Re: Windows 98 to Windows 10 Networking Help

Posted on 2019-09-26, 04:35

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by Mister Xiado

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Windows 7 and 10 have always seemed to utterly hate Win 3 and Win9X, as far as network sharing goes. Microsoft's idiotic support gives people obviously incorrect information, ignoring what they have stated entirely, in most cases. Since I've no desire to build a network server at the moment, in …

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

Posted on 2019-09-18, 04:53

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by Mister Xiado

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

It takes days, not mere hours.

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

Posted on 2019-09-13, 08:02

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by Mister Xiado

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Swordfish I need to see that again. I haven't watched it since it was new. Reminds me, there used to be a hidden WiFi network at the company I worked at. Its SSID was Swordfish. Of course, the IT staff that set it up, also dubbed the laser/fax machines Autobot, and Decepticon, complete with the …

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

Posted on 2019-09-10, 08:56

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by Mister Xiado

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It just says that the mode selection switch is set to mode A by default, and setting it to B makes it not work. Not that it's some proprietary mode for a specific computer. Mode selection switch (A/B) A switch that switches the mode of the sound PC card. It is set to "A" at the time of shipment. Be …

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

Posted on 2019-09-09, 20:06

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by Mister Xiado

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Is there anyone here who sees old Macs of this generation and *doesn't* associate them with high-school? Older ones, perhaps. My high school used various iterations of the Mac, I believe the Mac Plus and maybe the Mac II. I barely ever touched them, as they were primarily administration systems. …

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

Posted on 2019-09-03, 11:24

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by Mister Xiado

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Testing CDROM drives in my 486, to determine if any will work in it at all. Not that I have any rails to attach to the drive to keep it in place. Stupid HP desktop cases...

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

Posted on 2019-09-01, 06:56

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by Mister Xiado

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That's a plug for a fan. The system keeps time well enough, despite being off for days on end (switched off with a power splitter), but I have no earthly idea how it keeps time with no visible battery or discernible capacitors for the purpose. I highly doubt they're on the underside of the board. …

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

Posted on 2019-09-01, 00:29

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by Mister Xiado

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

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Trying to determine where the power source for the clock in this HP Vectra 486 66/XM D2933A would be. No CR2032, no obvious capacitor, no barrel battery... There's no such components under the plate in the lower left, and the riser card has nothing on it barring the usual caps for ISA slots. The …

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

Posted on 2019-08-31, 16:06

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by Mister Xiado

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SVGA (800x600), and XGA (1024x768) was making it output at a weird frequency that my monitors hated. Hmm, thanks. I took another look, and for whatever reason, even though Win95 had access to the 9660 drivers, and identified the card correctly, it still installed some other version. It wasn't …

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

Posted on 2019-08-31, 07:47

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by Mister Xiado

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Definitely need a better video card. The current Trident GUI9660XGi is kinda' awful, in that Win95 is stuck in 8 bit color. Not sure if adding RAM would help in any way.

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Re: I forget there are those unlike us

Posted on 2019-08-30, 20:51

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by Mister Xiado

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Reminds me, I need to put RetroZilla on my Win95 system, as IE 5 hates PNG images.

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Re: Floppy Station.

Posted on 2019-08-30, 20:49

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by Mister Xiado

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Looking good. Sad that the price of 3.5" floppy drives suddenly skyrocketed online. I used to buy them new for $10 each for every system I would build, but now, ouch. I'd like to be able to read and write all forms of disks, but I'm limited to IBM 5.25" and 3.5" formats with my current equipment. …

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Re: I forget there are those unlike us

Posted on 2019-08-30, 04:00

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by Mister Xiado

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

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Caluser2000 wrote: ir.slaschnet.org Doesn't exist.

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Re: how to figure out pin out of a kb/ps2 header

Posted on 2019-08-30, 03:51

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by Mister Xiado

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Glad you wrested success from the jaws of a Sisyphean task. I wasn't able to find any appropriate PS/2 sockets on eBay to mount on a slot cover or other flat metal surface with a through-hole and screw holes, just board-mount sockets. With those, making your own cable would be a pain, but would …

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Re: how to figure out pin out of a kb/ps2 header

Posted on 2019-08-29, 21:22

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by Mister Xiado

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Take the board out of the mouse housing and read the pins that the cable connects to, I suppose.

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

Posted on 2019-08-29, 20:49

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by Mister Xiado

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The LNE100TX I ordered finally arrived, and installed without issue. I don't have any other useful PCI or ISA cards kicking around, so I guess I'm done with Apophis. I could add another 64MB DIMM if I had one, before maxing out the RAM, but I have no need for that much in Win95. If my mood improves, …

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Re: how to figure out pin out of a kb/ps2 header

Posted on 2019-08-29, 19:15

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by Mister Xiado

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The only method I can think of offhand with no data on the board, is to attach the header to a breadboard, and then to a mouse or keyboard, and try to read the signal off of one or both of the unknown lines. But I say this not even having one of those cheap $25 digital oscilloscopes.

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Re: I forget there are those unlike us

Posted on 2019-08-29, 19:07

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by Mister Xiado

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BBSs were great if you weren't the one responsible for your phone bill. "You mean I can call all the way across the country, with my computer, and download a free demo of DooM, all for the low costs of a ninety dollar charge on my phone bill? Sign me up!" The only time I used one for any real …

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Re: I forget there are those unlike us

Posted on 2019-08-29, 04:28

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by Mister Xiado

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

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I would go through mine, but I don't think any of the floppies I had 25 years ago are in my collection. It would be nice if they were, but I've lost everything too many times for that to be likely. Also, I've come across a lot of floppies with viruses on them. Not that they could really propagate on …

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

Posted on 2019-08-27, 19:23

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by Mister Xiado

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

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For whatever reason, when I was softmodding my Xbox, I had to use my Xbox 360 to format a memory card to XFAT so the original Xbox would recognize it. Just a heads up, in case you have similar difficulties with the process. Also, keep your original HDD. It may come in handy in the future. That is, …

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