Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-09-19, 05:26

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by Thallanor

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Congrats on the purchase, man. Enjoy that amazing sound. My dad bought one in '87 and it still works (was used on my mom's Yamaha CLP-500 piano which now has the Yamaha TG-100 connected). Thanks! I do not have many sound cards yet. I have a Soundblaster 16 with its faults, but it'll give me …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-09-19, 03:13

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by Thallanor

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I finally purchased the one piece of hardware I thought I would never own. :) DSC_0711.JPG I knew I wanted one of these since I was a teenager, playing Space Quest IV at a small electronics store my dad frequented that also happened to sell PCs. That one so happened to be using this amazing new …

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Re: USB to serial mouse adapter - Raspberry Pi

Posted on 2018-09-17, 13:31

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by Thallanor

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

This is some awesome and promising work! I wish I had more talent for such things. It'd be nice to see someone do a limited run of these, pre-assembled and ready to go. I keep wanting to poke at Arduino, Raspberry Pi, etc. but I'm running out of workspace already and even more-so running out of free …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-09-16, 00:37

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by Thallanor

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I picked up an ISA HDD/FDD/serial port/parallel port/gameport card so I can hopefully get high density drives working on my Tandy. Also picked up just a serial/parallel/gameport ISA card for another computer. Whoo.

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

Posted on 2018-09-16, 00:31

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by Thallanor

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

My struggle today has been disabling my Tandy 1000 TL/2's floppy controller so I can use a high-density controller I bought that's in my ISA slot. So frustrating. It's supposed to be a simple matter of running a program from DOS after boot that then disables the floppy controller. Instead, it drops …

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Re: A good FAT32 DOS, MS-DOS 7.1(Windows 98), DR-DOS Enhanced, FreeDOS?

Posted on 2018-09-15, 17:13

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by Thallanor

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I have been experimenting w/ MS-DOS 7.10 in anticipation of receiving my SATA/PATA adaptor and a small SSD. I have not run into issues yet, though I've also not used any utilities, only games. The PC is theoretically capable of running Windows 95, but it does not run it well. Though I suppose I only …

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Re: Why 90s snack was delicious?

Posted on 2018-09-15, 17:07

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by Thallanor

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I can see how in a way, this is related to vintage computing. I remember back in the 90s, spending entire weekends at a friend's dad's office, LAN parties with Doom, Warcraft 2, etc. while eating a stupid amount of 7-Eleven potato wedges because they were so damn cheap. Seriously, potato wedges and …

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Re: Newly made Gravis Ultrasound compatible cards ... what's the degree of interest?

Posted on 2018-09-15, 17:05

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by Thallanor

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I'm really looking forward to seeing where this goes. I currently run a GUS in my 486 but wouldn't mind an additional one or two for other builds I'm in the middle of/planning on. Keep up the great work, guys!

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Re: New MS-DOS Games Launcher / Menu System App

Posted on 2018-09-15, 17:04

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by Thallanor

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This looks pretty fantastic! I used to use an MS-DOS menu back in the day, but have long since forgotten what it was called and have only found stinkers. This one looks great! Thank you.

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Re: Scariest pc game you played

Posted on 2018-09-15, 16:55

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by Thallanor

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Mid-90s Linux. 😉 Seriously though, Alien: Isolation, Amnesia, SOMA, etc., System Shock 2, Boogeyman, just to name a few.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-09-15, 16:48

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by Thallanor

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Also, got a message from kixs regarding some hardware pertaining to this thread but I don't have enough posts yet to reply. Sorry! 😁 I'll keep replying and will eventually be able to. 😀

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-09-15, 16:47

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by Thallanor

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ATI 3D Rage Pro PCI w/svideo in, composite in, and TV out, and full memory expansion Mac version. That one won't work in a PC until re-flashed with a PC-compatible firmware. The S3 card is nice. :) Yeah, that flash process makes me nervous because I have no idea what I'm doing. So not sure what …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-09-15, 04:36

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by Thallanor

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I also picked up some other hardware this evening. DSC_0684.jpg DSC_0685.jpg DSC_0691.jpg Sound Blaster Live PCI (CT4760) ATI tv tuner/capture card PCI USB 2.0 4-port PCI 3COM 3C905-TX PCI NIC Generic ISA NIC, 10Base2 / 10BaseT, w/disk Generic ISA NIC, 10Base2 / 10BaseT, w/disk ATI 3D Rage Pro PCI …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-09-15, 04:33

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by Thallanor

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I got a good deal on some CPUs and picked them up this evening. DSC_0692.jpg DSC_0694.jpg DSC_0696.jpg 286-12 (AMD) 287XL-12.5 386DX-33 386DX-40 (AMD) *** 486 class *** 486SX-25 486SX-33 486SX-33 486DX-33 (?) w/heatsink 486DX2-66 486DX2-66 486DX2-66 (AMD) 486DX4-100 (IBM) 5x86-100 (IBM) 5x86-100 ( …

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

Posted on 2018-09-12, 01:27

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by Thallanor

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have spent the last couple evenings trying to find out why the 720K floppy drive in my Tandy 1000 TL/2 was not working. I presumed it was simply dead. A bummer since Tandy feeds power through the floppy cable too, meaning any replacement would require I hack the cable as to not bake whatever drive …

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

Posted on 2018-09-09, 05:38

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by Thallanor

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I've been mostly sourcing out an 8/16-bit multi-I/O card so that I can add a serial port and maybe a parallel port to my 486 build. The PC Chips motherboard has these onboard but I have no idea what the pinouts are and the three backplane connectors I have don't work, so it's not whatever they're …

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Re: Multimedia SuperTandy TL/2

Posted on 2018-09-08, 08:34

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by Thallanor

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Back in early 2014, I swapped the Trantor SCSI adapter for a Rancho RT1000B, which does have (bootable) BIOS support for the Floptical drive. Excellent! (Apart from the difficulty I had trying to find used Ranchos when I first read this thread.) I'm starting to get some options now for my build. …

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Re: Multimedia SuperTandy TL/2

Posted on 2018-09-08, 01:49

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by Thallanor

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If you use the 2M floppy utility, one of the main limitations is the inability to boot from 1.44MB media. The TSR also uses a few KB of conventional memory. I believe you can load or unload it as needed. To be honest, I haven't really played much with the TEAC SCSI adapter, but a PDF file for it …

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

Posted on 2018-09-08, 01:44

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by Thallanor

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bjwil1991 wrote: @derSammler: excellent repair on that camera. Since this is page 486, might as well add a photo of a 486 processor. IMG_20171221_161515.jpg And here I thought I was the only person who noticed that. 😁

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Re: Tandy TL/2

Posted on 2018-09-07, 21:15

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by Thallanor

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Oh! And before I forget, I followed a link from the Tandy 1000 FAQ to where I could purchase the chips to bring the TL/2 up to 768K and was wondering if these looked correct? At this cost, I can't really complain, but a second set of eyes never hurts: https://www.jameco.com/z/41464-10-Major-Brands- …

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