clueless1 wrote:

What type of DOS game are you writing? Which game is the remake based on?

Just a little game. Just some old game.

Today I got this Pavilion in the mail and I tore it apart, cleaned it, reassembled and upgraded it. Runs very nicely. More pictures + info here https://imgur.com/a/fAnCF

Decided to upgrade the hard drive in my iMac G3/600 to a 200GB HDD in place of the 30GB HDD due to lack of space for my video import from my camera, and I might attempt to run both Mac OS X Tiger and Lubuntu
16.04.2 LTS side-by-side if the Linux boot cd detects the rest of the storage.

Edit:
I successfully installed Mac OS X Tiger, and its affiliate updates, such as 10.4.11 update; now, I'm installing Lubuntu on the HDD since Linux detected the rest of the storage (128GB for Mac OS X, and about 64GB for Linux). Well, apparently, Linux won't boot since I found out only 128GB is the limit for the iMac G3, and the only option I have left is to shrink the partition for the Mac partition when re-installing Mac OS X Tiger.

Decided to oven bake some cards as it is summer and popped some rot caps on a Ti 4400, had to bake a Ti 500 as well because a previous owner ran it without a fan till it failed...

Finally got to setting up my Aopen AX53 (430HX) ATX board. Some random points.

1. Screwholes are not standard ATX. I believe the bottom half is actually Baby-AT. FML.
2. It came with a manual. Unfortunately, the manual jumper settings differ from what's printed on the board. Guess I'll go with whatever is printed on the board.
3. Put in a known working P166-MMX and 2x 16MB EDO. SIMM's use a weird plastic thing I've never seen before.
4. No power when using ATX power supply. Thought it was a dead board. Looked at manual. Apparently there was a jumper setting that allows you to select ATX or AT power source (what's etched on the board just says POWER ON/OFF). Jumper was stuck. FML. Had to pull out the ATX -> AT converter.
5. Powers on! Fortunately I have a Viper V550 PCI with a fan, so I have an idea when the board gets power.
6. Never seen this funky Windows 3.1 style BIOS before.
7. CMOS battery is unsurprisingly dead. Unfortunately its a soldered on Dallas RTC. Sigh. I think I have to put this guy back in storage unless I get a case with ATX and AT style screws.

My Compaq with a P166 has the same BIOS. It weirds me out.

MCGA wrote:

My Compaq with a P166 has the same BIOS. It weirds me out.

I have a 486 with the same style BIOS setup. Surprised me a lot!

nforce4max wrote:

Decided to oven bake some cards as it is summer and popped some rot caps on a Ti 4400, had to bake a Ti 500 as well because a previous owner ran it without a fan till it failed...

I have a half dozen cards that need baked.

What procedure do you use when you bake?

The first on my list is a Quadro FX4500 512MB because it's good cannon-fodder.

TheAbandonwareGuy wrote:

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nforce4max wrote:

Decided to oven bake some cards as it is summer and popped some rot caps on a Ti 4400, had to bake a Ti 500 as well because a previous owner ran it without a fan till it failed...

I have a half dozen cards that need baked.

What procedure do you use when you bake?

The first on my list is a Quadro FX4500 512MB because it's good cannon-fodder.

Why does everybody seem to go for baking cards? There are a whole bunch of other reasons why a card could fail. Also, smoke is bad for electronics, don't see how it could help 😜

MCGA wrote:

My Compaq with a P166 has the same BIOS. It weirds me out.

I had a 486 motherboard that had that, and that was amazing to see that BIOS, which did look like Windows 3 with the layout, and the BIOS supports the use of either a keyboard or mouse.

bjwil1991 wrote:

MCGA wrote:

My Compaq with a P166 has the same BIOS. It weirds me out.

I had a 486 motherboard that had that, and that was amazing to see that BIOS, which did look like Windows 3 with the layout, and the BIOS supports the use of either a keyboard or mouse.

I'm pretty sure BBISHOPPCMS World did a video on those bios. Not super uncommon if I recall correctly.

Tried making my own Voodoo 2 SLI cable.

