Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-09-14, 19:25

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by xjas

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Received a nice Gigabyte GA-486VS motherboard today. Battery had been removed and the appears to be minimal to non corrosion. Board looks to be in great condition. It came with a DX2 66 and 8mb Ram. Nice, I have one of those too. I need to burn a BIOS for it but it's otherwise in great shape. Do …

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

Posted on 2019-09-14, 19:18

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Try this : files.hddguru.com/download/Software/zu.betta.050911.rar DUDE! That did it in literally one second. I'm still going to dump the eeprom out of curiosity, but the drive is unlocked and installed in my PC. Now I just have to find something that can read an original Xbox drive (not a 360 one) …

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Re: What are the weirdest pieces of retro hardware you owned?

Posted on 2019-09-14, 10:55

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Does it include DIY hardware? If yes, then rudder pedals made of several pieces of wood, rollerskate wheels, 50Ohm potentiometer, some nuts, bolts and washer and a piece of wire. It was back in 286 era, and I made it for Flight Simulator 3.0 I think... You cannot post that and not post pictures. …

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Re: What are the weirdest pieces of retro hardware you owned?

Posted on 2019-09-14, 10:44

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I got this weird little embedded system out of a large scientific apparatus that was being recycled. It came in a bespoke metal enclosure which was barely bigger than the motherboard itself. Inside is a bog-standard socket 7 ATX board with a P133 - well, if you can call a rather neat industrial- …

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Re: Any others given up on the hobby?

Posted on 2019-09-14, 07:04

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Not bored with retro computing in general, but I'm definitely done "collecting" (or amassing spare parts in my case.) I'm selling off tons of stuff right now. I realized I've built every machine I could possibly want, and the accumulation was getting to be a real drain. Ultimately I want to use …

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

Posted on 2019-09-13, 21:24

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What's inside? Is it a normal PC-like motherboard & PSU or something like a PC/104 embedded stack system? Or completely proprietary?

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Re: *nix software and systems

Posted on 2019-09-13, 19:36

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What are good, well-supported video card choices for these older Linuxes? I'm not expecting miracles with 3D or anything, but a hardware accelerated desktop would be nice.

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

Posted on 2019-09-13, 05:43

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Wasted QUITE a lot of time today trying to unlock an 8GB Xbox HDD without knowing the user password. Wasn't able to do it. I know the MASTER password, but the security settings on these don't allow you to unlock them without the USER password, which is stored in an eeprom on the Xbox. I actually …

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Re: Reverse Engineering

Posted on 2019-09-13, 01:00

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Dude, settle the hell down. You've started 7 new threads today alone, and almost 20 in the last two weeks, most of which are just an inane 1-line question like this one. Yes, 'discussion' is nice, but this isn't that & you're drowning out threads with actual content from the front pages.

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

Posted on 2019-09-12, 05:57

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"Linux just isn't ready for the desktop!" -every blowhard pundit until around 2015

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Re: For Duke Nukem 3D/classic first person shooter fans

Posted on 2019-09-11, 06:58

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I basically consider Serious Sam to be the true Duke3D sequel. Or maybe Duke3D is the prequel to Serious Sam... I only played the original First and Second encounter (and not entirely through), as well as a demo of Serious Sam 2 , and frankly I do not find much similarity between these games and …

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Re: Bought these (retro) software/OS today

Posted on 2019-09-11, 04:47

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Will these MIDI files work with a DB50XG? I will be adding these to my computer's MIDI file collection to play them. Don't see why they wouldn't! They're just basic XG-MIDI files from the looks of it; I don't think they need any of the "higher XG levels." They sound nicer than most General MIDI …

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Re: Ensoniq SQ80 lives again via a free VST

Posted on 2019-09-11, 01:50

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Damn, nice. Never messed with an original Ensoniq instrument before, but this will be fun to try out. I'm moving more and more towards in-the-box for this kind of stuff, having hardware is tons of fun but the space requirements and constant fiddlyness of 30-year-old, nth-hand gear gets old when I …

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Re: Bought these (retro) software/OS today

Posted on 2019-09-10, 22:58

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Found this yesterday for a mighty five bucks. It was still in the shrink wrap even! Couldn't resist: CameraZOOM-20190909173849578.jpg CameraZOOM-20190909173908707.jpg On the disks are literally six .mid files each, totalling less than 1/4 of the available space. No text files or documentation or …

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Android (S)FTP servers?

Posted on 2019-09-10, 07:36

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What's a good way to host an SFTP server on an Android device? I used to see ES File Explorer recommended for this, but that company got banned from the play store for bundling shonkware, so not touching it with a ten foot pole. I installed Ghost Commander but it seems it can only act as an SFTP …

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Re: VOGONS Driver Library

Posted on 2019-09-10, 06:41

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by xjas

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^^ I have Catalyst 6.2 in my own archive for 9xxx cards on Win98 (which is what AMD's official site offers.) Is there an advantage to going with 4.3?

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

Posted on 2019-09-10, 06:21

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Ok, so that thing has a micro controller in it by Parallax Inc: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallax,_Inc._(company) The type of controller is "Basic Stamp" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASIC_Stamp Since it has a "motor" label on the output side, I bet it was being used as a PWM controller for a …

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

Posted on 2019-09-10, 05:56

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L0L. Considering it was in a VERY highly trafficked dumping spot, in a public building, where I and many others have taken things from lots of times in the past, I'm not too worried. Just a bunch of bog-standard electronics inside (including a hacked-up wall wart for a power supply.) Nothing …

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Re: For Duke Nukem 3D/classic first person shooter fans

Posted on 2019-09-10, 00:26

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treeman wrote: this remake looks so good, captures the original... duke forever was crap I basically consider Serious Sam to be the true Duke3D sequel. Or maybe Duke3D is the prequel to Serious Sam... Making the choice of engine here suitably on point.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-09-10, 00:13

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The latest Rocky5 softmod installer lets you null the EEPROM (set it to all zeroes), so in case the original HDD dies it's easy enough to build a new one. It's a one-minute process and you can do it straight from the menu without messing around with the hardware at all. Still not as nice as flashing …

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