Re: Which Sound Blaster drivers can I comment out?

Posted on 2016-01-03, 03:06

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by clueless1

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Woo hoo! I recommend you keep your eyes open for another really cheap sound card with a daughterboard header. You may not mind it too much right now, but some games (Hexen, for example) sound nasty in places because of stuck notes. If you can find a really cheap Crystal Semiconductor card, it may …

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Re: Which Sound Blaster drivers can I comment out?

Posted on 2016-01-02, 23:30

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by clueless1

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Thanks, gerwin. I downloaded for future reference. If you read 5 posts above yours, you'll see I got the issue resolved with the SB16 (non-Vibra) drivers from Creative's site. I appreciate everyone's help here. Cheers!

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Re: Most disappointing games?

Posted on 2016-01-02, 23:28

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by clueless1

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For me it was Ultima 8.

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Re: Which Sound Blaster drivers can I comment out?

Posted on 2016-01-02, 21:56

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by clueless1

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The crummy part is the seller offered to refund me for the card. I sent him a note asking him to disregard the refund but it came through anyway. I'm not sure if I can re-pay him, but I've got another message sent to him asking him how I can reimburse him back. He's a top notch seller, so check out …

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Re: Which Sound Blaster drivers can I comment out?

Posted on 2016-01-02, 20:40

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by clueless1

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Well, I feel dumb (clueless?). I tried the SB16 drivers from Creative's site and they don't have any problem recognizing the MPU-401 interface. I had been using the SB16 Vibra drivers from Vogons Driver Archive. Maybe the Vibra drivers intentionally don't build in support for this interface.

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Re: The Free 3drealms Games

Posted on 2016-01-02, 17:26

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by clueless1

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in DOS

With setmul, 5 of the 7 work. The only ones that don't work are Stargunner (the one I'm most interested in). Falls back to DOS prompt with "Divide Overflow". Also the DOS fontsize becomes gigantic until I reboot. I wonder if this is due to my motherboard's inability to disable Shadow settings in the …

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Re: The Free 3drealms Games

Posted on 2016-01-02, 16:00

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Two of the seven worked out of the box for me on my DOS rig. The other five gave various errors. I'll try setmul next.

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Re: List the CPUs you owned when they were new

Posted on 2016-01-02, 15:04

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by clueless1

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firage, your avatar looks like Jumpman, a game I played on Apple II and my brother had on Atari 8-bit.

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Re: Which Sound Blaster drivers can I comment out?

Posted on 2016-01-02, 14:08

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by clueless1

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I do have two other boards with ISA slots but I'd have to assemble them into a system. I should be able to do that in the next few days. Probably not this weekend. 😒

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List the CPUs you owned when they were new

Posted on 2016-01-02, 14:05

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by clueless1

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I believe a lot of folks on here are probably more established adults that have been collecting retro PC gear for awhile. This question is not for those systems you have collected, but the systems that you purchased new. It's very likely many of us built our own systems, so in that event feel free …

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Re: Ancient DOS Games Webshow

Posted on 2016-01-02, 13:20

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by clueless1

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Enjoyed the review, Kris, thanks. I also appreciated learning about the other 3drealms freebies when I went to their site to find this one.

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The Free 3drealms Games

Posted on 2016-01-02, 13:10

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by clueless1

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in DOS

There are 7 freebies available on 3drealms site: https://3drealms.com/catalog/ Alien Carnage Arctic Adventure (the executable is misspelled 'Artic Adventure') Bio Menace Major Stryker Monuments of Mars Pharaoh's Tomb Stargunner I was watching the latest Ancient Dos Games review of Stargunner which …

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Re: The 286 Benchmark Thread

Posted on 2016-01-02, 12:53

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by clueless1

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I wish I owned a 286 so I could contribute. Cheers, friend!

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Re: Does PCI Voodoo3 2000 make sense in a DOS machine?

Posted on 2016-01-02, 12:52

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by clueless1

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I went ahead and benchmarked the Voodoo3 2000 PCI against the onboard Cirrus Logic CL-GD5430. Thanks, Phil for your DOS Benchmark kit. Benchmark-Voodoo3/CL-GD5430 3dbench-115.1/88.9 pcpbench-27.4/25.2 doom-56.8/46.1 quake-24.9/23.1 Nice scores. Especially Doom is quite a bit faster on the V3. I was …

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Re: Does PCI Voodoo3 2000 make sense in a DOS machine?

Posted on 2016-01-02, 04:02

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by clueless1

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I went ahead and benchmarked the Voodoo3 2000 PCI against the onboard Cirrus Logic CL-GD5430. Thanks, Phil for your DOS Benchmark kit. Benchmark-Voodoo3/CL-GD5430 3dbench-115.1/88.9 pcpbench-27.4/25.2 doom-56.8/46.1 quake-24.9/23.1

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Re: Which Sound Blaster drivers can I comment out?

Posted on 2016-01-02, 03:13

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by clueless1

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gdjacobs wrote: What were the sell conditions? Tested and working? "Creative Labs CT2800 Multimedia Sound Game Card Working pull in good condition Has ports for: Line In Mic In Line Out Speaker Out Joystick" Might be worth bringing up with seller and even pointing him to this thread.

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Re: Which Sound Blaster drivers can I comment out?

Posted on 2016-01-02, 01:16

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Malvineous, thank you for your post. Very informative. I'm pretty confident now leaving those drivers out of config.sys. I also tried your suggestion of changing the address from 330 to 300 but unfortunately it didn't change anything. Incidentally, whatever Blaster variable I SET, running diagnose …

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Re: Does PCI Voodoo3 2000 make sense in a DOS machine?

Posted on 2016-01-02, 00:06

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by clueless1

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I'm using a Voodoo3 2000 PCI in my DOS PC. :) I'm using it because my PC only has ISA and PCI slots and it is the only PCI video card I have. It turns out to only be slightly faster than the onboard Cirrus Logic in 3dbench, pcpbench, doom, etc. If you want, I can run benchmarks and get you exact …

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Re: would you pay for this?

Posted on 2016-01-01, 23:51

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by clueless1

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I agree with the others about not wanting to pay for such a service. I'd rather do it myself. BUT, I think what you're getting at is "What's a fair cost". IMO, I think $30 for for a PC, monitor, speakers, mouse, etc. So $30 for a whole PC set. $45 for extremely yellowed/weathered (at your discretion …

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Re: Which Sound Blaster drivers can I comment out?

Posted on 2016-01-01, 21:22

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I can see no damage to the card. Here are front/back photos if anyone else wants to take a look. Filename 0101161511.jpg File size 3.52 MiB Views 1363 views Filename 0101161512a.jpg File size 3.27 MiB Views 1363 views Maybe this is why the price was so good. 😉

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