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Looking for jumper settings for a Magitronic A-B 247 IDE controller I/O card with a winbond chipset

VCFed about 2 months ago

I bought a MAgitronic A-B247 Ide card at a good price to try and get my gateway 2000 486 up and running. I cant seem to find the jumper settings for this card when I search for Magitronic or Winbond, was wondering if someone could help me out. The aucti …
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Need advice on this slot 1 motherboard

VCFed about 3 months ago

Continuing my PC click I just received this board from @DeltaDon Thanks! Looking for some info online it seems to have come from a gateway (what are the oddsthis makes my third gatway now). Here is a photo of the same board from an ebay listing https: …

Gateway HandBook 486

VCFed about 3 months ago

Must be willing to ship to California. I can pay with PayPal or whatever service you prefer. Hi! I'm looking for a Gateway HandBook 486. It looks interesting to have and use, and there's a few fun upgrades I can do with it. Most of the Gateway Handbooks …

Gateway P4D-100 Turbo hotkeys?

VCFed about 3 months ago

So I've got this Gateway with a Turbo indicator but no button. In other threads I've read that these models have keyboard shortcuts you can use to turn the turbo on or off. I saw someone mention CTRL-ALT-Numpad- or CTRL-ALT- Numpad+ but those do not work …
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Evercade VS Could Support Analogue Input In The Future

Time Extension about 3 months ago

"Initial work on supporting third-party analogue inputs" has begun.The arrival of N64 games on Evercade has people very excited indeed about the future of the platform, but there's one big issue to note: Evercade lacks analogue control, which is a big part …

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 …

Linux • Could Someone Help Me Reversing What This Script Does Please?

MISTerFPGA about 3 months ago

Hi there because Groovy Mister appeared I immediately wanted to try it when I was trying to make it work i've noticed that groovy mister needed a static ip for the ethernet port at first i couln't find useful information , then I finally found a mister fo …
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NES Modders Fix The "Sin" Committed By Nintendo 39 Years Ago

Time Extension about 3 months ago

"Say hello to the Ninten-drawer".The NES was a gateway console in so many ways; not only did it turn Nintendo into a household name in North America and restore the battered home console market in the process, but it also served as an introduction to the t …

Large Gateway 2000 & Misc PC Computer Collection For Sale

VCFed about 4 months ago

Hello all, Due to a variety of circumstances I am no longer willing to hold on to the vast majority of my Gateway 2000 computer collection. This was a serious hobby of mine for about five years, and over that time I amassed a significant amount of Gateway …
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Gateway2000 Colorbook, Need help

VCFed about 4 months ago

Hello, I have a Gateway Colorbook 2 using a 486 and I need help finding a part for it. The laptop is dated 1995 and is missing the HDD caddy which is needed because of it having an adapter to convert a 2.5" IDE drive to a proprietary interface. If any …

Gateway 2000 4DX2-66

VCFed about 4 months ago

I have purchased two of these now, only have received 1 so far and am working through setting it up and getting it optimized. I figured i would share the Journey here in case some others end up with one of these. Thus far finding any documentation on the …

486 DX2/66 Graphics Card

VCFed about 4 months ago

Any suggestions here for a Gateway 2000 486 DX2/66? I have one ISA slot and one PCI slot available. I have an ISA SoundBlaster 16 in the other ISA Slot. I wouldn't mind maybe adding an ethernet card in the unused slot after I select a graphics card. Op …
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communications • Viewdata Gateway Service (BETA)

Stardot about 4 months ago

I've created a Viewdata Gateway that offers a simple menu to access several BBSs in the hope of making them more accessible.Many thanks to brianmartin_2001 who has been helping to test the service for some time now whilst I got to the bottom of a memory l …

Gateway 2000 Documentation Needed

VCFed about 5 months ago

If you have any Gateway manuals, guides, or other documentation can you scan them? If you can't and you have them available I will offer to do it and post them online. As I mentioned on another thread, Gateway was very good at producing first class docum …

Gateway 2000 Crystal Scan 1572DG Monitor restoration. Gateway manuals

VCFed about 5 months ago

Hi All. I recently found a Gateway 2000 CrystalScan monitor to put with my Gateway 4DX2-66. This was the same model monitor I got with my original Gateway 4SX-25 back in 1994. I always liked the picture quality of this monitor. Coming from a 1084 monito …
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Review: Hyper Mega Tech Super Pocket - A Wonderful Game Boy-Style Retro Gift

Time Extension about 5 months ago

With bonus Evercade support!Ever since its release in 2020, the Evercade family of systems has been a runaway success with retro gamers. The idea of offering a way of distributing physical cartridges packed with some of the world's most famous games might …
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Guide: Evercade Secret Games And How To Unlock Them

Time Extension about 6 months ago

There are more than you think...The Evercade family of systems is a glorious throwback to the days when physical media was king, and there was no such thing as a lengthy online update before loading up your game – but the range harks back to the past in …
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New Releases • New Updated Release - Ewe Woz 'Ere DX v.13 by DESIGN/chaos

Lemon64 about 6 months ago

Ewe Woz 'Ere DX by DESIGN/chaos (itch.io)Baaary: Mutton Commando is a cyborg sheep from the distant future who must preserve the future of mutton-kind by defending the fields from an invasion of Traazkists led by the evil combat lizard, Traazk.Armed with …
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32-bit acorn hardware • A5000 and AKA 25 NIC

Stardot about 7 months ago

Morning all.So, I've got myself an AKA 25 NIC for my A5000 and I'm trying to get TCP/IP set up. The card came from CJE, but was tested as working before it was sent, though I need to check with them to see if they are using the same configuration, as I'm …
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Games • Gateway to Apshai - Cheesing from behind walls - "Cheating" or just part of the game?

Lemon64 about 7 months ago

Question for Gateway to Apshai players - is it "cheating" or "cheesing" to attack monsters from behind walls, or is it just the way you're supposed to play the game?I was watching an old gameplay video, and I noticed the player never attacked monsters fro …

Repaired and Restored 1987 Compaq Portable III 386

VCFed about 7 months ago

I've recently restored and repaired a Compaq Portable III 386. This project was a pleasant surprise in more ways than one. For a long time I’ve only thought of Compaq branded computers as exceptionally cheaply made, mass produced comm …
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Gateway Pentium 4 ATX power supply with -5 volt?

VCFed about 7 months ago

Hi, thanks for being here Tried to boot this barn find of a PC, came up with 768MB RAM running Windows XP Black edition! Did not run long, OTOH. I immediately suspected the power supply, and will try others, starting with the one that came with it in a cu …

Is -5V needed on a Pentium board?

VCFed about 7 months ago

Hi - I'm working on a Gateway PC with a Pentium 1st-gen board on it (LX chipset). I would like to try a newer power supply, but new AT ones are difficult to find, and the few I've seen have power cables too short for this tower, so I was thinking of using …
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Hands On: Evercade's Latest Crop Of Carts Offer Some Welcome Surprises

Time Extension about 8 months ago

Sunsoft! Delphine! Piko! Sydney Hunter!The Evercade line continues to go from strength to strength, with new cartridges joining the ranks for play on both the Evercade VS and Evercade EXP.We've just taken receipt of four shiny new cartridges here at Time E …

XT-IDE : D1000 ROM Error

VCFed about 8 months ago

Hi - I've put aside my Gateway project pending some parts arrival and picked up on an Epson Equity I+ I've been working on. I received an XT-IDE card last night, and put it in today along with a SD-IDE card reader, and it worked brilliantly... for a couple …