Memory for Bard has arrived, and so did the cases. If I have nothing better to do, I just might start putting nice ancient green boards into a hyper modern black box with a side window. 😀

As promised, here is a pic of a couple hellish contraptions intended to power my retro rigs, complete with latching relays for using with modern cases. https://i.imgur.com/EKbR5p6.jpg I didn't bother carefully removing wires (the ones I had to cut) from the connector since those aren't connected to …

Thanks, will try that. I happen to have ordered a later model VIA chip that is certain to support PS2 mice, but I'll probably put this off to last. In the mean time, working on some power wires (will probably finish tonight). Sadly, the fine gent that was making those proper ATX to AT adapters seems …

First, let me be old-fashioned (as befits this place) and congratulate the better half of humanity with 8th of March! Second, a short update incoming. To begin with, I've tested the new ram on the Assasin (P4), and it checks out. Apparently, all those memory errors were due to one of the three ( …

@Zack_H I'm not sure why I'd need one. Frankly, I'm leaning more towards either Pentium Pro or some fast MMX P1. Even then, it will probably not happen any time soon, as I have a handful as it is. @pshipkov I have received the NICs with sockets, and thought I'd get HDDs up and running with XT-IDE. …

While waiting for RAM and NICs for the 386 and 486, tested a pair of GPUs for the C2Q/Xeon(if supported) build. Here are the cards: https://i.imgur.com/bhgOyGU.jpg?1 Those do seem to be fingerprint-happy... Anyway, looks are for later, now I just needed to make sure they work and the motherboard …

Hey, what about S3 DeltaChrome or some such? Provided you can get one... Now, make no mistake, I LOVE S3, and would actually really want to get my grabby paws on one, but something tells me... the drivers... cough cough.... should have been perfect 😉

On an unrelated note, just snagged a Korg NX5r for my MIDI collection. Unless some foul play is involved, it should still contain an XG daughterboard, making it twice the fun to have.

@pshipkov I will post a couple tests once I get either of these running beyond booting from a floppy. Currently I can boot dos install disks, but there are no hard drives to install to. What benchmarks beyond 3dbench and Norton system information do you have in mind? @pentiumspeed I know, that back …

Managed to get 12 Mb worth of SIMMs for the 386 by Samsung. Now waiting for them to arrive... If all goes well, it will have 16 Mb. Speaking of which, I'm calling that rig "it" because I don't have a name for it yet. P2 is, for obvious reasons, called "Shaman", while his younger sister (a modern rig …

Hi! During the coming few months, I intend to build a few rigs to cover most periods and OSes the way I remember those. Now, I did miss out on the original IBM PC era (Speccy was where it was at back then), and for me "DOS times" started with a 286, which is already too fast for time sensitive stuff …

Oh, but it does have a CD drive, along with a Gotek floppy emulator, all in one slot thanks to Dell NR95F caddy, I just love those for this particular reason. I just didn't mention them because there is nothing special about them. This build also has fan regulators, if we speak about details, and …

Greetings to the most esteemed community! I've been lurking around here ever since coming across LGR's channel and being infected with the idea of reliving my own early computing years. Inevitably, google searches for drivers, specs and workarounds would bring me here, and more often than not would …