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

Posted on Yesterday, 20:21

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by GigAHerZ

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Love it too :) It's like a huge brick and it's in REALLY good condition for being this old. It looks amazing. I had some kind of similar 286 in my childhood as our first computer. It was not from an IBM... Can you make a picture from the back of the case? Does it have integrated FDD/HDD controller …

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

Posted on Yesterday, 10:18

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by GigAHerZ

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Over the weekend, took my 486 apart and once-and-for-all got it stable and fully functional. It's a VLB based machine, running at 3x50MHz. The io controller and S3 Trio32 are fine with 50MHz VLB bus, but for RAM i had to go from "Fastest" -> "Faster" -> "Slower" setting for timings, otherwise it …

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Re: Windows 95A on a 386SX/Ryzen 9

Posted on 2023-01-23, 13:36

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by GigAHerZ

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I can report that Windows 95A is working flawlessly on a Ryzen 9 configuration* Boot time is about 7 seconds with SATA drive in DOS mode. 3 min Youtube video with Windows 95 and some benchmarks I was able to copy the same Windows instalation on a 840MB drive and using an ISA - IDE card to boot it …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-01-20, 15:09

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by GigAHerZ

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Just received an CT3670 AWE32 from one local auction. It came with 2x4MB SIMM memory sticks and it's been modified to have 2xRCA for line-in and 2xRCA for line out. Looks nice, to be honest... Was lucky to get it for about 16€ + 3€ shipping.

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Re: Cystal clock 40mhz 386

Posted on 2022-12-04, 20:48

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by GigAHerZ

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On close inspection of picture of your board and the one on theretroweb for identical board it really seems they have 80Mhz crystal while you got 40Mhz. If you get to replace the crystal it may be worth getting both 80Mhz and 90Mhz one for a small overclock. For higher OC cache faster than 20ns and …

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Re: Slide-in standoffs for AT motherbaords - where to buy?

Posted on 2022-12-04, 19:55

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by GigAHerZ

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Edit: they were the right ones for old 286/286/486 AT cases? Just to be 100% sure. Yes, exactly. The ones that actually hold the board in place (the "slide-in" part) instead of just letting pcb to rest on some flat surface. Keywords, that work for me, are "nylon", "standoff", "motherboard" in any …

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Re: Slide-in standoffs for AT motherbaords - where to buy?

Posted on 2022-12-04, 13:54

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by GigAHerZ

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I bought a pack of 50 or 100 from aliexpress some time ago, if i remember correctly. Just did a quick search with keywords "motherboard standoff", and on page 9, i found 50-pack of the ones that slide in. "50pcs Plastic Nylon Reverse Locking Circuit Board Support Hexagon Pillar Standoff for Hole 4. …

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

Posted on 2022-11-26, 16:30

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by GigAHerZ

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Got this! External SCSI SyQuest 230MB 3.5" drive. Full set, will archive the floppies unless they are already archived. For whatever reason, it also seems to include coincidentally 230MB MO disk. I have an internal 650MB MO drive - i wonder, if it would work with that? At last i got to it to check …

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

Posted on 2022-11-23, 20:45

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by GigAHerZ

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I've never had any experience with MO disks/floppies(?). Today, i received my first ones. Found a local ad and someone sold 15 MO disks for few bucks. (4x640MB + 11x230MB) As i do want to collect one working example of every removable medium and eventually do benchmarks and describe drivers …

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Re: Should I get a Pentium 1 laptop?

Posted on 2022-11-13, 18:06

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by GigAHerZ

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I'm most interested in 386-486-Pentium1 era of computers. I have each cpu-based desktop PC which all i keep in top-notch condition. In addition, i thought about 2 years ago that i should maybe get a "fast hassle-free Win9x machine" in the form of laptop to do any ad-hoc activities. I got Dell …

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

Posted on 2022-11-13, 17:52

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by GigAHerZ

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Finally figured out how to keep my collection of sound and video cards properly while still being able to quickly access them. Now, all cards are instantly available to me and not hidden behind other cards or anything like it. Until now, they were very disrespectfully held in bunch of shoe boxes …

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Re: Games compatibility: DOS 7.1 (Win98SE) vs DOS 6.22

Posted on 2022-11-13, 15:07

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by GigAHerZ

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Just for the sake of "correctness", i have DOS 6.22 on my "non-windows 9x" machines. But at the same time, i do replace EDIT, EMM386 and HIMEM.SYS from Win98SE into my dos installation. I see those utilities as "updates" just like windows has updates. 😜

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

Posted on 2022-10-29, 16:03

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by GigAHerZ

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Just received some more toys. One of them being Mustek Twain-Scan Gray 800. As it included 3 floppy disks, i immediately backed them up into archive.org: https://archive.org/details/mustek-twain-scan-gray-800

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Re: UNISOUND - Universal ISA PnP Sound Card Driver for DOS v0.78b

Posted on 2022-10-14, 19:49

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by GigAHerZ

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I don't know how many times i've already said it, but i want to thank you once more for this wonderful tool. It's just amazing. I recently got bunch of ISA sound cards and i quickly went through them and checked if UNISOUND would detect them. From a set of 9 i got 4 cards, that were not immediately …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-10-11, 21:17

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by GigAHerZ

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Got this set of sound cards for total of around 45€. There are quite a few interesting cards in this set that i didn't have yet. One day... One day i'll find time to record all the popular FM synth songs with every card and will create a website with multitrack player that can play all of them and …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-10-06, 15:51

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by GigAHerZ

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Got this set of sound cards for total of around 45€. There are quite a few interesting cards in this set that i didn't have yet. One day... One day i'll find time to record all the popular FM synth songs with every card and will create a website with multitrack player that can play all of them and …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-10-05, 15:46

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by GigAHerZ

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Got this set of sound cards for total of around 45€. There are quite a few interesting cards in this set that i didn't have yet. One day... One day i'll find time to record all the popular FM synth songs with every card and will create a website with multitrack player that can play all of them and …

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Re: My Very Long Bus Adventure.

Posted on 2022-09-21, 13:59

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by GigAHerZ

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Check for cold solder joints. Seems like 1-2 data bits are not coming through correctly. Maybe one or two pins on one of the memory chips are just not connected properly? You may try to also press on each chip to see, if the problem goes away. But for that, in text mode, you probably want something …

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Re: The Retro Web project - a better stason.org/TH99 alternative

Posted on 2022-08-17, 14:04

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by GigAHerZ

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Can't speak for the others but in my case it's mostly personal reasons (to make it simple, I just moved out from my parent's house and now they're selling it so I have to move my collection from there and try to fit everything in a smaller flat. And since that can't be done, I have to get rid of …

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

Posted on 2022-08-15, 08:52

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by GigAHerZ

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TrashPanda wrote on 2022-08-15, 08:50: Anyone here have any experience in backing up these DMF disks ? Would love to put them onto my Gotek but no idea if I can even back up this format of disk. WinImage should be able to create DMF img files. Gotek should be able to handle DMF img files, too.

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