Re: PCMCIA Sound Cards

Posted on 2019-05-05, 22:19

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by mikeyp

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No it's not the IBM 3D Sound card, it's a clone of the IBM Audio Adapter, like the Digital card shown at https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=62&t=30840&start=60#p583026 Here are the drivers for DOS/Win3.x, OS/2 and Win95: ibm pcmcia audio drivers.rar Thank you. That does indeed look to be the …

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Re: PCMCIA in Windows 3.1

Posted on 2019-05-05, 21:53

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by mikeyp

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Running Audio configuration produces the following dialogues, after the last of which it hangs, though can be recovered with Ctrl-Alt-Del, then press enter to close the program. Obviously this leaves it still unconfigured. IMG_1784.JPG IMG_1785.JPG IMG_1786.JPG It then suggests I look in WINAUDIO. …

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Re: PCMCIA in Windows 3.1

Posted on 2019-05-05, 21:47

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by mikeyp

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Ok, thank you cyclone3d, those 3com drivers appear to be working. I need to install the TCP/IP stack now and see if I can get network access up and running. Nice find on the Dell audio drivers. It was fun getting them onto something I could write the floppy image to though as they're not standard …

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Re: PCMCIA in Windows 3.1

Posted on 2019-05-04, 22:11

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by mikeyp

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Thank you cyclone3d. I'll give those 3com drivers a go. It turns out lolo799 had already answered the sound card question a while back here. https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=62&t=30840&p=754051&hilit=pcmcia#p737156 It's not a 3d sound but something else. I totally forgot as it's taken me 3 …

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PCMCIA in Windows 3.1

Posted on 2019-05-04, 20:11

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by mikeyp

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I have a Toshiba T3400CT with DOS 6.00 and Windows 3.1. Only problem is, as good as I am with Windows 95 to anything modern, Windows 3.X is a little before my time and I'm a bit stumped. I'd like to use the PCMCIA slot . I have obtained a couple of cards I believe should work nicely; a 3com …

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

Posted on 2019-05-04, 19:05

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by mikeyp

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I replaced the failed motherboard in my second hand Toshiba T3400CT notebook and it lives once more! I then discovered the mbr was infected with the V-Sign virus. Thanks previous owner. I've removed it by booting from a clean DOS boot floppy and running fdisk /mbr to rewrite the boot sector. It's no …

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

Posted on 2019-04-20, 11:45

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by mikeyp

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I've ordered replacement BIOS chips for my Toshiba T1850C notebook, PLCC 32 pin sockets and have put an offer in on a fairly decent hot air soldering rework station. This is phase 1 of the project to resurrect it with a new hard drive. I want to make the soldered BIOS chip socketed and modify the …

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Re: Did I get a fake intellimouse?

Posted on 2019-04-14, 09:46

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by mikeyp

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WOW! I was just watching the exact same video you linked! A man of culture I see I love his videos. If I did youtube videos, that's what I'd do, only his are far more interesting than what I'd manage. I thought all the retail ones were glossy, and the OEM versions were usually matte. That makes …

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Re: Did I get a fake intellimouse?

Posted on 2019-04-13, 08:39

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by mikeyp

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It's not fake. Some early ones were glossy. See this LGR video posted recently. Skip to 5:32 to see him unbox one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLGVBBp_VfY

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Re: K6-2+ & Voodoo3 3000 20fps in Unreal (Help!)

Posted on 2019-04-06, 20:47

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by mikeyp

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I was under the impession that the Voodoo 3 needed to run that game at lower resolutions. I remember mine being slow on Unreal Tournament and I had to run it at 800x600 or 640x480. My Voodoo 1 can't even do that and needs to be at 500something to be playable. I could be wrong and mis-remembering of …

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Re: "HD" Audio case headers for older sound cards?

Posted on 2019-04-05, 21:03

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by mikeyp

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I’m sorry to say but if it doesn’t have a connector then you can’t. You can check the manuals to be sure. Most are available online if you search. Some sound blasters had the facility to connect a 5.25” bay module for front panel connections but nothing that connected to built in connections on …

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Re: Case LED repair

Posted on 2019-04-05, 15:47

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by mikeyp

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Nice work. I like it. 😀

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Re: Is anyone interested in firmware dumps?

Posted on 2019-04-05, 05:45

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by mikeyp

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How do you know if that's the firmware of your HDD? Well, I mean that some devices store some critical data in their EPROMs (along the firmware), so loading that content directly on other device may render it unusable. In some disks, you can't exchange the board to repair them for the same reason. …

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Re: Is anyone interested in firmware dumps?

Posted on 2019-04-05, 05:43

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by mikeyp

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Fair enough stiletto. I’m firmly in the camp of wanting to archive anything I have that will help others when original downloads aren’t available any more and am struggling to get stuff myself for legitimate use, however I fully appreciate what you’re saying about the site’s position as you have …

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2019-04-05, 03:04

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by mikeyp

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I found a 500GB Hitachi IDE hard drive. The platters are heavy though. It takes an age to spin up. Otherwise it erased just fine, has passed all the diagnostics I can throw at it and it isn’t producing any smart errors or worrying noises. Performance is good too. That’s going in the useful pile for …

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Re: Silver by Infogrames

Posted on 2019-04-04, 21:42

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by mikeyp

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Silver is a pig of a game to get working on anything other than period hardware. The good news is that GOG have it in some modern patched form https://www.gog.com/game/silver and it works quite nicely on my modern desktop. Re. yours, try a different graphics driver version. I also played on a …

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

Posted on 2019-04-04, 21:37

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by mikeyp

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Today I found the hard drive of the Windows 3.1 laptop was infected with the Manzon virus! A nice gift from the previous owner! I was backing it up ready to restore the files to another hard disk when Windows 10 quarantined half the com and exe files. Whoops! Looks like it was infected in 1996 …

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Re: Gotek noob needs help.

Posted on 2019-04-04, 21:24

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by mikeyp

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I found that gotek devices seem to have different firmwares on and two identical units wouldn't even write images that would work on each other. I found http://www.hxc2001.com where someone called Jeff has written his own firmware for it and it's brilliant. He asks €10 to flash a single unit with …

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Is anyone interested in firmware dumps?

Posted on 2019-04-04, 17:54

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by mikeyp

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Do we have a thread for firmware dumps and if not, are people interested in having one? It can be for general interest or to help people who for whatever reason need the firmware. I just used my MiniPro TL866A to dump the firmware for my (almost) deceased Conner CP2124 120MB HDD. The chip was an …

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

Posted on 2019-04-04, 08:01

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by mikeyp

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Thanks for your answer! I'm glad you're getting such a kick out of this and, for what it's wort, it's always good to document things online for others. I had a great working Highscreen branded 386 laptop that was my uncle's, way back in the early 90's. Stupidly, I gave it away and have regretted it …

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