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Re: USB Floppy

Posted on 2021-03-29, 02:48

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I've been using dell laptop internal floppy drives, the ones that have a USB Mini-B connector on the side. They seem to work with whatever I put in them (though I don't imagine non-PC disks would work) and seem very reliable. I got a box of like 20 of them NOS for free at one point and I'm kicking …

Re: ISA bus extender using ribbon cable and passive backplane; max length of cable?

Posted on 2021-03-29, 02:12

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Do you know if with 2.5MB RAM you can run a 286 OS/2 (1.0-1.3) on the PS/1? I tried that in IBMulator and it didn't work.

Re: ISA bus extender using ribbon cable and passive backplane; max length of cable?

Posted on 2021-03-29, 00:37

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

i'm actually working on an isa adapter for the PS/1 2011 using flat ribbon... and well, all i can say, is the first try was a total garbage :D Let me know how this works out. I've been researching upgrading the RAM upgrade card from 512KB to 2MB too, which I think is doable by putting on higher …

Re: Internet is slow on one computer yet fine on the other

Posted on 2021-03-25, 23:24

in Milliways

in Milliways

^ "Modem" in this case probably refers to the wifi-router-modem combo unit they give you by default to rent from them.

Re: OPN music on an ISA sound card?

Posted on 2021-03-21, 18:42

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

I think the only way to end up with decent GM -> FM would be if it's an OPL3 in 4-op mode. At that point it would have 6 voices with better capability than the YM2151/YM2164 found in the Yamaha CX5M/SFG-01/DX21/DX27/DX100/FB-01 since they have selectable waveforms to modulate with or to be modulated …

Re: Matrox card questions

Posted on 2021-03-17, 02:59

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

EpicA sounds like it might be a P690, so a plainclothes Parhelia, possibly with DDR2. If you could send pictures then that would be easier to confirm. That should perform more than well enough for GLQuake or Quake 2, Q3 and HL1 should be okay. Certainly better than the G550. As far as the AGP bus …

Re: Hosting and creating a Netscape 2.0 supported website in 2021

Posted on 2021-03-17, 01:38

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

I've got my server hardware and software figured out now, so as soon as I can figure out the networking and power setup around it I can start hosting pages. I'll probably start with a main page with some info and some links to period HTML documentation (W3C HTML 3.2 spec webpage anyone?) and …

Re: Hosting and creating a Netscape 2.0 supported website in 2021

Posted on 2021-03-07, 00:59

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

here you live, a visit to a local library or a bigger state library is worth a visit. From my personal experience I can attest that these have some real treasures there. Stuff like this hasn't survived in the wild, but still lives on in libraries. That's why I visit the libraries in my city/town …

Re: Hosting and creating a Netscape 2.0 supported website in 2021

Posted on 2021-03-06, 23:28

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

I've been thinking about something similar, since I'm in a similar situation but with an old dual s370 HP Netserver. I might actually end up really webhosting it from there though, and I was thinking about maybe allowing people to submit their own pages to be hosted (with manual approval, and …

Re: Portal 2 Updated

Posted on 2021-02-19, 02:56

in Release Announcements

in Release Announcements

What's the deal with the 360 spin? I couldn't find it in the keyconfig.

Re: Voodoo 5 6000 Clone PCB

Posted on 2021-02-18, 02:56

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

It's beautiful

Re: Which one of your builds are you most fond of and why?

Posted on 2021-02-16, 18:26

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I probably like my upgraded Shuttle XPC SK43G lanbox-like system best. Athlon XP 3000+, XP, X800 XT AGP, 2GB RAM, SSD and PCI SATA adapter. It plays pretty much all the games that aren't terribly old or very new very well. It's a perfect system for the 00s casual games (Wildtangent) I have a soft …

Re: Ports of Sonic CD, 1,2 remakes to DOS

Posted on 2021-02-10, 03:22

in DOS

in DOS

I've been trying to figure out what would be necessary to compile the decompilation as-is for Win9x, and I'm not positive but I think it wouldn't be particularly difficult. The decompilation upstream supports using SDL1.2 instead of SDL2, which should in theory work fine under 9x. I tried building …

Re: Ports of Sonic CD, 1,2 remakes to DOS

Posted on 2021-02-08, 15:19

in DOS

in DOS

With memory requirements like that it might be wiser to target Win9x. That, and it would mean you could run Sonic 1, 2, 3&K, CD (now in 3 flavors!), 3D Blast, and R (am I missing more? I feel like I am.) under 9x natively.

Re: Creating a Fast Floppy Drive

Posted on 2021-02-08, 03:41

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Sony had double speed (and quadruple I think but I'm not positive) floppy drives they used in their cameras, and there are some Sony 2x USB floppy drives. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7RHjs_NW8I

Re: How to upgrade your (really) old computer to SSD

Posted on 2021-02-07, 22:01

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Used mSATA drives are really nice because they're physically small enough to fit into the laptop ide adapters that have the same dimensions as the 2.5 hard drives for retro laptops that use caddies and storage-small enough that older OSes won't fall apart at the sight of their capacity. They're also …

Re: My Radeon X800 PRO (or is it?)

Posted on 2021-02-07, 06:23

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Interesting. Differences from X800: X800 Pro memory clock Apparently claimed to be an X800 Pro Differences from X800 Pro: 110nm R430 GPU like the X800 and X800XL X800 GPU clock speed (400 vs 475MHz) You could probably just "over"clock the GPU to 475MHz and call it a day if you wanted. It seems …

Re: How to upgrade your (really) old computer to SSD

Posted on 2021-02-06, 23:17

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

It doesn't have the same problem with just the M.2 to PCIe in a native PCIe slot in core 2 quad system does it? I'd figure that might be a really nice upgrade if the chipset supports PCIe, though definitely overkill for any core 2 quad system.

Re: How to upgrade your (really) old computer to SSD

Posted on 2021-02-06, 23:02

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I bet that the NVMe kernel driver in Debian Jessie had too much CPU overhead. If somebody wrote an NVMe driver for DOS (like DOS CD drivers) it might actually get some decent speed.

Re: What is the VideoLogic VLi120C?

Posted on 2021-02-05, 06:07

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

It looks from the document like: 1. The card is designed to enable connection of some other cards of theirs that use a "VMC Connector", which is presumably one of the card-edges on the card. It sounds like a fancier proprietary version of a VESA connector. 2. It mentions MPEG, but too close to " …

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