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@RetroTechChris
May 24, 2024 • 8 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X
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Okay, time for the Pacman PC components swap! I swapped over the HDD enclosure and the Zip 100 drive. Let's talk about it in a 🧵 here!


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Here are the components I pulled out of the Gateway! I do have a future plan for the ones we don't use today, we'll talk about that here in a minute!
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Zip 100 drive is in the slot. Now I just need to find some screws. Luckily I have a few 🤣
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And I did pop out two slot covers. I labeled them for future safekeeping and ease of pairing with this PC! Image
With all devices installed, I powered up and went into BIOS. OOPS, for the second time today, I have a jumper issue. I took out the CD-ROM drive and jumpered it to be the slave device. That took care of it. Also, my boot manager detects the two hard drives and Zip 100 drive!


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The sound card that I pulled out of the Gateway is a CT5806, a Sound Blaster 128 PCI Digital. I like this card because it works in DOS... and that is why I am keeping it for now! The drivers for that are here: easymamecab.mameworld.info/html/snddosdr.…
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And the final card I pulled out is this FutureTel PrimeView NS 320 MPEG capture card. I had three or four of these at one point! I was able to locate drivers for it and use it in the past! I documented it in an old video of mine.
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I need to see if I can find the system requirements for the MPEG card! The web page for this card is on the Wayback Machine, which is where I found the drivers too! Wonder if it will work in my Pentium Pro. Anyway, thx for following along as always!
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Jun 7
I decided to play with Tandy 3-voice sound on the PicoMEM 2 today. There's a bit of a nuance with using Tandy sound on non Tandys, but this is a problem that has been solved. Let's explore a bit in a 🧵 here!
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First of all, the PicoMEM 2 does a FANTASTIC job at emulating Tandy sound. You can go into configuration and set the appropriate port settings, or you can use the "PMINIT" program to initialize whatever you need! I am just going to set the settings via the configuration util. Image
Next up, we need to get some patched games. Fortunately, the hard work was already done years ago, and @TheOldskoolPC very generously continues to host the patches online! We'll grab a patch for Lemmings and copy it over to our system! Thanks @FreddyVETELE for the tip here! Image
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I've been playing with the PicoMEM 2 today. I love it! I've been using my Packard Bell Multimedia 601 Pentium PC to test it, but this will work with 8 bit PCs as well. Let's look at sound (including Gravis!), HDD, wireless network, and real time clock capabilities! Time for a 🧵 Image
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First of all, if you are not familiar with PicoMEM, it's an amazing little all in one card that brings you lots of capabilities. This card will be available for sale soon I believe. The functionality is strong and capable. You can read more about it here: github.com/FreddyVRetro/I…Image
First, let's start with some screenshots of the configuration page. This is designed to look like a system BIOS, and is incredibly well done! Image
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Jun 1
I picked up this parallel to IDE CD-ROM thing off of the free table at VCFSW. I got it to work!! Let's talk about it in a quick 🧵
So, first of all, the drive in it is completely toast. Let's swap it out for another IDE drive. Ahh, that's better! Image
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So, let's identify this. First, looks like at least one is available for sale on FleaBay. This looks to be a H45 Technology QuickCD 24x. Can we find drivers for it? I did grab a picture of the controller board in case we needed it. Image
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Jun 1
Looks like we have some testing to do! This will be ongoing throughout the day. Let's do a "somewhat live" 🧵 Image
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Yea, okay, this deserved its own thread, haha. You can read about the parallel to IDE drive converter over here!
Okay let's test out the Xircom. Yes I have a ton of these, but I always like to pick up those phantom power cords! First boot was perilous. Let's reseat it and try again. Image
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May 30
Okay, now that I wrapped the day and had some dinner, let's post some more pictures from #VCFSW. How about a 🧵 since that might be less chaotic than the way I posted earlier 🤣? Let's go! First, some items for sale from TexElec! We can see his test/demo computer here too!! Image
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Next, Macintoshes, Macintoshes, and more Macintoshes. And look at that Kaypro sign! And the Teddy Ruxpins 😂 Image
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Okay, now let's look at a really cool project! Here we have the Macintosh Hexdra 650. This system has a 608060 CPU! It's currently running FreeBSD. What a cool project!! Image
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May 28
A few days ago, I had the Compaq laptop fleet out! Recently, I had "redone" my DOS/Win3.11 setup. I wanted to copy this new setup to all of my LTE 5000 laptops, but didn't want to completely reload them! Let's talk about what I did! Time for a quick 🧵 Image
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So, first question, why redo the setup? Recently, I loaded an XTIDE patch on my Compaq LTE 5400 to allow large drive support. I ended up having to really optimize conventional memory. I also simplified the boot process to always load network drivers:
Alright, great! So, what's a good optimal way to "patch" the existing laptops with the old setup? How about a batch file on a floppy disk? Also, I discovered a few things about the new setup I wanted to fix too in the process. Let's handle both cases! Image
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