Re: Volo's Gampad to PS/2 Adapter. Device discussion (Do you need this thing?)

Posted on 2020-05-10, 18:37

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by aha2940

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Very interesting device IMO, it seems to cover many needs and at a reasonable price. Hope you can make some for selling. If so, I'm interested. Thanks!

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

Posted on 2020-05-10, 17:38

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by aha2940

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I looked online for the capacitors needed to recap my Antec 350W, and found this page where a guy recapped a PS exactly like mine: https://www.badcaps.net/forum/showthread.php?p=89628 Unfortunately, that's a lot of caps, which would be pretty expensive to buy locally (a single one of the big …

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

Posted on 2020-05-10, 15:49

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For whatever reason, today I decided to test some broken hardware yet again and found that an Antec power supply I thought was good, is indeed bad and a couple floppy drives that threw errors everywhere, are indeed OK after testing them with another PS (they throw errors when used with the Antec PS …

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Re: Need manual for PC diagnostic card

Posted on 2020-05-09, 23:11

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How embarassing. Good thing it is foolproof, it's working now. I never thought I have to turn the card 180° in ISA to get it to work. Even the ISA pinouts start from A/B 1-31 so "rear" would be in the position I originally tried. They meant the rear of the computer. Thank you! I didn't want to try …

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Re: SB16 CT2230 Issue

Posted on 2020-05-09, 18:15

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by aha2940

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I think your card has two different issues: one is the fact that you get MIDI and CD audio from the line out jack, but no output at all (as far as I understand) from the speaker (headphone?) jack. That may be as simple as some solder on the card being cold, and can be fixed easily if so. Anyway, for …

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Re: SB16 problems

Posted on 2020-05-09, 16:44

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So, after seeing this thread: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=73732 and checking some of the links OP there posted, I put jumpers on the IFSD and APSD pins and now digital audio on my SB16 works fine. Yay! That does not eliminate the fact that it is kind of a PoS, but it works and it …

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

Posted on 2020-05-09, 15:49

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by aha2940

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For whatever reason, today I decided to test some broken hardware yet again and found that an Antec power supply I thought was good, is indeed bad and a couple floppy drives that threw errors everywhere, are indeed OK after testing them with another PS (they throw errors when used with the Antec PS …

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Re: SB16 problems

Posted on 2020-05-09, 15:37

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by aha2940

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Hi So, after seeing this thread: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=73732 and checking some of the links OP there posted, I put jumpers on the IFSD and APSD pins and now digital audio on my SB16 works fine. Yay! That does not eliminate the fact that it is kind of a PoS, but it works and it …

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Re: SB16 CT2230 Issue

Posted on 2020-05-09, 04:09

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Not the exact same card, but the problem is about the same. I never got it fixed: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=73024 Oof yeah, that's what I was worried about. :\ What sucks is this is the controller card for the CD-ROM drive as well so I'd have to find a replacement with that …

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Re: SB16 CT2230 Issue

Posted on 2020-05-08, 21:21

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by aha2940

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Not the exact same card, but the problem is about the same. I never got it fixed: SB16 problems

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

Posted on 2020-05-02, 17:02

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I played some Unreal today. I noticed that despite owning this game original since 1999, I have never completed it. I completed Half-life several times, Quake and Quake 2 even more times, RTCW a couple times but never Unreal. And I have never even played the expansion "Return to Na Pali". I'll try …

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Re: Thoughts on Socket 7 chipsets - SIS 530 vs Ali Aladdin V vs VIA Apollo MVP3

Posted on 2020-05-02, 03:17

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It would be cool if you posted the tests you did and the results, so that others could join in. I have a socket 7 board with intel 430Tx chipset and a voodoo 3 2000 PCI too, and would like to compare it to your chipsets.

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Re: Dead Hard Drive Circa 1998 - Best Replacement Option?

Posted on 2020-05-02, 03:14

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I bought an old Quantum Fireball Plus LM 30 GB for $12.99. I did some further digging and like my chances of the Presario's BIOS recognizing the 30GB. I may look into some of the other options down the road if I'm not happy with this route, but this seems like a good place to start, and I don't …

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Re: Custom BIOS Splash Screen Graphics

Posted on 2020-05-02, 02:18

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I have seen this on boards with AWARD BIOS and on some intel ones (my Intel D845 has that utility, but I have never used it).

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

Posted on 2020-05-02, 02:04

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I installed Windows ME on one of my PCs just because I had never used it, I jumped from Win98SE to Windows XP directly. After installing it and installing the drivers mostly without issue, the machine completely froze when installing the USB 2.0 drivers. Sigh. Funny enough, Win98SE does the same on …

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Re: Looking for BIOS update for Asus WMT-LX board for CPU support

Posted on 2020-05-01, 03:07

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Hi, while I don't think it's the cheapest option, I use a chinese TOP3000 EPROM programmer and so far it was worked well for anything I have needed. In your case you would also need an adapter, because the programmer only accepts DIP chips, not those with legs on all four sides, whatever they are …

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Re: Is there a wireless gamepad adapter (DB-15)?

Posted on 2020-04-29, 01:20

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No idea if it would work, but I know there are adapters (and software) that allows to connect an SNES/Sega Genesis/NES gamepad to the parallel port of a PC. You can google for the schematics of the adapter, it's just a few diodes and some cable. If the 8-bit do BT gamepad really behaves as a genuine …

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Re: PLOP Boot manager+DOS+WIN98+Win ME

Posted on 2020-04-28, 22:23

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I'll also recommend VCOM's old Partition Commander / System Commander. It works great for Win9x and DOS systems. If you have access to the OS/2 Warp 4 boot disks, the included boot manager also works very well. My favorite by far though is PLOP. The ability to isolate partitions and drives from …

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Re: What is your favorite version of Nusb?

Posted on 2020-04-28, 02:36

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the favorite version for each one is the one that works for them. I use version 3.6, never tried any other and it works well for me.

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Re: PLOP Boot manager+DOS+WIN98+Win ME

Posted on 2020-04-28, 00:34

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vasya segment wrote on 2020-04-27, 13:55: FaSMaN wrote on 2020-04-27, 13:48: Sadly I've never tried it with VM Is there any other human-friendly boot manager, known to handle well DOS+ME ? V-Com's System Commander 7 or 2000 is very user friendly, but what I like better and use most is Masterbooter …

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