Re: nostalgia midlife crisis

Posted on 2023-04-19, 21:16

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What I like about these nostalgia PCs and the software they run is that they represent a medium for an artform. I know what you mean about artform. DOS "cartoonish" platform games are my example. Take games like Duke Nukem 2, Jazz Jackrabbit, Zone 66, etc These game's look beautiful, The music is …

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Re: nostalgia midlife crisis

Posted on 2023-04-19, 01:32

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Well here is what I think and if it sounds too positive you can kick me off the thread... What I like about these nostalgia PCs and the software they run is that they represent a medium for an artform. Let me explain what I mean. When I look at the hardware and the software there are two parts to it …

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Re: Problems regarding ANOVO AIMB-865

Posted on 2020-03-25, 15:34

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There seem to be two revisions of this board available on eBay. There’s a V1.0S1.2 and V1.0S1.3 but I can’t seem to find any info on what the differences are. Anyone know? Do they use the same firmware images?

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Re: Getting those generic EBay USB2MIDI cables working in win98se?

Posted on 2016-02-16, 05:14

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Surely you or a close friend has a serial cable lying around somewhere you can use the Yamaha driver with. I don't know if a null modem cable is what you want or a straight through cable. My memory is fuzzy. I think null modem. I have actually used the CBX driver to connect two computers via midi …

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Re: Could this be the ultimate fastest system with pure dos sound support?

Posted on 2016-02-14, 19:02

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I have something to add. The fastest board that I've heard of someone getting ISA DMA working on is this: http://www.portwell.com/products/detail.php?CUSTCHAR1=RUBY-9719VG2AR But there is some hacking required to get it working. You can read my thread the Retro Friendly Modern PC if you're …

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Re: Ad Lib Museum

Posted on 2016-02-14, 17:39

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But if it does not work, don't worry, just put another sound card that can live without -5V, and preferably one with OPL3 chip. It can work with smaller delays than OPL2 chip. Sound wise, there should be only a little bit of difference FM sound cards. The only thing that could be significant is …

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Re: Newly made Gravis Ultrasound compatible cards ... what's the degree of interest?

Posted on 2016-02-14, 00:41

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All your suggestions have been covered more than once in this thread. To sum up: - GF1: where can the chips be sourced? - OPL3/Vibra/ESS/whatsoever: no additional complexity to the project, every possible option can be added via an ISA-header for future daughterboards. - more RAM than on Extreme: …

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Re: Getting Joystick To Work TUSL2-C and MX300

Posted on 2016-02-13, 00:01

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How is the TUSL2-C and MX300 working for you? I have one of these, too. Bought it on ebay and it came with a Diamond Monster sound, as well. It was a popular combo back in the day apparently. I got my TUSL2-C board because it was the most easily-obtained second hand board that could record audio at …

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Re: Ad Lib Museum

Posted on 2016-02-11, 15:28

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Hi adlibmuseum, I think this project you are working on is pretty cool. I never owned an adlib. In my first PC we got the Pro Audio Spectum 16 and later the GUS. I have always been rather curious about the adlib card though. Ultima 6 supports it directly. I would like to get my hands on a music-only …

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Re: Newly made Gravis Ultrasound compatible cards ... what's the degree of interest?

Posted on 2016-02-11, 15:07

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I'm sure you guys have already decided on the Interwave card, but I would actually like a GF1 card that is exactly equivalent to the Ultrasound Extreme, complete with an OPL chip, maybe with the ability to add more RAM than a real Ultrasound Extreme.

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Re: The Retro-friendly Modern PC

Posted on 2016-01-30, 03:54

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The issue on how to fit this into a case, would be another thing to consider. You would probably have to do some serious case-hacking or modding. I too have considered this thing, and have come to the conclusion that it's not worth the money. Well it just so happens that the Asrock board is micro …

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The Retro-friendly Modern PC

Posted on 2016-01-29, 22:57

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I know it's been said time and time again that the best hardware on which to run a game is the hardware from the period when it was released. But, I always want to challenge that notion and see if I can make the perfect PC that can do it all. While achieving that goal is pretty close to impossible, …

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Re: Ultrasound ACE on Industrial Motherboard w/ no DMA

Posted on 2016-01-29, 15:47

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I remember when I first got my GUS Max, Win 3.x was all there was. Windows 95 was not out yet! The GUS was sheer bliss. I spent hours making music and rarely had technical problems. I had Cakewalk 3.0 for Windows and the GUS Win 3.x utilities to load the sounds with. I ruled the world! Nowadays I …

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Re: Any PCMCIA wireless LAN adapters for Windows 95 (3.x too)?

Posted on 2016-01-29, 04:06

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I like to use Ethernet to wifi converters for OSes with no modern wireless drivers. Just use the wired driver. This does not work well for public wifi though because you need an XP computer to run the app that configures the device, or at the very least use a web interface to select the wi-fi …

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Re: Ultrasound ACE on Industrial Motherboard w/ no DMA

Posted on 2016-01-27, 20:08

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All of your comments are incredibly awesome. That's why vogons rocks! I think I'm going to give up on the non-DMA boards. Elianda, I never would have suspected that some games load samples via DMA and some not. You have inadvertently discovered a way to test which games are which, not that it would …

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Re: Ultrasound ACE on Industrial Motherboard w/ no DMA

Posted on 2016-01-27, 03:25

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It's ok if I lose sounds in games as long as I can still load the samples and play midi then a PCI card could be used for the other stuff. What I would really like to know is, does the act of loading samples touch DMA at all? If not then I think I could get by. These boards run about $300, which …

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Re: Ultrasound ACE on Industrial Motherboard w/ no DMA

Posted on 2016-01-27, 02:43

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It does seem to use DMA. On a different thread someone had posted a the installation instructions for the GUS ACE specifically. It requires you to set a DMA, so clearly it is using one. The real question is what is it using it for and how much can I do without it?

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Re: Ultrasound ACE on Industrial Motherboard w/ no DMA

Posted on 2016-01-27, 01:29

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That's a good point. Intelligent mode midi isn't really needed I suppose. I wanted the midi card for Ultima 6, but a super fast machine would probably tear through that game and make it unplayable. Still, I have an older PC as well and I'm lucky enough to have another intelligent midi card for that …

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Ultrasound ACE on Industrial Motherboard w/ no DMA

Posted on 2016-01-26, 23:35

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I want to build a machine to handle late DOS and Win9X era games and music apps. I have this idea of getting a newer Industrial Motherboard (from AliExpress or similar) and utilizing the ISA slots with a couple vintage cards I have. Since many newer boards (Intel 9xx-based and up) don't support ISA …

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Re: Roland SCP-55 PCMCIA sound card in a Toshiba Libretto 110ct?

Posted on 2012-01-24, 19:38

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It worked! For anyone who may be wondering, device=c:\cardsoft\SS365SL.EXE is the correct DOS PCMCIA driver for the Toshiba Libretto 110ct. I was not able to get EMM386.EXE working, but I didn't try that long, or spend any time Googling about it. Star Trek doesn't require it either. When I bought …

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