Re: Unable to Boot 98Se floppy disc.
Posted on 2023-09-28, 01:11
Dead in the water at what stage? Does the drive start spinning and say 'Starting Windows 98...'? Simplest solution - why not try to get a bootable "OEM" 98SE disk?
Re: Best method to backup my old floppies to a modern Windows PC?
Posted on 2023-09-27, 23:49
Wait, such a thing as 800K floppies for Macs existed? I thought people meant they were 720K floppies that macs format as 800K. These were originally 1.44M floppies that I formatted on said Mac to whatever format the Mac used. All of these floppies physically are 720K or 1.44M floppies, vast …
Re: Best method to backup my old floppies to a modern Windows PC?
Posted on 2023-09-27, 23:44
Mac Plus used a variable speed 800k floppy drive, and to my understanding it is impossible to read those disks on anything else than a mac with built-in floppy drive. Huh, now I am confused. I have vague memories of many years ago using a Mac emulator on my Windows 95 or 98 PC to read those disks. …
Re: Windows 95 USB Keyboard/Mouse.
Posted on 2023-09-27, 21:43
This package does not provide a driver for USB-HID or USB peripheral devices such as keyboards, mice, or joysticks. cry And I don't think Apple was into making Windows drivers for their parts in 1995. Would be later - the first Apple USB product was the iMac in 1998. And given how badly regarded …
Re: What kind of computer towers did you choose for your retro systems?
Posted on 2023-09-27, 21:28
Maybe this is complete heresy, but what is people's view of using an as-old-fashioned-as-possible new case for any new retro builds? Just seems like it would be hard to find older cases in good condition, with the drive bay covers, etc. But while cases generally today have turned into ridiculous …
Re: Best method to backup my old floppies to a modern Windows PC?
Posted on 2023-09-27, 21:24
I don't know how well it's been maintained in the last 20 years (but hey, he has an ARM64 version for Windows, so he must still be around), but how about something like WinImage? As I said in my earlier reply about the Mac aspect, though, you may want to think very carefully about file formats. For …
Re: Best method to backup my old floppies to a modern Windows PC?
Posted on 2023-09-27, 21:14
Mac Plus used a variable speed 800k floppy drive, and to my understanding it is impossible to read those disks on anything else than a mac with built-in floppy drive. This is correct - best advice for the OP, if you have files you care about on Mac floppies, get a beige G3 - that's the last Mac …
Re: Fun with untested SB Audigy sound cards
Posted on 2023-09-27, 13:25
have you tried cleaning the edge connector of the card (very slightly with ipa and/or a pencil eraser)? I have a lot of old cards that stopped working after 2 years of storage... and it was the connector in 90 percent of the cases. I will try that next. The seller did say that the cards had been in …
Re: Fun with untested SB Audigy sound cards
Posted on 2023-09-27, 11:51
This is promising - I tried another slot (which I would have done sooner, except this disastrously annoying case has those one-time-only slot covers) and now I've at least made it through POST. Time to boot up the Linux flash drive and see what it picks up... Well, this is a bad sign... not seeing …
Re: Fun with untested SB Audigy sound cards
Posted on 2023-09-27, 03:02
This is promising - I tried another slot (which I would have done sooner, except this disastrously annoying case has those one-time-only slot covers) and now I've at least made it through POST. Time to boot up the Linux flash drive and see what it picks up...
Re: Fun with untested SB Audigy sound cards
Posted on 2023-09-27, 01:03
No luck turning off the 1394 on the motherboard... Given my limited (i.e. non-existent) skill set at board-level stuff, soldering, etc, I think that's probably the end of the road for this 2 ZS. 🙁
Re: Fun with untested SB Audigy sound cards
Posted on 2023-09-27, 00:15
One other thing I might try - this board has built in firewire, and of course, so does the 2ZS. Maybe that's not playing nicely... so I might try to disable the onboard firewire.
Re: Fun with untested SB Audigy sound cards
Posted on 2023-09-27, 00:13
Ahh...the venerable emu10k1 chip, one of my favs way back when ...in linux you have to load firmware for these (emu1010b.fw) to get them working. The Audigy 2 ZS stopping POST doesn't bode well... Okay, so assuming that my random Ubuntu flash drive is missing that firmware, then that would be... …
Fun with untested SB Audigy sound cards
Posted on 2023-09-26, 23:59
So, a fellow on eBay was selling an untested Audigy 2 ZS and Audigy 2 Value for a... price worth gambling at. Receive the two cards today, hopefully no damage in shipping (the postal service really shouldn't have tried to squeeze this into my mailbox). Put them in my C2Q system because, well, that's …
Re: What's the problem with COM Serial mouse?
Posted on 2023-09-26, 22:41
- Dell/Gateway/Micron, who used Intel boards and had relatively little integrated stuff. I don't think Dell had any systems with soldered video until the Dimension L with the i810 chipset graphics, for example. And they were primarily offering discrete sound cards well into 2000/2001... I've seen …
Re: What's the problem with COM Serial mouse?
Posted on 2023-09-26, 22:00
Anyways, I never thought about the PS/2 ports issues. I always took it per granted that I would have found them on any mobo, at least back to 386s. This mouse problem thing, I hadn't considered at all! My face when I got this 486 DX fresh a few days ago, I look at it and I'm like: Where the heck am …
Re: Format Iomega Zip disk for Macintosh Classic II
Posted on 2023-09-26, 21:48
Macs can mount FAT if they have PC Exchange, which I believe started to be included in System 7.5. But you really, really do not want 7.5 on a black and white 9" Mac... I would suggest asking on a vintage Mac forum because I think you're missing something existential. Generally, the classic MacOS …
Re: Old pc keeps switching off during boot
Posted on 2023-09-25, 21:29
Depending on how old this machine is, I would look at the CPU cooling. Starting around the early 2000s, processors had crude safety mechanisms to avoid burning up where the power would just get cut if the CPU temperature got too high. (Newer processors have much better throttling mechanisms and may …
Re: AM2 for Windows 98?
Posted on 2023-09-23, 17:59
The more I look at that Biostar K8M800 Micro AM2 board, the more I am liking what I see... seems like everything other than maybe the AC97 audio should be supported in 98SE? The CPU support list does seem very weird, though.
Re: AM2 for Windows 98?
Posted on 2023-09-23, 16:09
Let's take the venerable Pentium IV, for example. It's a hothead, but has a very high single core performance. For a single core/single CPU OS like Windows 98SE, that dated CPU might be still among the best. Sure, but if you could get a motherboard that works fine in 98SE, wouldn't say, a Pentium …
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