Re: Hardware advertisements from the early 90's

Posted on 2021-05-09, 23:19

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by Jo22

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Thanks guys for sharing! It's always interesting to see how things were perceived back then. I'd rate this thread with a thumb up or 5 stars if I could. Great tread. Some from early 1990s Assies Your Computer's mags TECH Tip series. Ram cost nz$100 per meg back then so everyone was trying ram …

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Re: Using VGA to S-Video / Composite adapter for connecting PCs to 15 kHz monitors like Commodore 1084s?

Posted on 2021-05-09, 15:58

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by Jo22

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Chip in my cable was sanded off, and turned out unnecessary at the end. Oh, how I hate such stuff. 😑 Using custom stickers is one thing, but sanding off the chip markings is just plain evil and selfish. I know this from my ham radio hobby. In the past, some egoistic guys sold products that way. …

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Re: 286 16mb ram, cdrom driver issues

Posted on 2021-05-09, 15:47

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by Jo22

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@Jo22 Can you give me some ideas on that? I've been trying with a Cirrus Logic card. Chip print: [CL logo]Cirrus Logic CL-GD5420-750C-C 26730-277CG 9413 T KOREA-B Will have to try the emu386 I guess, time for experimenting! Hi, good luck! ^^ In the past EMU386 helped me to get some TSRs and other …

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Re: Access NAS share from Windows 95 OSR2

Posted on 2021-05-09, 12:01

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by Jo22

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Or just use Windows 98SE and save yourself the trouble - it's what Win 3.11 is to Win 3.0. Btw, Windows 9x used permissions per folder; Windows NT uses permissions per user. At the core, they have a completely different concept of network security. Some links/sources can be found here: https://www. …

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Re: Rate my lil' 90s webpage

Posted on 2021-05-09, 08:10

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You're welcome! 😀

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Re: Using VGA to S-Video / Composite adapter for connecting PCs to 15 kHz monitors like Commodore 1084s?

Posted on 2021-05-09, 03:18

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by Jo22

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That's a really bad way to do this. A better way would be using a GBS-Control, Extron Emotia or Retrotink5x to downscale the 31kHz RGB to 15kHz RGB That is probably the best solution, yeah. Another option is to output 240p natively from your graphics by adding custom resolutions/mod lines and use …

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Re: Using VGA to S-Video / Composite adapter for connecting PCs to 15 kHz monitors like Commodore 1084s?

Posted on 2021-05-08, 20:52

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by Jo22

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^I don't think you're not a lot of help. What you said goes along well with my experience, too. Normal CCTV grade CRT TVs for customers are (were) not on par with real VGA or RGBHV monitors. That's why DVD was such a hit originally,-well except for it's inability to store Videotext pages; S-VHS …

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Re: Using VGA to S-Video / Composite adapter for connecting PCs to 15 kHz monitors like Commodore 1084s?

Posted on 2021-05-08, 20:15

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by Jo22

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Text is never going to be much fun to read on composite no matter how ideal the rest of your setup is. The signal is just not good enough for text. You want s-video at a minimum, RGB being the most ideal. I think the same,with rhe exception of the monochrome signal part (luma). Without the color …

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Re: Using VGA to S-Video / Composite adapter for connecting PCs to 15 kHz monitors like Commodore 1084s?

Posted on 2021-05-08, 19:01

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by Jo22

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VGA->Composite is much better compared to the other variant, Composite->VGA. The latter one will give you all kinds of colorful, noisy and crappy image, so stay away from those. Anything around 20€ is complete trash. SNES, C64, NES, old hardware like this sure will not be usable with those. Wii is …

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Re: 286 16mb ram, cdrom driver issues

Posted on 2021-05-08, 18:43

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by Jo22

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Ah, I see. I've used a PAS16 and the Trantor driver on my 286 back then. Edit: Does OAKCDROM use 386 Real-Mode instructions? If so, EMU386 could help.

