Rebuilt my "CGW July 1999 Killer Rig" clone and played Elite Force for the first time and finished the game. The campaign was only about 8 hours or so?

h-a-l-9000 wrote:

The Trident chips could already have the LM339 integrated. But even if not the tool may be able to get back the color. It switches the video BIOS to color monitor.

If it does help, one can add it to autoexec.bat.

Your tool worked perfectly!

I edited my post with my findings about which cards work in an XT class system and which cards don't and both cleaned up the mess and attached your program as it's possible other poeple who Google for ISA cards that work in XT class systems could find that post.

The program is so small so it dosn't matter if it's cross posted. 😀

I am not lucky... The motherboard on my P166 died for no reason. 😢
After some testing, nothig else than the board died, not even the CPU died 😜
Moved all parts to an ATX case, containing my FIC PA-2013 1mb Cache version.

Had this happen to me once. It was one of the VRMs (specifically the VRM for MMX core voltage).
The board still worked with non-MMX CPUs 😀

bjt wrote:

Had this happen to me once. It was one of the VRMs (specifically the VRM for MMX core voltage).
The board still worked with non-MMX CPUs 😀

Hmmm.... The P-166 is a non-MMX type. As I don't like MMX P1's, I don't have one.
I feel MMX is best for the last P1's and well... I have a couple of P-II 266's to fill that gap.

I'm building another XT-IDE card today. I have to limit myself to assemble only 1 card a day of the 8 left i still need to work on. Soldering is tough on my back specially considering i don't have a proper table and comfy chair for the job.

carlostex wrote:

I'm building another XT-IDE card today. I have to limit myself to assemble only 1 card a day of the 8 left i still need to work on. Soldering is tough on my back specially considering i don't have a proper table and comfy chair for the job.

I hope that you at least have good light. That is the worst thing to be missing when soldering.

Yes there was plenty of sunlight coming through the window.

While testing recently picked ct3990 decide to make complete testing of my small collection.

All seems work fine,but mine gf3 ti500 shat itself in process

Found my jazPiper when moving house recently. Found batteries inside, which had corroded 🙁

Fortunately, on internal inspection it hadn't spread so I used a vinegar solution to cleanse the affected parts and reassemble. It works 😀

My musical taste hasn't changed much since I last used it which is handy as I don't have a compatible OS for the parallel cable connection right now.

Got my 6800 ultra PCI-Express card in my paws I bought off ebay. As with other very old video cards, first thing I did was dis-assembly and cleaning.

First took off the metal cover on top and get to see this:

Decided to go deeper and replace the heatsink paste on the DIE too. Turned out the old paste, literally did not do anything. I touched it with a screw driver tip and it just crumbled and fell off as dust.
Naked video card porn anyone? 😁

And done before I put the cover back on. I know there's still some dust left, but I went after the blower blades and the heatsink with both a can of air and a toothbrush and can't seem to get the rest of it off. I'm fine with this.. at least It's not completely obstructing the fins now.

I have upgraded my XT clone with an XT IDE(CF) card made by member carlostex, it works really great!

I will move the XT IDE card one step closer to the PSU later, now I just wanted easy access to both the CF card and the dip switches on the motherboard.

You could get this type of CF, it goes into the back:

brostenen wrote:

That is the worst thing to be missing when soldering.

i would disagree, you would be far more upset if you didnt miss your finger for example ;>

PhilsComputerLab wrote:

You could get this type of CF, it goes into the back:

Yea I know, or a male to female IDE cable. 😀

I got this CF IDE adapter in an lot of items (mostly crap) I bought on either Ebay or Tradera many years ago but it's good enough for now. I can still use at least 5 slots and I do not think I need more at the moment.

I was more worried over the fact that people here on Vogons have had issues with this exact CF to IDE adapter but mine seems to work just fine.

I played 8088 (V20) friendly games.

I mostly played Bubble Bubble though.

When I first loaded it up I thought the poor XT clone had freezed, after 30s I pushed the turbo button and things loaded much faster. The game it self ran fine even with the V20 at 4.77MHz though.

I had to disconnect the PC speaker temporarily, I'm pretty sure the whole block could hear it.

I recently bought my first wavetable addon - Terratec combo TT-929 + SOWT-24 and played around with install and wanted to hear the difference with General MIDI.

Tested with Doom, Dune2 and Warcraft2. Maybe I expected more 🤣 Anyways... ended playing Warcraft2 for some hours... got to level 7. Always liked playing Warcraft2 😁

Hopefully will get a SCC-1 card not too far in the future... I don't have the time to finish the deal. Really want to hear what I'm missing in the music department. But then again I never really cared much about it 😐

Probably the most useless things I've ever purchased is now two 720 series AS/400 machines. They're big, they eat power, they only do massively boring tasks like inventory, payroll accounting, report generation and stuff like that.
Today I moved both machines to the lower side of my house and stacked them into a 7' 1100 pound monster so I could better store them.

Holy crap. And some people here have wives that limit them to 2 desktop computers!

I received one used atx case but it was in good shape, a little bit dirty but not too yellowed and the best parr : it came with a working cd-rw drive(front bezel looking like new) and working floppy drive (front bezel looking like new too) and my pentium 133 was delivered so i setup my tripod and camera and recorded the building of my MS-DOS 3-in-1 retro gaming machine(i named it "White Tardis"), i will post the video soon and leave the build details on System Specs.
I don't know if it only happens to me but after i build one rig (specially retro) i get a feeling of satisfaction when i see that working perfectly.