Dag Erik's Retro Computers
This is my exhibition. Some of it in the living room, and the rest in my RetroCave.
MYCRO-1 - 1975
Manufactured and sold by Mycron of Oslo, Norway.
Built around the Intel 8080 CPU, it was one of the first commercial single-board computer after the Intel SDK-80.
The disk station weigh 26,5kg
This machine has a Z80a CPU!
More pictures
Have connected it to a PC with RS232. 9600baug 7bit. Works fine. Gives the Promtp: Mycrop v2.8 (Z). It only accepts the command xx, l and e.
Apple II - europlus - 1978
48Kb RAM
MS Z-80 softcard to run CP/M and MS Basic
Language card
Serial port
Parallel/centronix card
Videx 80 column card
External numeric keypad.
PAL - considering to modify it to become NTSC - so that i get colours.
Kaga 12" Monochrome monitor
Commodore Vic 20 - 1981
Extremely yellowed but works fine.
Joysticks has new cable and pads (all except up which was fine).
Cassette player works.
16K Ram extension works.
Character ROM is faulty.
Har reversible s-video mod.
IBM 5150 - 1981
640KB RAM
256 KB RAM (has no more room on Motherboard for more). Type 64-256KB Motherboard
384 KB RAM on ISA card MEMO576
CGA clone with composite out (from West PC 1600).
F68B45P display controller chip. Propably a clone of the MC6845
Came with MDA for displaying non graphics. And MDA Monitor
XT-IDE SD card v2.0.0B3+ (2013-04-03)
360KB Floppy - geased with white lithium 5/3-2023
Sound Blaster Pro 2 - CT 1600 - Rev. 069237
Replaced the DMA controller which was faulty.
Replaced the guts of the PSU with a PICO PSU and a 120W 12V driver. Replaced the PSU fan with modern silent fan.
Installed a red power LED from molex. And green activty LED from XT-IDE
More pictures
Commodore PET II - 8032 -1982
Norwegian Pet - Sold under the name PET II
8050 dual floppy disk
Replaced three faulty 2114 SRAM for video chips.
All keys working after a good clean. No silverpaint was necessary.
Machine works 100%
Replaced 230V filter on power socket.
8055 works fine after replacing SN74LS157N at UD3 and RAM 2114 at UC4 and UD4
ZX Spectrum - 1982
Z80A @ 3.5MHz - 48k
Resolution: 256×192
Powers on -but distorted display - Maybe faulty RAM
Power plug: Plus 9V on the outside
Had to replace a 100uF capacitor and a ZTX 651 transistor.
Socketed lower ram chips.
Cut of the ends of the keyboard membrane, and inserted into sockets. Works!
RF modulator is bypassed so that the video output is composite. (Composite mod)
Tested with Play ZX and the game 1942. Works fine.
1 PRINT PEEK 23732 + PEEK 23733 * 256
you should see either 32767 (for a 16K Spectrum) or 65535 (for a 48K Spectrum). If you don’t, then you have a further memory problem. If the value is less than 32767 then the fault lies in the bottom 16K of RAM, otherwise it’s the top 32K.
IBM 5160 - 1983
64-256KB Motherboard with 256KB on MB
BIOS date: 11/08/82 (Mostek MK37050N and Toshiba TMM23256P)
384KB on RAM card
10MB HDD - works. No bad sectors. Have greased the axel for the head motor with white litium grease, but still it makes a lot of noise.
PC-DOS 3.3 - Norwegian
360 Floppy drive - full height - works fine.
MDA display adapter with printer port
Serial port card
Real Time Clock card. New battery. Works.
timer.com 1264 bytes. PC Timer 1.0.
autoexec.bat: timer.com /s
External 720KB 3,5" Floppy drive.
ZX Spectrum+ - 1984
Same as ZX Spectrum but with more 48KB RAM
Powers on and display welcome screen
Power plug: Plus 9V on the outside
With PSU
C64 - 1982 / Ultimate 64 elite 2019
C64 Breadbin box - painted
Motherboard is Ultimate 64 elite
LED strip for light effects
Commodore 64 breadbin - 1984
In box
Working - tested with International Soccer cartridge
Look very fine on the outside.
No PSU
Commodore 64 breadbin - 1984
Working.
Assy no. 250425
Only SID and the 901226/Basic ROM is socketed.
Commodore 64 breadbin - 1984
Working. But has a bad SID chip - noise channel is missing.
Assy no. 250425
Only SID and the 901226/Basic ROM is socketed.
Commodore 64 breadbin - 1984
Works, keyboard need a clean
Replaced bad RAM and LS74
Missing SID
Botton and top does not fit. They are for different models.