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Re: DOSBox vs DOS 6.22 in DOSBox

Posted on 2021-05-08, 16:18

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by Jo22

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DOSBox-X is interesting, yes, but also -insert nice word for bloated here- and a little bit slower than official DOSBox. The additional DOS programs bundled with DOSBox-X indeed increases its size, and all the additional features and more accurate emulation it provides also do not come for free. I …

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Re: Using VGA to S-Video / Composite adapter for connecting PCs to 15 kHz monitors like Commodore 1084s?

Posted on 2021-05-08, 16:13

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by Jo22

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The problem with old monitors, as I understand it, is that those monitors accept a ~15 kHz video signal, while VGA is 31.5 kHz. So, should the adapter like the one linked above convert the frequency to 15 kHz for S-Video or composite out? That's what these converters are made for, I suppose. At …

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Re: 286 16mb ram, cdrom driver issues

Posted on 2021-05-08, 04:01

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by Jo22

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My suspicion is that the chipset on this board does not actually support 4MB SIMMs. But why it POSTs and counts all the memory, I can't resolve with my theory That's a possibility. Though I've never seen a 286 myself that couldn't handle 4MB mimimum (1MB SIMMs). Not sue about 4MB SIMMs, though. …

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Re: German theme 486 computer.

Posted on 2021-05-08, 03:34

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by Jo22

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Well.. I guess, -uhm-, it's -uhm- better if.. If modern Germany is being associated in people's mind with Oktoberfest, pretty landscapes and Kuckucksuhren than WW2, harsh-sounding German voices and people/kids constantly saluting in the public with the Hitlergruß, while heavy Panzer in the …

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Re: DOSBox vs DOS 6.22 in DOSBox

Posted on 2021-05-07, 22:17

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by Jo22

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DOSBox-X is interesting, yes, but also -insert nice word for bloated here- and a little bit slower than official DOSBox. Noticed that on my Raspberry Pi 4.. Booting MS-DOS is nice sometimes if you're facing trouble. Share.exe, programs trying to directly access the FAT, the need for EMM386, …

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Re: Mitsumi LU005S with SB16 CT2230

Posted on 2021-05-07, 21:23

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by Jo22

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Hi again, just read the threads you linked to. - Hm. I didn't know the cable was a special one. It looked like a 1:1 ribbon cable to me. Well, maybe not exactly 1:1, if you know what I mean. It looked like a IDE cable, one of those that could also attach to a 40meg IDE drive of the time. But that …

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Re: Mitsumi LU005S with SB16 CT2230

Posted on 2021-05-07, 21:01

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by Jo22

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Hi and sorry to dig up this old thread. I have the same problem with my Mitsumi LU005S not working. I have tested with two identical Mitsumi I/O cards and a Soundblaster 16 CT2230. I installed them in this PC: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=959746#p959746 Tested the 1.66 and 2.30 driver, …

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Re: "...not a valid win32 application"

Posted on 2021-05-06, 21:09

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by Jo22

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If that 32 bit system does what you need, why not? Um, because 64-Bit Windows is the standard for 10 years now? Like SSDs are? I mean, I consider myself more of a retro person and also consider my own equipment to be totally out of date, but.. Even I slowly realized over the years that the time of …

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Re: "...not a valid win32 application"

Posted on 2021-05-06, 20:06

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by Jo22

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Okay, I admit, I'm a bit confused now. The 1720 is not even a PC, but a notebook with a Core 2 Duo ? 😕 That's a different story then. Notebooks and nettops usually have poor driver support (sometimes 32-Bit only). 🙁

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Re: "...not a valid win32 application"

Posted on 2021-05-06, 19:15

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Are we really asking someone why they are running a 32bit version of Windows on this forum? Really? Um, yes? Running a 32-Bit vintage system like Windows 98SE is one thing, but running a 32-Bit edition of a modern system such as Windows 7/8 is another. That's akin to running Windows 3.0 in Real- …

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