Tales of Weird StuffThis Tandy 1000SX needs some cleaning and repairs, and I think it deserves some much needed upgrades. To start #SepTandy 2023, let's take a look inside and see what can be done.
00:00 Intro 02:30 Look inside 11:42 #DirtyFan 13:37 Foreshadowing 15:18 First boot 20:14 The Upgrades 25:56 Installing DOS 32:33 The problems 35:31 Closing words
Tricking out a Tandy 1000SX, part 1 #SepTandyTales of Weird Stuff2023-09-07 | This Tandy 1000SX needs some cleaning and repairs, and I think it deserves some much needed upgrades. To start #SepTandy 2023, let's take a look inside and see what can be done.
00:00 Intro 02:30 Look inside 11:42 #DirtyFan 13:37 Foreshadowing 15:18 First boot 20:14 The Upgrades 25:56 Installing DOS 32:33 The problems 35:31 Closing words
SepTandy Playlist: youtube.com/hashtag/septandyApple Network Server 700 exploration!Tales of Weird Stuff2024-10-08 | #UNIXtober begins with a look outside and inside one of the two Apple Network Server 700 that I recently acquired. This will surely be the first of several videos working on these machines.
00:00 Front of system and drives 04:41 Side of system 05:21 Rear of system 06:41 Far side of system 06:54 Back to the back 08:05 Motherboard examination 13:42 Motherboard removal 15:17 Inside the back 16:27 Bad foam! 18:07 Back of the backplane 21:39 Power supply top side 23:15 Power supply removal 26:57 Getting ready for power 28:57 No lightspeed? 29:52 This time for sure! 32:16 Power to the backplane 35:34 Try a keyboard 36:25 Closing words
Laughing face emjoi courtesy of Vincent Le Moign under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tandy_1000_RLX_front_view.jpgPortland Oregon Free Geek popup sale! #retroTales of Weird Stuff2024-09-07 | Free Geek in Portland, Oregon is having a popup sale today until 4pm.Apple Network Sever 700/150 is finally home!Tales of Weird Stuff2024-08-31 | The Apple Network Sever 700/150 from the recent rescue in eastern Washington is finally in Tales of Weird Stuff basement. Full videos are expected in October for #UNIXtober.Dozens of Apple computers rescued! #BarnFindTales of Weird Stuff2024-08-22 | Long road trip to for a massive Apple computer barn find in eastern Washington. I'm not exaggerating when I say it was more Apple computers than I have ever seen in one place.
00:00 Intro 01:51 The collection overview 03:11 Non-Apples 03:54 Loading montage, part 1 06:09 User group footlocker 07:06 Loading montage, part 2 07:29 Hard drive removal 08:06 Loading montage, part 3 10:11 Fully loaded 10:21 Voyage home 11:17 Spicy weather 12:28 Unpacking 12:33 Big serversFujitsu NFTS SCSI hard disk tester from 1993Tales of Weird Stuff2024-08-10 | Fujitsu NFTS SCSI hard drive tester from 1993. I thought this thing was bizarre on the outside, but once I started digging in... it just kept getting more and more weird!
vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=887513dlabs VP990 Pro versus the world!Tales of Weird Stuff2024-07-18 | 3dlabs Wildcat VP990 Pro takes on many contemporary GPUs in a variety of game and workstation application benchmarks. How will the 3dlabs architecture fare? Let's find out!
youtube.com/watch?v=memQtjPVYUkEVGA XR1 has tritanomaly?Tales of Weird Stuff2024-07-10 | Can a video capture device even have blue-green color blindness (tritanomaly)? It seems like my EVGA XR1 Pro has something going on with this particular video signal.NVIDIA Quadro4 video corruptionTales of Weird Stuff2024-06-20 | As mentioned in my previous video, I ordered this card for the next video. It arrived quickly, and I put it right to work... but it doesn't work. I've seen this failure mode on other Quadro4 cards. Is there any way to fix it?$1,200 GPU from 2002 - Can it run Doom 3?Tales of Weird Stuff2024-06-14 | It's #GPUJune 2024! Released in late 2002 at a similar time as the Radeon 9700 and the Geforce FX, the top of the line 3Dlabs P10 architecture card cost $1,200. Let's compare the architecture of the 3Dlabs parts with its contemporaries, and, naturally, let's see if it can run Doom 3.
