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

Posted on 2016-06-28, 20:44

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by brostenen

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Installed a soundcard in my 286 computer, finished it off by playing Prince Of Persia and Lemmings. What card did you install? I installed this Yamaha YMF-718s (or 719, forgetting the number). I chose it, because of the light drivers and because SB16 is a bit overkill when looking at the age of the …

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

Posted on 2016-06-28, 20:19

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by brostenen

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Installed a soundcard in my 286 computer, finished it off by playing Prince Of Persia and Lemmings.

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Re: Largest IDE hard drives

Posted on 2016-06-28, 14:31

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by brostenen

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computergeek92 wrote: Well then again I just read a bit about the Seatools app that can "trick" the Bios to see a lower disk capacity. That is cool. I ought to check it out for myself. Thanks. Yeah.... It's an old trick that are widespread. I have done it on a couple of 250gb drives in the past.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-06-27, 20:56

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by brostenen

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Naahh... Tridents are ok in 286/386's.

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Re: Largest IDE hard drives

Posted on 2016-06-27, 20:54

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by brostenen

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Converters are cheap. Really cheap. They can be bought as low as 2 US Dollars including shipping. I say go for it. Just buy four to six different type of converters and start testing. I heard some cheaper converters can fry the drive connectors. Be careful. True... Allways do a visible inspection …

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Re: Largest IDE hard drives

Posted on 2016-06-27, 20:52

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by brostenen

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Buy a Seagate, 500GB to 2TB in size as it does not matter, and modefy it's size with Seatools.

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

Posted on 2016-06-27, 20:48

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by brostenen

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Upgrading my Unisys 286. 630mb HDD and VGA. From 20mb HDD and EGA. whats the gain from that, except maybe vga games? is there anything that visibly speeds up? The gain, is not to use an old noisy EGA monitor and the MFM were about to give up. I have to look into RAM upgrade now, and find out what …

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Re: SOLVED - Help getting IDE to boot on a 286

Posted on 2016-06-27, 20:26

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by brostenen

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Ahhhh.... They are different. Thought that HDD-Types were a predefined thing. You know... From back in the age of the dinosaur's, were there were only so many drives. Now that 47, being user defined, stated in the setup disk. Would that not be a big manufactor error, not found in the erretra sheet's …

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

Posted on 2016-06-27, 20:21

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by brostenen

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I spent an evening trying to get sound in some Lucasarts games (Loom, Monkey1, DOTT, S&M) but failed. DOTT under DOS 7.1 only produces speech, in Win98 music is there too but I get a horrible hanging note (SB16 Vibra) during the intro. Maybe my machine is too fast (P3 @ 450). Supposedly the latter …

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

Posted on 2016-06-27, 20:16

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by brostenen

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Upgrading my Unisys 286. 630mb HDD and VGA. From 20mb HDD and EGA.

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Re: SOLVED - Help getting IDE to boot on a 286

Posted on 2016-06-27, 19:13

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by brostenen

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Ahh... The manual states that 47 is a user defined drive. Even this website has 46, as the last pre-defined drive type. The installation/BIOS disk, states the same thing, that 47 is user defined. I am really confused by now. http://www.dewassoc.com/support/bios/amisetup.htm Basically, I assumed that …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-06-27, 18:58

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by brostenen

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VL-Bus and Voodoo3.... Nice find, both of them. 😜

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Re: SOLVED - Help getting IDE to boot on a 286

Posted on 2016-06-27, 18:39

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by brostenen

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Good to hear that it's working now. Out of curiosity, when you were choosing type 47, you were setting the correct drive parameters as values, right? Well.... This is the strange part of it. There is no place in wich the parameters can be entered. It is only the type numbers that can be entered, …

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Re: Largest IDE hard drives

Posted on 2016-06-27, 17:15

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by brostenen

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computergeek92 wrote: IDE is PATA so yea. Yes. That's what I said. Pata and sata are both IDE. In fact. They are ATA wich are IDE too. ATA-33 to ATA-300 as an example.

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Re: Largest IDE hard drives

Posted on 2016-06-27, 17:12

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by brostenen

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Converters are cheap. Really cheap. They can be bought as low as 2 US Dollars including shipping. I say go for it. Just buy four to six different type of converters and start testing.

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Re: Help getting IDE to boot on a 286

Posted on 2016-06-27, 15:30

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by brostenen

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SUCCESS..... It is now working. 630 glorious Megabytes at my disposal, on the Unisys Pw/2 Series 300. Thanks to all, for helping me solving this issue.

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Re: Help getting IDE to boot on a 286

Posted on 2016-06-27, 15:21

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by brostenen

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Okay..... Minor progress. I installed one of my 32mb CF cards as a fixed type harddrive at a size of 10mb (cant remember the number between 1 and 46). And the machine would boot the card with a complete MS-Dos-6.22. This points to a error bug in the BIOS when running type 47. As far as I can figure …

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Re: Largest IDE hard drives

Posted on 2016-06-27, 00:34

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by brostenen

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There are large SATA drives. On the other hand, I have a feeling you are thinking of PATA only. As far as I remember, you might be the correct on them PATA drive size's.

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Re: Brexit???

Posted on 2016-06-26, 22:20

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by brostenen

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Yeah..... It's even in the Danish news now, that a lot of voters have asked if they can change their vote from leave to stay. The reason being, that they have voted in protest of EU, firmley convinced that the outcome would be "stay".

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Re: Brexit???

Posted on 2016-06-26, 21:10

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by brostenen

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I am not that worried for Denmark. Our constitution can not be changed that easy. It has to be discussed and voted three times in the Danish parlament, then the changes to it has to be set up for the people to vote. And finally, the queen has to sign it, after making shure that any change does not …

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