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====== Stub: Guides and Tutorials ======

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

==== Retro Computing Hardware ====
=== Hardware ===
  * [[Guides:Virtual Modem|How to turn your Raspberry Pi into a Modem]] 
  * 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