The collected works of ivelegacy - Page 9

miod wrote: See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_chipsets#Pentium_chipsets for a comprehensive list

unbelievable funny
I have bought a book called " PC bible " which is also reporting the funny news, but … never read so carefully

I haven't understood what is your will, what do you want to obtain ? a PDA ?
Why don't you buy a japanese one instead of building one ?

what do you think about the design of Apple Newton ? The LCD is ~ 5" 16:9, there is enough space inside, and let me say, an external keyboard is better (in ergonomics terms) than both other solutions: QWERTY on screen and femto keyboards.

of course you could hack an existing device, but I also think the Newton's design could be customized using a 3D printers (STL models)

Apple Newton's design

spiroyster wrote: Terminate Stay Resident (TSR's), is how DOS performed pseudo multitasking

the BDM control program crashes if I try the TSR, I have already tried under MSDOS v6.22, and PCDOS v7. May be the TSR model is OK only with simple applications, also I need to have two BDM control programs running at the same time, I can't switch from one to the other: debug purpose of two concurrent boards.

Stardom R5650-4S-U3D Drive Enclosure

hi guys
I am looking for scsi box for three wide/SCA hard drives in 2U form factor.
the above product is ... shocking, it looks good, aluminium body, a pretty LCD, a few leds, and it has removable sATA hard drives and a dual SCSI U320 connection, also it supports a lot of RAID modes and provides external sATA connections

cool, but ... too many features bloated , I simply need a box with three hard drives (in 2U form factor, my HDs are double tall) to provide a good external (1) file storage to my future Octane2. I'd like to connect the box with a scsi wide cable, I am tired about narrow. Really.

feel free to suggest me a solution


(1) it's a constraint, I need to move the file storage in case of need.






p.s.
asked my friend, and he provided a link to this monster, which is certainly "super cool", but … 98723491231824719234181312 thousand light years away from my needs

pentium wrote: ps: I don't normally complain about image size but if if the image is that large, please be courteous to us small screened forum users and attach it to the post so it auto-resizes

I was thinking the forum is auto-resizing when images linked, here (safari) it's working, I see the above images perfectly scaled in the page width (I have a 1024x768 screen), and I do not see any "width" option in the [ img ] command, isn't possible to force a scale ?

I do not like to use the attach, in this case I will use an external image host service ( e.g. imageupload dot co dot uk ), pre scaling (1) before uploading.

on my PHP forum I can do something like [ img width=xxx ] image [ /img ], isn't this feature implemented or enabled here ?

(1) gimp and image magik do it, macOSX image preview does it too





* * * speaking about the dual U320 interface * * *

let me understand, what should I need to connect a monster like the one on the above photos to Octane2 ?
is it possible ?

I'd better look for a dual SCSI XIO card, if it's possible. Btw, I'd better look for a common SCSI box instead of these monster racks

no monster rack, no need to look for a dual SCSI XIO card, problem solved

Fujitsu 3C40038519 Server Backplane SCSI 3 HDD BOX 84003517 PRIMERGY TX200

I might build a SCSI box, but I need something like in the photo above

Since the end of the jurassic Zaurus (PDAs made by Sharp in Japan, gentoo runs on my Akita), I have been thinking for designing something cool, actually I had the light bulb shining in my head: what about a gear inside a plexiglass tube ? LCD support ? who cares, trasparente tube, simple design, nobody has to care. Oh, external wifi keyboard, internal battery pack.

Sooner or later I will build it

warning, this post is super OT

spiroyster wrote: You should get an AMIGA!

have you ever heard about the apollo project ? It sounds like bullshits to me, I mean it's too complex to be handled by a few guys, btw if they will ever complete it … then it will improve projects like mist or minimig , amigaOS classic on fpga hw.

@uunix
do you have a C compiler for your OS/2 station ?

