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Failed MV1B BIOS/Virtual Mem Card Install

Neo Geo Forums about 11 months ago

So I went into this endeavor knowing full-well this would likely be the outcome. The sketchy adapter board used on the MV1B to attach the first Unibios was a pain to remove. I used solder wick to get as much solder up, unfortunately had to pry a little bit …

Milliways • Need help creating a BIOS .bin from multiple files

Vogons about 11 months ago

Hello!!I have an Intel BIOS diskette with an update. The issue is that it has spread the BIOS over multiple files and I have no idea on how to build it into a single .bin to use with my programmer.Motherboard is a Fujitsu D1141/1156 (same BIOS).https://th …
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General Old Hardware • Looking for identity of this Motherboard

Vogons about 11 months ago

J'ai cette carte ci-dessous et elle semble avoir un slot 1 et un socket 7, je suppose qu'il s'agit d'une carte mère 486/586 basée uniquement sur le Bios.J'ai effectué une recherche visuelle sur le site Web de Total Hardware 1999 https://th99.infania.ne …

[Identity?] got MB with a Socket7 and Slot 1

VCFed about 11 months ago

I have this board below and it seems to have a slot 1 and a socket 7, I am assuming it is a 486/586 Motherboard based on the Bios alone. I have searched visually on Total Hardware 1999 website https://th99.infania.net/ and could not identify the board from …

General Old Hardware • I tried to debrand the motherboard BIOS but something went wrong.

Vogons about 11 months ago

Hello, yesterday i got an Asus P2L97A ( HP Hewlett - Packard branded with boot logo )Using Uniflash i put the original Asus BIOS trying to update it + remove the HP logo at the boot.Uniflash said no error , the flashing went fine, but now the motherboard …

Video • VLB GD5426 suddenly broken

Vogons about 11 months ago

Hi, recently I've finally gotten a 486 motherboard with VLB slots, I had to fix it up a little (solder a new bios chip and reconnect a couple of broken traces, it works now and shouldn't be the problem). I got a Cirrus Logic Gd5426 to try out the VLB capa …

General Old Hardware • In simplest terms, what can one expect with FSB speed and VLB cards?

Vogons about 11 months ago

Hey friends,I have a PODP5V which appears to run just fine at 100mhz on my motherboard. So...great! I also have two VLB cards - one for I/O (serial, parallel, IDE, floppy) and one for VGA. They also, as far as I can tell, appear to work fine at 40mhz.So, …
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486 stopped working...help

VCFed about 11 months ago

My 486 (Micronics JX30WB motherboard) just stopped working. It shows post code 3A, which looks like an 'Autosize cache' error. It just stops after showing the ROM info boot screen...Very upsetting. Help, has anyone got any ideas how I can repair this? …

Neo Geo MVS / AES • White Screen?

MISTerFPGA about 11 months ago

So I finally was able to convert my set of rooms to the .neo format. Great right? No, because while the core does load them, I only see a white screen. If I tell the core to switch from the AES console to the arcade core and reset, it just loads up a garb …

CPC6128 CPM 2.2 or Plus time measurement

CPCwiki about 11 months ago

Hello,I try to measure the execution time of cpm programs.Into Locomotive Basic there is native functions to do that.Also it is possible to read HB8B4 --> HB8B7 and get how many 1/300th second are elapsed since last reset. I believe these addresses are …

Documentation and/or schematics for an ASUS - L3500H

Retro Computing Forum about 11 months ago

Hi there! This is my first post here and I’m not really sure if I’m at the right place. Apologies if I’m not but how retro is retro when you talk about computers in 2023? I’m going straight to the point then I’ll explain my problem i …
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New Dreamcast-Compatible ODE "Phøde" Announced!

The Dreamcast Junkyard about 12 months ago

In case the term "ODE" is something new to you, it's an initialism for "optical drive/disc emulator", which serves to replace something like a CD-ROM or, in the case of the Dreamcast, a GD-ROM drive with a board that allows one to use flash storage to hold …
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SectorC: A C compiler that fits in the boot sector

Retro Computing Forum about 1 year ago

We have previously seen SectorLISP and SectorForth, and now a character going by ‘xorvoid’ has produced SectorC. Like the other two projects that inspired it, it is a boot sector that implements a programming language. There is a great w …
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Rent-A-Hero No. 1 has been Translated into English for Dreamcast!

The Dreamcast Junkyard about 1 year ago

The beauty of the Dreamcast is that when you think you've played everything the console has to offer, something new lands in your lap. These days, that often comes in the form of a brand new indie game, or in the case of what we have here today: a Japanese …

CD-i Emulator Support Forum • Announcing CD-i Emulator version 0.5.3-beta6 for Windows

CDinteractive about 1 year ago

A new beta release of CD-i Emulator is now available from the Downloadssection of the CD-i Emulator website at https://www.cdiemu.org/down... notes can be found in the RELNOTES file; a summary is availablefrom the Release Notes section at https …
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News :: 26th Anniversary! Korean SMS Multicarts Galore #1 & Ongoing Competitions

SMS Power about 1 year ago

Author: Bock Subject: 26th Anniversary! Korean SMS Multicarts Galore #1 & Ongoing Competitions Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2023 9:37 pm (GMT 0) Happy 26th Anniversary! The tradition goes, and entries to our 2023 Coding, Music and Hacks competitions have hav …
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Podcast 180 – 1943

Ten Pence Arcade Podcast about 2 years ago

DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE: 6 cats in the wall Brian in a can of tuna Digestive shurikens Victor swims in custard Boogu Woogu Bricks. Bricks. Mad about bricks A barrage of chips Using pants instead of a gun Spinny bullets Love don’t live here anymore …
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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, …
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Beta Review: The PolyMega Multi-Console Base Unit

Retro Gamer Randomness about 4 years ago

The PolyMega is a multi-system emulation console. It natively plays CD games for Playstation, Sega CD, Turbo Grafx CD, Neo Geo CD, and Sega Saturn, for all regions. Also available are cartridge modules, indivudualy sold, each of which can play NES, SNES, G …
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RetroPie 4.5 is released

RetroPie about 5 years ago

After some delays due to recent issues we are pleased to announce RetroPie 4.5. This version does NOT work on the recently released Raspberry Pi 4. We are currently working on support for this. IMPORTANT UPDATE: It has come to our attention tha …
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RetroPie 4.3 is released

RetroPie about 7 years ago

RetroPie 4.3 includes a lot of improvements to our default launcher Emulation Station, including Favourites/Recently Played and custom ROM collections, video and image screensavers, power saving modes, and the ability to configure your own RetroArch hotkey …