I created a fully working standard workbench installation on a CF card for my Amiga600. Just the standard, nothing like whdloader and other software. For this I used my Linux laptop, with FS-UAE emulator installed. Kickstart ROM 37.300 and Workbench 2.05 and a 32mb CF card. I ran into some quirks down the road, like not being able to access the CF card in the USB reader and stuff like that.

The procedure was somewhat like this:
- Install the emulator and set it up with kickrom and the four disks mounted.
- Blank the card, using disks tool in Linux.
- Edit the configuration file for FS-UAE to know that it need to use the IDE controller and what USB reader/drive.
- Set the ownership of the cardreader/card to the user logged in. (need to be done each time a card is inserted)
- When workbench is loaded from the floppy, then I copied the HD-ToolBox to ramdisk.
- Started up the toolbox from ramdisk and made it read info from the CF-Card.
- Exited the toolbox and "prepped" the CF card with the prep'-tool.
- Ran the Harddrive installer tool.

Had to boot from the boot-disk at first for the hdtoolbox program, and had to boot from the installer disk for the rest of the installation. I used the 32mb card, as my Amiga does not have kickrom 37.350. Only 37.300. So I can not go past 40mb drives. For this I have to upgrade my kickstart rom. Now I am only waiting for the 44-pin CF adaptor to arive, as I recieved the cable yesterday. 32mb is ok enough for me, as I am not going to store anything else, than tools/programs for disk image writing and documents written in a wordprocesssor.

I've just made a MIDI in/out cable for the IBM Music Feature Card:

I'm currently in the process of the final rebuild stage of my Dell Dimension 4300S desktop that I use as my primary 9x gaming machine, yesterday I've installed the USB front ports and replaced the video card with a Geforce4 MX440, last night I've DBAN'd the hard drive to get a clean slate so I can freshly reinstall the OSes on there, today I've installed Windows 98 Second Edition and the installation process was just how I remember which is good.

Here's my to-do list on getting it ready (A.K.A. tasks that have yet to be done):
1. Install Chipset drivers
2. Install DirectX 8.1
3. Install Video, Audio, and USB drivers
4. Install Plus! 98
5. Install all the necessary updates (Internet Explorer 6, Media Player 7.1, and 98SE SP2.1)
6. Install Windows 2000 Professional on the secondary HDD partition
7. Repeat Steps 1-3 on the 2000 partition
8. Update 2000 with SP4, Internet Explorer 6, Media Player 7.1, and WMP9 Codecs
9. Install the games I play and any applications I plan on using (MTM2, WEP 1-4, PSP7, 7-zip 9.20, etc.)

In the far future, I might install a CD-RW/DVD Combo Drive and a Northwood-400 CPU if I ever come across them through second-hand markets.

And here's something weird I've encountered when I finished DBANing the hard drive (I used DBAN 2.2.8 on UBCD 5.3.4 in case you wondered).

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I'm currently in the process of the final rebuild stage of my Dell Dimension 4300S desktop that I use as my primary 9x gaming machine, yesterday I've installed the USB front ports and replaced the video card with a Geforce4 MX440, last night I've DBAN'd the hard drive to get a clean slate so I can freshly reinstall the OSes on there, today I've installed Windows 98 Second Edition and the installation process was just how I remember which is good.

Here's my to-do list on getting it ready (A.K.A. tasks that have yet to be done):
1. Install Chipset drivers
2. Install DirectX 8.1
3. Install Video, Audio, and USB drivers
4. Install Plus! 98
5. Install all the necessary updates (Internet Explorer 6, Media Player 7.1, and 98SE SP2.1)
6. Install Windows 2000 Professional on the secondary HDD partition
7. Repeat Steps 1-3 on the 2000 partition
8. Update 2000 with SP4, Internet Explorer 6, Media Player 7.1, and WMP9 Codecs
9. Install the games I play and any applications I plan on using (MTM2, WEP 1-4, PSP7, 7-zip 9.20, etc.)

In the far future, I might install a CD-RW/DVD Combo Drive and a Northwood-400 CPU if I ever come across them through second-hand markets.

And here's something weird I've encountered when I finished DBANing the hard drive (I used DBAN 2.2.8 on UBCD 5.3.4 in case you wondered).

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I encountered that when I was zeroing a hard drive a dentist office had installed with all of their data in a Dimension 4550 which needs 4 new caps by the CPU, but it still runs. The HDD is now my iMac G3/600 Graphite's spare drive if the Maxtor 40GB HDD goes out with Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.11 installed, same with the original iMac's HDD. My Dimension 4550 has a 200GB Maxtor with Windows XP Home Edition with SP3, GeForce 6200 (plan on upgrading to a Radeon HD AGP card, same with my Athlon 64 3000+ machine), 1.5GB DDR memory, Lite-On DVD Burner (gets stuck with no disc inserted), some CD Burner (never reads discs burnt on another drive), 2.4GHz Pentium 4 533MHz FSB processor, integrated audio, FireWire 400 and USB 2.0 card for importing videos from my Sony DCR-TRV260 HandyCam (my iMac imports video and plays back with no issues, so my iMac would be the perfect machine for my video camera).

