Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-07-03, 10:26

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Radeon 8500LE. Caps 435, 473 and 465 seem to be missing but card booted to desktop without issues. What are these responsible for? 645.jpg Well caps are usually (not always) for filtering or blocking DC bias, I suspect these are filtering caps since they seem to be connected to the ground plane, so …

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Re: Getting rid of cigarette smell from cables

Posted on 2022-06-23, 07:42

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I'm not sure if it helps but I once had a telephone cable (I'm a little bit into telephone collecting) that was really really nasty (but no cigarette smell). The usual tools didn't work (Alcohol, WD40) so I put it into a cotton bag and threw it into the washing machine at 60C with regular washing …

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Re: paste in socket

Posted on 2022-04-12, 14:10

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Dish washer. Not a joke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVuI-Fn27-U I once did this with a motherboard a cat peed on (not my cat, not my motherboard).

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Re: What new ATX PSU for my 486DX33?

Posted on 2022-02-21, 07:39

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I swear by (new) Seasonic PSUs for contemporary machines as well as my holy retro treasures*. They seem to be the most reliable brand out there. All of them, even the entry level models, have cable management which means I ended up with a collection of Molex cables over the years that I can use for …

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Re: ATX2AT Smart Converter - Live on Kickstarter!

Posted on 2022-02-20, 07:22

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Gordon, you seem like you might be able to help me figure out a firmware mod? Personally, I’m quite clueless on this… not even sure how to flash this thing… doesn’t fit in my chip programmer lol. 😂 Yeah, but I'm pretty busy right now and far away from my ATX2AT. It's been some time but I'm 100% …

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Re: Waveblaster Adaptor for IDE-HDD Swap Frames

Posted on 2022-02-09, 13:38

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While I personally have no use for it, I love the idea and would love to see a picture of this in action.

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Re: Odyssey Client 4.52 (WPA2 for 9x) Need serial

Posted on 2021-11-28, 13:23

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Vogons doesn't allow Abandonware unfortunately, so you will not get such answer. However it seems to me that googling will solve your problem.

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Re: TopTek Golden SoundCard MPU-401 works with Roland CM-300?

Posted on 2021-10-06, 07:53

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I stumbled across this card on eBay, then across this thread. Since the question has never been properly answered I'm gonna necropost here: It's UART only, no intelligent mode. Here's the feature list from the package: Filename Golden Sound.jpg File size 14.33 KiB Views 790 views

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Re: Thermal tape ripped CPU die off of substrate

Posted on 2021-09-09, 05:48

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pentiumspeed wrote on 2021-09-08, 22:52: Stick with thermal pastes like MX-4 or 5, AS5, NT-H1/H2 etc. I can't tell you how many times I've ripped out a CPU from the socket while removing the heatsink because of MX-4 (But still good stuff).

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Re: HAPPY 30th BIRTHDAY LINUX!!

Posted on 2021-08-26, 08:52

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"just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu" - Every now and then in computer history (IBM PC, MS-DOS, Intel 8080, NES, etc.) things went quite differently than imagined. Nowadays I'd consider Linux more important than Windows. (and ironically gnu/hurd became the hobby project).

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Re: Couple of Windows 95 questions...

Posted on 2021-07-09, 14:07

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What's a workable sound card for 95? I have a Sound Blaster Live installed in there right now but I'm not sure if the drivers I was using for it are right. Do they exist for 95? You might also want to take a look at this thread: MSFN > Compilation of Creative Sound Blaster Live! drivers for Windows …

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Re: UNISOUND - Universal ISA PnP Sound Card Driver for DOS v0.75e

Posted on 2021-04-27, 18:57

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I think you are misunderstanding the problem. The reason newer soundcards run on a 286 with UNISOUND is because the original software to setup these cards was programmed for 386+. The reason why "intelligent mode MPU" is not available on almost all soundcards is that this feature simply is not …

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Re: UNISOUND - Universal ISA PnP Sound Card Driver for DOS v0.75e

Posted on 2021-02-07, 10:26

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@JazeFox: I noticed that the description for the MPU address is missing from the BLASTER= documentation section. My proposal: E: SB AWE base address (620 by default). Only for cards with EMU8000. P: MPU port address (330 by default). P0 to disable (not all cards might allow to disable this port!) W: …

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GA-586HX: BIOS chip in the wrong way

Posted on 2021-02-05, 13:12

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I bought a GA-586HX 2.01 off eBay. I couldn't get it to even start and spend quite some time troubleshooting until I burned my finger accidentally touching the BIOS chip. Sure enough: It was put in the wrong way. I suspect the seller got confused since the golden label is on the wrong way unlike on …

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Re: Slowish 386 as gaming rig

Posted on 2021-01-22, 16:24

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Thank you for your insight! I guess nostalgia and authenticity were the main reason I took my mom's old PC. But I think the vast majority of games on my list doesn't really fit to this computer so my expectations where clearly off. Intel's 386DX series was released in '85, yet most of the games I …

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Re: Slowish 386 as gaming rig

Posted on 2021-01-21, 20:24

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Turbo is enabled. I took a closer look into the BIOS. Wait states were at one, setting them to 0 improved the benchmark score to 4804. I also enable BIOS and VGA shadowing, not sure if that improves performance. There's also alot of other wait state options... I set them all to the lowest possible …

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Slowish 386 as gaming rig

Posted on 2021-01-21, 18:35

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I got the old office computer from my mom. It's a 386DX-25. I paired it with a SoundBlaster Pro 2.0 and a ET4000AX and planned to use it as a gaming rig for early DOS gaming to around ~1993. I already tried Wing Commander II and StarTrek 25th Anniversary and well... they don't play that nice. …

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Re: ATX2AT Smart Converter - Live on Kickstarter!

Posted on 2021-01-11, 13:40

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Let's leave out my special firmware for a moment. Once I experienced said problems I flashed the original back to rule that out as the cause. I tested both my firmware and the original one on my 486 test rig and it works fine. The only thing I changed after that was the mainboard the ATX2AT was …

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Re: ATX2AT Smart Converter - Live on Kickstarter!

Posted on 2021-01-09, 17:16

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Since there hasn't been the announced firmware update to support AT style power switches I decided to take matters in my own hands. I've never done Arduino stuff before, but that turned out to be a fun exercise. I decided to hardcode the AT power switch mode since it changes the logic quite much. …

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Re: The comprehensive list of all modern reproductions of vintage sound cards

Posted on 2020-12-01, 08:20

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I guess this one qualifies as well: https://chipkin.ru/product/sobrannaya-plata-gusar-lite/ Some context: Re: Newly made Gravis Ultrasound compatible cards ... what's the degree of interest?

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