00:00 Intro 00:44 Previous GPU generation 04:20 Shader model 2.0 generation 07:38 Visual Processing Unit 11:25 VP990 Pro Unboxing 13:22 The Good 20:46 The Bad 26:24 The Ugly 31:43 The Weird 37:56 WindowsXP 39:54 Doom3 42:29 Closing words
http://www.vgamuseum.info/images/doc/3dlabs/p10/p9.p10.ao.pdfNEC PowerMate SX/20 almost broke meTales of Weird Stuff2024-05-23 | Troubleshooting this vintage NEC PowerMate SX/20 PC was a bit more than I bargained for. It is so stubborn about not wanting to work, at all, without a working Dallas RTC. I will get it booting from a hard drive... no matter the cost!
00:00 Cold open 00:19 Intro 02:01 Exterior 03:59 Interior 05:39 Highly unusual 14:15 So many questions 16:38 First power on 21:09 Signs of life? 26:52 Interesting discoveries! 34:30 RIP XT-IDE :( 38:01 Plan C: SCSI 42:13 First boot from Adaptec 43:21 Removable SCSI media 47:02 Closing words
Cognative Dissonance - Electronic Medium by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0What do Mortal Kombat and a mass spectrometer have in common?Tales of Weird Stuff2024-04-26 | The Texas Instruments TMS34010 is considered by many, including myself, to be the first true GPU. I found these boards at a local electronics reseller, and I decided to document them.
Github repository with hires pictures and (eventually) ROM dumps:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBA_Jam_(1993_video_game)#/media/File:Nba-jam-dunk.pngSun Ultra 10 and Ultra 60 workstations power onTales of Weird Stuff2024-04-19 | Spring means Sun! Three 1998 Sun Ultra workstations recently rescued from e-waste are examined. In this first video I just want to see if they are alive at all. Future videos will have (possibly) further trouble shooting and (possibly) operating system installation.
00:00 Intro 02:22 Ultra 10 weigh-in 02:47 Ultra 10 externals 04:58 Ultra 10 internals 10:47 glxgears 11:41 Ultra 10 power on 15:57 Ultra 60 Mk.1 weigh-in 16:27 Ultra 60 Mk.1 externals 19:30 Ultra 60 Mk.1 internals 24:18 Ultra 60 Mk.1 power on 26:11 Ultra 60 Mk.2 externals 28:45 Ultra 60 Mk.2 internals 34:44 Ultra 60 Mk.2 power on 41:36 Ultra 60 Mk.2 is alive! 45:04 Closing wordsRetro PC repairathon part 2: fixes!Tales of Weird Stuff2024-04-05 | I'm finally back to do some repairs on these retro PCs! March was a really bad month, so it took quite a long time to get this video finished. After taking a quick look at the K6 and the Pentium II systems that seemed to be just working, I dig into the #BadBattery Compaq and the #BadCapacitor MVP3 K6-2 systems.
During the making of this video, I tripped over the cable connecting my main camera to the video capture device, and I had to have a new one sent overnight from Amazon (affiliate link): amzn.to/3VKQhBf
00:00 Intro 02:03 Recap from part 1 02:48 Pentium II 03:15 K6 04:07 Compaq ProLinea 11:00 Compaq postmortem 12:28 MVP3 K6-2 recap 22:30 It's alive! 30:12 Vwrop vwrop 32:59 SiS rebirth! 33:39 What's next? 34:38 Closing wordsRetro PC repairathon part 1: TriageTales of Weird Stuff2024-02-16 | Part 1 (of at least 2) of a retro PC repairathon. I've accumulated a bunch of these things over the last year, and it's about time to sort them out and do something with them! This first step is primarily triage... what's here, what works, and what future repairs are needed.
At least some of them will end up for sale at SideQuest Expo (sidequestexpo.com) on March 9th and 10. Stop by and say hi!
00:00 Intro 00:46 Bachelor number 1 08:54 Bachelor number 2 14:11 Bachelor number 3 18:57 Bachelor number 4 27:21 Bachelor number 5 42:49 Bachelor number 6 52:34 Closing wordsWhy did slot CPUs exist?Tales of Weird Stuff2024-02-01 | Why did slot-based Pentium II, Pentium III, and Athlon CPUs exist? Why did they disappear? It all has to do with the importance of cache performance and what was possible with the technology of the day. I'll dive really, really deep into many aspect of CPU and cache performance to make a case for why they existed and why they vanished.
