Re: VIA-based thin client rescue

Posted on 2016-12-08, 09:03

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Does it help? http://web.archive.org/web/20040903032917/http://www.termtek.com.tw/mul/WBT_VIA_CE.NET_Manual.pdf I could find a manual for the TK-3350, at least the manual link says 3350 Also that riser card connector is actually a PCI slot acording to the manual The download page is not acessible …

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Re: VIA-based thin client rescue

Posted on 2016-12-08, 09:01

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Thanks for bringing this thread back up! So I plugged mine back in and discovered that pressing F12 at the "System is initalizing and testing" screen gets you immediately into a perfectly ordinary BIOS where you can auto-detect IDE HDDs and tell it to boot from them, or various other things …

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

Posted on 2016-11-24, 05:00

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Did someone run that over with a monster truck ??

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Re: I have a completely forgotten DOS game

Posted on 2016-11-21, 19:34

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Ah well - looks like VileR's already done it, yeah it is Fibs . Nothing more to do here then. (Although I'm not sure where you uploaded it to - there's still no functional place you can download it on the web in my searching.) Before you guys give me too much shit for the ego angle, I just want to …

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Re: I have a completely forgotten DOS game

Posted on 2016-11-21, 09:00

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Sorry, not trying to be secretive. It's a Starcon2 fangame that was made around 1998~1999, released direct to the Web 1.0. I didn't mention the title because there are presently zero hits for it on Google or any other search engine I tried. If I post the title here there will be one hit, but still …

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I have a completely forgotten DOS game

Posted on 2016-11-21, 08:10

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Did a search for the (rather distinctive) title of an old game I was playing around with. NO results whatsoever. No Google hits, no Mobygames, no let's plays, nothing. It seems to be completely expunged from the internet. Interesting... It's a one-author freeware fangame that at least saw some …

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

Posted on 2016-11-21, 06:14

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^^ Wow, that's bad. I've seen some filthy trashed computers but that one tops anything I've found. Good luck saving what you can. 😜 EISA stuff is pretty rare, shame the mobo is such a goner. That RAM might be ECC BTW.

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2016-11-18, 18:34

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Update on the IdeaPad: in the end I couldn't get OSX to work to a satisfactory degree. It would sometimes refuse to boot even after I 'dialled in' the bootloader options, patched the kernel, and it turns out it's absolutely impossible to get the Intel wifi chip to work. So I wiped it and installed …

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Re: Vintage computers in vintage music studios

Posted on 2016-11-15, 22:39

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Cool stuff guys! Here's the famous video game composer Koji Kondo circa the late 80s: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rH8ETPTI9xw/UHzmWIa6MtI/AAAAAAAAAU4/3-lSylAVSf4/s1600/KojiKondo1.png He has a workstation of some sort laying on the corner. On the piano, I believe that is a Toshiba T3100 laying there. …

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Re: Vintage computers in vintage music studios

Posted on 2016-11-11, 19:09

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Here's another one I just ran across in an article today. http://i0.wp.com/www.dubbingnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/stephan_musicstudio233.jpg?w=719 ...goddamn if I didn't have that *exact same* Packard Bell when I was a kid, probably right around the time this was taken. Mine was a 486SX/25 …

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Re: Guess the game!!

Posted on 2016-11-11, 10:34

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sndwv wrote: Aha! It's Locus! I knew I recognised it; I had a demo of it on one of those free sampler discs. Never did play the full game though. leileilol wrote: ^^^^^^^DING So I was wrong, but thanks for introducing me to a new game I've never heard of. That looks fun as shit.

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Re: Mac SE/30 resto project - flat on its face before leaving the starting line

Posted on 2016-11-10, 23:08

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Here's what the board looks like after some attempt at clean-up. Sadly, I'm calling time-of-death. The battery holder disintegrated when I pushed on it. Some of the pins of the video ROM were so brittle they broke when I tried to remove it and UJ3 & UJ4 just came off in my hand. [edit: image removed …

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Re: Mac SE/30 resto project - flat on its face before leaving the starting line

Posted on 2016-11-09, 04:01

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The remains of C12 are right up there between the battery and the PDS, next to the ROM SIMM. It's kinda hard to see in a 2D photo, it looks like a scorched cinnamon bun. :P The silver caps look better in the photos than they actually are, a couple are really dodgy but yeah, most of them are …

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Re: Mac SE/30 resto project - flat on its face before leaving the starting line

Posted on 2016-11-09, 03:33

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There is a capacitor there - C12 - that exploded. A lot. :p

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Mac SE/30 resto project - flat on its face before leaving the starting line

Posted on 2016-11-09, 02:04

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A while ago I bought this cute little SE/30 for cheap. I knew it was going to be a resto project and probably didn't work as-is, but I had my hopes up for it. I've never had a compact Mac and damnit, it's an SE/30, so it'd be worth a little elbow grease. EDIT: Sigh... Broken Photob*cket images …

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2016-11-07, 10:51

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I got this lovely Lenovo Ideapad Flex 15 for the cost of nothing at all after helping the previous owner transfer her data off it & wipe the drive. (A failed windows 8 recovery had left it bootlooping to a kernel panic, and it was set not to allow booting from USB, so she chucked it in a closet for …

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Re: Guess the game!!

Posted on 2016-11-07, 09:55

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Cylindrix! Man, I haven't even *thought* about that game in years 😀

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Laptop ESS Maestro 3i - DOS drivers

Posted on 2016-11-04, 20:06

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There's a Dell Latitude C600 for sale on a local site. The specs look useful - P3/750, ATI Rage Mobility, PC100 RAM, nice big display. It has the ESS Maestro 3i PCI audio chipset. Supposedly this chipset has SB/SB Pro compatibility & DOS drivers. Does anyone have one? How well do they work? I'm …

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Re: Did Iomega Ever Make RELIABLE Storage Options?

Posted on 2016-10-29, 11:12

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Click of death is blown WAY out of proportion. I've been using zip drives since they were current (not just on PCs - samplers, music gear, etc.) and never had one fail. My dad used one daily for years before he retired & he never had any problems either. I found his old drive in his un-climate- …

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Vintage computers in vintage music studios

Posted on 2016-10-27, 23:08

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I collect photos of musicians running oldschool computers in their studios. Here's synth pioneer Wendy Carlos in a 1992 photo. A lot of neat equipment on display. https://thump-images.vice.com/images/articles/meta/2015/08/10/meet-wendy-carlos-godmother-of-electronic-music-and-badass-trans-woman- …

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