Re: Help Identifying Old ISA card
Posted on 2019-04-16, 20:46
DH33 wrote: thank you VERY much for the help. Thanks for the trip down memory lane!
Re: Help Identifying Old ISA card
Posted on 2019-04-16, 19:43
Oh damn, thank you Alaric, I'll start looking through their cards to see if I can find a match. Can I ask how you figured it out? Beckman Instruments is now Beckman Coulter, and people working in scientific labs, medical and veterinary labs, and the like, will have seen them in the wild. The card …
Re: Help Identifying Old ISA card
Posted on 2019-04-16, 18:54
Haven't seen a Beckman Instruments card in YEARS! Nice find!
Re: need idea: what can i do with a 286?
Posted on 2019-04-10, 14:47
I had an ancient 286 laptop that I would play Infocom text adventure games on, and I'd found some TSR to play .MOD files so I had some music while playing Suspended or Zork or whatever. So even a lowly 286 had some decent capabilities.
Re: need idea: what can i do with a 286?
Posted on 2019-04-10, 14:43
BloodyCactus wrote: Unless your gonna run fractint on a 286, adding a 287 FPU wont bring anything extra to the party. I don't think it would for fractint, either, since the "int" in "fractint" means "integer".
Re: Did you Overclock back in the day? Pencil Mods etc?
Posted on 2019-04-09, 17:23
My favorite overclock was my Celeron 300A @454MHz. I'd had it at 450MHz for years and was finally ready to replace it so I finally nudged it up to 454. I replaced it with a Tualatin-core P3, 1.4GHz. I didn't overclock that. It was replaced by a Barton-core Athlon 2500+ which I overclocked but I …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2019-04-08, 21:54
Imagine my surprise when a brief google image search turned up some speakers locally just this morning, and for small change too: (image unquoted) Sweet! When you swivel the monitor you're swiveling the speakers, too, or so it would appear. EDIT: Looked again and now I see it takes a 1/2 height 5. …
Re: Win X
Posted on 2019-04-05, 21:35
“Oh sheeeeeet, why was that exception not caught... this is a real-time critical system... people are now dead”. “yeah, but the developer is a really nice person that saves puppies from the rain and bakes cakes for old people on the weekend”. So, an eye towards social justice automatically makes …
Re: Win X
Posted on 2019-04-05, 19:59
awgamer wrote: Actually if I recall sjws have already removed "male fragility" from one project, the project's lead dev. Hence, yes, sjws increase bugs, makes things not compile, and followed to its logical conclusion makes things not be at all. sjw agenda will be worked around though 🤣
Re: Win X
Posted on 2019-04-05, 18:58
They should try removing male fragility from the OS. Seems like there's a lot of it.
Re: Win X
Posted on 2019-04-05, 18:39
awgamer wrote: Don't forget Linux has recently added sjw hell to the mix. Because social justice makes increases the number of bugs in software? Social justice makes it harder to compile from source?
Re: Found an AWE64 Gold II for sale... for only $20,000
Posted on 2019-04-01, 21:48
Ozzuneoj wrote: Uhg... that page is embarassingly bad. There are so many errors. And it is the manufacturer's website... the mind absolutely boggles. 😐 Soundblaster.com wrote: Sound Blaster 16 8-bit Mono, 100K Transistors That. Doesn't. Seem. Right. That *IS* embarrassing!
Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.
Posted on 2019-03-20, 20:10
GigAHerZ wrote: Got a bit lucky this time Dang, that is quite the haul right there! Congrats!
Re: All Claimed! Hardware Giveaway (10zig 56xx Thin Clients)
Posted on 2019-03-15, 13:43
So the batch files just create a txt file. Tinycore has a script constantly checking for the creation of certain txt files. When the monitoring script detects the file has been created it usually launches another script which hides the dosbox window and full screens the linux program. So I'm …
Re: All Claimed! Hardware Giveaway (10zig 56xx Thin Clients)
Posted on 2019-03-15, 13:40
No, there is no 945SE driver support there, mainly because it's still my goal for DosBox Distro to be compatible with everything - so I didn't optimize this version for the thin clients. Tinycore Repository has 945SE video drivers (Might be Xorg only, you would have to install and configure that as …
Re: Norton Commander says LPT1 not available
Posted on 2019-03-14, 21:23
They fail without ever connecting. The cable is DIN25->DIN25, I've used it to transfer to an Atari Portfolio. Probably it's the right cable after all. One PC does have a SBPCI with legacy setting IRQ7 but the other one uses IRQ5 and it happens on both PC's, so? On the PC with the SoundBlaster PCI, …
Re: The Weekend Thread (Fri-Sun)
Posted on 2019-03-14, 20:18
Friend has an RX300 that I've spent enough time working on auxiliary lighting-- now he needs help (or at least moral support) changing its transmission filter. I might end up doing it this weekend. If not that, I help him do the engine and transmission mounts on his '01 Corolla. Surely there's some …
Re: All Claimed! Hardware Giveaway (10zig 56xx Thin Clients)
Posted on 2019-03-14, 19:17
It's been a while since I messed with that system. I was interested in if all the driver support for the 945GSE was there. Also, I'm mystified how the .BAT works that launches the sourceport of Quake-- I'd wanted to edit one to be able to get into a shell of some kind.
Re: Norton Commander says LPT1 not available
Posted on 2019-03-14, 19:09
But when trying Link (Slave/Master) with LPT1 both machines says The LPT1 port is not available after maybe 30sec After 30 seconds of transferring data successfully, or after 30 seconds of NOT transferring data? LPT1 uses IRQ7; does the old PC have a SoundBlaster configured for IRQ7? More likely …
Re: Best way to clean old boards ?
Posted on 2019-03-14, 14:03
What about the heated dry? Will that be a problem (there's an air dry function of course, but if heated dry is generally safe then that might be advantageous). Depends on the oven. I meant the heated dry of the dishwasher itself. Sometimes some plastics melt even in the top rack (but that could …
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