Today i recorded a video for Youtube where i show how to update the Firmware of one of my CM-32L.
But since CamStudio is a pain in the ass and i lost the programming part i don't have a complete video.
Now i will record it next saturday... perhaps. -_-

Sorta retro since the mobo has a post date of 2004, but testing it today, and simply amazed at how well, my freshly restored Socket 939 a64 machine is running modern games under Steam os beta.

I played Age of Empires II HD - The Forgotten again yesterday. Kind of retro as it is the Steam re-release of the classic. I love that game. 😀

Recorded all the sound menu songs from the PC version of Turrican II: http://www.philscomputerlab.com/turrican-ii.html

At least with Chrome it will play them straight away, no need for download.

Called my mother using my antique Nokia..😁

Tested an old Sanyo 2x and Teac 4x SCSI CD-ROM drive from 1994. The drives are able to read current CD-Rs with the latest AZO layers which were somewhat surprising since most old drives do not.
Retested a 5.25" SCSI Fujitsu M2266S-A and a Fujitsu M2266S-B HDD drive. One works flawless, the other one reports media defects.
Just to give an impression:
The drive is from 1992 and was produced since 1990. There is some blog where it was covered recently:
http://goughlui.com/?p=8779

My two younger cousins from Canada came over and stayed here last week. We've been gaming most of all, I showed them some older games and cool hardware and they introduced me to some new stuff (like Nitronic Rush, which is an AWESOME freeware game)
They seemed most impressed by the 160Hz CRT I use. Actual quote: "OMG this is like real life!" 🤣
I could finally practice my English speaking skills too 😀

Plowed through this while I still could before it detects the cybersquatters' robots.txt file again. Sadly its early days in 2000 aren't that well preserved.

Played around with the GOG.com version of Privateer 2 and got it going on my Pentium time machine. Details in the DOS section 😀

Received 4 old floppy drives off bBay. One will replace an FDD that went bad last month, the other 3 will comprise the reserve.

You can never have enough floppy drives. I have only one, and I suspect it is kinda bad. I thought it would be a good idea to throw out all my old floppy drives (and AT power supplies) 5 years ago.

I've been having trouble making a 5.25" drive work. Could be it's just bad. Never can have enough!

Always try blowing them out with an air compressor, oil up the worm gear and clean the read write heads. I've fixed drives I had assumed dead before by doing this.

Bought this to straighten the pins on my next project.

Not Hardware, only Software, but Retro:

Installed Win95C on various Dosbox versions, with 3DFX, Network, etc...

Now i found a combination to play Colin McRae Rally with Hardware Acceleration,no Graphic Bugs and Networkplay, between to Virtual Machines in Dosbox.

Tomorrow i will test if i can connect the Game running in Dosbox with a Game running on real Hardware.

Test successfull 😀 It is possible to play a Game that running in Dosbox with a Game running on real Hardware in Multiplayer 😀

Long overdue so finally I got around to testing my Gigabyte 586ATX Socket 7 motherboard.

Tested with a Pentium 200 at 100 MHz to compare it with Vetz's results:

Socket 5 & 7 Motherboard VGA Benchmark comparison

Right up there with the top motherboard 😀

mwenek wrote:

Bought this to straighten the pins on my next project.

Use a Potato knife, much cheaper, very effective.

Btw what overdrive is that, Socket 4 to ? P133?

JaNoZ wrote:

mwenek wrote:

Bought this to straighten the pins on my next project.

Use a Potato knife, much cheaper, very effective.

Depending on the CPU, a mechanical pencil with the "lead" removed, and steady hands. Even cheaper. However, works better for P4 and above though (maybe P3) depending on the gauge wire used for the CPU.

Realizing I still have an empty Redline Networks T|X 2U chassis, which I should convert to a home-theater system as it would look beautiful amongst the stereo equipment.