Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-07-31, 01:09

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by stamasd

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ODwilly wrote: That looks like a PC Chips board with real cache, VLB, and PCI. Nice score! One thing I don't see however is a FDD connector, which is surprising for a motherboard from that era. That's OK I have plenty of multi-IO controllers, just surprising.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-07-31, 00:59

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by stamasd

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Also just got this motherboard from another old hardware forum: A late 486 ISA/VLB/PCI, dunno the manufacturer.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-07-30, 23:03

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by stamasd

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Sometimes sellers put the wrong pictures.... happened before... Nope, it was the right picture (already got the card in the mail). In fact I would have preferred that it were a Yamaha PCI card, but I'm happy enough with the Solo too, especially at this price. http://www.ebay.com/itm/152183558386?_ …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-07-30, 22:14

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by stamasd

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Scored an ESS Solo-1 for $1 (plus $3 shipping) was mislabeled "Yamaha sound card" on ebay even though clearly it wasn't that; and a TB Aureal Vortex2 for $3 plus $4 shipping.

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Re: Xi 8088 by Segey Kiselev

Posted on 2016-07-30, 20:53

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by stamasd

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Wait! You can never have too many XT-class computers! 😀 (if you thought this hobby is cheap, you're mistaken. Well perhaps cheaper than having a mistress or something...)

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Re: Reccommend me DVD playing software for Windows 95

Posted on 2016-07-30, 10:42

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by stamasd

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I remember using a Sigma Designs Hollywood+ mpeg2 decoder card back in the day when I had a Celeron 300A (overclocked to 450) with Win98. Software decoders had stuttering with some DVDs in non-hardware-accelerated mode even with the overclocked CPU. But who knows, maybe later they came up with …

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Re: Sound Blaster Prototype on eBay

Posted on 2016-07-30, 00:58

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by stamasd

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The comments in this blog entry at OS2Museum indicate that the ROM from one of the SB16s DSPs has been dumped : http://www.os2museum.com/wp/sound-blaster-the-french-connection/ Thanks for that pointer. I have investigated a bit, based on information on that page, and found a dump of a SB16 MCU code …

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Re: Intel SE440-BX2 and EMS memory

Posted on 2016-07-29, 19:22

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by stamasd

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Instead of EMM386 try to use Jemmex.exe or QEMM97. Jemm (includes jemmex): https://web.archive.org/web/20141011223727/ht … th.de/Jemm.html QEMM97: ftp://yesican.chsoft.biz/pub/dv/qemm97.zip or WinWorldPC

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Re: Slot 1 CAD Workstation

Posted on 2016-07-29, 12:52

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by stamasd

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If you haven't given up on the dual slot2 idea, there is a dual slot2 motherboard (Asus XG-DLS) freshly posted on Amibay in the "other hardware" subforum that nobody has claimed yet.

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Re: Sound Blaster Prototype on eBay

Posted on 2016-07-29, 12:39

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by stamasd

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Preferably some Australian person who has a whole lab available for retro-tinkering :D :wink: Hint, hint... Im in Melbourne, have a 'whole lab' set up, but no funds for this... hmm... my 30th birthday is coming up... :wink: Hint, hint... Umm, I'm sure the hint was for someone else. Like someone who …

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Re: Sound Blaster Prototype on eBay

Posted on 2016-07-29, 12:36

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by stamasd

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There are special techniques for reading protected MCUs. Good luck with the auction, I hope it brings you lots of money as this piece of history deserves. I'm interested, but currently I'm saving for a laptop unfortunately.

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Re: What is the maximum hard disk size Windows Me will accept?

Posted on 2016-07-29, 00:36

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by stamasd

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Hi, was wondering if anyone might know offhand what is the maximum internal hard disk size that Windows Me will accept? On my current classic/retro PC gaming rig, I think I have a 120GB IDE/PATA hard drive installed, which Windows Me accepts with no problems and with the full partition size, so I …

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Re: Sound Blaster Prototype on eBay

Posted on 2016-07-28, 15:22

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by stamasd

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brostenen wrote: Somehow I hope Creative will see it, and buy it if they have their own museum of company history. I definitely hope that doesn't happen.

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Re: YMF744+DSDMA+DOS+P965(and other PCIe chipsets)=success

Posted on 2016-07-28, 15:07

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by stamasd

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Those Yamaha sound cards don't cease to amaze me. Too bad PCI slots are going the way of the ISA (and Dodo) on modern hardware. I wonder is DSDMA would work through a PCIe/PCI bridge. Might just get one of those adapters from ebay to give it a try.

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Re: Advise on PCI Sound Card?

Posted on 2016-07-28, 15:02

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by stamasd

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Only AWE64-D and AWE64-PCI has SB-Link. There are two CT models out there. Hard to source. Really hard to source. Sorry, SB=South Bridge. Ahhh, and that explain's it..... :lol: Sorry for not reading it correct. Was there not some kind of hack that can be made, in order to add a SB-Link header, if …

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Re: Slot 1 CAD Workstation

Posted on 2016-07-28, 01:39

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by stamasd

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440BX (or GX if you can find one)

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Re: What parts do I need?

Posted on 2016-07-28, 01:36

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by stamasd

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Oldskoolmaniac wrote: were 256mb sticks around at all? Don't think so; IIRC the choice I was having was the 64MB for $90 or a 128 for about $160.

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Re: What parts do I need?

Posted on 2016-07-28, 01:28

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by stamasd

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Oldskoolmaniac wrote: 384MB of RAM 3x128MB PC100 year: 99 price: I found a article awhile back saying 128MB RAM stick was around $600 That is wrong. In 1998 I bought a 64MB DIMM for $90 new.

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Re: Xi 8088 by Segey Kiselev

Posted on 2016-07-27, 02:24

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by stamasd

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Yes there is a setup program that you can use to set parameters. It's been many years since I used a 3c503 but I remember distinctly using suck setup to set parameters manually on one. thanks, I have the 3c503 driver disks and the software and the only packet driver i could find is the crynwyr one. …

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Re: Xi 8088 by Segey Kiselev

Posted on 2016-07-27, 01:40

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by stamasd

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been testing my new bios, seems like my little tweaks have been good but need more time testing it, seems to have fixed the vga startup tho. tested my 3c503 network card, it has jumpers for io, but it assumes DMA + IRQ it seems, and of course its DMA 1, same as my soundblaster card ugh. going to …

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