Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2024-10-01, 22:14

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DarthSun wrote on 2024-10-01, 22:09: Why do you need an ega monitor? The VGA card+monitor also knows EGA. It's been a long time but if I remember correctly, you want an EGA CRT when you love ScANliNzzZ... I.e. an EGA CRT has more pronounced scanlines than a VGA CRT.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-09-23, 20:32

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I picked this up on Saturday - a brand new Iiyama Vision Master Pro 452! I first bought one in 2001, with I believe the first paycheck I ever received. It was epic then and it's just as epic now, such a lovely bit of kit, and so pleased to have found the perfect one after searching for about 2 …

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Re: 486 VESA-LOCAL bus PC built (with parts from different sources)

Posted on 2024-09-23, 10:13

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Very cool build and awesome looking case. I had the same board in my 486DX build back in the early 90s. Unfortunately it didn't survive a leaking battery but I still have it. Filename IMG_20180806_164956.jpg File size 1.18 MiB Views 162 views File license Fair use/fair dealing exception

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Re: PicoGUS: ISA sound card emulator with Raspberry Pi Pico (Gravis Ultrasound, AdLib, MPU-401, Tandy, CMS)

Posted on 2024-09-06, 21:08

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It would be nice if someone who has skills and time to maintain the thread. Would make thread here in vogons, that contains picogus compatibility with games and hardware. I don't have any hardware issues but most of the games I would like to play doesn't work with picogus, so I mainly use it in …

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Re: New forum suggestions/Feedback

Posted on 2024-08-28, 20:24

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Hi everyone. Maybe it's just me experiencing this, but for the past few days I keep getting logged out of the site. For a long time (years?) I logged in once and that was it but for the past few days (maybe since a week?) every time I revisit vogons.org I have been logged out and have to log in …

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Re: post up pics of your "computing area"

Posted on 2024-08-15, 11:29

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TheChexWarrior wrote on 2024-08-14, 19:47: My room & desk at night. Cool. And coming to think of it, I don't think I have ever seen a right aligned modern (or any) desktop system before. Thanks for sharing!

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2024-07-24, 02:22

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I acquired these pieces: 20240722_164731.jpg A filing cabinet? LOL Heh, yes. It is FULL of hard drives and optical drives (and other 5.25/3.5 items) now, XD I like vintage filing cabinets to hold my heavy computer parts, the old ones can handle the weight. 20240723_163836.jpg I acquired these …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2024-07-23, 10:28

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Major Jackyl wrote on 2024-07-22, 21:52: I acquired these pieces: Filename 20240720_151702.jpg File size 1.63 MiB Views 1568 views File comment Before I brought it in the house File license Fair use/fair dealing exception A filing cabinet? 🤣

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Re: Cleaning and Upgrading My First PC which I've had since 1994

Posted on 2024-07-19, 21:23

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Nice. What are the actual system specs, other than that it has a GUS, SB and CDROM?

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Re: How to get PAS16 working with other sound cards?

Posted on 2024-07-13, 10:55

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Are there any other devices in the system that could conflict on either IRQ 3 or 7? Do you need joystick on the PAS? Maybe turn it off with J:0. Also, it seems that M:x is used to set memory buffers and it seems that 10 is "normal". You have set it to zero. Edit: Oh, on the PAS, definitely turn off …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-07-08, 04:34

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Done it many times. Gpus and motherboards Never made anything worse. Revived several. It's just hot water. Sure, hard water can potentially be an issue, and it's not as ideal as the factory distilled water, but that can be mitigated by rinsing in isopropyl if you're paranoid. I think the problem …

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Re: About the two flying wires on the back of SB16 CT2770.Help needed

Posted on 2024-07-07, 05:18

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They're botch wires. I checked my 2770 and it doesn't have those, so they're not factory installed. Someone must have done work on this card.

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Re: Post pics of your CRT monitors

Posted on 2024-06-29, 21:26

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I just picked up a new old stock Samsung SyncMaster 753s ! I I had the 19" version of the SyncMaster back in the day, but this 17" is even better with the limited space I have now. I'll post pictures of my retro closet later. Holy F. Good find. That these things are still lingering in warehouses, …

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Re: PicoGUS: ISA sound card emulator with Raspberry Pi Pico (Gravis Ultrasound, AdLib, MPU-401, Tandy, CMS)

Posted on 2024-06-19, 10:31

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I have to admit, I haven't tried it so far, but I wouldn't really expect issues from the cards themselves, per se. I just don't think that pgusinit is able to separate them for initialization (yet...). It seems the GUS-fw might work without pgusinit if set to 240: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic. …

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Re: PicoGUS: ISA sound card emulator with Raspberry Pi Pico (Gravis Ultrasound, AdLib, MPU-401, Tandy, CMS)

Posted on 2024-06-18, 20:45

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Maybe silly question, but can you have multiple Picogus's installed in the same system? I.e. so one can e.g. emulate SB and the other GUS.

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Re: PicoGUS: ISA sound card emulator with Raspberry Pi Pico (Gravis Ultrasound, AdLib, MPU-401, Tandy, CMS)

Posted on 2024-06-09, 22:01

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For DMA 1 it needs to look like this; two jumpers on each of the DMA 1 channel headers. Filename PXL_20240609_215803016.jpg File size 243.56 KiB Views 1393 views File license Fair use/fair dealing exception

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Re: Suntac 80286 Mainboards

Posted on 2024-06-01, 20:50

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Does anyone have manual for this board? I'm trying to change crystal from 24 to 32 MHz. Board has a slot for 16/30 crystal, so it should support it. I just have to solder jumpers and figure out jumper settings. I have 25Mhz Harris installed so there should be plenty of headroom. Check through these …

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Re: Smoke coming from PAS16

Posted on 2024-05-31, 21:55

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Cool. Glad you got it working. I have 3 of these cards myself, so far no issues with them. Fingers crossed though as they have have lots of tanties on them as you've noticed. 😀

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2024-05-21, 21:52

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I recently found a couple of NOS 486 cpu coolers with screw on fan (instead of clipped-on/moulded fans). I found one of these a few years ago and they are very moddable with Nocuta fans. Filename PXL_20240521_102351245.jpg File size 873.37 KiB Views 761 views File license Fair use/fair dealing …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-05-17, 20:42

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My favourite will probably make some people angry, but I like washing things in the dishwasher with no soap. Revived a few things that way. Drying is a matter of taste, really,but as long as it's dry dry after, so what does that. Water is too hard round here to consider this :-/ Where I live water …

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