Re: MCGA adapter alongside a Hercules adapter - Will that work?
Posted on 2022-09-10, 17:42
MDA works alongside any color adapter
Re: PS/2 mice not detected by Cutemouse in Tandy 1000RL
Posted on 2022-09-09, 21:35
It’s an XT port that has a different address Windows 3.11 on my RLX has the same issue, so serial mice for me. Someone on vcfed did have modified Windows files to support a Tandy XT PS2 mouse, gotta wonder what dos drivers support Tandy ?
Re: Amd 486 3V cpu using 4V?
Posted on 2022-09-09, 13:26
Luck of the draw, usually 3.6 is the highest you want to go or the chip can get gimped where it only runs on 4v and eventually wears out. I’ve seen a few run 5v their entire life’s so it’s worth the risk if you got the chip cheaply enough that you can replace if it gets flakey
Re: Name of internal 15-pin VGA output motherboard header?
Posted on 2022-09-09, 03:18
Looks like a PCCHIPS m598 clone The video cable used to come with the PCCHIPS LMR kits that were nearly innumerable at one time. I do not know if the PCCHIPS cable sets are compatible but thus far I’ve lucked out on the vga cable headers on all the boards I’ve found with onboard
Early socket 7 strange FSB settings
Posted on 2022-09-08, 21:30
Something I have wondered for a while is why did some early socket 7 motherboards have official support for the following FSBs 40mhz (m567/69 have it) 45mhz 55mhz 62mhz 68mhz (62&68 listed as turbo freq) 80mhz (on a board with no 75mhz setting) 90mhz (m590 “super 7” board w/ 4.2vio) All of these …
Re: IBM PS/1 SVGA Monitor with 9-Pin Connector
Posted on 2022-09-07, 23:04
I remember seeing adapters from DE-9 to DE-15 growing up and always wondering wtf the spec was for that or if it was even consistent Hint: It's not consistent. There are multiple DE-9 analog pinouts. Another common one is to use R,G,B,H,V at the same position as CGA has them, but R,G,B as analog …
Re: IBM PS/1 SVGA Monitor with 9-Pin Connector
Posted on 2022-09-07, 13:38
I've tried looking for cables. I want to make sure I get the correct cable. Also, I'm fine making my own cable if I know the 9-Pin to 15-Pin pin translation. I’ve never seen adapter cables. There is a formed 9pin to 15 pin monitor adapter, about 2.5” long I would have to dig through my junkpile and …
Re: IBM PS/1 SVGA Monitor with 9-Pin Connector
Posted on 2022-09-06, 23:45
I’ve encountered SVGA 9 pin on everything from IBM to HP and never understood what equipment these were meant for. I have a strange 9pin to 15 pin adapter that works with them. My guess is some sort of POS standard?
Re: The Graphics card of the year 1997
Posted on 2022-09-06, 22:17
Probably an S3 Virge DX manufactured by either Diamond, STB, Elsa or Hercules. Generic ones often have image quality issues. Pair it with a Voodoo1 if you want to play Carmageddon at a somewhat reasonable frame rate on that system. ....I missed the part where its a P166 MMX ...that does change …
Re: ebay enters the ashbin of history
Posted on 2022-09-01, 16:17
And whatever happened to those storefronts that would sell your items for you? Did ebay somehow do away with them somehow? Likely drives “reporting” which again increases tax preparation costs. These types of things should have hard requirements for 1. Affects businesses only 2. Affects people over …
Re: Does anyone have one of those ridiculously large 386 motherboards?
Posted on 2022-08-31, 23:22
I’ve owned multiple gigantic DTK 386sx motherboards in the original case. Personally have always found that vintage DTK with the big red switch in the rear ugly but they are reliable
Re: Is fake cache a myth?
Posted on 2022-08-31, 16:32
if you swapped the fake chips for real cache chips the sockets were either not physically wired to the chipset or the chipset refused to see the real cache chips. That's incorrect. Most PCChips boards will work fine after "cache" replacement, because some were shipped with working cache. But the …
Re: Members of Vogons, what shows do you currently watch?
Posted on 2022-08-31, 03:31
I was so disappointed with SGU because they tried to make it into something for "modern audiences". And I shudder at how bad a new Stargate show would be if it was made in this day and age. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sd23slMhWQU Yeah well the original show runners made a script that respected …
Re: Members of Vogons, what shows do you currently watch?
Posted on 2022-08-30, 16:02
Watched 'Samaritan' last night with my wife. I saw parts of that, will now need to actively rewatch, for me the movie was named wrong, ah well, was fun seeing Stallone in that role . Finally finished Stargate Atlantis (started in February) Now Starting SG1, episode 3, gonna take a while fun to see …
Re: ebay enters the ashbin of history
Posted on 2022-08-29, 17:48
You do know PayPal reports your transactions to the government for tax purposes. I only sell things that I generally bought new at full retail. As another alluded to it’s usually “illegal “ to tax when there is no overall financial gain, basically means everyone now has to become a business to …
Re: What to keep and what to throw out?
Posted on 2022-08-28, 22:37
You can likely sell some of the stuff as long as you don’t care how much you get. For me ebaying the stuff was a lot of work, hassle and at the time prices were very depressed. I attempted to get local pickups but nobody local wanted the stuff so I tore a lot of it down and got my $0.50 a pound as …
Re: ebay enters the ashbin of history
Posted on 2022-08-28, 04:38
Ever since they blocked communication and went to descriptive feedback moving listings up and down alongside the massive influx of foreign spam products in every category got me to quit selling because nobody seemed to find what I was selling anymore. I was always low volume and close to 50/50 buy …
Re: easiest way to record tv shows
Posted on 2022-08-27, 18:04
Sune Salminen wrote on 2022-08-27, 14:32: Same idea, except it will work: Get any old VHS recorder, tune in and record from the composite video out. That’s exactly what I did many years during the first 6 years of digital TV.
Re: MDA/CGA/EGA to VGA Converter Released!
Posted on 2022-08-27, 04:54
dJOS wrote on 2022-08-26, 23:21: Yes RGBs is analogue, however CGA is RGBi and that is TTL, not analogue. Your monitor just has both sets of decoder circuitry. Certainly does but doesn’t help to make the 15khz analog signal compatible with vga
Re: The Old-Timey Computer Show
Posted on 2022-08-26, 23:28
There are modern recreations of this type of content also https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WaawXXqXExo
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