Foone🏳️⚧️
if I had more time and money and electrical engineering experience I'd waste a lot of it building a universal low/zero-latency KVM system.
I just want to be able to mix modern machines and ones that use PS/2/XT keyboards and VGA displays. As well as being universally modular and expandable, in case I need to hook up 20 486s for some reason
Foone🏳️⚧️
why can't I plug this 386 into my thunderbolt display/keyboard/network dock
Foone🏳️⚧️
@Elwell yeah! I'd love an Integrated Lights-Out module that's on an ISA/PCI card so I can just stick it in my old PCs and remote control them
Andrew Elwell
@foone Having got lazily used to conman (https://dun.github.io/conman/) for $dayjob, I wish that _all_ systems had some OOB management port, not just noisy rack servers
Foone🏳️⚧️
@JasonOmara It's an 80386SX-20!
Jason O'Mara
@foone are using an sx or dx?
Foone🏳️⚧️
I should build a PS/2 to USB adapter. Two of them.
1. I want to plug a USB keyboard into two PS/2 port, so I can use a KVM's keyboard & mouse on a PS/2 machine
2. I want to get +5v out of a PS/2 port, so I can run my active VGA to HDMI adapter off it
Foone🏳️⚧️
bah. it turns out this active VGA to HDMI adapter isn't working. It's one of those terrible ones that only accepts 60hz input, which is a pain because the default DOS text screen is 70hz
Foone🏳️⚧️
@eltonfc Yeah. Doom runs in a tweaked 320x200x256color 70hz mode, and they set it to try to update every other frame. thus, 35fps
Elton Carvalho
@foone oooh NOW I get why DOOM's default FPS is 35, thanks!
Foone🏳️⚧️
@glyph yeah I'm using a level1techs kvm right now!
Glyph
@foone level1techs did this and appears to have gone slowly insane in the process (assuming you already know this, but link for anyone who doesn’t) https://www.store.level1techs.com/products/p/14-kvm-switch-dual-monitor-2computer-z5erd-n6mbj
No luck for one that supports a 386 there though
Foone🏳️⚧️
@ladyailuros yeah, I think that's what I have somewhere. either an extron or a startech, I just don't know where they've gotten to, since they're not in my Video Stuff box.
Nox LadyAiluros, Avatar
@foone YUUUUUP. I have to run DOS streams through an Extron scaler before I convert to HDMI for my ElGato box.
Foone🏳️⚧️
@glyph I'll have to check out those videos, sounds interesting
Glyph
@foone having seen him talk about the process of making it on a few youtube videos now I am pretty resigned to just never get a KVM that meets my fussy requirements
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