IBM 5160 - 1986
Type 5160-499
640KB RAM on Motherboard
BIOS: 05/09/86 - U18=62X0890, U19=68X4370
20MB HDD - Seagate ST225 - works
360KB Floppy drive - half height - boots from floppy.
MDA display adapter
IBM 5170 - 1984
512KB on MB + 128KB on ISA card (IBM 128KB Memory Expansion Option)
Mainboard: Type 1 - 6MHz
20MB HDD Type 2 - Full height. Works.
MS-DOS 6.22
1,2MB Floppy drive - half height - have tested booting from floppy.
Original EGA display card.
Battery is replaced with non-rechargeable, battery pack of four AA batteries.
More info: http://www.minuszerodegrees.net/
Considered to replace fan with moderne with less noice, but have decided to keep it original.
Amstrad CPC464 - 1984
Cleaned and tested.
Modified with a external cable with mono jack connected directly to the tape head. This way you can load tape games from a computer or mobile phone.
I also have a CTM640 color monitor
Amstrad CPC6128 - 1984
With external PSU/RF modulator
Ekstra floppy drive. Cable missing. Not tested.
Cleaned and tested. Works great.
Have replaced the drive belt, cleaned head and cleaned/oiled the axle.
Replaced keyboard membrane with new from: Sintech.
Ca. 20 floppy discs.
Commodore Plus/4 - 1984
Has replace power input connector to a round 7pin DIN socket to use the same PSU as my C64.
Recapped
Added thermal paste to TED chip.
Added silver paint to keys. Later i repainted with Bare Conductive electric paint
Testet with games and demos. Works fine.
Keys Retr0Bright'ed: 14.03.2021
Replaced missing ESC key, with a keycap from a Mitsumi KPQ-series keyboard.
Commodore Plus/4 - 1984 - Not working
Has replace power input connector to a round 7pin DIN socket to use the same PSU as my C64.
The CPU: 8501R1 is dead - totally black screen - No signal message.
Bought this CPU replacement with RAM: Lotharek's Lair
It sat very loosely in socket. But i got a picture with lots of colors? Maybe ram?
Epyx Fast Load - 1984
Epyx Fast Load allows programs to load from the Commodore 1541 disk drive at 2500 bytes per second, approximately five times faster than the normal speed
IBM 5155 - 1984
640 KB RAM
XT-IDE with Compact Flash with 128MB at 4 partition.
Norwegian keyboard
1 Serial Port - no parallell port.
PC-DOS 3.3 - 4DOS 4.02
2 x 360KB 5 1/4 floppy drives
Runs 8088MPH in 1024 colors on original CGA card on NTSC Composite out.
Check out demo on YouTube
IBM 5155 - 1984
256 KB RAM
2 x 360KB - 5 1/4 floppy drives
CGA new type
English Keyboard
Parallell port and RS232 ports as COM2?
Tested - works.
West PC 800 - 1985
A Norwegian CPM (Z80A) 4MHz and Apple II (6502) 1MHz compatible machine. The Apple II Plus compatibility is supposed to by 100%, including BIOS.
64Kb RAM. ROM with Basic and Modem/Terminal software
Resolution: 40x48 in 15 colours. 140x192 in 8 colours and 280x192 in monochrome (according to ads). But it can also produce 280x192 in 6 colors.
RF, Composite, Keyboard, Joystick, IR, Modem, RS232
It came with an alarm/modem card, the battery and speaker is removed.
Both floppy drives works.
More pictures.
The motherboard is configured for NTSC composite output.
The PAL and 80 columns card is not inserted, but are packed away inside the cabinet.
Have replaced the faulty jack plugs with new. Have also successfully used ADTPro 2.0.2 with an old Lenovo laptop. Did not get it to work with new Windows 10 machine.
West PC 800 - 1985
In original box
My no. 2
Works
Is configured for PAL composite/RF output (default)
West PC 800 - 1985 - Prototype ?
One of a kin?
School edition with no alarm card and no frontpanel card.
Motherboard is the same as the other WPC's
Both floppy drives works, but the one to the left has a loose cable - to be replaced. The right drive is therefor D1 (drive A)
This machine has a adapter for the keyboard and joystick.
Is configured for PAL composite/RF output (default)
Atari style Joystick collection
What can i say. I love them all. Even the old Atari Joysticks.
They all work.
