Commodore Bankruptcy Anniversary

Posted on 2019-04-30, 23:44

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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 …

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Re: Is it possible for software to write to a protected disk?

Posted on 2019-04-30, 21:03

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I can't answer this question on my own, but I believe what retardware said. c't magazine was an accurate magazine and provided lots of low-level information (I've got an UMB card for my XT clone that was designed by c't, for example). The only thing I can really tell is that some 80s era software …

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Re: Media vision Pro audio spectrum 16 compatibility List

Posted on 2019-04-28, 17:12

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Sorry, I haven't had issues with any PAS16, either. Except for some EMM386 issues or the lack of -5v on some PCs. That being said, I was a PAS16 user since the ~mid 1990 and also got a few cards second hand. The used cards behaved just as good as my first PAS16 that I got in the 1990s. Even on …

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Re: Can someone identify these cards?

Posted on 2019-04-28, 11:05

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The upper right card could be an old radio card. One 3.5mm jack for antenna, another one for speaker out. AIMS Radio Tracks 8-Bit ISA FM card -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYZrXBTwAME

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Re: How to install ms dos without diskette drive or cd?

Posted on 2019-04-28, 10:51

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Hi, I don't mean to mix up everything here, but I'd like to give some hints. a) Some flash media can be made bootable by using HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool. It comes with FreeDOS, but also can ready boot files from physical MS-DOS diskettes. That tool turns an USB medium, such as a pen drive, …

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Re: ISA RAM card, my easter project

Posted on 2019-04-28, 00:28

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Small update. One of the chips I ordered turned out to be of a wrong type. 🙁 Got an 78LS08P instead of an 78LS08N. I'll try to get hold of the right type asap.

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Re: Media vision Pro audio spectrum 16 compatibility List

Posted on 2019-04-27, 20:33

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^I'm not 100% sure, but I believe these programs are also contained in programs.lzh on the PAS16 setup disks - vogonsdrivers should have them.

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Re: Media vision Pro audio spectrum 16 compatibility List

Posted on 2019-04-27, 18:07

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What games released for DOS contained an option in its menu for media vision pro audio spectrum? This would be a hard list to compile - PAS support doesn't mean PAS16 support and I've noticed that some games provide a PAS16 option but just use the PAS16's Thunderboard part (i.e. just the mono SB …

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Re: Possible to recover bad 720kb 3.5 inch floppy?

Posted on 2019-04-27, 07:10

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Please also keep in mind that some of the older AGI games had copy protection on disk #1. My copy of KQ3 and my father's copy of LSL1 had a defective track/sector on that disk for that reason. Tools like Sierra Unpr*tect were able to "fix" the disk check issue, but it's been a long time since I …

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Re: Media vision Pro audio spectrum 16 compatibility List

Posted on 2019-04-27, 05:32

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I always wanted to know how it felt, the sound of that specific card again. I was unable to experience again [..] The OPL3 did sound the same as on a SB16, however.. - The PAS16 had a surround/3D effect that could be enabled via mixer utility (SB16 ASP also had one, but not on plain DOS afaik). - …

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Re: ISA RAM card, my easter project

Posted on 2019-04-26, 01:18

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Update. Good news, I finished the wiring part (I think so). 😀

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Re: format b: /4 - not working?

Posted on 2019-04-24, 21:56

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Wait, please tell, do you use a 360KB or 1.2MB floppy disk in your 1.2MB drive ? Formatting to whatever capacity should work, as long as the medium matches the floppy drive type. Also, please say which version of DOS you are using. Different versions of DOS came with different versions of Format ( …

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Re: ISA RAM card, my easter project

Posted on 2019-04-24, 20:41

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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 …

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Re: any tweaks to speed up windows file sharing?

Posted on 2019-04-24, 20:32

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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 …

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Re: XTIDE on PCem

Posted on 2019-04-24, 20:16

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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 ?

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Re: Virge GX getting weird vertical lines on VESA modes

Posted on 2019-04-24, 14:03

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It is UNIVBE which is bad. Back then decades ago I had to tell people this often. Getting a VBE driver that is written for the specific card/chip always solved these problems.. My experience was similar here. I never got an 8/16-Bit ISA card like, for example, a WD90C31 card to work with UNIVBE. …

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

Posted on 2019-04-24, 09:41

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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 …

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

Posted on 2019-04-23, 09:56

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Speaking of the Genesis/Megadrive sound system, are there any plans yet to replicate the sound (in style) of its weird mono audio amp ? You know, the one that causes the deep "full" & bassy sound (in comparison to thin stereo out via headphones jack). 😀

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Re: XTIDE on PCem

Posted on 2019-04-23, 02:24

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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!

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

Posted on 2019-04-22, 18:50

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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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