Looked at my Aztech Sound Galaxy WaveRider Pro 32-3D AZT2316R, and I discovered the Amp IC chip has rust or missing solder points on the top end of the chip on four pins, and the rest are pristine.

I'm thinking of either replacing the chip and the capacitors that are associated with it, or just remove the chip and add solder to those affected areas. Would soldering the pins be better and cheaper than replacing the chip and caps?

bjwil1991 wrote:

Looked at my Aztech Sound Galaxy WaveRider Pro 32-3D AZT2316R, and I discovered the Amp IC chip has rust or missing solder points on the top end of the chip on four pins, and the rest are pristine.

I'm thinking of either replacing the chip and the capacitors that are associated with it, or just remove the chip and add solder to those affected areas. Would soldering the pins be better and cheaper than replacing the chip and caps?

The amp chip can be removed. The only result will be the speaker out not working, but the line out will work just fine.

Got my Blue & White Power Mac G3 350MHz up and running. Has the original 6GB HDD, but I've upgraded the RAM to 512MB and installed a flashed PC ATI Radeon 7000 64MB PCI Graphics Card.

I thought it needed a new Hard Drive at first, but thankfully it was just a corrupted partition so I decided to reinitialize and reinstall Mac OS 9. It was running Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, prior to this.

I had a setup disc for Mac OS 9.2.1, so I used that and this is where some hell began, as the ATI drivers point blank refused to recognise the Radeon 7000 card. I had this problem when I originally installed the card years ago and never bothered trying to solve it as the card worked fine in Mac OS X.

After around an hour of fiddling about with drivers, I finally updated to Mac OS 9.2.2 and then installed the January 2005 ATI drivers and at last it started working. 😎

gdjacobs wrote:

bjwil1991 wrote:

Looked at my Aztech Sound Galaxy WaveRider Pro 32-3D AZT2316R, and I discovered the Amp IC chip has rust or missing solder points on the top end of the chip on four pins, and the rest are pristine.

I'm thinking of either replacing the chip and the capacitors that are associated with it, or just remove the chip and add solder to those affected areas. Would soldering the pins be better and cheaper than replacing the chip and caps?

The amp chip can be removed. The only result will be the speaker out not working, but the line out will work just fine.

Good opportunity to socket it and get into trying out different opamps.

The TDA1517 is not an op-amp module. It provides max 6W of power amplification.

Decided to setup my video studio in my basement consisting of the following:

iMac G3/600 Graphite
Panasonic DVD Recorder with ATSC Tuner and HDMI, FireWire, the whole 9 yards
Vizio M260VA LCD LED HDTV
Sony DCR-TRV260 HandyCam (lens CD board connection is bad again).

Here's the setup (connections):
Sony DCR-TRV260 HandyCam --> (FireWire) iMac G3/600 Graphite --> (FireWire) Panasonic DVD Recorder --> (HDMI) Vizio M260VA

Put some of my new acquisitions into my PII rig. Huh? Electromagnetic what? I can't hear you over all the noise.

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Decided to setup my video studio in my basement consisting of the following:

iMac G3/600 Graphite
Panasonic DVD Recorder with ATSC Tuner and HDMI, FireWire, the whole 9 yards
Vizio M260VA LCD LED HDTV
Sony DCR-TRV260 HandyCam (lens CD board connection is bad again).

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Here's the setup (connections):
Sony DCR-TRV260 HandyCam --> (FireWire) iMac G3/600 Graphite --> (FireWire) Panasonic DVD Recorder --> (HDMI) Vizio M260VA

Perfect setup for editing your skateboard videos. 😜

xplus93 wrote:

Put some of my new acquisitions into my PII rig. Huh? Electromagnetic what? I can't hear you over all the noise.

bjwil1991 wrote:

Decided to setup my video studio in my basement consisting of the following: […]
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Decided to setup my video studio in my basement consisting of the following:

iMac G3/600 Graphite
Panasonic DVD Recorder with ATSC Tuner and HDMI, FireWire, the whole 9 yards
Vizio M260VA LCD LED HDTV
Sony DCR-TRV260 HandyCam (lens CD board connection is bad again).

