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Today, 11:12 AM

Timo W. replied to a thread Need help identifying circuit board component in Vintage Computer Hardware

Wrong. Many tantalum caps, which are known to go short sometimes when being old and not powered for a long time. We actually told him that already in...

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Yesterday, 11:42 PM

Timo W. replied to a thread EPYX World Games Disk Image in Vintage Computer Software

Yes, sort of. But as you can probably guess it didn't really help. Another reason was to bypass DOS for having more memory available to the game.

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Yesterday, 11:40 PM

Timo W. replied to a thread WTB: Sony CRX200E - Double Density CD Writer in Vintage Computer Items Wanted

Sell 10-15 of your recordable discs and you can buy that drive easily!

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January 25th, 2021, 05:42 AM

Timo W. replied to a thread Ultra 30 Sun boot up problems in Unix/Xenix/Linux Workstations

Since it clearly states a problem with the cache and the cache is part of the CPU, I don't think anything else could cause this.

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January 25th, 2021, 03:35 AM

Timo W. replied to a thread Ultra 30 Sun boot up problems in Unix/Xenix/Linux Workstations

No idea, maybe the CPU is even worse now. I guess you don't have a spare CPU you could just test?

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January 25th, 2021, 01:36 AM

Timo W. replied to a thread Ultra 30 Sun boot up problems in Unix/Xenix/Linux Workstations

Cache is bad, replace the CPU.

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January 24th, 2021, 11:40 PM

Timo W. replied to a thread Amiga 500 making disks in Commodore

You wrote that you are looking for a flash-based hard disk solution, and this gives you one which is CF card-based. You also get a second...

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January 24th, 2021, 10:04 AM

Timo W. replied to a thread Help needed: identifying which computer was this program written for in Vintage Computer Software

Wouldn't you need to know for which computer these are for in order to convert them to binary? But if he knew that, this thread wouldn't exist.

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January 24th, 2021, 01:21 AM

Timo W. replied to a thread Amiga 500 making disks in Commodore

Get an ACA500plus from Individual Computers. Really, that's the best and most user-friendly piece of hardware you can add to an A500.

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January 23rd, 2021, 06:14 AM

Timo W. replied to a thread Good program for polling all the IRQs, DMAs, I/O hex addresses? in Vintage Computer Software

Actually, no. The result of conflicting resources was rarely a system that would no longer boot at all. It would make the conflicting devices not...

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January 23rd, 2021, 01:03 AM

Timo W. replied to a thread Old task switching TSR in PCs and Clones

For what version of DOS? The DOS Shell included in 5.0 comes with that feature built-in. You just have to enable it once.

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January 21st, 2021, 09:51 AM

Timo W. replied to a thread External drive cases for 3.5" floppy drives in Vintage Computer Hardware

These ones work well: https://www.amazon.in/LipiWorld%C2%AE-Laptop-External-Enclosure-Casing/dp/B071JBF7ZX You just need to drill two holes to...

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January 21st, 2021, 07:56 AM

Timo W. replied to a thread Windows 1 / 2 in Vintage Computer Software

You could write batch files for the various versions of Windows that will set the path correctly and rename the folder of the Windows version you...

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January 21st, 2021, 02:08 AM

Timo W. replied to a thread 4Mb vga resolution in Vintage Computer Hardware

That really depends on the graphics card itself. Max. colors won't change, as you can do 24 bit already with 1 MB (then limited to 640x480). With 2...

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January 21st, 2021, 12:43 AM

Timo W. replied to a thread Hard drive repair gone wrong. Coil wire seperated from head. in Vintage Computer Hardware

Nothing will happen, apart from a bad-sector check done by the drive, because the 386 can not bypass the IDE circuitry and that will simply not do a...

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January 19th, 2021, 11:21 PM

Timo W. replied to a thread Why no integrated electronics in floppy drives? in Vintage Computer Hardware

@alank2: You must be thinking about the IBM PC line of systems only, as on the Atari and Commodore 8-bit machines for example, the controller was...

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January 19th, 2021, 02:00 AM

Timo W. replied to a thread IBM 5170 restoration - PSU fixed, now RAM problems - SRAM replacement? in PCs and Clones

To be honest, I don't think you get anywhere with your floppy issue without removing that SRAM expansion and try it with ordinary DRAM. I saw many...

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January 17th, 2021, 11:29 PM

Timo W. replied to a thread Interest check Windows NT 3.1 July 93 Beta CD in Vintage Computer Items For Sale or Trade

As for legality, your are, strictly speaking, not allowed to sell the real CD either. Beta software is confidential and even MSDN discs with ordinary...

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January 17th, 2021, 01:40 AM

Timo W. replied to a thread Interest check Windows NT 3.1 July 93 Beta CD in Vintage Computer Items For Sale or Trade

Same here. I have two large MSDN boxes full of every OS from DOS to Windows 2000. Every version, every language, DDKs, SDKs, and what not. Wanted to...

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January 16th, 2021, 07:15 AM

Timo W. replied to a thread Composite color artifacts: made by design or happy coincidence? in PCs and Clones

Of course not, because of the high resolution and b/w anyway, which makes no sense having color burst enabled. But you say yourself that for all...

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January 16th, 2021, 05:48 AM

Timo W. replied to a thread Composite color artifacts: made by design or happy coincidence? in PCs and Clones

A BIOS mode? It's not a different mode. The artifact colors work in any of the standard modes, even in 640x200x1 when toggeling the "color burst...

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January 16th, 2021, 02:57 AM

Timo W. replied to a thread IBM 5150 PC, two slim 5.25 floppies, keyboard, monitor, printer, DOS 2.1 on eBay in Vintage Computer Items For Sale or Trade

My comment would be to compare prices to other 5150 sold on ebay, because $850 for a non-working, used 5150 with a 3rd-party monitor is insane. Look...

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January 15th, 2021, 10:59 AM

Timo W. replied to a thread What exactly is this?! in Tandy/Radio Shack

Seems you are right. After correcting the typo made by the guy who sold it (it's MACROTRONICS, not MICROTRONICS), I was able to find infos about it...

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January 15th, 2021, 10:30 AM

Timo W. replied to a thread How to set up CR-ROM drive with a Sound Blaster 16? in Vintage Computer Hardware

If you have a port free on your normal IDE controller card then yes, you can connect the CD-ROM drive there. For CD audio, you connect the analog...

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January 15th, 2021, 07:09 AM

Timo W. replied to a thread What exactly is this?! in Tandy/Radio Shack

Yes, it's a low-cost TNC for packet radio. Bandwidth is most likely 1200 baud, given its age and that it's for 8-bit computers.

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