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

Posted on 2021-06-09, 14:29

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Not really retro, but today I tried to resurrect my dad's old Dell Inspiron that had died after Windows 10 wiped the C: drive. I first backed up the old data, which made me curse at Microsoft for not including an easy way to copy a drive's contents to an external drive from the recovery console. …

Re: 32-Bit is dead

Posted on 2021-06-09, 14:17

in Milliways

in Milliways

Just virtualize it.

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-06-08, 05:02

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

it's in essence a MU100 sound module on a PCI card, it's more of a workstation card, but you can just use it like an external MIDI module in another PC and feed MIDI into it if you feel like it. Can you image the CD-ROMs please? I see your card comes with something from eMagic (special version of …

Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2021-06-04, 15:39

in Milliways

in Milliways

I think MS Office is FREE on MacOSX. Nope . https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/buy/compare-microsoft-365-products-for-mac One-off £130 for student/home use of the traditional, installed 'Office' applications (Word, Excel, Powerpoint only ). £60/year for personal use of Office 365. £80/ …

Re: BRAND NEW KDS 19 inch monitor MAJOR problems

Posted on 2021-06-04, 15:37

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Scythifuge wrote on 2021-06-04, 11:05: I watched a bunch of videos where people make a discharge tool with an insulated screwdriver, a wire, and an alligator clip and they insert it under the suction cup. I'll be sure to watch a few more videos about CRT monitor repair. Darwin Award incoming, I …

Re: BRAND NEW KDS 19 inch monitor MAJOR problems

Posted on 2021-06-04, 05:42

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

I'm going to use a piece of electrical cable wrapped around a flat head screw driver on one end, with an alligator clip on the other, and discharge the power. I also heard that CRTs at the end had a part that caused most of the power to discharge upon power down. Unless you got this method from a …

Re: Roland RA-50, RA-90 and RA-95 doubts about purchase or not

Posted on 2021-05-27, 05:38

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Wow, yes thats what is see, when I connect the speakers or headphone it outputs a lot of noise. (Edit: maybe some extra info but without the ra50 eprom it looks and sound the same) Never knew that can happen with an eprom. Dont have an eprom programmer yet but i'll try to get one. Thanks for your …

Re: World wide chip shortages....

Posted on 2021-05-26, 07:44

in Milliways

in Milliways

A major factor is that there was a big fire in a chip factory some time ago, and getting that repaired is taking longer than expected: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56486242 Short version: turns out that short supply chains with single points of failure are not a good idea when you want …

Re: When publishers break software on purpose (Adobe in this case)

Posted on 2021-05-22, 06:33

in Milliways

in Milliways

Beside the subject or which company, It might be obvious but this is not only related to softwares; I'd think it's a "new lifestyle" shared by most consumer products where "old things" and basically the "old concept of things how existed" was decided that have to end in a natural way or in some " …

Re: SC-55mkII with a dead MIDI port - looking to try to find the problem

Posted on 2021-05-21, 05:52

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Now I have to ultimately replace the capacitor, though I am not entirely sure I understand why the unit is still working. It's a 2200 uf capacitor reading at 0.4 uf, but other than the incidental damage to the trace everything else is working fine. Failing capacitors do not immediately lead to a …

Re: Help configuring (and dumping) wavetable ROM - Cardinal DSP16 / MPC700plus

Posted on 2021-05-20, 05:06

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Shit op-amp on the speaker out?

Re: When publishers break software on purpose (Adobe in this case)

Posted on 2021-05-19, 13:54

in Milliways

in Milliways

One thing that really irritates me are "special edition" DVD/Blu-ray sets that are priced at a premium (couple hundred dollars) and that are basically re-releases or have worse bonuses than much older collector's sets that cost no more than 50-70 bucks.

Re: When publishers break software on purpose (Adobe in this case)

Posted on 2021-05-18, 05:42

in Milliways

in Milliways

Didn't Adobe just recently break flash, completely, on all platforms? And this is not even a matter of cracking/activation (as the product has always been free). It simply phones home (I assume) and refuses to run. Is there a workaround? Some browsers block Flash by default because it is a huge …

Re: When publishers break software on purpose (Adobe in this case)

Posted on 2021-05-18, 05:40

in Milliways

in Milliways

I own a copy of Adobe Acrobat 8 Standard which I purchased many years ago. Even though new versions have arrived on the marked, it has covered my need when it comes to PDF authoring up untill now. I wanted to install it on my Thinkpad T61p laptop and I noticed two things: 1. Adobe had discontinued …

Re: Looking for a japanese vintage computers forum

Posted on 2021-05-16, 07:19

in Milliways

in Milliways

Tried both emails. One is not working anymore, and no respond from the other one. I'm really surprised that nobody knows japanese vintage forums. If you asked about russian ones, I'd remember at least three forums off the top of my head. Well, AFAIK real forums like this one are pretty rare there. …

Re: Help configuring (and dumping) wavetable ROM - Cardinal DSP16 / MPC700plus

Posted on 2021-05-16, 06:56

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

In the tradition of the boxpressed benchmark , here are some recordings of the downright powerful wavetable ROM on the DSP16. You might be tempted to call this the worst wavetable MIDI you've ever heard. You might wonder if it was marketed with the slogan "I can't believe it's not FM." Me, I like …

Re: Roland SC-88 Pro won't boot.

Posted on 2021-05-13, 16:20

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

It's not just the screen that has become partially disconnected, is it?

Re: Color inkjet for DOS, Win 3.x, and Win9x

Posted on 2021-05-13, 16:17

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

that is compatible with DOS You're going to have to be more specific. Unless you want to print plain text (which would kind of defeat the purpose of having a color inkjet), every DOS program had its own printer drivers. A printer compatible with one DOS program might not be compatible with another. …

Re: Roland SC-88 no audio output?

Posted on 2021-05-08, 20:22

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

The VL always was, as AFAIK the internal PSU of the regular 88 is prone to failing more often than the external power brick on the VL.

Re: Roland SC-88 no audio output?

Posted on 2021-05-08, 06:33

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Seeing the gunk on the chip (3rd pic), maybe something went poof because it destructively failed?

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