00:00 Intro 00:30 Data transmission performance 00:54 Bandwidth and latency 03:32 The Pentiums 05:22 The memory speed problem 10:34 Bus speed matters 12:23 P55C L1 cache advantage 13:10 How do we (not actually) go faster? 18:29 Direct mapped cache 24:11 Set associative cache 28:46 Lookin' at you, L2 32:50 CPU and cache on a board, take 1 35:33 Pentium Pro 43:30 CPU and cache on a board, take 2 45:23 But why vertical? 47:09 Slot B Xeon 49:22 A is for Athlon 51:03 On-die cache 53:43 Off-die cache? 55:25 On-die cache!!! 57:48 Closing words
Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach (these are Amazon affiliate links)
00:12 Intro 01:43 Dirty exterior 05:42 Clean interior 15:10 The damage 18:59 Yeet! 20:22 Damage close up 23:40 Signs of life? 25:23 Component testing 28:52 Doom, of course 30:13 Closing wordsJanuary (technically) mail call!Tales of Weird Stuff2024-01-04 | I found a bunch of packages hanging around my basement... some quite old... let's look at the stuff that I ordered online!
00:09 Intro 01:41 Soldering supplies 02:55 More RAM 06:21 Commodore 64 stuff 09:06 PS1 games 11:34 Video cards 17:24 Panzer Dragoon 20:05 Closing wordsEpson Equity I+ repair for #DOScember 2023!Tales of Weird Stuff2023-12-29 | Let's see what surprises this Epson Equity I+ turbo XT clone PC has hiding inside! Not only does it have some little surprises, but it has the worst case design I have ever seen on a computer. Clearly, Krampus left this #DOScember present for me!
00:11 Intro 02:01 Exterior overview 05:32 Initial disassembly 12:07 Bad video recording 13:00 Nice and clean! 17:33 Weird floppy drive 18:52 Power on! 23:57 Power off?!? 27:55 Hard drive testing 38:37 Re-assembly 56:45 Should I keep it? 01:01:05 Closing words
sidequestexpo.com/index.htmlSGIs first 64-bit workstation: The IndigoTales of Weird Stuff2023-12-14 | Examine and troubleshoot an SGI Indigo workstation. Hopefully this is an R4000 based system with graphics from the Elan family. R4000-based Indigos were the first 64-bit CPU workstations shipped by SGI.
00:16 Intro 01:13 Exterior inspection 04:10 Motherboard 08:27 Graphics board 13:50 Nasty 17:31 Less nasty 18:47 Power supply pre-testing 21:47 Power supply testing 23:54 Reassembly 27:32 First power-on! 29:18 Woe is me 36:16 The fine manual 38:38 A different result 40:20 Guilty party found! 41:28 Closing words#SGI haul from Bellevue Washington!Tales of Weird Stuff2023-11-26 | I drove up to Bellevue Washington to buy an SGI Octane, but I came home with the Octane, a VisualWorkstation 320, a 1600SW monitor, and a box of accessories! This basically doubles the size of my SGI collection. Not bad at all!ULTIMATE GameCube setup for Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures!Tales of Weird Stuff2023-11-22 | My ultimate GameCube setup for playing Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures is here! This is the reason for all the console modding in my previous video, and, as promised, the payoff was HUGE!
00:00 Intro 01:08 2016 Zelda party 03:48 Previous setup 08:58 The problems 10:23 Improvements 17:13 Musical chairs 18:34 Time investment 20:26 Chaos! 23:31 Clear path 26:16 All the way to 11? 28:04 Game play! 30:31 Closing words
Here's what you need to reproduce this setup:
- Either 5 GameCubes or 4 GameCubes and a "backwards compatible" Wii (model RVL-001) with all necessary power bricks, video cables, and controllers.
- Four Game Boy Players (model DOL-017). You will only need one Game Boy Player disc. Alternately, the GameCubes can be modded to use Swiss and Game Boy Interface.
- Four "GameCube - Game Boy Advance link" cables (model DOL-011 or compatible).
- Four small displays.
- One large display.
- One Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures game disc.
RetroRGB article about Wii2HDMI used in this project:
retrorgb.com/wii2hdmi-plug-play-adapter-back-in-stock.htmlInstalling PicoBoot on 4 GameCubes!Tales of Weird Stuff2023-11-19 | Installation of PicoBoot mod in four DOL-001 GameCubes! If I can do this mod... four times... with my meager soldering skills, you can too! At the very least, you can learn from my mistakes and misadventures.
