Notices by Gammitin (Ben) 💾 (gammitin@mastodon.social), page 4

Just wow, what an absolutely amazing result! 👍

We Were Livin'!

@foone yep, it's the original 16bit game on 64bit Windows, I actually made my first proper YouTube video on how to do this earlier today.
Software link: https://github.com/otya128/winevdm
My video link: https://youtu.be/GbRJWyiYSkE?si=QR9CHiMhiA801x4l

Microsoft Golf (1.0 - 1993) installs fully and works perfectly with sound in Windows 11.

Just saw the new McDonald's advert on TV, anyone else spotted this IBM? 😍

Does anyone know any brand and model numbers of early 90's PC VGA monitors, that are switchable between, black and white, amber, green or colour? I had one with my first 386 computer and this feature is the only thing I can remember about it, I'd love another.

This funky retro curio turned up today, now I need to decide what computer to test it in, I'm thinking of Pentium 100, which is from '94/95 when this card was made?
I also need to give it a really good clean up.

@foone aside from the notorious head issues, there's a lot out there that just need cap replacements, I know I have one at least that needs this - I need to get around to it!

@foone I've bought internal and external ones, I think I have one that may just need some caps replacing, but most of them the heads are done.

I have bought 5x Iomega ZIP100 drives in 2023, none of them have worked! I've taken a gamble on number six, these things have not stood the test of time, so fingers crossed for this one! 🤞

ISA Soundcard aficionados, any ideas what this one might be? I've searched based on the memory slots and the audio headers, but cannot find an exact match, any ideas or thoughts?

I also modified my Greaseweazel box:
- Added a USB port (card readers, usb sticks etc.)
- Mounted the primary USB port (computer connection).
- added a Molex and Floppy power connector (5v + 12v), useful for testing stuff.

Had a chilled Saturday, mainly writing and reading back floppy images. My method for IBM is writing the image to disk with the Greaseweazel, read back the image, then first open in Winimage, then finally to test is to use the captured image in VirtualBox.

Success! I've managed to make an external DB25 To Floppy cable that works. I'm just casually booting my 486 Toshiba T1910CS from a 360k 5.25" Floppy! Yes!!!!!
I'm thinking, should I design a PCB for this, others may find it useful?

Having a go at making my own floppy drive head cleaner, I'm going to try a 3.5" version first to see how I get on.

My floppy has wood! 💾 🪵

Done!
The most difficult part is the middle, if it's even a mm off centre it's going to wobble and probably tear, going at 300rpm+.
As this is paper, Pritt stick works well to attach the centre hub.

The magnetic disk inside a 3.5" floppy is around 88mm, the filter paper I have is 90mm. So I need to trim it by 2mm so that it fits inside correctly.

I've snagged another one of these lovely Mitsubishi MF504C 5.25" 1.2MB Floppy Drives, (MF504C-318MB), it is very similar to my MF504C-310MP, but has a 40/80 track switch on the front which is pretty unusual. I'll post some better photos when it arrives.

I just wanted to share a few pre-refurb pictures, this thing is beautiful, the top cover has some wear, but after 33 years who doesn't! 😃
Spec:
Acer AnyWhere Luggable PC - 1990
386SX 16Mhz
3MB RAM
Conner 40MB HDD, sounds nice and loud and is moving heads correctly
1.44MB Floppy