What retro things have you done today?

I did this the other day too;

Asus P/I-P55T2P4 has an ST Mirco M48T86PC1 RTC module, with an internal battery soldered to the board. When the battery degrades the board cannot save settings.

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Desoldered, but still stuck - checked all the pins wobbled and then used a spudger to lift it out. Was a tight fit.

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The Dallas DS12887+ is a pin compatible replacement that you can still buy from reputable sources. Added a socket and it slotted right.

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For the first boot I forgot to clear the CMOS with the jumper, and the board was not happy. Reset it and all is well!

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Having that socket means it'll be much easier to replace when it next dies!
 
So, fired up the Socket 7 machine (96MB RAM, K6-2 300MHz) to try out my newly acquired Diamond Monster Voodoo 1 4MB. Windows detected it fine and I installed the last official driver.

Rebooted and then copied the minigl DLL from the driver installation folder to GlQuake's folder and launched...

Well it launches, but it's dog slow (like 1 or 2 FPS at best). Not sure what to check next?
 
GeX said:
I did this the other day too;

Asus P/I-P55T2P4 has an ST Mirco M48T86PC1 RTC module, with an internal battery soldered to the board. When the battery degrades the board cannot save settings.

sCNwDgyl.jpg

Desoldered, but still stuck - checked all the pins wobbled and then used a spudger to lift it out. Was a tight fit.

bJx134El.jpg

The Dallas DS12887+ is a pin compatible replacement that you can still buy from reputable sources. Added a socket and it slotted right.

UbsWIAbl.jpg

For the first boot I forgot to clear the CMOS with the jumper, and the board was not happy. Reset it and all is well!

434dC1vl.jpg

Having that socket means it'll be much easier to replace when it next dies!
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Awesome job! Always good when the outcome is positive! :D
 
That's a new way of protecting a computer card. At least it's protected from Government thought control!

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It's my new PCI sound card, the manual for which makes a big deal out of its legacy support and build in FM synth.

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It came with a female to male gameport adapter too (unless it's something MIDI related)

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I actually tested out a Crystal Soundcard today. Along with a AMD Athlon 4 Mobile CPU and the Abit KT7E Board i change some caps on the other day.

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Board worked fine. Will have a go at doing some overclocking with the CPU. The soundcard sounded really good. Lovely clean output and the CrystalFM sounded really nice. The Wavetable card sounded really good although i have a few cards with the synth on now.

I'm not sure if you guys are aware but the is an awesome DOS Driver now for ISA sound cards. It will initialise most PNP ISA Soundcards with just the small file. You can set mixer parameters with it too. No need to go hunting for the driver, Just run Unisound and it will configure the card for you.
 
That tool for soundcards looks awesome.

Very clever.

I wish this was around when I was pairing up my Aztech cards with the correct driver.

In my adventures, my ordered cable was the wrong type. Who knew there was a half-height 68 pin connector.

I won an auction for another SCSI unit, this time a smart looking CD drive in an external enclosure.

I've been FTP ing games onto my Dell this evening via the USB storage on my router.

I played One Must Fall 2097.
 




Had a lot of fun today configuring this one. Very fussy with the 2nd IDE channel. And a dodgy floppy cable made me think the 3 1/2 drive was broken when it was not. For now the zip and dvd drives are not plugged in.
MSI MS-5109
Socket 5 Pentium 90
64mb EDO (Will likely reduce to 32mb, just too lazy to find smaller sticks)
S3 virge 4mb. (torn on this one. Excellent dos support and image quality but 1997 date on it bothers me.)
2GB HDD. I had to have a machine of this stature making the right noises.
Yamaha YMF-719 with OPL4 Wavetable chip. I was correct that the PSU was causing the noise previously. It sounds great here.

Got windows 95 and yamaha software installed followed by TTDLX, DOOM, and Duke3D. First 2 perform and sound good but duke3d is an absolute mess and runs worse than my dx4.

Followed up with some of phils dos benchmarks.

Just need to wait for the latching switch and external battery to arrive and its ready to go!
 
PLAYING retro games?! What is this crazyness :P

Switches arrived and soldered in. PC all back together now and is nice to use! Although the pc speaker buzzes with the ram count and you cant turn it off so I definitely wont be keeping 64mb.
 
LewisRaz said:
PLAYING retro games?! What is this crazyness :p
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I concur. If you have time to play games, you have time to strip down you retro PC and start again.:p

My 'bay copy of WinFax Pro arrived today. Windows 95 not Windows 3.11, so I'll have to use this when I 'stock-rotate' back onto my Windows 95 PC.

I won the auction on a shrink wrapped BT 56K Prologue External Modem. I hope this runs on Windows 3.11, or the Win-95 box will be out sooner.

The retro PC station is now in the study where the phone line is. This means voice and fax facilities will be available.

Now I need to find someone to send a fax to.. :eek:

Lovin' the tower @LewisRaz!
 
I do fully intend to play games but with my ebay addiction I constantly have "crap" everywhere that I need to build up before the boss realizes what is going on :P

I think I am winning one of your auctions @!bluetonic! :)

Have any of you lot messed around setting up a server type thing so you can emulate 56k? Read quite an interesting thread on that a while back but I dont desire to see what 56k looks like in 2020.
 
Zen ISP (if it still works) has a backup dial-up modem number. You must be a retro-nut or in dire straights if you're actually using it..

In Chrome's Developer tools, you can throttle pages if you wanted to.

I wonder how much that is going to go for? I had that chip on the Socket-7 board that I then put the P200-MMX chip in. As this was the chip I had of that era.

I would keep it, but I promised Mrs !bluetonic! I'd start selling all kinds of bits that I don't really need.

I have a Aureal 2 card and lots of other hoarded items that I'm not really using, but I am a good seller and ideally like to test things as working before auctioning them off.
 
I found it by accident looking for socket 7 cyrix CPUs! I Think I only put 2 or 3 £ on it and then thought I had seen the sellers name before!

Seems to be quite a few people having clearouts on ebay atm. Looks a good time to build a 486.
 
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