Re: My childhood Peacock 8MHz XT
Posted on 2016-04-25, 14:51
No pics no fun! I love to see XT systems in their original cases.
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2016-04-25, 09:34
I'm building another XT-IDE card today. I have to limit myself to assemble only 1 card a day of the 8 left i still need to work on. Soldering is tough on my back specially considering i don't have a proper table and comfy chair for the job.
Re: Halt and Catch Fire what if scenario: "How good would have the Cardiff Giant been in the marketplace?"
Posted on 2016-04-24, 20:20
I'm still a bit doubtful as to whether they would have managed to bring the weight down to about 15lbs, considering what a 10 MB hard drive weighed in those days. Granted, the LCD screen would have weighed less than a CRT monitor. Yeah the 5.25 floppy drive and hard drive would have been easily the …
Re: Halt and Catch Fire what if scenario: "How good would have the Cardiff Giant been in the marketplace?"
Posted on 2016-04-24, 18:45
I follow the show and must say that I enjoyed watching it (the first season). Unfortunately, it's a bit difficult to say how it would have performed in the marketplace. It all comes down to what the actual retail price of the Giant would have been and how eager the market was back then for a …
Halt and Catch Fire what if scenario: "How good would have the Cardiff Giant been in the marketplace?"
Posted on 2016-04-24, 11:46
Any "Halt and Catch Fire" fans here? Let me present a What If scenario. What if Halt and Catch Fire was really telling the story about a Cardiff company that released the Cardiff Giant with the exact specs we have seen in the series? Let me refresh your memory: http://i1286.photobucket.com/albums/ …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2016-04-23, 19:00
@Skyscraper There's another solution to your JUKO Board. Not a cheap solution but it can get you upper memory blocks as well. It's the lo tech 1MB RAM Board. I have one in my XT and if i set the memory to none with the dip switches the Board takes over and provides 1MB RAM in 64kb blocks. If you …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2016-04-22, 23:18
@Skyscraper You're right about dip switch one to be about parity but all the Juko boards i know work the other way around: when the switch is ON its is to disable parity. I know because the board you saw in the video i made is a similar Juko board.
Re: My Future Super Turbo XT build
Posted on 2016-04-22, 12:50
I've been kind of busy with AT2XT and XT-IDE adapters activities but in the mean time i've been able to progress with this machine even further. *WARNING WALL OF PICS!!* I played a bit more with CP/M-86 and found out an 8080 emulator that makes use of NEC V20 8080 instructions. The result is, i …
Re: What are the best Sound Canvas games?
Posted on 2016-04-20, 20:53
Warcraft 2 is one of the few games where Sound Canvas really beats competition to a pulp.
Re: LAPC-I or CM-32L?
Posted on 2016-04-18, 08:43
The machine is a K6 III+ and I play with the caches and clock speed to run everything. My opinion is go with the CM-32L and use SoftMPU. There are already 100% compatible MPU-401 clone cards around if you ever have the need for a hardware MPU. I don't know if you're using a ATX or AT case but LAPC …
Re: LAPC-I or CM-32L?
Posted on 2016-04-17, 21:11
Unless the intended system is a 286 go with a CM-32L.
Re: Bought these games today
Posted on 2016-04-17, 10:19
Re: This is beautiful! Seriously i might be exaggerating but...
Posted on 2016-04-16, 21:57
What thread ? I wanna try it too! :D On the new CGA compatibility tester the 8x8 row programming option you'll see Vile Rancour's beautiful art! Now that is the most impressive CGA graphics/art i've ever seen. Maybe it's because it has that video game feel but i like it more than the art on 8088MPH …
This is beautiful! Seriously i might be exaggerating but...
Posted on 2016-04-16, 17:00
... i really don't care what you think. This may be the most unecessary thread ever but credit is due when credit is due! For weeks i've meant to try the new CGA Compatibility Tester that Trixter announced on the thread. I knew that when Jim said there was new Vile Rancour art i was expecting …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2016-04-16, 15:37
I have already posted the seller images of the Turtle Beach Tropez Plus but I might aswell post some better images. Except for some floppy label discolouration which is normal everything looks great! Turtle Beach Tropez Plus card.JPG Congrats i always wanted one. It's probably on my top three cards …
Re: Best ISA sound card with wavetable header
Posted on 2016-04-16, 11:43
Sorry yes my language was probably a little inflammatory - it's a pretty cool card I admit. I personally think there are better options but I know that it's a popular choice around here, so I should probably just zip it. Nah i didn't think language was inflammatory, i just think one can eventually …
Re: Best ISA sound card with wavetable header
Posted on 2016-04-15, 23:27
There are a ton of threads on this topic but no-one ever agrees, because there is no "best". ^This!! The Audician is fine but the DOS software sucks and you can't fit a full sized DB on it. It's not 100% compatible either - I tried Mortal Kombat on mine the other day and it wigged out, for example. …
Re: IBM 5100 Time Traveler Edition
Posted on 2016-04-14, 01:12
snorg wrote: Dude please tell me you have an archive or screen scrape of that. I could use a laugh. It is on the Humorous / Outrageous thread. The original link should be there
Re: IBM 5100 Time Traveler Edition
Posted on 2016-04-13, 22:21
Re: Anyone know this I/O controller?
Posted on 2016-04-13, 16:54
simbin wrote: Thank you so much - that helps a lot!! No worries, let us all know how it goes.
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