SCSI CDROM Windows 95 "Restart in DOS Mode"

Posted on 2020-01-12, 15:05

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by maxtherabbit

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have a SCSI CDROM hanging off an Adaptec controller. Windows 95 is installed with the BootGUI=0 option so initial boot goes straight to DOS. ASPI2DOS and ASPICD are loaded in config.sys and MSCDEX is loaded in autoexec.bat. The CDROM works just fine in DOS, and if I run "win" to load 95 it works …

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Re: Need help with my IBM PC XT-286 (5162)

Posted on 2020-01-12, 02:39

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by maxtherabbit

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

another option to broaden your search is the Intel Above board, but the software is a little wonkier and I feel it isn't quite as nicely made overall they do work fine though

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Re: Your favorite Floppy software for modern OSs?

Posted on 2020-01-12, 00:39

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by maxtherabbit

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For modern Windows go with Rawwrite-win http://www.chrysocome.net/rawwrite For DOS, IMD is the gold standard. http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/img/index.htm

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Re: Need help with my IBM PC XT-286 (5162)

Posted on 2020-01-11, 22:25

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by maxtherabbit

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I heartily recommend the AST Rampage 286 cards. Deals do come around for reasonable prices on ebay but you have to be patient Thanks Maxtherabbit! There's one of those on eBay right now. It's half populated and at $89.99. Do you think that's a fair value? That's quite high, I got mine for about …

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Re: Need help with my IBM PC XT-286 (5162)

Posted on 2020-01-11, 15:05

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by maxtherabbit

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I heartily recommend the AST Rampage 286 cards. Deals do come around for reasonable prices on ebay but you have to be patient

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Re: What specs to look for to play DOS Quake, Diablo II, Warcraft III, etc. at HIGH native resolutions?

Posted on 2020-01-11, 03:16

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by maxtherabbit

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

does the soft multiplier thing work with the non-plus K6-2?

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Re: Need some help identifying a 386SX motherboard and some troubleshooting

Posted on 2020-01-11, 02:53

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by maxtherabbit

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I think you made out ok, doesn't look like any of the traces are ruined, but you need to buzz out the smaller traces on either side of the big 3 as well

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Re: What specs to look for to play DOS Quake, Diablo II, Warcraft III, etc. at HIGH native resolutions?

Posted on 2020-01-11, 02:50

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by maxtherabbit

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

hey, welcome to vogons let's see that CRT

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Re: Awesome Retro Dual Processor Buys

Posted on 2020-01-10, 22:08

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by maxtherabbit

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Awesome finds! I have a very similar Supermicro board (mine is P6DBS with integrated SCSI, though, not P6DBU) — it's a great board that can generally take Coppermines up to 1000 MHz while retaining full 3 ISA slots (kind of uncommon for a Slot 1 board). Dual CPU systems just feel amusing to me even …

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Re: NEC Proserva V Plus (dual socket 7 system) (have a lead on multiple of these)

Posted on 2020-01-10, 13:56

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by maxtherabbit

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the advance logic is a pretty good card, the OPL3 clone is one of the few that sounds really good

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Re: Welcome to the updated VOGONS

Posted on 2020-01-09, 16:43

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by maxtherabbit

in Milliways

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yeah, the information is still there obviously - I just get sad about "small screen" optimizations because honestly fuck phones

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Re: Welcome to the updated VOGONS

Posted on 2020-01-09, 15:49

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by maxtherabbit

in Milliways

in Milliways

one thing I miss about the your posts/new posts/active topics pages is the column that displays what forum the thread is in

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Re: NEC Proserva V Plus (dual socket 7 system) (have a lead on multiple of these)

Posted on 2020-01-08, 21:50

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by maxtherabbit

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

horizontal jumper is probably just a spare, that's a common way of including extras - spanning the two ground pins

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Re: New forum suggestions/Feedback

Posted on 2020-01-06, 00:23

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by maxtherabbit

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kolderman wrote on 2020-01-06, 00:06: Well, if this forums had polls, and the question was about this so called "dithering", I would vote to get rid of it completely. same, dithering just sucks I have zero nostalgia for it

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Re: Welcome to the updated VOGONS

Posted on 2020-01-04, 04:05

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by maxtherabbit

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thought that was pretty funny tbh

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Re: Welcome to the updated VOGONS

Posted on 2020-01-04, 03:20

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by maxtherabbit

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if we're taking a poll I don't particularly care for the font either, but it's trivial and doesn't meaningfully diminish my enjoyment of the forum

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Re: Very New VOGONS on Old Systems: using the 2020 era forums on retro PCs

Posted on 2020-01-02, 23:56

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by maxtherabbit

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Try arachne?

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Re: New forum suggestions/Feedback

Posted on 2020-01-02, 00:48

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by maxtherabbit

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yes poll no reddit

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Re: How many watts is my power supply->

Posted on 2020-01-02, 00:48

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by maxtherabbit

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SirNickity wrote on 2020-01-01, 23:55: Peter Swinkels wrote on 2019-12-31, 19:45: Isn't ISA obsolete? ... Where do you think you are right now? 🤣 🤣 well to be fair he did not post in marvin

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Re: Issues with Teac FD-55GFR 5.25" floppy drive reading 360k disks

Posted on 2020-01-01, 06:11

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by maxtherabbit

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I had a Mitsubishi 5.25" 360kB drive that would not read disks reliably at all. None of the electrolytics on the board had any visible bloating or leakage, yet when I removed them I found some with almost no capacitance remaining. After a recap the drive works fine.

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