Commodore C128 - 1985
Recaped the PSU
Recaped the machine and added new thermal paste
Keys Retr0Bright'ed: 15.03.2021
Commodore C128D - 1985
This new European model featured a plastic chassis with a carrying handle on the side, incorporated a 1571 disk drive into the main chassis, replaced the built-in keyboard with a detachable one, and added a cooling fan. The keyboard also featured two folding legs for changing the typing angle.
This model has the PSU in the front. And the cooling fan is fairly quite.
The minus (-) key on the numeric keyboard is not working. This is due to something with the keycap. When replacing the keycap it works.
Amstrad PC1640DD - 1986
Intel 8086, 8 MHz. 640KB RAM, 2 x 360KB Floppy
MS-DOS 3.2 and GEM
3 ISA 8bit slots.
RS232 and LPT1, Mouse port, Keyboard port and Joystick port in Keyboard.
XT-IDE CF
Semi EGA . The PC-CD monitor only supports 320x200 and 640x200 in 16 colours.
According to the Technical reference manual the graphics chipset supports MDA, CGA, EGA, Plantronics, and Hercules.
Sound Blaster 1.5 with CMS chips (Game Blaster)
Can use Atari Joystick. Program fire button via nvr.exe. Works in e.x. Arkanoid 2
I have re-flowed the soldering on the DIN power input.
Fixed the +5VDC trace on motherboard.
Replaced four capacitors that was on the power inputs. (lover left corner of board). They are black - the old ones are blue.
To do:
Upgrade to Nec V30
Upgrade XT-IDE ROM version
Commodore 1541, 1541 Beige, 1570 and VC1451
They all work, and dont make much noise.
1570 is basically a 1571 with only one side. Works best on an C128.
Commodore 64C - 1986
No mods.
1541-II Floppy Drive
1530 Datasette
Final Cartridge 3
Atari ST 520STfm - 1986
Motorola 68000, 8MHz, 1MB RAM - upgraded from 512
TOS 1.04 - Swedish
Motherboard: CO70523-001 Rev.D
Gotek Floppy Emulator
320 × 200 (16 color), palette of 512 colors, 640 × 200 (4 color), palette of 512 colors and 640 × 400 (mono)
Sound: Yamaha YM2149 3-voice squarewave plus 1-voice white noise mono
Fixed bad LS373B1 - reported bad RAM in the first 4 RAM Chips.
Atari ST 1040STf - 1986
Motorola 68000, 8MHz, 1MB RAM
TOS 1.00
Motherboard: CO70523-001 Rev.D
Gotek Floppy Emulator
320 × 200 (16 color), palette of 512 colors, 640 × 200 (4 color), palette of 512 colors and 640 × 400 (mono)
Sound: Yamaha YM2149 3-voice square-wave plus 1-voice white noise mono
Sanyo - 286-12Mhz - 1986(est.)
Intel 80286 - 12MHz 5 MB RAM
81MB Conner CP30084E
NCR VGA 77C22E
I have replaced the PSU fan with an Fractal Design R3 80mm Silent
Added an CR2032 battery to the Dallas clock
Cleaned and greased the floppy drives.
Retr0Brighted in 12% H2O2 in 20 hours.
Only noise we can hear is from the hdd.
West PC 1600 - IBM Compatible machine from Norway. - 1987 (est.)
Intel 80286, 12MHz New Old Stock motherboard, because the old 8088 MB was faulty.
1MB RAM.
TVGA9000i-3
3C509X with XT-IDE ROM - AT
Running MS Client 3.0 network
Serial and parallel card with IDE. BIOS only supports Type 1 to Type 47.
360KB, 1.2MB and 1.44MB floppy drive.
This was my first IBM-PC compatible computer, back in 1986. My computer was an 8088, but I installed a card that upgraded it to 286.
Replaced the stock PSU fan with Fractal Design Silent R3 - much better.
Sound Blaster Vibra 16 - CT2260
USA 2 ISA Card
West XT/Turbo - upgraded to 386-40Mhz (not by me)
AMD DX-40, 8MB RAM
3C509B with XT-IDE BIOS (Came with LANtastic network card)
Boot from 16Bit IDE/Floppy card. The XTIDE BIOS on the 3C509B makes it see the CF card.
360KB and 1.44MB Floppy drives
Trident TVGA 9000B - Ultra(I)
Has a good deal of rust. Cleaned well with gun oil.
Replaced the 80mm PSU FAN with Fractal Design R3 80mm Silent.
Replaced LED for Turbo LED
Soundcard: MK 8330
MS DOS 6.22 - Windows 3.11 with TCP/IP. Win32S, WinG, WinDoom, MOD4WIN and Opera.
Ghost'n Goblins on PC.
EGA game and PC Speaker.
