Re: Graphics card advice needed for Gateway 2000 Kadoka system w/1 GHz slot A Athlon

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It depends on what you want to do. I would either go with the G400 MAX if you want to run mostly DX7 stuff or the Voodoo3 if you want to build a crazy stupid fast Voodoo box. For DX8, the Radeon 8500 is a great card to put in any Athlon system, just remember it's not as good for DX5/6 games as a …

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Re: Tube Time: Announcing The Snark Barker, a 100% Compatible SB 1.0 Replica!

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I finally found a local supplier who has the Alps pot in stock so I ordered two. They will reach me in 2-3 weeks. It's a long wait, but I will finally have a working card, so I can't complain too much.

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Re: I wish I had discovered Windows ME sooner!

Posted on Today, 08:03

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I have it installed on my Tualatin PC, and it's ultimately a lot more stable than its reputation would have you believe. But at the end of the day it is Windows 98 with USB support, DOS layer taken away and a lot of useless eye candy added on top. With NUSB drivers for Windows 98SE there is really …

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Re: My P3 Retro DOS PC

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I found a new AOPEN AW744L II - Yamaha XG YMF744 on eBay for $26.50 USD. Is the AOPEN a good YM744 card? And is that a good price? It is one of the best PCI cards you can have if you also want to do DOS gaming. However you will not get proper DOS sound with it unless your i815 motherboard has an SB …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

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I've always wanted to like Blood without success - sounds like I should have done some reading first! The MIDI song in the setup program is epic, and one of the songs I always try when testing out a new sound font or MIDI device 👍 I never managed to get into Blood either, it's in a strange place …

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

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I replaced the Voodoo 3 in my Dell Dimension XPS D333 with its original Riva 1128 and added a Voodoo 2 card. It looks and feels a lot more authentic now. I also added an AWE64 in addition to the Turtle Beach Montego, and routed the Line Out from the MBPro to the AUX In of the PCI card. This …

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Re: MS-DOS DoubleSpace and DriveSpace, anyone use it?

Posted on Today, 06:37

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Most people who used these seem to have used them on <100MB hard drives, which makes sense because a Windows 3.1 install on these took up substantial amount of space and it could be significantly compressed. The first time I used them was on my father's 386SX laptop and that thing had a 40MB HDD …

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Savage4 vs Voodoo Banshee

Posted on Today, 06:34

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I can't seem to find a head to head comparison of these two cards, has anyone benchmarked them in OpenGL and Direct3D? I'm wondering if it makes sense to replace an AGP Banshee with an AGP Savage 4 LT + Voodoo 2 on a K6-2 500 system. Part of me says it does, another part of me tells me I'd see no …

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Re: MS-DOS DoubleSpace and DriveSpace, anyone use it?

Posted on Yesterday, 20:54

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Good memory managers had native support for the most common disk compression drivers and can load them nearly fully to XMS. So the memory argument is only an issue if you have a game that requires real mode and that game was stored by yourself on the compressed disk. And the solution to that is …

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Re: FTP, Large files and old systems ?

Posted on Yesterday, 16:59

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by appiah4

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Try an older version of Filezilla or another old FTP utility like WS_FTP?

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

Posted on Yesterday, 10:03

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Pulled CMedia based AOpen AW850 audio card out of the router of doom and installed a Yamaha YMF724EV in its place - it was like the AOpen YMF744B Cobra...except the audio worked fine out of the box (no PCI bus noise, didn’t have to crank the audio up)...and unlike the CMedia, FM and SFX worked out …

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on Yesterday, 08:22

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For the IDE issues, it's possible the integrated controller card might be acting funny and doing a reflow might help, but I digress. My current and only Socket 370 build has a PIII-S 1.4/512K/1.45V CPU installed and has 2 ISA slots. Going to install my AWE64 Gold for DOS games and disable the Live! …

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Re: Gotek Floppy Emulator with FlashFloppy

Posted on Yesterday, 08:15

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FlashFloppy firmware is compatible with HxC's Windows/DOS selector software which is superior in every way to the factory stuff. There is absolutely no reason to not flash to FlashFloppy.

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Re: What are the best Vga to hdmi scalers or peripherals for MS-DOS games ?

Posted on 2020-06-03, 12:00

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Interesting thread. I ordered one of these, it should take a while to reach me but I will let you guys know how that works out..

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Re: MS-DOS DoubleSpace and DriveSpace, anyone use it?

Posted on 2020-06-03, 11:14

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by appiah4

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I used it a lot with DOS 6.0, and for a while on 6.2 HDD prices were very expensive back then IIRC. At around the release of 6.22 I didn't bother anymore.

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2020-06-03, 06:41

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by appiah4

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The Compaq Deskpro SFF are really nice machines. I used them as a Linux fileserver and internet gateway at home for many years. First the Socket 7 edition without optical drive, later the slot 1 with CD. I have a Socket 370 one and I love it. Mine has a weird issue with the onboard IDE controller …

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Re: Testing and imaging old IDE/PATA drives

Posted on 2020-06-03, 06:32

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by appiah4

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How do you setup a CF or SSD for Windows 98? Wouldn't the OS destroy the disk from caching? I actually have a spare PCI IDE/RAID controller (BIOS flashable between the two), it had never occured to me to use it here.. I suppose it could use it here but I would rather reserve it for a more suitable …

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Re: ESS AudioDrive (ES1868) - a surprisingly good ISA sound card

Posted on 2020-06-03, 06:28

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Having some issues with my ES1868. How hot is it supposed to get? Mine is getting pretty toasty within 10-15 seconds and unisound doesn't seem to be detecting any cards in the system. I've had to replace the crystal on it with another 14.31818MHz as the original got knocked off. I'm thinking this …

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Re: Testing and imaging old IDE/PATA drives

Posted on 2020-06-02, 22:22

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The 20GB Samsung died on me while recovering the files, though I got most of what was crucial. It's now well and truly dead and in the bin, and I seem to have dodged a bullet. I seem to have run out of viable HDDs for this system, even the hacked BIOS can only handle up to 32GB in LBA mode and the …

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Re: New sound card project: AWE64 Legacy

Posted on 2020-06-02, 22:16

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by appiah4

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for dos sound awe64 and even better the awaited awe64 legacy for win32 games go aureal vortex 2. and you will never want to hear about sblive. and i have apollo pro 133a aureal is great I have an AWE32 on one of my DOS rigs, an ALS100 on the other and an SBLive on my Tualeron/V3 Win98 rig, and I'm …

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