Re: 5.25" Floppy Drives

Posted on 2016-11-06, 12:58

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by yawetaG

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Tuff one. BIOS only supports one unit. I'm not sure it will work with a separate controller as it also has to be configured via BIOS. But then again it might work/display B: if BIOS finds it is available. You would need a separate controller that provides its own BIOS, AFAIK. Then you disable the …

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Re: 5.25" Floppy Drives

Posted on 2016-11-05, 23:08

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by yawetaG

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Another option is to buy an external USB 3.5" floppy disk drive, which will work via USB (and not the BIOS). Then you can set the internal drive to the 5.25" one. Or find a floppy disk controller card that you can put in one of the slots, then disable the motherboard's floppy disk controller and use …

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Posted on 2016-11-05, 23:02

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by yawetaG

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SRQ wrote: What tools are good for converting modern videos into a playable format? I want to see about getting an episode of a certain horse cartoon or maybe Star Wars VII into as terrible quality as possible to play on a 486-33. Star Wars was available on VideoCD back in the day...

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Re: 5.25" Floppy Drives

Posted on 2016-11-05, 22:59

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by yawetaG

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Your computer's BIOS only supports a single floppy disk drive. You need a computer that supports both an A: and B: drive (that is two separate options to set two separate floppy disk drives).

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Re: The curse of retro computing.

Posted on 2016-11-05, 11:30

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by yawetaG

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Why in the world would you actually give away good legacy parts for free? Why would you even consider it? Just say "no". I've never experienced this problem of people asking for nice legacy parts. I've also learned not to discuss my retro-computing hobby with anybody. Most people just think I'm …

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Re: An AT psu from 1994 has a active pfc ?

Posted on 2016-11-04, 22:11

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by yawetaG

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The results of this are worse in a country with a higher voltage because the power supply will likely blow, possibly taking the computer itself with it (of course not a problem if there's a fuse in the power supply...). Repeat after me: 'Fuses do not protect against over current or over voltage. …

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Re: An AT psu from 1994 has a active pfc ?

Posted on 2016-11-04, 14:51

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by yawetaG

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Most likely there is no switch (why cover it with sticker so nobody can use it?) Because some consumers are idiots and will switch it no matter what, and then complain to the manufacturer that their computer "malfunctioned". The results of this are worse in a country with a higher voltage because …

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Re: The curse of retro computing.

Posted on 2016-11-04, 14:46

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by yawetaG

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And some of the stuff is just impressive to look at, especially if one shows a 5.25in floppy to some 20 year old and then mention how much storage it has, those faces are priceless :D It's even funnier when you then point out that back in those times you could have a complete operating system, full …

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

Posted on 2016-11-04, 11:19

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by yawetaG

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I'm pretty sure the PSU was ready to go on its own. The bent pin on the CPU may have helped short some other things out too. Still have no clue what caused the issue with the keyboard not being seen though. That is going to mess with my head for awhile. Perfectly good board just sitting there not …

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Re: Windows 3.11 - nVidia TNT2 built-in GPU chip compatibility

Posted on 2016-11-04, 11:05

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by yawetaG

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There's also a generic SuperVGA driver in Windows 3.1 and later (actually, there are a bunch of generic drivers for a lot of devices). Back when I used Windows 3.11 I didn't bother to install the driver specific to my Trident VLB card for a long time, and was able to have 800x600 with 256 colors …

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Re: Generic Pentium II Driver Help

Posted on 2016-11-03, 22:47

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by yawetaG

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What I forgot to mention is that the 20 minute FreeBSD load time from CD was with 192 Mb RAM (and XFCE is a small window manager). Systems this age simply are a lot slower than more modern systems due to slower bus speeds. Be prepared to wait some time... Edit: Oh, something else: Be sure that the …

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

Posted on 2016-11-03, 22:40

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by yawetaG

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I think it was a stick of EDO that I pulled out of one of the G3/G4 Macs I picked up. The board is supposed to be able to take EDO but i dunno. Could have just been a bad stick. Heh, well maybe not "exploded". There were several loud pops and bangs inside the unit and nice flashes and magic smoke. …

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Re: Windows 3.11 - nVidia TNT2 built-in GPU chip compatibility

Posted on 2016-11-03, 22:23

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by yawetaG

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If you want to multi-boot, the generic Windows 3.11 VGA driver will be enough for Windows 3.11, as each OS will be using its own set of drivers anyway. Furthermore, considering the lack of Windows 3.11/DOS software that makes use of TNT2-era hardware acceleration, it is beyond me why you'd actually …

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Re: Generic Pentium II Driver Help

Posted on 2016-11-03, 22:08

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by yawetaG

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I don't think Windows XP is going to like only 96 Mb of RAM...that will be awfully slow - if it actually loads, because Microsoft recommend a minimum of 128 Mb RAM. If you must use a Live CD, use some older Linux distribution with a lightweight window manager (when I tried a modern FreeBSD Live CD …

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Re: Is there a go to cd-rom drive for Dos6.22/Win3.11?

Posted on 2016-11-02, 12:36

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by yawetaG

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By limiting the maximum speed at which the drive runs And how is that accomplished exactly? By setting a lower speed in the driver software, but I don't know whether it's possible in DOS/Win3.11, so you may need a third-party utility. Google gives a lot of hits on the topic, the question isn't …

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Re: Cursor doesn't move in "real" Windows 3.11

Posted on 2016-11-02, 09:24

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by yawetaG

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Well, you did get a Logitech mouse driver, which worked with Logitech mice only. But with later Logitech or Microsoft mice you'd get special software that had more settings than the default drivers (and installers that installed both the DOS and Windows versions at once).

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Re: old video formats for pentium 1

Posted on 2016-11-02, 09:17

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by yawetaG

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Intel Indeo was available for Windows 3.1 and was pretty good. Other options were Video for Windows and Apple Quicktime.

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Re: Is there a go to cd-rom drive for Dos6.22/Win3.11?

Posted on 2016-11-02, 00:20

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by yawetaG

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devius wrote: Jorpho wrote: It might get noisy when it spins up, but there are ways to suppress that if it annoys you. For example? By limiting the maximum speed at which the drive runs, or minimizing the amount of vibrations transmitted through the drive bay...

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Re: Cursor doesn't move in "real" Windows 3.11

Posted on 2016-11-02, 00:14

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by yawetaG

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Then it's weird that I didn't find it in my C:\WINDOWS directory (when I copied this mouse.com driver from the floppy, it didn't ask me to replace anything) Not all drivers are installed by default, AFAIK, and the manual explicitly refers to copying them manually from the Windows (floppy) disks. …

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Re: Cursor doesn't move in "real" Windows 3.11

Posted on 2016-11-01, 19:33

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by yawetaG

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Ah that one... yeah... anyway I got the mouse finally working... with another mouse driver. Screw CTMouse !!! I looked for another DOS mouse driver and I found one at a site called "bootdisk.com" or something like that, it's made of a single file "mouse.com", I put it in my C:\ and in C:\WINDOWS …

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