Demanded Joystick to go past "center joystick" screen. I had this game in 1987, but i could never play it because i lacked the joystick! Now, over 30 years later i can play it!
Finally playing Operation Wolf on PC
PC Joystick Competition Pro - Analog.
Commodore Amiga 500 - 1987
Amiga 500 on wikipedia
1MB RAM - 512Expansion with on/off switch. Has battery - works.
Gotek with external Oled display
Toshiba T1200HB
Intel 80C86, 4.77 or 9.54 MHz switchable
8087 FPU (according to SI)
1 MB RAM
Storage: 20 MB hard drive , internal 3.5" floppy drive at 720 KB
Floppy drive works. HDD does not spin up. It has power. Probably the hdd motor is stuck. Will not be fixed since XTIDE is a better option.
Mass 4.1 kg (9.0 lb)
LCD screen makes a high pitch sound when brightness is set to max. Goes way when using external screen.
RTC is still working with original RTC battery.
Original battery still works!
Resources, New internal PSU. (not installed), 3inONEder for Toshiba portables
Soft Switches
Does not have the original 12V 2.2A external PSU. But you can use anyone. Its needs exactly 12V or the red power light will blink to indicate en error.
1) Change CPU speed
Fn + PgUp 9.54MHz CPU speed
Fn + PgDn 4.77MHz CPU speed
2) Character font
Fn + Right arrow Toggles display font
3) Display select
Fn + End External display
Fn + Home LCD display
4) Pop-up windowFn + Sys Req Toggles pop-up window
Commodore 1541-II - 1988
1541 is a single-sided 170-kilobyte drive for 5¼" disks
IBM PS/2 Model 30-286 - 1988
Intel 80286 - 10MHz - 8/16bit ISA (NOT MCA)
Math coprocessor: 80287 rated for 10MHz
2 MB RAM - 30MB HDD
IBM DOS 4.00
Sound Blaster 16 - ct 4170
3,5" 1,44MB Floppy Drive.
PS/2 Keyboard and Mouse, VGA, LPT1 and RS232
Replaced the PSU due to faulty power switch.
Schneider EuroPC - 1988
EuroPC, 8088, 9,59MHz, 512MB RAM, 128MB CF
3,5" 720KB Floppy Drive
One 8bit ISA slot - empty now. But usually used for XT-IDE CF
CGA/Hercules - changeable in BIOS
Support Plantronics Colorplus.
320x200 with 16 colors and 640x200 with 4 colors
Paradise PVC4 video chip
PlanetX3 and a driver for SCI0 Sierra games are the only games known to support Plantronics Colorplus mode.
Here pictures with original Hercules MDA monitor.
Was damaged by leaking battery. See below for more details.
Has been tested to work with EGA and VGA card.
Successfully connected it to Gotek with FlashFloppy. Using an 26pins cable and an 26pin to 34 pin adapter.
Vogons blog and here for Connecting a Gotek.
It has Joystick port - Atari Plug. Have tried with Atari/C64 Joystick with no luck. Have tried with NVR.COM (for Amstrad) to program joystick. Cannot run. If you know anything about Joystick support please contact me.
hold CTRL-ALT-ESC for a long time to enter BIOS menu.
To do:
The RTC is counting seconds to slow. Have tried to replace crystal.
Schneider EuroPC II- 1989?
EuroPC, 8088, 9,59MHz, 768MB RAM, 128MB CF
Upgraded with NEC v20
Gives ca. 13 % speed increase
Doubles the speed of the XT-IDE. From 244.8 K/Second to 477.3K/second (Checkit 3)
3,5" 720KB Floppy Drive
One 8bit ISA slot with XT-IDE - Running in 80186 Mode - for increased disk speed.
Har 768Kb of memory. Have tried to use it for DOS.
CGA/Hercules - changeable in BIOS
Support Plantronics Colorplus.
320x200 with 16 colors and 640x200 with 4 colors
Paradise PVC4 video chip
PlanetX3 and a driver for SCI0 Sierra games are the only games known to support Plantronics Colorplus mode.
Can use BUS mouse on mouse/Joystick port. the BUS pinout is the same as for Atari ST mouse. using Microsoft mouse driver mouse.sys version 6.14Z
Acorn Archimedes 410/I - 1989
RISC OS 3.11
8 MB RAM
25MHz ARM 3 CPU
385MB SCSI HDD - not in use.
Zidefs IDE m/DOM 480MB
Colourcard Gold
Faulty Floppydrive, but Gotek with Flashfloppy 1.1 works fine.
Installed new and silent fan. Since there is no HDD spinning and with the new fan, the machine is almost completely silent.
