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

Posted on 2020-06-29, 23:10

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by darry

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People wanting $100 for an Atari XE GS light gun, and many times more for the bare computer, no keyboard, no joystick, no power supply... If I were rich, I think I would just buy some of these things, then visit the people at their homes, and slap them with what I bought until they stopped …

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Re: Apple is getting off Intel CPU’s ?

Posted on 2020-06-29, 20:32

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by darry

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Intel486dx33 wrote on 2020-06-29, 20:01: Have you ever heard of “Win-tel” I never heard the term “Apple-tel” Apple-tel? That's what iphones use to communicate, right ? 😀

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Re: Trident TD9400VL/SOJ/SMT/V2 memory update

Posted on 2020-06-29, 19:53

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by darry

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SOJ 40-pin 512K RAM chips will most likely work . It should be of the same type and speed rating as the RAM already installed (that is either DRAM, EDO DRAM or VRAM). The part numbers on your photo are hard to discern . EDIT : If the part number on existing chips is tc514256aj-70 , you currently …

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Re: Modding AWARD BIOS for FIC 486-VIP-IO board

Posted on 2020-06-29, 18:07

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by darry

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Have a look at Awdbedit . https://sourceforge.net/projects/awdbedit/ I have tried it, but it won't recognize BIOS images either. I suppose these tools expect BIOS image to contain a boot block with a decompression routine and the rest being an LHA archive, whereas the aforementioned images are just …

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Re: How do I see other partitions on my MSDOS Compact Flash when plugged into my WIN7 card reader?

Posted on 2020-06-29, 15:30

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by darry

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Yes, I use the last version to support XP, True Image 2019, and it will not perform a volume image backup of the CF drive unfortunately. I am still running 2015 (first version that supports Windows 10). I imagine you are plugging that CF drive into a USB card reader ? Maybe a workaround would be to …

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Re: How do I see other partitions on my MSDOS Compact Flash when plugged into my WIN7 card reader?

Posted on 2020-06-29, 15:18

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by darry

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Windows 10 will write some volume information on those DOS drives but not enough to even consider it causing a space issue. I just saw this topic but have already been through all this discovery with my CF 5170 machine when attempting to back it up. Only Win 10 saw the additional partitions and it …

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Re: How do I see other partitions on my MSDOS Compact Flash when plugged into my WIN7 card reader?

Posted on 2020-06-29, 13:52

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by darry

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Installing another OS on a VM seems like a lot of work just to access partitions on a removable media. Is anyone familiar with any aforementioned third party tools that will allow me to do this in Windows? VMs can have other use cases and are not that hard to set up, IMHO. Here are just a few of …

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Re: Abix BX-6 Rev 2.0 - Can't Overclock

Posted on 2020-06-29, 13:37

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by darry

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Thanks darry and Horun for the advice. I have good electronics skills, is there a link to said modification? (I have done some forum searching but maybe I'm missing it.) I went ahead and tried the 75 Mhz with 7.0X at ~563 Mhz and that seems to be working fine. Any multipliers over 7 seem to be …

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Re: New sound card project: AWE64 Legacy

Posted on 2020-06-29, 02:22

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by darry

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Express shipping with third party shippers does not seem problematic, at least to my part of Canada. I got a parcel from City of Industry (CA, USA) within essentially 24h (Fedex) and one from Japan in about 36h (DHL). Both of these during the COVID-19 period . Yeah, but how many people was to pay …

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Re: New sound card project: AWE64 Legacy

Posted on 2020-06-29, 02:00

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by darry

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Express shipping with third party shippers does not seem problematic, at least to my part of Canada. I got a parcel from City of Industry (CA, USA) within essentially 24h (Fedex) and one from Japan in about 36h (DHL). Both of these during the COVID-19 period .

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Re: Abix BX-6 Rev 2.0 - Can't Overclock

Posted on 2020-06-29, 01:52

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by darry

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1. That Celeron is based on a Tualatin core . That KIT370 converter probably does not support Tualatin core CPUs . Relatively few Socket 370 to Slot 1 converters support such CPUs with without modifications (to the CPU or converter) . Upgradeware and PowerLeap are the only two manufacturers I know …

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Re: Modem usage

Posted on 2020-06-29, 00:08

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by darry

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Okay, here you go guys: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=62&t=74880 Probably not as interesting as you were hoping. :D It is cool. I had forgotten about the ESS foray into modem chipsets . My guesses were an MWAVE or one of those Aztech/Packard Bell modem/sound cards . As mentioned in the …

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Re: New sound card project: AWE64 Legacy

Posted on 2020-06-29, 00:02

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by darry

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Yep, still waiting sadly... :-/ I hope there is tracking and insurance on that parcel . I have had some stuff in transit from Europe for over 6 weeks, yet more recent shipments have come in with days . At last notice, the Montreal, QC, Canada sorting centre had 250-odd semi-trailer truckloads full …

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Re: Modding AWARD BIOS for FIC 486-VIP-IO board

Posted on 2020-06-28, 22:06

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by darry

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I have been playing with my FIC 486-VIP-IO motherboard. It came with BIOS from year 1995 without support for newer CPUs, with Y2K bug and floppy issue similar to the one described in this post . There are two newer BIOSes available at this location , one is 427GN2A dated 1996 and another is 3276GN1 …

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Re: How do I see other partitions on my MSDOS Compact Flash when plugged into my WIN7 card reader?

Posted on 2020-06-28, 22:02

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by darry

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A VirtualBox VM running Linux is my method of choice for accessing weird partition setups or filesystems using USB pass-through . A Windows 98 SE VM might work too, if the VirtualBox USB pass-through can be made to work without the VirtualBox add-ons (there are none for Windows 9x).

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Re: USB KVM switch

Posted on 2020-06-28, 17:21

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by darry

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Hi, I have: - a modern Windows 10 PC with USB keyboard and mouse - a retro Windows 98 / XP PC with PS/2 keyboard and mouse (currently built around a Via K8M800 motherboard). Will a USB KVM switch like this Aten CS22U work between the two systems, using only USB peripherals? My main concern is DOS …

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Re: Cirrus Logic cl-gd5401 graphic card on 386Sx and XT motherboard - will it work?

Posted on 2020-06-28, 17:10

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by darry

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stopi wrote on 2020-06-28, 09:29: So Proton is just MDA card for monochrome display adapters? Not MDA, Hercules . https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercules_Graphics_Card

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Re: How to get AWE32's wavetable working in DOS?

Posted on 2020-06-28, 15:29

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by darry

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@grommit2007 You sent me a PM regarding Audigy 4 & SB X-Fi Elite Pro drivers.. but I can't reply back coz of this forum's re+arded rules. Yes, I got the Discs for both cards.. but am unable to post them on vogons drivers, because more re+arded rules and because nobody answered my messages (*ahem*.. …

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Re: IDE optical drive gone from device manager after enabling DMA

Posted on 2020-06-28, 03:22

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by darry

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Seeing the drive in device manager in safe mode is no guarantee the drive is actually detected . "Phantom" devices (that are no longer present or connected) in Windows 9x safe mode are common . Additionally, in Windows 9x safe mode, even a normally working optical drive will not be accessible as its …

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

Posted on 2020-06-28, 00:26

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by darry

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I would guess that a Linux VM or simply a Linux LiveCD or LiveUSB bootable medium would work as well . If there is room in the mothrrboard BIOS flash memory chip, it may be possible to add the XT-IDE BIOS to it as an ISA option ROM .

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