20170624_003654.jpg

Here's the setup (connections):
Sony DCR-TRV260 HandyCam --> (FireWire) iMac G3/600 Graphite --> (FireWire) Panasonic DVD Recorder --> (HDMI) Vizio M260VA

Perfect setup for editing your skateboard videos. 😜

Nice rig you got there. 2 Voodoo cards, and an MPEG encoder/decoder card, as well as a Sound Blaster 16 (if I'm right) PIC card, and some sort of 2D card? Man, I'm jealous. Wish I can find an MPEG card for my 486 Packard Bell with the VESA feature cable to hook up to my primary video card or with the proper cable to hook up the display adapter to that card.

bjwil1991 wrote:

xplus93 wrote:

Put some of my new acquisitions into my PII rig. Huh? Electromagnetic what? I can't hear you over all the noise.

bjwil1991 wrote:

Decided to setup my video studio in my basement consisting of the following: […]
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Decided to setup my video studio in my basement consisting of the following:

iMac G3/600 Graphite
Panasonic DVD Recorder with ATSC Tuner and HDMI, FireWire, the whole 9 yards
Vizio M260VA LCD LED HDTV
Sony DCR-TRV260 HandyCam (lens CD board connection is bad again).

20170624_003654.jpg

Here's the setup (connections):
Sony DCR-TRV260 HandyCam --> (FireWire) iMac G3/600 Graphite --> (FireWire) Panasonic DVD Recorder --> (HDMI) Vizio M260VA

Perfect setup for editing your skateboard videos. 😜

Nice rig you got there. 2 Voodoo cards, and an MPEG encoder/decoder card, as well as a Sound Blaster 16 (if I'm right) PIC card, and some sort of 2D card? Man, I'm jealous. Wish I can find an MPEG card for my 486 Packard Bell with the VESA feature cable to hook up to my primary video card or with the proper cable to hook up the display adapter to that card.

2D/DX3D is a TNT2 Pro and the sound card is a Turtle Beach Montego/Aureal Vortex. Currently the whole system is down until I get a new CPU though, and then i'll need to make an sli cable and get an audio cable for the mpeg card to get everything working.

Well, we want videogames in the livingroom, so I've started decking out the Dell Dimension 4600 P4 as a multi-generational game unit to run via HDMI on the livingroom TV. Originally I was going to dump that one but I guess I was holding onto it for a reason, 🤣.

2003 Dell DImension 4600
Pentium 4 2.8GHz
3GB of PC-3200 DDR RAM
128GB SATA HDD (C)
200 GB PATA HDD (D)
CD-RW and DVD-RW Drives
NVIDIA GeForce 6200
Soundmax Integrated Audio
10/100 mbps LAN
Windows XP Pro x86

Playing 1 hour of Giana sisters on a real Amiga, with my son. He did not want to stop, untill my woman served fresh baked homemade cake. We tried a couple of different games too. Pinball fantasies and Lotus-III was not really his cup of tea. Though Lotus-II was something that he loved to play.

I tried getting Math Rescue (shareware episode) to run on actual hardware. For some reason, the game works when I boot from a floppy, but will freeze when I boot from HDD. Both the floppy and the harddisk have MS-DOS 6.22. The system files COMMAND.COM, IO.SYS and MSDOS.SYS are identical in size and timestamp and I even renamed AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS for testing, but the game still freezes when DOS was booted from the harddisk, and works "fine" when booted from the floppy.

I tried this on multiple PCs with the same result. Can anybody else confirm that this game is just that weird?

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Well, we want videogames in the livingroom, so I've started decking out the Dell Dimension 4600 P4 as a multi-generational game unit to run via HDMI on the livingroom TV. Originally I was going to dump that one but I guess I was holding onto it for a reason, 🤣.

2003 Dell DImension 4600
Pentium 4 2.8GHz
3GB of PC-3200 DDR RAM
128GB SATA HDD (C)
200 GB PATA HDD (D)
CD-RW and DVD-RW Drives
NVIDIA GeForce 6200
Soundmax Integrated Audio
10/100 mbps LAN
Windows XP Pro x86

Wait the 4600 supports 3GB of RAM? Who knew! and in my ignorance I've been running 2GB as I thought that to be the max.

Anywho, want to benchmark our 4600s under 3DMark 03? I'm curious if yours can beat mine, the so called "Athlon Killer" our setups are similar except mine is slightly more era correct. We're actually running the exact same processor and comparable HDD/CDROM setups. Mine differs in that my OS is IDE and my games drive SATA with my IO handles by an FX5950U and an Audigy Platinum EX. I like to think I have the fastest 4600 on the block.

Someone on here has (or had) a 4600 with 3.(whatever) due the bios limitations of ram (4x1gb sticks) as well as an HD4k AGP card, along with an intel Extreme edition 3.4 P4 😜

ODwilly wrote:

Someone on here has (or had) a 4600 with 3.(whatever) due the bios limitations of ram (4x1gb sticks) as well as an HD4k AGP card, along with an intel Extreme edition 3.4 P4 😜

Why would you put an EE in that thing? I really doubt the stock cooler could keep up very well.

I got got some solid progress done on an upcoming build.

I picked, installed, and wired up all the drives for the system. All 6 HDDs, 4 optical drives, a card reader, and a floppy.

I kept the ribbon cable nightmare at bay for the HDDs by trimming the master connector off some cables to get shorter, single connector cables. Hopefully it won't cause any problems as all drives are set to master and the controller only supports one master drive per cable.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B4D2J … bDQ?usp=sharing