Re: When buying a 486 motherboard back in the day. What accessories came with it?
Posted on 2023-06-08, 16:02
Some 486 boards had IO. I even have a 286 board with IO.
Re: When buying a 486 motherboard back in the day. What accessories came with it?
Posted on 2023-06-08, 06:37
They usually came with a manual and a serial/parallel port breakout cable.
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2023-06-08, 05:22
When it rains, it pours. I always wanted more AT/286 era systems and a horizontal AT case. Managed to save these from getting scrapped, cost me about 15 bucks each. Olivetti has a NIC I can use to add XT-IDE, and the noname one comes with a Hercules adapter which I wanted. Double plus good. Seller …
Re: How much should I actually be paying for a first generation Sound Blaster?
Posted on 2023-06-07, 12:26
I'm thinking of buying a CT1320 card, but all of the ones on eBay are at least $250. Are they actually worth that these days? I already have a CT1350 before you suggest I look for one of those. I'm trying to get the 1.x card. For that cost you can probably build at least two probably three Snark …
Re: BLASTERBOARD : A new SB 2.0-compatible ISA sound card
Posted on 2023-06-07, 10:31
Hello @LABS, what is the current price for a Blasterboard kit? Also, do you have any other projects in the works? :) Hi, the prices are here https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=62&t=61098 if you want a THT-version, but you better wait for an improved SMD version which is currently in the testing …
Re: PicoGUS: ISA sound card emulator with Raspberry Pi Pico (Gravis Ultrasound, AdLib, MPU-401, Tandy, CMS)
Posted on 2023-06-07, 10:30
I've tested several OPL3 emulators including Nuked and they are all far too slow to run on the Pico as-is. Getting one running fast enough would take an optimization effort similar to the heroic job Graham Sanderson performed on the emu8950 OPL2 emulator for rp2040-doom . I've hacked on ymfm the …
Re: BLASTERBOARD : A new SB 2.0-compatible ISA sound card
Posted on 2023-06-07, 08:22
Hello @LABS, what is the current price for a Blasterboard kit? Also, do you have any other projects in the works? 😀
Re: PicoGUS: ISA sound card emulator with Raspberry Pi Pico (Gravis Ultrasound, AdLib, MPU-401, Tandy, CMS)
Posted on 2023-06-07, 07:00
Isn't Nuked-OPL3 open source and pretty much perfect?
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2023-06-06, 13:36
kolderman wrote on 2023-06-06, 10:44: The problem with gf4mx is they can't use earlier drivers like gf2mx which hurts both compat and perf. Are there any games that are incompatible with MX440 drivers? Or is this just another myth?
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2023-06-06, 13:34
? infinite resistance means open circuit means no power draw at all voltage never goes up, bigger R means smaller i It's OBVIOUSLY not effectively infinite, and I never said it was INFINITE, I said it was NEAR INFINITE, which means it would be a (possibly intermittent) VERY, VERY, VERY high …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2023-06-06, 12:02
You probably did not reflow it smoothly enough. With an uneven solder surface on any voltage rail of the edge connector it would have created a loose connection between the card and the slot, which would in turn create a point of near infinite resistance between the card and the voltage source. ? …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2023-06-06, 08:31
I somehow created a card that blew out the AGP port on my test rig by attempting to reflow the VGA port on a GF2Mx that had a dead blue channel. There are no solder bridges I can find... I'm honestly more dumbfounded than angry. Like how does reflowing the VGA port cause the card to blow up the AGP …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2023-06-05, 11:35
After a little bit of scrubbing I found a burnt trace coming from the ISA slot straight up to the wavetable header. Burnt traces are never a good sign, but if that's all there is to it, then it shouldn't cause any problem as long as a wavetable isn't connected and also it should be an easy fix. …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2023-06-05, 10:14
After a little bit of scrubbing I found a burnt trace coming from the ISA slot straight up to the wavetable header. Burnt traces are never a good sign, but if that's all there is to it, then it shouldn't cause any problem as long as a wavetable isn't connected and also it should be an easy fix. …
Re: The frustrations of the GPU market
Posted on 2023-06-05, 07:37
Well.. A few months after thinking I'd never buy another GPU.. I bought a 4 month old second hand RX 6700XT from a dismantled mining rig.
Re: Orpheus II soundcard thread
Posted on 2023-06-05, 07:28
You can actually reserve IRQ and DMA channels from within Windows. There is an option for this somewhere in Device Manager; at least on 98se and ME. This can be useful when a resource you want is being gobbled up by a device that won't allow you to reassign it. Well, indeed! If you click properties …
Re: Orpheus II soundcard thread
Posted on 2023-06-05, 07:26
The Orpheus II sure is a big boi :) I was set on installing it in my 486 Pizza box (Globalyst 510), but ran in to a slight issue... g510_o2_1.jpg No matter the angle I tried to get it in, it was just not possible, even when I started removing the case supports and floppy drive etc. Went and had a …
Re: Gotek like Optical Driver Emulator - Is it possible?
Posted on 2023-06-05, 07:23
Looks like 3DO IDE emulator should be shipping soon! https://twitter.com/flxel/status/1664662980649275392 How much do these cost? I think a very low cost open source solution with something like a Pi Pico should have been possible by now, possibly something that can emulate a HDD, FDD and DVD-ROM …
Re: Retro OSes for retro computers
Posted on 2023-06-05, 07:19
For my P1 MMX 233 build, I find Tiny Core Linux the best option for a Linux distro. It requires minimum 64MB of RAM, otherwise it does not boot up, but it runs well on such old hardware, with only the tty. Moreover, it has the most up-to-date packages compared to other retro tiny Linux distros. In …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2023-06-01, 09:14
You all are having badwrongfun so stop please, please stop, I said stop why don't you stop goddamnit stop fucking stoooooopp!
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