PCI ssd adapter?
Posted on 2025-01-07, 18:42
Is there an adapt to connect an SSD to a vintage motherboard's PCI slot as a boot drive? Would a PCI SATA card work? or is there an IDE adapter for SSDs?
Re: SIV support for 386/486/586 class + Alpha CPUs and 3dfx + S3 + SiS + Matrox + XGI + old ATI + NVidia GPUs - Testing
Posted on 2025-01-07, 11:18
I hate to ask this question because it reveals that I'm as ignorant as I am dumb... but, what is "SIV"?
Re: SIV support for 386/486/586 class + Alpha CPUs and 3dfx + S3 + SiS + Matrox + XGI + old ATI + NVidia GPUs - Testing
Posted on 2025-01-07, 11:17
For the moment I can quote: If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck. I would say, if it weighs the same as a duck... it's a witch...
Re: LCD able to change resolution mid-screen?
Posted on 2025-01-07, 11:09
cool! Thanks for all the technical info!
Re: LCD able to change resolution mid-screen?
Posted on 2025-01-06, 15:12
Might be it's switching to a 31khz signal?
Re: LCD able to change resolution mid-screen?
Posted on 2025-01-05, 18:00
Here's the famous Amiga boing ball demo showing what I'm talking about. The Workbench screen is a different resolution than the boing demo, but you can pull it up and down. I can display anything from my Amiga 3K on a vga monitor... but the multi-resolution is what seems to break... https://www. …
LCD able to change resolution mid-screen?
Posted on 2025-01-05, 11:56
I was just reading this thread about various VGA tricks (very interesting thread) https://forums.nesdev.org/viewtopic.php?t=21259 And it reminded me of my disappointment regarding LCD displays. My old Amiga 3000, on a CRT, has pull-down screens of different resolutions. So you could have the " …
Re: Make a unidirectional parallel printer port bidirectional?
Posted on 2024-11-22, 23:18
Thanks but I was thinking more in terms of parallel coms, not serial coms :) Here is an overview. We're assuming it's a bare-bones, output only parallel port. For LPT1: your data port (output) is 378h. Whatever you put there goes to pins 2-9 of the parallel port. Your status port (input) is 379h. …
Re: Make a unidirectional parallel printer port bidirectional?
Posted on 2024-11-22, 09:51
Thanks but I was thinking more in terms of parallel coms, not serial coms :) Sorry, I mistook this statement in the post to which I was replying: "I gotta figure out how to talk to the serial port programmatically." As wanting to know how to talk serial COMs... For example code of both Serial, …
Re: Make a unidirectional parallel printer port bidirectional?
Posted on 2024-11-21, 00:54
Depending on what exactly you want to accomplish, you might be able to use my Micro-C/PC (DOS) development toolset (free on my site): Its library contains full interrupt-driven serial I/O capability: int Copen(int port, int speed, int mode, int modem) - Open port (start using) void Cclose(void) - …
Re: Make a unidirectional parallel printer port bidirectional?
Posted on 2024-11-20, 04:57
so now that I know of a way to have two-way communication via parallel port (even unidirectional ones, it seems), I gotta figure out how to talk to the serial port programmatically.
Re: Make a unidirectional parallel printer port bidirectional?
Posted on 2024-11-20, 03:05
I have an actual laplink cable somewhere in the closet. I've never used it; it had both 25 pin and 9 pin plugs on it. I assumed they were all rs232.
Make a unidirectional parallel printer port bidirectional?
Posted on 2024-11-18, 01:49
I'm still not clear on how it works or why it is so, but some printer ports, such as on the Radio Shack Model 100 and Tandy 1000ex/hx, are unidirectional. That means you can't connect things like zip drives to them, as I understand it. But is it possible to turn a unidirectional parallel port into a …
Re: Vogons.org on Windows 98
Posted on 2024-10-12, 12:13
I have several old systems I hope to make space for and connect to the internet with... My plan is to take my old belkin router, and plug it into my current netgear router as an access point. Then the various vintage computers I would connect through that, since it supports WEP, whereas the netgear …
TLS bridging proxy for internet access.
Posted on 2024-10-11, 22:40
So I'm still curious if there's a way I could use one of my modern computers or maybe a Raspberry PI as a bridging proxy for older computers? For example, let's suppose I want to access vogons from my 120mhz pentium laptop. But it requires encryption. The laptop is tied into a secondary router …
Re: The quest for the perfect retro laptop: a saga
Posted on 2024-09-14, 23:46
I know I'm late to the party, but if I may chime in. I just got a Toshiba 430CDT and I'm loving it. I installed Win98SE on a partitioned 64gb SD card with IDE adapter, tried to install Linux on the 2nd partition, and apparently trashed the SD card. About to order an msata to ide adapter to put an …
What version DirectX on a 120mhz pentium Win98SE
Posted on 2024-09-14, 23:12
What is the latest version of DirectX that would run on a Pentium 120mhz laptop with Chips & Technology 65550, 2mb video? it looks like I got DirectX 3 working on it, thus far. It will play Diablo 1. I'm guessing, due to Direct3D, DirectX 7 is out of the question. But maybe 5?
Re: SATA to IDE adapter for Toshiba 430CDT laptop?
Posted on 2024-09-14, 01:30
The mSATA to IDE should fit. Not sure about that SATA to IDE, the missing key pin on the IDE connector is at the top in the first picture, which means a drive that is upside down. Then the SATA connector is below the PCB and in that orientation the SATA drive also goes in upside down. That could …
Re: SATA to IDE adapter for Toshiba 430CDT laptop?
Posted on 2024-09-14, 00:22
IDE (or PATA) SSDs do exist in 2.5", one example is the Transcend PSD330 . This uses MLC and targets industrial users so is rather expensive. A SATA to IDE adapter together with a 2.5" HDD might not fit into the drive bay. Assuming the adapter isn't too tall, a SATA SSD might fit once you take out …
SATA to IDE adapter for Toshiba 430CDT laptop?
Posted on 2024-09-13, 23:02
I've been using an SD card to IDE adapter to provide the hard drive for my Toshiba laptop running Win98SE (with a 64gb card divided into 2 32 gb fat32 partitions). I realized that I have two 2.5 or 1.8 inch (not sure which, atm) SATA hard drives from my old HP laptop (ZD7000? iirc). So I began …
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