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Re: Use S-YXG70 Soft Synth for DOS games in Windows dosbox?

Posted on 2016-12-01, 03:30

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

http://veg.by/en/projects/syxg50/ I came across this project a few months ago. You can use it with a standalone VST host (like the aptly named VSTHost). I use it on a physical machine with a USB MIDI adapter to my retro PC's and it works....I'm not sure about dosbox.

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-10-29, 21:55

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I bought an Asus P5A board for my SS7 K6-III+ build on ebay only to discover when it arrived: Arghhhhh, it was advertised as a 1.04. The seller has a crap return policy too :depressed: Sorry for my ignorance, but what is the difference between the 1.04 and 1.06 that makes the 1.04 more desirable? …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-10-29, 19:28

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I bought an Asus P5A board for my SS7 K6-III+ build on ebay only to discover when it arrived: IMG_20161028_200207.jpg Arghhhhh, it was advertised as a 1.04. The seller has a crap return policy too :depressed: As a second attempt, I bought a Soyo SY-5EMA+, which shouldn't have multiple revisions (as …

Re: Voodoo pass-thru cable question

Posted on 2016-10-27, 00:18

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I bought one of those a couple months ago, I figured they'd be long gone by now. Maybe time to buy another :lol: I ended up buying the cheapest 'vga extension cable' I could find on amazon that looked like it had reasonably small connectors. It's 6ft long though, but hey I never see it anyways. …

Re: Socket 7 VRM question (for Shuttle HOT-553)

Posted on 2016-10-15, 18:52

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I ended up buying an HP OEM VRM (p/n 0950-3188). It's a 30 pin module and looks very similar to the shuttle one. This part is specifically for P55 chips, so it only puts out 2.8v. That limits me to an MMX, but I'm fine with that. I have a super socket 7 build planned where I can play with the more …

Socket 7 VRM question (for Shuttle HOT-553)

Posted on 2016-10-11, 22:38

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I dug up a socket 7 board recently - a Shuttle HOT-553 . It has the 430HX chipset, which is a tempting swap for my current VX board in my Pentium 233 MMX system. This has introduced me to the world of VRM sockets. I've never even seen one until today. This board requires a VRM to use any non P54C …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-10-07, 22:31

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I was helping clean out the 'IT dungeon' today at work. It was mostly junk and uninteresting Pentium 4 era stuff, but I did find a Voodoo3-2000 and a 3DLabs card, which is (I think) an Oxygen GVX1. I know very little about 3DLabs stuff and am not messing about with AGP cards at the moment, but I …

Re: BIOS needed for IBM Aptiva 2144-785 (SL-C)

Posted on 2016-10-01, 07:21

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Have you given p3flash a try? The North American 2144-6xP looks pretty similar spec wise to the 785... Disclaimer: I may have no idea what I'm talking about 🤣

Re: BIOS needed for IBM Aptiva 2144-785 (SL-C)

Posted on 2016-09-30, 20:50

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I did a little quick digging and found a mirror of the IBM BBS FTP something or other. http://john.ccac.rwth-aachen.de:8000/ftp/mirr … dns.org/pccbbs/ Maybe you've already found this...there's a few BIOS updates in the aptiva directory.

Re: YMF-71x cards (OPL3SAx) software alternative

Posted on 2016-09-16, 02:22

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Does anybody still have the full file (Original_CD.zip) somewhere? Wayback machine has the thread but not the file itself. https://web.archive.org/web/20150224233710/http://queststudios.com/smf/index.php?topic=2885.0 EDIT: Found it! It was here on vogons the whole time. http://www.vogons.org/ …

Re: Pairing a SB16 with other sound card to fix MPU-401 and CQM.

Posted on 2016-09-04, 02:53

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

If this is the kind of semi-PnP SB16 Vibras that initialize from boot (read gerwin's post) without having to run diagnose.exe to set the IRQ+DMA then your are all set. On most semi-PnP SB16 you need to run diagnose.exe to set the IRQ and DMA, no memory affected it just initialize the hardware, same …

Re: Pairing a SB16 with other sound card to fix MPU-401 and CQM.

Posted on 2016-09-03, 18:16

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Funny this should come up, I was just messing about with getting 2 SB's going. I got it working, but I'm not exactly sure how... My 'dream card' for this system would have been a non-pnp AWE32, but they cost a bit more than I'm willing to spend. I ended up finding an SB32 CT3930, which is non-pnp …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-01-07, 00:39

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

http://i.imgur.com/q3QZQnll.jpg Got this fat boy today its a Inno3D GeForce 6800 CoolViva Premium Edition Not bought but traded for 256mb versions of fx5500 and radeon 9600pro For tests i removed heatsink,coz noone of my mobos can handle such fatty,works well,but cant pair intel d850mv with this …

Re: Help on finding heasink glue, please!

Posted on 2015-10-30, 01:16

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

stuvize wrote: You want something like "Arctic Alumina" never used myself but people say good things about it FWIW, this is good stuff. I ordered some to stick a heatsink on the xbox 360 southbridge, and I've ended up using it for a ton of other stuff. Never knew I needed it until I got some 😀

Re: Maxtor jumper block confusion

Posted on 2015-09-26, 21:11

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The drive is currently in "Cable Select" position. Move the jumper one pair of pins to the right (away from the floppy connector - closer to the molex one) for Slave. See that lone pin between the jumper block and the floppy connector? That is the "key". Turn the drive upside down and it will match …

Maxtor jumper block confusion

Posted on 2015-09-26, 18:35

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I've got a Maxtor D540X-4K 20GB drive sitting in front of me, and I just can't wrap my head around the jumper settings: 3715751167557516651.jpg My brain just can't translate what's printed on the drive to the jumper block. It doesn't make a bit of sense to me. I'm going for a slave configuration. I …

Re: Win98 poor network performance... advice needed

Posted on 2015-09-25, 12:32

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I've had luck with TCP Optimizer recently. I was downloading files from the internet, not the network though. Win98se + opera 9.6 went from downloading 50 kb/s max to around 1.5 mb/s. YMMV

Re: Great PC! But can it run Crysis?

Posted on 2015-07-24, 02:22

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

You're comparing Intel's top consumer/non-enthusiast solution (to which AMD has no Piledriver competitor) against a mid-end AMD processor. I'd say those results are pretty much normal. That i7 isn't even working at its full potential, as I have that processor and reached 90+ FPS with similar speed …

Re: Great PC! But can it run Crysis?

Posted on 2015-07-24, 01:35

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I ditched my FX-8350 system a couple of days ago for an i7 4790k build. It still has the same RAM and graphics card, an R9 280x. For being a gpu benchmark, this is an incredible improvement in FPS. From ~50 FPS to this. It makes me wonder if the FX-8350 really is that bad or if I had something …

Re: Great PC! But can it run Crysis?

Posted on 2015-07-16, 01:57

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I also had to run 64 bit, as 32 crashed on me. The results seem....very underwhelming. Then again, I'm very disappointed with the FX-8350. I'm jumping over to an i7-4790K as soon as I have the cash. Filename Untitled.png File size 874.84 KiB Views 2375 views

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