Re: Great soundcard audio!

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Here are some of my favorites from the top of my head: Heart of the Hive (Icarus WAD for Doom) — GUS with Pro Patches Lite Silpheed intro on OPL3 Can't Remove the Pain (Ultima 6) on OPL3 Double Dragon 3: The Rosetta Stone (intro) on OPL3 Cannon Fodder (the song from the recruitment screen) OPL3 Epic …

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Re: How about a MR-BIOS ROM file repository?

Posted on 2021-04-11, 02:30

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I've successfully decompressed the .ETI files from the Evergreen Spectra v2.01 (found by @jheronimus a few posts up) and v4 CDs after a couple days of reverse engineering attempts. Aside from the MR BIOS files, the CDs also include Unicore Award upgrades for many Socket 5 and 7 boards and even a …

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Re: How about a MR-BIOS ROM file repository?

Posted on 2021-04-09, 21:26

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So I did a thing where I've cross referenced most of the known MR BIOS files with official documentation and made a list of everything. There are around 500 files, but many of those are different versions of the same BIOS (especially when it comes to Intel/Asus motherboards). Here's the list, …

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Is BIOSAgentPlus legit?

Posted on 2021-04-06, 14:24

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Hi, all Recently I've been looking for BIOS images for various obscure motherboards, and I reliably find them on BIOSAgentPlus/DriverAgent/Wim's BIOS. However, when I try to download the file, I'm greeted with a screen requiring me to buy the BIOSAgent. The "join" button on DriverAgent is dead. I …

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Re: Biostar MB-1500PCT — need help restoring missing components

Posted on 2021-04-05, 09:45

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So I came back to this project, ordered mx8315pc from eBay and found a guy that will (hopefully) be able to fix the board, but he will only be able to start in May at the earliest. He already fixed a Supermicro P54VL-PCI for me, so I figured that it's a better idea than trying to fix the Biostar …

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Re: Does anybody have Evergreen Spectra Utilities disks V1/V2?

Posted on 2021-03-31, 17:33

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Chadti99 wrote on 2021-03-31, 16:22: Looks like I have version 4.35 that came with a Spectrum 400. Let me know if that helps you. I'm pretty sure that's the V4 that is available on Vogonsdrivers. Spectra 400 is the revision that supported K6-3 and other late S7 chips. Thank you anyways!

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Re: Which Socket 7 upgrade kit is right for my Socket 5 motherboard?

Posted on 2021-03-31, 15:28

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Sphere478 wrote on 2021-03-31, 05:29: What about contacting Jan? Well, it certainly wouldn't hurt. Sent him an email.

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Re: Which Socket 7 upgrade kit is right for my Socket 5 motherboard?

Posted on 2021-03-31, 00:51

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woohoo!!! good job. any effects from using the different bios? I'll do some testing on weekend, but I've already mentioned vanilla Quake crashing on this setup. Also UNIVBE decided to re-run configuration at startup that froze the system. Running Windows 95 would probably be the ultimate test of …

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Does anybody have Evergreen Spectra Utilities disks V1/V2?

Posted on 2021-03-31, 00:28

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Hi, all I continue my ongoing quest to find MR BIOS images for Opti 546 and 596 chipsets :) Evergreen Spectra is a CPU upgrade kit for Socket 5/7 motherboards that allowed the user to install an MMX/K6 CPU into the motherboard that didn't support it. It also came with a disk that had a collection of …

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Re: GUS Frustrations

Posted on 2021-03-30, 22:56

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Weirdly enough my experience with Classic/Max was much better than with PnP. Especially once I realised I could set it up in half-duplex mode (e.g. 240/7/7/7/7) and save half the resources, even a more compilcated setup (e.g. GUS+AWE32+MPU controller) became quite easy to configure on various …

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Re: Which Socket 7 upgrade kit is right for my Socket 5 motherboard?