My Twitch livestream with all of these GameCubes is Sunday, November 19th, 2023.
00:00 Intro 02:26 Prep the PiZero 03:31 Disassembly all the things! 04:43 Detailed disassembly 12:32 Tales of woe 17:06 Removing the heatsink 22:25 Soldering GP4 26:39 Soldering GP6 and GP7 29:25 Soldering 3v3 30:43 Soldering GP5 32:00 Soldering ground 34:22 Reinstalling the heatsink 40:26 Reinstalling the optical drive 41:29 Reassembling the case 49:48 Closing words
Image showing the correct thicknesses of heat transfer pads for the GameCube:
imgur.com/95iGCGeSGI O2 CD-ROM fix, case fix, and RAM upgrade!Tales of Weird Stuff2023-11-14 | Time to get this Silicon Graphics O2 from 1997 into tip-top shape! The CD-ROM drive won't stay closed, some of the plastic is broken, and it needs a RAM upgrade. There's more that can be done on this system, but that will come later.
00:00 Intro 01:08 Vendor area overview 03:10 Pickups! 06:28 Games 08:22 ASCII joystick 09:44 Saturn video cable 10:31 POWER SUPPLIES! 15:22 Commodore repairs?!? 16:32 GameCube accessories 18:30 CTWC 19:27 Closing wordsTRS-80 beauty and the beast. #SepTandy 2023Tales of Weird Stuff2023-10-07 | Finally time to take a look at a really gross TRS-80 Model 4 and a pristine Radio Shack FP-215 plotter.
This video would have been released a week ago... just barely making it into #SepTandy, but then tragedy struck. There were significant problems with the audio recorings, and none of the resulting video could be used. Even though we're well into October, I'm still going to call this SepTandy!
00:00 Intro 01:20 Look around the outside 04:48 First peek inside 11:54 So much bodge! 18:50 First power 19:35 Smeared display 24:15 FP-215 unboxing 29:05 Look around the outside 33:04 Does it work?!? 39:24 First peek inside 43:56 Closing wordsStubborn Tandy 1000SX restored to former glory! #SepTandy 2023Tales of Weird Stuff2023-09-25 | Tandy 1000SX gets repaired and returned to its former glory. The upgrades finally get installed, and this thing rocks!
00:00 Intro 00:12 Retro Chip Tester 02:30 A fault found! 07:22 Smoke test 10:04 A new problem? 13:41 Problem solved? 16:02 Before upgrades 18:19 Upgrades! 20:14 Final result 21:12 Closing words#SepTandy comin like a semi truck!Tales of Weird Stuff2023-09-14 | So many things coming this month in SepTandy on Tales of Weird Stuff! I'll add links to each video here as they are published.
Tandy 1000SX repair, part 1: youtu.be/ONK_au8YcdQWhat is this Intel 8080 thing anyway?Tales of Weird Stuff2023-08-18 | Intel 8080 CPU, dual Shugart drives, RAM, ROM, and a serial port. It's a computer, right? Well, let's try to figure out what the heck it actually is.
00:16 Intro 01:45 System overview 04:26 External connections 07:13 Plan to dump the ROMs 09:58 2708 EPROMs are painful 12:06 Sketchy 2708 reader 15:33 The ROM dumps! 19:51 Closing words
museo.freaknet.org/en/eprom-2708A box of SWTPC 6800 goodies!Tales of Weird Stuff2023-08-13 | Check out this SWTPC 6800 find! This is a huge collection of cards, peripherals, documentation, and the computer itself!
Instagram: instagram.com/TalesOfWeirdStuffHuge Intel memorabilia collectionTales of Weird Stuff2023-08-05 | Check out this collection of 80s Intel memorabilia! This is a great collection of historically interesting Intel swag and newsletters.
I have created the git repository where the newletters will be stored as I get them scanned:
00:00 Intro 02:00 Brief system overview 07:23 88.7 pounds 09:19 Digital UNIX 10:54 Front panel 12:07 Hidden power connector 13:55 Read the fine service manual 16:29 Motherboard overview 22:20 The CPU! 23:20 RAM cards 27:16 Turn it on? 31:27 Closing words
North Carolina - Government Compaq Branded Alpha Price List Effective 11/22/03:
ftp.zx.net.nz/pub/archive/ftp.compaq.com/pub/US/state/ncgovalphalist.pdfInside an HP AlphaServer ES47Tales of Weird Stuff2023-07-06 | In November 2003, this configuration of HP AlphaServer ES47 would have cost at least $133,000 (see the price sheet below). We'll take a look at the system inside and out, and we'll listen to the loudest system fans I've ever heard on a computer.
