Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2023-11-14, 12:08

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Dremeled and stickered an E5450, prepared a BIOS with s771 microcode and built a rig with 16GB DDR3 around a GA-P45T-ES3G that had been sitting here for ages. Prepared another BIOS for GA-G41M-Combo rev1.3 and stuck an E5430 in there with two 4GB DDR3 DIMMs. These are the third and fourth s771-gone- …

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Re: Geforce 3 and 4 bios mod (mem timings)

Posted on 2023-09-18, 11:17

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try this (source)

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Re: Looking for a Win98 TV Master + FM (Version 2) Driver or CD

Posted on 2023-09-12, 15:16

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The Internet Archive to the rescue again... Can't attach; too big - archived the drivers for all revisions here: https://mega.nz/file/mpVTBQRD#aB_cJ_4dcLxKADx … le8GPy4NWX12nJ8

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Re: Stuffing new Win98SE computer: ideas?

Posted on 2023-05-30, 13:10

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Yes, 64bit remake: https://adrianotiger.github.io/desktopPet/

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Re: Stuffing new Win98SE computer: ideas?

Posted on 2023-05-30, 11:27

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Harry Potter wrote on 2023-05-18, 21:59: Worms Deskmate. I love that guy. He crawls all over my monitor, does tricks and talks. IMHO the definitive screenmate of the mid-90s - SCMPOO https://www.oocities.org/siliconvalley/way/9096/index2.htm also Mikan Seijin (from the same developer?) https://www. …

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Re: Fax Modem Software

Posted on 2023-05-30, 11:03

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WinFax and MighyFax were popular over here too, but weren't usually bundled with modems. Check out Cheyenne BitWare, I had tons of these in CDs back in the day (still version 3.x as fas as I can remember) from Conexant/Rockwell modem bundles. Maybe this was it? https://archive.org/details/bitware3 …

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Re: EIZO MD-B10 ROMs needed

Posted on 2023-02-24, 18:38

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Thanks, I found a(n apparently) more recent BIOS of an AX in another thread, but the card still won't POST and seems to have another problem - will look more into it over the weekend 😀

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EIZO MD-B10 ROMs needed

Posted on 2023-02-19, 19:48

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I have a Tseng ET3000AX-based EIZO MD-B10 ISA card that doesn't post and would be curious to see it running. It has two chips, one BIOS and one "PR" (? might be the sync-bios). I googled everywhere for dumps but I couldn't find anything. Does anyone have this strange video card and would be kind …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2022-08-12, 15:43

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A few years ago (~2018?) I was on the lookout for red PCB hardware to make a build. Back then I scored a Iwill P4HT2 i845PE s478 motherboard and a Powercolor R96-HD3 (Radeon 9600/256MB) for next to nothing, but both were shot so I quit the idea. Three days ago I found them in the storage and decided …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-06-28, 22:42

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Found this fun little gadget for 2€: Gemtek Wizard Radio (WR100), no cables Looks like a 25-pin serial FM radio receiver (came with an 9pin adapter) with a 16bit control software which can run on Windows 3.1/9x. It has two 2.5mm jacks, one for antenna and the other for line out (goes directly into …

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Re: Windows 11 - MS wants to get rid of HDDs for drive C:

Posted on 2022-06-14, 11:29

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Well after a clean install Windows is still doing work. If you get 100% I/O when your Windows 10 PC is idle, I would suspect the drive is starting to fail. Or it's a SMR drive you've you just done an excessive amount of writes to. Not really, ever tried to install any version of Win10 after …

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Re: Windows 11 - MS wants to get rid of HDDs for drive C:

Posted on 2022-06-14, 08:21

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About time... Wasn't Win10 unbearably slow with mech HDD since at least last year's updates anyway? I recall constant 100% I/O in taskmgr after bootup right after a clean install

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Re: What modern activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2022-06-07, 10:49

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My best friend was about to trash his old i7-920 tower but I kind of liked the case, so I took it home and upgraded it a bit: bought a Xeon, swapped the PSU from my slow i5, updated the BIOS, replaced its ATi 5870 with a 750Ti, replaced its 3x2gb of DDR3 with 6x8gb, added an SSD, added a second …

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Re: Jazz Jakarta PCI Drivers

Posted on 2021-12-02, 12:40

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Unfortunately I can't get it to boot without hanging, either shows a solid color (green or cyan sometimes) or POSTs with character artifacts at particular spots. Most probably the RAM chips will have to be changed.

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Re: Jazz Jakarta PCI Drivers

Posted on 2021-11-17, 08:29

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Thank you all! I'll try to get this card to work at weekend. @cyclone3d, the BIOS chip is labeled: "JAKARTA #26-042604-3 JAZZ v 1.11D", might be able to get a ROM dump as soon as I get it to POST.

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Jazz Jakarta PCI Drivers

Posted on 2021-11-16, 17:10

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Does anyone have the installation diskettes for the Tseng ET4000/W32p-based Jazz Multimedia Jakarta PCI card? Only found these filenames in scenelist.org but no downloads anywhere apart from spamish driver downloader tools: JKV2DSK1.ZIP 1214649 02-08-97 ┌───────────────────────────┐ │ Jakarta Video/ …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2021-08-19, 18:26

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Lately I've been playing Firo & Klawd and Robotron X... Have owned these since I was a kid, hadn't touched them for ages though

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Re: Change a game's name by one letter, to make it something completely different (just for fun!)

Posted on 2021-07-27, 17:38

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Core Design's MC Racers - spit rhymes on the run, rival against Nas, Dr Dre, Jay-Z on the streets while dissin' them at the same time! also... uh... Alley Rat, for a bit of role-reversal?

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2021-03-15, 11:54

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As the final step of these posts , and after recapping the motherboard and fitting a few more parts, I closed the A500's box. This rev.6a now has: Gotek with keirf's awesome FlashFloppy firmware Vampire 500 V2+ on a CPU relocator (so that I could fit a...) Individual Computers ACE2b 2MB chip ram …

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Re: Gallant SC-6600 rev 2.0

Posted on 2021-03-15, 11:26

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I hope it's not too late... I can't remember if these are the exact drivers I used as I currently don't have access to my whole driver archive, but there you go

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