Re: 286 PC won't boot from HDD or Floppy

Posted on 2020-02-08, 10:52

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by Jo22

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Don't despair! That's a common issue, probably a compatibility issue of the controller card or each of the other parts in respect to each other. Also, some floppy drives or HDDs might make use of some pins that this specific controller card doesn't like to be used. I'd try each component on its own, …

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Re: VGA games with only 16 colors

Posted on 2020-02-08, 10:23

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by Jo22

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Oh I wished I could remember now all my DOS games from 90s that I played on my 286. :sad: Several of them were from the shareware scene and featured 640x480 as it was the most natural thing.. Anyway - here's something more to test. A Win 3.x driver for palettized VGA in 640x480@16c (can do color …

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Re: Help fixing a wd90C00 jk

Posted on 2020-02-08, 08:25

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by Jo22

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I don't know about the WD90C0 JK (Paradise PVGA1B ?), but generally speaking, the WDs and Paradise cards aren't bad, though. Considering that they evolved from the very first SVGA cards and have a history going down to the years '87-88. For its ancestor, the Paradise PVGA (PVGA1A; Professional VGA …

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Re: History of ANSI/ASCII art

Posted on 2020-02-07, 14:18

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by Jo22

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Thanks a lot for the link, it looks very interesting! 😎 It also seems to support many, many things (have to check the readme for details)! (I also remember Banacom and Telemate, though I don't know if they supported ANSI..)

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Re: My Amigas

Posted on 2020-02-07, 06:13

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by Jo22

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[..] my brother ran his home business with one. [..] Surely that's possible somehow. People used to do the same with a VC20, a tape reel and a bunch of ancient golem ( animatronics ). Or so I heard. Men like Mac Gyver, Chuck Norris or Spongebob probably could have done that with less, say a hamster …

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History of ANSI/ASCII art

Posted on 2020-02-07, 05:51

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Hi there! Just found something interesting.. https://hackaday.com/2013/08/20/retrotechtacular-the-history-of-ansi-and-ascii-art/ The comment section is most interesting, IMHO. - What's ANSI Music ? Is is similar to PLAY command in BASICA ? Also, in case you wonder.. ANSI art was technically possible …

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TPM connector on modern mainboards - any useful for ISA projects ?

Posted on 2020-02-07, 05:42

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Hello everyone, This is probably old news, but I just came accross some links of the TPM module. https://www.cnet.com/forums/discussions/tpm-connector-on-motherboard/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Platform_Module#TPM_implementations As it seems, the socket is either based on the LPC bus (Low …

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Re: My Amigas

Posted on 2020-02-06, 22:33

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by Jo22

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I've recently started exploring Amigas, I've never had one before. I picked up an A500 with monitor and "other stuff" for £100. Amiga 500.. :rolling_eyes: That game's console. I had one, too. It was sold a million times, like the original beige Gameboy. Someone couldn't even keep up trashing them …

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Re: Sound Blaster Pro 2.0 NOT playing MIDI files ?

Posted on 2020-02-06, 22:23

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by Jo22

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Hi, are the MIDI Mapper and the [MCI] device f0r MIDI installed ? They can be installed in Control Panel -> Drivers.

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Re: Turbo XT Build

Posted on 2020-02-06, 22:04

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by Jo22

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Yeah only have a 42" TV and it looks very bad, the Picture Jumps up and Down :) Haha, I see. ^^ I've got the same issue anytime I use a CGA card. Unlike MDA/Hercules, it doesn't use a proper 50Hz refresh rate, but is always de-tuned for some reason that's beyond me.. ;) Anyway, using that V-Sync …

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Re: Gopherus - your window to the gopherspace

Posted on 2020-02-06, 19:13

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This project literally cries out for being ported to Win3 and PC/GEOS. :cool: (And if it's possible to use DOS network services, Win /386 & GEM, too. Due to the coolness factor.) PS: This would be ideal for old glass terminals, as well, I could imagine. VT-52, VT-100 etc. Maybe the code could be …

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Re: New sound card project: AWE64 Legacy

Posted on 2020-02-06, 18:22

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by Jo22

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I have no money, but I really like the idea. The EMU 8000 finally gets a quality card design it deserves. 😸

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Re: Some guys opinion about DOSBox

Posted on 2020-02-06, 18:18

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I'm not necessarily a purist, but Doom is just a bad example because seeing as there's a source port for modern systems, there's no need to run it in dosbox in the first place. Not only that, Doom is *generally* a bad example. Too much violence, too little brains. Exactly the opposite to DOSBox. ;) …

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Re: Jazz Jackrabbit and SB 2.0 without config.sys?

Posted on 2020-02-06, 14:04

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by Jo22

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Hi! Not sure if this helpful, but I used to play Jazz Jackrabbit with a Pro AudioSpectrum 16. As you know, it also incorporates a ThunderBoard chipset, which is roughly SB 1.5 compatible. Again not sure if this is helpful. Just wanted to note that actual SB 2.0 compatibility is perhaps not needed, …

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Re: My Amigas

Posted on 2020-02-05, 22:30

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by Jo22

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black suits the amiga really well... oh how I wish they weren't that expensive ^^ I think the same. To me, the Amiga platform -or say Commodore hardware in general- became the epitome of profiteering. By comparison, the historic Macintoshes (or is it "Macintoshy" ?) are really cheap, even. Anyway, …

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Re: Help Flashing XTIDE Universal bios

Posted on 2020-02-05, 14:12

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by Jo22

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Kids, XTIDE Universal BIOS is great, but it's not the only solution in town. ;) IDE Enhancer cards with their own Option-ROM existed years before XTIDE development had even started. These looked like this -> https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=559691#p559691 Search for "LBA-Enhancer-Card" to get …

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Re: How to (manually) align a FAT filesystem?

Posted on 2020-02-05, 13:52

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by Jo22

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I guess someone has to differ between physical and logical sector sizes. Ideally, both overlap each others seamlessly. Some really old DOSes, likely OEM versions, used bigger sector sizes to overcome the ~30MB limit of original FAT16 (before FAT16B existed). This was in the times before MS-/PC-DOS …

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Re: PCEM/86Box DOS Mouse delay, flicker, and general bugginess

Posted on 2020-02-05, 13:34

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by Jo22

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Thanks for mentioning this! Noticed something similar in Virtualbox (in a Real-Mode DOS VM), too. Let's hope mice laggyness is fixed soon.

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Re: Turbo XT Build

Posted on 2020-02-04, 23:36

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by Jo22

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matze79 wrote on 2020-02-04, 19:41: The Videocard i will use until i get a nice Colour CGA Screen 😉 Hey, what about using the CVBS (FBAS) output on a nice old TV set instead ? The cheaper the TV set, the smoother/less-blocky the CGA graphics. 😉

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Re: How to (manually) align a FAT filesystem?

Posted on 2020-02-04, 23:29

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by Jo22

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I wanted to format my SSD's and SD cards (have IDE adapters for my older computers for these) with 4K partition Alignment and couldn't get it to work. Not sure if this of any help, but on Windows, there's SD Formatter.. It's meant to correctly format SD cards with FAT (FAT32). The older version 4 …

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