IBM PS/2-55sx. - 1989
Intel 80386 - 16MHz - MCA, 4 MB RAM
Installed 387 co processor
ESDI Original Harddriv. 76MB HDD. No errors.
Gotek with Flashfloppy. Had to make a cable.
3,5" 1,44MB Floppy Drive not working. The ALPS SC959A chip on the floppy PCB is cracked.
PS/2 Keyboard and Mouse, LPT1 and RS232
David's Sound Blaster MCA
Internal VGA . Propably not Hardware acclerated like the 8514 and the XGA.
Fixed Dallas chip to work with CR2032
PC-DOS 6.1
Macintosh Classic - 1990
With keyboard and mouse (not showing in picture)
40 MB Hard Drive.
2 MB RAM - Room for more - 2 SIMS available.
Floppy drive tested and works.
Removed battery - no leak.
Toshiba T5200 - 1991
Intel 80386 - 20MHz - 200MB HDD
640Kb Base, 5MB extended
13" Gas Plasma - 640x480 Red/Black
Windows 3.11
3,5" Floppy Drive 1,44MB (supports 720KB)
3COM 3C509B with boot ROM BootWare for Novel NetWare. 16Bit ISA slot (but is installed in an 8bit slot) - works in Windows and DOS. Boot ROM can probably be exchanged for an XT-IDE ROM.
One 8 bit ISA slot available
2 x RS232 / LPT1
CMOS battery not working. Will not bother to replace. It only affects the clock.
Considering to to replace IDE disk with CF - Need new BIOS to detect brands other than Conner. Or i can insert an XT-IDE BIOS on the NIC. Or XT-IDE in available ISA slot?
Replace fans and remove internal HDD - for noise reduction.
Upgrade options and how to: GitHub - SpitFire-666/Toshiba-T5200: Info, mods, pics, tips, capacitors, etc of the Toshiba T5200 portable computer
Commodore Amiga 600 - 1992
Motorola 68000 @ 7.14 MHz
ECS Graphics chipset
1MB internal + 1MB PCMCIA memory card + 512 in trapdoor. Total 2,5MB
Internal 170MB HDD - original
Kickstart 40.63 (3.1)
Workbench 39.29 (3.0)
Commodore Amiga 1200 - 1992
ACA 1233n accelerator with 68030 with MMU running at 40MHz , 128MB RAM
Installed ACA 1233n Library and ACATools 3.01
Upgraded to fast IDE june 2022
AGA Graphics chipset
Amiga OS 3.2 - with Kickstart 3.2 loaded to ACA1233n at boot.
8GB Compact Flash disc with loads of WHD games.
Recapped at RetroService
Installed PCMCIA driver.
Installed CF Card slot on the back
Commodore Amiga 1200 - 1992
Phase 5 Blizzard 1220/4
Processor: EC020@28MHz
FPU: Optional 68881 or 68882@14MHz or 28MHz (PLCC)
MMU: None
Max Ram: 4MB (8MB with optional expansion)
Extra 4MB RAM installed (after pictue was taken)
RTC uses a rechargeable battery.
Mechanical HDD - with a very soothing sound.
Norwegian Workbench
2 x Iomega Zip 100 - 1994
Iomega Zip 100MB Paralell port version.
Excellent not only to copy over programs, but also as a "harddrive" for running games and program directly from it.
The driver PalmZip is a lightweight driver that works on 8088 and above. Hardly uses any memory. The Zip drive is then a station (e.x. C:). Updated Feb. 2018
Iomega Zip 100 - USB
Handy for copying things over from a modern Windows 10 machine.
Note: it works in Windows 10, but is super slow to write data to ZIP discs. Using DoxBox increases disc write with about 10 times. 84 MB in 7 minutes.
Commodore SX-64
Have replaced the PLA and SID chips
Work 100%
Very good floppy drive, and display - Good colors.
No crack og any kind. Only a few scratches on the outside lit.
Retr0brighted the spacebar with 12% H2O2 at 50 degrees celsius for 3 hours.
One of the pins on the keyboard cable is broken. Have fixed it by inserting a nail. Work totally fine.
AST 386SX/20
No memory
Works
Boots Windows 95
Two hdd
3,5" Floppy - Tested ok
5 1/4" Floppy - Tested ok
IBM Aptiva 2168-142 - 1994
Pentium 100MHz - 8MB EDO RAM - 1.2GB HDD
IBM MWAVE Sound/modem Card - SB Compatible
Has a new installed Windows 95 - or maybe the original installation!
I have a second MB with an 120MHz CPU and more RAM
TCI Pentium 233MMX - 1994?