Doom1 or DukeNuken3D can show you the Truth.
(or Commander Keen goodbye Galaxy )

they do support SoundBlaster, and they run under DOS

I talked about the plexiglass-tube-computer because it's compliant with the hobby's resources. I mean, easy to be built, cheap and funny to be used. I really think I will make one, putting a pretty 5inc 16:9 LCD in its inside, plus a pair of solar cells and LiPo batteries.

but more seriously, what do you think about recycling an EEE/PC mini laptop ? I have seen a few funny projects, guys built a portable C64.

Yo-ho, ms-dos Goldies , a db of games for DOS

where are you from ?

ok, so Country USA
I live in italy

Good purchase, it seems you get a few good manuals included
I got a marvelous " IBM PC/AT technical manual " with schematics, piece of assembly lists about the BIOS, etc
I payed 30 euro just for this manual, so: good bargain !

I have here (somewhere) a CD plus 2 floppies 3.5", for OS/2 v2.1
but it requires an OLD CDROM (not Atapi) to be installed
the Mitsumi of my friend + Galaxy sound card (which has an old Mitsumi controller built-in) is OK for that

I have no interest in PCs hw, but I am moving all the DOS software I have
under Gemini (GuestPC-card/486-DX4@100Mhz) under RiscOS

something like

• Turbo Pascal
• Turbo Vision
• Turbo Basic
• Turbo Prolog
• Turbo C
• Microsoft Quick Basic
• Microsoft Assembler
• HexEdit + FED
• Norton Commander
• Procom Plus
• Sierra C/MC68K (from MC68000 to MC68060 + CPU32)
• Cougar BDMon (BDM hw debug, MC68332 MPUs)

Unfortunately DOS Games are not working under Gemini

• Doom1 , too slow, troubles with the video card emulation
• DukeNuken3D , simply too slow
• CommanderKeen goodbye Galaxy , troubles with the sound, the kb sometimes hangs up

An RPI machine with FastDOS is definitively better for them.
and Jemini can't run OS/2, unfortunately

I have been writing for years

" dear Santa Claus
happiness, for me, been an awful trip
think of all the fun I've missed
think of all the fanny's that I haven't kissed
next year I could be just as good
if you'll check out my Christmas list
it's just slip a girl with a bottle of good wine
under the tree, may I have both blond , buddy ? "

a few years ago, Christmas day after
the fate given me a Joke

I got Lady Gaga under the Christmas tree
Happy Day-After Party , good wine
but she is red, not blond
(and damn spendthrift, never say shopping
never give her a prepayed credit card)

life tells Jokes

budget ?

my WoodyBox has a similar problem: the CRT tube is 9-pin
and 9-pin could be { MGA, CGA, EGA, … }: all different and seldom compatible .

Looking at the cable I understood my CRT tube is CGA,
then I bought 3 vintage video boards from ebay,
and … none of them worked ='(
I mean, all of these video boards are combo VGA-CGA, and the VGA was not working too.

VGA: NOT working
CGA: NOT working

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ pinout differences ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Enhanced Graphics Adapter (EGA)

• pin1 GND
• pin2 Red_2, TTL
• pin3 Red_1, TTL
• pin4 Green_1, TTL
• pin5 Blue_1, TTL
• pin6 Green_2, TTL
• pin7 Blue_2, TTL
• pin8 Freq_H @ 15,7 / 21,8 kHz
• pin9 Freq_V @ 60 Hz

Color Graphics Adapter (CGA)

• pin1 GND
• pin2 GND
• pin3 Red, TTL
• pin4 Green, TTL
• pin5 Blue, TTL
• pin6 Intensity, TTL
• pin7 -
• pin8 Freq_H @ 15,75 kHz
• pin9 Freq_V @ 60 Hz

Monochrome Display Adapter (MDA)

• pin1 GND
• pin2 GND
• pin3 -
• pin4 -
• pin5 -
• pin6 Intensity, TTL
• pin7 Video, TTL
• pin8 Freq_H @ 18,432kHz
• pin9 Freq_V @ 50 Hz

the MDA Catode Ray Tube Controller is based on Motorola MC6845
which looks "almost" similar to MC6800

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ pinout differences ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~




last chance, a final opportunity to achieve something: the fourth video board bought on ebay!
I got it one week ago, I received yesterday and ....... strange, but true ...... it worked X_____X

VGA: working
CGA: working

oh, so lucky I am, just only on the fourth try




In your case ..You could, eventually, buy a combo (CGA-VGA) video card like mine, recycling a VGA monitor.
I do not know if the XT BIOS will work.

