Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2017-05-22, 19:26
Just bought this. No box, but the manual comes with it. Filename s-l640.jpg File size 55.44 KiB Views 633 views
Re: My collections of Matrox video cards
Posted on 2017-05-22, 13:15
WOW 😳 Great collection. Awesome.
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2017-05-22, 13:09
Bought this for my C64. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Commodore-64-VIC20-15 … loAAOSwopRYjTFX
Re: Other hobbies?
Posted on 2017-05-21, 22:49
@brostenen - they both look amazing and delicious, but they don't look like sandwiches, as I know them to be anyhow. LOL. :) Thanks... They are just a bit under my standard. (I made them in a hurry). The picture below, are when I do lasagne that are up to my minimum standards for what I can allow …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2017-05-21, 21:59
Not really that much lately.... I do more reading about old hardware than I tinker with it. Today I changed the cooler on my 486dx2-80 VLB system. First pic is the old cooler, and second is the new cooler. The new one is more quiet. Then I took it for a spin, gaming an hour, because the new cooler …
Re: Other hobbies?
Posted on 2017-05-21, 21:23
Well... As I have mentioned previously, I have cooking as a hobby too. These are two examples of open sandwiches, that I make. I never use recepies for these sort of things (only for cakes and cookies). One sandwich is enough, as they are solid and heavy. Filename Sandwich-01.jpg File size 238.2 …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2017-05-19, 07:44
Well.... Yesterday I played with my OrangePI (model Plus 2), to see how it can be set up as a retro gaming device. Shure I have had the same setup running as Phil, and I thought why not take it a bit further. The PI has eMMC and SATA after all. (SATA is connected over the USB bridge, making it a USB …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2017-05-16, 00:10
Well.... I oficially killed my Unisys 486 today. It was in need of a new dallas battery, and after replacing the battery it is dead as a cold fish. Going to salvage cache memmory and other parts.
Re: Want to use a PC as a C64 Floppy drive.....
Posted on 2017-05-14, 22:57
Thanks... This is more or less the same answers I got on Lemon64. The route I want to go, is the route of 64HDD on a Dos computer. The only difference, is that on Lemon64, a user have adviced me to use an XM-1541 cable and not the X-1541 cable. I will buy an SD2IEC instead then. Only have to wait …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2017-05-14, 20:58
This Voodoo card is really pissing me off... There were no damaged pins, and after 3 hours work getting older drivers to work the only result is that 3D games won't even launch... If it's not working by sundown I'm throwing it away. This will be the last time I get a 3DFX card. I own 40 video cards …
Want to use a PC as a C64 Floppy drive.....
Posted on 2017-05-14, 20:42
though I have no idea on what X-Cable to use. I have posted this question on Lemon64 as well, though I think it can not hurt to ask the same question here as well. :lol: I want to buy an X-Cable, because it seems like the cheapest way to test my C64-C. And if it is working, I will get an SD2IEC …
Re: Has anyone tried "welding" plastic using acetone?
Posted on 2017-05-10, 07:32
Thanks. But yeah... I do however know how to build plastic scale models. Painting is what I am bad at though. So I know some of this at least. I used to build modelkits from 7'th grade to my early 20's. I was more after some personal in dept tales on how people have fixed their cracked AT case …
Has anyone tried "welding" plastic using acetone?
Posted on 2017-05-09, 23:23
I have seen someone on the internet, using acetone, when restoring cracked plastic on vintage/retro gear. Has anyone here tried that and is there any tips on what to do and what not to do? What I could get out of it, was to gently moisten the edges and then holding it together. Then what about the …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2017-05-08, 23:32
Just tested the voices on my C64 with this small code (I found it on another forum). And they are working great... I have posted it in order for other Vogon member, if anyone are interested. :-) Code: 10 FORL=54272TO54296:POKEL,0:NEXT:POKE54296,15:GOSUB60 20 POKEW,17:POKEA,9:POKEHF,15:POKELF,35: …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2017-05-08, 21:40
kiwa wrote: Testing a vortex86 PC104 computer […] Show full quote Testing a vortex86 PC104 computer 2017-05-01 20.40.21.jpg 2017-05-02 00.45.42.jpg 🤣 What a lovely Doom/Duke3D machine. 😜
Re: Graphics card choice for 386DX-33 system
Posted on 2017-05-08, 21:32
The Trident 8900D-R is actually on par with a ET4000 for DOS games. It has a 32-Bit memory interface. Apart from the 8900D-R only the 8900CL has 32-Bit access. All other ISA Tridents have the narrow 16-Bit interface. The "spaghetti lines" should be adjustable by tuning the input? At least my Sony …
Re: Graphics card choice for 386DX-33 system
Posted on 2017-05-08, 21:03
None of the 2 cards are a good choice for DOS games on a DX/33 rig. The ET3000 and also the S3 911 are slow for anything but static puzzle games. I recommend: - Cirrus Logic 5422 / 5424 / xxxx 1MB - Tseng ET4000 1MB - Trident 8900D-R - S3 801/805 All of the above cards are very good for DOS games …
Re: Graphics card choice for 386DX-33 system
Posted on 2017-05-08, 20:57
ET3000 is horrible slow on a 386. ET4000 if you can source one for cheap. I think that even CL5422 are faster than ET3000. Did you test ET3000 with 386? 386 shound't squeeze all the best from that et3000? Yes... I have had an 16-Bit ET3000 running on a SX33 with a math processor. With 4mb of ram, …
Re: Bored of vintage computing?
Posted on 2017-05-08, 20:43
I find my self going back in years these day's. Win98se and newer, simply does not grasp my attention. Yeah... It will come back. My primaery interest are Pentium-1 and older these days. These days I do more vintage computing than retro computing. You know... MS-Dos 6.22 and so on.
Re: Graphics card choice for 386DX-33 system
Posted on 2017-05-08, 18:55
ET3000 is horrible slow on a 386. ET4000 if you can source one for cheap. I think that even CL5422 are faster than ET3000.
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