PS1 Dev (ISA Style)

Sorry for post in "ultimate collection", guess I didn't read the sub-heeder before I posted it up.
Ah well, anyway I've got this stuff, as in pictures. I'm trying to get the CDs and the lead to connect to my TV, aswell as the manuals. Failing that, how would I get any of those, can anyone tell me the pinouts of the two sockets so I can make myself a lead?

Also, I'm planning to build it into a P3 Dual Processor, as that's the best cheap-ish machine I can find that has ISA sockets. Going to have Win 98 SE on there, too, or is that a bad idea?

 

That's a pretty cool setup there! And I don't think using W98SE hurts, but it'll just run on one of the two CPU's.

 

I think 98SE is your only decent choice. I belive the software required to run thies things are incompatible with 2k & XP. Not sure if NT4 is compatible though (probably not).

 

but a p3 dual cpu would be a waste of money on the 2nd cpu

thougt "professional" equipment like this should run on nt4 cause 98 isnt a real production stable operation system

 

Yeah I just thought for startup times and for graphics work, the other processor could be used effectively.
Dual processor computers are only around $20 more than a normal computer. As for NT4, I never actually got on with it, 98SE was my favorite of all operating systems, I even preferred it to XP but that was before XP-only software came out.

Anyone here have the drivers for the DTL-2000 board? I don't suppose many people have it. Mine came without a driver disk for the boards, only one for the sound board.

 

Oh and what's wrong with pasta? =)

 

nice, but i don't think you can plus DTL-H700 on PC. (i NUBUS for mac)
all driver or software and system command you can find in runtime library

 

98 doesnt support dual cpus thats what i meant to say only nt4, w2k and xp pro with its derivates support dual (on the ms site)

@ricky ahh nubus needed where did i hear that already =)

 

Oh right, didn't realise that.

I do know that the sound board, DTL-H700, works only on a mac. I don't know which mac it runs on.
Anyone know of any alternatives?

 

You can get a PCI sound board for PC/PPC but god knows where you'll find the software for all this stuff.

 

On the DevKit, you will actually have 4 sockets. Two are 9 pin Ds for the controllers. You can either get an early pad to fit, or you will need a breakout box to use standard controllers (see the one on the front page)

On the other board, you will see a VGA connector and another 9 pid D. The VGA connector wont do anything. You will need to make up a cable from the 9 pin D to 3 Phonos (Composite video and L/R audio).

Don't have the pinouts, but I could try to work them out for you with a continuity tester and the cable I have here. I'll try to get back to you when I checked.

As to the software, I've got some around, but I'm still sorting through some old bits and pieces looking for it all at the mo.

 

The software ready on my runtime library

 

See? I knew it was you!
Nah it's not that, I've been looking for one of these for around 3 years now and I just missed the auction. I promptly offered the winning bidder the end price + $100 or something for the bits.

I have the breakout box for the controllers, and thanks a lot for the pinouts.

He said he packaged everything up again and sent the package straight off.
I have...

CPU2 board, DTL-2000 board, SCSI lead to connect the two.
Macintosh audio board, cardboad box and driver floppy for that.
CD Drive, cable and noise clips, with instructions for fitting.
Breakout box, one standard controller.
A cd emulation board.
Blue ps1 with 240v power supply inbuilt.

I can't see anything in the pictures that I didn't get, I reckon you guys just assumed I hadn't got the breakout box because I .... uh... forgot to post the picture up...

Assuming the bidding doesn't rocket up much more, I'll have a bid on that software you're auctioning, ASSEMbler. It all looks really decent but I'm a little low on cash.

Cheers,

Dragyth

 

Hey Dragyth, you should be able to wire that up to a SCART lead, assuming the RGB out is normal TV scanrate (which it *should* be). Get some VGA extension lead at cut one end off, and then wire that up to a SCART plug. Pinouts for SCART are here: http://pinouts.ru/data/Scart_pinout.shtml

There's also s-video out there (Y and C) if that would be more useful for you. It'd be such a waste to see something like this running on smelly composite video...

 

Heh yeah what I'm going to do is buy a new SCART plug and wire the red, green and blue into there, then put gold-plated RCAs onto the audio L and R and put those into a mixing desk that is able to feed back into my computer if need be. I reckon this is better as I'll be able to analyse any problems in the audio this way, and it'll be much better than coming out the rubbish TV speakers.

I think you can do S-video, too, but there's a weakness with it: red.
I think it's red, it comes out all blurred, looks like composite, at least it does through the Xbox.
I've always liked RGB, stick with what you know!

Cheers for the tips,

Arthur

 

Question... Can you take the RGB lines from a VGA output and use them as normal RGB?

 

No - V-sync is 24KHz on VGA, 15KHz on SCART RGB. No idea what that actually means in real terms, but I've been told thats why. You could always try it though and see if it works.

 

What the hell? ASSEMBler, check the bidding on the dev documents...
Skido can't be serious...