@robespierre
my CRT tube was pulled out from an old " transportable PC ", this implies the interface was within the range { CGA, EGA, MDA }

unfortunately I have just the CRT tube with its electronic, I do not have the rest of that big-iron
(which ohh, it was 8Kg, can you really call it " transportable " X_____X ?)

I do not know about polarity differences within { CGA, EGA, MDA, VGA }, I just know something about VGA timing & signals

now I have learnt a few new things

- ebay hates me, (I have ordered the same video board for 4 times) but the forth try is lucky ( dead, dead, dead, working )
- the CRT tube of my WoodyBox is CGA
- it is not dead, it's working, greatest information

oh, good, so I have a good working set which I can analyze with my DSO and LA in order to fine tune the timing module of the VDU I have already designed for my VDU. The Video Display Unit I am cooking in VHDL looks similar to the MC6845 used in MDA.

hi
I can offer you only an HP GFX (used in C3600 and C3700)

oh, so it's good for C64/C128/Amiga, I guess

I bought the PSOne's LCD (portable LCD for the Sony PlayStation One), just because it's RCA and I wanted to play with a Yamaha V9958 chip, which is the Video Display Processor (RCA output, plus a built in dynamic memory controller) used by home-computers like the MSX.

It's a funny chip, and pretty documented with a lot of examples (real usage, grabbed from games) in Z80 assembly.

um, oh, wait a femtoSec, what about the hypothesis about putting a combo VGA-CGA video board on your XT mobo ?
is it a good thing (will work) or a bad thing (will never work) ?

mine is ISA/16 and it works on AT and ATX mobo, but I do not know about your XT mobo
just my 50 cents, buddy, to save it from the loft

what makes zx2000 so special ?

oh well, no doubts, they are fun, but ...

{
a lot of time ago I put an luna/88k in my wish list. Too hard to find, too expensive, too effort required made me so flighty of heart that I wanted to recant my wish to collect Luna because the peril was great: Gaga did true blood threats, something like ... " I will not kill you (I guess) but be sure I will bloody smash any Luna that gets in, there is no space for an other she here, especially if she will cost more than my boots "

So bad girl, she sings " boots are made for walking " (by Nancy Sinatra), she has up to 20 pairs of boots, but she does not understand my needs when I push a new toy into my wish list. Luckily she is books tolerant, with a pile of books, everywhere around the living room, kitchen, and bed room, so I converted my previous wish into datebook (88100/88200 ISA), but Amazon failed all the times, and every ebay search told me to " go fsck myself !!! ". Then my search had success when I received an email from a vintage drugs dealer of NewYork who is used to have old books in his shelf: " we have the book you are looking for, just 25 bucks shipped ". Oh, my goodness, christmas gift (and Gaga does not know that I am secretly cooking my Luna in VHDL (oh well, perhaps, just the 88100 CPU))
}

but ... what is your secret against vamp femme fatale, buddies ?
How can you collect workstations avoiding to be engaged into a bloody war against the girl/woman you live with, under the same roof ?

urbancamo wrote: I thought it was the posting of someone on drugs or maybe slight deranged

Oh well, the Drugs not the Drugs
I thought, at least an exercise of English

Obviously, peace, love & respect, and help by yourself .... here it sounds like ... choose if you want to quarrel with your partner, or if I'd better look for alternatives and trade off .

My definitive solution is: to rent a garage (or to buy it for cheap), then moving all my office over there.

