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

Posted on 2019-07-25, 12:56

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[...] Fantastic. I hope to get mine soon. Haven't soldered in decades but looking for forward to getting my hands dirty. I might actually order one of those Adlib kits first for a practise round, those seem a little bit simpler to put together... This one's not difficult, there's just a *lot* of …

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Re: Tube Time: Announcing The Snark Barker, a 100% Compatible SB 1.0 Replica!

Posted on 2019-07-25, 12:47

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Much, much delayed, but (technically) finished at last: Not going to win any beauty contests, but only messed up one resistor (soldered the 5% tolerance version where I should have done 1%, found out when I tried to figure out where the 1% had to go...) and after sticking it into a PC, it all works …

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

Posted on 2019-07-24, 22:32

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Result of three evenings soldering after putting the children to bed: Works perfectly too 😀

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Re: Tube Time: Announcing The Snark Barker, a 100% Compatible SB 1.0 Replica!

Posted on 2019-07-24, 20:58

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Much, much delayed, but (technically) finished at last: https://tweakers.net/ext/f/xxug2z4Oaga6DgU1BDA7sSyg/full.jpg Not going to win any beauty contests, but only messed up one resistor (soldered the 5% tolerance version where I should have done 1%, found out when I tried to figure out where the 1% …

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Re: PCI Soundcard (SB16/Ensoniq) with Roland SC-55 (Win98SE)? or Options?

Posted on 2019-07-24, 09:33

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ESS Solo-1 'just works', both in DOS and Windows. I had one recently (the Terratec Solo-1) but sold it to someone who asked me to solder a Wavetable header to it. No problem, did that, then tested it with both a Korg daughterboard and my Yamaha MU50EX external module. In Win98 you get the (IMHO crap …

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Re: Question for MPU-401 users and Roland owners

Posted on 2019-07-23, 08:41

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With a bit of patience, you can get MusicQuest cards for much, much lower prices. I have two and iirc the more expensive of the two cost me EUR 25. Thing is that they are much sought-after in the (relatively small) retro gaming community, but most people who have them are musicians who bought them …

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Re: QDI P5i430vx 250dm Explorer II from 1996 ?

Posted on 2019-07-19, 13:49

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Hello Is this Pentium 1 motherboard a good high end one (no entry level/low cost/budget motherboard ?) and easy to use ? Define "high end"? Or "no entry level"? This is an i430VX chipset, which was the low-end partner to the high-end i430HX chipset (both shared the "Triton II" monniker) As for …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-07-18, 23:32

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This (not so) little beauty: https://i.imgur.com/L8t8kEi.jpg According to the FCC ID, it's a Dih Shin DS-2000 keyboard, and it's from 1990. It certainly feels old, but in very good shape, and with nice clicky MX Blue switches. The keycaps are particularly impressive, thick heavy double-shot OEM …

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Re: Help me choose what to build next ?

Posted on 2019-07-18, 21:00

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Intel486dx33 wrote: Okay, I am going to use a Boeing 777 theme. And have it play Boeing engine sounds when logging in and login out. https://youtu.be/eyUY3HVek5Q?t=1 If that's a Boeing 777 this is a Boeing 747:

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Re: Help me choose what to build next ?

Posted on 2019-07-17, 15:33

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Isn't the A-10 Warhog part of NATO ? Not only American. Is it that hard to just check Wikipedia instead of expecting other people to do it for you? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_Republic_A-10_Thunderbolt_II#Operators The A-10 has been flown exclusively by the United States Air Force and …

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Re: upgrading a PC with GA-7IXE motherboard and need help choosing CPU and other components

Posted on 2019-07-17, 11:54

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Had a 7IXE4 (the Socket A version). Fussy about RAM, needs low density - 128MB generally work fine, 256MB modules are a problem, as the high density seem to be more common Terms like "low density" and "high density" are worse than useless taken out of context. What was "high density" in 1998 would …

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Re: Jornada 728 Modern Uses?

Posted on 2019-07-17, 11:44

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[...] what kit did you get along with the Jornada? I sold my Jornada back in 2016 but I think I can give you some pointers. Getting on-line will be a problem as Jornada doesn't support WPA2. You will have to setup a separate router with WEP and keep it on a different subnet so as not to compromise …

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Re: Help me choose what to build next ?

Posted on 2019-07-17, 11:21

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[...] That is why some Danish people, put small Danish flags in dog shits on the street's. Not to mention those pigs :wink: EDIT Since the OP is from USA, it would be unwise to use any part of Stars And Stripes for anything other than the flags intended use. Like if the flag is not free hanging, …

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Re: Help me choose what to build next ?

Posted on 2019-07-16, 13:48

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Solaris 8 __gaming__ build? I can understand the joys of Solaris (although I run it on Sparc, not x86), but one thing it's not great at is gaming. There's very little in the way of games available, and what I've seen in benchmarks shows Solaris to be slower than Linux, and Linux slower than Windows …

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Re: Moving data between an old computer and a new one

Posted on 2019-07-15, 17:33

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why not one of those gotek things. If you as an example, need to move 325 megabyte of data in one go, then it would be a lot of work to split it up into 1.44mb files. Gotek are nice for stuff like cdrom drivers and soundcard drivers. Or using it for images of installation floppy's. Exactly the …

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Re: Moving data between an old computer and a new one

Posted on 2019-07-15, 06:20

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For a complete, stable system fully agree with bakemono - Ethernet+FTP wins hands-down (on DOS at least, if NFS is supported by OS that's so much easier). For quick&dirty stuff while building, CF cards with IDE adapter for the system being worked on and USB on the modern system works best. Oh, and a …

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Re: Motherboards with integrated LEGACY audio

Posted on 2019-07-14, 13:05

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'Legacy audio' was a thing for a short period around 1998-2000; before that, onboard audio tended to be fully-fledged ISA chipsets (SB Vibra or similar), afterwards support for legacy was dropped. Via southbridges had it, but a board with integrated TNT2 sounds like ALi AladdinTNT2, so also an ALi …

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Re: Asrock AM2NF3-VSTA

Posted on 2019-07-13, 08:54

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Hello Watson, Sorry to resurrect this topic. Have you ever managed to install a Catalyst driver for Ubuntu? I have an HD4670 agp around and want to give this Asrock board another go with Ubuntu (zero experience on Linux distros for me). Catalyst? Possibly you could find one that works, but HD4xxx …

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Re: Asus P54SP4 issues

Posted on 2019-07-12, 23:57

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That board has a nasty Dallas RTC. I have the So4 equivalent (P5SP4) and it refuses to boot if the RTC is dead. Check that...

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Re: i740 plus DDR

Posted on 2019-07-12, 09:55

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I kinda disagree. In terms of having the technology to plow into the 8xx series chip-sets, sure it was helpful to have a design more or less ready to go. In terms of it being a big independent money maker, it didn't help Intel at all. Sure, Intel graphics run a huge percentage of computers now, but …

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