Motherboard: Shuttle HOT-579, Intel 430TX, ISA and PCI
Intel Pentium 233 MHz MMX - new Socket 7 fan from StarTech from 2021, fan controller.
IDE2Sata adapter - 2,5" HDD 500GB - no UDMA. Speed 10MB/Sec - Drive C
PCI IDE Sata controller with UDMA. with a 3,5" IDE HDD. 56MB/Sec - Drive D
Cirrus Logic CS4236 Sound Card
With MP32L from serdashop.
DOS 6.22 and Windows 98SE
Toshiba 2150CDS (1995)
486DX4 Mobile 75MHz, 8 MB RAM, 503MB HDD
MS-DOS 6.22 and 4DOS 4.02
Windows 3.11
CD-ROM
PCMCIA slot. E.x. for use with CF Cards and transfere files.
ESS 688 - SB Pro compatible.
Real OPL3 - YMF262
Video: Chips&Tech 82c451 - 1MB
Display: VGA 640x480 256-color STN
Have removed battery due to leakage.
AST Advantage 6066d - 1995
Originally an 486 - now upgraded to Pentium Overdrive 83MHz - P24T
The CPU Fan of the Pentium Overdrive makes noise. Have replaced the original CPU fan with Noctua Nf-A4x10 Flx 40 mm. Soldered a 10K resistor between GND and fan failure signal.
Original fan is packed away inside the cabinet.
12MB RAM
4 GB CF Card
Cirrus Logic 5428 - 1MB
SoundBlaster 16 CT2950 with CD-ROM
Low or no noise.
Creative Quad Speed CD ROM - Work???
Having problem detecting the CD-ROM with both the SB and IDE controller onboard.
IT sometimes detect, but than the PC crashes. using CD3.sys
Original front is packed away inside the cabinet.
1,44MB Floppy
Mainboard - Socket 3
Toshiba 400CDT (1995)
Pentium 75MHz - 40MB RAM, 2GB SD-Card
Internal 3.5" Floppy - Not working
MSDOS 6.22 and 4DOS 7.50
RS232 / LPT1 / IrDA- PC-CARD / VGA / PS2 for keyboard or Mouse
Audio: ESS688 & Yamaha OPL3 (YMF262)
Sound Blaster Pro
Video: C&T CT65546 - 1MB RAM
640x480 Native resolution on TFT
Have replaced the original Norwegian keyboard with an English, due to some keys that did not work. But i kept the Norweigan keycaps.
Have put the CMOS battery in a plastic bag, in case of acid leak.
WIC PC - Pentium 200MMX (1995)
Pentium 200MHz MMX, 64MB RAM, 8GB CF-Card
Sound Blaster AWE32
ATi Mach 64 - PCI - 2MB
Creative CD-ROM 36x
1.44MB 3.5" Floppy drive
2xUSB 1.1, LPT, 2x RS232, PS/2 mouse, Din Keyboard
Silent. Changed CPU fan, and added resistors to USB and PSU fan to reduce speed and noise.
Toshiba Tecra 500CDT (1996)
Pentium 120MHz - 48MB RAM - 2GB CF-Card
External 3.5" Floppy drive.
MSDOS 6.22 and 4DOS 7.50
CD-ROM / RS232 / LPT1 / PC-CARD / VGA / PS2 for keyboard or Mouse
Crystal Semiconductor CS4232 & Yamaha OPL3 (YMF262)
Sound Blaster Pro (3.02 )
Aida16 reports an SB16 with High DMA on 7. DukeNukem 3D accepts it as a SB16
Runs most demos
Video: Chips&Tech F65550
800x600 Native resolution on TFT
VESA 2.00
Running vexp13.com to run games in full screen
More about the machine her.
SHARP PC-9030 - 1997
Pentium Mobile 120MHz - 160 MB EDO RAM - 2GB CF
MS-DOS 6.22 - 4DOS 5.52A and Windows 3.11
CD-ROM / RS232 / LPT1 / PS- Keyboard / SVGA (800x600) / Composite
ESS Technology ES688 AudioDrive
Single, mixed signal VLSI chip found in various products
16-bit 44.1KHz stereo recording and playback
5 channel mixer
ESPCM compression
The MPU-401 on these is "emulated" in software, you have to load a driver to use a WaveBlaster daughtercard
Half-duplex
Sound Blaster, and Sound Blaster Pro compatible (3.01)
Interrupt, DMA and base address can be changes with esscfg.exe
Also AdLib and Windows Sound System (604h) compatible. Some apps sees an SB16, but this only works for FM sound. AIDA 2.12 sees a SB16 with high DMA 0 - but when testet is does not work.
