Re: Any optical mouse options for AT system?

Posted on 2018-09-17, 02:37

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by cyclone3d

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

You can buy brand new optical serial mice off of eBay for pretty cheap. They do, however, require the special gridded mouse pad that come with them. The other option is to use a Raspberry Pi and a USB to Serial adapter and thus make a USB to Serial mouse adapter. See this post for a link to the …

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Re: Silicon Image Sil3112 PCI SATA Controller - looking for old BIOS

Posted on 2018-09-16, 22:22

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by cyclone3d

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Ok, looked through my cards and I don't actually have any with the 3112 chipset. However, after a bit of research, I did find out that the ASUS A7N8X Uber 1007 BIOS has the SIL 3112 4.2.27 BIOS embedded in it. Here is where you can get a link that you can use in the wayback machine to download it - …

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Re: To build or not to build - Zenith 80286?

Posted on 2018-09-16, 18:58

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by cyclone3d

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Well, I just ordered a backplane. Has 4x of the Zenith type slots, 2x 8-bit ISA and 4x 16-bit ISA. Also found a PDF manual that shows the wiring for the power supply so I can just hook up an AT or ATX power supply (with AT adapter + -5v). Will 16-bit ISA cards work in the longer slots? I don't see …

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Re: Silicon Image Sil3112 PCI SATA Controller - looking for old BIOS

Posted on 2018-09-16, 18:54

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by cyclone3d

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Busy organizing stuff at the moment. I'll try to take a look at my cards later today. I pretty much gave up on using the SIL based cards once I found that Promise S150 based cards just work with absolutely everything I have tried them in so far.

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Re: Aftermarket Coolers for Hotter Socket A/462 CPUs?

Posted on 2018-09-16, 17:56

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by cyclone3d

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Those Alpha pin coolers suck big time. I had one back in the day. Piece of trash it was. The thin copper fin one is a bit better, but for great cooling you want a cooler with heatpipes. The Thermaltake Silent Tower was the very first heatpipe cooler I bought. The only bad thing about it is the way …

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Re: SD to CF adapter issues

Posted on 2018-09-16, 05:54

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by cyclone3d

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Are you using a 40-wire or an 80-wire cable? The 80-wire cables will have one of the wires notched out near the one connector AND they are a lot stiffer than the older IDE cables. It could be a compatibility issue with the cable, the controller, or the BIOS. Not like these things probably go through …

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Re: Absurd prices for vintage hardware?

Posted on 2018-09-16, 05:21

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by cyclone3d

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The other thing about them jacking up the price when only one is left is that you can have listings set to "good until canceled". It really does make sense in that case to jack up the price when only one is left because then you don't have to worry about the ended listing getting lost in a huge list …

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To build or not to build - Zenith 80286?

Posted on 2018-09-16, 02:49

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by cyclone3d

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Sooooo.. I received some cards for a Zenith Data Systems setup in a lot of cards I bought.. but no backplane. The cards use the 124-pin extended ISA looking slot. Cards I have are: CPU/memory board with an 80286-8 (85-3261-01) Memory board (fully populated - 85-3188-01F 022586) Memory board (85-3260 …

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

Posted on 2018-09-16, 00:29

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by cyclone3d

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Going through my stacks/boxes/bins of computer parts to try to start thinning out stuff. First phase will be to get rid of stuff I am pretty sure I will never have a use for.

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Re: Question on Plastic Motherboard Spacers / Standoffs

Posted on 2018-09-15, 19:59

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by cyclone3d

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Those come in a couple different lengths. They also used to come with some cases, both with, and without the threaded portion. I have used the plastic standoffs without threads before, but it is not really the best way to go about it. If it were me, I would just drill and tap holes in the case where …

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Re: Silicon Image Sil3112 PCI SATA Controller - looking for old BIOS

Posted on 2018-09-14, 20:25

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by cyclone3d

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The old SIL controllers sucked. No way around it. I can check the cards I have to see what version they have on them.

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Re: Pinout for the New Media WAVjammer

Posted on 2018-09-14, 04:27

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by cyclone3d

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in Marvin \ Sound

Finally got a chance to take a couple more pics and figure out the wiring. insides-back.JPG inside-traces-under-wires.jpg insides-wires.JPG As for the wiring, it is as follows. In the picture above, the bottom ground is 1, and the top ground is 14. Wire colors are as follows: 1 - Ground 2 - Orange 3 …

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Re: Wolfenstein 3D Freezing on 386sx-40

Posted on 2018-09-13, 19:43

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by cyclone3d

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Set Blaster should be in Autoexec.bat, not Config.sys What are the complete contents of your config.sys and autoexec.bat?

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Re: Combining SBPro compatible with SB16 compatible?

Posted on 2018-09-13, 15:05

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by cyclone3d

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in Marvin \ Sound

For DOS, you can just make a menus for config.sys (would this be needed?) and for Autoexec.bat and then choose which sound card when you boot.

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2018-09-13, 04:47

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by cyclone3d

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

If it still smells, use some fabreeze on it and it should take care of it. I have found that cigarette smell + febreeze = cigarette smell + febreeze. Scrub Free with Bleach or Scrubbing Bubbles with Bleach will remove the smell, just don't wear nice clothes because the bleach *will* get on them. I …

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Re: Help to choose a thermal adhesive tape for CPU

Posted on 2018-09-12, 18:37

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by cyclone3d

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

If you have a 486 class CPU that is running hot enough to melt nylon string, then you have other problems, especially if you are using a heatsink. For fishing line, I would try 20 or 30 lb test line. The thin stuff may have issues stretching. You could always use cloth string instead. You could also …

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Re: Software Project

Posted on 2018-09-12, 14:58

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by cyclone3d

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What exactly are you wanting to do? There isn't just one "best" out there. It depends on your specific purpose.

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Re: Help to choose a thermal adhesive tape for CPU

Posted on 2018-09-12, 14:55

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by cyclone3d

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

You could just use some fishing line to go under the CPU (will thread through the CPU pins fine). Make a loop on each end of the fishing line. And then to keep it tight up top, hook that fishing line up with a couple springs. You will just need to make sure that the springs will be stretched out a …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-09-12, 01:31

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by cyclone3d

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

vmunix wrote: keropi wrote: :D after many years I got a SW-60XG again […] Show full quote 😁 after many years I got a SW-60XG again I've got that thing and the manual but no CD, what's in there ? any interesting soft to control the synth sounds, like editing or something ? Oh yeah, we want an image …

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Re: Looking for decent win98/DOS PCI soundcard.

Posted on 2018-09-11, 21:21

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by cyclone3d

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Im looking to do the same, to find something better than what im currently using.... i play mostly windows and just a handful pure DOS games, the yamaha sound card suggested by "flare" lQQks like a good canidate because trying to locate a decent vortex2/diamond monster sound mx300 sound cards is …

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