Re: Orpheus Soundcard: a new DOS soundcard with SPDIF/OPL3/MPU support

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by NJRoadfan

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Where Sierra titles are concerned, it is important to mention that the driver that we are using is an official Sierra driver that was shared by Cloudschatze via keropi. That driver was originally released by Sierra, at the request of Mediatrix Peripherals, for the Audiotrix Pro. My only …

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Re: dISAppointment - LPC to ISA adapter - ISA on modern motherboards

Posted on 2023-09-24, 03:54

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by NJRoadfan

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Regarding the presence of DMA on the LPC bus. There are STILL motherboards shipping with LPT headers (Intel H610 based!) that appear to support ECP mode, which requires the use of a DMA channel.

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Re: VGA Capture Thread

Posted on 2023-09-24, 01:28

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by NJRoadfan

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Try capturing video and audio at the same time with it in Windows 10. The video freezes. They advertise it as being able to capture both, and it CAN, but only in Windows 7. Oh, and don't buy their expensive audio/sd video breakout boards. They have no components on them and I posted the pinout of …

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Re: Showing some love for Adaptec's ugly ducklings: Adding big drive support to EISA and VL controllers

Posted on 2023-09-23, 17:40

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by NJRoadfan

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Just an update, my AHA-2740W has BIOS revision 2.11 on it. I forgot this card doesn't have the onboard SCSISelect ROM based setup. Everything is done in the EISA configuration utility.

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Re: Showing some love for Adaptec's ugly ducklings: Adding big drive support to EISA and VL controllers

Posted on 2023-09-22, 00:55

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by NJRoadfan

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My only suggestion is maybe try another DOS partitioning tool that doesn't act weird with large drives. FDISK isn't the greatest for testing. I'm also not a fan of those SCA adapters, although being on a wide bus, all they need is proper termination pigtails.

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Re: Showing some love for Adaptec's ugly ducklings: Adding big drive support to EISA and VL controllers

Posted on 2023-09-21, 01:37

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by NJRoadfan

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I don't have any large SCSI drives here. A 9.1GB is laying around...somewhere. I have to pull out the 486 this weekend, I'll check then.

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Re: Showing some love for Adaptec's ugly ducklings: Adding big drive support to EISA and VL controllers

Posted on 2023-09-20, 03:10

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by NJRoadfan

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Windows 9x's driver likely supports Int 13h extensions without a problem.

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Re: Showing some love for Adaptec's ugly ducklings: Adding big drive support to EISA and VL controllers

Posted on 2023-09-20, 02:42

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by NJRoadfan

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I have both the EISA 2740W and VLB 2842A (BIOS dated 1993). I don't recall either having flash ROMs, so I really don't have any way of testing these patches. Cool that there is an update. Now if only there was a Windows 2000/XP driver for these cards.

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Re: Pre-VESA Proprietary 32-bit Local Buses?

Posted on 2023-09-20, 02:16

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by NJRoadfan

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Some more photos of the Acer card. This time the rear. Looking around, this may slot into the Acer J1 motherboard: https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/acer-j1 PC World January 1993 Page 113 Mentions it: https://vintageapple.org/pcworld/pdf/PC_World_9301_January_1993.pdf Needless to say, the Model …

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Re: Pre-VESA Proprietary 32-bit Local Buses?

Posted on 2023-09-20, 02:15

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by NJRoadfan

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Another card with new bus popped up in an ebay auction. Don't know the name of it, but the FCC ID indicates this board was made by Acer. It uses a 2nd ISA slot similar to the Gigabyte local bus, but the slot is offset further back on the motherboard.

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Re: Adlib Tracker II not playing under 98SE

Posted on 2023-09-11, 00:14

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by NJRoadfan

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I got it working under 98SE with the Orpheus II soundcard. I don't see why it wouldn't work with a ESS card. I did have to adjust the OPL3 latency setting to get proper audio output since the setup was writing to the chip registers too quickly.

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

Posted on 2023-09-10, 00:41

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by NJRoadfan

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I had to force Windows 98SE to use the correct resources for both the Crystal and Interwave parts of the card since the PnP BIOS in my machine had done some weird resource allocations. Be sure to use the Orpheus branded Crystal drivers from the website, the ones that come with Windows don't seem to …

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Re: What is the biggest storage HDD Windows 98SE can use?

Posted on 2023-09-01, 00:59

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by NJRoadfan

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Note, since this thread was started the rloew AHCI SATA drivers and his 48bit LBA patch have become freely available. You should be able to use larger drives under Windows 9x now without a problem.

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Re: The Soundblaster DSP project

Posted on 2023-08-29, 02:23

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by NJRoadfan

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Cloudschatze wrote on 2023-08-28, 19:07: Which games support stereo PCM playback with an SBPro but not with an SB16? Zone 66 and anything else that uses the Renaissance CDFM engine (Amnesia demo, etc). Using the ASP for this would actually make the damn chip useful for once!

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Re: Looking for CardSoft for Windows 3.1

Posted on 2023-08-29, 01:57

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by NJRoadfan

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You need the complete SystemSoft CardWorks package for DOS/Windows 3.1x. These disks aren't universal though as you need the correct card and socket services driver for your laptop's PCMCIA controller. Given that the Latitude D800 is from the XP era, there is likely no driver that works. EDIT: Looks …

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Re: Questions on running/testing a Japanese 100v sound module (Roland SC-D70) on a North American 120V power grid .

Posted on 2023-08-26, 18:08

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by NJRoadfan

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You can use any device from Japan in the USA no problem. The extra volts mean a little extra heat, but unless you are running it for 12 hours a day, it will be fine. Video game console importers have been doing since forever. Some Japanese devices do have a switch for 60/50hertz, but really only …

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Re: Is DOS segment F000:0000h-F000:FFFFh always fully populated by the BIOS?

Posted on 2023-08-14, 02:46

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by NJRoadfan

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I've used the ROMBreakpoint variable in system.ini when running QEMM. Both QEMM and Hurricane Helix have ROM relocation options (Stealth and Cloaking respectively) that I presume allow part of the F000 segment to be remapped to UMBs. I'll have to check the AMIBIOS on my EISA/VLB board if it has …

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Re: Vogonians , how do you deal with fatigue?

Posted on 2023-08-14, 02:39

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by NJRoadfan

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A few notes here based on my experience with weight loss and doctors -Doctors usually don't order thyroid panels during annual physicals. I specifically asked my doctor if he was doing it with the blood panels and he stated "no". I asked if it was possible to do since I have a family history of …

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Re: Is DOS segment F000:0000h-F000:FFFFh always fully populated by the BIOS?

Posted on 2023-08-10, 23:01

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by NJRoadfan

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Some newer BIOSes such as AMI HiFlex BIOS of the 386/486 era, fill the entire F segment, but are written so that the "runtime" only sits in the upper 32KB, while POST/SETUP sit in the lower 32KB making it safe to overlay UMBs on top of F000-F7FF. Also, if you notice some Phoenix 4.x BIOSes will …

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Re: Quadrant Cinemaster C 1.2 DVD decoder card drivers or install CD?

Posted on 2023-07-04, 02:15

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by NJRoadfan

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http://home.icequake.net/~nemesis/linuxlaptop … r/downloads.htm Dell preinstalled this card in alot of their machines, so likely buried on the drivers download of late 90s Dimension XPS desktop systems.

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