Re: 2 floppies in desktop case
Posted on 2022-03-02, 13:09
Our covert ops has replaced that with Tetris already
Re: 2 floppies in desktop case
Posted on 2022-03-02, 01:11
Sphere478 wrote on 2022-02-24, 20:20: Have you considered a gotek? It could replace both drives and no more read errors What? I've bought all available 5.25 disks and sticky floppy labels, found the last disk box that waits for delivery in Kyiv, surrounded by Russian soldiers just to use that …
Re: matrox video card for DOS
Posted on 2022-03-01, 19:27
gear wrote on 2022-02-28, 09:08: @rkurbatov i hope you are fine. I'm in Lviv, thank you. It's still quite place. Thank you. We'll win.
Re: 2 floppies in desktop case
Posted on 2022-02-23, 17:21
@JidaiGeki, that's an interesting idea, thank you. But it also costs something and is hard to find. And I can use all three 5.25 bays - floppy, CD, tape. The same with 34 pin extender cable. It costs something with delivery. Seems like the best option for me is to make the custom cable that will be …
Re: 2 floppies in desktop case
Posted on 2022-02-23, 00:52
AirIntake wrote on 2022-02-23, 00:12: You can get a floppy male-to-female extension cable for the 3 1/2 drive. I suspect that something like this exist(ed) but have never seen it.
Re: 2 floppies in desktop case
Posted on 2022-02-22, 17:16
$10 here, $10 there, cable, terminator, case, tool and now it costs the same amount of money it costed then 😀
2 floppies in desktop case
Posted on 2022-02-22, 13:30
I started assembling my 486 in a desktop case and want to have both 5.25 and 3.5 floppies in it. The problem is the cable length. 5.25 floppy is horizontal and the cable connector is on the opposite side. The 3.5 floppy is vertical. Seems like I simply can't connect both devices at the same time - …
Re: SCSI problems
Posted on 2022-02-17, 20:24
Warlord, I tried to connect SCSI-2 tape streamer with terminator enabled on it and BIOS complained on 'non-connected cable'. Though the very same streamer and cable works on Adaptec UW2940.
Re: SCSI problems
Posted on 2022-02-17, 15:41
weedeewee, I'm waiting for SCA to 68pin adapter. It's wide afaik. Then I'll retest everything, as I suspect that my drives are also don't work. But anyway, even the narrow ones should not work on that controller. Though connecting my Sony SDT also makes XL-221 complaining on cable :-/ Just want to …
Re: SCSI problems
Posted on 2022-02-17, 15:18
Seems like this controller supports only SCSI CD-ROM and other media like MO and Iomega but not the ordinary SCSI hard drives. As I don't have any of this in SCSI shape I cannot test it. I need a VLB SCSI card for my 486.
Re: Falcosoft Soundfont Midi Player + Munt VSTi + BassMidi VSTi
Posted on 2022-02-12, 18:46
Oh, thank you very much! That's exactly what I need!
Re: Falcosoft Soundfont Midi Player + Munt VSTi + BassMidi VSTi
Posted on 2022-02-12, 14:50
Munt VSTi is a plugin so it depends on a VST host to change its setting. E.g. my Midi player as a host can changs all settings of the plugin by receiving SysEx messages through Midi in. Not sure I understand you correctly. Munt itself can't replace its ROM via SysEx (correct me if I'm wrong). Mt-32 …
Re: Falcosoft Soundfont Midi Player + Munt VSTi + BassMidi VSTi
Posted on 2022-02-12, 14:29
Falcosoft, is it possible to switch the ROM on the fly, something like they did for Pi? https://github.com/dwhinham/mt32-pi/wiki/Cust … lusive-messages This would be useful feature to make a headless multisynth MIDIBox, controllable via MIDI only.
Re: MIDIBox: Munt + Roland Sound VA + SYXG50
Posted on 2022-02-12, 12:18
The Munt VSTi is available in 32 and 64 bit. Yeah, I found some information on that. Munt is available as VSTi, XG50 also has VSTi version, o I can use MIDILoop to create several ports and SAVIHost as a wrapper to connect dedicated port with dedicated synth. There are two remaining problems. As I …
MIDIBox: Munt + Roland Sound VA + SYXG50
Posted on 2022-02-11, 15:01
It's very hard now to get all types of external MIDI synths that were used for gaming and listening to the music. The major ones are Roland MT-32 family, Roland SC-55/88 family and Yamaha XG family. But seems like we have emulators for all of them. Munt covers MT-32, Roland VA is a perfect solution …
Re: SR -- project to statically recompile DOS/old Win games to create modern Windows or Linux versions
Posted on 2022-02-11, 10:35
That's interesting and I appreciate your efforts. We just prefer different approaches: you bring old stuff to new reality and I (and lot of people here) try to bring some new reality to the old stuff 😀
Re: PCI vs CNR slot for Ethernet card
Posted on 2022-02-11, 10:31
the "chip" on Intel Pro/100 VE is just a PHY, not an Ethernet controller. PHY is the analog frontend https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media-independent_interface MAC (actual Ethernet controller) must be on the motherboard for the CNR card to function. Looking at wiki and pinouts.ru first version of …
Re: Breaking... Sergey Kiselev posts 486 ATX motherboard project on Github, WIP...
Posted on 2022-02-10, 23:52
That's cool. ATX and probably PCI. The only problem is absence of new CPU and SIMM sockets, chipsets and all of that stuff unless somebody stashed some 😀
Re: SR -- project to statically recompile DOS/old Win games to create modern Windows or Linux versions
Posted on 2022-02-10, 23:46
Don't see much use of it tbh. More like 'I can do it' approach. There is DOSBox exisiting already where you can concentrate your effort on emulation of a particular hardware that is not supported yet and any fix/improvement becomes available for any DOS game you want to run. While recompilation will …
Re: PCI vs CNR slot for Ethernet card
Posted on 2022-02-10, 21:09
The CNR card typically has the analog interface such as the PHY while the controller is in the chipsets. This does not imply that the built-in Ethernet controller is dumb and push everything into CPU. The built-in Ethernet controllers in Intel/VIA/NVIDIA chipsets have much better offloading …
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