https://github.com/rayarachelian/lisaem
https://github.com/felixrieseberg/macintosh.js

I’m thinking about re-purchasing my old childhood PC. This model looks decent but it’s pretty scuffed up with black marks. Not sure how permanent they are.

Anyone know if this would be able to be restored to its former glory?

Hey guys!

Just moved into a new house and the trip seemed to take a toll on my old computer I use to game with. Does anyone have any experience with these? I am not getting any display and the only indication I can get is the rear D light is yellow which I’ve seen means “other failure” according to Dell. Anyone have any tips? I would really appreciate any help!

Hello folks, new member here. I picked up this old Compaq laptop today. It’s an LTE Lite 4/25E. The main reason for this post is to ask where to start? I don’t know much about programming, and even less about DOS, or however this thing runs, so I’d love some advice on what to do with this. Thanks in advance! (Also yes, I’m well aware my workspace is a mess.)

Found an Apple II at Value Village yesterday. They sometimes have that sort of stuff- very rarely- but usually have absurd (IMO) $200-$300 prices. Looked at the price tag expecting something ridiculous as they usually do, and was surprised to see it was $25. Needless to say, I bought it.

It had no Apple II Logo, so I suspected it was a clone from the start, but the shape was unmistakable. The lack of logo might be why it was priced low as whoever priced it may simply not have realized what it was. It had two Apple II Joysticks attached through the back, which was a nice bonus.

When I got it home and popped it open- interestingly the cover is held on with Velcro, (no idea if it would have come like that originally) It has a Microsoft branded Language Card/RAM Card and a off-brand Disk Controller card installed. It was, indeed, a clone; the "Golden II". Confirmed not only by the board obviously not being Apple branded but also because it says "Golden II" for the boot screen. The text on the ROM chips suggest Formosa Microcomputer.

That said, It does seem to have a few issues. Perhaps not unexpected for something over 40 years old now.

My first issue was that I couldn't get it to sync correctly to a TV and got a vertical and horizontally rolling image Enough to make out the "GOLDEN II" boot text but hardly usable. Eventually I tried a HDMI adapter on a more modern display, and was able to get a stable, but grayscale and very ugly, image for testing. I suspected initially it was a PAL/NTSC issue, but am not entirely sure.

I could get into BASIC as one would expect. However, I found that inevitably the machine freezes and gets a bit of random garbage on the screen, usually within a few minutes so I couldn't really type in any programs more than a few lines. RAM was my first suspect but even removing the RAM card and then dropping to the first bank, the issues remained; even swapping all the first bank with one of the other banks had the same issue. Eventually I had forgotten to turn it off when returning to my PC for more research, and the display blanked out and the PSU started to make a unsettling click sound after a few minutes. After leaving it unplugged for a while, it was able to power up as before, but clearly it was failing so I decided this was a good time to actually confirm voltages (which I ought to have done at the start, I suppose). I discovered the output was wildly unstable (5V was usually 4.5V but sometimes dropped to 3V. I was able to confirm that the voltage drop was related to the screen corruption since as soon as I saw it drop the system froze and got screen garbage. I guess the voltage gets too low to keep the RAM refreshed and it corrupts.

I've ordered a Pico PSU/Apple II Adapter Kit. This clone does use a different power connector from the Apple II, so I'll have to try to salvage the old connector housing. The actual pins seem to be the same though, just arranged differently. My hope is that a good PSU will also fix the issue with it not giving a good video signal.

Exterior Photo

The internals

(RAM Card ribbon is disconnected here from when I was testing RAM through swapping; just have it installed for storage so I don't have to go looking for it later)

Hi. I tried to rescued this manual. It were in uncle's home. His son when was child he drow somethings on It and some corner Page is Broken . I tried to fix It. Spanish versión.

So, after alot of trouble shooting with its original board, I ditched it for now... Don't worry, I will keep working on It but I just wanted one of my 486 PCs to finally be finished.

I'm really glad it was stored dark and relatively dry for the last 15 Years, that way it's slightly to none yellowed and in almost pristine condition.

I have mixed matched the components of this ComTech system with the Big Tower DX2 I got for free last month.

• No-Name Socket 2 Motherboard with 32KB of RAM and a Intel 486 DX-2
• ATI March 32 VGA card
• Creative Soundblaster Soundcard
• 2! IDE controller cards for the HDDs and the CD ROM drive
• a S-Video Card (first time seeing it, don't know how it works yet)

Front:

• 5 1/4" Floppy drive from Mitsubishi
• 3.5" Floppy drive from Epson
• CD ROM Drive from LG
• two blank covers

The PC will be in a Full Set-up with a Highscreen FK 2002 Keyboard, Logitech Mouse, IBM mousepad and a Apple MultiScan VGA monitor, two speakers from "Typhoon" (Probably not the best, but looked cool)

And of course, Windows 95 :D

I will be posting a full Set-up soon. Stay tuned.

Picked up a zenith ZDS-625nl and I'm puzzled on what type of adapter this is. Anyone know?