Posted on 2021-03-30, 21:38

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So, I've actually made a mistake — this was an MMX Overdrive after all, a SL24W. The original BIOS did not start with MMX chips, hence it did not work with this one. I've flashed a BIOS from TMC PCI54PV and the system started: 2021-03-31 00.18.39.jpg And Quake did deliver 33 FPS using somewhat …

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Re: Mountain Racecard-286: looking for drivers and jumpers descriptions

Posted on 2021-03-29, 22:33

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Still waiting for the card, but in the meantime it has dawned on me. Here's another photo of the card: -racecard_286_mountain_accelerator_cpu_isa_card_ibm_5150_pc_5160_7___2mhz_orchid-3_156.jpg I thought the 8088 should be piggybacked into the end of the cable that goes into the motherboard CPU …

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Re: Which Socket 7 upgrade kit is right for my Socket 5 motherboard?

Posted on 2021-03-26, 16:35

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Is the P166@100 running at 1.5x66? I don't know much about your specific overdrive, but sometimes overdrives were stripped or certain features supported in the standard version. The DX4 overdrive doesn't support 2x multiplier, while a regular DX4 does (for example). Yes, the motherboard only …

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Re: Which Socket 7 upgrade kit is right for my Socket 5 motherboard?

Posted on 2021-03-26, 12:39

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Well, damn. Pentium Overdrive 166 didn't start on this board. I'll have to check it on a proper Socket 7 board to see if the chip is actually alive, but it all seems pretty weird. I mean, why would regular Pentium 166 work (although at 100MHz), but an Overdrive (non-MMX) won't?

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Re: Mountain Racecard-286: looking for drivers and jumpers descriptions

Posted on 2021-03-24, 10:53

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Maybe you switch between processors using one of the typical key combinations used for switching between turbo and deturbo mode on other machines? That is definitely how it’s done, but judging by the Tandy model of the card, you need to either load a .sys driver or use a utility for that. I don’t …

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Re: Mountain Racecard-286: looking for drivers and jumpers descriptions

Posted on 2021-03-24, 10:27

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Very interesting ! I never saw a CPU upgrade card that actually had the removed 8088 plugged back into the Upgrade card. I think for XT accelerators that is actually a norm rather than exception. The odd thing here seems to be a lack of a hardware turbo switch Will look around but do not think will …

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Mountain Racecard-286: looking for drivers and jumpers descriptions

Posted on 2021-03-24, 00:38

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Hi, all Just bought this card, going to get it (hopefully) in about 10 days: 2021-03-24 03.21.38.jpg This is a Mountain Racecard-286, a 286 upgrade card for XT computers. The card is actually made by PC Technologies. Unlike cards like Orchid Tiny Turbo this board does not have a hardware switch, the …

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Re: Sigma Designs RealMagic complete productlist, supported games and drivers

Posted on 2021-03-18, 11:39

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Interesting thread! I have two cards here: photo_2021-03-18 14.33.49.jpeg Hollywood Plus photo_2021-03-18 14.33.54.jpeg Some undentified card that has the pass-through cable that should probably work with ReelMagic. I didn't know the PCI versions work with the same games that are supported by the …

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Re: TOP 100 applications for MS-DOS ? can you share some to the list?

Posted on 2021-03-17, 12:14

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4DOS Telemate and Terminate NESticle, Genesyst and Fusion (all from late 90s, but still DOS apps) UNIVBE Moslo Spinrite (for MFM hard drives) NCSA Telnet (contained the only popular FTP client for DOS at the time — as far as I can see after reading several Usenet threads. Were there any better ones …

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Are file attachments searchable on Vogons?

Posted on 2021-03-17, 07:30

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Hi, all I think I've found a bit of an issue with Vogons' forum engine. Quite often I'm browsing through Archive.org or Usenet groups to learn about a piece of software, a driver or a ROM file only to see that the download link for that file is dead. I track a specific filename that I then try to …

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