Re: Gotek floppy emulator vs. SHSUFDRV
Posted on 2020-02-23, 18:51
Booting from emulated floppy?
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2020-02-23, 17:46
I had an amazing opportunity to visit RE-PC in Seattle, WA. Felt like a small child in an amazing candy shop. :D Though, i kept the amount of products small, as i didn't have too much room flying back to home. So, 2x ISA sound cards, S3 Virge DX, REALmagic decoder card and brand new DVD RAM. Total …
Re: Bunch of soundcards, anything particularly worthy of interest?
Posted on 2020-02-14, 11:50
OPTi 82c933 and opl sounds completely original. Pretty amazed by that card. Easy to setup, no fuzz or anything around it. I like it. OPTi 82c931 is probably very similar.
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2020-02-03, 08:03
Disruptor wrote on 2020-02-03, 03:17: GigAHerZ wrote on 2020-02-02, 18:34: In general, a nice board. If i'm correct, it has 10MHz 286 and 6MHz 287 (N80L286-10/S and 2C87 -6 respectively), 1MB onboard memory and 4 SIMM slots. (with pins, instead of socket) You mean SIPP memory. You are correct! …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2020-02-02, 18:34
Just got this baby for under 22€. https://imgur.com/a/74WkJqg (seller's image) Only description is that with some random vga card, the picture didn't come up. But we'll see. It does have Math-co processor also. (Y) Got this board, and it was in pretty terrible condition. Keyboard controller and …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2020-01-30, 19:51
H3nrik V! wrote on 2020-01-30, 19:33: appiah4 wrote on 2020-01-30, 15:21: now my CPU collection is basically complete I would say. There's no such thing 🤣 You can come very close to it. 😉 The necessary amount of CPUs in a collection to make it complete is N+1, where N is the amount of CPUs …
Re: Very low VGA signal strength on S3 805 VLB
Posted on 2020-01-27, 23:02
Great! Thanks! Will try that asap i have some time. Let's hope the best! 😀
Re: Very low VGA signal strength on S3 805 VLB
Posted on 2020-01-27, 20:02
@appiah4, @gdjacobs, i'm quite sure, multimeter is fine in general. I think only thing we care is that i measured same voltage drop on both directions, right? Looks like those diodes should be replaced, right? Any ideas, what kind of diodes should i order? Can't really read anything readable out …
Re: any use for broken hard drives?
Posted on 2020-01-27, 10:15
@Baoran, allergy to the actual specific material itself is way more plausible. 😀
Re: Very low VGA signal strength on S3 805 VLB
Posted on 2020-01-26, 15:57
I'd still replace them as you should get continuity in one direction and nothing in the opposite direction. with a standard continuity test diodes will not show continuity in either direction, that is normal the continuity test fails in the forward direction due to the intrinsic voltage drop …
Re: any use for broken hard drives?
Posted on 2020-01-26, 15:20
@Baoran, Well, that can be classified as paranormal. There are numerous offers for multiple millions of dollars, to prove anything paranormal at all. I expect you to be a multi-millionaire, or if you didn't know about those offers, soon-to-be multi-millionaire. ;) @Zup, electric busses accelerate …
Re: Very low VGA signal strength on S3 805 VLB
Posted on 2020-01-26, 14:13
@chrismeyer6, i get no continuity in any direction with any diode...
Re: any use for broken hard drives?
Posted on 2020-01-26, 14:07
@Baoran, Well, that can be classified as paranormal. There are numerous offers for multiple millions of dollars, to prove anything paranormal at all. I expect you to be a multi-millionaire, or if you didn't know about those offers, soon-to-be multi-millionaire. ;) @Zup, electric busses accelerate …
Re: any use for broken hard drives?
Posted on 2020-01-25, 19:05
You can use the heads' mechanics to control piece of mirror and this way using laser, create shapes and other stuff like that on a surface or in the smoke. 😉
Re: Very low VGA signal strength on S3 805 VLB
Posted on 2020-01-25, 11:21
@chrismeyer6, yes, both directions.
Re: Very low VGA signal strength on S3 805 VLB
Posted on 2020-01-24, 20:42
@Doornkaat, thank you for those pics! At last i got back to this thing now... All looks good with multimeter. At the same time, on second picture, near the D-SUB connector, there are 6 diodes right? Should they give a beep as well with multimeter? Right now, on both directions, with bottom 3 diodes …
Re: Questions about VLB video ram ?
Posted on 2020-01-24, 16:05
found a while ago some 4Mb Elpida chips rated for 25ns/100MHz from ebay. While overkill in speed, they work perfectly with my VLB and PCI video cards, that take such memory. EDO chips won't work on old VLB cards. Well, on my S3 805 card, they do work... That's being said this is a pointless upgrade …
Re: Questions about VLB video ram ?
Posted on 2020-01-24, 14:31
I found a while ago some 4Mb Elpida chips rated for 25ns/100MHz from ebay. While overkill in speed, they work perfectly with my VLB and PCI video cards, that take such memory.
Re: Best video card to pair with a 133mhz system from 1996?
Posted on 2020-01-20, 16:35
clueless1 wrote on 2020-01-18, 21:29: If you want to be strict about the year, then your options are: ATI Rage II Matrox Mystique Tseng ET6000 […] Show full quote If you want to be strict about the year, then your options are: ATI Rage II Matrox Mystique Tseng ET6000 Riva128 is from 1997. Doesn't …
Re: Need help to improve the support of 486/586/686 class CPUs in CPU-Z
Posted on 2020-01-18, 12:03
DOS32/A should be a current up to date replacement to DOS4GW. Maybe they also have addressed all the concerns?
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