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Symphony IDE controller??

VCFed about 3 months ago

Hi! I'm a newbie here, just getting into retro PC builds. I recently acquired a Gateway 2000 486DX4/100 machine. It has a WD Caviar 2340 Intelligent AT drive, a NEC CD-260 CD-ROM drive, and this odd little IDE controller by Symphony (photo of an identic …

486 era drives, etc.

VCFed about 4 months ago

All were recently pulled from a working system: - TEAC FD-55GFR 1.2MB 5.25" FLOPPY DISK DRIVE $39 - Teac FD-235HF 1.44 MB 3.5" Floppy Drive $14 - Media Vision Pro Audio Spectrum 16 ISA sound card $39 - Wearnes CDD-110 2X CD-ROM Drive with contro …

Anyone want a Toshiba Infinia 7230 case+keyboard+etc? (FFS)

VCFed about 4 months ago

No motherboard, but have the Intouch module, keyboard, and mouse. Case comes with PSU, floppy and CD-ROM drive. Original motherboard was an Intel 440(mumble) P1. The thing is basically ATX, but only with 6 expansion slots. I was saving this for someon …
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Random: Modder Creates Frankenstein 'Nintendo PlayStation'

Time Extension about 4 months ago

"Now I own a Nintendo PlayStation!".We all know that the PlayStation was originally supposed to be a fusion of the SNES with a CD-ROM drive, and that Sony actually got as far as creating a working prototype, which resurfaced a few years ago.However, YouTub …

ISA Sound Card with IDE controller causing issues

VCFed about 7 months ago

Hello all, I'm currently working on a Edom/Wintech MA022 Rev. A motherboard. It has an AMD 386DX-40, Cyrix FasMath 387, 8MB of RAM (30 pin SIMM), Trident VGA card, etc. My current issue is that any time I install a sound card with an IDE controller on it …

NOS Green 753 Laptop

VCFed about 7 months ago

New old stock Green 753 Pentium (non-mmx) Intel Socket 7 laptop from the early 1990's. They are new in sealed mfr's boxes with manuals, 3.5" driver diskettes for Win 3.0/95 and a hard drive caddy. Also, the laptop has internal CD-ROM drive, 3.5" …

Bezel for a CD-ROM drive on a Mac Performa?

VCFed about 7 months ago

I've finally got around to installing a CD-ROM drive on my Performa 6100. I've got the drive sled, but apparently the front bezel is specific to a particular make of drive. Has there ever been a project to make one such for a generic CD-ROM drive? …

PiSCSI / how to mount the CD-ROM drive under Solaris 2.6?

VCFed about 7 months ago

Hi. I am trying to use a PiSCSI device to emulate an external SCSI drive on my Sparcstation 4 to use ISO images of software for the machine. I have correct cable + adapter to connect them together, the termination is on on the PiSCSI and if I mount a disc …

Capcom Cp-System III (CPS3) motherboard + cartridge + SCSI CD-ROM kit!

Arcade Projects about 8 months ago

Hello everyone, I have a tested working Capcom Cp-System III (CPS3) motherboard + UltraBios cartridge + SCSI CD-ROM kit for sale. * Capcom custom SH2 cartridge (no shell)! * Suicide battery removed! * Latest UltraBios installed (CD version)! * Regio …
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General • ASM - Das Computer-Spiel (The Director's Cut) (German version) released

LemonAmiga about 8 months ago

ASM - Das Computer-Spiel (The Director's Cut) (German version) released Originated from a coding contest in 1991 it is now - just 32 years later - finished: The graphic adventure about the German cult video game magazine "ASM"!It is 1991. A normal day in …

Installing a CD-ROM in an IBM PS/2 57

VCFed about 9 months ago

I have an IBM PS/2 57 and I'd like to add a CD-ROM drive internally, as the cable necessary to attach one externally is impossible to find for a sane price. Obviously I need some kind of sled to mount it properly but other than that, is there anything stop …

