After sorting some issues with the MBR, I finally got everything going alright with my 486's HDD replacement.

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Just beginning some preparations for an evening next week. I'm having friends around and we're going to be boozing & retro gaming all night on real hardware. My friends mostly all use emulators as they don't own the hardware any longer, so this will be a break from the norm.

There are thousands of games to choose from and multiple systems, so I'm going to have to schedule times dedicated to at least a pair of systems at a time. I have 2 TVs and an Amstrad Monitor in this room, to accomodate this all nicely. 🤣 😎

This lot should cover gaming from the 1970s up to the early 2000s.

Systems pictured: Hanimex Model 8881 Colour TV Game, Systema TV Boy II (Atari 2600 Clone), thumbsUp! OR-MINITVGAME Model 8039 (NES Clone), Nintendo NES, Sega Mega Drive 1 & Sega Dreamcast.

Some hardware not pictured, but will be setup on the left hand side of the room - Amstrad CPC 464, Sinclair ZX Spectrum +2A & a Sega Master System 1 which will all share the Amstrad Colour Monitor.

And to add to the retro event, all music will be from Vinyl Records for the whole night. Once the retro gaming session ends in the early hours of the morning, the consoles will make way for 7" Records. 🤣

oeuvre wrote:

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In the wallpapers section
https://www.geocities.ws/oldternet/files.htm

And attached is the BIG version.

root42 wrote:

Got my new Atari 2600 hooked up and we played some Donkey Kong, Missile Command, Lilly Adventure and a couple of other classics.

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Something is looking a bit off, regarding the gfx that are in motion. And lesser off, with the edges of the static gfx. Is this the classic case of a modern tv, trying to upscale, making the gfx out of sync or something like that?

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What makes it a better choice compared to the other cards that I have when running Win98-only software?

It works much better than YMF-724 in the PCs I used it with, bot has an OPL3/Win9x card as well as a pure MS-DOS card through its great implementation of DDMA.

Hmmm... I have to look into that card, yet I don't have any real use for it as such. For Dos I am using my 286, 486dx-33, 486dx2-80, 5x86-133 and Pentium-166. All with pure MS-Dos-6.22 installed and no Windows. And for Win98 gaming, I have my P3-933 and three motherboards (2 x SocketA and 1 x Socket-478) in boxes. And the only four Dos games that I would ever think of running through any version of Windows, are Doom, Doom2, UltimateDoom and Duke3D. All in all. Getting solid Dos sound support on Win98se, are not really something that I need. That said. It is cool to have that option, even though I would never really have any use for it.

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oeuvre wrote:

i'mma need that background pls

In the wallpapers section
https://www.geocities.ws/oldternet/files.htm

And attached is the BIG version.

Thanks!

Well, I did it. A couple weeks ago, I finally solved an issue with a retro PC's screen display. <-- That topic I posted last month says it all.

Finished restoring this lovely Samsung/Chicony mechanical keyboard. Turned out great. The cable needed a couple splices, one right up next to the part where it connects internally, for which I had to relocate the strain relief & ferrite shield, but I think I did a good job.

The original connector was destoyed, so I spliced on a PS/2 one. It works perfectly, and even has an AT/XT switch underneath. The only thing I don't like is the high backslash/small backspace layout.

And yes, I'm typing this post on it because of course I am. 😜

I just received a bunch of NEW IDE ribbons so now I can finish my 486 and SS7 builds this weekend.
I was having IDE drive problems because I had bad cables.
It was putting off all my builds.
Hopefully everything will work now.
I really want to get this 486dx4-100 build running.
And an AMD-K6-3+@550mhz.
These are going to be my best retro computer build yet.

Forgot to post this the other day.

On Thursday, I received all of the items I purchased from eBay and Digi-Key to make my very own multi A/V board for my Sega Genesis Model 1 to support Composite, audio (both Mono and Stereo via the headphone jacks), and RGB + Sync.

The items used were the following:

1) Blank PCB Board
2) Snipped off RCA jacks (from a VGA to RCA/s-video adapter that never worked and a component to 8-pin DIN for a specific video card that never worked), new headphone jacks for Stereo sound, and new 8-pin 262 Degrees DINs (lost 2 of them in the process because of the soldering iron heat), which are the same as the Commodore 64/128 systems.
3) 22 AWG color coated solid wiring (gray for Sync, Green for Chroma (Y), Blue for Blue (Pb), Red for Red (Pr) and right channel for the headphone jacks, Yellow for Composite, White for audio (both Mono and left channel for the headphone jacks), and Black or bare for ground)
4) 4x 220µF 6.3V Radial Electrolytic capacitors
5) 3x 75 Ohms resistors for the RGB lines
6) 1x 470 Ohms resistor for the Sync line
7) Loads of solder

Soon:
1) Plastic standoffs
2) Case with ventilation to prevent shortings

Here's the board in general:

Gallery: https://imgur.com/gallery/ANbTO5b

Stay tuned for a YouTube video for the comparison between Composite and RGB.

