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Re: Arduino-based PS/2 to serial mouse adapter

Posted on 2019-10-07, 21:38

That is really well made, given the technology you used. I thought about the exact same thing (except I've never seen such a small Arduino compatible board!), but I wasn't able to find the 74LS00 IC in a DIP package. They have SOIC, but not SOIC to DIP adapter so I'm stuck. Do you understand the …

Re: "Non-system Disk Or Disk Error" after overwriting files on an MS-DOS partition

Posted on 2019-10-06, 11:31

by VioletGiraffe

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

That helped, thanks a lot!

Re: "Non-system Disk Or Disk Error" after overwriting files on an MS-DOS partition

Posted on 2019-10-06, 11:04

by VioletGiraffe

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Grzyb wrote: When do you encounter that error? While trying to boot off that disk? Yep. Grzyb wrote: eg. with "SYS C:" command. Is that something I can run while booted from an MS-DOS diskette? Or how do I do this?

Re: "Non-system Disk Or Disk Error" after overwriting files on an MS-DOS partition

Posted on 2019-10-06, 11:03

by VioletGiraffe

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Either IO.SYS or MSDOS.SYS (or one then the other, I forget the details) have to be located first in the root directory entry. Blindly copying files doesn't ensure they will end up in the same order. Oh, shoot. I might have trouble finding a tool to manually patch the file allocation table... So …

[Solved] "Non-system Disk Or Disk Error" after overwriting files on an MS-DOS partition

Posted on 2019-10-06, 10:49

by VioletGiraffe

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Getting this error after restoring my system partition from backup, I don't understand what I broke and how to fix it. My "backup" is simply an archive of all the files on the disk. I reasoned that backing up the boot sector and partition table is not a concern right now since I'm not going to touch …

Re: Trying to get ISA sound cards working, need some advice (which game(s) support Sound Blaster Pro?)

Posted on 2019-10-05, 21:48

by VioletGiraffe

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Oh wow, reading was not a skill I practiced yesterday, apparently. First, I missed the bit about having to run install.bat! And second, I set the jumpers on the card backwards: I assumed pins are numbered left to right and top to bottom, but it was the exact opposite. Once I ran your script AND …

Re: Trying to get ISA sound cards working, need some advice (which game(s) support Sound Blaster Pro?)

Posted on 2019-10-05, 20:07

by VioletGiraffe

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Ok, so it worked right away for me... but I did comment out the CDROM driver line in config.sys that it put in there. What does your config.sys and autoexec.bat files look like now? I think we may just need to edit them a bit to make it work. Also, if you run sndinit it will bring up the …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-10-05, 19:54

by VioletGiraffe

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

FAMICOMASTER wrote: All these people getting such great stuff locally! You're from USA, you don't get to complain! You have 48 local states + possibly Canada. I don't get a scrap in my small country outside of EU 🙁

Re: Trying to get ISA sound cards working, need some advice (which game(s) support Sound Blaster Pro?)

Posted on 2019-10-05, 19:41

by VioletGiraffe

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'll test with that DOS driver install. If that doesn't work, I'll swap out the drive and install Win3.1 and then do the regular install from there. That way I should be able to get the default config that the regular installer makes. Thanks, I would very much appreciate that. I can't even run Win …

Re: Trying to get ISA sound cards working, need some advice (which game(s) support Sound Blaster Pro?)

Posted on 2019-10-05, 18:21

by VioletGiraffe

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I think the version of The Secret of Monkey Island I have is severely trimmed down and isn't supposed to have sound besides the internal speaker. Which game or application would you recommend for testing if a sound card works? Specifically, an SB Pro compatible card and an OPL3 sound card?

Re: Best way to shutdown a 386/486 ?

Posted on 2019-10-05, 16:12

by VioletGiraffe

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Thanks, I was wondering the same thing.

Re: PCI ISA BUS diagnostic card

Posted on 2019-10-05, 15:40

by VioletGiraffe

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have it in my shopping cart on Aliexpress and I also wonder how well it works and whether it can be useful at all.

Re: Trying to get ISA sound cards working, need some advice (which game(s) support Sound Blaster Pro?)

Posted on 2019-10-04, 21:33

by VioletGiraffe

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

It sure wants that language file!

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-10-04, 20:39

by VioletGiraffe

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Munx wrote: And it works! This card will live to play Unreal in Glide mode for yet another day 😎 Nice! Did you just add the missing capacitor (C101), or replaced them all?

Re: Another IBM damaged!!

Posted on 2019-10-04, 20:33

by VioletGiraffe

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Errius wrote: The problem is that nobody wants their box treated roughly, so everybody puts FRAGILE on their packages, even when they're not actually shipping anything fragile. How is expectation that a shipping company will handle all freight with care a PROBLEM?

Re: Another IBM damaged!!

Posted on 2019-10-04, 20:31

by VioletGiraffe

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I didn't want to open another thread because I just want to vent. I feel you. But relatively speaking, you paid a small price as only a replaceable module was damaged. Is there no way to raise a complaint with the shipping company? And yeah, I'm not the crafty kind, but I doubt that is impossible …

Re: Trying to get ISA sound cards working, need some advice (which game(s) support Sound Blaster Pro?)

Posted on 2019-10-04, 17:48

by VioletGiraffe

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

What did you set SOUND16 variable to? P. S. According to this, it should be set to the root of the drivers dir, but then sndinit complains: "No language file found, setup aborted."

Re: Trying to get ISA sound cards working, need some advice (which game(s) support Sound Blaster Pro?)

Posted on 2019-10-04, 17:20

by VioletGiraffe

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'll look and see if I can find an already extracted version of the driver and if not, I'll extract it since you really don't need the installer at all as long as you have the files. Thank you, I will very highly appreciate that and toast to your health! And we could upload the drivers to Vogons …

Re: Trying to get ISA sound cards working, need some advice (which game(s) support Sound Blaster Pro?)

Posted on 2019-10-04, 16:30

by VioletGiraffe

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Grzyb wrote: You need to run that SETUP.EXE under Windows 3.1 to properly install the software. Thanks, but I don't have Win 3.1 to install the software from! Is it not possible to get it working in MS-DOS 6.22? I tried running SNDINIT.EXE manually and it says "OK", but as you know that's not …

Re: Trying to get ISA sound cards working, need some advice (which game(s) support Sound Blaster Pro?)

Posted on 2019-10-04, 13:22

by VioletGiraffe

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The blaster variable is for the software that you run if it has been programmed to check blaster variable for which address, irq and dma it needs to use to find sound blaster compatible card. That I understand, but the variable is not supposed to be set by hand if the card is fully PnP-compatible, …

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Re: Trying to get ISA sound cards working, need some advice (which game(s) support Sound Blaster Pro?)

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Re: PCI ISA BUS diagnostic card

Re: Trying to get ISA sound cards working, need some advice (which game(s) support Sound Blaster Pro?)

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Re: Another IBM damaged!!

Re: Another IBM damaged!!

Re: Trying to get ISA sound cards working, need some advice (which game(s) support Sound Blaster Pro?)

Re: Trying to get ISA sound cards working, need some advice (which game(s) support Sound Blaster Pro?)

Re: Trying to get ISA sound cards working, need some advice (which game(s) support Sound Blaster Pro?)

Re: Trying to get ISA sound cards working, need some advice (which game(s) support Sound Blaster Pro?)