00:00 Intro 01:27 100 pounds of computer 07:07 CPU board revealed 11:30 CPU upgrade gone wrong 13:50 AGP?!? 18:42 Your biggest fan 22:09 NUMA and 64 AGP slots 25:57 Countdown to leaf blower 29:34 Booting to Linux 33:10 CPU info, kernel build, 720 watts 36:24 CPU package, bare board, smashed heatsink 43:17 Sweet relief of quiet 44:25 Closing words
North Carolina - Government Compaq Branded Alpha Price List Effective 11/22/03:
Matt's web page with additional information about this specific machine:
mattst88.com/computers/es47VCF East 2023 pickups!Tales of Weird Stuff2023-05-18 | As promised, here are my VCF East 2023 pick ups! It was about as much as I could possibly bring home in my suitcases. Several of these items will appear in future videos. Let me know in the comments which items you are most interested in.
Instagram: instagram.com/TalesOfWeirdStuffVCF East 2023 recap... finally!Tales of Weird Stuff2023-05-05 | Better late than never, my VCF East 2023 trip report is here! I had intended to edit and post this video while still on my trip, but the laptop I had with me experienced some malfunctions. Alas.
The event was a blast, and it was great to meet so many people IRL that I've only known through social media platforms.
There will be a follow-up video of all my trip pickups.
00:00 Intro 02:03 Room 1 walkthrough 02:48 Room 2 walkthrough 05:09 Room 3 walkthrough 10:32 Museum walkthrough 15:37 Motorolal 88000 18:01 RISC workstations 18:46 WinNT on PowerPC 19:24 Altos 586 Xenix system 20:25 Televideo Z80 21:29 AT&T 7300 21:53 SGIs, oh my! 26:44 Univac 27:47 XT-IDE... it's alive! 28:37 Consignment room 30:14 Closing wordsMachintosh IIfx Repair part 2Tales of Weird Stuff2023-04-06 | The Macintosh IIfx saga continues! Sadly this is a little late for #MARCHintosh 2023. Watch me remove capacitors in the worst possible way, and don't watch me put new capacitors back on. Lol. Will that fix the problems? Will it power on? Find out!
https://recapamac.com.au/macintosh-iifx/Macintosh IIfx Repair #MARCHintosh 2023Tales of Weird Stuff2023-03-11 | Continuing with #MARCHintosh 2023, let's replace the ailing power supply in this Macintosh IIfx with a shinny new one. Will that be the only repair necessary? There's only one way to find out!
00:00 Intro 00:49 Opening the machine 03:20 Old power supply insides 08:42 More system disassembly 10:43 Nobody said anything about two batteries 14:11 Cleaning connectors 21:46 Old power supply testing 24:08 Leaky capacitors 26:33 New power supply testing 27:42 Closing wordsMac IIfx mystery box unboxing #MARCHIntosh 2023Tales of Weird Stuff2023-03-02 | New old stock parts are hard to come by, and this is a doozy! Watch me unbox thi s "mystery" Apple replacement part for my MacIntosh IIfx.
00:00 Intro 01:40 Breaking the seal! 04:13 Cleanest fan ever! 05:10 Goopy capacitors 06:17 Next steps 06:54 Closing wordsMedford estate sale pickups!Tales of Weird Stuff2023-02-24 | An estate sale ad spotted on a boring Tuesday in mid February sent me on adventure to bring a bunch of weird stuff home. Let's take a look at it all! There are a bunch of S-100 boards, some Heathkit test equipment, a bunch of Motorola 6800 related chips, an Apple IIe full of upgrade cards, and a new-old-stock Acer PC.
There is a bunch of this stuff that I have no idea what it is. If you have any information, please leave it in the comments below.
thenandnowsales.comIntel Above Board vs Doom... we all lose!Tales of Weird Stuff2023-02-09 | Take a deep dive into the Intel Above Board PS / AT with a 25MHz 486. Is it any good for running Doom? Is it any good as a disk cache? I'll examine using Central Point Software PC-Tool 4.2 disk cache on this system too!