Cirrus Logic 7543 Viking (1MB) Video adapter
Composite Out is set in BIOS to disable/PAL/NTSC. Tested and works
The "5" key can not be pressed. But it pressed it selves from time to time. - annoying. Have tried to clean the key without opening the machine. Fixed by remapping "5" to "nothing" by using Ansi.sys / nansi.sys (Freedos 1.2) and this in my autoexec.bat:
PROMPT $e[96;"5"p$e["5";0;79p$p$g
This remapps the "5" key to END, and the remapps " ' " to "5". So now when the 5 keys sticks it only sends an END og line command. This remapping only works in DOS.
Toshiba Portégé 7010 CT (1998)
Pentium II - 300MHz, 160MB RAM,
IDE 2 SD Card with a 2GB SDCARD
NeoMagic NM2200 Magic Media 256 - 2,5MB RAM
OPL 3, SB Pro (3.01), WSS
Docking station with Floppy and DVD
Two of he keys are sticky - Cola? - Key "-" and "7"
Toshiba Tecra 8100
Boots to Windows XP
Does not boot from CD
Don't have passwords
Maybe trackball is faulty
IBM Thinkpad 390 - 1998
Pentium II Mobile 233MHz, 160MB RAM, 3.2 GB HDD
Norton SI reports this machine at 584 x relative speed to IBM PC
Windows 98 SE
One USB 2.0 port - working from DOS with DOSUSB
3,5" Floppy / CD-ROM / PC-CARD (type 3) / PS2 Mouse / IrDA / USB / LPT1 / RS232 / VGA
Neomagic NMA2 Audio controller - ISA 16bit
I believe that is has a OPL3-SAx (YMF719)
No need for drivers in DOS. A good DOS gaming machine.
AIDA report Sound Blaster Pro (DSP 3.01) 220H, IRQ 5 and DMA 1, NeoMagic NM2200, AdLib and Windows Sound System (530h). NSSI report MIDI port on 330h. Address, IRQ and DMA can be changed in BIOS
NeoMagic MagicMedia 256AV (NM2200) - 2.5 MB VRAM
SVGA (800x600) in 24bit.
Has D-Link G650+. But sadly this card does not support WPA2 in Windows 98SE
Have changed the CMOS battery. CR1220 - under a lid at the bottom.
After upgrading BIOS.The SAVE2DSK.BIN hibernation file did no longer work. I fixed this by creating a partition that was slightly larger then i had RAM. In my case i reduced the size (Partition Magic 6.0) of my partition so that i had 175MB free. When i then started PHDISK /C /P it created a partition in the empty space and formated it. After this the RED warning at boot, was gone.
Considering a larger harddrive (CF, SD or IDE to MSata)
IBM Thinkpad 600e - 1998
Pentium II 400MHz, 228MB RAM, 8.0 GB HDD
Norton SI reports this machine at 985 x relative speed to IBM PC
Windows 98 SE
One USB port - working from DOS with DOSUSB. Pluss two USB ports with PCMCIA card
CD-ROM / PC-CARD (type 3) / PS2 Mouse / IrDA / LPT1 / RS232 / Modem/ VGA
Sound Blaster Pro Compatible in Windows 98 and DOS
Neomagic MagicMedia256AV - 2.5 MB VRAM
SVGA (1024x768) in 24bit.
Plays 320x200 games in full-screen - as mentioned this is a good DOS gaming machine
Considering a larger harddrive (CF, SD or IDE to MSata)
IBM Thinkpad I Series Type 2611 - 1999
Pentium MMX 300 MHz, 32MB RAM, 8GB CF - superfast
Norton SI report this machine at 1019 x relative to IBM PC
MS-DOS 6.22 - 4DOS 4.02 - no Windows because is used Compact Flash as Harddrive.
NeoMagic NM2160 MagicGraph 128XD - 2MB
800x600
320x200 scales to full screen
One USB port - working from DOS with DOSUSB
Yamaha OPL3-SAx - very good SB compatibility and real OPL3 chip
CD-ROM and 1.44MB Floppy
No fan noise
Very good DOS Gaming PC, full-screen gaming and full Adlib/SB Pro support.
PCMCIA NIC's
Have drivers to the Xircom - installed in both IBM Thinkpads
NSTL Combo card is installed on IBM TP 600E
Dell XPS - 1997 - 1998 (est.)
Pentium II - 350 MHz, 384 MB RAM, 128 GB SSD (8+120 partition)
Windows 98SE
Sound Blaster Audigy 2 zs - SB0350.
