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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2017-11-10, 16:34

by bjwil1991

Repaired a pair of headphones that lost its jack to some success, but I need better audio cable to sacrifice since the one the cable I'm using isn't working very well (audio increases and decreases volume, gets choppy, and only 1 channel works).

Sound Blaster 16 CT2740 Hanging note bug or not?

Posted on 2017-11-10, 16:23

by bjwil1991

in Marvin \ Sound

I found a card online, the Sound Blaster 16 CT2740 which has the DSP version 4.11 and I'm trying to figure out if this card has a hanging note bug. Hanging Note Bug - Vogons Wiki : This site doesn't have the card listed, so I don't know if it does or not. I did ask the seller to check and see if …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-11-10, 15:45

by bjwil1991

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I looked up the RapidCAD and it looks like it's for the 386 systems that acts as an Intel i486 DX processor (CPU+FPU)

Re: How to detect if cache is real or not?

Posted on 2017-11-10, 14:04

by bjwil1991

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

the only thing i did not like was the 8 KB L1 cache. is that upgradable to 16 KB L1 cache ?, don´t even know where that L1 cache is on the motherboard. I also installed 32mb of memory. its more than enough for windows95 and about the recommended per microsoft for windows98 L1 cache is the CPU cache …

Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2017-11-10, 00:44

by bjwil1991

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Success is my name and soldering's not my game. Here's the picture of the card after doing the repair: Mic input is perfect, and the Line-In jack needs its volume raised up, and the output is perfect.

Re: ATI RAGE 128 GL

Posted on 2017-11-09, 21:14

by bjwil1991

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Test the capacitors with a multimeter set to continuity mode (beeps) and look at the output of the caps. The card would always work in modern systems regardless of the PCI revision.

Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2017-11-09, 20:46

by bjwil1991

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

What university is this? Time for a second degree methinks.. Tampere University of Technology The dumpsters there are a fricking gold mine. I found this last year, still haven't figured out what to do with it: https://i.imgur.com/wAeNIQRh.jpg Full res: https://i.imgur.com/wAeNIQR.jpg I don't even …

Re: Old hardware giveaway thread.

Posted on 2017-11-09, 20:45

by bjwil1991

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Interesting topic.

Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2017-11-09, 20:25

by bjwil1991

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Time for a turd debris (third degree) methinks as well.

Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2017-11-09, 20:05

by bjwil1991

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The University dumpster is a gift that keeps giving: https://i.imgur.com/PT930N3h.jpg Full res: https://i.imgur.com/PT930N3.jpg Also a metric shit ton of SCSI, USB and IDE cards and old mice and couple a EGA video cards: https://i.imgur.com/uwIVqb3h.jpg Full res: https://i.imgur.com/uwIVqb3.jpg …

Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2017-11-09, 18:33

by bjwil1991

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Still struggling with that Toshiba T3200SX. Put a couple hours into it, mostly experimenting with partition size / CF geometry but no luck just yet. Toshiba_z_CF.jpg Hook up the CF card to another computer, such as a Desktop, go to the HDD detect settings on the right-hand side of the BIOS screen, …

Re: Re: Compaq Deskpro!

Posted on 2017-11-09, 16:57

by bjwil1991

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Eek! A trident! Get it away! what was that about saving low end hardware you were posting about in the other thread? Anyway not everyone has the same needs. I'd been fine with a trident card. Not everyone plays games on their old systems you know. SimCity 2000 plays better with my Cirrus Logic card …

Re: ~1993 CD-R drive

Posted on 2017-11-09, 16:44

by bjwil1991

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

A 4-speed CD-R drive from 1993? Those drives could read and write up to 650MB, if my memory serves me right since 700MB CDs didn't come out until the late 1990s, yet expensive back then.

Re: Re: Compaq Deskpro!

Posted on 2017-11-09, 16:38

by bjwil1991

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Cool, a Deskpro thread! I have one that I like to show off, a Compaq Deskpro 486/33M, which is a really nice 486 33MHz with EISA. All pictures here: https://imgur.com/a/iHKOd http://i.imgur.com/7Aa4cxGl.jpg It needs a new battery and some more TLC, but I look forward to working on it. I am …

Re: Any one have issues with the Asus VK266H 1920x1200 for 4:3 1600x1200

Posted on 2017-11-09, 15:59

by bjwil1991

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

$40 for a Dell monitor isn't bad at all. I paid $8.99 for the ASUS, the Samsung and Dell monitors were $14.99 or so a piece. I have a Medion MD 1998 OF CRT that I got for $20 or so, and I have an IBM 15" CRT Monitor that's been in my house since 1995. I'm currently using a Dell 1024x768 LCD, really …

Re: Any one have issues with the Asus VK266H 1920x1200 for 4:3 1600x1200

Posted on 2017-11-09, 15:39

by bjwil1991

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have an ASUS VK222H that doesn't have a scaling option as it stretches the display within DOS, as well as the DOS Box in Windows for Workgroups 3.11 I have a Dell 19" LCD Monitor and a Samsung SyncMaster 21.5" LCD Monitor that keeps the ratio at 4:3, no matter what if it's CLI or GUI, they still …

Re: Any one have issues with the Asus VK266H 1920x1200 for 4:3 1600x1200

Posted on 2017-11-09, 15:06

by bjwil1991

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The biggest thing would be if using VGA cards, specifically a Voodoo 3, would scale properly on its own and not stretch the image edge to edge when using 4:3 resolutions or would that just not work? Looking to get proper resolution for DOS games but not from DOSBOX. Or would that just not work? …

Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2017-11-09, 14:27

by bjwil1991

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Did some more solder work on my Aztech Sound Galaxy NX Pro by jumpering some more wires to the corresponding solder points. However, 2 traces go to a small hole, which then goes to another spot (Line-In and one of the pins for the potentiometer) and I had to guess where to jumper the wires to the …

Re: Any one have issues with the Asus VK266H 1920x1200 for 4:3 1600x1200

Posted on 2017-11-09, 13:59

by bjwil1991

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The biggest thing would be if using VGA cards, specifically a Voodoo 3, would scale properly on its own and not stretch the image edge to edge when using 4:3 resolutions or would that just not work? Looking to get proper resolution for DOS games but not from DOSBOX. Or would that just not work? …

Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2017-11-09, 13:26

by bjwil1991

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Did some more solder work on my Aztech Sound Galaxy NX Pro by jumpering some more wires to the corresponding solder points. However, 2 traces go to a small hole, which then goes to another spot (Line-In and one of the pins for the potentiometer) and I had to guess where to jumper the wires to the …

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Sound Blaster 16 CT2740 Hanging note bug or not?

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Re: ATI RAGE 128 GL

Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Re: Old hardware giveaway thread.

Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

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Re: ~1993 CD-R drive

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Re: Any one have issues with the Asus VK266H 1920x1200 for 4:3 1600x1200

Re: Any one have issues with the Asus VK266H 1920x1200 for 4:3 1600x1200

Re: Any one have issues with the Asus VK266H 1920x1200 for 4:3 1600x1200

Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Re: Any one have issues with the Asus VK266H 1920x1200 for 4:3 1600x1200

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