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DOS / vintage PCRetro computingAudio / hi-fi

’90’95’00’05’10’15’20’25
Posts
139 from 23 May 1990 to 31 Jul 2026
Posting
now and then (4 in the last year)
Kind
personal blog

2026 4

  1. Socket 7 and Super Socket 7
  2. Aztech Sound Galaxy Pro 16 IIB-3D PnP Review
  3. NEAT Chipset
  4. UMC UM85C408 Retro Review

2025 2

  1. Crystal 3D Sound CX4235-XQ3 Retro Review
  2. Access CD-ROM images from your retro PC

2024 4

  1. Yamaha DB50XG Review
  2. Orchid NuSound PnP 32 Retro Review
  3. Terratec Promedia Base-1 Retro Review
  4. ET3000 Retro Review

2023 14

  1. Forte Audio F/X
  2. MultiWave AudioWave 16
  3. CGA Simulators
  4. Best DOS Driving Games
  5. 15 kHz Monitors
  6. Sound Blaster AWE Range and Alternatives
  7. Using VGA on a Modern Display
  8. Sound Blaster Pro 2 Review
  9. My Memory Modules
  10. PC Chips M590 Retro Review
  11. Building an MDA/CGA/EGA to VGA converter
  12. Roland Desktop Music Studio Box Set
  13. Yamaha Audician 32 Plus Review
  14. Orchid Fahrenheit VA/VLB Retro Review

2022 6

  1. ET4000 Retro Review
  2. XTA or 8-bit IDE
  3. Orpheus 1 Sound Card Review
  4. FIDA CGA/Hercules Retro Review
  5. Ensoniq Soundscape VIVO / VIVO90
  6. Octek EVGA-16 SVGA card review

2021 9

  1. Media Vision ProAudio Spectrum 16
  2. Software Wavetables
  3. Sound Blaster 16 Value Review
  4. Get a 286 Running Like a 386
  5. Aztech Sound Galaxy Nova 16 Extra Review
  6. Chaintech 4SLE Retro Review
  7. IoMega Drives
  8. FIC 486-VIP-IO2 Motherboard Review
  9. OPTi 386/486 Hybrid Motherboard Review

2020 1

  1. Parallel Port Sound Cards

1999 2

  1. nVidia RIVA TNT2
  2. nVidia RIVA TNT

1997 4

  1. Wavetable Synthesis
  2. ATI 3D Rage II
  3. Matrox Millennium II
  4. S3 ViRGE

1996 1

  1. Matrox Millennium

1994 3

  1. S3 Trio
  2. ATI Mach8
  3. Media Vision Jazz Chipsets

1993 1

  1. Plug and Play

1990 1

  1. Pc midi

Undated 87

  1. 3D Audio Games
  2. Ensoniq AudioPCI
  3. ESS Games
  4. FM Synthesis Chips, Codecs and DACs
  5. I/O Addresses, IRQs and DMA Channels
  6. MIDI With DOSBox
  7. MT-32 Game Compatibility
  8. My Sound Cards
  9. PCI Sound Cards in DOS
  10. ProAudio Spectrum Games
  11. Sound Blaster 16 on an XT or 286
  12. Windows Sound System
  13. 2D and 3D Graphics Card Technology
  14. AGP and PCI Cards in DOS
  15. Early AGP Cards
  16. Laptop Displays
  17. My Graphics Cards
  18. S3d Games
  19. Voodoo-Supported Games
  20. 386 Motherboard Troubleshooting
  21. 80386 Motherboard revival !
  22. Basic
  23. Pc bios
  24. Cache
  25. CPU Upgrade Options by Generation
  26. Extended and Expanded Memory on the 286
  27. Faraday FE2010A Chipset
  28. Fastest CPUs in Each Generation
  29. Front Side Bus
  30. Gigabyte GA-686BX Motherboard Review
  31. Intel Chipsets
  32. Math Coprocessors
  33. Memory
  34. Octek DCS-286 Motherboard review
  35. PC Buses Explained
  36. Advent of a New Media: CD-ROM
  37. Compact Flash Card as a Hard Disk
  38. DOS 8.3 Filenames
  39. DOS Partitions and Logical Drives
  40. FAT (File Allocation Table)
  41. Floppy Drives
  42. Hard Disks
  43. RAM Disks
  44. USB Support in DOS
  45. Adventure Games
  46. DOS Games by Year
  47. DOS Game Resolutions
  48. Driving Games
  49. Flight Simulators
  50. Game Cracks
  51. MicroProse History
  52. My DOS Gaming PC
  53. PC Booters
  54. Platform Games
  55. Sierra AGI
  56. Sierra SCI
  57. Sports Games
  58. Strategy Games
  59. When Star Wars Became a DOS Multimedia Showcase
  60. CompuAdd Through the Years
  61. DOS Laptops
  62. DOS Memory Management
  63. DOS Startup
  64. DOS History and Versions
  65. HP OmniBook 600C Retro Review
  66. Morgan Computers
  67. My Amstrad PC Stuff
  68. My CPU Collection
  69. Networking in DOS
  70. Os2
  71. Let's Explore: Norton Utilities v7.00
  72. Let's Explore: OS/2 2.11
  73. Let's Explore: Borland Paradox 4.0
  74. Osborne 1 Retro Repair
  75. PC Prices in 1982
  76. Printing in DOS
  77. Toshiba / Dynabook History
  78. Toshiba 4010CDT Retro Review
  79. TSRS - Terminate and Stay Resident programs
  80. Typical PCs per Year
  81. Virtualising DOS
  82. Viruses
  83. Windows 3.1
  84. XT and AT Keyboards
  85. XT Clone Restoration Project
  86. Faraday Micro PC
  87. nVidia Geforce 256 SDR and DDR