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

Posted on 2017-08-11, 13:10

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Found some 80's candy in a shop (don't worry, not produced in the 80's), and what better way to eat these, than playing a round of bobsled in Epyx Winther Games on a C64. 😜 Filename nostalgi80.jpg File size 179.91 KiB Views 583 views

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Re: What to build in an SGI Workstation

Posted on 2017-08-08, 21:07

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It's a special case indeed. Visually the case reminds me of an Amiga and a BeBox having a love child. :lol: To keep it designwise fairly accurate in my mind, I would use a 440BX Slot1 mainboard. A fast P-II or a low speed P-III. Something like a 400mhz P-II to a 600mhz P-III would do it. Perhaps a …

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

Posted on 2017-08-08, 20:11

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Interesting system. I need to get a case for my Socket 7 system (planning on upgrading to a Socket 370 AT with a Pentium 3 1000 processor) since the case that is used right now has little to no threads left in the case at all and my HDD caddy is about to fall off since there's only 1 screw holding …

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

Posted on 2017-08-08, 09:42

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My dx4-120 was treated with a new "home". I moved the guts from an ATX case to an AT case... - FIC 486 VIP-IO motherboard. - Amd 486dx4-120 (running stock speed, no overclocking and passive cooling) - 32mb Ram. - Cirrus Logic CL-5446 2mb PCI. - Creative AWE64 Value/Standard. - CD-Rom drive. - 512mb …

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Re: Any saving this 386?

Posted on 2017-08-02, 08:13

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I have seen some *disgusting* electronics from cigarette smoke. But I've also seen some fairly clean electronics from heavy smoking homes (aside from the odour). I feel like inside ventilation, type of cigarettes and how clean the home is kept are big factors. The biggest problem I found is that …

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Re: Any saving this 386?

Posted on 2017-08-01, 22:44

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I have a small question. Why is it allways tobacco smoke people refer to these days? It's like tobacco when yellowed from sunlight, tobacco when something is black. As far as I know, nichotine makes a reddish orange colour and sticks like cooking oil vapour. Removing is basically just water and soap …

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

Posted on 2017-08-01, 21:30

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I oiled the fan of the PSU of my new 386. Now it doesn't sound like a plane anymore ^^. I hope it'll stay silent for a while. By oiling the fan I hope you mean repacking the barrings. Oiling the daft will only last so long And I hope you did not use wd-40 because that's not a lubricating oil. …

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

Posted on 2017-08-01, 21:25

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Been trying out M2I compilations of hard to get working multi disk D64's on my C64 with SD2IEC adaptor. So far, testdrive and california games are working like a charm as M2I, as compared to multidisk D64 versions.

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Re: Emulating MT-32 on an RPi2

Posted on 2017-07-27, 07:23

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Hmmm.... I will test it out on sunday. No time before that. 🙁

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Re: Emulating MT-32 on an RPi2

Posted on 2017-07-26, 19:49

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Been digging around a bit, using google. As I previously mentioned, I am not strong in programming, hence I need to use google a lot for these sort of things. Just to clear it up, I need to change true to false in line 17 on this example here? It might not be that exact same file that I am trying to …

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Re: Emulating MT-32 on an RPi2

Posted on 2017-07-25, 21:42

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Well.... Got the missing packages installed. Still have a problem though, and it is related to me not being a programmer. I simply have no clue on to how to write code. So the thing about disabling QT5 in order to ude QT4, is something that I simply have no idea on how to do. I have been searching …

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Re: Emulating MT-32 on an RPi2

Posted on 2017-07-25, 13:38

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Yup.... This is as far as i get: -- Found GLIB2: /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libglib-2.0.so -- Found MT32EMU: $ -- Looking for clock_nanosleep in rt -- Looking for clock_nanosleep in rt - found CMake Error at mt32emu_qt/CMakeLists.txt:114 (find_package): By not providing "FindQt5Widgets.cmake" in …

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Re: Emulating MT-32 on an RPi2

Posted on 2017-07-25, 10:47

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Hmmm.... On Armbian on the OrangePI. It can not install the qtmobility-dev package, using apt-get. Does it serve any purpouse as such?

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Re: Emulating MT-32 on an RPi2

Posted on 2017-07-24, 09:38

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What stage are you at? I'm assuming you're using ARMbian. Any problems building it using instructions for the Pi 2? What do you intend to use for MIDI input? Well. I came as far as to make it, using "cmake", yet it could not find any QT5wigdets or something like that. I cant remember what that …

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Re: Emulating MT-32 on an RPi2

Posted on 2017-07-23, 19:47

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Just out of quriosity... Has anyone had any luck getting Munt running on an OrangePI-PC board? If so. What are the steps to get it running? If it is possible to do so, then I need to test an idea that I have.

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Re: Identify this Aopen 486 motherboard

Posted on 2017-07-22, 22:32

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Sticker on the BIOS say Acer.

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Re: Do you reformat preformatted floppies?

Posted on 2017-07-21, 20:53

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by brostenen

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I format every single disk I get a hold on. New/old/unused/used does not matter. I format them all.

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Re: Problem enabling mouse under DOS 6.22

Posted on 2017-07-18, 08:55

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I have had problems with mouse.sys in config.sys before. Though if the hardware is up and running correctly, mouse.com and ctmouse.com/exe in autoexec.bat will allways work. I have seen that there are settings for I/O channels in the manual, so perhaps it is set up and conflicting as it is now, …

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

Posted on 2017-07-12, 20:31

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Did some testing of hardware, and taking pictures of stuff. Setting up previously tested hardware for sale, and fiddeling around with CF cards in my Amiga600. (Forgot to eat)

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Re: Working usb midi or isa sound card over usb in dos

Posted on 2017-07-10, 11:10

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I am wondering, if Win98se booted in dos mode, will accept and run the usb to midi dongle from Roland. Anyone know if that is possible?

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