Possible motivation: " darling, I need to move my equipment (hot air solder, DSO, LA, electronic instruments etc … ) for job purposes ", which indeed is the Truth

jan-jaap wrote: Also, in the end computers don't like to live in garages.
If the humidity doesn't kill them, the unavoidable rodents will.

that indeed is a trouble, but …
… the alternative is to really buy a (second hand) caravan, then converting it into the " bunker of fun "
looking for other alternatives

@kramlq
I have carefully read the OpenPa page only recently, yes, you are right, indeed an excellent machine

p.s.
if someone want the HP C3600/C3700 GFX video board (I do not know the right name to call it), I will post a few photos.
about the price: yours for 15 bucks + shipping

no problem

see this eBay dot com item number: 311417889807 , it may be interesting for you
(but it's $299.95)

edit:
sorry, it seems that my searches on eBay are limited due to Italy domain zone restrictions
good luck

Still needed, also I am evaluating sATA to SCSI

uunix wrote: But my ex still holds the cards... THE LOFT!!!

never say "ex" until you are sure you haven't left anything into her house
last time it happened .... bye bye to all my Def Leppard & Garbage CDs
(I had an autograph by Shirley Manson , damn)

hamei wrote: Firewire works with Octane, too. It might be a little easier to find than a small scsi external.

umm it sounds good, here I have qty 4 (they were 2, now they are doubled) of SCA/80 Ultra2 Wide SCSI hard drives, made by Seagate , Barracuda 36 Family , model ST136475LC , they are 2U size, 36.4 Gbyte each, damn fast (1) and damn strong (in term of DMBF, 1000000 hours), so I'd like to use them but I need a backplane for 4 units and a box

btw, can you tell me more about sATA on Octane 2 ?
which card is proved to work with IP30 under Irix ?
so I can ask here if someone has one for sale, or …. keep an eye on ebay. I just need a target-name to look for.



(1) oh well " fast " is a relative concept, they go up to 25Mbyte per second, 7200 RPM spindle with an average latency of ~4 ms, and command queuing of up to 64 commands with background queue processing: so good, but ummm not so good! What is wrong with them ? oh well l .. they are 2U size, so tall the double { Height=1.6" , Width=4.0", Depth=5.8" } (an hard drive 1U size has Height=1.0" ), SE/LVD but .... their protocol always respond " yes " to question " data-size negotiation: are you a wide size unit ? ". So, if you have a wide host and you plug these monsters to a narrow cable (wide host ---- narrow cable ---- wide HD) and you add the proper " high byte (active) terminator " then they will do not care about it, and they will answer " go ffsk, I am wide " and there is absolutely no jumper no way to force 8bit. In short you'd better forget to use them in legacy narrow/mode . Fujitsu HDs are better from this point of view: they have True data-size negotiation, and a jumper to force narrow.

wanted : ucsimm/328 made by RT-Control.


hi,
I am hacking an old PDA, I am already able to take the control of everything (CPU, flash, LCD, PWM, buttons, … ) but I prefer to find a development board because It looks like a very ugly frankenstein and adding or modifying something is an horror story, e.g. the FLASH has page1 with the protection flag=On, it's impossible to unprotect without supplying +12V, which means …. cutting route in order to provide extra voltage, hacking, etc …. I was so bored that I unsoldered the whole FLASH, soldering back a new one

so I'd like to find one of these boards, ucsimm/328 made by RT-Control.

The uCSimm has been a very popular module ever since one little advertisement in Circuit Cellar.
The uCSimm is an embedded Ethernet module ideal for Internet connectivity.

• MC68EZ328 Motorola Dragonball Microcontroller (68000 core)
• 8 Mb DRAM (4096k x 16 bits)
• 1 Mb (512k x 16 bits) / 2 Mb (1024k x 16 bits) / 4 Mb (2048k x 16 bits) Flash
• CS8900A LAN Controller, 10baseT Ethernet
• Full +3.3 Volt design
• built in LCD controller, 320x240

The 68EN328 has a built in DRAM controller which requires no Glue Logic. This, coupled with a CS8900A LAN Controller makes the module so simple, anyone could wack one together customised to their specs.


