Does this count?

My drill has been here for the best part of a century, possibly more. I don't know, it was cheap, I've had it for ages and it drills holes in things regardless of whether I have electricity or not. In short, it does what it is supposed to do, so putting a few screw holes in the floor, ceiling and wall was a pretty easy task.

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Does this count?

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My drill has been here for the best part of a century, possibly more. I don't know, it was cheap, I've had it for ages and it drills holes in things regardless of whether I have electricity or not. In short, it does what it is supposed to do, so putting a few screw holes in the floor, ceiling and wall was a pretty easy task.

Count's double up... Doing woodwork with a retro tool.
I remember that I was introduced to that type of tool, when I had woodwork in primaery school.
Kind of like somewere in the mid-80's or something like that.

What a peculiar device.

Stranger still, it actually seems to work. Now I know it doesn't cook things, I think I might try plugging it into my ABIT PS5 and if it boots, perhaps I will have to track down a Socket 5 OverDrive MMX because that would just be totally unnecessary.

It does not appear to work with a K5 on this board, which is a shame as I would have had to laugh if I could boot an Intel Batman board with a K5 in the socket, that would be a huge middle finger to Intel.

HighTreason wrote:

What a peculiar device.

Deserving of its own thread methinks. 😁

Just enjoing the OPL3 emulation of the SiS 7018. 🤣
https://youtu.be/bsPFH_uUci8

Luckly the SiS 7018 supports MPU-401 emulation under bare DOS, just beware that the chipset also exposes its external MPU-401 interface, and you can set them to different ports and use them at the same time.

HighTreason wrote:

What a peculiar device.

How does that even fit in a case? 😕

Im trying to use a 20 year old HP 2x CD-RW disc with a Samsung Blu-Ray/DVD-RW... Not a great success so far, the Samsung drive really really wants to burn the disc at 48x speed which the disc of course cant handle... Perhaps if I do the full wipe 10 times in a row first...

Set up my 5150 with all the bells and whistles:

https://twitter.com/RetroSwimAU/status/690576155863199744

Skyscraper wrote:

Im trying to use a 20 year old HP 2x CD-RW disc with a Samsung Blu-Ray/DVD-RW... Not a great success so far, the Samsung drive really really wants to burn the disc at 48x speed which the disc of course cant handle... Perhaps if I do the full wipe 10 times in a row first...

Maybe you need a retro burner along with retro burning software? 😜

Tetrium wrote:

Skyscraper wrote:

Im trying to use a 20 year old HP 2x CD-RW disc with a Samsung Blu-Ray/DVD-RW... Not a great success so far, the Samsung drive really really wants to burn the disc at 48x speed which the disc of course cant handle... Perhaps if I do the full wipe 10 times in a row first...

Maybe you need a retro burner along with retro burning software? 😜

That would probably help. I just found another CD-RW disc marked "High Speed", perhaps it will work better.

IT WORKED!

Well, I'm developing my Arduino PS/2 keyboard emulator in two fronts, and made advancements in both:

• Serial communication->PS2 - I started rewritting the desktop application that sends keystrokes, and through using the WH_KEYBOARD_LL hook I am able to block most keyboard input whenever my window has focus. The Ctrl+Alt+Del combination of course doesn't work (one could remap Win+Alt+Del or something to send it), but also some special keys from my keyboard seem to bypass everything and do what they are configured to do in Microsoft's app regardless of what I do.
• PS/2->USB - My USB host shield arrived and communicating a keyboard with the Arduino is very simple - the existing libraries are very easy to use and more than sufficient for what I wanna do. It was so easy to use that the part that took me longer to do was to create a translation table between the HID scan codes and the key constants I'm using in my code.

Now I need to decide if I want to pursue the first front any further or just focus on the USB->PS2 converter. Also, I need to improve the PS2 library to implement the full keyboard command set and start coding the mouse support (and check to see if the Arduino is powerful enough to do everything at once). After PS2 keyboard and mouse are properly emulated I might get a MAX232 chip (or shield for convenience) and code a serial mouse emulator and switch between them with a jumper.... Oh well, I'm getting ahead of myself... gotta take one step at a time.

Skyscraper wrote:

Tetrium wrote:

Skyscraper wrote:

Im trying to use a 20 year old HP 2x CD-RW disc with a Samsung Blu-Ray/DVD-RW... Not a great success so far, the Samsung drive really really wants to burn the disc at 48x speed which the disc of course cant handle... Perhaps if I do the full wipe 10 times in a row first...

Maybe you need a retro burner along with retro burning software? 😜

That would probably help. I just found another CD-RW disc marked "High Speed", perhaps it will work better.

OR just... go download a copy of ImgBurn, 100% free program, no adware either. And it has a little drop-down combo box where you can manually specify the burn speed, all the way from 2x - 48x.

kithylin wrote:

OR just... go download a copy of ImgBurn, 100% free program, no adware either. And it has a little drop-down combo box where you can manually specify the burn speed, all the way from 2x - 48x.

That was not the issue, Im using CDburnerXP which lets you override the speed. The burn failed more or less at once at any other speed than the one the Samsung DVD-RW suggested (48x) which in turn produced an unreadable disc. With the other CD-RW disc the drive suggested 10x speed and everything seems to work just fine.

kithylin wrote:

OR just... go download a copy of ImgBurn, 100% free program, no adware either. And it has a little drop-down combo box where you can manually specify the burn speed, all the way from 2x - 48x.

^This

Great program, been using it for years now!

Tetrium wrote:

kithylin wrote:

OR just... go download a copy of ImgBurn, 100% free program, no adware either. And it has a little drop-down combo box where you can manually specify the burn speed, all the way from 2x - 48x.

^This

Great program, been using it for years now!

I use CDburnerXP just because it's the program I install on other peoples machines, its mostly idiot proof. 😀

alexanrs wrote:

Luckly the SiS 7018 supports MPU-401 emulation under bare DOS, just beware that the chipset also exposes its external MPU-401 interface, and you can set them to different ports and use them at the same time.

I can't get the MPU-401 emulation working. Think I had it working for some time ago, maybe I used another version of the DOS driver.

Skyscraper wrote:

I use CDburnerXP just because it's the program I install on other peoples machines, its mostly idiot proof. 😀

Actually, this was my main burner program before I switched to 7 (I used CDBurnerXP on my XP main rig for years prior to getting my Phenom II BE rig) and of course this was one of the first programs I installed, but of course it had changed over the years and I didn't like it anymore, so I tried ImgBurn and I never looked back.

That doesn't mean CDBurnerXP is inferior or anything (it's served me great for years), but ImgBurn has my preference right now 😀

Kamerat wrote:

I can't get the MPU-401 emulation working. Think I had it working for some time ago, maybe I used another version of the DOS driver.

I don't remember having any issues with it - just be sure to NOT use the same address as the real external MPU-401 interface set in BIOS (at least for my PCChips M810LR re 8.0).

ImgBurn is fantastic, been using it for years and can highly recommend it.