00:00 Intro 01:21 Project background 03:36 Above Board overview 07:25 Prelude to fail 08:10 SpeedSys fail 09:02 Second Above Board 13:04 SpeedSys for real 19:08 It runs Doom 26:06 Disk cache instead? 28:24 Driver fail 32:10 Disk cache fail 33:44 Disk cache success 34:27 Benchmark setup 39:50 Data analysis 42:14 Disk loads during the demo 43:23 Should you use one? 46:06 Closing words
Documentation and drivers for Intel Above Boards (many models):
00:00 Intro 00:12 Weird Computers 01:05 Weird Input Devices 01:36 More Weird Computers 02:05 Weird Processors 02:24 Even More Weird Computers 02:49 Weird Motherboards 03:12 Weird Disk Drives 03:33 Weird Processor Upgrades 04:15 So Many Weird Computers! 04:42 Weird Software 05:35 Weird Stuff! 05:47 Closing wordsDoom benchmark deathmatch, part 2!Tales of Weird Stuff2023-01-05 | DOS Doom benchmark data deep dive! Finally look at all the data from the hundreds of benchmark runs that I performed in December of 2022. There is a lot of data and a lot of analysis here, but the executive summary is:
1. CPU speed is king. 486 66MHz is the minimum for the best Doom experience, and 25MHz will never be very good. 2. Get some L2 cache, but amount doesn't matter too much. 3. Get a VLB or PCI video card, but it doesn't matter too much which card. 4. Avoid "Windows GUI accelerator" cards (e.g., Viper VLB). They tend to have poor DOS VGA performance. 5. If you're stuck on ISA, Cirrus Logic GD542x and WDC 90C31 cards were the fastest in my benchmarks. 6. Avoid 25MHz bus CPUs (25MHz, DX2 66MHz, DX4 75MHz, etc.). 7. Avoid Cyrix 486 CPUs.
As a final note... the Tseng Labs ET4000W32 is not a fast card. Don't waste your money on it.
00:00 Intro 03:35 WTF are tics? 08:27 OPTi 82C283 11:46 ULi M1409A 16:57 SIS 85C471 21:24 ALi M1429G 24:39 Cache and CPU effects on 85C471 28:44 Cache and CPU effects on M1429G 32:45 UMC UM8868BF 41:01 Chipset effects on ISA 46:55 Chipset effects on VLB 48:33 Final recommendations 52:25 Closing words
Spreadsheet containing all the benchmark data:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18wHfsX6a5tIBOPWC1Ij1qJLAjBCpCy2J8LZJmbBlwggHas Tales of Weird Stuff been... naughty?Tales of Weird Stuff2022-12-29 | Is Tales of Weird Stuff on the nice list or naughty list? I guess I won't really know until I open this package left on my front porch. Let's take a look at some unusual controllers, and let's start with the first wireless controller for the Atari 2600!
youtube.com/watch?v=0klq20uJxAUDoom benchmark deathmatch, part 1!Tales of Weird Stuff2022-12-23 | Like an angry cacodemon, #DOScember2022 and #DOOMcember strike back! The giant Doom benchmark deathmatch that I've been talking about for several videos is finally here... sort of. This is just part one, and part two will follow in a week or two. In this installment, I will look at all of the hardware that will be benchmarked.
elhvb.com/webhq/models/486vlb3/486a3gx4.htmlRarest PC sound card in the world!!!Tales of Weird Stuff2022-12-12 | The Mindscape Music Board was cursed by coming out shortly before the much more capable AdLib sound cards. It's basically a Mockingboard for a PC (without the speech synthesizer chips). The only software that I know supports it is the music editing software that came with it.DOS Doom LAN Party for #DOScember2022!Tales of Weird Stuff2022-12-10 | Let's roll into #DOOMcember with a legit 1993-esqe Doom deathmatch LAN party! I kind of took over my retro computer club's December meeting with this collection of mid-90s computers. In this video you will learn how to set up IPX networking specifically to play Doom deathmatch.
00:00 Intro 02:19 The Mission 08:23 The systems 08:56 Game play! 12:19 Choosing components 20:15 Configuring the network 31:18 Launching Doom 33:11 Closing words
Base IPX ODI files as for NE2000 cards in DOS Box:
Archived Intel network drivers. These are the drivers for **both** the Intel ISA card and the Digital PCI cards. In all cases you want DOS ODI drivers. The test software for the Digital PCI cards is pcitst24.zip.