Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2019-09-14, 19:29
Did spend the whole day cleaning and fixing an Atari 1027 printer. Hope it works now, though I can't test it since it's lacking the PSU and an ink sponge.
Re: Ess1878 midi out
Posted on 2019-09-14, 13:35
Do you have ESSCFG in your autoexec.bat?
Re: Boxed Original AdLib
Posted on 2019-09-14, 10:03
oh that's why stamp/coin/antique collecting is a thing of the past -> people just display printed stamps, replica coins and 3d-printed antiques... :lol: Err... no. That does not compare. We are talking about electronics here. A replica Adlib is in no way different to the original apart from it's …
Re: Boxed Original AdLib
Posted on 2019-09-14, 07:40
Then I'm apparently not a collector. ;) I own one of the Adlib replicas (the one that really looks like the 1990 Adlib card) and I'm glad to have it since I would never be so stupid to pay 500 bucks for an original one. If a replica looks the same and works the same, it makes owning an original one …
Re: CD-ROM failing to work, what to do?
Posted on 2019-09-14, 07:20
Seems to me like you do't like reading messages in their entirety. It's not just a CD drive, read the message again. Show a picture, please. I know the Gateway 2000 PCs and they have standard 5.25" bays. No idea what "special tray that matches the case" is supposed to mean here. They used an off- …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2019-09-13, 17:01
so yuo have some treasures for amiga? any accessories which are rare? I own a CD32, two A600, two A1200, and one A500. All except the A500 are fitted with lots of expansion hardware. One A600 has an M-Tec 630 and an MP3@64 installed, one A1200 a Blizzard 1260 and uses a limited CD32-style case from …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2019-09-13, 16:21
The website does maybe cover 10% of the stuff I own. It also did not see any updates for a year now.
Re: Where would you install each sound card?
Posted on 2019-09-13, 14:04
An NEC v20 at 12mhz is practically a 286 class machine. I’d bet it even has a vga card. Probably capable of playing many games that support Adlib. Yes, but what would be the reason not to play these games on the real 286 then anyway and only have a sound card there? I would use the XT only for …
Re: Gateway 2000 P5-90 Restoration
Posted on 2019-09-13, 13:47
derSammler says it disabled some features of the IDE controller that were problematical, but AFAIK there's no documentation of that. There was on Intel's website. Also, just enter the BIOS and you'll see that there are now option not longer changeable. The options are still there, but can not be …
Re: Where would you install each sound card?
Posted on 2019-09-13, 12:51
One condition is that max 1 card (or no card at all) per system, that means that at least one sound card will be left out. Really? I count 5 systems and 5 sound cards. "No sound card, just pc speaker" is an option, but not a sound card. ;) It really depends on what games you plan to play on these …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2019-09-13, 08:43
Scored a shitload of Amiga originals, plus a NOS docking station for my TECRA 8000. 😁
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2019-09-13, 07:33
"Locking" the drives in these things is one of the most cynical attempts to hinder user repairs or upgradability I've ever seen. They did not lock it to prevent repairing or upgrading, but to prevent dumping its contents (which is legit imo). ps: did you ever buy a HP business notebook? They had ( …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2019-09-13, 07:30
Disruptor wrote: It seems to be an OPTI Local Bus. Look at the slots. They even have "OPTi local bus" written next to them. 😉
Re: Socket 7 VX mb worth keep them?
Posted on 2019-09-12, 20:56
MMX requires dual-voltage. It's worth nothing that you can go down to 2.8V if you are stuck with single-voltage.
Re: 3D print topic?
Posted on 2019-09-12, 19:32
Having just bought my second 3D printer (DLP this time), I'd say why not? But I don't see how this would fit here.
Re: What are the weirdest pieces of retro hardware you owned?
Posted on 2019-09-12, 16:35
The Sony CDU-33 was part of my first PC in 1993. Not that weird, really. 😉
Re: Is CGA compatible with a monochrome monitor?
Posted on 2019-09-12, 14:51
Some MDA monitors will display image when connected to a CGA card. How is that supposed to even work? MDA has video on pin 7, which is not used by CGA at all. CGA has video on pins 3, 4, and 5, which MDA does not use. There's no way to get a picture when mixing CGA and MDA video singals and …
Re: Is CGA compatible with a monochrome monitor?
Posted on 2019-09-12, 14:11
The first picture shows shades of grey used by the game, so it is certainly *not* an MDA/Hercules monitor, since these can not display shades of grey. It's most likely some monochrome multisync monitor with digital RGB support.
Re: Is CGA compatible with a monochrome monitor?
Posted on 2019-09-12, 14:06
A monochrome monitor ist just that, monochrome. It doesn't say a thing about what video mode it takes. There were also monochrome VGA monitors. If you mean an MDA/Hercules monitor however, the answer is no. CGA can not be displayed on these. At least not standard CGA. Could be that there were CGA …
Re: DooM
Posted on 2019-09-11, 20:49
Very nice build. However, using a Peltier this way is very daring. First, it's very important to exactly calculate the heat that is to be dissipated from the CPU in order to choose the right Peltier element. Choosing one with too much power is bad, and 60 watt is way too much for a 386. The Peltier …
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