Re: German theme 486 computer.

Posted on 2021-05-02, 14:02

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by Jo22

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if you want a german 486 board siemens is probably the only way to go. Yes, Siemens produced some x86 chips.. My 286 PC had a Siemens 80286-12 CPU, for example. And a Schneider BIOS, too. It was a Phoenix derivative. - In the 1980s, there was Schneider Rundfunkwerke AG, which developed/produced …

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Re: Emulation on MS Windows 3.1x ?

Posted on 2021-05-01, 21:24

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Quick update. This is a bit off-topic, but here's a nice document with lots of screen shots of various emulators. Off-topic, because it's not Windows 3.1 centric. License seems to be Creative Commons, so I suppose I can add a link without worrying.. Source: https://ftp.fau.de/aminet/docs/hard/ …

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Re: Emulation on MS Windows 3.1x ?

Posted on 2021-05-01, 21:13

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I'm really happy that there's some interest here! ^^ - I'm still looking for some more emulators for you. So far, I'm continuing my voyage, but offline, too. So it may take some time. I'm tracking down old CD-ROMs now, both in digital and physical form. :D Currently, I've found some more emulators …

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Re: DOSBOX with windows 3.1 problems with some games

Posted on 2021-05-01, 20:52

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by Jo22

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Thank you very much for investigating at the issue, ripsaw! 🙂👍

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Re: German theme 486 computer.

Posted on 2021-05-01, 19:25

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by Jo22

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You can also throw in parts from Robotron/VEB, if the theme includes former East Germany, too! :D https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kombinat_Robotron https://www.robotrontechnik.de/index.htm?/html/computer/a7150.htm https://www.robotrontechnik.de/index.htm?/html/computer/ec1834.htm Seriously, though, …

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Re: MT32 as soundfont!

Posted on 2021-05-01, 13:30

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I would also like to thank you! 🙂 Munt is neat, but having an MT-32 sound font is fascinating, too. For example, I imagine it allows the use in microcontroller projects, too, which Munt is much to heavy for.

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Re: Why SD-CF-PCMCIA does not work properly in DOS?

Posted on 2021-04-30, 00:41

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by Jo22

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The generic adapter CF to SD is low quality. Look for another brand like this: https://www.ebay.ca/itm/144010834953?epid=1201878963&hash=item2187b6f409:g:0xQAAOSw7dlgeb2q Limitation that applies to all of these PCMCIA to SD adapters is up to 2GB, I confirmed when I worked with these. Does not need …

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Re: Why is Amiga so popular with retro community ?

Posted on 2021-04-27, 20:25

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by Jo22

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Apple sold a "PC-compatible" at the time What do you mean? As far as I know, there was no Apple machines based on x86 until 2006. Perhaps some PC emulation cards? I meant this one (and its successors)..: http://www.applefool.com/applefool/Quadra_610_%28DOS_Compatible%29.html But yeah, "PC- …

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Re: Why is Amiga so popular with retro community ?

Posted on 2021-04-27, 10:39

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True.... The engineers at Commodore had so many plans, however they were dictated by a bunch of bosses and board members that knew nothing and saw Commodore as their personal piggy bank as well. That is why we never saw stuff like AAA, machines like NYX and so on. Like they started to plan AAA back …

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Re: Easiest Way to Install 98 SE on a 1 TB HDD?

Posted on 2021-04-26, 19:47

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by Jo22

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I was trying large HDDs on my Win98SE K6-III+ build and noticed that anything over 60GB would cause 'insufficient memory' errors when attempting to run scandisk or defrag, rendering the programs useless, and that's with 512MB. There might've been other problems too yet undiscovered. You can try …

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Re: Why is Amiga so popular with retro community ?

Posted on 2021-04-24, 01:42

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Auto-config was neat, seriously, but that was done by Amiga OS and could have worked on any bus. In fact, there's something that was missed. If they were putting their hearts into it, they could have stored the device drivers on the cards themselves (in an ROM chip) , as well. Ideally, these …

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Re: Why is Amiga so popular with retro community ?

Posted on 2021-04-23, 14:42

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.. but EISA was a true, 99% compatible successor to ISA and the most "open" of them. It was made by a group, the Gang of Nine. VL-Bus had its electrical issues and PCI was owned by Intel (also, in practice, it was non-existant in the early 90s). By comparison, EISA cards were usually of higher …

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Re: Heart Of Darkness PC vs PS

Posted on 2021-04-23, 07:46

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by Jo22

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Ah, yes, The Heart of Darkness.. I rember that one! (That awesome game which's development took so long, that people were afraid it wouldn't make it to release.) About 20 years ago, there was a little drama because of it, if memory serves. From what I remember, in Germany, people were upset because …

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Re: Best option for 486DX/2 Roland MT-32 *and* simultaneous joystick

Posted on 2021-04-22, 10:06

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by Jo22

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Just get an old ISA multi-i/o card. . These usually included serial port, parallel port and gameport (plain; no MIDI). Maybe FDC and IDE, too. The not needed components can be disabled by jumpers. Personally, I'd simply make my own cable. Or modify an existing one. MIDI only needs four signals. RX/ …

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Re: Your saddest retro computer pictures, a feel bad topic

Posted on 2021-04-22, 04:39

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About decade ago saw video (can't find it now) where drunk russian ZX fanatics smashes Amiga (A1200 IIRC) on their openair beer party. Has it been in working condition before punishment or not i don't know. Anyway it was fuc...gly stupid. Oh, well. I guess that was because the A1200 didn't fit in a …

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Win XP x86 detects 8TB USB 3.1 HDD

Posted on 2021-04-21, 23:17

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Hi everyone, Just noticed that my old copy of Windows XP SP2 can still handle my newest Terabyte HDD.. While I knew that USB/ATA bridges are a special case and do work with TB capacity, I haven't expected this. The official requirements on the HDDs package do start with Win 7.. Anyway, I'm happy …

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Re: Why DOS died...

Posted on 2021-04-20, 12:49

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Personally, I changed my mind and have a not so popular point-of-view: I think that every platform becomes outdated somewhen, so replacing it doesn't matter. It's just a temporal solution that causes more trouble than it's worth. Instead, use emulation and keep the original. I mean, I heard this …

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Re: Why is Amiga so popular with retro community ?

Posted on 2021-04-20, 07:31

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But weren't A600/1200 rather like early 90s home computers ? 😕 They had that console design again that made useful expansion difficult. ZX81, VC20, C64, A500.. 🙁

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Re: Why is Amiga so popular with retro community ?

Posted on 2021-04-20, 07:19

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A replacement, aftermarket EISA backplane for the A1500/A2000 would have had been a wise decision here. It doesn't make sense. EISA is 32-bit A1500/A2000 is 16-bit Chances are, that Zorro<->ISA bridge wasn't a bottleneck, at least in an A2000. ISA is 16-bit 8MHz - slow, but still seems faster than …

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Re: Why is Amiga so popular with retro community ?

Posted on 2021-04-19, 13:00

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Uhm, well.. Back then, the Acorn Archimedes and the Sharp X68000 were both considered to be technically superior to the Amiga platform, I believe. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1osEX6eYHE The Archimedes processor is vastly superior to the old m68k - but it would obviously be, as it was developed …

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