Because we are using this PCI card this is not a good machine for playing old games. The DOS compability is poor. And that is ok, this machine is buildt for Windows 9x gaming.
Voodoo3 -2000 - 16MB AGP
3,5" 1.44MB Floppy
DVD and a a Sound Blaster Audigy breakout box/bay.
Have replaced the Case back fan with a new and silent fan. PSU fan is still hearable.
Links: MPXPlay (Audio Player dos DOS) and Audigy12 - Patch for Audigy 2 cards using DOS drivers of Audigy 1
Note: The Audigy 2 zs WDM drivers for windows made the machine run slow and the Win9x games was unstable, and sound was laggy. But the DOS support was ok. With the VXD drivers windows games was much better, no lag, and Windows performed better. But no SB support in DOS. Uses DOS Drivers for Audigy 1 with patch to get support in Real DOS. - Works ok, but not perfect. Remember for Tick the MT32 box in SBEmixer.exe for Roland compatibility . Vogons.org has more. I am using the 8 MB Wavetable.
Note 2: Sometime midi does not work in DOS. Then it helps to start Doom2 to initialise the sound card. Also in some games like Tyran2K digitized sound does not work. I guess that the Audigy is not 100% compatible with SB Pro/16.
Note 3: Maybe Unisound fix fix the above problem?
Note 4: Another way to install Audigy drivers for better DOS compatability.
Shuttle - P4 2,5GHZ - 2003
XPC SB51G
Windows XP SP3
Pentium 4 - 2.4GHz
2 GB RAM
Asus NVidia GeForce 6200 - 128MB RAM - Drivers
56GB HDD - 2,5"
Realtek ALC650 5.1 channel audio controller
AC97 v2.2 compliant
VDMSound 2.1.0 Sound for SB/ADLIB/Roland Emulation in DOS
MT32 is ok in Monkey Island
C64 DTV2 - PAL - 2005
C64 Compatible
30 built-in games
Fixed broken wire
XCcube - Athlon X64 3800+ - 2007
Windows Vista Ultimate 64bit - SP2
AOpen EZ482
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 3800+ 2.00 GHz
250GB - 2,5" SSD
2 GB RAM
Radeon HD 6670 - DirectX 11 - OpenGL 4.2 - 1GB
SoundBlaster Audigy 2 ZS (Because only digital sound is working with on-board sound "card".)
IBM Thinkpad X60s - 2007
Centrino Duo 1,66GHz - 1,5GB RAM - 40GB SSD
Windows XP SP3
WLAN (a/b/g) / LAN / IrDA / FireWire/ USB 2.0 / PC-CARD / SD Card Reader / 56Bbps / VGA
Video: Intel GMA 950 - 1024x768
Audio: AD1981HD
With Netgear USB2Wifi to get WPA2 support.
SDrive 1564 - 2013?
SD2IEC - SD Card for Vic 20, C64, C128 and C16
Works on most programs, games and demos. But new demos/games tend not to work.
Running version 0.10.3-M1284P-LARSP (date: 2012-02-26) not possible to upgrade - i think.
Works well with my Final Cartridge III
Does not work well with 128D because the 128D har built-in Floppy drive in ID 8
Is works fine with a special version of GEOS for C64.
MP32C64 - BT Tape adapter - 2014
Can be used with C64 or VIC-20, PET and C128
Workes very well with tapDancer for Android
tapDancer can convert and play PRG, T64, P00 for C64 and TAP to WAV
It also support ZX Spectrum files.
Can also be used with any TAP and WAV files.
Go to this site to load C64 games from the net.
Used BlueTooth or 3,5mJack cable to connect to source.
SD2IEC v 2.x
Two buttons: DiskSwap and Reset/Root
Firmware: sd2iec-1.0.0atentdead0-24-ga9a09f (Date: 2018-01-22 )
The C64 - 2019
Emulated C64 and Vic20
64 built in games
Joystick with Micro Switches
HDMI
The VIC20 - 2021
Emulated C64 and Vic20
64 built in games
Joystick with Micro Switches
HDMI
What i miss
I miss the sound of the older hard drives.
I miss the sound of a dot matrix printer
I miss the sound of dial up.
I miss the sound of the modem handshake.
I miss the Turbo button.
I miss the sound of a floppy disk read/write.
I miss the days of the BBS.
I miss the ANSI graphics loading at 2400 baud.
I miss the excitement of opening a new game in a big box, only to have a few floppy disks or a CD in the box.
I miss the full page advertisements in magazines selling complete 386 or 486 systems for $1500+.
I miss drooling over the specs of the systems in those advertisements.
These are what I miss :(
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