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Re: SBEMU: Sound Blaster emulation on AC97

Posted on 2024-03-26, 15:42

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Bruno128 wrote on 2024-03-26, 08:44: vico wrote on 2024-03-25, 18:03: Bruno128 wrote on 2024-03-24, 22:01: Reports list updated. Where can I see this list of reports? OP or my sig. I figure it'd probably be a bit of extra work but could you put ✅ or ❌ for pass/fail on each one?

Re: 486 SocketBlaster building experiment - Oh my God, a difficult beast to build

Posted on 2024-03-20, 15:09

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

It would also allow you to have the buck converter exposed so you can make changes without removing the CPU. thats how Sphere478 designed it https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=1176382#p1176382 Oh, yeah I saw that. I mean to have the specific functionality of the socket blaster, 168 to 168.

Re: 486 SocketBlaster building experiment - Oh my God, a difficult beast to build

Posted on 2024-03-19, 21:50

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

feipoa went over picking best LDO for 486 https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=54953 I would very much like to build a version with the sockets next to each other as opposed to on top of each other, like in this one you linked. It would make the whole process much easier in cases where you …

Re: Gigabyte GA-6WMMC7

Posted on 2024-03-13, 00:26

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Do you have a POST analyzer card? EDIT: didn't realize this was necro'd.

Re: 2024 - End of the era of Retro Computing Youtube channels?

Posted on 2024-03-12, 14:54

in Milliways

in Milliways

gerry wrote on 2024-03-12, 14:41: i suspect a minor joke on repeat 😀 I gotta say it is tiring to have to keep re-treading the same arguments over and over again.

Re: L2 Cache via CPU interposer?

Posted on 2024-03-11, 18:21

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

It could also be useful as a way to introduce cache even for systems that can support it properly, by using more available SMD cache chips such as the ones that appeared on later socker 7 boards instead of the old DIP chips that are commonly sold fake or broken on eBay.

L2 Cache via CPU interposer?

Posted on 2024-03-11, 18:12

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Has there ever been a CPU interposer, for say, socket 1/2/3 that adds L2 cache for systems with broken/fake/nonexistent cache?

Re: What hasn’t been done?

Posted on 2024-03-11, 16:43

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

got a link to a gerber and BoM?

Re: What hasn’t been done?

Posted on 2024-03-11, 14:47

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

kingcake wrote on 2024-03-11, 04:22: pvlst wrote on 2024-03-10, 21:22: - ASUS 5V to 3.3V PCI power card replica (see here) I made one of these. The problem I ran into is that most motherboards don't have the +3.3V pins routed between slots. Is there an easy way to tell, such as with a multimeter?

Re: 2024 - End of the era of Retro Computing Youtube channels?

Posted on 2024-03-11, 14:34

in Milliways

in Milliways

Man, what is this trash? Why can't they just use screenshots or photos from the things they're talking about instead of creating this garbage? Most egregious in my opinion is the 386 Ram Drive one where it could have just been a photo of a 386 board's RAM section. Or the Amiga video about CGI... …

Re: Slow spinning PSU fan

Posted on 2024-03-11, 14:31

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The only issue I can see with this is that old PC cases were usually designed with the idea that the PSU fan would act as the main exhaust. Over the years design shifted and ended that idea. If your PSU is only spinning up the fan to cool itself off then it may not be doing its job of exhausting hot …

Re: What hasn’t been done?

Posted on 2024-03-09, 10:51

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

analog_programmer wrote on 2024-03-09, 05:07: Wireless NIC on ISA slot supporting 802.11b/g/n + drivers for "dead" operating systems like DOS, win3.xx/9x. This is in progress for the PicoMEM. You need a Pico W to do it

Re: 2024 - End of the era of Retro Computing Youtube channels?

Posted on 2024-03-09, 03:08

in Milliways

in Milliways

Man, what is this trash? Why can't they just use screenshots or photos from the things they're talking about instead of creating this garbage? Most egregious in my opinion is the 386 Ram Drive one where it could have just been a photo of a 386 board's RAM section. Or the Amiga video about CGI... …

Re: The Soundblaster DSP project

Posted on 2024-03-09, 03:02

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Anyone selling chips with the bin already written?

Re: Faux86 - an 8086 emulator for Raspberry Pi that runs bare metal

Posted on 2024-03-09, 02:46

in PC Emulation

in PC Emulation

Thanks. It would be neat if it also ran on RISC-V boards as well but it looks like it uses ARM-specific code.

Re: 2024 - End of the era of Retro Computing Youtube channels?

Posted on 2024-03-09, 02:15

in Milliways

in Milliways

Man, what is this trash? Why can't they just use screenshots or photos from the things they're talking about instead of creating this garbage? Most egregious in my opinion is the 386 Ram Drive one where it could have just been a photo of a 386 board's RAM section. Or the Amiga video about CGI... …

Re: PicoMEM : Pi Pico on ISA, with full Memory and I/O bus access

Posted on 2024-03-05, 16:27

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

does the picomem have any DOS utilities to configure it at runtime? say, to change the floppy disk image?

Re: Connecting a Win ME box to a NAS

Posted on 2024-03-03, 03:47

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I prefer to use the built-in "web folders" feature of win9x. You just set up a web server on your NAS and configure it to enable WebDAV. Then you just point the web folder location to the local network url of your webdav site.

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

Posted on 2024-02-14, 03:25

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Finally got around to moving my XT-IDE ROM to a 3c509b ISA ethernet card for my 486 machine. Bricked the card by making it report the ROM at C0000 and caused a conflict with my VGA card BIOS(TIL the VGA BIOS is at C0000) that caused the machine to beep for "error reading/writing VGA BIOS memory." …

Re: Help flashing XT-IDE(and other kinds of ROMs) to Intel PRO 1000 PCI adapter

Posted on 2024-02-14, 01:35

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I was just using XT-IDE as an example. Something useful would also be Plop Boot Manager or similar.

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