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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-10-19, 23:13

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Got this a while back, bought it because it wa cheap and I never had one. Did not realise that I bought a PCI version until I got it. http://i.imgur.com/0BcitUEl.jpg?1 Woa... Kyro PCI? Now I'm wondering if the Prophet 4000 I have is PCI or AGP. I know my Prophet II 4500 Kyro II is AGP, but I don't …

Re: Sound Blaster sample-based OST list?

Posted on 2017-10-19, 21:22

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

The way I see it, there's three tiers of support for the AWE32 and AWE64: 1) Operates as a SB16, optionally with the TSR providing access to the EMU synthesizer. 2) Directly addresses the EMU chip but uses the default soundfont off the ROM. 3) Directly addresses the EMU chip and uploads custom …

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

Posted on 2017-10-19, 20:37

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The case is a little grungy and there's a bit of rust on the back, but the front panel is pretty neat looking. It definitely needs a good "retro-brite" treatment though... its quite yellow. Give it a restoration, and post the results over in System Specs! When I get a chance to clean it up, I think …

Re: Holding PS/2 connectors together

Posted on 2017-10-19, 20:18

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

meljor wrote: just make it a bit oval with a plier and it wil stick perfectly. Probably your best bet. Try to fix the connection itself first. If that doesn't work, then find alternatives.

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

Posted on 2017-10-19, 18:31

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

For over a year a coworker of mine has been telling me about an old computer he has had for several years that was his uncle's. He finally gave it to me two days ago. I had high hopes for a 386 or 486 since it is in an old AT tower with a turbo button AND an LCD readout, but it ended up being a …

Re: OPL2LPT

Posted on 2017-10-17, 01:38

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Forgive me if this has been mentioned elsewhere, but would an OPL2LPT (or something similar) work on a 8088 or a slow 286 with DOS 3.3? I have an IBM 5150 that I use for all of my really really old games, that has a 7Mhz 286 upgrade card installed to slightly extend its capabilities. I've hoped to …

Partial DOS sound support from EPoX 9NDA3J... what?

Posted on 2017-10-16, 22:14

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

So, I was setting up my old 9NDA3J yesterday and noticed that the BIOS had settings for MIDI address and IRQ. I thought "eh, why not?" and attached a gameport to the header on the motherboard (it doesn't have one on the port cluster), hooked it up to my SC55, booted to DOS without any sound drivers …

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

Posted on 2017-10-16, 04:40

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I finally updated the BIOS on my EPoX 9NDA3J Nforce 3 Ultra Socket 939 board to the latest version after scouring the internet and discovering it at a Hungarian download site. I bought the board back in 2005 and used it with an Athlon 64 3000+ 1.8Ghz. With the latest BIOS, however, it supports dual …

Re: List the CPUs you owned when they were new

Posted on 2017-10-16, 02:03

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Before it was actually my computer, my family had these: MOS 6502 (Commodore VIC 20) 8088 (Tandy 1000 HX) 66MHz 486? (Packard Bell desktop of some sort... I don't know which) Cyrix 133 (Custom build) *Pentium 200 MMX (to upgrade the Cyrix) ... Then once I started getting my own, main computers, I …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-10-14, 03:33

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I love that tower! Very unique style and not quite as gigantic as many towers with all those bays. I have a huge old tower with a turbo button and a toggle flip-switch like that too. Its very satisfying to turn on... I just wish I had a motherboard old enough to suit the system. It is currently …

Re: Intel AL440LX

Posted on 2017-10-14, 02:36

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

So, I've been going through my box of old motherboards and found one of these AL440LX boards. Seems interesting! Integrated Yamaha YMF715E-S chip, but sadly does NOT have the additional OPL4 chip I've seen in some pictures (rats!) It does have two 2x3 pin blocks marked "WAVE TBL"... which seems odd …

Re: Watercooling my Athlon XP

Posted on 2017-10-13, 23:06

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'm planning of building such a machine myself, when I can get a good deal on an all in one water cooler, since the one I used for the experiment is the same one I need for my daily driver PC. I'm having terrible flashbacks just thinking about uneven heatsink pressure cracking dies. I'm so glad …

Re: Watercooling my Athlon XP

Posted on 2017-10-13, 21:00

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

That's an interesting project. I briefly tried watercooling one of my 3200+ machines using a modern all in one cooling solution, and the results are promising - 35-36C in idle, 41 tops under load. I used an Abit AN7 maiboard witch allows installing the cpu block / pump by use of a bolt-trough kit, …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-10-13, 17:24

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Okay, who got the Media Vision Thunderboard on eBay for $39? I made an offer but was declined. I have no practical use for it since I have an SB 2.0 CT1350B+CMS and an Aztech Sound Galaxy BXII (nearly the same functionality), but they are pretty rare. If it had been in better condition (it was dirty …

Re: YT Tutorial - MS-DOS 7.1

Posted on 2017-10-13, 05:06

in Release Announcements

in Release Announcements

Sorry for the thread necro, but this post was so incredibly helpful that I had to bump it. I've been fighting with DOS 6.22 all day. I did the steps in this thread and had a perfectly working clean DOS install with FAT32 support with no difficulties what so ever. Here are a few more details …

Re: IDE to Compact Flash as MS-DOS boot drive.

Posted on 2017-10-13, 04:02

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Okay, I gave up. I just downloaded Rufus and used it to install Freedos to my CF card and it booted instantaneously on the 440BX system on the first attempt. I'm running benchmarks and programs right now. I tried for a couple hours to get MSDOS 6.22 onto a CF card but all of the tutorials that show …

Re: IDE to Compact Flash as MS-DOS boot drive.

Posted on 2017-10-13, 02:26

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

As mentioned earlier, this card had DOS put on it by cloning a VHD on a newer computer. It works on a 430TX but not on a 440BX. There were no settings like this involved in the setup process since it was done in Windows 10. Ah, I see. Sorry then. Does that 440BX have got a CD-ROM drive, at least ? …

Re: IDE to Compact Flash as MS-DOS boot drive.

Posted on 2017-10-12, 20:57

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

EDIT2: Of all the weird things... I've been playing with it more and when I change the type of drive for the CF card to "NORMAL" rather than LARGE or LBA, it gets stuck in the same place except it prints a lower case "j" on the line before hanging there. Strangely, I'm able to CRTL-ALT-DEL to …

Re: IDE to Compact Flash as MS-DOS boot drive.

Posted on 2017-10-12, 20:47

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Okay, I just tried booting plain DOS from my 440BX board using an old laptop hard drive and it does the SAME THING. So apparently this isn't a CF card or CF adapter issue. Anyone ever experience a problem like this with a 440BX and plain DOS?

Re: IDE to Compact Flash as MS-DOS boot drive.

Posted on 2017-10-12, 19:33

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

As @Jo22 has mentioned @Ozzuneoj, DOS is a read-only operating system and what I as well like very much about it. Unlike Windows that changes/updates files according to the hardware you're using. In my opinion there's a possibility that there are parameters in your 440BX BIOS that need to be …

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