Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.
Posted on 2020-05-04, 17:05
What are those PCI VGA cards wiretap? They look like stuff I would love to have one of 😁
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2020-05-04, 09:29
I modded one of my GOTEK units with the Flash-Floppy firmware, a 128x32 OLED screen and a piezo buzzer. This will be installed in my IBM PS/1 DX2-66 as part of its restoration.. https://i.postimg.cc/sG16S0Qc/GOTEK-Flash-Floppy-OLED-Buzzer-01.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/c6J5V69n/GOTEK-Flash-Floppy-OLED- …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2020-05-04, 09:21
Isn't that the semi-portable High Treason made a video about not long ago and absolutely shat on? They were called luggables at the time . Got a link to that video ? Sure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NbsnZwVYls And yes, it's a Dolch luggable, and he hates on it in spectacular manner.. He has …
Re: Retro OSes for retro computers
Posted on 2020-05-04, 05:23
GNOME 2 is what MATE started with. As a codebase, they were the same at the beginning but are no longer the same. As a project, of course, MATE is not in any way GNOME. Go have a look at the credits on an installation then... Nobody denied that it was forked from GNOME, that is very different from …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2020-05-04, 05:22
Isn't that the semi-portable High Treason made a video about not long ago and absolutely shat on?
Re: Biostar MB-8433UUD-A External Battery Question
Posted on 2020-05-03, 09:53
Remove the RTC and install a socket it is then. How tricky is the RTC to remove? It is kind of adjacent to the ISA slot, but I don't think it has any nasty solderpads on the ground plane or anything? A solder wick and solder sucker should be enough?
Re: What game are you playing now?
Posted on 2020-05-03, 06:36
WildW wrote on 2020-05-03, 06:33: After recently burning out a bit on Transport Tycoon Deluxe, I just discovered and fell in love with Sid Meier's Railroads which is much more like a boardgame if anything. I've not found a Firaxis game yet that isn't great. Civ: Beyond Earth for beginners, is …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2020-05-02, 22:31
A friend of mine recently acquired a Voodoo 2 and found out that it was dead. So he asked me to look at it and mailed it to me. It has been sitting on my desk for a month now, so I thought I would check it out today. There were three issues with the card: Bent pins, missing oscillator and a blob of …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2020-05-02, 19:24
Mega Drive pads can cause damage, because they don't fully follow the Atari standard. On a C64 for example, you'll kill the SID chip if you just connect it. That adapter protects from that and also allows configuring the two fire buttons you wish to use. I thought this was only an issue on C64 …
Biostar MB-8433UUD-A External Battery Question
Posted on 2020-05-02, 19:23
I have this board: https://i.postimg.cc/xCsvgDF6/Biostar-MB-8433-UUD-A.jpg I know it's a popular board there are many posts on Vogons about it.. So I thought I may ask a few questions here. According to manuals and jumper settingson the web, JP42 (header not soldered) is supposed to be the External …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2020-05-02, 18:59
Sitting at work waiting to be called for my coronavirus test, so I soldered up some stuff for my Amiga 500. Floppy boot selector, gamepad/joystick adapter, and added some headers to a Gotek so I can easily jumper to flash it. Edit, annnnd I just realized I accidentally have the two tiny surface …
Re: Need help to improve the support of 486/586/686 class CPUs in CPU-Z
Posted on 2020-05-02, 12:52
CuPid wrote on 2020-05-02, 12:47: TechieDude wrote on 2020-05-02, 12:31: Does this fix K5 crash? A big bug was found and fixed (thanks to appiah4), it is very possible that the same caused the crash on the K5. Can you please try again and let me know ? Happy to help. 😀
Re: Best CPU for high end 1995 486 build?
Posted on 2020-05-02, 07:26
Trying to run my IBM 5x86 at 120MHz is a very enticing idea indeed.. Another board I am considering for the job is this PCPartner 486CV:
Re: What game are you playing now?
Posted on 2020-05-02, 07:21
Still suffering my way through Divinity: Original Sin but I really hope I start enjoying it more soon... Also went back to Doom (2016) and hope to finish it soon.
Re: AZ2316 v. ES1868F
Posted on 2020-05-01, 20:46
gdjacobs wrote on 2020-05-01, 19:00: Garrett W wrote on 2020-05-01, 10:22: Just saw this thread, has anyone ever managed to get WSS to work on ES1688F cards? If so, any help doing so 😀? I believe ESS cards use their own protocol for 16 bit audio and not WSS. The datasheet says they are WSS …
Re: Best CPU for high end 1995 486 build?
Posted on 2020-05-01, 18:08
Were there ever SX4 chips?
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2020-05-01, 16:45
imi, where do you store so many boards if I may ask? I have around 20 and they take up so much space I find myself having to sell inferior options whenever I come across something more premium.. It's the one thing I can't really 'hoard' many of, they take up so much space!
Re: What's wrong with all these sound cards???
Posted on 2020-05-01, 12:06
If you are limited to PCI get a ForteMedia FM801 card they are incredibly simple to set up and possibly the most compatible PCI DOS sound chip I know of. ESS Solo-1 is a close second but that one is more picky about what motherboard you put it in; on some systems it really requires an SB-Link header …
Re: AZ2316 v. ES1868F
Posted on 2020-05-01, 12:03
What exactly is the trouble you are having?
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2020-05-01, 12:02
I have a few SECC2 processors that did not boot on initial testing, this reminds me to go back and check them out sometime..
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