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- | ====== Stub: Guides and Tutorials ====== | + | ====== 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. | + | I have written documentation on how to work with old PC hardware, and upgrading retro computing devices. Some guides have several parts. |
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+ | Please see below for a list of guides: | ||
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- | ===== Upcoming topics ===== | ||
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==== Retro Computing Hardware ==== | ==== Retro Computing Hardware ==== | ||
=== Hardware === | === Hardware === | ||
* [[Guides:Virtual Modem|How to turn your Raspberry Pi into a Modem]] | * [[Guides:Virtual Modem|How to turn your Raspberry Pi into a Modem]] | ||
- | * Installing an ISA card. | + | {{tagpage>Guides}} |
- | * 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 | + |