Interesting use of retro equipment (07/14/2024)

The German Navy still uses floppy disks on a daily basis, but not the relatively modern 3.5-inch ones, but the very ancient 8-inch ones. They are part of the computer systems of German anti-submarine frigates. Only now the fleet leadership has decided to abandon the old carriers, but this will not be easy. details >>

SoftMPU - solving sound problems in a non-standard way (04/10/2023)

An article about using a modified SoftMPU for correct sound output in Roland MT-32 mode when using midi-daughters of the General MIDI standard. As we all know, there are serious problems when using General MIDI devices for audio output in games designed to work with the MT-32, in this article we will learn how to use them correctly. In addition, at the end of the article I will give a solution for using midi-daughters on old cards with an installed SBMIDI connector instead of WAVETABLE and correctly outputting sound to them. go to reading >>

MS-DOS networking with mTCP (08/31/2022)

Setting up a network in MS-DOS is not a trivial task. This article details the procedure for setting up networking in MS-DOS using the mTCP package. This is the first part of an article previously announced. In it you will learn how to choose a network card, install drivers, configure packages, connect a DOS machine to a TCP/IP network, get an address via DHCP... go to reading >>

How to run original Internet Explorer on Windows 11? (08/22/2022)

It may not be a completely retro theme, but it lies in the same plane. Sometimes we are tormented by nostalgia and we want to use the Internet Explorer browser, and sometimes we just need it for specific purposes. Even though Windows 11 prevents Internet Explorer from launching, even by manually launching the executable, the launch methods remain... go to reading >>

Installing and configuring Creative Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 sound cards (07/29/2022)

This article describes in detail the installation and configuration of Creative Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 sound cards in Windows 9x, as well as setting up drivers for this card to work in pure DOS. At the end of the article you will find links to download the necessary software, as well as the ability to download sound banks for high-quality playback of Midi files. go to reading >>

Test 11 retro video cards (02/27/2022)

I did a lot of testing of 11 video cards in 3DMark 2000 and 3DMark 2001 synthetic tests. I hope you appreciate my work by taking the time to read it. Maybe this article will be of interest to you. go to reading >>