Re: CMOS battery dying, now can't boot from floppy even though it autodetects the drive

Posted on 2020-05-22, 21:36

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by dada

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Interesting thing about being able to open up the chip itself and replacing the battery. I'll have to look into that. And yeah, I'm just not good at that stuff, so maybe I should put out an ad on marktplaats (Dutch second hand site). To me the most important thing is being able to archive my 5.25" …

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CMOS battery dying, now can't boot from floppy even though it autodetects the drive

Posted on 2020-05-22, 18:32

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by dada

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Hi all, I just hooked up my 166mhz computer again for the first time in a while. The CMOS battery seems to have died (or rather it says "low battery" but it acts as though it's completely dead). I was hoping to still be able to boot because it seems to autodetect my drives correctly. Unfortunately …

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Re: Simcity 2000 Midi Synth

Posted on 2020-01-26, 01:17

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by dada

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As a big fan of this game I think this is a really awesome project. I'm 10 years late and I'm sorry for necroposting, but I really appreciated this. I was totally expecting the link to be broken after 10 years, but since it wasn't, I decided to make a copy of this file on the Internet Archive - I …

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Re: Welcome to the updated VOGONS

Posted on 2020-01-11, 15:46

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by dada

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The responsiveness of this design is really good.

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Re: Welcome to the updated VOGONS

Posted on 2020-01-10, 13:36

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Sorry for being a little too flippant there. That's not cool of me and I shouldn't have said that. It's just a bit of a shock. I'll need to get used to it. It's not bad, it's just...everything is so big now. I liked how neat and compact everything used to be. Nos there's so many frills around …

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Re: Welcome to the updated VOGONS

Posted on 2020-01-10, 12:56

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What a shame this new design is not a joke.

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Re: Good Windows 9x games (that don't run on DOS at all)

Posted on 2018-08-14, 13:59

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by dada

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Ah yeah that's good advice, I will have a look there! Sorry for posting in the wrong place 😊

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Good Windows 9x games (that don't run on DOS at all)

Posted on 2018-08-13, 22:50

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by dada

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Hi all, I'm not 100% if this is in the right place so please kick my ass if it isn't :blush: Lately I've set up a new Windows 95 environment for myself (actually 98 with 98lite). Simulated via VMware Fusion, works extremely well. So now I'm wondering if anybody has game recommendations specifically …

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Re: CF-IDE not working

Posted on 2018-04-22, 13:28

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by dada

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Does this PC recognize normal/mechanical 32GB HDDs? I doubt it. The symptom you're having is typical for a HDD larger than what the BIOS can recognize. Now about fixing it, assuming that's the case: try updating the BIOS or get a smaller CF -of a capacity that you're certain the BIOS does work with …

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CF-IDE not working

Posted on 2018-04-21, 15:50

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by dada

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Hi all. I thought it would be a fun idea to install a CF to IDE card in my computer, to see if I could run CompactFlash as my main hard drive. Resilient, easy to backup and quiet. So I installed it, but it doesn't seem to work. When booting up, it detects the 32GB card but then it just freezes . If …

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Re: Really old DOS games (early/mid 80s)

Posted on 2017-12-09, 19:04

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Thank you :D This is actually precisely what I was looking for. Gonna check these out. A few of them are already familiar, but I didn't recall the names. I actually had that strip poker game on a floppy! If it's the same one I'm thinking of, as a kid I'd rename the files so that you don't have to go …

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Really old DOS games (early/mid 80s)

Posted on 2017-12-09, 17:59

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I was wondering if anyone can give me some tips for really old DOS games to play. By the late 80s, DOS game development was starting to get really serious with those awesome LucasArts games that were coming out among other things, but I'm basically totally unaware of what was happening before then, …

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Re: Converting an old 286 into a 486

Posted on 2017-11-20, 11:50

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Deksor wrote: By the way, there's a battery on the motherboard nearby the keyboard connector. Remove it immediately before it leaks ! You're right, I'll have to remove that... thanks for the heads up.

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Re: Converting an old 286 into a 486

Posted on 2017-11-20, 11:41

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by dada

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OK, I have to say that you guys convinced me not to tear down and modify this 286. Truth be told, I wasn't sure about whether or not to convert it, because it is a very nice device. Got it a while back, I installed a CD drive and radio card (Spase PCRADIO, although I don't know where the antenna is) …

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Converting an old 286 into a 486

Posted on 2017-11-19, 12:13

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by dada

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Hi all. I've got a small case with a 80286 (with 80287 coprocessor). 640kb conventional RAM, 1024kb extended. Very nice machine. But I'm thinking of taking out the motherboard and replacing it with a 486 of some kind because I don't have one of those machines yet. And I'd be interested in owning a …

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Re: Hard drive for ancient 8088 pc

Posted on 2017-08-02, 13:37

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by dada

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Thanks for the suggestion. I've been looking into it. I found this one but it's out of stock. I'll have to search further...would you happen to know a good one that is in stock?

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Hard drive for ancient 8088 pc

Posted on 2017-07-26, 12:19

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I've got an old Tulip PC Compact from around 1985 or so. Pic here . PS, it needs some cleaning... This is actually exactly the same model as the computer I used as a boy, except that this one has two floppy drives and no hard drive. My old one had a drive similar to this with the same black front as …

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Re: Screen/gfx card issue

Posted on 2016-03-27, 20:57

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Thanks for your help everyone :D To my surprise it was actually the cable. Even though I tried a different computer and the screen looked fine, I was recommended (by Harekiet and his experience with absurdly long VGA cables on a ship) to try a different cable anyway. And that actually solved it. I'm …

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Screen/gfx card issue

Posted on 2016-03-27, 15:59

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by dada

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hi all. I've got this weird issue with my old PC. I think it's the video card but I'm putting this here in case someone more knowledgeable can chime in. Basically it looks like there's a ghost image overlaid and offset over the regular one: http://i.imgur.com/EOlcP3d.jpg http://i.imgur.com/nbX0ZWk. …

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Easiest way to get long filenames?

Posted on 2015-09-28, 12:03

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by dada

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Hi all. I'm doing a small project to teach myself some C coding using DJGPP. So far I've gotten my development environment set up and I've written some simple code to get the VGA hardware to draw some stuff. I'm only targeting MSDOS and using DOSBox to test. :) (Though I can also compile outside of …

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