Hardware

Sound Blaster 2.0 - C/MS Upgrade

A guide to upgrade the Sound Blaster 2.0 with chips that enable the Creative Music System (C/MS). Sound cards with ISA interface trigger that one nostalgic feeling in me and remain that one piece of technology I have fond memories of. That may be surprising since this was also the time when you had to constantly fight with resource conflicts: DMA, IRQ, and I/O ports are just a few of…
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The smallest first! DIY 8MB AWE64 Memory Expansion Board

MIDI FORGE Maestro - a Wavetable board

Software

How to create a RAM Drive in MS-DOS

Since version 3.2, Microsoft included the file RAMDRIVE.SYS in MS-DOS (released in 1986) Did you ever wonder why Microsoft invested effort and resources into providing a tool for creating RAM drives during a time when memory was a pricey commodity? Back in the mid-80s, your typical personal computer boasted a mere 1 or 2 MBs of system memory. Perhaps Microsoft felt compelled to compete with…
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Play the Rhapsody Game

Identify DRAM/Memory chips with camera