I used my DVDO Edge to upscale the RGBs and Composite to HDMI for my TV and set the aspect ratio to 4:3 so it doesn't look horrible when stretched.

Well well WELL how have things been going the two weeks I was on page 3 and wondering what happened to the daily threads? 😀

I cataloged the 55 or so desktops and 25 or so laptops and I'm starting work on loose components, but it's slow going as I'm doing it part time.

I just found a dumped Dell Precision 420 (Dual PIII), haven't tested it yet.

Here are some motherboards in a box. I wouldn't move them around like this, too likely to scratch, but I'm trying to plan storage for some of them. I had kind of a slow-motion haul this winter, I probably increased the amount of hardware I have 4x, now I need to winnow it down a bit. Will probably sell some, give away a few, part out a *couple* (there are some damaged cases), and I just got wind of someone else who has some "old laptops and network equipment," so I may end up filling, um, my patio or something.

I have way more PIII's that I expected, and way less P4's. Odd.

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I see DX-Ball 2 in that list of programs! It was (and still is) one of the best Breakout clones I've ever played. 😁

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Finally managed to empty my storage room in time, but having my flat and cellar flooded with my hardware collection now.
I was surprised how much hardware and media a 20 m² room can hold.
Time for inventory now. Allready recovered some bits of hardware I missed for a long time. Pictures are to follow.
Hundreds of HDDs, CD, floppy and tape drives, boxes full of motherboards, networking, controller and video boards, Documentation, Diskettes and tapes.
Allready build some nice piles of 19" systems, to prove why these are called stackable.

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Well well WELL how have things been going the two weeks I was on page 3 and wondering what happened to the daily threads? 😀

I cataloged the 55 or so desktops and 25 or so laptops and I'm starting work on loose components, but it's slow going as I'm doing it part time.

I just found a dumped Dell Precision 420 (Dual PIII), haven't tested it yet.

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Here are some motherboards in a box. I wouldn't move them around like this, too likely to scratch, but I'm trying to plan storage for some of them. I had kind of a slow-motion haul this winter, I probably increased the amount of hardware I have 4x, now I need to winnow it down a bit. Will probably sell some, give away a few, part out a *couple* (there are some damaged cases), and I just got wind of someone else who has some "old laptops and network equipment," so I may end up filling, um, my patio or something.

I have way more PIII's that I expected, and way less P4's. Odd.

So far I can recognize a proprietary (either HP or Gateway) Slot 1 mobo, something that looks like an ABIT AW9D-MAX, a ASUS H81M and a ECS K7S5A, and a Intel D875PBZ.

The others I can't identify.

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Have you tried Roytam1's Firefox 45 ESR SSE with the UOC Patch and the related extensions? You might have better performance and compatibility than Opera 12.18. I see you're using Windows XP.

I've developed the UOC Patch just for this purpose, to optimize Firefox and other Mozilla-based browsers for old computers. You can find the patch, alongside Firefox 45 ESR SSE (or New Moon 28/Serpent/Basilisk since your CPU supports SSE2) at MSFN, then couple it with NoScript, Bluhell Firewall and uBlock Origin 1.10.0 and your computer will run way better. Consider that I've originally developed the patch when my computer was a 800MHz PIII Coppermine with 768MB of RAM, and now is an overclocked 1.4GHz Tualatin-S with 1,5GB of RAM. I'll link you the page of my patch first:

https://msfn.org/board/topic/178306-experimen … or-old-machines

In the thread you'll also find the recommended extensions to use alongside the patch. You can easily find those on the internet.

Finished installing Windows 95B with drivers onto my P166 system... realized the S3 Trio64/V2 card was only 1mb so time to install an ATI Rage IIC 4mb card. Also took apart my PII 400 system (With TNT1 & V2), needed the case for another build/file server project. I assembled it with a P4 3.4 1mb prescott, but I'm going to have to drop in a C2D (board is Asus P5LD2-VM), because the P4 runs waaay to hot! Idle's at 50c, and that's with a large heatsink and a fan that already sounds like it's taking off. Was using 2x500GB 1x1TB, & 1x4TB drives. 2GB DDR2 OCZ. xubuntu 16.04.

Bought a cheap used case and put together a Slot1 i was talking about few pages before. Got 2 cuts on my hand but it was worth it 🤣 Had some problems, the RTL8139C quit working after moving the computer, took it out and cleaned the contacts and it fixed it.
Full specs:

1Celeron 300Mhz Covington
2128MB PC133 RAM (a bit overkill IMO)
3MSi Riva TNT 2 Pro 32MB (actually have 2 of those, pretty nice cards with good cooling)
4Asus P2B (my biggest retro deal ever, only 8$  :^) )
5RTL8139C ethernet card (a 3Com would be a better fit but i haven't got one of those)
6Yamaha Audician 32 (got it from "a box with things to throw out" at my school
7Seagate 4.3GB (that one with the rubber sleeve)
8Fortron 300GTF (had a more fitting 1999 PSU but its floppy cable was too short)
9Win95 B