Re: Best/cheapest way to read a bunch of old Apple (or Mac) formatted floppies?

Posted on 2017-01-02, 20:39

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by yawetaG

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I'm looking to pick up a machine off of Craigslist or Ebay that could read these, what's my best/cheapest option? I'm thinking one of those garish crayola clamshell mac laptops from the late 90's should be a pretty safe bet. None of the brightly colored PowerPC-based Macs (be it iMacs, eMacs, …

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Re: Best/cheapest way to read a bunch of old Apple (or Mac) formatted floppies?

Posted on 2017-01-02, 20:28

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by yawetaG

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I'm assuming they're 3.5" disks. If they're DS/DD (one hole), they use a completely proprietary 800k disk format that standard PC floppy drives can't read. If they're DS/HD (two hole) I believe they can be read on any 1.44MB drive. Linux or any OSX Mac with a floppy would be a good bet. Macs …

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Re: Windows 98se reboots on shutdown

Posted on 2017-01-02, 16:30

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by yawetaG

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Caesum wrote: Unfortunately I don't have a working floppy drive. Then maybe that should be the first thing you fix, especially on a Windows 9x system. 😀

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Re: Windows 98se reboots on shutdown

Posted on 2017-01-02, 12:12

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by yawetaG

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Sounds like a good idea, but this way I'm unable to format C: disk, no? If I was to reinstall Windows 98se I would have rather liked to start with a blank card to be honest. I want to avoid reinstall unless necessary. Create a Windows 98SE boot floppy, boot from the floppy with CD-ROM support, …

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2017-01-02, 08:18

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by yawetaG

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"Trust" is a thing here too , I think they are a German company that sells chinese stuff... I would way they are a notch above chinese since they had to follow the EU safety laws to a minimum... certainly not premium products but not utter crap either. My old 15 year old Trust keyboard refers to a …

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Re: BattleSpire/Redguard crashes games/windows when sound enabled

Posted on 2017-01-02, 08:06

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by yawetaG

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Although there are also several Windows 3.1 drivers that seem to be for DOS too? That site contains a lot of errors with regards to operating systems, driver names, and even the sound cards the drivers are meant for (found a file meant for a Yamaha YMF-7xx chipset listed under an unrelated sound …

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Re: Keyboards that pass the n-key or ghosting test

Posted on 2017-01-02, 08:03

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by yawetaG

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A keyboard to avoid for gaming is the Trust Direct Access Keyboard (pressing more than 3 keys results in beeping). On the other hand, the cheap Cherry RS 6000 M I replaced it with works very well with Windows-based keyboard-controlled fighting games (but not as well as a dedicated game pad).

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Re: These 30pin Simm compatible with?

Posted on 2017-01-02, 07:48

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by yawetaG

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That might be additional memory for a specific printer model or a similar peripheral. Many laser printers back in the day could be expanded with memory that was used to load additional PostScript fonts. It probably won't work in a PC. A quick googling shows Hyundai made (makes?) printers, too.

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Re: Intel 8/16 LAN Adapter Drivers Requested

Posted on 2017-01-02, 07:39

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by yawetaG

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Have you tried Intel's own site? Last time I was looking for drivers for an integrated network card in a Pentium MMX board I found they still had drivers for old operating systems available, including DOS and OS/2.

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Re: Windows 98se reboots on shutdown

Posted on 2017-01-01, 11:49

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by yawetaG

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Disable it in the computer's BIOS, then see whether Windows modifies its installation and can properly restart. You might have to start in Safe Mode to get it to do that.

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

Posted on 2017-01-01, 11:10

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by yawetaG

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And it actually works! Of course I don't imagine that I converted the whole SCSI subsystem to wide just by changing the cable; it still works as narrow SCSI2. Of course it works, SCSI devices are usually downwards compatible with previous bus versions and will then work with the lower bus speed. …

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2017-01-01, 11:02

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by yawetaG

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Made in china, with a "brand" name like trust? Id rather stick my dick in an anthill rather than use that hunk of junk. Trust is (was?) a manufacturer that sold a lot of cheap products on the Dutch market (might actually be Dutch, somehow local manufacturers often come up with brand names that …

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Re: Looking for a VGA to something else converter.

Posted on 2016-12-31, 21:32

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by yawetaG

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If you have the money to spend, get a Micomsoft XRGB.

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Re: Modern x86 hardware with ISA/PCI bus

Posted on 2016-12-30, 18:13

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by yawetaG

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External cases containing a backplane with ISA or PCI slots and a power supply to power the slots (and sometimes hard disks) do exist for industrial systems, but may be hard to find. They connect to a normal motherboard using a specialized I/O card. The only problem is that you'll still be limited …

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Re: windows 98SE usb issues

Posted on 2016-12-30, 18:06

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by yawetaG

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I would delete all USB-related stuff from Device Manager, then reboot. Let Windows find the USB hardware to reinstall the USB port drivers. See if that fixes anything.

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Re: SB Live recieve midi signal in Windows?

Posted on 2016-12-30, 10:38

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by yawetaG

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brostenen wrote: Speaking of the cable.... Can I just use 2 x 15-Pin Gameport to 5-Pin DIN cable, combined with a female/female gender converter between the two DIN plugs of the two gameport/midi cables? I don't see why not, the same kind of converters are used to connect MIDI equipment together.

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Re: Before I recyle this...

Posted on 2016-12-29, 14:42

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by yawetaG

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Pretty sure it is a card for a barcode scanner for a Point-of-Sale in a shop, made by the manufacturer I found earlier. That company, Marson, had a pen/barcode scanner with product code MT-205 available in 2001: http://web.archive.org/web/20010923235252/http://www.marson.com.tw/form2.htm , so the MT …

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Re: Before I recyle this...

Posted on 2016-12-29, 10:13

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by yawetaG

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There's a chip by "Marson" on the Ebay card. Googling Marson gets me this, a manufacturer of barcode readers, whose product codes all start with "MT". So a handscanner was a pretty good guess.

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Re: Good PCI video card for a small form factor system?

Posted on 2016-12-28, 22:35

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by yawetaG

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I'd like to avoid sellers from China selling "new old stock" cards, if possible. I also looked into getting a PCI PCMCIA adapter card for this system, found them cheap on Ebay, then found pictures of the original card that the Chinese seller was supposedly selling, and the original card looked …

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Re: Good PCI video card for a small form factor system?

Posted on 2016-12-28, 21:28

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by yawetaG

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I've found some super slim ATI Rage based cards in old servers. Usually nothing more than a Rage chip and some RAM on a PCB the width of two fingers together. They work as well as any Rage of whatever model they are. Start looking at whatever obsolete 1U gear the data centers & universities in your …

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