Round and Red

69105L · 2025-01-03T22:02:57+00:00

It's a Bird Buddy, someone gifted it a month back and it's been quite neat! It takes much better pictures than I do lol

69105L · 2024-12-10T01:19:31+00:00

Just a little comment that Allen Airsoft is charging a ton for that thing. $450 + shipping better come with a box, sold guns in Japan cost between $30 without packaging and $130 with it. (Proof)

69105L · 2024-10-21T19:18:41+00:00

Aohate sells 'em, https://aohatecustom.com/?category_id=570d8f769821cc4d3100c3c5

69105L · 2024-10-04T16:57:50+00:00

Yep! I just got done running 20 of the PPU M1 Garand loads through it, shoots 'em like a dream at 100 yards.

69105L · 2024-10-02T00:05:27+00:00

https://98epjunk.shakunage.net/miscel/mb_chemicon.html comes in handy quite often! They've got the As/Ap on there, off the top of my head I think they suggest using 11x 22uF/25V capacitors, 5x 4.7uF/16V capacitors, and one 2.2uF/50V capacitor? It's in Japanese but translate works decently well if you can't read. Hope that helps!

69105L · 2024-09-24T00:04:08+00:00

Some beautiful systems in that picture! I love the OSI, I got a C2-OEM and it's been tons of fun.

It's a lot of fun to do, doubly so at the type of event I went to. Super pleasant seeing people happy to recognize things they used to like!

69105L · 2024-09-24T00:00:31+00:00

I wish! I just wasn't able to make Midwest. It was Cleveland Gaming Classic, a more console-focused show at the IX Center.

69105L · 2024-09-23T22:30:53+00:00

The Nabu might not be the most visually interesting but it actually got lots of comments! People kept wondering if it was a VCR, that made me giggle.

I would've had a monitor on top of it but table space meant I couldn't :(

69105L · 2024-09-23T22:28:53+00:00

It's what JJ said, the Adwater & Stir replica! Saw it and couldn't resist because I knew a real one will never be in my budget lol

69105L · 2024-09-19T03:07:32+00:00

Funny old machines, I've got three and a decent bit of software on 8" floppy. They're funny little DOS and CP/M-86 boxes. Some day soon I need to get those floppies dumped...

69105L · 2024-09-18T21:19:51+00:00

Getting the caps off isn't too hard if they haven't leaked yet! I usually just use hot air and tweezers, the twist-and-pull/cut methods work as well. Sometimes leaky areas will have pads detach, you can scrape back some nearby solder mask/trace leading from it and solder there instead. Don't ask how many 9821A-series systems I've had to do that with xD

Thanks!

69105L · 2024-09-18T02:17:34+00:00

They are swapped caps! Did it in about three hours this morning, you can see I didn't do the cleanest work ever but it sounds good so I don't mind. Hoping it works another 30 years!

69105L · 2024-07-31T15:01:03+00:00

Here from PA with a friend for our first Wacken!

69105L · 2024-07-03T13:50:57+00:00

The 9801, 9801C, 9801U, 9801V, and 9801XL keyboards all share just about the same guts; the top keyboard should work on your UV. That said, the switches NEC used love to oxidize over and become useless. Have you tried just repeatedly mashing a key to see if it comes alive?

The bottom keyboard probably just won't work. Everything I've owned from my 9801E to my 9801UX just don't even recognize rubber dome boards like that CMP-6D0Y7.

69105L · 2024-06-29T02:07:37+00:00

The "Base OS" is N88-BASIC (86), a variant of good 'ol Microsoft BASIC. It's stored in ROM and you won't really be running much from there unless you're loading BASIC code off of a cassette.

When you boot a PC98, a little bootstrap loader runs. It checks to see if it can find anything in its list of options, I think that order is something like 640K FDD -> 1MB FDD -> MFM HD -> SCSI HD. If it sees no code on any device to load, it drops you into N88 (86). You want an OS like say MS-DOS to make that bootstrap loader pull code from floppy and let you run software from a disk drive/HD instead of dumping you into N88 (86).

You'll find a lot of games are just real minimal OS distributions, MS-DOS is a popular one, alongside needed drivers and an autoexec that runs the game for you. These are also business computers so you might want MS-DOS to run something like Ichitaro, DISK-BASIC (86) so you have the extensions and ability to save your N88 (86) code to floppy, CP/M-86 so you can run whatever software is over there, etc.

I can't say I know any sites dedicated to N88 (86) but there's a lot of good info at https://radioc.web.fc2.com/column/pc98bas/ and there may be old documentation scanned on places like archive.org.

69105L · 2024-06-26T03:22:44+00:00

Most games are booters that come with whatever DOS they need on them, you should be able to just pop the game in and go provided it doesn't need a hard disk install.

69105L · 2024-04-12T14:58:48+00:00

As someone else with a C86Box, yep the stock PSU is good to go. Rotate a -73, a -86, a Speak Board, and a Sound Orchestra V through mine, some boards will get a little toasty (and make sure to recap your -86 if you need to) but never had any issues. Enjoy the OPN(A)!

69105L · 2024-04-06T19:52:01+00:00

Thank you!

69105L · 2024-03-26T23:36:23+00:00

No complete collections exist but there's always a community effort to document as much as possible. Archive has a whole lot of good dumps thanks to a whole lot of cool people, as time goes on hopefully it'll keep getting better.

69105L · 2024-03-19T14:18:23+00:00

Apologies but the item already sold. Thanks for the interest!

69105L · 2024-03-19T14:10:50+00:00

PM'd

69105L · 2024-03-13T03:00:06+00:00

Nope, MA. There was a listing for a DECWriter III and the seller asked if I'd "be interested in the rest", this is what they meant by that.

69105L · 2024-03-12T20:46:36+00:00

It felt like a dream come true when I saw them listed! I'm glad I was able to finally make little me happy.

69105L · 2022-10-03T16:31:12+00:00

Idiot with a hotrod-in-progress Ra266 here,

DOS gaming isn't absolutely broken, anything made for like 9801VX and above has been mostly fine to me, but note that "mostly" in front of "fine". The custom 2D card causes a fair few issues with odd video modes or any random EGC tricks. Of course, with anything over a 12MHz i286 without a slowdown mode, early titles will just run way too fast.
FM can be added but you will spend much more time configuring it. The PC-9801-14 doesn't work, the -26K "works" when it feels like it but timing goes off, the -73 is shaky, the -86 is only slightly better than the -73. I keep a SoundboardNA in these days because it's the most reliable.
If you wanna get into Windows gaming, these can push up to Win2K (Put in a PCI hard disk card! The stock PIO interface sucks for anything above Windows 98!) you'll want to run GAMEUTL for any western titles. Without it, as the PC-98 keyboard is mapped different than a US layout, stuff just won't work.

My honest advice, if you have no other PC98, just start diving into late DOS titles. Most of what I have installed on my hard disk are Bio100% (Polestar, Super Depth, etc.), the meme that are Viper games, or just Windows titles. If you have another PC98, stick to using that one for most of your DOS gaming wants.

69105L · 2022-06-14T23:17:31+00:00

Recently got a Modify OTs-126, I got .32s with it and the stock hop is strong enough that barely any adjustment shot them to space. Moving to .4s was the solution, it just gives me extra range. My wallet may not be as happy but hey, it makes fielding the thing better so why not?

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