Ended up first breaking the connector on a floppy cable, then after successive attempts cut a finger pretty badly while trying to close the connector after lining up the cable and gave up.

Looked at eBay and saw people are charing $10 for a glorified floppy cable. Lost faith in humanity.

I used a chair to close mine. I did put the connector under one of 4 of feets and I sat on the chair. Works very well ^^

That Windows 3.x like BIOS is AMI's famous winbios 😀

Deksor wrote:

I used a chair to close mine. I did put the connector under one of 4 of feets and I sat on the chair. Works very well ^^

That Windows 3.x like BIOS is AMI's famous winbios 😀

Just tried this. It bent the teeth and broke the second connector. I give up.

Haven't physically started on it yet, but here's my *pun intended* game plan:
-Make CF card "fixed mode" instead of removable, if at all possible. Got a SanDisk 8GB, so I don't know if I can even do that with this card.
-Install Windows 98SE onto CF card, put in my Dell OptiPlex Gs via IDE adapter
-clone old, slower Maxtor drive onto slightly faster, 40GB newer Maxtor drive I ripped from a Win2000 machine
-set it up to dual boot real DOS 6.22 and Win98SE
-somehow not lose my files and old games in the process
-do something with the Yamaha XG1000 card sitting next to my printer in a static-proof bag as it didn't sell on eBay even when I re-listed it. "IRQ Hell" currently has no free IDE slots left for it, and I'm already stretching my luck with the MIDI options as it is on that rig.
-copy all my aging floppy disks onto a USB stick and use them in a floppy emulator, especially my old dad's UpTime disk magazines. Those were awesome!

appiah4 wrote:

Deksor wrote:

I used a chair to close mine. I did put the connector under one of 4 of feets and I sat on the chair. Works very well ^^

That Windows 3.x like BIOS is AMI's famous winbios 😀

Just tried this. It bent the teeth and broke the second connector. I give up.

I built my own as well, I broke one connector but the second try worked. My experience is that some connectors open and close a lot easier without breaking than others. I used a small hammer carefully to close mine.

Removed a "heatsink" and thermal tape from one of my PC boards' cpus, applied proper paste and reattached the "heatsink"(code name: meager metal). Latter seems sub-optimal to me but I've got no replacement which fits the spacing between board and chassis.
The cpu is a nice one I haven't seen before(Am486 DX4-100V16BHC).

Cyrix200+ wrote:

appiah4 wrote:

Deksor wrote:

I used a chair to close mine. I did put the connector under one of 4 of feets and I sat on the chair. Works very well ^^

That Windows 3.x like BIOS is AMI's famous winbios 😀

Just tried this. It bent the teeth and broke the second connector. I give up.

I built my own as well, I broke one connector but the second try worked. My experience is that some connectors open and close a lot easier without breaking than others. I used a small hammer carefully to close mine.

Ok, third time is a charm. The chair trick actually worked, finally.. I used a desk instead, but it closed shut. I'll be trying it when I have access to my MMX system next time. Wow, so super excited! I'll need FastVoodoo drivers to SLI two different brand Voodoo 2s right?

appiah4 wrote:

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Ok, third time is a charm. The chair trick actually worked, finally.. I used a desk instead, but it closed shut. I'll be trying it when I have access to my MMX system next time. Wow, so super excited! I'll need FastVoodoo drivers to SLI two different brand Voodoo 2s right?

Good to hear! Yes use the FastVoodoo drivers. Those driver overclock the memory a little bit, which caused problems with my Voodoo2's, so check that.

Cyrix200+ wrote:

appiah4 wrote:

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Ok, third time is a charm. The chair trick actually worked, finally.. I used a desk instead, but it closed shut. I'll be trying it when I have access to my MMX system next time. Wow, so super excited! I'll need FastVoodoo drivers to SLI two different brand Voodoo 2s right?

Good to hear! Yes use the FastVoodoo drivers. Those driver overclock the memory a little bit, which caused problems with my Voodoo2's, so check that.

Do I need an external utility to dial them back down to 90MHz?