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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 ===== | ||
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| + | ==== 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. | ||
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| + | === 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 | ||
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| + | == 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 | ||
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