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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2019-02-13, 05:55

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

That right there is pure awesomeness. As for me.. I was hoping that I was missing something about an old HP 4200C scanner and why it wasn't being detected at all by any computer when plugged into the USB port. Sadly, it was completely dead except for a faint glow from the fluorescent bulb so I …

Re: PAS16 revived!

Posted on 2019-02-12, 20:16

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Sweet! As far as creating a card to take care of the -5v... not worth it one bit. There are ATX to AT adapters available that also provide the -5v. Looks like the seller is currently out unless you want to buy a 5-pack though. https://www.ebay.com/usr/antronst He does have the ATX 24-pin to ATX 20- …

Re: Turtle Beach Malibu 64 Install CD

Posted on 2019-02-12, 05:23

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Yep, the link to part one of the CD is down. Doesn't really matter anyway unless you have the serial number to be able to install the applications in the first place.

Re: What is he least cpu dependant Network card for a win98 on super socket 7 system?

Posted on 2019-02-12, 05:13

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Looks like it was discussed previously, seems like the conclusion was Win9x doesn’t support any CPU offloading. That can't be right. The 3C509 / 3C905 made a big deal of those Parallel Tasking ASICs. That's WHY people bought 3Com cards. And what other OS would you have been using when they were …

Re: need info on m$ quickbasic

Posted on 2019-02-11, 08:42

in Milliways

in Milliways

So did some more searching and from what I can find, multiple places say that MS just renamed the Basic compiler to Quick Basic. http://www.pldos.pl/basic/basic.htm http://www.emsps.com/oldtools/msbasv.htm

Re: Prometheus ARIA16 Sound Card

Posted on 2019-02-11, 04:18

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Ah, ok, don't worry about it then. Glad all the files copied off fine.

Re: YMF744 Gameport

Posted on 2019-02-11, 04:11

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Is it the only card with a gameport installed in your system? It should definitely work with joysticks. What are the rest of the specs for that system?

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-02-11, 04:03

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

@wiretap To me, that power supply screams Pentium 2/3 era, but the tag says "wi star 66". Probably a 486/66. I saw it and wondered who bought it. It is definitely an system with a backplane and a CPU card.. so if they say it boots to a 386 BIOS, my guess it is an ISA backplane with a 386 CPU card ( …

Re: Prometheus ARIA16 Sound Card

Posted on 2019-02-11, 03:51

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Awesome. Would it be possible to have you get RAW images of the disks? RawWrite works great. http://www.chrysocome.net/rawwrite There were two different revisions of these cards. One with jumpers and one without. If you look at the FAQs in the other thread I started about the SSDK and LSDK, you can …

Re: I de-CQMed my AWE32 PnP CT3990...!

Posted on 2019-02-08, 22:40

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

If anyone knows off the top of their head, are there easy-to-source replacements for those SIMM slots? I've had an AWE32 with expanded memory since the 90s, and then recently removed the RAM to clean the board. Naturally, the plastic retainer on one of them broke off.... :-P I have no idea if SIMM …

Re: Any way to scan for viruses ?

Posted on 2019-02-08, 21:17

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Pretty sure there isn't going to be anything that work with Windows 9x or older. XP is probably the oldest that you would be able to use a newer scanner on.

Re: What is the (real world) difference between these CPUs

Posted on 2019-02-07, 23:04

in Milliways

in Milliways

If you look up the datasheet for the CPU, you should be able to figure out what pins to connect in order to force 1333 FSB.

Re: Media Vision (Pro Audio Spectrum) Website URL

Posted on 2019-02-07, 20:33

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

I don't think they had one. I found a FAQ from late 1992 and it only mentions calling them.

Re: What is the (real world) difference between these CPUs

Posted on 2019-02-07, 16:06

in Milliways

in Milliways

I wonder if the motherboard lets you set the FSB manually. If so, then you can have a nice overclock with a mobile CPU.

Re: Socket 3-7 coolers - Where to find, cheaply?

Posted on 2019-02-07, 16:01

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I stocked up by buying bulk lots of coolers. Now I have so many that I probably will never need to buy coolers for old machines again. Much cheaper to go that route than to buy them one by one.

Re: VOGONS Driver Library

Posted on 2019-02-07, 06:05

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Uploaded the Recovery CDs for the Sony PCG-C1VN laptop to archive.org. https://archive.org/details/SonyPCGC1VNRecove … CDsVersionG49.0

Re: Searching for SSDK and LSDK fro ARIA 16

Posted on 2019-02-07, 02:54

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

I do already have those... but it has been a while since I did any active searches for more stuff. On another not, I did hear back from somebody that says they have the SSDK.. but not sure if they are going to be willing to let me have a copy of it. I would definitely be interested in having the …

Re: Best motherboard for a retro build?

Posted on 2019-02-07, 02:46

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Would something like this board work?: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Gigabyte-GA-586HX-Socket-7-Motherboard-A01/264055424181?epid=82124426&hash=item3d7aee04b5:g:Cc8AAOSwmZJbpvlF:rk:2:pf:1&frcectupt=true It would work, but that is awfully expensive for a bog standard socket 7 board. There is one board …

Re: What is the (real world) difference between these CPUs

Posted on 2019-02-06, 19:43

in Milliways

in Milliways

I would guess the difference between the T4500 and the fastest cpu in that list (p8600?) is ~3%. Pretty sure the difference will be a lot larger than that. Having worked on thousands of laptops over the past 15 or so years, the bus speed and the cache makes quite a bit of difference. According to …

Re: Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS front panel

Posted on 2019-02-06, 17:14

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Pretty sure it would work better if the cable(s) going from the sound card to the front panel were shielded instead of just a ribbon cable.

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