Micro 8088 Project: Proton PT8010AF instead of FE2010A

Posted on 2021-11-09, 19:41

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Just thought that since the FE2010As are gone crazy in price I decided to try the Proton clone of the FE2010A. I am running 0.9.6 version of the bios and seems to work well. Just FYI for anyone interested. Filename 20211109_190435.jpg File size 726.17 KiB Views 142 views Filename 20211109_190609. …

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Re: Schneider Euro PC

Posted on 2021-10-18, 12:50

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Ah , yea 🙁 I saw this too with the Tandy 768K, the extra memory was not usable by these means either. Sorry.

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Re: Schneider Euro PC

Posted on 2021-10-17, 19:20

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I have just found myself an EuroPC II. It has 768KB of RAM. Does anybody know hos to use this 128KB of extra EMS? - The startup ram checker counts it as EMS. I think USE!UMBS and DOSMAX might suit you here. USE!UMBS to enable the high mem and dosmax to move command.com and others to high mem to …

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Re: Strangest thing found on harddrives

Posted on 2021-05-05, 20:47

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I bought an old Mac SE, and on the drive from early 90s was dating reports in macwrite where guys she dated were ranked , in several categories 😀 There were so many reports

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Re: Help: Identify Jumpers on GW6311 Dual Display Card ISA 8 bit (MDA)

Posted on 2021-05-03, 22:56

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Thanks, yea I spotted that, tried as they were labelled and shifted left 1 or right 1 I hope these shots come up ok

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Help: Identify Jumpers on GW6311 Dual Display Card ISA 8 bit (MDA)

Posted on 2021-05-03, 21:52

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This is a Tidalwave TM6310AR card, and I am trying to get it working with a IBM 5151 Monitor without much success. I have looked at images of other similar cards , but they are all 8jumper or 9jumper, where this as 10 jumpers. https://www.vogons.org/download/file.php?mode=view&id=109154 These are …

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Re: PCI Multi I/O Card, did one ever exist?

Posted on 2021-04-16, 18:08

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Some multi I/O PCI cards... - GIGABYTE GA-107 - GIGABYTE GA-108 - SUNIX 5249P - TYAN S1363-004 - TYAN S1366 at least the gigabyte cards are meant for very specific gigabyte boards that have some ISA signals wired into the PCI slot, see here: https://www.vcfed.org/forum/forum/marketplace/vintage- …

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Re: PCI Multi I/O Card, did one ever exist?

Posted on 2021-04-16, 15:37

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Some multi I/O PCI cards... - GIGABYTE GA-107 - GIGABYTE GA-108 - SUNIX 5249P - TYAN S1363-004 - TYAN S1366 Wow. thanks . I have NEVER seen anything like those. Gona keep an eye out, although they do seem rare and not without issues. But if I can get a umc based one with this umc pci motherboard. …

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Re: PCI Multi I/O Card, did one ever exist?

Posted on 2021-04-16, 15:23

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There are a few reasons why no PCI multi I/O card exists. Multi I/O cards, and the Super I/O chips that followed them, integrate and implement various legacy hardware of the original PC and PC/AT, depending on what the motherboard chipset lacked. ..... .. Yes that makes sense. Thank you. Looks like …

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Re: PCI Multi I/O Card, did one ever exist?

Posted on 2021-04-16, 15:20

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imi wrote on 2021-04-16, 14:25: PCI/ISA board with no I/O? which one is that? ^^ I'm not aware of any PCI multi I/O cards though This one

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PCI Multi I/O Card, did one ever exist?

Posted on 2021-04-16, 13:32

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Hi, A bit of a odd one, like ISA/ VLB multi IO cards with serial/parallel/IDE , was there ever one for PCI. I dont remember one , as most PCI motherboards had onboard I/O. The reason I am looking for one is that I have a PCI /ISA 486 board, with no I/O . Thanks

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Re: Help troubleshooting a 386 motherboard

Posted on 2021-03-16, 12:41

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Huzzah! 😀

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Re: Help troubleshooting a 386 motherboard

Posted on 2021-03-16, 12:03

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Not very familiar with your board, but your 50Mhz comment gave me an idea, what about the osc circuit there are no jumpers present and after a cursory look Would this be a clue ?

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Re: Recommend me a multimeter

Posted on 2021-03-15, 15:34

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No expert here, but I just bought a meter to replace my old one and I went with the UNI-T UT61E. My reasons were : Fast Autorange , Fast continuity and because of PC connection does not go to sleep. Auto off meters have their place but my old one was pissing me off. The Brymen BM235 or eevblogs …

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Re: Tandy Nano - 3 Voice Soundcard ISA - Lowprofile

Posted on 2021-02-22, 18:56

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ElBrunzy wrote on 2021-02-22, 15:08: Haha nice lighting, theoryboy! Do you lives in the eighties ? Permanently 😀

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Re: Tandy Nano - 3 Voice Soundcard ISA - Lowprofile

Posted on 2021-02-21, 21:57

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Wow, thats great. Thanks

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Re: Tandy Nano - 3 Voice Soundcard ISA - Lowprofile

Posted on 2021-02-21, 14:57

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Thanks for making this card, I made a little 2 slot ISA riser for my IBM PS1 2011 and it works fine. A few issues when not initialised , and the TSR wont run on the the IBM but games that support the Tandy sound work .

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Re: 64 simultaneous colors possible with EGA?

Posted on 2021-01-25, 22:18

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I just happen to have these things on the table, and decided to try out Ironman super off roads, 64 color ega mode. With my CGA/EGA to VGA converter it can sync to it, but looks like it does not have the colour sampling depth to get the full range of those colours. In the pic attached I show the my …

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Re: Vogons Video Announcement Thread

Posted on 2021-01-22, 01:02

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Hi , I just uploaded my first youtube video, is about a ISA Expansion adapter for the Amstrad PPC512 PPC640 range. I have included schematic and gerbers if anyone wants to make their own. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HxvCWhKLoc

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Re: Turbo XT / Faraday FE010A - Switch Turbo on with Autoexec.bat

Posted on 2021-01-10, 19:50

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dont know what chipset the Proton FE010A is based on but if its anything like the FE2010A , you could do it via bat file by passing data via debug to the correct register https://github.com/skiselev/micro_8088/blob/master/Documentation/Faraday-XT_Controller-FE2010A.md Configuration Register The …

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