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Re: Does anyone have the Microsoft Internet Keyboard drivers CD?

Posted on 2022-10-09, 15:05

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Ohhh so the Intellitype CDs have multiple keyboard drivers included too? That changes everything. It's a Win98SE PC so I'll try the 2.2 one. If it wasn't obvious it's a PS/2 keyboard I forgot to mention, the health safety sticker in the back (not on the picture frame) mentions a "safety guide that …

Re: Does anyone have the Microsoft Internet Keyboard Pro drivers CD?

Posted on 2022-10-09, 02:27

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hmm ...Looks like a very early version of the Internet (not a Pro). https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/t9cAAOSwoHhhcfQQ/s-l1600.jpg Can you post a picture of the back with the label showing part number ?edit - fixed boo-boo and better picture ;p Hmm from me too. I may have 4 or 5 MS driver CDs around, …

Does anyone have the Microsoft Internet Keyboard drivers CD?

Posted on 2022-10-09, 01:39

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Or the drivers file itself for that matter. Searched for a long time and couldn't find it anywhere. Here is the keyboard model to avoid any confusion: https://media.karousell.com/media/photos/products/2021/12/9/microsoft_internet_keyboard_co_1639027264_c6c32c93_progressive.jpg Was honestly expecting …

Re: Sony FD Trinitron KV-21FX30B TV not memorizing all of Service Menu settings

Posted on 2022-10-05, 20:57

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Oooh. You are not supposed to do this with video source like this. You need true NTSC signal like over the air or from a old school signal generator, not from the consoles or VCR or DVD players as they don't output active video areas properly. This is not what per service manual says, the service …

Re: 3 (+3 more) retro battle stations

Posted on 2022-10-03, 03:06

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

@andre_6 The PhilsComputerLab benchmark suite is excellent, as noted by pshipkov. It's very easy to use. I'd recommend running options 2), 5), 6), a), b), c), and whatever else suits your interests. Those are what we tend to use the most in this thread. I'm curious to see your results! Please do …

Re: 3 (+3 more) retro battle stations

Posted on 2022-10-03, 01:00

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

search online for Phil' benchmark suite or something like that. you can do it for the fun of it, but you wont see much performance difference, if any. your computer is hard cpu limited. also, good chance the card is set by default to the optimal config. Thank you both for your help, it's always …

Re: 3 (+3 more) retro battle stations

Posted on 2022-10-02, 22:46

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

You picked a card with 8-bit RAMDAC which means maximum 256 colors on screen. Not ideal, but not the end of the world really. Look at the jumpers on the card - some of them control "wait states" of the video card. It is probably JP1. You can check this by running some of the simple DOS interactive …

Re: 3 (+3 more) retro battle stations

Posted on 2022-10-02, 21:25

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

I looked at enough Trident ISA cards to see the pattern from your low-res image. The DIP-28 RAMDACs are 90% 8-bit, or less. In your particular case the RAMDAC is actually 6-bit, but that still results to maximum of 256 colors on screen. Many CL models come with 8-bit DACs. Some with 16-bit. The D …

Re: 3 (+3 more) retro battle stations

Posted on 2022-10-02, 19:21

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

You picked a card with 8-bit RAMDAC which means maximum 256 colors on screen. Not ideal, but not the end of the world really. Look at the jumpers on the card - some of them control "wait states" of the video card. It is probably JP1. You can check this by running some of the simple DOS interactive …

Re: 3 (+3 more) retro battle stations

Posted on 2022-10-02, 17:55

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Desktop, ISA --- 8900CL (up to 1MB 2MB , SVGA, ISA/VLB. Slightly faster than earlier 8900 cards) <- EXCELLENT CARD --- 8900D (up to 1MB 2MB , 8900CL w/ bugs corrected) <- EXCELLENT CARD I can also attest to those being excellent. In my experience they were significantly faster than the previous …

Re: 3 (+3 more) retro battle stations

Posted on 2022-10-02, 15:26

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Desktop, ISA --- 8900CL (up to 1MB 2MB , SVGA, ISA/VLB. Slightly faster than earlier 8900 cards) <- EXCELLENT CARD --- 8900D (up to 1MB 2MB , 8900CL w/ bugs corrected) <- EXCELLENT CARD I can also attest to those being excellent. In my experience they were significantly faster than the previous …

Re: Are DA-15 and DB-15 subminiatures the same in practice? Philips CDD 462

Posted on 2022-10-01, 15:21

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

First of all I'd like to renew my thanks for everyone's replies and continued interest. I'm way out of my depth on this one and every help I can get is more than welcome. Yes I contacted Shelby and he replied very quickly and thoughtfully. So as for the cable it really is a DB-15 one like you guys …

Re: problems with keyboard whitening

Posted on 2022-09-30, 21:35

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Thanks very much for the help Andre_6! I have seen the video and I have observed that it performs whitening with the sun. can UV light be used? No problem! Yes I believe Neil from RMC said he did it in days where he thought the sun was too hot and it could cook the plastics with the very hot air …

Re: problems with keyboard whitening

Posted on 2022-09-30, 18:28

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

What method did you use? Retrobrighting is always a variable process as every company makes its products with different plastic compositions, surfaces and tonalities, and the products we all use for the treatment also vary a lot. If you removed the yellowing from the key and those stains remain, if …

Re: Are DA-15 and DB-15 subminiatures the same in practice? Philips CDD 462

Posted on 2022-09-29, 20:09

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

There is a part list, and according to that, the connector on the card is female, requiring a male connector on the cable, so one would need a DB15 Male to Female cable. That does it then for the drivers and cable, great! Again one last thing: did Shelby mention if he's going to reproduce units for …

Re: Are DA-15 and DB-15 subminiatures the same in practice? Philips CDD 462

Posted on 2022-09-29, 19:04

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Thank you so much for your help guys, awesome information. I couldn't understand from the rendering of Tech Tangents' reproduction card if the cable should be DB15 male or female to plug on it, so I'll refrain from buying one until I am sure, I always assumed it would be a male connector to plug on …

Re: Sound in DOS games only through Windows, not in true DOS

Posted on 2022-09-29, 14:46

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

I can't quite remember, I know you get a dos mode mixer utility but do you also get a diagnostic utility that shows you which resources it's trying to use? I think I forced mine back in the day in pure dos mode to use different addresses then what windows 98 was assigning due to the same issue, …

Re: Are DA-15 and DB-15 subminiatures the same in practice? Philips CDD 462

Posted on 2022-09-29, 14:10

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

So from what I can see I'm missing the cable, the controller card and the drivers. In any case if someone had one of these external CD players and is able to at least confirm the type of cable and has drivers to share then I could at least solve those for now, thanks in advance

How do I assign different Sound Blaster address and configs between DOS and Windows?

Posted on 2022-09-29, 02:30

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Hello everyone, I recently discovered that my Sound Blaster Live! 4830's drivers whether .wdm or .vxd always keep my Win98SE from rebooting, hanging at the restart screen, making me force the restart from the front panel's button. I tried different driver versions for that card but it's something …

Re: Are DA-15 and DB-15 subminiatures the same in practice?

Posted on 2022-09-28, 17:58

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'll have check for the cable specs, but this drive is definitely not IDE compatible. I had a similar but slower CDD-461. https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Laser_Magnetic_Storage_International Found pinout on Twitter if it helps: https://twitter.com/andyAVAVsystems/status/1192847018483425280 Edit: what …

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