Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2017-10-20, 15:40
The Pentium II board must be a server board hence the weird power connector.
Re: Real floppy drives vs Emulated floppy drive: Which is better?
Posted on 2017-10-20, 15:06
There're games that cannot be imaged at all: Examples Lemmings Sid Meier's Pirates And More... The way I can tell the difference between a copy protected and other floppy diskettes is the volume label when typing in the following command: DIR A: If it has mumbo jumbo in it, it's copy protected. If …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2017-10-19, 20:59
I have "secured" (I really don't know the English word for it, in my home language is "apalavrei") a apparently non-working PPro brand machine with filled RAM Slots (EDO), a SB CT2980, Matrox VGA, should have SCSI too and a couple more expansion cards... for €10. I'm hoping the disk is a 50-pin …
Re: Real floppy drives vs Emulated floppy drive: Which is better?
Posted on 2017-10-19, 19:31
I have a dual Floppy drive in my Packard Bell Pack-Mate 28 Plus that I inherited last year (free), so I have 1 laptop and 5 desktops that have floppy drives. They all work still.
Re: Real floppy drives vs Emulated floppy drive: Which is better?
Posted on 2017-10-19, 16:43
Updated the post. Thanks for the suggestions.
Real floppy drives vs Emulated floppy drive: Which is better?
Posted on 2017-10-19, 16:10
What are your thoughts between the real floppy drives and Emulated floppy drives (GoTek)? Real Floppy Drives: Pros: Can be used as a backup storage, just in case the Hard Drive gets corrupted First boot device for systems that cannot boot from a CD Can play copy protected games Slower read speeds …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2017-10-19, 15:03
I won a Socket 370 motherboard bundle on eBay that has the following: Motherboard: Shuttle Spacewalker AV18 V3 (VIA Apollo Pro 133A) ATX 512MB SD-RAM (1.5GB maximum, unlike Intel Chipsets that support up to 512MB) VIA C3 700MHz CPU <-- Going to upgrade to a Pentium III 933 SL52Q with a new Heatsink …
Review of the Aztech Sound Galaxy NX Pro Card
Posted on 2017-10-18, 20:36
I've had this sound card for over a year now, an Aztech Sound Galaxy NX Pro, which has the following specifications: Yamaha YMF-262M OPL3 Chipset Virtual LPT1 Port Extender Panasonic and Sony CD Drive IDE Ports Volume Potentiometer Line-In, Microphone, and Line-Out Ports GamePort/MIDI DB15 port ( …
Re: 486 system freezes
Posted on 2017-10-18, 20:08
Flip the board and look for dry solder joints on the back of the slots. I was about to post that, and I believe that is common on boards for the solder points to either dry up or crack, which requires a re-flow of the solder. Luckily, my Packard Bell still runs, but takes a while for it to turn on …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2017-10-18, 18:58
Got this a while back, bought it because it wa cheap and I never had one. Did not realise that I bought a PCI version until I got it. http://i.imgur.com/0BcitUEl.jpg?1 Looks like a clone of the nVidia GeForce MX 4000 Series cards. I have the MX 4000 PCI myself, and it sucks. Luckily, I got a new …
Re: SC-55 revisions
Posted on 2017-10-18, 18:53
Not an expert at troubleshooting MIDI, but did you try different things to rule out a buggy or speed sensitive interface and resource conflicts? The sound card that it's connected to is a Sound Blaster 16 WaveEffects CT4170 (like the AWE64, except for not a lot of memory for the GM it comes with), …
Re: PcChips sucks!
Posted on 2017-10-18, 18:42
I have a Gigabyte Motherboard (AM3+) that destroyed one of my memory modules (only have 4GB and Windows 10 64-bit doesn't like that at all), and would randomly BSOD on me. My Packard Bell Pack-Mate 28 Plus is more reliable than my gaming rig.
Re: OPL2LPT
Posted on 2017-10-18, 18:39
I would like to have such a thing for the latest PC's or Laptops with real LPT-Ports, no need for that below that machines. Everything with real ISA slots should get a real soundcard for adlib/sb/gus. I have 2 Laptops and 4 Desktops that have Parallel ports, 1 Laptop and 4 Desktops that have floppy …
Re: SC-55 revisions
Posted on 2017-10-18, 18:01
I have the SC-55 that uses GS (General Sound) with no GM (General MIDI) whatsoever. Even some of the GM files I have don't play right (notes either play for a split second or not), and when I play the REGGAE.MID file on my system, the drum is AWOL and I have to manually change the Rhythm to the …
Re: PcChips sucks!
Posted on 2017-10-18, 15:46
The M912 v1.7 board I had up until a few years ago had real L2 cache on it (my dad installed the L2 cache a long time ago, and I believe it was between 128KB and 256KB). There were some boards that had fake cache chips.
Re: PcChips sucks!
Posted on 2017-10-18, 14:25
I had a PCChips M912 V1.7 Motherboard from 1994 up until 2012, and that sucker worked until its BIOS chip died (Award non-Y2K). I have a PCChips motherboard that's a Socket 754 and it still runs (no bad caps or chips).
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2017-10-18, 12:50
Two new old stock 230W AT PSUs for my U5SX-33 and future Pentium 100 builds. http://image.bolterandchainsword.com/uploads/gallery/album_11505/med_gallery_60983_11505_112730.jpg This may be a stupid question but I genuinely have no idea despite owning several. What is the reversed 3 pin port on AT …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2017-10-17, 20:29
Bidding on a Socket 370 motherboard bundle on eBay that has the following: Motherboard: Shuttle Spacewalker AV18 V3 (VIA Apollo Pro 133A) ATX 512MB SD-RAM (1.5GB maximum, unlike Intel Chipsets that support up to 512MB) VIA C3 700MHz CPU <-- Going to upgrade to a Pentium III 933 SL52Q with a new …
Re: OPL2LPT
Posted on 2017-10-17, 13:14
Another idea for an LPT sound card: OPL3 chip with voices/SFX, Disney Sound Source, and Covox Speech Things All-in-One. As for a joystick/MIDI port, I don't know if there is a way to hook up a joystick/MIDI to an LPT sound card, but that'll be so cool. A computer enthusiast can dream, right? I do …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2017-10-16, 23:03
Schematic: PSU Schematic Another option is to keep it simple and combine a couple of power bricks - I've been using this bad boy for a couple of years now with no ill effects: http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=36418&start=80#p412903 I don't have any 5V DC bricks or 9V AC bricks, except for …
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