Re: CF Card working in Windows 10.....

Posted on 2021-03-13, 12:00

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Thanks! I was hoping there was a way to do this without having to spend more money or time looking at the XT IDE route. Is there no other software that works do use on a floppy boot for overal? p.s thanks for support and time Hi! I'm kind of a fan of XT IDE Universal BIOS, because it fixes the …

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Re: Win 95 woes

Posted on 2021-03-13, 09:32

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An easier workaround, though, is to use your current Windows installation to copy the contents of your OSR2 cd to somewhere on your hard drive. Then restart into DOS mode and run the installer from that location. I think the same. Win 9x Setup has that bad habbit of forgetting to integrate a CD-ROM …

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Re: Emulation on MS Windows 3.1x ?

Posted on 2021-03-13, 09:22

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Quick update. Found an old site dedicated to the Colecovision.. 😁 If I understand correctly, it was official and hosted some free, emulated games (Win/Mac).. Edit : Intellivision.. Silly me! 😅

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Re: Anyone try USB 3.0 vs. USB 2.0 on conventional PCI slots?

Posted on 2021-03-13, 06:44

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Hi everyone, if memory servrs me well, then.. * USB 3.0 is bi-directional * USB 3.0 supports DMA, too These features may also affect performance in a positive way.. PS: What I do like the most about USB 3.xis the higher current that's supported. This makes power hungry USB 1.x/2 devices running more …

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Re: Win 95 woes

Posted on 2021-03-12, 11:09

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An easier workaround, though, is to use your current Windows installation to copy the contents of your OSR2 cd to somewhere on your hard drive. Then restart into DOS mode and run the installer from that location. I think the same. Win 9x Setup has that bad habbit of forgetting to integrate a CD-ROM …

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Re: Emulation on MS Windows 3.1x ?

Posted on 2021-03-12, 10:52

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Quick update. I've found a neat little description how the "Executor" emulator does (or rather : did ) its magic! :) You can read it here . PS: Executor was a quick, emulated environment of System. It could run Macintosh applications on Windows, for example, without needing an actual copy of System …

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Re: Voyager probes 40th anniversary

Posted on 2021-03-11, 08:57

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Quick update. Found a recent YT video featuring Voyager 2. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sga1ZPBJ9DYd&t=200

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Re: Any interest in a TOS-style LCARS clock for vintage PCs ?

Posted on 2021-03-11, 08:26

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Hi, just wanted to let you know that this project isn't dead, just delayed. I'll likely continue working on it somehen this year. In fact, I'm playing with other TOS/TNG ideas right now, too! ^^ The application seen below is intended to display images sent by high-altitude ballons, for example. I …

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Re: no more iMac Pro

Posted on 2021-03-11, 06:13

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With all due respect, why buy a system based on a CPU architecture (x86-64) that is essentially dead in the water in the MacOS world ? EDIT : I mean a new system at MSRP. Sanely priced used x86-64 macs can make probably make decent Linux/BSD/Windows boxes or run soon to be legacy x86-64 optimized …

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Re: CGA Replica / Potential New-Design CGA Card

Posted on 2021-03-10, 07:23

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A CGA card with HGC+-style RAM font support would also be interesting. Or a HGC+ clone in general. Interesting idea, since both CGA and HGC (aka MGA) are using the same CRTC and can co-exist, even. They are like brothers, so to say. That's why I added a HGC clone in my XT class PC in first place, …

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Re: CGA Replica / Potential New-Design CGA Card

Posted on 2021-03-09, 08:59

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Cool! Any chance of getting Composite CGA out of it? That's the coolest part about CGA, IMHO! 😁

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Re: no more iMac Pro

Posted on 2021-03-08, 10:24

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Apple stopped producing iMac Pro https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/imac-pro Buy iMac Pro. While supplies last. With all due respect, why buy a system based on a CPU architecture (x86-64) that is essentially dead in the water in the MacOS world ? EDIT : I mean a new system at MSRP. Sanely priced …

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Anniversary of NASA's OSO mission

Posted on 2021-03-08, 09:08

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Hi everyone, just saw the news! 😃 https://www.space.com/39251-on-this-day-in-space.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbiting_Solar_Observatory Fun fact: The early OSOs were featured in an old German documentary series called "Was sucht der Mensch im Weltraum" (What is mankind looking for in space) …

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Re: Hosting and creating a Netscape 2.0 supported website in 2021

Posted on 2021-03-07, 00:01

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As for early Javascript, I discovered very few resources. They are few and far between. I don't know for sure, but maybe books can be helpful here. It maybe sounds strange, but in these days most resources about the internet could be found in libraries. Depending on where you live, a visit to a …

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Re: Hosting and creating a Netscape 2.0 supported website in 2021

Posted on 2021-03-06, 22:31

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Nice, it's really charming! 🙂👍 It's funny how human feelings work.. Just a few years ago I would have felt that this design is basic. Looking backwards from 2021, it feels very tidy and professional. The human mindset is really strange. We don't know what we've got until it's gone.

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Re: Is this a fake Lemmings disk?

Posted on 2021-03-06, 22:20

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by Jo22

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Legit DOS Lemmings. 😀

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Re: 20mhz 286's

Posted on 2021-03-06, 15:52

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Harris originally planned on offering chips up to 33mhz but had too low of yields Would have been quite interesting having a 286 that ran circles around many 386 machines +1 The 80286 was a "limited", but serious design. - Limited in so far, because the 80386 essentially was considered a real …

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Re: Cheap HDD alternatives for old Hard disk drives in 486

Posted on 2021-03-06, 15:35

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by Jo22

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Not sure if this is helpful, but I prefer CF cards and DOMs. I tend to avoid SD cards and SATA HDDs, because they require active adapters in order to be usable on IDE/PATA. Which sadly are often of not so high quality. The ones that I had gotten in the past often had bad soldering, ran hot or were …

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Re: Help identifying an old ISA 8bit card

Posted on 2021-03-04, 21:56

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^Great analysis IMHO 😎 I second, it's likely a special purpose board. An RCA/Cinch/Phono plug could interface with about anything, not just composite. Might be a signal generator, a form of digital multimeter etc. It could be anything, I'm afraid. 😅 Maybe the data in the EPROM chip contains a …

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Re: Any memory optimizations on 8086 CPUs with EMS ?

Posted on 2021-03-04, 05:02

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Are you aware of any software tools or trickery so i can increase my conventional memory to be more than ~580, by using the expanded memory that's available ??? Thanks, Terrence Hi Terrence! I see, makes sense. You can try out "The Last Byte Memory Manager". It turns the EMS page frame into an UMB, …

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