Re: My Pentium Pro machine

Posted on 2016-05-10, 00:18

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are you using a burned disk? some drives dont play well with cd-r. Yes, it was a CD-RW. I didn't think of that! Tried dir'ing an original Voodoo drivers disk and it worked fine. I actually reflashed the BIOS, checked all the jumpers, removed all the expansion cards, spent a whole lot of time in …

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Re: My Pentium Pro machine

Posted on 2016-05-09, 22:06

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Nope, even with the Win98 floppy I can't 'dir' the contents of the CD drive: - the drive is detected in BIOS - it is also detected by the MCDEX driver and mapped an E: letter - however doing E: and then dir gives me: CDR101: not ready reading drive E Again, I tried different drives, even changed the …

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Re: My Pentium Pro machine

Posted on 2016-05-09, 21:48

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The LAN adapter turned out to be SMC Ether Ez — a 10 Mbps ISA card. Could be useful for my 486 machine, but definetly not for this machine. Switched it for a PCI 3COM 3C905B card. The internal layout is a bit cramped: one of the ISA slots couldn't really be filled because the card would push the IDE …

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My Pentium Pro machine

Posted on 2016-05-09, 12:32

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Soooo, this happened. I was looking for a horizontal AT case for my Socket 7 machine. Instead I found a Pentium Pro machine. It was 8 bucks, in working condition and fairly complete. I also know that PPros are quite rare — the CPUs alone are often worth 75 bucks on the Russian market, and Socket 8 …

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Re: Which FTP server do you use?

Posted on 2016-05-04, 19:47

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Jorpho wrote: I don't know if it does "cool things" since I don't know what "cool things" you might conceivably want to do. Probably my Mac mentality, sorry)

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Re: Which FTP server do you use?

Posted on 2016-05-04, 19:45

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mrau wrote: windows has a builtin ftp server? to my knowledge from version 7 or so, only as an option, not the default You do have to install additional components from the control panel, but yes, it's there.

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Which FTP server do you use?

Posted on 2016-05-04, 18:56

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Hi, all I know a lot of people use FTP as means of transferring files to their retro rigs, so I was wondering if may be someone found a better/more modern/feature-rich alternative to the Windows built-in solution. One that may be doesn't require a complex multi-step setup procedure and tuning …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-05-03, 22:56

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Well after nearly 7 days of waiting, it finally arrived and I can get some good pictures of it. nVidia GeForce 6800 Ultra PCI-Express, 512MB version, BFG Overclocked Edition. Is that for a "retro" build :happy: ? I'm just curious when I see people talking about post PIII-machines here — any …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-05-03, 22:48

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So, probably my next goal is finding a horizontal AT case to build a Pentium 60 machine using my recently acquired Intel Batman motherboard. Gonna need a COM mouse for that, too — it doesn't seem to have any pins for PS/2: 75cfba70aba017aa89b614fd26d82b06b428b226.JPG Ha, are you in for a fun time …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-05-03, 20:37

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All in all, last week or so was pretty fruitful for me. Apart from CT3990 I also got a really good looking IntelliMouse 1.1a: 37046950.jpg And also something called Joyswitch: 36015731.jpg Joyswitch is basically a switch for 4 Gameport joysticks (duh!). I do have three DOS joysticks already (a …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-05-03, 16:39

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brostenen wrote: If that's the V3800 card you got, all I can find online on a quick search. Is that it is an TNT2-Ultra and should have 32mb ram. It's called AGP-V3800/16MB/PUR on the PCB.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-05-03, 14:53

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Got my first AWE32 today! I know it's not the best there is (CT3990, so no true OPL3), but it cost me less than one buck. image.jpeg Bundled with it were a an Asus videocard with a Riva TNT2 card (sadly, only 16 megs of RAM). I don't plan to build an AGP-capable build any time soon anyways, got it …

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Re: Microsoft Sidewinder 3D Pro and DOS compatibility

Posted on 2016-05-02, 23:59

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How can I find out what kind of SB16 I have? You should see a CTXXXX model number, usually in the top left corner on the front side of your card's PCB. Like this is a CT2770: b669fc87b5f373372736a29d29dd7673.jpg Sound Blasters are pretty well documented, so you just have to google that CTXXXX and …

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Re: Microsoft Sidewinder 3D Pro and DOS compatibility

Posted on 2016-05-02, 11:03

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Oh, forgot to give an update. It works with a SB16 Value CT2770, no adjustments needed.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-04-30, 19:10

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Asus TX97-E with Pentium MMX 200MHz Have the same motherboard. The bad thing about those Asus mobos is they need a special ports extender (called MIR) like this: http://www.rheingoldmarkt.de/uploads/images_thumbs/2a/2add9397.jpg It has a single sleeve so you can't use common PS/2 extenders. So, …

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Re: Compaq Presario 433, my 486 pure DOS machine

Posted on 2016-04-28, 19:21

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Got the controller — it's a Iwill Side-2610 . 2604127146.jpg 2604127151.jpg An I/O controller is probably not the sexiest thing in the world, but still, the condition of this thing (released around 1994) is impressive. I think the previous owner only took it out to make the photos for a listing. I …

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Re: Getting CT2770 to work

Posted on 2016-04-28, 19:11

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Looks like changing config.sys order helped, I have sound now. Thanks everyone!

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Re: Getting CT2770 to work

Posted on 2016-04-28, 16:18

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Imperious wrote: How much free conventional memory do you have? Try loading config.sys drivers after the memory managers, not before. I can post my systems config.sys and autoexec.bat files later. Please do. I'll make sure to post mem output in a couple of hours. Thanks!

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SOLVED: Getting CT2770 to work

Posted on 2016-04-27, 22:03

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Hi, all I got a SoundBlaster CT2770 card for my Compaq Presario 433 machine (486DX2@66, MS DOS 6.22). For some reason I can't get any sound of it in games or Diagnose.exe. The only thing that works is audio CD playback using Creative's bundled qcd.exe. Here are my steps: 1) installed the …

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Re: My new - Compaq DeskPro 386s/20

Posted on 2016-04-27, 02:26

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Never had any experience with these particular machines or 386 in general, so I wonder — is there any particular reason ISA slot 5 is marked with a display icon on the back of the case? You can still put VGA card in any other slot, right?

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