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Thank you for checking that. The system seems to be partly alive! I have soldered a VGA connector and rewired the DB25 to DB15 and connected it to a VGA monitor and now I get this: It stays there and does not go further. So it does seem that maybe there is a problem with my Olivetti display...

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Hey folks, I want to get an Olivetti M24 but it does not come with a monitor. Now it seems that while the display is an enhanced CGA, the connector is not a normal CGA. Am I correct about that? Also, what are my options to display something from the Olivetti? What about installing a normal...

I am sure I am neither the first nor the last to try to connect their Amiga to a modern-ish VGA monitor. I am trying to do this in 2 ways: 1) Using a 23pin DSUB to VGA cable connect directly to a LCD monitor. I have about 8 of them in my collected, tried about 3-4 and I get no image. I assume...

Hi all, Finally opened my Amiga 500 and I discovered it has 3 upgrades inside (see picture). The one on the right seems to be an upgrade to the CPU itself (14Mhz). The one on the bottom is memory upgrade (I think 1Mb, although it should be more). However what is the upgrade on the top? Seems to...

Hi folks, I am trying to restore and use an Amiga 500 which I had for a long time but for which only recently I've purchased a power supply. I also have a A590 HDD. I have a few questions. I have never owned or operated an Amiga before so I apologize if my questions are very basic. 0) I am...

Hi folks, I am playing around with Codewarrior 10 on my Power Macintosh 7300 and all is good. However now I want to do some graphics programming and I am a bit stumped. I assume I need to use QuickDraw for some simple 2D graphics right? Or will the Carbon API allow me to do that too? I guess...

Hi all, I have this CoCo 1 (32Kb version, low serial 6509) for a long time now but I noticed that it has this strange mod (I do not think this is original as other online pictures of CoCo motherboard do not have that cable, but I could be wrong). There are 2 wires: - one from TP1 connection...

Hi all, I've tried to take screenshots with Cmd+Shift+3 or Cmd+Shift+4 using either default System 7 (7.6.1) capabilities or Capture program and it creates files like "Picture 1", "Picture 2", etc. I can open them (and they look fine) with SimpleText. But, what format are they really? I would...

Hi all, So I've managed to restore a nice Performa 6115CD. It has System 7.6 installed on it. I want to get some software on it (for starters Netscape or IE). Now all I found was either hqx files (BinHex format) or .sit files (StuffIt). I do not have either of those installed. I can get for...

Hi, I have a good number of Atari 1040ST disk (3.5" floppies) that I would like to image to have a backup. And at some point to re-image disks back in case originals break. So far I've tried WinImage from Windows and it reports "No disk in drive" even though the disk is read just fine by my...

Hi all, I have this PCI card (which I got in a P2 system, but that is beside the point). Can anyone venture a guess as to what it is? It seems to be from 1994. It seems 8x8 is a VoIP company now, however this card is interesting from few points: - it has 2 DSP chips - it has an Altera Flex...

Hi all, My tweneer system is a 486DX2/66Mhz with Win95 (OCR2) installed. I need a disk image software (that produces .img files) that can run on it. What I've tried: Winimage (went back to 8.1) - even though it says it will run on Win95 it does not, since Kernel32.DLL is missing...

Ok, there is a website I knew that I cannot find the address anymore which has black and white picture/drawing of a LOT of cards ISA/EISA/PCI and motherboards with jumper location (and major chip location). What is that website? (it is not minuszerodegrees.net). I have some controller cards...

Hi all, Following advice from this forum I finally managed to connect to my MicroVAX 3800 model 80. MMJ connector 2 turns out was the console. I would like now to try to boot from one of the SCSI drives inside the box (or just check if they have something useful on them). This is what the "show...