That's a fascinating system. MFM? Going to get an XT-IDE kit? So many delicious TTL chips.

Nice M24, i had one too, i gave it away to an ex Olivetti employee that was putting up an interactive museum of Olivetti pcs here in Italy. had expanded memory and the color monitor

I've finally finished my Adlib clone Souncard , using the PCB layout from Malinov site. Good Lord that was really difficult to make from scratch,without a professionally printed PCB, but i did it anyway.

It Works! Yippeee!

Maybe i'll post the details on a thread i've seen some months ago here,the one that inspired me to try this project

Here's the link to the thread I have an idea... Oh boy.

As selfmade as it gets - props!

So, today I finally plug my first retro PC into wall (sorry, no photos, will post them later, terrible lightning today), install Win XP on it, and after OS install I put only 3 pieces of software: 3DMark01, GPU-Z and RivaTuner. You can probably see, where this is going 😀 Windows didn't really like the idea of messing with GPU drivers while running, but I persist, and the operation was successful at the end! I successfully softmodded Radeon 9500 into 9700, my first ever AGP card 😎 Behold:

Before

After

A motherboard I bought should be arriving this week finally after sitting in customs for what feels like forever. It's the last piece I needed to finish a 486 build, so in preparation for that I decided to test the CPU speed LED display thingy that came with the AT case I'll be using and get it showing the correct speed. Powered it up and it looked all good (showing the wrong number though, but that's ok easy enough to fix). A few seconds later I can see and smell a little bit of smoke coming from somewhere on the PCB. Quickly turned the power off and flipped it over:

Bleh. Oh well, easy to fix, just kind of annoying. 😜

Nice Olivetti... I used to use one of those at a friends house back when they were new, with MS-Basic and not Dos, loaded from floppy as it had no harddrive. And in tech college later on around 1992 (had Dos and HDD at that time). They are awesomme machines as such, and as every Brand-PC from that era, they are indeed build like a tank. There is something special about Olivetti machines up to that "44-something" model, that were build with 486sx25 CPU's. After that, Olivetti just lost something. I don't know if they were bought out or were cost reducing or something. They just lost some of what made them special. Much like Unisys or other big brands of that era.

Srandista wrote:

So, today I finally plug my first retro PC into wall (sorry, no photos, will post them later, terrible lightning today), install Win XP on it, and after OS install I put only 3 pieces of software: 3DMark01, GPU-Z and RivaTuner. You can probably see, where this is going 😀 Windows didn't really like the idea of messing with GPU drivers while running, but I persist, and the operation was successful at the end! I successfully softmodded Radeon 9500 into 9700, my first ever AGP card 😎 Behold:

What are the full specs for this machine?

@Cyrix200+ is there a glass of whisky on one of the photos? 😁

Stretched a poor SiS 530 equipped on GA-5SMM. Tried to make it run Quake 3 under Windows XP. It's funny that it's the only AGP device you can use on the board, but any AGP driver installation will get BSOD while lauching demo001. I finally got it running with PCI driver and it scored 0.7 FPS with either XP stock GPU driver or SiS GPU driver.
Here is the video.

lazibayer wrote:

Stretched a poor SiS 530 equipped on GA-5SMM. Tried to make it run Quake 3 under Windows XP. It's funny that it's the only AGP device you can use on the board, but any AGP driver installation will get BSOD while lauching demo001. I finally got it running with PCI driver and it scored 0.7 FPS with either XP stock GPU driver or SiS GPU driver.
Here is the video.

Ouch. That sounds like the Socket 370 board I had that only had PCI video and shitty Intel AGP Video.

I'm in the process of building a hyper powered Win98/DOS machine based around an Asrock ALiveSATA2-GLAN. The significant issue at this point is the RTL8111B LOM which doesn't appear to be working properly, although the driver is installed. I'm hesitant to go with a PCI network card, as I want all three for two sound cards and a Matrox M3D (which hopefully will work).

badmojo wrote:

Close call on that battery, nice save!

