Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-09-16, 11:12

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by Cyrix200+

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Yes, the chip with the QC sticker is the DSP controller. Apparently clones tend to leave this chip unlocked whereas the original Creative cards have it bitlocked. If it's unlocked it might turn out to be a useful rom dump for current (SnarkBarker etc) and future retro sound card projects. I'll put …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-09-16, 10:50

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Oh yeah, I do need to do that, making a good thingiverse submission is a lot of work though. Here are the STL files if you have a 3d printer handy :) Idk what happened to the 3d printing thread on vogons, I could post a few things in it. ATinMATX-September2020.zip I've been buying some weird and …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-09-15, 08:31

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Have been meaning to post these for many years. Anyone have an idea of what they are? https://i.postimg.cc/TwztF0gd/20200915-174814-1.jpg There were a couple of 4 mb PCMCIA flash cards in the lot, which I took out and used for my 200lx and WinCE PDA, but these don't appear to fit any slots that I …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-09-10, 15:00

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Predator99 wrote on 2020-09-10, 14:52: Considering the careful packaging...yes.! 20200910_155521.jpg **Shiver**

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-09-09, 13:55

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Some of them look bulged at the top? I would be very surprised to find any Slot-A/Socket-A boards with healthy caps to be honest.. They are all leaky. Tops are not very bulged, probably because they all literally shat the bed with brown crust on the bottom. I hope I get an hour free tonight to map …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-09-09, 11:37

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by Cyrix200+

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Not a lot of time for this hobby lately, but I did get this Abit KA7-100. with Athlon 750MHz. Caps look ok, no? /s

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Re: The Ultimate Hardware 2019 project- a new, modern TH99

Posted on 2020-08-30, 20:16

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by Cyrix200+

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Man, this is such a useful project! Thanks for all the effort so far! I have some layout issues on Firefox in Linux Mint. Can I drop issues in this topic, or is there another way?

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

Posted on 2020-08-28, 18:50

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by Cyrix200+

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Installed a Sound Blaster 16, an Ethernet card, a Compact Flash drive and a CD-ROM in my IBM PS/1 2155, then proceeded to copy over the contents of a 1994 PS/1 HDD image. It works fine, although a bit quirky. Randomly spits out date time errors at boot, and at times when I go into bios the second …

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Re: Voodoo 2 component map

Posted on 2020-08-13, 14:36

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by Cyrix200+

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Is C48 (component side, lower right) also missing? Can't really make it out on the photo. The trace damage near the VGA connector should be checked with a multimeter. It looks quite severe.

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Re: What music are you listening to?

Posted on 2020-08-11, 11:19

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by Cyrix200+

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Me (and my neighbours) have been listening to a lot of Devin Townsend lately. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrDM6V08wcE

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Re: Tulip pc compact 2

Posted on 2020-08-07, 12:22

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by Cyrix200+

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I recently acquired a complete Tulip pc compact 2. Tulip Computers was a computer builder from The Netherlands that was popular from 1984 to halfway though the nineties. These are some great pictures! Are these also covered by the open content policy and available under Creative Commons Attribution …

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

Posted on 2020-08-06, 22:17

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I got a nice audio mixer today (following a fellow Vogoners advice) and hooked some thing up today. MT32, SC55, SB16 and the Wavetable output of the PCMIDI. All works just great! Got distracted playing Doom and Monkey Island while testing, so did not clean up. It's is temporarily zip-tied to the …

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Re: CCCyrix logo (clipart)

Posted on 2020-08-03, 14:59

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Anonymous Coward wrote on 2020-08-03, 14:06: Nice! Thanks! It's pretty close. Maybe it would look even better if there weren't dividing lines between the different sections. I will modify it later. *edit* Done. See attachment. It looks nice, but I think the dividing lines are there on the CPU …

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Re: Voodoo 2, no image with Glide games

Posted on 2020-08-03, 14:56

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by Cyrix200+

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I don't think it will help in you case since you already tried different drivers and the symptoms don't match my own experience, but try stock drivers for the card (Diamond's drivers). FastVoodoo drivers are popular, but they overclock the card a bit (and that's not widely known). https://www. …

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Re: CCCyrix logo (clipart)

Posted on 2020-08-03, 13:36

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by Cyrix200+

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Dang. Nice work!

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Re: CCCyrix logo (clipart)

Posted on 2020-08-03, 11:35

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by Cyrix200+

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There is also this one: http://cpu.f5soft.com/details.php?image_id=16 Also not very useable for copying. EDIT: Ah, also in this manual. Might be more usable? https://www.datasheetarchive.com/pdf/download.php?id=066596a720dd26c6c0327041b3188f3238b653&type=O&term=Cyrix%2520FasMath Think this one is …

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Re: CCCyrix logo (clipart)

Posted on 2020-08-03, 11:29

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by Cyrix200+

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There is also this one: http://cpu.f5soft.com/details.php?image_id=16 Also not very useable for copying. EDIT: Ah, also in this manual. Might be more usable? https://www.datasheetarchive.com/pdf/download … rix%2520FasMath

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Re: Clock running slow after installing new CMOS battery

Posted on 2020-08-03, 10:43

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by Cyrix200+

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I've read about this problem a few times. The voltage might be too low to keep the clock running. Was the original battery also 3.6V? This search finds a few topics, but it's hard to wade through :) https://www.vogons.org/search.php?keywords=bios+battery+clock EDIT: reworded Ive been doing a bit of …

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Re: Clock running slow after installing new CMOS battery

Posted on 2020-08-03, 10:03

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by Cyrix200+

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I've read about this problem a few times. The voltage might be too low to keep the clock running. Was the original battery also 3.6V? This search finds a few topics, but it's hard to wade through 😀 search.php?keywords=bios+battery+clock EDIT: reworded

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Re: Retro/vintage repair in hacker/makerspaces in the Netherlands?

Posted on 2020-08-02, 12:59

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by Cyrix200+

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I don't have any suggestions for a makerspace or something similar because I don't have any experience, but I would like to put in a similar offer as dionb, since I am near Amsterdam and also have an assortment of tools and parts available. And also a fortysomething ;) From my own experience, dionb …

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