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Re: How do you / tips for storing / organising your vintage parts

Posted on 2013-10-21, 05:26

in Milliways

in Milliways

Hmm looks like some people put a lot of work into thinking about organising hardware. For cpus I have them between two pieces of foam in a small motherboard box. I used to have them just sitting on the shelf but I wanted to use more of the space on that shelf so I put them in a box (I don't actually …

Re: New here, found my old mobo and got the retro bug back

Posted on 2013-10-11, 04:18

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Well you can see if the board posts without a keyboard or a case and substitue with an ATX PSU with an adaptor although I've never personally used one of these. Not sure what the 8 pin connector your referring to is unless it is some jumpers or something? I would definitely discourage you from …

Re: New here, found my old mobo and got the retro bug back

Posted on 2013-10-10, 01:58

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

I think this is your board http://stason.org/TULARC/pc/motherboards/P/PINE-TECHNOLOGY-486-PT-430.html or very close to it. Its interesting that your board has a molex peripheral connector on it, I've never seen that on an AT board before. Of some concern though is that it appears that the Keyboard …

Re: 486 Keyboard interface problems

Posted on 2013-09-22, 06:47

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

So i cleaned up a bit more and noticed that there is not connectivity between the bottom of the board and the leg of the AMIKEY for every leg. so I'm guessing some of the legs don't have good contact and so that is why the keyboard is not working, but I'm not sure how much I can do without soldering …

Re: 486 Keyboard interface problems

Posted on 2013-09-20, 06:42

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I think desoldering that IC might be beyond me as the solder points are very small but I can probably reheat them and cool them easily enough without making a mess. Using just 100% isopropyl alcohol didn't really work for me, the green stuff just seemed to stay there. Vinegar seemed to work ok …

Re: 486 Keyboard interface problems

Posted on 2013-09-18, 08:35

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yeah that is what i was thinking, I went to two places and they had the normal isocol which is apparently only 64% and they didn't have better so hopefully I will go elsewhere and get 99%+ instead. Or grab something like this from ebay

Re: 486 Keyboard interface problems

Posted on 2013-09-09, 16:12

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

tried two different keyboards both with same result. Guess I can go buy some isopropyl alcohol then will this do? http://www.isocol.com.au/

Re: 486 Keyboard interface problems

Posted on 2013-09-09, 10:46

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Not a terribly good image but you should more or less get the gist of what I am meaning from seeing the image.

Re: 486 Keyboard interface problems

Posted on 2013-09-09, 02:40

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yep the keyboard LEDs light up briefly but nothing further happens when I press any keys

486 Keyboard interface problems

Posted on 2013-09-09, 01:39

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

So I bought another 486 board on ebay (apparently I'm really bad at buying AT boards on ebay as I never seem to get one that works properly) and from pictures and even first look it looked fine and it also even POST which was good except there was an error about the keyboard interface and that the …

Re: Favorite old OS

Posted on 2013-08-21, 13:42

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hmm definitely NT 4.0 Workstation, I really should have dual booted NT4 and 98SE at the time but I didn't cause its more effort then dual booting 98SE and XP for instance. Just something about NT4 I really like.

Re: IBM Etherjet ISA NIC Packet Driver problem

Posted on 2013-07-26, 08:03

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I fixed it :) I had to modify the source code to jne instead of je when it got the section of code that checked if there was a cable connected. Still no idea why it had the strange effect of seemingly disconnecting when it initialised the packet driver which happened on a different board as well but …

Re: IBM Etherjet ISA NIC Packet Driver problem

Posted on 2013-07-24, 11:31

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Well I took longer to followup on this then I meant to because of uni exams and laziness afterwards but I had another look but not a complete look. So still the same problem that when it supposedly queries the nic when it initialises the packet driver the led goes off like the cable is no longer …

IBM Etherjet ISA NIC Packet Driver problem

Posted on 2013-06-03, 02:47

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

So I've had an ISA IBM Etherjet 10Mbps NIC in a 486 for ages but haven't done anything with it. Since mTCP is so good I finally decided to try it out. I found the packet driver and worked out the parameters but when I try to run it I get an error about twisted pair not being detected. So I tried …

Re: Developers releases DRM free game, 93% pirated on day one

Posted on 2013-04-30, 02:22

in Milliways

in Milliways

I guess what it shows is that there is much more awareness from putting it on a torrent site then from people buying it from their website considering the very small number of players of the game.

Re: Advice for setting up an oldschool LAN party

Posted on 2013-04-02, 05:33

in Milliways

in Milliways

Definitely go for the real thing more fun to set up then. I forgot Age of Mythology that should be fun yeah I don't think I've ever played multiplayer but I'm sure it would be good. Rise of Nations is fun too but it does tend to produce very long games. As for dedicated server do you prefer to run …

Re: Advice for setting up an oldschool LAN party

Posted on 2013-04-02, 00:57

in Milliways

in Milliways

Sounds like a fun lan party much better then the ones that I go to where where I play sc2 the whole time and they play LoL the whole time but anyway. I recommend you have a dedicated server box for games that have it although it will take a little more work and you need to set up things like mapvote …

Re: I found some 386 motherboards

Posted on 2013-03-27, 12:06

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

So back on board #1 which is very similar to this board http://stason.org/TULARC/pc/motherboards/A/AMERICAN-MEGATRENDS-INC-386-AMI-386XT-SERIES-6.html Although I guess I have series-4 instead of series-6 but it sounds like I need one of those external memory cards? Do they have a specific name so I …

Re: I found some 386 motherboards

Posted on 2013-03-26, 11:47

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Well i have had success I switched the 8 512kb sticks for 4 1mb sticks I had and it posts now. I just noticed it actually says 386SX Cache on the bios chip. No case to put the motherboard in but I'm very happy that the board now posts. It indeed does look like a nice motherboard. How common was it …

I found some 386 motherboards

Posted on 2013-03-26, 11:02

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Apparnetly a whole lot of stuff was being chucked out at uni today mostly books and stuff but I managed to find my self 3 386 boards and a boring socket 7 board as well. :) However none of them seem to post :depressed: Now the hard part is to work out what each of the boards is. I'll see if I can …

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