Re: A new covid lockdown project - help if you can

Posted on 2020-03-21, 11:05

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by jaZz_KCS

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Nice machine, keep us updated! Stay at home, if you can, especially if you are a member of any highrisk group. PS: Set the font size - as well as any other visual option in the board settings - to "small" and choose the "oldschool" colourscheme, and the board looks as close as before as it gets.

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Re: A very persnickety PIII machine

Posted on 2020-03-21, 11:01

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by jaZz_KCS

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Every single part has been changed out and mix-n-matched at some point. The only static item has been the floppy drive, which in and of itself hasn’t given me any functional issues. But hey, at this point, if someone thinks I should change that out too, why not? I went stir-crazy over the dumb …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-03-18, 13:41

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by jaZz_KCS

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dionb wrote on 2020-03-18, 13:20: Just received this beauty today: 15845370400300.jpg […] Show full quote Just received this beauty today: 15845370400300.jpg Looks pristine, but untested by last owner due to not being able to find a suitable CPU. That's not going to be easy, but challenge accepted …

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Re: Uneven framerate / missing frames in WinXP

Posted on 2020-03-16, 14:39

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by jaZz_KCS

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Might be worth a shot / related...might be not... But I had similar issues with performance steiffelt by using USB HIDs like keyboard and mouse. It resulted in poorly timed mouse operation as well as sometimes copy errors, but mainly steiffelt performance for botht the HIDs as well as file transfer. …

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Re: Paradise VGA

Posted on 2020-03-15, 10:55

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by jaZz_KCS

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MT4067 looks to be 64kx4 chip, nothing fancy, there should be plenty other 4464-class DRAM chips available. I'm pretty sure you need to populate all the sockets, that would but the VRAM from 256k you currently have to 512k. ...which would enable you to use 256 colours for 640x480 under Win3.1 IIRC, …

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Re: Black Screen on Libretto 50CT

Posted on 2020-03-01, 12:15

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by jaZz_KCS

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What is the boot behavior when there is no drive attached? If the FS / MBR is not readable - even with the old HDD - this can lead to it not booting and stalling at a black screen. You mentioned that you are still able to boot into BIOS, which is a good sign. Besides reflashing, I would also check …

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Re: Toshiba Satellite Pro 430CDT - Salvaged Floppy and Firmware Update

Posted on 2020-02-25, 20:36

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by jaZz_KCS

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I just discovered a whole bunch of old slim floppy drives tucked away in a drawer at work. Some of them seem promising so I'm going to see if I can start with those. In anyways, thank you for the kind offer! There surely ought to be some fitting ones amongst them. And direct drive. Most newer ones …

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Re: Toshiba Satellite Pro 430CDT - Salvaged Floppy and Firmware Update

Posted on 2020-02-25, 19:59

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by jaZz_KCS

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Depending on where you live regarding postage, I can hit you up with a floppy that fits. Or, you buy yourself one of these that I usually use as substitutes for Satellites. One of those cheap USB superslim USB Floppy drives. They seem to be mostly TEAC old stock, and have the same formfactor and …

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Re: Creative's intended market for 16 bit audio?

Posted on 2020-02-16, 14:33

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by jaZz_KCS

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The CT1740 at least I know has been released in mid-to-late 1992

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Re: Creative's intended market for 16 bit audio?

Posted on 2020-02-16, 10:15

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The Serpent Rider wrote on 2020-02-16, 10:05: 16-bit 44kHz was the requirement for CD audio, which was growing in popularity since late 80s. and no support SB Pro 2 Lack of proper SB Pro 2 support is practically not an issue. Especially due to the fact that it does actually work, but just doesn't …

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Re: Missing Operatin System error on UM386 Board with 256MB CF IDE

Posted on 2020-02-16, 10:13

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by jaZz_KCS

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1) Drive size limit of the BIOS (can be overruled with the help of Overlay software a la EZ-Drive) 2) CF cards need to be set to boot-mode in order to be albe to boot OSes like MS-DOS directly from it. --> Industrial cards usually arrive in the other mode.

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Re: Arrived ISA 8 bit RTVGA boards

Posted on 2020-02-16, 10:04

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by jaZz_KCS

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Opening this thread, reading the first page / repsonding, your homepage asks for the log in credentials... You might want to fix that, I do not think this is allowed.

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Re: Dreamblaster X2 Loader on Windows 98 not working

Posted on 2020-02-15, 12:11

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by jaZz_KCS

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Dochartaigh wrote on 2020-02-15, 10:35: Do you have a link? (or is that spelled wrong by chance?) I googled "Dreamblaster Hamtaro soundfont" and literally not a single result popped up which is weird! Do you mean these? --> Unofficial Soundbanks for Dreamblaster X2/X3M

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Re: VIA 4-in-1 driver experiences

Posted on 2020-02-14, 10:26

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by jaZz_KCS

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- For VIA MVP3, MVP4, Apollo 133 - use 4 in 1 4.35 or older. - better AGP compatibility and performance. Don't use any nvidia driver newer then 5x.xx!!!! 6x.xx drivers for example don't mesh well with 4 in 1 drivers and might bsod - For VIA Apollo PRO, KT133 and KT266 use 4.43 - For KT333, KT400, …

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Re: Any love for AM2?

Posted on 2020-02-14, 10:06

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by jaZz_KCS

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Currently writing from / using a 2x Opteron 285 dual Dual Core system with 32GB of DDR1 memory This is a PCI(X)-only system. Filename 2020-02-10-17-06-48_scrot.png File size 88.51 KiB Views 596 views Filename uglyspitze.png File size 300 Bytes Views 596 views

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-02-14, 09:54

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Technically, I could put one of mine SL4KL 1GHz Pentium IIIs into this thing and get a very fast system Fastest it supports is a 800MHz Coppermine with a FSB of 100MHz (according to the manual, if you have one of the latest revisions). Finally got time to test my SE440BX-2 with a SL4KL 1GHz CPU. It …

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Re: DreamBlaster S2P : Small form factor General MIDI on parallel port

Posted on 2020-02-13, 15:57

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by jaZz_KCS

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matze79 wrote on 2020-02-13, 14:27: Here is some Info about it: Re: SoftMPU build for Windows support? so indeed a windows driver is needed to achieve s2p midi in 3.x That's what I remembered. I also remember trying it before reading that and never got it to work.

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Re: SD2IDE Adapters + Drive Overlays (+ 90s Laptops/Notebooks) - A Report

Posted on 2020-02-13, 15:53

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by jaZz_KCS

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Sadly, no. As I have very little experience with OnTrack as I almost always use EZ-Drive. OnTrack led to complications sometimes when trying to load the SD card in another machine. And I have never had any use for the "Boot from CD-option", as the systems in question are Win98SE max and most of …

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Re: DreamBlaster S2P : Small form factor General MIDI on parallel port

Posted on 2020-02-13, 13:27

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by jaZz_KCS

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Apart from that, with SoftMPU, the S2P should work in Win3.1 already. Could you please elaborate on that? Last time I checked, SoftMPU does not support Windows 3.1/3.11... at all. Something to do with with EMM386 making this impossible, iirc. So how would I be able to use the S2P under Windows 3.11 …

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Re: DreamBlaster S2P : Small form factor General MIDI on parallel port

Posted on 2020-02-13, 00:01

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Is the MPU driver also opensource ? it would be very similar to modify it.. Please make this happen, if possible. As the Win3.1/3.11 driver opens up a whole new world of opportunities for the OPLxLPT, so would a driver in the same veins for the Dreamblaster S2P. Imagine giving 386 luggables without …

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