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Stub: Guides and Tutorials


I will be writing documentation on how to work with old PC hardware, and upgrading retro computing devices. Some guides have several parts.


Upcoming topics

Retro Computing Hardware

Hardware

  • Installing an ISA card.
  • Configuring a PnP Sound Blaster AWE32.
  • Upgrading IDE hard drives of old computers and considerations on hard disk size limits.
    • Getting past BIOS hard drive size limitations (512MB/2.1GB/8.4GB limitations)
  • Upgrading SIMM RAM.
  • Upgrading IDE hard drive's to SSD's. SD or Compact Flash. BIOS size limit considerations.
  • Installing Intel OverDrive to a 486 computer with an upgrade socket.

Software

MS-DOS articles
  • How to emulate CD drives on DOS machines.
    • Making a CD image load up automatically every time you run a game
    • Case example: Command & Conquer GDI and NOD discs
  • How to install Voyetra Sequencer and make music
    • Setting up Voyetra Sequencer to work with SoundBlaster AWE 32.
    • Setting up Voyetra Sequencer to control (or be controlled by) MPU-401 compatible MIDI devices.
    • Common key commands
  • Taking use of maximum amount of hard disk storage space on MS-DOS.
    • Dual CF card readers
    • Hard drive overlays for BIOSes that do not support hard disks >512 MB
  • Using Roland MT-32 emulation on SoundBlaster AWE 32 (real mode games only)
  • Using General MIDI emulation on SoundBlaster AWE 32 (real mode games only)
  • How to copy large files that do not fit on a floppy disk
    • Copying files from a modern computer to a DOS computer
    • Copying files from a DOS computer to another DOS computer
  • How to copy files over a serial cable using the MS-DOS built-in INTERLNK and INTERSVR utilities
  • How to create and restory floppy disk images on an MS-DOS computer
Windows 3.1 articles
  • How to emulate a modem and connect to The Internet using Windows 3.1
Windows 9x articles
  • How to emulate CD drives on Windows 9x machines
    • Making a CD image load up automatically every time you run a game
  • How to emulate a modem and connect to The Internet using Windows 95, 98 or Me
guides/stub.txt · Last modified: 2018-09-23 03:33 by omolini