Hi Sorry if I'm not in the right section, I was not sure where to post that. I am writing a piece about Windows 3 for my blog and I have a few technical questions for which I struggle to find answers online. I was not a developer at the time, so I initially had basically no knowledge about the …

Yes the contacts were cleaned. I removed the optional RAM then tried again, same behavior :( Here are my config.sys and autoexec.bat. CONFIG.SYS ======== DEVICE=C:\DOS\HIMEM.SYS /SHADOWRAM:ON /VERBOSE DEVICE=c:\windows\ifshlp.sys DEVICEHIGH=C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE AUTO RAM M3 A=64 H=128 D=256 HIGHSCAN X= …

Hi! My sound blaster give me some headaches, maybe you can help. I’ve got a 486 full ISA PC, in which I plugged this Sound Blaster AWE 32 CT2760 (rev1?). https://www.xtof.info/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/486-SBAWE32.jpg This was a model I bought in 1994 and which served me well, until the …

2019: A Core I7 2600K - quad core @3,4GHz (that I intend to trade this year for a Ryzen2) 2009: An Athlon 64 5600+ - dual core @ 2,8Ghz 1999: A Pentium II @ 450MHz 1989: A 6502 @ 1,023 MHz (Apple IIe) The bump from 1989 to 1999 was huge! 😀

Specifically talking about the card you decided to use: scsi2.gif (*) you don't need a card side termination since your card does that automatically Thanks for those illustrations: they're great! The " termination thing " was the most difficult aspect of SCSI for me to grasp. Now it's crystal clear …

Thanks everyone for your answers! 😎 It's now clearer, especially concerning the subject of termination. I will pass order for the cards and I'll let you know how I configured them.

Hi! In order to circumvent the 500 MiB limitation of my current IDE drive, I would like to install a SCSI board in my ISA 486 box. As I was not a SCSI user at the time, I did some researches in the forum in order to determine how to set it up. Now I would like to check that I understood well and I …

Since it is not based off of DOS then are there some notable programs or games that did use this technology prior to the release of Windows 2000? 3DS Max was a program written from scratch for Windows NT4. It could also (somewhat) run on Win95 but was not very stable. Under NT it was rock solid and …

Great! Thanks for your answers! 😀

Hi! Like many of you, I am in the process of building a retro PC gaming box. Mine will be based on a 486 motherboard circa 1993 (full ISA, no VLB). I am currently in search of a suitable keyboard, and now I am wondering if later PS2 keyboards will work properly on my machine. Those keyboards often …