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1. Charlie Balogh (chainq@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 02-Jan-2025 20:38:43 JST Charlie Balogh

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   You cover up the EPROM window because you're afraid it gets UV erased. I cover it up because I like labeling stuff. We're not the same.

   Plus some other motherboard and hardware "beauty shots".

   #msdos #retrocomputing

   • Charlie Balogh (chainq@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 02-Jan-2025 20:38:43 JST Charlie Balogh

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     • ratman

     In a classic "it's me" move, now that it's January (after the #DOScember deadline), I finally managed to boot the 486DLC into DOS.

     Also wrote my first XT-IDE ROM in the process, not because it's technically needed, but because I wanted auto-detection, because I was too lazy to figure out the "geometry" of the 256MB DoM I use... 🤪

     Also managed to get online using mTCP (IRC log feat. @ratman), and figured out this thing is pretty slow for a 486DLC. Oh, well... 🤷♂️

     #msdos #retrocomputing

   • Charlie Balogh (chainq@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 02-Jan-2025 20:38:43 JST Charlie Balogh

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     How can one make a weird 386/486 setup even quirkier? Lets add a sound card that's never been. I present you this Logitech-made Pro Audio Spectrum 16 clone. I impulse-bought this a while ago after watching a PAS video by Necroware. 😅 But I never even tested it until now. Works like a charm.

     The 486DLC cannot really keep up with high mixing rates, especially in many channel modules, but 4-8 channel MODs and S3Ms in Inertia Player 1.22? We'll call it "period correct".

     #msdos #retrocomputing

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   • Charlie Balogh (chainq@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 02-Jan-2025 20:38:44 JST Charlie Balogh

     Last minute #DOScember entry, if fiddling with BIOS stuff counts... A while ago I bought this Soyo 386DX mainboard with a 486DLC + FPU in it from evilBay, with the intent of reproducing one of the quirky and weird setups of my youth. But that board had Mr. BIOS in it, while this thing came with AMI BIOS.

     So I bought a handful of 27C512 EPROMs, burned a matching Mr. BIOS image thanks to the preservation efforts of people on Vogons.org, a quick chip swap and here we go. 😍

     #msdos #retrocomputing