is to create a test case that you can follow/debug each step manually. For example a very small file that you will step into every loop iteration and observe all variables involved. A modern IDE can make this significantly easier.

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Re: Floppy drive problem on win95B

Posted on 2024-04-14, 14:17

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Also make sure it is declared correctly in BIOS.

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Re: What does it take to replace an Intel 10 MHz 286 with a Harris 12 MHz 286? Hopefully... nothing?

Posted on 2024-04-13, 11:33

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waterbeesje wrote on 2024-04-13, 09:09: You'd have to replace some crystal too. No, OP clearly says he wants to run the CPU at 10MHz. Which makes me curious to learn why, is it to replace a confirmed dead CPU and the 12MHz one just happened to be available/cheaper?

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

Posted on 2024-04-11, 10:50

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Does ripping music CDs onto my computer count as a retro activity? I'll take this a step further, imagine re -ripping the same old audio CDs to a better/lossless format now that storage space isn't an issue! Reminds me of a friend back in the late 90's. He ripped all his CDs at 128Kbps (took 1 …

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

Posted on 2024-04-11, 10:30

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momaka wrote on 2024-04-10, 12:22: Does ripping music CDs onto my computer count as a retro activity? I'll take this a step further, imagine re-ripping the same old audio CDs to a better/lossless format now that storage space isn't an issue!

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Re: Issue with my diamond voodoo 1, please help

Posted on 2024-04-11, 10:23

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Try to eliminate possibilities. Is it a windows issue? Test the card on a fresh, temporary installation (even on a different HDD if you don't want to format the current installation until proven bad) Is it a win95 issue for some weird reason? Confirm that the card still works as it used to do in a …

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Re: ATX I/O shield with 3 holes? What do I need to buy? (re: 440BX/MVP3 socket 7 motherboard)

Posted on 2024-04-11, 10:13

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Repo Man11 is probably right. For a short period non-disposable I/O shields were coming with the case and used their own way of mounting. Maybe that's what you've got here, minus the matching case.

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Re: Issue with my diamond voodoo 1, please help

Posted on 2024-04-10, 09:04

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Try to eliminate possibilities. Is it a windows issue? Test the card on a fresh, temporary installation (even on a different HDD if you don't want to format the current installation until proven bad) Is it a win95 issue for some weird reason? Confirm that the card still works as it used to do in a …

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Re: ISA vga card works only in 8-bit mode

Posted on 2024-04-07, 17:00

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There are some cards that are compatible with an 8-bit slot and are actually 8-bit cards, MikeSG has a point. I'm not saying that this particular card is one of those, I don't know. I'm only saying that this is a possibility to consider.

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Re: It is possible to safely repair a DRAM module with a bad pin?

Posted on 2024-04-07, 07:40

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Is it safe to simply put a dot of tin on that place? You need to scratch the solder mask in the damaged area, remove everything burnt and expose undamaged copper to solder on. If what's left is enough for some solder to bridge it you're done. If not you'll need to create this bridge, and this is …

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Re: Monster 3D Voodoo 1 problem

Posted on 2024-04-03, 15:31

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Have you succeeded in running anything else that uses the card on this monitor? If not I'd begin my troubleshooting with a different monitor and/or different software.

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Re: DOSBOX and multi lines arguments !

Posted on 2024-04-02, 15:22

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This functionality was never in "normal dos" as you say, and the manual says something different from what you show. What you show is & (or &&) as a control character to execute one command after another, which still doesn't exist under "normal dos" but in Command Prompt from within windows. The …

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Re: 2024 - End of the era of Retro Computing Youtube channels?

Posted on 2024-04-02, 07:00

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It has come to my attention, and specifics will be avoided as per the preferences of Vogons mods, to keep drama off here, search "retro scammer" etc to dig more up, that there is an undercurrent of unease, drama and ppl bowing out of the scene due to how one or several sociopaths have been playing …

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Re: Schneider Euro PC strange long beep

Posted on 2024-04-01, 19:27

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I've tried to use HD floppies with tape, it reads dir, but gives data error if I try to execute anything from 720k formated HD floppy. Try to format the taped HD disk on the Schneider, then put it in another machine to write files to it. In general this isn't an issue, probably the alignment of one …

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Re: My recent basement finding

Posted on 2024-03-29, 12:51

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Don't throw them away, except from the case and/or PSU maybe that shipping probably isn't worth it. Instead you could offer them for the cost of shipping, many members here are interested to hardware way older than this.

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Re: S3 Trio64 (not Trio64V+, etc) has best DOS compatibility? (re: best 2D VGA card)

Posted on 2024-03-29, 08:21

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The difference between cards with good compatibility and "the best" doesn't really matter for most, unless those few games are really what you want to play. Any Trio64 is a very good choice when looking for DOS compatibility, go for it.

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Re: What is the deal with S3's Chrome cards?

Posted on 2024-03-29, 08:17

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I can tell you that until 2009 a local computer store didn't sell a single Chrome card of any model, retail/boxed or inside a pre-built computer. This is not a proof for anything, but I do consider it an indication of its popularity at least for my small country.

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