Just a bit too late actually, some traces have discolored. Still have to treat those.

probnot wrote:

That is a very unique looking computer (at least compared to what I've seen over here). I like the speaker that looks like it's from and old Bell phone handset. And is that IR near the battery in the last pic?

Yes it is a special one. There are some nice sources of information online: http://www.olivettim24.hadesnet.org/index.html

luckybob wrote:

sweet! I think I had something similar once. sweet little system!

Thanks 😀

gdjacobs wrote:

That's a fascinating system. MFM? Going to get an XT-IDE kit? So many delicious TTL chips.

MFM I think yes. Might get a XT-IDE kit, but I'm not sure yet. I have a spare MFM HDD so I might try that one first. Although since I now have three XT-class systems I should probably just get one. As soon as I have money again 😉

mongaccio wrote:

Nice M24, i had one too, i gave it away to an ex Olivetti employee that was putting up an interactive museum of Olivetti pcs here in Italy. had expanded memory and the color monitor

This one should also have a color monitor/card (CGA)

brostenen wrote:

Nice Olivetti... I used to use one of those at a friends house back when they were new, with MS-Basic and not Dos, loaded from floppy as it had no harddrive. And in tech college later on around 1992 (had Dos and HDD at that time). They are awesomme machines as such, and as every Brand-PC from that era, they are indeed build like a tank. There is something special about Olivetti machines up to that "44-something" model, that were build with 486sx25 CPU's. After that, Olivetti just lost something. I don't know if they were bought out or were cost reducing or something. They just lost some of what made them special. Much like Unisys or other big brands of that era.

Thanks. I look forward to restoring it fully. It is a complete set (system, keyboard, monitor). No software, documentation or (original) mouse included.

kva wrote:

@Cyrix200+ is there a glass of whisky on one of the photos? 😁

Yes, the whisky is young compared to the computer 😀 I think it was Ardbeg 10.

Upgraded the AWE64 Value in my MMX PC to 32MB of RAM.

(I connected the CD Audio cable later, don't worry 😎 )

Great success.

liqmat wrote:

What are the full specs for this machine?

So far:
ASRock 4CoreDual-SATA2 (LGA775)
Intel Core2Quad Q6600 (B3)
ATI Radeon 9500@9700
2GB DDR2 RAM
80 GB HDD
400W PSU

Finally sending out some packages tomorrow and starting on some retro projects long neglected. Thank you medical leave! and unexpected health issues+insurance.

Cyrix200+ wrote:

Yes, the whisky is young compared to the computer 😀 I think it was Ardbeg 10.

Good choice! 😀

Improving emulation of AIX / PPC. Now the emulator gets to the same point as the real machine (http://tyom.blogspot.de/2017/09/aix-under-qem … -up-to-nfs.html), looking for the install media of AIX 4.2 for Motorola.

Srandista wrote:

So far: ASRock 4CoreDual-SATA2 (LGA775) Intel Core2Quad Q6600 (B3) ATI Radeon 9500@9700 2GB DDR2 RAM 80 GB HDD 400W PSU […]
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liqmat wrote:

What are the full specs for this machine?

So far:
ASRock 4CoreDual-SATA2 (LGA775)
Intel Core2Quad Q6600 (B3)
ATI Radeon 9500@9700
2GB DDR2 RAM
80 GB HDD
400W PSU

You have a similar build to mine. Do you have Quake 4? Would be nice to do some comparisons.

Cyrix200+ wrote:

Thanks. I look forward to restoring it fully. It is a complete set (system, keyboard, monitor). No software, documentation or (original) mouse included.

Yeah... I am lucky that my Unisys Pw/2 Series-300 are 100% original as well, you know, manual and monitor and all that.

appiah4 wrote:

Upgraded the AWE64 Value in my MMX PC to 32MB of RAM. […]
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Upgraded the AWE64 Value in my MMX PC to 32MB of RAM.

That SLI deserves a better machine than a pentium MMX. Even one voodoo 2 deserves better than this (even though you get some more frames per second with a v2 in comparison to a v1)