Re: What game are you playing now?
Posted on 2021-01-22, 20:28
Re: Let's talk about our hated trends
Posted on 2021-01-21, 23:25
I grabbed a curved 27" AOC during lockdown because it was all I could get my hands on in a hurry - I love it. Not a huge amount of curve on a screen that size but it's not warped; I won't be going back to flat.
Re: Let's talk about our hated trends
Posted on 2021-01-21, 01:35
Re: Let's talk about our hated trends
Posted on 2021-01-19, 06:36
I keep some electrical tape handy so that I can pop it over any blue LEDs that offend.
Re: Do you keep your retro rigs offline?
Posted on 2021-01-18, 11:40
My retro machines being offline is one of their major attractions; an orderly little world in a little beige box 😊
Re: E-Wave : an ESS based waveblaster card
Posted on 2021-01-16, 20:11
My wallet is also ready 👍
Re: Reverse stereo in Quake with YMF718 based card
Posted on 2021-01-16, 06:01
Good old winquake works fine so that's an option.
Re: Reverse stereo in Quake with YMF718 based card
Posted on 2021-01-15, 22:21
It's a whole thing and not as simple as it might be: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=536104#p536104 Quake doesn't do this on a real SB Pro as you can see above. I've looked into all of the options Quake allows for config, both in game and command line, there's nothing for reverse stereo. At …
Reverse stereo in Quake with YMF718 based card
Posted on 2021-01-14, 11:01
I've been playing around with a YMF718 'Audician 32' recently and have noticed that the stereo is reversed in Quake. Googling around hasn't told me much - the issue was noted here in another thread but just in passing, and I can't find any way of switching the stereo in-game or via a command line …
Re: Yamaha YMF71x SB Pro Mixer Bug Issue Fix
Posted on 2021-01-14, 04:22
Yes I was surprised at how many games support the ESS but it's not as clear cut as WSS support because some only work with a ES688 or ES1688 based card (i.e. no the later ES1868) and then as you say some use that bizarre level of filtering which makes it unusable. RE the added filtering on the …
Re: Yamaha YMF71x SB Pro Mixer Bug Issue Fix
Posted on 2021-01-13, 04:50
Other than lack of those 2 modes, used in soooo many games that a single hand can count, for me it is the best SB Pro clone. There is a Patch for Duke 2 which makes all the sounds play on OPL3-SAx just great. @badmojo you have vouched for the ESS cards and i like them too myself. The 1868 does it …
Re: Yamaha YMF71x SB Pro Mixer Bug Issue Fix
Posted on 2021-01-11, 08:27
Lack of those capacitors will add high freq noise on the output. Lolz that explains the high pitched squeal I was hearing! Thanks again Tiido, this is why I love Vogons 👍 So for the record I replaced all 4 caps with 6.8nf SMDs on my YMF718 card in the end, so that's pins 97-100 on the main chip, …
Re: Yamaha YMF71x SB Pro Mixer Bug Issue Fix
Posted on 2021-01-10, 23:46
Hiya @Tiido just having another look at this. So according to the datasheet for the YMF711 (which you mentioned is the same as the YMF718 that I have) - pins 99 and 100 are described as SBSHL and SBSHR respectively. The caps for this line are described as 'SBDAC sample / hold capacitor'. I'm just …
Re: Yamaha YMF71x SB Pro Mixer Bug Issue Fix
Posted on 2021-01-09, 04:23
Dang it and I lifted a pad removing those caps so I might have messed up this card for no good reason - pretty sure I'd read a comment further back in this thread that stated the 718 version of the Audition 32 was layed out in the same way as the 719, and therefore the labels on the caps was the …
Re: Yamaha YMF71x SB Pro Mixer Bug Issue Fix
Posted on 2021-01-08, 23:47
I've finally gotten around to trying out the low pass filter mod on my Labway OPLSAx card (described here https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=527947#p527947) - mine is the same card as the OP except mine has the YMF718-S chipset, not the 719. The layout is exactly the same though. I've used 0805 …
Re: Looking for Advice in Regards to Building a Mid-to-Late DOS PC
Posted on 2021-01-06, 02:44
+1 for dionb's suggestion - a Pentium MMX era PC is great for mid-90s stuff but will struggle with System Shock, Duke3D SVGA, early 3D, etc. A PIII era machine (I'm assuming this is what your 98SE machine is) will run those games great at high res, which is a treat. A slow 486 is the ticket for the …
Re: I overclocked my monitor from 60 Hz to 80 Hz, but can't tell the difference in games
Posted on 2021-01-05, 21:24
Personally I perceive significant improvements until about 70Hz and from then on it's just less tearing that I notice (with vsync off) (I have a 144Hz monitor). 70 should be a lot smoother than 60 though.
Re: What game are you playing now?
Posted on 2021-01-03, 06:06
Still hesitating my way through Outward here - I read in a review once that this game doesn't respect the player's time and that's true, it's a time sink and makes no apologies for that. I can spend a play session doing nothing more than messing around with my inventory and preparing a set of …
Re: Retro confessions. What are yours?
Posted on 2021-01-02, 20:58
... only to sit on the shelf or some box in the storage. I can't seem to find the time to play around much I seem to go through a collect->purge cycle for this reason - I don't like having cool stuff hanging around that I don't use and that someone else could be enjoying, but then I have been know …
Re: What game are you playing now?
Posted on 2020-12-31, 21:09
Healing well since my Christmas day tumble down the stairs. Still have pretty severe pain in the left kidney area in certain positions, so I avoid those positions, and every day it's getting better. Yesterday (5 days after fall) was my most significant improvement, and today is an improvement over …
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