Re: My SiS 730S Duron system!

Posted on 2016-02-05, 16:18

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Keep it the way it is if you have no plans to overclock it. Don't think reversing the PSU fans is such a good idea as it's located in the upper part of the case. Maybe you should try to reverse the front fan of the case? How much space is there between the CPU fan and the PSU?

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Re: Games that don't run properly on faster CPUs

Posted on 2016-02-05, 08:00

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With "Quarantine" I had to drop my PIII 866 to 486 33MHz levels with Bret Johnson's SLOWDOWN utility. http://www.mobygames.com/game/quarantine http://bretjohnson.us/

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Re: My SiS 730S Duron system!

Posted on 2016-02-05, 07:45

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Another little tip: If you want some better MIDI playback in Windows you can search for GM10MB.SAM in the registery and replace it with another sample bank. You can also set reverb and chorus from the same "folder". This archive contains some more banks under \Audio\ALI\WaveTab: ftp://ftp.tekwind.co …

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Re: Looking for (free) hex editor with 1 certain feature

Posted on 2016-02-02, 21:49

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Okteta are able to show 512 bytes in one line, actually I tried up to 8192 bytes: https://utils.kde.org/projects/okteta/

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Re: SoftMPU project needs your help! (game & sound card testing)

Posted on 2016-02-02, 08:12

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I agree. :) Thank you and the others who made this great piece of software. Also tested it on a CMI 8738 based PCI card, it detects MPU but not Sound Blaster. But the 8738's DOS support is bad from the beginning. Tried the same CMI 8738 card in a different computer (with a SiS 630ET based Asus TUSC …

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Re: My SiS 730S Duron system!

Posted on 2016-02-02, 03:46

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If you need more convetional memory and don't need OPL3 or GM it's possible to unload the TSR with SNDINIT.EXE /R. One little problem is that you have to manually set the sample rate using an utility called T4DW.EXE. The utility can be found in this archive: http://vsynchmame.mameworld.info/4dwave_ …

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Re: My SiS 730S Duron system!

Posted on 2016-02-02, 02:26

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Tried an USB keyboard on my SiS 630ET system since I spilled beer in the PS/2 keyboard I used. One game, Pinball Fantasies, didn't like that at all. The game ran very slow and ended up crashing after about 30 secs. If it reached the main menu the graphics were glitched. It would have been fun if …

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Re: silpheed music

Posted on 2016-01-30, 17:57

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I also like the music in Silpheed, also have a listen at the PC-88 version: https://youtu.be/m6m1U9DBJ48

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Re: My SiS 730S Duron system!

Posted on 2016-01-29, 06:40

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Your recordings of GM music actually sounds quite good. I have one Trident 4DWave-NX (the 7018 is based on 4DWave) card and the GM support is horrible, wrong instruments and hanging and dropping notes. I also, like lagonauta, have a SiS 630 based motherboard and it also refuses to use GM. Must be …

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Re: (Help needed) Intel SCB2 dual Tualatin build

Posted on 2016-01-26, 18:43

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I'll get to adding boards later today. For now I'm a bit busy with Uni stuff Thanks! :) I might actually have one of these. The case is basically useless for any other board, but hey, it should indeed support Tualatin, mine came with a 1.2GHz Tualeron iirc. It was gifted to me in working condition …

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Re: (Help needed) Intel SCB2 dual Tualatin build

Posted on 2016-01-26, 08:45

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Looks like I have another Tually board to add to the list in Vogons Wiki xD http://www.vogonswiki.com/index.php/List_of_Socket_370_motherboards Maybe you can add the Asus TUSC too? I have one as a part of the Asus Terminator Tualatin barebone system. :happy: http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/ …

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

Posted on 2016-01-22, 18:20

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Luckly the SiS 7018 supports MPU-401 emulation under bare DOS, just beware that the chipset also exposes its external MPU-401 interface, and you can set them to different ports and use them at the same time. I can't get the MPU-401 emulation working. Think I had it working for some time ago, maybe …

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Re: Turtle Beach Santa Cruz

Posted on 2016-01-22, 09:28

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Noticed somthing about this card when running Windows 98SE. You can actually monitor the usage of the Crystal 4630 in System Monitor, it shows up as Crystal SoundFusion(tm).

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

Posted on 2016-01-22, 07:18

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Just enjoing the OPL3 emulation of the SiS 7018. 🤣 https://youtu.be/bsPFH_uUci8

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-01-21, 19:56

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Bought a couple of ESS Solo-1/ES1938 based Terratec OEM boards. 20160121_075515.jpg Nice! They aren't really the greatest of the best out there, but one of my earliest completed rig used a Solo-1 sound card and whatever it did, it just worked. I kinda grew to like it though that rig's dismantled …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-01-21, 07:27

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Bought a couple of ESS Solo-1/ES1938 based Terratec OEM boards. Filename 20160121_075515.jpg File size 373.7 KiB Views 6079 views

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-01-21, 06:51

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Today i got... honestly can't call it retro - Asrock 939A790GMH Just for 7.5$ but it was pretty dusty and comes w/o backplane. Posts and boots fine,gonna test stability later. AMD 790GX chipset based,imo superior find for 939 platform. That's one weird motherboard. 790GX were introduced in August …

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Re: So what do you guys do... you know, in real life?

Posted on 2016-01-09, 17:31

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I'm a Conductor for a class 1 railroad (Norfolk Southern). I enjoy my job (I'm a train nut aside from having an interest in computers). Nice. I'm somewhat into rail based transport too. :) I'm employed at a tram workshop as an electrician. Sometimes I get to drive the trams, like getting defective …

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Re: DreamBlaster S1 arrived

Posted on 2016-01-09, 16:44

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Wing Commander requires intelligent mode, you can try out SoftMPU for that. SoftMPU https://github.com/bjt42/softmpu

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Re: Roland MT-32, CM-32L + General MIDI for $50" Building a MIDI box

Posted on 2016-01-03, 20:55

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SRQ wrote: So yes then? I have gotten it to work under real mode- I just have to boot with a 66 FSB. I have an AWE64 too, but the Audigy 2 is on the PCI/AGP based PIII I use most of the time. Not for MIDI output in running in MS-DOS, the Audigy will use it's onboard synth.

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