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Re: How to modyfy SOYO SY-4SAW2 to take Lithium Cell, instead of Nickel rechargeable. Bios upgrading.

Posted on 2021-01-22, 06:48

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Dusko dude I live in Europe, and you in USA. The shipping fees will be a bitch. It is better to look at local craigslist or something. I have some very exotic stuff even original Voodoos and Gravis Ultrasounds and 486 stuff that I plan to sell, but definitely not in Ebay, and a have not get into …

Re: Similar Floppy Disk Master 7 software that supports B drives

Posted on 2021-01-22, 06:38

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Strange quesion. but i usally use Norton Disk Doctor it has better testing capabilities than Microsoft Scandisk. And they all can use any drive? And just on advice, if you find bad sectors, then FORMAT B: /U and then try again after full format. Sometimes it fixes the problem.

Re: Trying to revive my own 286 (SUNTAC 320i)

Posted on 2021-01-21, 12:15

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Wow nice, a 286 with IDE and floppy! you need an original bios for that motherboard, you can not just swap out random bioses and expect them to work. even if they beep a little bit. You have 1MB of memory, it is all good. Usually it is called bank 0.

Re: NeoMagic 128 and 256+. Shaking picture when scene is rolling

Posted on 2021-01-21, 10:09

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

ther are some SVGA graphics cards that are not EGA/VGA timing compatible. That shaking is in Supaplex scrolling and Commander Keen has probems. And ATI, Matrox, Tseng have also some problems with that. It is just a hardware problem, sometime if you slow your computer down, sometime you can minimize …

Re: Wavetable socket on the motherboard

Posted on 2021-01-21, 10:00

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

OK, I just misunderstood. Sorry. 😀

Re: Wavetable socket on the motherboard

Posted on 2021-01-21, 09:36

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hold on, need pictures, it might be a VGA VESA connector. They are the same size, and many motherboards with onboard VGA have a VESA connector, but I have never heard of a motherboard with a Wavetable connector. So please be sure, not to fry your motherboard and/or wavetable card. Both have exactly …

Re: muti boot idea for windows 3.x

Posted on 2021-01-20, 17:27

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Yes you can. Different system.ini (in1 in2 in3 etc...) files. Just copy over the aproriate system.ini file. And different win.com switches. Then make a batch files. Thats about it.

Re: FM synthesizer in DOS and Windows

Posted on 2021-01-20, 13:54

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Standard windows MIDI driver and multitude of games use the OPL2/3 totally different way. You have to rewrite the midi mapper and even this is not enough to make an ideal representation.

Re: fx5500 or Geforce MX4000 for Pentium200MMX

Posted on 2021-01-20, 12:45

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Pentium MMX is best with a TNT2 (M64) (Still can use Windows 3.1 drivers). And even Geforce 2 MX is good enough.

Re: Problems with 2.4.0

Posted on 2021-01-20, 12:43

in MT-32 Development

in MT-32 Development

Pretty hard to understand, if you do not know russian 😁

Re: Retro confessions. What are yours?

Posted on 2021-01-20, 06:12

in Milliways

in Milliways

but the 486 motherboards will live forever, if not in use. Varta disagrees with you. Old Varta battery : "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of motherboards” EDIT: I wish I had come up with that, see https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=617054#p617054 Changed all to lithium cells, and some of …

Re: ESFM details

Posted on 2021-01-19, 09:35

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

ESFM was late to the game, so no real support, everybody was moving to full digital(software based MOD) and CD audio, so all those Roland and Gravis stuff was getting obsolete after like 95. Lets be honest even the OPL3 was under utilized by game industry, it was mainly used as a stereo OPL2. Hey …

Re: Retro confessions. What are yours?

Posted on 2021-01-19, 06:25

in Milliways

in Milliways

In our language we butchered Descent even more, Des-kent :D I also have so mutch stuff, like 10 computers from 486 to P3 and loose stuff for another 15 computers. I think i have a problem, and have to sell some of my computers. Maybe purge all my 486, because they are worth some real money, and …

Re: ESFM details

Posted on 2021-01-18, 07:22

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

I have also tested it with Warcraft 2 and with many ESS Audiodrives all the way to 1869. And there are like some sounds missing, or the implementation is broken. PS. My favourite meat and potatoes sound card.

Re: How bad do these caps look?

Posted on 2021-01-14, 14:00

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

NOPE! Recap immediately! Those may burts any time. And your system is not stable.

Re: Please advice more WIN16/9X software with one MOD4Win-like interesting feature

Posted on 2021-01-13, 13:55

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

I have never head Direct.... software before DirectX came along. GUS had Windows 3.1 drivers, but so buggy Windows 9x drivers, that it even makes sense to just directly drive it.

Re: What old software do you still use daily ?

Posted on 2021-01-11, 14:24

in Milliways

in Milliways

In reality Volkov Commander is better, totally assembler programmed and smaller, faster, and have all the needed functions.

Re: What old software do you still use daily ?

Posted on 2021-01-11, 11:29

in Milliways

in Milliways

Well yes Winamp (there is no better music player, period) and Media Player Classic (have not get into VLC) will be in my main workhorse computers forever. But every retrocomputer has Volkov Commander as the file manager and launcher. Usually all retrocomputers get a copy of Windows 3.11 FWG. Because …

Re: Which old game would you like to see a remastered version of?

Posted on 2021-01-07, 12:30

in Milliways

in Milliways

Yes I also loved Jazz1 but never got into Jazz2.

Re: Your oldest favorite computer game?

Posted on 2021-01-07, 12:29

in Milliways

in Milliways

Contra, Alleycat

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