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

Posted on 2023-07-16, 18:33

by

by arnovdheiden

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Today I modified the Dallas battery of my recently acquired intel batman's revenge motherboard. I desoldered the dallas, and replaced it with a socket. then I used a multitool to reveal the battery points in the dallas and soldered on the CR2032 holder. Placed the modified Dallas on the socket and …

---

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-07-16, 18:27

by

by arnovdheiden

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I recently bought a Commodore socket 4 system in an enlight 6562 case in reasonable condition. It contained an intel batman's revenge motherboard with a pentium 60 on it, and 40MB memory. Accompanied by a cirrus logic pci graphicscard and an isa network card. De hdd was dead, and didn't test the …

---

Re: Windows Update Restored

Posted on 2023-07-12, 18:42

by

by arnovdheiden

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

I really welcome this site, because it was something I miss after installing a windows 98SE from scratch. I wonder if they provide the Dutch windows update packages. I think it wouldnt be helpful to install english updates for a dutch OS, because english words will appear everywhere. I downloaded …

---

Re: Jazz Jackrabbit 2 and 16 bit rendering

Posted on 2023-06-07, 19:43

by

by arnovdheiden

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Thanks for your reply! It's clear the cpu is too limited. This topic can be close.

---

Jazz Jackrabbit 2 and 16 bit rendering

Posted on 2023-06-05, 19:59

by

by arnovdheiden

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Hello all. I was trying to play Jazz Jackrabbit 2 on my non mmx pentium 200 and a TNT2 M64 pci with detonator 3.68. Installed version 1.20 off jazz2 and started it. Went to the video menu to switch to hw mode and 16bits rendering. However 16 bits color was not available. Only a maximum of 640x480 …

---

Re: Oldest nVidia PCI driver for Riva TNT2 M64

Posted on 2023-05-22, 16:20

by

by arnovdheiden

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Sorry for reopening this old topic, but i found the 3.68 pci driver. Maybe i made someone happy with this.

---

Re: CD/DVD drive selection

Posted on 2023-05-22, 06:31

by

by arnovdheiden

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I would go with the Mitsumi FX400E. Reads cdr well, but is also period correct. Is also relatively reliable and quiet, aside from the seeking sound, which is personally like.

---

Differences between Mitsumi FX400 versions

Posted on 2023-04-24, 09:28

by

by arnovdheiden

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hello all, One of my favorite optical drives for mid nineties builds is the Mitsumi FX400 Quad speed drive. I love the silence of spinning and the funny seeking sounds. It was produced between ~1994 en ~1996. But there are quite some versions of this drive, and I wonder what the differences are. I …

---

Re: BIOS image collection - requests, discussion etc

Posted on 2022-06-06, 19:32

by

by arnovdheiden

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hi Arno, The only other way this is going to work is using the recovery flash method. You need an actual bios update disk and a floppy drive for that. Power off, remove the only jumper on the board, put the upgrade diskette in the floppy drive. Power on. Now the nail-biting begins. You need to wait …

---

Re: BIOS image collection - requests, discussion etc

Posted on 2022-05-06, 09:16

by

by arnovdheiden

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hello all. I have a request. I own a socket 5 Intel Advanced/EV Endeavour motherboard, early revision. It is a OEM Highscreen/Vobis edition, and has currently bios version 2 installed. I found version 6, but I can't flash it because it's not the H version. Does someone have a modified version 6 …

---

Re: BIOS image collection - requests, discussion etc

Posted on 2022-03-16, 11:47

by

by arnovdheiden

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hello all. I have a request. I own a socket 5 Intel Advanced/EV Endeavour motherboard, early revision. It is a OEM Highscreen/Vobis edition, and has currently bios version 2 installed. I found version 6, but I can't flash it because it's not the H version. Does someone have a modified version 6 …

---

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

Posted on 2022-03-06, 15:23

by

by arnovdheiden

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

This is a multi-day project, but I decided it was about time to take my old Dell D830 laptop out of storage and figure out what I need to upgrade the hardware so it's as powerful as it can be, and since I had to remove the keyboard to get to one of the RAM slots and I want to upgrade the CPU anyway …

---

Re: BIOS image collection - requests, discussion etc

Posted on 2022-02-24, 07:51

by

by arnovdheiden

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Klench wrote on 2022-02-23, 22:40: Hi, do you still need the bios? Yes I do, would be super nice if you could help me.

---

Re: BIOS image collection - requests, discussion etc

Posted on 2022-02-09, 11:53

by

by arnovdheiden

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hello all. I have a request. I own a socket 5 Intel Advanced/EV Endeavour motherboard, early revision. It is a OEM Highscreen/Vobis edition, and has currently bios version 2 installed. I found version 6, but I can't flash it because it's not the H version. Does someone have a modified version 6 bios …

---

Re: Which USB 2.0 cards for old motherboards

Posted on 2022-02-09, 10:04

by

by arnovdheiden

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have an early revision socket 5 motberboard from intel (Advanced/EV Endeavour) and I tried a Via based USB card. It is recognised and installed, but when i plugged in a pen drive, windows 98 SE freezed. I used NUSB 3.3. After that i managed to find a NEC 5 port USB 2.0 card, installed it with the …

---

Re: Windows 98SE NL (DUTCH) keeps reopening active/open folders after every restart

Posted on 2022-02-01, 14:52

by

by arnovdheiden

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Yes this is the solution. Thank you Kalle 😀 You've been a great help. Really appreciated!

---

Re: Windows 98SE NL (DUTCH) keeps reopening active/open folders after every restart

Posted on 2022-02-01, 12:06

by

by arnovdheiden

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

The weird thing is, is that this problem is already there after a fresh instalaltion, so is it "default" for this windows version? I can't remember this being this way back in 1999. Yes, it's like that for the whole 9x series, including ME. From what I could find, MS changed that behavior with IE6. …

---

Re: Windows 98SE NL (DUTCH) keeps reopening active/open folders after every restart

Posted on 2022-02-01, 10:32

by

by arnovdheiden

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

There should an option accessible from explorer that opens a window where you can set various folder/file related options. One of them is about restoring folders that were open during a shutdown. This window looks something like this: http://www.clubinnovations.com.au/training/tech2u/win98_1/files. …

---

Windows 98SE NL (DUTCH) keeps reopening active/open folders after every restart

Posted on 2022-02-01, 08:58

by

by arnovdheiden

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Hello, first of all, thank you all for being a treasure trove of good old retro information. It's great there is an active community for this. If I used the wrong section for this question, sorry for that. Feel free to move this topic to the right one. I have a pentium 133 system with 64MB ram, and …

---

Re: Tillamook 266MMX internal multiplier interpretation

Posted on 2020-10-18, 13:13

by

by arnovdheiden

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

an update about my project. As I said, I ordered the 24pin wide dip socket, and a new (ish) compatible dallas RTC chip. I received it several weeks ago, but i wanted to find the perfect time and energy to work on it. I managed to solder of the old chip, but it cost me a lot of patience and …

---