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

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.

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

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