Re: Old hardware giveaway thread.
Posted on 2018-12-06, 01:54
December 9th
Re: Old hardware giveaway thread.
Posted on 2018-12-06, 01:05
December 20th
Re: Old hardware giveaway thread.
Posted on 2018-12-06, 00:07
December 24th?
Re: Old hardware giveaway thread.
Posted on 2018-12-05, 23:53
December 25th?
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2018-12-05, 19:37
I had almost the exact motherboard between 1994 and 2012 that had real L2 cache and an AMD AM486-DX4 120 CPU in it. That was a beast, until the BIOS chip died (Award, aka, the "Y2K bug" BIOS that was on a PROM chip). PCChips M912 v1.7 with fake L2 cache You can, however, desolder the fake L2 cache, …
Has anyone heard of this voltage regulator: ARIES Voltage Regulator?
Posted on 2018-12-05, 18:16
The reason why I'm asking is because I would like to install an AMD Am5x86-P75 (write-back) inside my Packard Bell Pack-Mate 28 Plus over the DX4-100 OverDrive CPU that's currently installed. However, I cannot find anything online about the voltage regulator, except on the Micro Firmware BIOS …
Re: Packard bell PB450 repair / mods / upgrade
Posted on 2018-12-05, 15:31
I figured out what happened. Apparently, the config.sys file changed the path for the EMM386 from DOS to Windows, which is why it gave me that error message in the first place. All is well.
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2018-12-05, 14:56
Huh. I did a quadruple-boot system in 2010. I did 2000, XP, Vista (yikes), and 7 on a 1TB HDD.
Re: Old feature phones / smartphones
Posted on 2018-12-04, 16:31
From 2007-Present: Motorola Razr V3M (still have this phone) (2007-2009) Samsung Alias (full keyboard) and has a battery issue (2009-2012, 2014-2014) Sony Ericsson Xperia Play R800X (2012-2013) Nokia Lumia 928 (2014-2016) Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge (2016-Present)
Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.
Posted on 2018-12-04, 16:26
The system has 512MB soldered onto the motherboard and only has 1 slot for the RAM according to the documentation.
Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.
Posted on 2018-12-04, 15:44
Someone dropped this at work. Looks pretty neat, but the awful Toshiba 4200 rpm HDD with that stupid LIF connector makes upgrading it a pain in the ass and not really worth the effort. Also I think the RAM limit is 2 Gb, but should be enough for XP. dell.jpg https://www.cnet.com/products/dell- …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2018-12-04, 03:55
There are blank ones. I sure as heck wish I can find one for an ATX case for a sleeper build for either a 486 or Pentium MMX builds.
Re: Monkey Island 1&2: Roland MT-32 + Sound Blaster support
Posted on 2018-12-03, 21:03
I cannot seem to get it to work. Edit: I feel dumb. I remove the SID=someoddtext and I got it to work. Thanks.
Re: Monkey Island 1&2: Roland MT-32 + Sound Blaster support
Posted on 2018-12-03, 03:43
Re: Bought these games today
Posted on 2018-12-01, 19:50
Bought a SimCity bundle (will take pics later) that has SimCity 2000 Deluxe Edition (MS-DOS and Windows), Streets of SimCity, and SimCopter.
Re: What game are you playing now?
Posted on 2018-11-30, 15:16
oeuvre wrote: https://i.imgur.com/pszBMpk.png […] Show full quote Sailor Moon Bishoujo Senshi Fuwa Fuwa Panic, a SNES bubble popper game. Pretty fun. When graphics were the best in the 1990's. I remember playing Bubble Bobble (Arcade) back in the old days.
Re: Jill of the Jungle from GoG onto DOS
Posted on 2018-11-30, 15:13
Also, in most cases, when you DL the game from another site, most of the games have missing pieces of the puzzle, such as some sound card drivers.
Re: What 486 VLB mobos accept DX4-100 WB CPUs?
Posted on 2018-11-29, 21:58
It depends on the BIOS itself as well or the manufacturer of the motherboard. I have a Packard Bell Pack-Mate 28 Plus that has VLB video integrated, as well as the primary IDE port that its own BIOS never supported WB cache that are in the CPUs itself, until I upgraded my BIOS from the OEM Phoenix …
Re: Jill of the Jungle from GoG onto DOS
Posted on 2018-11-29, 20:51
It should work without issues. I have copied DOS games from my modern system to my 486 without issues that I purchased or obtained for free on either GOG or Steam sites.
Re: Music Quest MPU clone cards, anyone interested in them?
Posted on 2018-11-29, 17:28
You can hook up the Sound Blaster 16 output to the SC-55 input and hook up the speakers to the SC-55 output. You won't get hanging note bugs whatsoever. They only occur if your sound card is the following model and DSP version according to this list: Hanging note bug - Vogons Wiki
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