Re: Possible DB15 to Midi With Gameport Passthrough option?
Posted on 2021-11-17, 04:28
Hmm... Might have to cross that bridge after I burn it.
Re: Possible DB15 to Midi With Gameport Passthrough option?
Posted on 2021-11-17, 01:46
Sweet! Thank you. Has to be a better solution than the ali Express cables.
Possible DB15 to Midi With Gameport Passthrough option?
Posted on 2021-11-16, 21:51
Hi guys, quick thing for those that might know, will this work? Plug this into game port: https://www.serdashop.com/DB15-Doubler-Solder-Kit Plug this into one side: https://www.serdashop.com/DB15MIDI Plug joystick into the other side. I think it'll work since the doubler is simply paralleled and the …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2021-02-11, 01:51
I'd been looking for bits to make a P133 rig for a while. Got a nice little tower that needs a retrobrite, a PSU that needs a re-cap, a little memory, etc. But the two socket7 boards I have are dead. One won't detect ram, the other has no POST at all. I was going to pay through the nose for a decent …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2020-10-13, 04:29
Cyrix200+ wrote on 2020-10-12, 06:27: Two sound cards? Must have been an early Vogoner 😀 It looks new again! Did you repaint the rusting cover? Yes. Turns out that Rustolium do a thing called "heirloom beige", which is as close to the original as I could get.
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2020-10-12, 03:18
Managed to convince the CEO of the recycling center to let me into the E-waste section and recover this: https://i.imgur.com/CSaKSnl.jpg Had Some good bits in it: https://i.imgur.com/cYDIAKP.jpg https://i.imgur.com/OqYRfK4.jpg https://i.imgur.com/SAR0Jfx.jpg Gavit it a bit of a tidy up: https://i. …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2020-10-06, 00:00
Yeah. I'm assuming so. Looking forward to pulling it apart. This is like Kinder Surprise for grownups. I hope it's got a sound card in it. The only spare I have is a CT4170, and they sound like arse.
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2020-10-05, 23:49
Anyone ever heard of an Acermate 433? Just bought this thing, probably paid too much, but it does power on and complains about not having a disk. Won't be delivered to me for a while, but itching to know more about it. The model is elusive as hell. There's a bit of info online about the 386 variants …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2020-03-03, 21:41
This arrived today for tinkering with old systems. Came across it looking for SD to IDE adapters and thought it'd be more useful. It only reads ONE card at a time (can't put CF + SD in together), but having both in a single 3.5" drive bay seemed like a good deal! Not sure on read/write speeds yet; …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2020-02-29, 21:42
Turbo -> wrote on 2020-02-29, 20:00: Congrats on the saved components Deczor. Also like the room setup. What is that red shiny thing in the midde of the upper shelf? That's my main PC. Better to have it out of the way up there.
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2020-02-28, 23:54
Bought a NOS CDRW for the 486, but then realised the IDE cable needs and extension and I don't have any. Going to install it anyway. Finally found something useful in the dumpster at work. Had to go back after hours, but I scored some TEAC CD drives and TEAC floppy drives that came out of some old …
Re: Your friends dads 486 build
Posted on 2020-02-24, 22:58
Floppy drive for the CF to IDE, why didn't I think of that! It's been a massive hold up on my current build as I didn't want the thing round the back. Top work! Thanks! I'm going to start making front mounted readers that are a lot cleaner than this, which was just a bodge job with what I had lying …
Re: Your friends dads 486 build
Posted on 2020-02-23, 02:56
Horun wrote on 2020-02-23, 02:49: Looks good but not sure I would have used such a tall case for a Mini board. Thanks! Didn't have much of a choice. The case and board and everything all came together as it was build when new.
Your friends dads 486 build
Posted on 2020-02-23, 01:51
My first computer was a Bondwell XT, bought in 1988 I think. We were too poor to upgrade, so it wasn't until 1997 that I managed to upgrade to a PII 450. My parents had left, so I sold their piano to get it. The whole 386, 486 or Pentium-s era I missed completely, except for times spent on kind …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2020-02-22, 09:10
Anyone else ever have those times where you are completely oblivious of the existence of something, then having all consuming desire of it within seconds?
Re: Compact Flash Card Help (sorry, I've looked and looked)
Posted on 2020-02-21, 23:33
SOLVED! Thanks for all the input guys. I really appreciate it. I now have a working floppy drive, so what I did was: - Chuck CF card into 486 with floppy drive. - In BIOS set the drive to the standard config thing that's common. - Run fdisk, and when prompted set the max drive partition size to …
Re: Compact Flash Card Help (sorry, I've looked and looked)
Posted on 2020-02-20, 22:58
I mean in Win10. Or get Win10 to read FAT16, which it seems to not want to do. Going to try another VM today.
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2020-02-20, 07:09
Nah. I'll just leave it for now. It's not hurting anyone.
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2020-02-20, 02:19
Hahhhaaaa just the bracket is upside down. WOW Deczor did you do that ? OFFS. How the shit did I not notice that? Fuck, I'm an idiot. Yes, I did that when I was cleaning up the brackets. I guess it'll actually be a problem if I ever find a case for this thing. The old one is scummy as hell, so was …
Re: Compact Flash Card Help (sorry, I've looked and looked)
Posted on 2020-02-19, 21:24
Windows 10 definitely works with FAT16 partitions. I tried that just yesterday. It can even format disks into FAT16 if the requirements are met (FAT16 is VERY restrictive by modern standards). However, if you wish to use a CF card in old systems, it's not a good idea to partition/format them on …
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