Man, this really is a product for rich people 😁 You're right. This is a project for people rich with a love for tinkering and nostalgia as well as a positive spirit of community and understanding. The DOS / Win9x era was a wild time full of tricks and experiments to find your desired experience. 🫡

If you're looking for an alternative, Necroware designed an MCE MDA/CGA/EGA To VGA Adapter and this seller already assembled the parts into a kit: https://www.ebay.com/itm/135009807467 Main caveat to this adapter is that it needs a monitor that supports 15Khz, or a scaler to bump that up.

I just found this thread after approaching this from a very round-about direction. Shout-out to the OP, Rabbit Hole Computing and the designer of the DAC Attack. I built a test rig after assembling all of the pieces and confirmed that CD-Audio just worked. I'd be interested to see if an OLED and …

If you're using the stock GoTek firmware (and *NOT* FlashFloppy), you can get around the software issue by formatting the USB drive in the Gotek itself. (If your GoTek has a knob, it's probably running FlashFloppy and the thoughts below won't apply.) If I recall, insert a USB drive you don't mind …

I don't have the source of the official Dreamblaster X2 piano soundbank.. ..but i did a quick convert of the "Yamaha C5 Grand" from here that is based on the Salamander Grand by Alexander Holm. It fits in one 256 MiB slot, please give it a try: Download Tell me if there are other soundfonts you …

I have an updated driver for the ATI Rage II+ cards as well as a Yamaha YMF715 based soundcard. I'm going to try and post them tonight. Is there anything I should consider before that attempt?

I sent a message to the creator to ask some of these questions because I am curious too. In his reply, he sent the attached photo showing the black CD-Audio connector soldered on next to the IDE connector. He also confirmed that the optional WiFI module and OLED+Rotary Encoder share the wifi …

Perfect, thank you for the quick response. That is exactly what I wanted to know. Someday I'll stumble across a DB50XG board I can keep. I have it's standalone big brother, the SW60XG but I find the ISA requirement to be pretty limiting. @dreamblaster, I love the McCake though. It's such a …

Question for @dreamblaster: If the McCake is plugged in to your Chill V adapter board, is there a way to use the optional audio input jacks? I'm not sure if mt32pi has an audio mixing capability but I'm curious if the hardware would even allow that.

I'm in the process of restoring the 486DX-50 I had as a kid and would be very interested in one of your cards. I have no idea what happened to the ISA video card that used to be in that computer but during the restoration so far, I've been stuck under-clocking the processor at 33MHz and using a VLB …