Notices by Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club), page 4

@dosnostalgic merry Christmas!

PSA

I extracted the password-screen animations from Lemmings 3D. Turns out that's super-easy, they're just in one big raw file and every frame is 32x32.

Ruin a DOS game by adding a word:

Titus Andronicus the Fox
Cosmo Kramer's Cosmic Adventure
David Duke Nukem
Police... No, too easy.
Kilowattblaster
Fallout Boy
Heroes of Might and Stage Magic
Double Jeopardy
Sid Meier's De Colonization
Theme Park Hospital
The Incredible Fucking Machine
Day of Tentacle Hentai
Rise of the Triple Triad
The Big Dig
Chicken Wing Commander
Shadow Puppet Warrior
Blood Donation
Stairway Descent
Gabriel Knight: Sins Of The Step Fathers
Spousal Abuse

I'm also interested in ones that aren't in the top few. Like, once you have Commander Keens, Dukes Nukems, and Jazz Jackrabbits, what's next?

What are the best DOS sidesrollers, in your opinion?

heh. The manual lists the approved hard drives for use with it.
I guess none of the letters in "SCSI" are "standard"!

check out this wackiness in a removable hard drive sled inside a TASCAM MMR-8: It has a key lock, but the key lock doesn't lock the door, as you'd expect. Instead the lock is just a switch, and it communicates back with some board, which controls a solenoid to unlock the door. Now that's some paranoid over-design!

fun fact: it turns out that inside it's built on a Socket 7 motherboard. From ASUS!

Anyway, this is the TASCAM MMR-8.
Sadly it's not as useful (for me) as I was hoping: it has a lot of video support, but it's not really for doing video: it's for syncing audio TO video. This is specifically an audio device, not a video device. Whoops.

also the weird one in that list is the Nikon thing with the asterisk.
It turns out it's a 2.5gb magneto-optical drive that I think was only released in japan?

https://item.rakuten.co.jp/waysas/10015260/?scid=s_kwa_pla_unpaid_211514

And it turns out that CPU is a Pentium 133mhz, SY022.

So the motherboard is an ASUS TX97. That's based on an Intel 430TX chipset, and can run Pentiums throughs AMD-K6.
It supports up to 256mb of RAM in 168-pin SDRAM slots. 3 ISA slots, 3 PCI slots, and one combination PCI/MediaBus/ISA slot.
Built in IDE, can be powered by AT or ATX power supplies.

Also apparently the OS is stored on a Quantum Fireball IDE drive.

Then a Symbios SYM8600SP SCSI board. Seems to be pretty standard, this is probably just an off the shelf component.

Let's go through the boards.
The smallest one is this MMR Biphase Option (BOB), ASSY 70303.
Seems to have a bunch of RJ-?? plugs.

Then the 70384 DIO.
Digital I/O, I suspect.

Then the MMR UIB, ASSY 70302.
More FPGAs, ASICs, and EEPROMs.
They integrated the serial port from the motherboard into this card, it seems.

The first big custom board is this TimeLine Sync2 ASSY 70386.
A bunch of FPGA chips, custom ASICs, and EEPROMs.
It's 16-bit ISA, but it seems to talk to other boards through that big locking IDC connector on the top left, so that probably doesn't matter much.

And four of these IDT7132SA20J 2 kilobyte dual-ported static-ram chips. Probably for audio buffering/processing at super-low latency