I bought this a few weeks ago and I cannot for the life of me get it to run a CD-ROM. The only reason I want it to do this, is so that I can use a specific Sony Vaio recovery disc for this laptop so I can get back the original software and drivers that would have come with this laptop from factory.

BUT

It can’t boot from USB (too old) Can’t boot from CD (it’s supposed to but I’ve tried two official Sony Vaio PCGA-CD51/A CD-ROM drives now) Can’t boot from floppy (recovery files too big) Any drivers for the CD drive I’ve found don’t do jack shit and are probably wrong anyway Can’t put a recovered OS into a Compact Flash card because….well I can’t figure out how to do that shit 😂

If not the original Vaio software, I’d at least be happy with Linux, but again the pissing CD drive…

Anyone know how to fix? Or just want to buy it? 😂

There still is work to do, but the system itself now again has a working powersupply.

This system is well configured for it's days with a not so common anymore DECcassette, also an RK05 and an Tewidata labelled DSD-440 dual 8" drive.

And for measurement work the laboratory peripheral system panel.

Those do need some repairing and testing. I'll give updates when more is working:-)

In it's heydays this system worked in Berlin:)

Hi, In the past, I successfully managed to switch the mining BIOS of some RX570 graphics cards to regular BIOS versions. Now, I have an Asus GTX 1070 NVIDIA P104-100 8 GB card. This card has two video outputs: one HDMI and one DisplayPort. I'll attach a picture with the details from GPU-Z below. Does anyone know of a BIOS version that might be at least somewhat compatible with this card? I understand that it uses GDDR5X memory and that finding a compatible version is quite difficult.

I believe they are but no sure. Any help would be much appreciated ☺️

https://qlforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=5013
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WHO AND WHY
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Dear QL users,

My name is Vojin Vidanovic, I am retro fan and social sciences teacher from Belgrade Serbia
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=62Briq0AAAAJ
Until few years back I was adherent Amigan zealot, but I have dropped the ball
https://amitopia.com/interview-with-voj ... -voja-vox/

Now, I have decided to "go back to QL", as it was my childhood dream to replace
unexpanded ZX48 with it. In alternate universe, if I haven't bought C64 and Amiga 1200HD
I would be a QL lover  To me, its unperfect synth of last 8 bit (ports, DOS and basic in ROM, address bus, microdrives, membrane kbd ...) and first 32 bit m68k computer.
Sigh, If deceased Sir (RIP) did listen to team and did not save costs (used 68010, built in modem and printer, monitor only, mechanical keyboard, 768k as base mem, 3.5" Sony DD FDD, more colors and sound chip ...) he could beat Atari and Amiga. But QL and its community, as with CBM, Amiga and Atari have persistently expanded old horse beyond its limits ever imagined 

Here are my 2 video homages to QL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvGBc1A ... etoBabylon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAEzZgj ... aXIgcWw%3D
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ADVICES NEEDED
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I need help to improve QL to some usable sys in 024/025 for text edit, printing and light gaming ZX Spectrum hi res style
Dillemmas
- Good Internet resources like QWRAP, QL archive and YT Jaguar vs QL and Noels Retro
- How to take care of QL if in good condition OR repair if not
- How to improve QL without waste of money
- Which games and sw is worth obtaining as best
- Any ideas how to improve my knowledge of QL is good. I never had QL and
know ZX and CBM and AmigaBasic (done by Microsoft!)

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WHAT DO I HAVE
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- IN PROCESS: Getting QL, local 200e not tested with memory plus 640k
OR bidding 20 days more for tested QL with 640k total, minerva, vDrive and ICE, Fortran ROMs

- SHIPPED TO ME:
External Vintage Sinclair ZX Spectrum Microdrive QL
The Sinclair QL Companion Boris Allan Book Sinclair QL Computer B1
Sinclair QL IC repair kit for retro Sinclair QL
Psion Office 2.x and Psion Chess from RWRAP UK
WORD PROCESSING WITH THE SINCLAIR QL PAPERBACK BOOK - HUTCHINSON
THE SINCLAIR QDOS COMPANION PAPERBACK BOOK - SUNSHINE BOOKS - SINCLAIR QL

- I HAVE NOW
RGB 2 HDMI upscaler Sinclair Ql Zu HDMI Video Konverter / Adapter (Mit Eingang Kabel)
MicroDrivePico replacement for Microdrive units for Sinclair QL
4x Microdrive Cartridges for Sinclair QL or Sinclair ZX Spectrum Inc Games
Serial Cable for SINCLAIR QL for Trasfer Data, length 1 m
SINCLAIR QL WORLD -- AUSGABE MAY 1991
Sinclair QL World Magazine ~ OCT 1987 ~ Computer Articles
QL QUILL - SINCLAIR QL - MICRODRIVE CARTRIDGE - PSION - VERSION 2.00 - 1985

Please advise,
I would like to have learn super basic and m68k ASM, have some good games, best QL software, good microdrive replacement (be it floppy, HDD, I am not fan of SD cards) and even print on old laser printer if possible via serual!

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My QL is work in progress, PC with QPC2
iMac G5 with MorphOS, Nothing Phone 2a plus
My YT Rasta, Retro and Resistance - https://www.youtube.com/@RasVoja