Re: Next project? AY-3-8910 Sound Card

Posted on 2018-02-09, 23:00

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by Jo22

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I think the lack of PC software to support that great sounding device will be a big problem... I really like how it sounds on the CPC Oh well, I believe the MSX scene did such things even though there were no actual games (I'm no MSX owner, though). :) The MoonSound, for example, was made by …

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Re: M321 BIOS HD limitation question

Posted on 2018-02-09, 16:48

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Blast... I suppose I could try to find a BIOS update... Thanks for the read, it jogged my memory of these issues, which I haven't encountered in 10+ years ;) You're welcome. :) (Btw, in the article, L-CHS stands for Logical CHS (the fake drive geometry) and P-CHS for Physical CHS (the real geometry …

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Re: Awe32 in dos : no FM sound

Posted on 2018-02-09, 12:26

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by Jo22

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After running the utilities, still no fm sound in games In CTCU (?), did you try out different settings for FM ? I recall that one of my PnP cards from Creative required "configuration no 2" to be selected, in order to get FM sound working (configuration no.1 had no AdLib ports listed).

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Re: Strange problem...

Posted on 2018-02-09, 10:46

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bellarmine wrote: Wow, that was a weird one! I would never have thought of that! Me, neither. I always use MSCD001..

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Re: M321 BIOS HD limitation question

Posted on 2018-02-09, 08:43

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by Jo22

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It's a limitation of both BIOS/IDE specs. With 512 bytes per sector, this results in the famous 504MB limit. The reason why the BIOS shows the real capacity, but can't use it is also related to this. http://web.inter.nl.net/hcc/J.Steunebrink/bioslim.htm

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Re: Can't get AutoCAD R12 to run because of SVADI

Posted on 2018-02-09, 08:15

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by Jo22

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Hi, ADI stands for Autodesk Device Interface and was the external graphics driver for AutoSketch/-CAD on DOS. I'm not sure if SVADI supports VESA VBE, though (it says Super VGA). Maybe you can get it to work in DOSBox* or PCem/86Box ? - They offer various SVGA graphics chips of old. Such as Paradise …

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OAK OTI-037c - 800x600 mode ?

Posted on 2018-02-08, 19:29

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by Jo22

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Hello and good evening, I've got an older OAK card that works very well, but I can't get the 800x600 mode to work. I'm curious, did anybody ever accomplish to set the card to that mode ? The datasheet says that the OTI-037 does support an "800 x 600 element high-resolution graphics mode with 16 …

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Re: Old MFM Hard Drive, how to access?

Posted on 2018-02-08, 17:59

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by Jo22

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I dont know about 8-bit controllers but I can confirm a 16-bit MFM/RLL controller works in a 286 without Controller-BIOS. The 286 detects both, IDE and MFM hard disks and boots from them. But not at the same time, this only works with XT-IDE. Yes, that's true. It can handle both flavors (both use …

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Re: An annoying misadventure with generic OPTi 82C924 ISA sound card

Posted on 2018-02-08, 10:05

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by Jo22

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Oh my. That must have been frustating for sure! I'm glad you finally found the issue and were able to fix it, though. 😀 Also thanks a lot for the details. I wasn't aware the YM262 could suffer from such a damage. Now that we know about the culprit, there's hope for other faulty cards.

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Re: IBM PC XT Motherboard SANYO SPC-400D (Siemens SAB 8088 CPU + POWER SUPPLY)

Posted on 2018-02-08, 09:58

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by Jo22

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KJanos1396 wrote: Hello Collectors! We (me and friends) want to share the power supply "schematic" for an vintage xt motherboard SANYO SPC-400D. That's the spirit! Thank you very much! 😀

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Re: PC/XT clone - SFRM72-TU100K or SFR1M44-U100(K) ?

Posted on 2018-02-08, 09:53

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by Jo22

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Update. I installed the Gotek in place of the old 720KB drive. As you can see, the primary drive is still a good old 360KB 5.25" drive. Mounting the floppy emulator was a bit of a work, though, since the 3.5" to 5.25" frame had outdated specs: The spaceings for the mounting holes on the sides were …

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Re: Floppy Issue

Posted on 2018-02-07, 19:13

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No matter what drive I boot from (5.25", 3.5" or HDD), the drive will either not-work or will begin booting, but then turn off (HDD spin down or Floppy light goes off) and it'll just say "STARTING MS-DOS" forever and hang. The Motherboard doesn't have a controller on-board so I'm using an IDE/FDD …

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Re: The Reason For Vintage (again)

Posted on 2018-02-06, 14:12

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keenmaster486 wrote: AlaricD wrote: You should build a crystal radio receiver if you really want to get something down to the bare minimum. I have 😀 Forgot to mention old radios! Good luck! 😉 Medium wave transmitters were shut-down a while ago (in some parts of EU, I know at least). Long wave ist …

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Re: ATI VGA Wonder+ No Video Out

Posted on 2018-02-05, 23:47

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by Jo22

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Hello Alex, I've found an entry for the ATi VGA Wonder+ at the ATi Wonder Series Database: http://sites.google.com/site/atiwonderseriesdatabase/ And a manual for the original VGA Wonder card. Manual The S-Video looking connector was for a Bus-Mouse. From what I read at http://ancientelectronics. …

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Re: Innovation SSI 2001 re-engineering and/or conclusions

Posted on 2018-02-05, 19:04

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by Jo22

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Awesome! Thank you very much!

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Re: Strange problem...

Posted on 2018-02-05, 02:18

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by Jo22

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I haven't, either. Perhaps something weird is going on with the file attributes of cdrom.ini ? Maybe trying Norton Commander to delete that file helps (it can see hidden and system files). Or trying with an other OS. If there's an error in one of the FATs, strange things can happen. CHKDSK [drive …

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Re: Strange problem...

Posted on 2018-02-05, 00:29

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by Jo22

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Perhaps there is an error in the file system.. Run CHKDSK /F to check.

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Re: Ontrack 9.57 on CF card - can't view on modern PC

Posted on 2018-02-04, 18:51

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by Jo22

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Both DOS 7 and Win95 are LBA aware, but perhaps there's a difference in which way they handle LBA access. DOS relies on the BIOS information (-which Ontrack fakes to do its magic-), while the GUI (Win9x) has its own, native driver (a VXD), which retrieves the information dirctly from the hardware ( …

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Re: Media Vision PAS 16 Not Installing in Dos

Posted on 2018-02-04, 18:33

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by Jo22

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I'm using a Pentium 3 500MHz with Dos 6.2 (not 6.22) with an AGP video card, 128Mb Ram and I have enabled the cache on the internal and external CPU in the Bios. I'm using the 3rd one from the top from the link you gave and it does not have a setup program but it has an install program and that is …

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Re: ISA based 3D accelerators?

Posted on 2018-02-04, 16:42

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by Jo22

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ftp://ftp.matrox.com/ Just ftp.matrox.com doesn't work (in a www browser). 😉

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