Re: Time for a new 386 build with some nice components
Posted on 2013-10-21, 21:51
Great specs - very similar to mine! Great motherboard that, excellent quality like you say. What OS and what game will you start with?
Re: Commodore 64 revival (warning, wall of pics)
Posted on 2013-10-21, 21:28
"PSU fail" in the C64 context often means that it's sending in too many volts on the 5V line. So I don't mean dead, I mean it's turned killer :dead: Tape head angle? I'm talking about the tape extender on the 1541UII, not the datasette. Fuse inside the PSU you say? I didn't think of that; my PSU …
Re: It's 286 time!
Posted on 2013-10-21, 10:46
A couple of sound upgrades for the 286. Firstly the PC speaker, which was ear splittingly loud. The answer to that problem was obvious – ear plugs! But not for me – those cheap foam ones from the chemist were the perfect size to plug into each of the 5 holes inside the case which were allowing the …
Re: SoftMPU 1.6 - Software Intelligent MPU-401 Emulator
Posted on 2013-10-20, 23:00
A Sound Blaster Pro 2 that could drive an MT-32 would be the holy grail of ISA sound cards!
Re: How do you / tips for storing / organising your vintage parts
Posted on 2013-10-20, 22:57
Mau1wurf1977 wrote: Post Office sells boxes, but the ones big enough for motherboards are too tall. I'll keep looking... Pizza boxes would be good for motherboards, you could swing by Dominos.com.au and place a bulk order, hold the pizza 😀
Re: Commodore 64 revival (warning, wall of pics)
Posted on 2013-10-20, 22:51
Tumultuous times here in C64 land. My 1541Ultimate II showed up after ~4 months; an amazing piece of hardware created by a German hobbyist which does several things, but most significantly it emulates a Commodore floppy and tape drive to allow you to load programs off an SD or USB stick. Pics below. …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2013-10-20, 00:31
Whoa what a monster! I have a PCI vga card with that chipset, and it sucks for DOS games. I assume it's more of a CAD card, and I'm guessing that viper is in the same boat. It would have cost a bomb back in the day.
Re: Just fixed an XT clone board. Now what?
Posted on 2013-10-19, 21:06
I lovingly put together a 486 for sale on eBay recently and the experience left me cold. I got decent money for it relatively speaking but I still don't think it was worth my time, and it wasn't nearly as much fun building a machine for someone else. In comparison I have some local dude coming to …
Re: Rude/strange Ebay sellers?
Posted on 2013-10-16, 09:08
That sucks, it's really not that hard to pack things properly, and to demand you pay to return it - that's crap. I've had a bad run lately, a mega drive game describes as "like new" was dirty, cracked, and the manual held together with sticky tape. The seller didn't respond to messages, nor the …
Re: good stuff getting harder to find
Posted on 2013-10-15, 00:53
Yeah I wouldn't say that those types of things are hard to find, but then I use eBay for that type of stuff, which are small enough to post easily.
Re: The perfect PC...
Posted on 2013-10-14, 09:12
I don't think hardware is as interesting these days. It's easy to get, snaps together like lego and - I'm a little out of the loop I admit - but it doesn't seem to be "this new product breaths fire and will blow your mind" anymore, it's "this new product is 30% more energy efficient and can render …
Re: Ebay blocks computer games and other items from buyer's search result - apparently to strongarm sellers to join GSP
Posted on 2013-10-13, 20:55
Re: Custom Netvista build
Posted on 2013-10-11, 01:29
PcBytes, your first priority should be to get your hands on a new camera!
Re: Game launcher/commander like utility for DOS 6.22?
Posted on 2013-10-10, 21:33
Re: Have you opened your SC-55 to check the battery inside?
Posted on 2013-10-10, 21:25
Nice save! These button batteries seem to die more gracefully than the old barrel things, which spew acid far and wide. Still not a good look though. What do you guys do with old batteries? I've been vaguely aware that they shouldn't be thrown into the bin, but that's exactly where I've put them all …
Re: Am I the only one that gets pissed off about...
Posted on 2013-10-05, 22:07
I don't understand what you're complaining about. Remember that this old hardware that you're talking about - 486 era stuff - really is if no use to 99% of the population, and that probably applies to anything up to and including P4 era stuff. Worst case scenario is that it ends up in landfill, a …
Re: It's 286 time!
Posted on 2013-10-03, 23:27
For the PC Speaker, I just spliced a resistor into one of the speaker cables. I think I used a 16 ohm resistor, and that quietened it down a bit. This might be a stupid question, my electronics knowledge is not too flash. But instead of a standard resister, could I use a trimpot instead? I'd like …
Re: OPTI 495SLC Motherboard's 386DX 16,20,25MHz settings
Posted on 2013-10-03, 22:44
I use this board in my "ultimate ultima 7" machine and really like it; the turbo function actually lowers the CPU clock instead of doing the wait state trick, etc. I've had some compatibility issues with it though - my Tseng ET4000AX VLB card doesn't like it (the ISA version of that card is OK …
Re: It's 286 time!
Posted on 2013-10-03, 22:08
sliderider wrote: DonutKing wrote: With the SIPPs you can actually solder pins on SIMMs and use those... If you have the patience for it. Wouldn't it be easier to solder on some SIMM slots? I don't think you even need to solder them, if you had some SIMM slots you could just push the pins into the …
Re: It's 286 time!
Posted on 2013-10-03, 11:12
With the SIPPs you can actually solder pins on SIMMs and use those... If you have the patience for it. Yeah I did read that somewhere but no, I don't have the patience! Thanks for the tip though. I've decided that 1MB is enough for this bad boy anyway. Anything that needs more will get a taste of …
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