Re: Identification of 286 motherboard

Posted on 2019-01-30, 20:46

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Yes, please do document the battery pinout. I tried tracing the pins, but it goes through so kany diodes... my battery is still at 1.2V, and LOOKS good, but why risk a leakage, when I can safely use an external battery... Not sure if I want to install SIMM sockets. The 1MiB it has is good enough for …

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Re: Identification of 286 motherboard

Posted on 2019-01-30, 20:23

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Found it finally on stason: https://stason.org/TULARC/pc/motherboards/U/U … -HAM-12-TI.html

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Re: DOS programs refuse to use CGA graphics modes

Posted on 2019-01-30, 10:18

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80x25 color should be CGA. Should be fine, IMHO. However, I have never owned a CGA card, nor a fitting monitor. So I do not know if there are any incompatibilities...

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

Posted on 2019-01-30, 10:15

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I am located in Aachen, near NL and BE. The Deutsche Post changed their rules 2019-01-01. Now they disallow goods in international letters. Only written documents are now allowed anymore. They want to shift more shipping to their DHL business. Letters are regulated by the Netzagentur, so postage is …

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

Posted on 2019-01-30, 09:33

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by root42

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I am located in Aachen, near NL and BE. The Deutsche Post changed their rules 2019-01-01. Now they disallow goods in international letters. Only written documents are now allowed anymore. They want to shift more shipping to their DHL business. Letters are regulated by the Netzagentur, so postage is …

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Re: DOS programs refuse to use CGA graphics modes

Posted on 2019-01-30, 09:30

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by root42

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What does your BIOS setup say? You can set the type of graphics adapter there. Some older 286 boards even have jumpers for setting the type of adapter.

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Re: Vogons Video Announcement Thread

Posted on 2019-01-29, 21:24

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Let's Code MS DOS 0x02: The Keyboard https://youtu.be/Y0nT_6RF4NI

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

Posted on 2019-01-29, 21:10

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I would like 1 :) Me too! If Cyrix200+ is OK with it you can ship my board to him too to save on shipping, I live close by so can easily pick it up locally. I don't mind. As I said: German Post probably won't take the PCBs anyway, so I will most probably have to opt to DHL or Hermes, depending on …

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Re: Logging into Gmail with old mail clients

Posted on 2019-01-29, 13:28

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Honestly, the modern browser experience is so powerful that it is basically impossible to correctly render any modern site on a vintage machine with only a handful of megabytes of RAM. What would be more useful would be to do it Opera style: render on some server, then send the image. Or simply use …

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Re: Video editing software advice?

Posted on 2019-01-29, 09:44

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You definitely DON'T need a Mac to do video editing. That said, I DO use a 2013 iMac, lowest model with Core i5 and 8GB of RAM to edit my videos. They are all 1080p and editing is super smooth and fast. Export takes about 25-50% of real time though. So a 20 minute video will usually export in 5 …

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

Posted on 2019-01-28, 12:08

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Would it be possible to dump the code from a SB2.0? Or are they read-protected? Would be nice to be able to upgrade the card later to 2.0 capabilities.

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Re: Codename: ICEMAN Floppy 4 broken!

Posted on 2019-01-28, 10:35

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_Roffe_ wrote: And thanks to you to roo42! Cant answer the mails as iam a new member 😀 My guess is that those files where from the 1.023 version? Wrong size. Sorry, I guess that's the only version I have.

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

Posted on 2019-01-26, 20:03

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I ordered 10 PCBs at JLC. Will take some time due to chinese new year. Will contact the interested people once the PCBs arrived. Will be around 11th Feb, most probably.

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Re: Help to identify a 286 Mobo

Posted on 2019-01-26, 20:01

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by root42

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SIPP will be tough. But you can take 30pin SIMM modules and solder pins to them... Are you shure? https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_odkw=zipp+memory+modules&_osacat=0&_from=R40&_trksid=m570.l1313&_nkw=sipp+memory+modules&_sacat=0 Ok, wrong formulation: for the price of one SIPP module, I got four …

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Re: Help to identify a 286 Mobo

Posted on 2019-01-26, 19:03

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by root42

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SIPP will be tough. But you can take 30pin SIMM modules and solder pins to them...

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Re: Codename: ICEMAN Floppy 4 broken!

Posted on 2019-01-26, 18:55

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Yes, 1.033 fixed some bugs related to the score I think.

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Re: Help to identify a 286 Mobo

Posted on 2019-01-26, 18:09

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I second the battery removal. Also, good chance that it will auto detect the RAM in the SIPP sockets. Stason TULARC didn‘t have this specific board either, I think. Any markings or stickers on the back?

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Re: Suntac 80286 Mainboards

Posted on 2019-01-26, 13:30

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That poor thing… look at the corrosion on the ISA slots!

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Re: Vogons Video Announcement Thread

Posted on 2019-01-26, 07:14

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Started a new series on MS DOS based coding. Starting off with the bare basics. Newbies welcome! Let's Code MS DOS 0x01: Hello World! https://youtu.be/DestaWfHDIk

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

Posted on 2019-01-25, 12:59

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appiah4 wrote: Sheet is read only 🙁 Fixed

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