In order: 1989: An early Acorn (possibly Archimedes) while in primary school. 1991: BBC Micro when I started secondary school. 1994: A later Acorn (possibly A3000) when I started GCSEs, mostly used for playing Lander. 1997: RM 486DX2 machines that I did IT A-Level on (Windows 95 and Access 2.0) And …

For CF card - you have to make 1st partition active - use FDISK utility. Weird. I checked FDISK and it said the partition was primary and already active. Deleted it and recreated it anyway (I should know better than letting software do something for me), reinstalled DOS and of course it worked. I …

The same card has been working absolutely fine on my socket 7 board, with or without the Voodoo. The cable was fine at both ends. It's obviously not a processing issue because the 3DFX hardware isn't being utilised in DOS but, if it's a cable issue, it should persist because the loop through cable …

Hi folks, I'm in the process of reviving my 486, an ABit PB-4 motherboard with an AMD DX4. Was a little surprised that it POSTed first time (and of course needed a new CMOS battery). First weird issue I had was that my Trio64 card produced only yellow on the monitor. I got around this by adding my …