Re: ARGUS Project thread - now accepting pre-orders (for north/south American and Europe)

Posted on 2022-04-24, 18:30

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by jarreboum

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keropi wrote on 2022-04-24, 18:26: Argus pcb already has support for a 29F800 SOP44 eeprom to be used instead of the original mask rom, so the only special and irreplaceable chip you need is the interwave one Can you flash it directly on the card or do you need extra hardware?

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Re: ARGUS Project thread (aka GUSsel Crowe) - it's not dead (yet)

Posted on 2022-04-23, 18:20

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by jarreboum

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At 78€ for just PCB and Chip i`m out. Last time i build the Whole Card for this. After 6 months you can build your hearts content if/when shock__ eventually releases the project files to the public. If you want to get one now then you will have to pay for shock__'s effort and time spent on this and …

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Re: Colours in Monuments of Mars are all wrong on my EGA computer

Posted on 2021-08-21, 19:50

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by jarreboum

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ha, yes indeed! I was about to say I tried with Arctic Adventure, but obviously the palette was already correct with this one. However I did find a workaround, thanks to your replies: my card, an EG-3000, has its floppies archived online, and amongst various utilities there's a CGA.COM to switch to …

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Colours in Monuments of Mars are all wrong on my EGA computer

Posted on 2021-08-21, 09:14

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by jarreboum

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The computer is a 386sx-16 with an EGA card and display. So far it's the only game to have such a problem. Monuments of Mars normally uses the orange-green-red-black palette. But on this computer, the palette is pink-cyan-grey-black? Actually, if you Google images search for"Monuments of Mars Apogee …

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Sound test program?

Posted on 2021-08-19, 08:52

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by jarreboum

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Hi, I'm looking for a program that would test the sound capabilities of a computer: check whether such and such mode is available, and play a tune to confirm and compare the various sound it produces. Ideally it should work on the simplest 8088 with little RAM. Does such a tool exist?

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Re: UNISOUND - Universal ISA PnP Sound Card Driver for DOS v0.76f

Posted on 2021-08-03, 19:50

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by jarreboum

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No luck for me. I added SET BLASTER=J201 but CheckIt still can't see it. Or should I add the whole bunch of parameters? UNISOUND seemed to be happy with just that. Edit: uh, so the joystick works in Prince of Persia. Weird. I'll try other games. Edit: and so does Loom and SimCity. And Silpheed, the …

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Re: UNISOUND - Universal ISA PnP Sound Card Driver for DOS v0.76f

Posted on 2021-08-02, 21:15

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Hi, I can't get the game port to work maybe you guys can help me? I'm using an ES1868F PNP ISA sound card. It has a Dreamblaster S1 on the wavetable port. The computer is a 386SX-16 with 1MB RAM if it matters. MS-DOS is 5.0. I haven't SET BLASTER, only using the default options of UNISOUND, which …

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Re: EtherDFS - a network drive for DOS

Posted on 2021-06-29, 17:20

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by jarreboum

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That's a really useful tool! Any chance of getting a Docker package? I'd like to use it on my NAS.

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How to identify bad video RAM chips?

Posted on 2021-05-16, 12:16

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by jarreboum

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I have some problems with an IBM EGA video card. Here's the checkit log. I believe some ram chips are dead. But how do I know which ones? And where to find them on the card? === VIDEO RAM TEST === Test Results: Video Memory................................................FAILED *** ERROR at Address …

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Re: What's the state of old PC networking?

Posted on 2021-05-15, 08:10

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by jarreboum

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https://twitter.com/SergeKise/status/1393367861066821636?s=19 Designed, built, and tested an 8-bit ISA Ethernet card. The card is based on Realtek RTL8019AS controller. It supports 39SF010A/39SF020/39SF040 or similar Flash ROMs. The card can be configured to work in the page mode to access the …

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Re: WebOne - proxy for old browsers to make them Web 2.0-capable

Posted on 2021-04-25, 12:03

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by jarreboum

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Hi, have you considered implementing an imap and smtp proxy? email clients are facing the same security problems as browsers now.

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Re: What's the state of old PC networking?

Posted on 2021-03-30, 16:16

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by jarreboum

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Well I was more wondering if people were working on them or interested to, more than asking for myself. But thanks anyway. The problem with using a WiFi bridge is the same as with using a serial WiFi modem, and that it's an external solution needing an external power source. Though it is neat if you …

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What's the state of old PC networking?

Posted on 2021-03-29, 16:53

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by jarreboum

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A lot of discussion have been about sound, making new improved clone cards, creating new designs to combine sound outputs, writing new universal drivers, etc. Video has a few new creations too, albeit fewer. But what about networking? From what I'm seeing, ISA network cards are plenty, but most are …

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Re: The middle mouse button, was it ever useful?

Posted on 2021-03-26, 07:12

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by jarreboum

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I got into a rabbit hole reading Wikipedia, I'm now imagining a time in which three button mice are standard, with the left being action, middle being select, and right being contextual. No more double clicking (which I found one of the more difficult task when learning to use a mouse as an adult), …

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Re: The middle mouse button, was it ever useful?

Posted on 2021-03-26, 06:58

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by jarreboum

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Dammit, he started his Twitter thread a whole 20 minutes before I posted. Talk about minds thinking alike! Good read too.

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The middle mouse button, was it ever useful?

Posted on 2021-03-25, 23:56

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by jarreboum

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Before the wheel replaced it and wheel-click became a thing, there were mice with a third button in the middle. I can't remember any use for it, but my experience is pretty limited. AFAIK Windows 3.11 doesn't use it nor the wheel. Was there some software in which you just couldn't do without the …

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What's the difference between HardMPU and PCMIDI?

Posted on 2021-03-14, 21:11

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by jarreboum

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I see there are two modern solutions to interface a Roland MT-32 to a computer without having to use the extra MPU-401 box. It's great, but I can't find a comparison between them, what are their strengths and weaknesses, and why choose one over the other?

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Re: Do you want an EGA monitor?

Posted on 2021-03-09, 21:37

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by jarreboum

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Oh, as an aside question, can you display MDA on an EGA monitor?

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Re: Yet another simple MDA/CGA/EGA adapter

Posted on 2021-02-24, 19:30

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tested mce in cga-mode on tandy1000 rl/hd with nec71vm. it works great. minor issue, textmode and graphicsmode differ up to 5mm to the left. will check if I can get a smaller image-setting so everything is visible. Differ to what? I had the same problem of the picture starting drawing very close to …

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Re: Do you want an EGA monitor?

Posted on 2021-02-24, 06:35

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by jarreboum

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Caluser2000 wrote on 2021-02-24, 04:42: I have an EGA monitor thanks, works well and it was free. Did you consider it before getting it? How much do you use it compared to your other displays? Would you have gotten it if it wasn't free?

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