General Old Hardware • Drive Issues with a C&T BIOS

Vogons about 10 months ago

I'm building a new 386 and this is my first experience with a Chips & Technologies BIOS. It's a CHIPS PEAK/DM BIOS 2.1.1 (1991). The problem I'm having is that I have tried several solid state drives (CF as well as SD/IDE adapters) and I can't get i …

General Old Hardware • Help getting Media Vision External SCSI CD-ROM working

Vogons about 10 months ago

Hi all (: This is the first CD-ROM I had access to as a kid, so it'd be pretty cool to get one working on my Compaq 386.The Problem:Detected by SCSI ASPI install, but not detected by CD-ROM driver on BootCopy code to clipboard1"Device driver not found: 'A …

General Old Hardware • Toshiba CD-ROM hardware problem (drive tray)

Vogons about 10 months ago

Hi,I have a Pentium PC with a Toshiba XM-6302B CD-ROM drive that has been working fine. A few days ago however, it won't keep its drive tray shut anymore. Whether there's a CD in or not, it closes, waits a few seconds, and then reopens the tray.You can se …

Software • Win98 install (cdr101: not ready reading drive d)

Vogons about 10 months ago

Hi, I have been trying to install Win98 SE on a Socket 7 config.Drivers load from the boot disk (A:) without issue, then the CD-ROM drive does not seem to be detected. I am not sure if the correct driver is loaded.The CD-ROM drive is a known good drive fr …

Video • Issue installing Voodoo 3 2000 Driver on Win98SE

Vogons about 11 months ago

Hey all, Hoping you fine folks can help out. I've started building my Windows 98 SE machine and after a rough start, I finally got it to boot and get to Desktop....Until I attempted to install the Voodoo 3 2000 driver from the CD. After I installed it, it …

Cp-System III (CPS3) Capcom multigame conversion kit

Arcade Projects about 11 months ago

Hello everyone, I have a tested working Cp-System III (CPS3) Capcom multigame conversion kit for sale. * Capcom custom SH2 cartridge (no shell)! * Latest CD UltraBios installed! * Suicide battery removed! * Region selectable at boot start up! * Ori …

Sending a copy of LapLink over Serial

VCFed about 11 months ago

Hello. I've heard in the past that you can use LapLink on one computer to send a copy of LapLink to another computer using MODE.COM over serial. I have a host computer with LapLink for Windows 95 installed (IBM ThinkPad 385XD), and a target computer (Toshi …

A Chronology of First CD-ROM Games

CD-ROM Journal about 11 months ago

I've seen many CD-ROM retrospectives that credit Myst and The 7th Guest (both 1993) as the "first CD-ROM game" or "first CD-ROM adventure". Other sources may cite games a year or two earlier, or into the 80s, but there's little consistency in the definitio …
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Review: PC Engine: The Box Art Collection - Essential Reading For PCE Fans

Time Extension about 11 months ago

Engines on.For those lucky enough to have experienced its meteoric rise first-hand, the PC Engine remains an iconic console. The first system to truly challenge Nintendo's stranglehold on the Japanese market in the 1980s, it boasted some of the most impres …
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Review: PC Engine: The Box Art Collection - Essential Reading For PCE Fans

Time Extension about 11 months ago

Engines on.For those lucky enough to have experienced its meteoric rise first-hand, the PC Engine remains an iconic console. The first system to truly challenge Nintendo's stranglehold on the Japanese market in the 1980s, it boasted some of the most impres …

The Strange History of Photo CD Games

CD-ROM Journal about 1 year ago

Humans love play, and humans are endlessly creative in finding ways to play no matter what. The history of video games is filled with designers finding ways to take interactive formats, no matter how limited, and build games within them. Of those formats, …

[ Retro Scan ] The Tandy Sensation!

Vintage Computing and Gaming about 2 years ago

“Now computing can be fun and easy for the entire family.” The Tandy Sensation was an early attempt at a specialized Multimedia PC. In this case, Tandy came up with a 25 MHz 486SX computer with a 107 MB hard drive, built-in CD-ROM drive, stereo …