GEM is truly truly outrageous2d ago

need to catch up on posting, way behind on the Saga of Running a Citadel-86 BBS over here

struck out on the 386, next up on the bench is the Pentium 266 MMX

i previously installed Win98SE but neither cardbus or USB are working and i'm pretty sure its because the BIOS battery is stone dead

lets get it apart, i even have a service manual this time

a travelstar, nice

and not at all foreshadowing

listening to the kids obsess about 3dfx cards just made me nostalgic for all the great times i had on my Pentium 200 before i ever dropped a Banshee in it...

THE CMOS BATTERY IS UNDER THE HEATSINK

this mobile Pentium 266 MMX was the fastest classic pentium core intel ever sold

...dang was hoping i could shuck it into a desktop maybe

nope

thank god its a little cell and i don't seem to have any other battery bombs in here

a trip to mah nards it is, $6 for a single 1220 cell? save big money my ass

#retrocomputing #repair

Show threadGEM is truly truly outrageous2d ago

whoo cardbus works now

first order of business is networking

the second it is online is the second i can stop shuttling things over on goddamn floppies

heck yeah we're jacked in

#retrocomputing #Windows98SE

Show threadGEM is truly truly outrageous2d ago

found my pcmcia/cardbus stash, some of them even work

that BWP 712 is the good atheros shit that had the low level linux drivers that let you do all kind of wifi crimes

used it with XP a lot too on my late-2000's Pentium III 1.3ghz busted keyboard toshiba laptop cyberdeck

there's Win98 drivers that claim to do WPA2 which is hard to come by there, but i had no luck getting it to connect to anything

apparently it was off by default but after toggling "USB function" in the BIOS setup we have USB!

this laptop is a fully functional ode to the final days of DOS gaming and demoscene, and early Win9x pre-3dfx era gaming 🫡

(except for the dead panel and dead battery back RIP)

#retrocomputing #Windows98SE

Show threadGEM is truly truly outrageous2d ago

oh yeah we can play blood properly now

...except the OPL3-SAx glitches out after a while in blood and only blood WHYYYYYYY i though they were supposed to be good for this

#retrocomputing #DOSgaming #Windows98SE

Show threadGEM is truly truly outrageous2d ago

this post got a like from civvie and kinofabino dropped a meme on bluesky 🫡

if they're here i can't find them

#retrocomputing #DOSgaming

Show threadGEM is truly truly outrageous2d ago

got me a KVM from free geek to replace the axe man one that died, lets get this all serial experiments segged into the grid

#retrocomputing

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haha my plasma demo go brrr

can u tell which one is the 486 and which one is the pentium?

#retrocomputing #DOSgaming #demoscene

Mar 23 at 12:39amWeb