Synergy is a program that lets you use your mouse and keyboard across multiple computers as if they were just other monitors; it's still actively developed for new systems, but it's been around for about 20 years and the early versions for OSX and Win 9x are open-source: https://github.com/nbolton/ …

This situation started a few months ago and is a mystery to me. The monitor was working fine, then one day the power LED turned off and the screen would not wake up. The monitor was replugged and came on as normal, however after about 10 minutes it would go black like it was off. The power indicator …

Hi, Im in NY for a bit and I wondered if anyone can recommend any good places to pick up old tech? I imagine the city centre is too pricy for places, but perhaps towards the outskirts.

The manual calls for the printer port to be set to Auto or Bidirectional, my bios does not seem to have an option like this. I have run the parallel port in 3BC/IRQ7 and 278/IRQ5, both have the same effect. Iv run it in SPP mode, EPP/SPP mode, ECP/EPP mode (That one would not even talk with the …

I got my hands on a Mad Catz gameboy link cable like the one here https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00002AH2V/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 In theory it simulates the gameboy printer allowing you to print to the pc via parallel. The connection appears to be successful, the pc …

Good news! While researching floppy fixes I found a video about cleaning floppies with a qtip and some mentholated spirits. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCc9LNDwLmU Allot of the disks I tested had a few spots on them, possible due to the damp climate here, anyway, cleaning those off seems to have …

Thanks for the replies! The only other 5.25 drive I have is on an Atrai 800.. so I don't think that will be helpful. The fact that different floppies, purchased from different sources both have the same issue suggests to me its the drive rather than the disks. Also the disk are very nice Teflon ones …

Sometimes you gotta break things to fix them ;D But, Ill leave it till tomorrow to see if someone replies. I dug up the maintenance manual for the drive and it says it does not require lubrication, but I don't think whoever wrote the manual was expecting it to be running 30 years later. All …

Iv been messing around with it since posting here, one of the disks not reading I was able to format and it appeared to work after that making test text files. Another lets me run the data on the disk, but then wont let me xcopy data off the disk to make a backup. What it seems like to me is the …

So I got my hands on a new old stock Teac FD-55BR, as far as I know it has not been used since manufacture. I have a number of old 360kb floppies with some old documents, and some old games to test with, all get the same error. I can switch to the drive as B and it will show the files on the floppy …

Haha must be! Mine is from Monkey Island so it's not anything massively original :) Did you find that in Cork city center? I had heard a retro game shop opened there a few years ago but I think they just sell console stuff.. Games Mania, its 99% consoles, one or two PC things here and there like a …

Thank you CapnCrunch53, Ill do that test on a few games! Good to see another Irish person on here. Yep the retro part scene here is pretty awful. I work in UCD and occasionally find bits being thrown out or just sitting around but it's mainly later 90's stuff. Are fruit related names an unknown …

Hi old computer interested people, I figured Id post my build project because I think Facebook is probably sick of me :P If you have any pointers or notice anything I did wrong please say so! So as a preface, this is my first retro build.. hopefully my last too, I can see how this could become a …

I see thanks, its interesting, at the 3.5 setting the cpu shows as 100mhz, if its set to 2.0 it shows as 133mhz. I wonder if it is actually doing 1.5 at 3.5 for intel after all. Or could it just be failing as an overclock and dropping back to its base speed? x3.5 is actually the same as x1.5. It …

I see thanks, its interesting, at the 3.5 setting the cpu shows as 100mhz, if its set to 2.0 it shows as 133mhz. I wonder if it is actually doing 1.5 at 3.5 for intel after all. Or could it just be failing as an overclock and dropping back to its base speed?

That stupid LGR video is the reason I started doing a build too ;-;

Hi, So I just booted up my first socket 7 build today, everything went well, system started up. Yay! But something is perplexing me. Im running a Pentium 1 100mhz cpu on a FIC PA-2013 motherboard. The cpu is recommended at a 1.5 clock multiplier, the motherboard states it supports the cpu and …