Hacked PDA, it's based on MC68EZ328



an excellent book, 2 68000 in PDIP ceramic packages, a few MC68SEC000, MC68EZ328 and MC68VZ328, I have soldered on adapters

If I had more free time, I would have built a board from scratch, but ... Eagle/CAD has not all the symbols, I have to design them, and the story looked so boring to be hobby (also … I have to reduce my time for these activities or my girl-gaga-friend will kill me for sure)


if you have an old

• ucsimm/328 board (by RT-Control)
• MC68EZ328 ADS board (by Motorola)

then let me know

thanks

M68EZ328ADS board

Dear Santa Claus
M68EZ328ADS board under the tree
pleaZe

yes, of course, I still have

• the motherboard
• the GFX video board

I do not have ram, chassis etc

but I also have the powerSupply (it's big and heavy)

shoot me an offer in PM
price drop!!!

ACA57 Gemini II, IBM 5x86 @ 100MHz, and its brochure


hi
I am planning to use the Gemini II interface under !PC/v308 (I got sources) , under RiscOS v4.39 , I have recycled a CDROM chassis to accomodate an MC68332 inside, I have attached a BDM cable to the MC68332 board , and the other side to the parallel port of the RiscPC , the BDM control program is a DOS application , DOS v6.22 runs good, and SierraC/68K (professional C compiler for 68k) will work greatly good with a 586 CPU . Currently I have a poor 486 SX40 . I am expecting a boost of fun from the 586 , I already get ready to wave, so …


… so, If you have one of these, let me know, thanks

ajw99uk wrote: I was going to point you to this one but the auction finished earlier today

yeap, too late, there is an other auction but that dude is asking too much (~180 Euro)

ajw99uk wrote: I think you'd mentioned having a 486DX4/100

I had a DX4 , then a swapped for a 486SX , which is slower, btw when I swapped I was planning to upgrade to 5x86 , and as for money difference I also got a pair of great chips, SPI-UART chips . So I swapped 486DX4 , for a 486SX + marvelous chips.

These SPI-UART chips plus their crystals (you need the right value) are good if you want to add a debug interface to an Hacked PDA based on EZ328 . I swapped also because … unfortunately I can't find any ucsimm/328 around, and these chips are hardly to be found.

ajw99uk wrote: the performance difference is not that great (unless you find a 5x86 with 512KB cache rather than 128KB

486-DX4@100Mhz against 586@100Mhz … umm good match … about the DOS software that has to run under !PC/Pro , I think the 586 should be improved by all the improvements made with the internal architecture, the faster bus, which is 64bit instead of 32bit, but I do not think the gemini II chip has any benefits because the interface is 32bit, but ... a 586 has the burst mode, so in short I am expecting a speedup.

ajw99uk wrote: but even then things like having a StrongARM rather than ARM710 make a bigger difference)

oh well, that machine is already equipped with a SA@200Mhz , I do not want to over clock to 220Mhz , and … the 300Mhz seems to cost a lot.

ajw99uk wrote: I suggest you try comp.sys.acorn.hardware - probably a few people with unused PC cards, though I suspect mostly 486s

sure, thank you, I will also ask for a second slice-case (with pins), I am still without it and currently I do not have the CD/DVDrom because I have recycled the slot to accommodate the MC68332 board. I have recycled a CD ROM box, I have unmounted, removed the electronics, adapted the box for my MC68332 board which is perfectly fitted inside. Currently I am also trying to adapt the CDROMs front panel to an LCD, 2x20, Hitachi, backlit, plus 2 buttons that are useful for the debug interface.

In short I'd like to use the RiscPC as " (yet an other) MC68332 development station ", currently I have only the SierraC/68k under DOS, but … I can have a RiscOS C native cross-compiler to 68K (a friend has promised me), and I am already developing ethernet driver tool to directly interface the BDM, which sounds good, I mean instead of having a DOS application, under !PC, that controls the target

There are also 4 bugs with the RiscPC's RS232, and I can fix just 3 of them, but RiscOS is a funny OS, this is the main reason

I wonder what happens if I replace the 486 with a Pentium1 OverDrive : will it work ?