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NEC PC-9821Xt13/K12 - $300 CAD

VCFed about 3 months ago

Everyone, I am selling a PC-9821Xt13/K12 In excellent shape. It comes with both mouse and keyboard, and I equipped it with a CF adapter with YAHDI; it has 32MB of RAM. I prefer this model to the desktop style because it has 5 C-Bus slots and on-board SC …

Struggles with an IBM Ultimedia M57

VCFed about 4 months ago

As the title says, I've been having some problems with getting my recently acquired IBM PS/2 M57 Ultimedia. I'm trying to restore the original OS2/DOS5/Win3 operating system, and I'm struggling to actually get the OS installed. I didn't get the original di …

Drag Drop install for Clamshell G3?

Mac OS9 Lives about 5 months ago

I have a sick G3. Really sick. Not like when my son says, "Sick!!!".The optical drive is toast. I put in a new SSD.I got an iBook G4 and was able to connect the Clamshell to it in Target Mode.The CD Drive on the G4 turns out to be broken! (I jus …

Neo Geo CD Front Loader Drive Cycles

Neo Geo Forums about 6 months ago

I believe these means a dead laser, but I wanted a sanity check. The CD drive cycles itself in and it whether I insert a disk or not when closing the drive in the menus. The drive was previously working yesterday so I assume laser just died on me. It see …
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Codemasters Was Supposed To Make A NES CD Drive, But It Never Happened

Time Extension about 10 months ago

"Camerica announced it way too early".Codemasters might be more famous today as part of EA and a maker of racing games, but once upon a time, the company was something of a trailblazer in terms of software and hardware.The most memorable piece of kit conne …

Windows • CD Drive Vanishes From Drives Available In My Computer

Vogons about 10 months ago

Odd problem. I completed a fresh install of Windows 98SE on a vintage HP Vectra VEi7 desktop computer. Everything is working great. One issue that I cannot resolve - on each reboot, an icon for the CD Drive is not listed in with the other drives in My …

System Specs • 386 DX-40 multi-sound card build (5 sound cards!)

Vogons about 10 months ago

Filename386 Setup.jpgFile size757.16 KiBViews251 viewsCPU: Am386DX-40MB: BC3486F w/ 128k cacheRAM: 8 MBDisk Drives: 3.5" and 5.25" Floppy drivesCD Drive: Mitsumi 4x CD-ROMFixed Storage: 256 MB Cisco Systems CompactFlash + CF-IDE AdapterController Card: Bi …

General Old Hardware • 486 J-426b PCI board no recognising IDE CDROM

Vogons about 10 months ago

Hi AllI have a Jetway J-426B board with Intel DX4 100 / 16MB - 1G IDE which has PCI and dual channel IDE onboard.Both IDE channels pick up the hdd via BIOS but refuse to detect any IDE Cd drive I attach to either channel in the bios set to Auto.I’ve bui …

General Old Hardware • 386—>486 build

Vogons about 10 months ago

This build has been a while in the making, for the longest time it was parts on the counter without a caseFilenameIMG_0086.jpegFile size1.76 MiBViews65 viewsFilenameIMG_0091.jpegFile size1.53 MiBViews65 viewsSpecs and work are as follows:-Removed barrel b …

System Specs • 486 DX-33: Early 90s gaming system (ET4000/W32 VLB / GUS Extreme / Roland SCC-1 / MT-32 / CM-64)

Vogons about 11 months ago

CPU: i486DX-33MB: Biostar MB-1433/50UCV w/ 256k cacheRAM: 16 MB 72 pin Disk Drives: 3.5" and 5.25" Floppy drivesCD Drive: Toshiba 6x CD-ROMFixed Storage: 512 MB Sandisk CompactFlash + CF-IDE AdapterVideo Card: Tseng ET4000/WP32 VLB w/ 1 MB of RAMSound Car …

Compaq SFF en desk-pro with Floppy and CD drives, with windows 98, run in dos mod. (help)

VCFed about 11 months ago

Hello, I am a very new member, i only created this account to ask a tech question. I have an old Compaq small form factor that belongs to my dad, i have some old games installed on it already, but wish to install more, which are on CD rather than floppy, b …

Vortex JVL iTouch 8 Issue

Museum of the Game about 11 months ago

I have currently on a JVL Eclipse (JP20) the problem that it constantly at startup a File System Corrupted and Factory reset required. I have tried to do the Factory reset several times and I could also play it one time until the restart, the version is iT …

General Old Hardware • What to do with old, uninstalled hardware?

Vogons about 11 months ago

Hi! I used to have a Win98SE tower at my mother's house. My mother bought for me some hardware for it: a hard drive, a CD drive and a Zip100 drive. They were never installed. The hard drive was only about 6.4GB, but, even though the hard drive already …
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How to Emulate The Original Xbox On Steam Deck

Retro Dodo about 11 months ago

Do you want to play some of the best Original Xbox games while kicking back on the sofa or heading home on the bus? Sounds like you’ll need our guide on how to emulate the Original Xbox on Steam Deck! Ah, the Xbox. It’s considered to be one of …

General Old Hardware • Performa 550 “build”

Vogons about 11 months ago

FilenameIMG_3375.jpegFile size4.95 KiBViews126 viewsThis is going to be a very fun build for me, as this was my first computer.For years this computer sat around our house growing up and later ended up in the attic, circa 2010 my parents asked if I wanted …

Sound • Ways to reduce the Noise of ISA Soundcards?

Vogons about 11 months ago

Heyho!I got an ESS ES1868F Soundcard and I am actually quite happy with the Sound quality itself. However the ISA noise can be quite annoying. I wanted to create this thread to share some experience and maybe you got some other suggestions on what to try. …

G4 Cube 450mhz can boot into MacOS9Lives, booting onto the SSD... freezes.

Mac OS9 Lives about 11 months ago

- The ATAPI CD Drive does not work.- It had no Hard Drive- I managed to trick it via dd and open firmware to boot the MacOSLives Installer from a usb drive. - It can install, I can move extensions to (disabled) on the target drive... it works.- Any... …

Software • NFS Porsche Unleashed freezes on P4 based system

Vogons about 11 months ago

Strange, felt for sure this game would run no problem with win98SE installed. My specs:P4 2.4 ghz.512mb ddr333Geforce 2 Ultra 64mbNvidia drivers 45.23directx 8.1It starts fine but once in the menu setting up a "driver" it freezes. Strangely it wakes up w …

PS1 (SCPH-7002) CD drive clicking noise

PSX Place about 1 year ago

I own a PS1 SCPH-7002 that makes a consistent clicking/rattle noise when a disc is spinning. For some reason, it does not happen when the console is in a vertical position. I believe it's something related to the spinning mechanism, given that the noi …
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My Console Setup in 2020

Retro Gamer Randomness about 4 years ago

2020. Year of the pandemic. There's not much great news going around, so I'll write something that makes me happy: retro gaming consoles. Each year brings some adjustments, refinements, and replacements to my setup. Here we go!The TV was updated last year, …