Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-11-23, 22:27

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by RobDos

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Well, looks like I did a thing today. 16MB, 486DX2, 2MB Trio64V+ CPU displayed as P24D-S that apparently is specialized chip? Heatsink is glued to the CPU and I'm worried I I remove it I may damage it. Will not post with the IDE to CF card adapter, onboard PCI PIO 4 IDE with LBA (8GB max) support …

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Re: Pentium 3 system post fail issue

Posted on 2021-11-23, 21:41

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by RobDos

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

It looks like your jumper free mode jumber might be in the wrong position (looking at the manual) the other thing to check is to make sure your RAM is PC100/133 as you can't have a FSB of 100 with PC66 RAM.

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Re: [SOLVED] Best DOS antivirus?

Posted on 2021-11-21, 14:35

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by RobDos

in Milliways

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The year is 2021, it's been nearly a decade. Thank you! My Win 98SE box feels safer with all the random 'stuff' I'm testing on it 😀 - Remember folks, backup!

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Floppy 3 & 4 without BIOS support

Posted on 2021-11-20, 14:48

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by RobDos

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'm tempted to pick up a 5.25/3.5" combo floppy drive from Epson but before I do I'm curious how to get floppy 3 and 4 working without BIOS support. I assume I need some sort of driver.

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Stumbled across Sunrom today

Posted on 2021-11-20, 13:56

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by RobDos

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

They have a few interesting adapters Serial UART to USB Pen Drive https://www.sunrom.com/p/serial-uart-to-usb-pen-drive $31.USD USB Mouse Decoder serial output https://www.sunrom.com/p/usb-mouse-decoder-serial-output $27.27 Not sure if the usb mouse decoder would work with the dos mouse driver but …

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

Posted on 2021-11-20, 13:27

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by RobDos

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I spend a whole $17.95 to obtain 1MB of L2 Cache for my 486 DX2! KICKASS I was trying to figure out what the price for that would have been back when the board was released.

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Re: Need Help: Win98SE cannot recognize partition/files correctly

Posted on 2021-11-18, 21:04

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by RobDos

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https://msfn.org/board/topic/159631-testing-ms-dos-limitations/ I used a usb ping to create my partitions, i don't let scandisk or defrag from Win 98 touch the drive, everythign get's fubared. Need to load it into my win 10 box, checkdisk it and make it work again. I have a 128GB volume for my Win …

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Re: Your opinion matters ;) - seeking Video Card Advice

Posted on 2021-11-18, 20:15

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by RobDos

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in Marvin \ Video

Can't wait to get this baby on Friday! Gainward Dragon 4000 Green PCI 16MB Voodoo Banshee

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Re: Repairing a CT4520 / Worth it?

Posted on 2021-11-17, 23:37

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by RobDos

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in Marvin \ Sound

Kamerat wrote on 2021-11-17, 19:55: Have you tried initializing the card with Unisound instead? It takes care of both PnP and Sound Blaster initialization. Just did, seems to have no issues at all, Repaired! YAY another one saved from recycling!

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vogonswiki.com? Not much action?

Posted on 2021-11-17, 21:21

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by RobDos

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I was looking at Vogons Wiki, I requested an account but I'm wondering if its pretty much dead. https://www.vogonswiki.com/index.php?title=Main_Page&action=history Not a lot of activity on here, and there is a lot of information that gets lost in the chat's that might be better suited for the wiki. …

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Re: Troubleshooting SIMMCONN Revival

Posted on 2021-11-17, 19:39

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by RobDos

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So I'm not having much luck here getting 28MB on this card. I have a two different 32MB sticks, 16 and 8MB sticks I've tried. Chip with 16x TMS417409ADJ MT16D832G is one of the 32MB, when I configure the SIMMCONN for 32MB I get 2MB (card has 512k native) Configure for 16MB, get 2MB Configure for 8MB …

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Re: Repairing a CT4520 / Worth it?

Posted on 2021-11-17, 16:09

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by RobDos

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Looks like replacing that one cap and redoing CTCU and fighting the auto config a few times got it working the issue now is in the synthesized test i got a hung note /feed back Maybe i should give up?

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Re: Repairing a CT4520 / Worth it?

Posted on 2021-11-17, 15:47

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by RobDos

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Okay, so this is interesting and might be a clue I use CTCU to configure the card. I run diagnose, sometimes diagnose shows what I just configured in CTCU other times it shows different information Sometimes it passes, sometimes it fails but I tend to not get midi output. I'm wondering if it's …

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Re: Repairing a CT4520 / Worth it?

Posted on 2021-11-17, 15:36

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by RobDos

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RobDos wrote on 2021-11-16, 02:21: I had to use dos utils to get it to work, CTCM.EXE to configure the card in DOS then I had to load AWEUTIL.COM to get midi to work. Depending on the game I had to provide different switches, and not always successful. tried that, Failure setting MPU-401 at port …

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Re: Doubts about a n00b about Sb16 boards

Posted on 2021-11-17, 14:41

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by RobDos

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CTCM does not read the BLASTER variable, it only writes it if you want to change how CTCM configures the card you need to use CTCU So you can't run CTCU in Windows 98 SE dos, never mind you can. :) Found a post talking about how it checks for a variable called winbootdir, if it exists the program …

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Re: Serial Mouse into Rasberry PI then use USB to RS232 to send RS232 Data to a legacy PC?

Posted on 2021-11-17, 14:24

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by RobDos

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Neat, I may look at the ISA card because I just think that's just plain sexyer. The link I put appears to work with a generic USB RS232 and the PI's built in USB ports, not pretty by any means but I have PI's lying around. The PiPico looks really cool, thanks for the tips!

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Your opinion matters ;) - seeking Video Card Advice

Posted on 2021-11-17, 14:13

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by RobDos

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in Marvin \ Video

I have two dos systems in my future, Asus P3B-F, P3, 512MB, Radeon 9200, Awe64 Standard CT4380+SIMMCONN revival PcChips M915i, 486DX 2-66, 16MB, ???, SB 16 non-PNP CT2910 I have three PCI graphics cards Voodoo Banshee 16MB S3 Trio64V+ 1MB? ATI Rage II+DVD 4MB In my mind I should put the Banshee in …

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Serial Mouse into Rasberry PI then use USB to RS232 to send RS232 Data to a legacy PC?

Posted on 2021-11-17, 01:59

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by RobDos

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This far exceeds my knowledge but I'm wondering how difficult would it be to process USB mouse data then output that on a RS232 port using a raspberry PI as a host. Doing a bit of research seems like someone else already did it, has any one tried this? Obviously it's getting harder and harder to …

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Re: Doubts about a n00b about Sb16 boards

Posted on 2021-11-17, 01:44

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by RobDos

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in Marvin \ Sound

PNP - Plug n Pray. For instance, for some unknown reason today my SB AWE 64 went A220 I5 D1 H6 P330 E620 T6 to A220 I10 D3 H6 P300 E620 T6 CTCM completely ignored my set blaster variable and decided to do its own thing. Took booting in to Win 98Se, manually changing the settings back for it to work …

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Re: Simmconn AWE64 Adapter

Posted on 2021-11-16, 18:54

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by RobDos

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maxtherabbit wrote on 2020-11-13, 20:31: I think you need a new PAL fisherman Can you elaborate what you mean by that? I have a dead awe64 and I'm wondering if that's part of it?

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