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Commodore Bankruptcy Anniversary

in Milliways
Hello everyone, Just noticed that Commodore went bankrupt about 25 years ago, on April 29th 1994. https://derstandard.at/2000102289594/Commodore-Warum-die-Computerlegende-vor-25-Jahren-in-Insolvenz-ging Englis(c)h Translation That's now half a century ago! Insane how time flies.. :neutral: best …

Re: ISA RAM card, my easter project

in Milliways
Must be frustrating to see all the required components slowly trickle in by mail. ;) Hah, yes. It kinda is. :sweatdrop: I often visit a local electronics shop (Radio Shack type of shop), which has all the stuff needed. Well, almost. There you can get solder flux, soldering stations, NE555 timer ICs …

Re: any tweaks to speed up windows file sharing?

On my retro PCs (when connected to Ethernet and not to WiFi), the bottleneck is usually the drive speed. On MS-DOS, there was the FASTOPEN command. It essentially was some "DIR" cache, which alloewd for faster file opening and directory lisiting. It was superseeded by SmartDrive, I believe, but …

Re: XTIDE on PCem

in PC Emulation
Hm, strange. Seems to work here - https://youtu.be/MW3oK5ybaEo. Perhaps your copy of PCem is just broken somehow ? 😕 You can get it from the official homepage @ https://pcem-emulator.co.uk/. Edit: Did you place ide_xt.bin in the roms sub folder ?

Re: GENIE: A Sega MD sound card -- any interest?

in Marvin \ Sound
Thank you for the explanation, Tiido! ^^ I once read about this weird amp configuration in some Sega forum, but lost track about it. The reason I mentioned it, is, because the default connection to the TV set was RF (antenna cable), which gave a different sound than the headphones output. So that's …

Re: XTIDE on PCem

in PC Emulation
Hi, I nolonger have got v11 here, but things work fine on v10,1 and v14 here (XT machine seting). Maybe your copy of XTIDE Universal BIOS is just broken ? Here's my copy. Good luck!

Re: GENIE: A Sega MD sound card -- any interest?

in Marvin \ Sound
Hey, thanks for the link. Looks interesting. :D I was thinking more of a single-board computer design like the EMUF, though. :sweatdrop: EMUF2.jpg Source: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMUF Z80miniEMUF1.jpg Source: http://retro-compi.feste-ip.net:37850/index.php/108-computer/z80-mini-emuf Anyway, it …

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