Re: Victor V286C - Looking for any technical documentation

Posted on 2022-07-09, 09:08

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by charliegolf

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Hi. I know thisnis a bit of an old post now. I have a victor v286 (a slightly different model with no graphics). I have the same issue of needing the bios setup from a boot disk. My machine doesnt have a floppy drive at the minute. Does the boot setup care what type of drive it is? You'd ordinarily …

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Re: what will you do when your last hardware fails?

Posted on 2022-02-22, 09:05

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by charliegolf

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Luckily I'm significantly older than a lot of my retro hardware, so I will die first😁. Then I want to be pushed out to sea in a viking longboat with all my gear and set on fire with a flaming arrow! No need for flaming arrow, just have some early Athlons set up on the longboat, set to all run …

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Re: Things you regret passing up on?

Posted on 2022-02-21, 18:23

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by charliegolf

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An Isa mpu401 card that showed up in local classifieds about a year ago, it was £25 but a lot 30 mile drive and I couldn't be bothered.

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Re: what will you do when your last hardware fails?

Posted on 2022-02-21, 18:18

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by charliegolf

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Luckily I'm significantly older than a lot of my retro hardware, so I will die first😁. Then I want to be pushed out to sea in a viking longboat with all my gear and set on fire with a flaming arrow!

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Re: Amazing original prices of hardware

Posted on 2022-02-18, 20:50

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by charliegolf

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It seemed like I couldn't afford anything back then. I had nasty quickshot joysticks and couldn't afford a soundblaster. I got a Media vision thunderboard as my first sound card from the bargain bucket of the local computer store and later got a GUS for cheap when they were selling them off as …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-02-18, 18:21

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by charliegolf

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Yes it's colour and you can stick a card in to get cga/vga. I was hoping to use the 1512 monitor with the portable as that outputs standard cga but has the usual 9 pin dsub in so can't with the 1512 screen due to the crazy big din, though the psu connector is correct, and I don't think the 1512 …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-02-18, 17:45

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by charliegolf

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I <3 those things, definitely intend to pick one up if they cross my path. (Had the desktop PC1640 and 1512 back in the day, kinda miss them.) Funnily enough I got a broken pc1512 a few months ago that does nothing , not had a chance to look at it yet but will be cool to have the 2 side by side if …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-02-18, 17:31

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by charliegolf

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Amstrad PPC512 https://imgur.com/gallery/ayH8RJt Amstrad PPC512 with all its bits and pieces (apart from original disks) arrived today. Very cool little machine. Sold as parts and was expecting some fix work but it just works😁

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Re: How do you backup your retro machine-park?

Posted on 2022-02-16, 18:42

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by charliegolf

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I've been thinking about this too. I plan to network to a modern server and back up drivers etc and to get cf cards in as many machines as possible to just dump hard drive images on to so I can potentially have images for different hardware combos and load them quickly from a modern machine. I also …

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Re: Fledgling YouTube channel - 66Mhz Brain

Posted on 2022-02-16, 18:25

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by charliegolf

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keropi wrote on 2022-02-16, 17:00: subscribed as well, some juicy videos in there 😁 Cool, thanks for looking 😀

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Re: Fledgling YouTube channel - 66Mhz Brain

Posted on 2022-02-16, 14:37

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by charliegolf

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Cool, thanks for checking it out! I'll do the sig thing.

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Fledgling YouTube channel - 66Mhz Brain

Posted on 2022-02-16, 14:21

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by charliegolf

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Hi I've decided to start filming my random retro dicking around and started a channel a few months ago. I find it helps me keep focussed and organised on my retro projects and discovered I actually find video editing quite relaxing, especially with beer (or whiskey)! https://www.youtube.com/channel/ …

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Re: Is there Anyone "Overpaying" for Hardware and Proud of it? Well, maybe not Proud, but...

Posted on 2022-02-16, 13:46

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by charliegolf

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I occasionally pay over the odds for something but for the most part look for things that need some TLC or fixing and I steer away from dedicated retro dealers. I've had some cool finds from the 'ignorant souls' in general bric-a-brac sellers i.e. yesterday I bought an Amstrad PPC512 8086 portable …

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Re: Corroding varta battery in pentium 120 laptop

Posted on 2022-02-11, 21:32

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by charliegolf

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Ahh cool, thanks.

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Corroding varta battery in pentium 120 laptop

Posted on 2022-02-11, 20:41

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by charliegolf

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Hi. Tonight I took my fujitsu lifebook p120 laptop apart to replace a dead cmos battery, I saw a cr2330 soldered to the Mainboard and desoldered it to order a new one. I then found another rechargeable varta battery pack tucked away down the side. Just wondering if anyone knew why there would be 2 …

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Re: What FPU for an AMD 386 DX 40 MHz?

Posted on 2021-11-30, 11:04

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by charliegolf

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I just got an IIT 40mhz one on ebay for my 386 so theyre are some kicking around.

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Re: Home made isa riser card

Posted on 2021-11-27, 14:22

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by charliegolf

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Cool thanks. It will be a 386 486 so I'll try with none.

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Home made isa riser card

Posted on 2021-11-26, 21:22

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by charliegolf

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Hi. I recently bought an old very low profile AT case that has 2 expansion card slots paralell to where the motherboard would go. So when I do a build it will need a 2 slot Isa riser, which seem to be rare. I've got an isa prototyping board so thought it would be easy enough to make one. From what I …

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Is on board OPL3-SA3 sound any good?

Posted on 2021-10-20, 09:41

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by charliegolf

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Hi I recently got hold of a Dell dimension xps d300 that has on board sound : OPL3-SA3 with an additional OPL4-ML2 chip. When I got the machine I had planned to put a sound blaster 16 in but was wondering if anyone has experience with these on board chips and if they're any good and worth using for …

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Re: Aztech Sound Galaxy 16 pro can't enable mpu-401

Posted on 2021-09-29, 09:45

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by charliegolf

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Cool , yes a PnP 486 so looks like 2/9 is maybe being reserved. I'll dig into it. Thanks!

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