Re: Orpheus II soundcard thread *** LT board now available ***

Posted on 2025-03-22, 16:46

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by Kahenraz

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While in safe mode, you can also "reserve" resources for ISA devices from the device manager to force Windows to use something different, if it keeps allocating something that you don't want it to.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2025-03-21, 05:47

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by Kahenraz

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slivercr wrote on 2025-03-21, 05:16: Indulged a bit yesterday and bought a funky motherboard to test CPUs with That's kind of odd. The website you linked doesn't mention Coppermine support, even though it's a 440BX. Something worth checking out and letting us know if it's supported.

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Re: Orpheus II soundcard thread *** LT board now available ***

Posted on 2025-03-20, 07:19

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I have never heard of a game muting the line-in. That's pretty terrible. Does this happen in any other game? Maybe it can be patched out? Using the onboard mixer in this way to combine audio channels is extremely common. I'm surprised that any developer would intentionally do this.

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Re: The quest for the perfect retro laptop: a saga

Posted on 2025-03-18, 17:25

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There is also a kind of plastic that doesn't bond with certain kinds of glue, but rather melts into a goo that never solidifies into anything substantial.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2025-03-14, 15:04

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PcBytes wrote on 2025-03-14, 13:00: Arrived today. Works great although I have to take care of that fan as even after oiling it runs kinda slow for me. Luckily, it looks like you can fix a replacement fan onto that heatsink, if needed.

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Re: The quest for the perfect retro laptop: a saga

Posted on 2025-03-14, 02:11

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[*] IBM Thinkpad 385XD -- tempting but REJECTED (rubbery palmrest, Neomagic video has bad DOS compatibility) I just wanted to mention that the NeoMagic MagicGraph 128XD has both Windows 3.1 and Windows 98 drivers. Although it does use unfiltered upscaling, which can look pretty terrible. I'm not …

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Re: Orpheus II soundcard thread *** LT board now available ***

Posted on 2025-03-09, 15:17

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Try toggling "Plug and Play Compatibility". You would think that what you want is for it to be disabled, but enabling it fixed issues with resource conflicts with my Orpheus II that occurred, even though I was certain that there weren't any at far as all configurable options. https://www.vogons.org/ …

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Re: MK1869 and MK1869 XTREME : new soundcards with ESS1869 and ES690 or Interwave chips

Posted on 2025-03-07, 16:13

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Your standalone GUS is still useful for pairing with other primary sound cards. There's nothing wrong with that.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2025-03-07, 06:36

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I always recommend the Rage XL for decent 3D acceleration. Lots of these floating around for cheap.

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Re: MK1869 and MK1869 XTREME : new soundcards with ESS1869 and ES690 or Interwave chips

Posted on 2025-03-07, 06:32

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I can vouch for GUS support being particularly good in games which support it for 16-bit sound mixing. It's a great companion to the ESS chip, which only supports 8-bit mixing with Sound Blaster Pro compatibility.

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2025-03-06, 05:37

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Thermalwrong wrote on 2025-03-06, 04:55: The original owners were kind enough to leave me the original thermal pad protection tape??? I had a similar experience while performing maintenance on an NEC laptop with a mobile Pentium 3. NEC laptop with incorrectly applied thermal pad from the factory

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2025-03-06, 00:41

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My vote goes to a Windows ME oriented build with RAMBUS. Windows ME definitely needs more recognition - it wasn't bad if you knew your way around it, and so far it never caused me troubles, interestingly enough, although my ME machine is much older than your parts - Celeron 300A @ 450 on a ABIT BH6 …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2025-03-05, 22:51

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The GeForce 4 Ti 4800 128mb is a good card. That's a nice bonus to come along with the Aureal Vortex. Everything else is pretty so-so. I had a Pentium 4 1.4Ghz with 256MB of RAM for years, later upgrading to 1.8Ghz, and it was excellent in Windows 98/ME and had great compatibility with 2000 and XP. …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2025-03-05, 22:45

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The TNT2 could have up to 32MB. I'm not sure about the TNT.

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Re: Super annoyed by eBay sellers jacking up prices and inflating shipping

Posted on 2025-03-05, 17:59

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5. eBay has changed their rates in some categories. Last I looked, the lower rate for eBay stores listing in the computer categories had been removed. This really, really sucks for both sellers and buyers as it means the sellers must list the items at higher prices to be able to make the same …

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Re: MK1869 and MK1869 XTREME : new soundcards with ESS1869 and ES690 or Interwave chips

Posted on 2025-03-05, 17:52

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Thank you for giving us pads for future upgrades. That's very considerate for us enthusiasts who like to upgrade things. I had fit issues with the Orpheus II in my mATX case, so a smaller PCB with soldered memory is a very welcome change.

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Re: MK1869 and MK1869 XTREME : new soundcards with ESS1869 and ES690 or Interwave chips

Posted on 2025-03-05, 15:57

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I'm curious about why the E690 was left off of the XTREME card, rather than it being the same as the MK1869 with the additional Interwave chip added on. Was it a lack of parts, an incompatibility having it on the same board as the Interwave chip, a choice to keep the PCB size smaller, or was it just …

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Re: Reelmagic/Realmagic MPEG games

Posted on 2025-03-05, 15:46

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What is the newest ATI/NVIDIA card to have a feature connector? Do any 3dfx cards have this? Specifically, I'm curious about ATI Rage and NVIDIA TNT/2 cards. I know that a lot of video cards have pin headers on them that are probably NOT feature connectors. I'd like to understand what era of video …

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Re: Reelmagic/Realmagic MPEG games

Posted on 2025-03-05, 13:15

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Two rare boxes of REALmagic Lite appeared today on sale. Unsurprisingly, the one for just 99 USD went away quite quickly. There is a sealed one still left: https://www.ebay.com/itm/187014492832 https://www.ebay.com/itm/187014510854 What is more interesting though, is that the box, while having "The …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2025-03-05, 13:10

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Played Morrowind on a 1.4Ghz Pentium 4 with a GeForce 2 Ultra and 256MB of RAM. It played alright, but I think the CPU and possibly the memory is what was holding it back.

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