Re: Asrock 775Dual VSTA & Core4Dual thread
Posted on 2021-01-07, 13:50
Motherboard doesn't support any PCIe 3.0 cards. You can go only up to Fermi line of cards on Nvidia side (GTX 580 at most).
Re: Can you help me find the right sound card for my Windows 98 SE PC?
Posted on 2021-01-04, 21:23
If ISA is available, I would also recommend ESS Audiodrive cards (like ES1868 or ES1869). They don't have genuine OPL3, but their ESFM implementation of OPL3 is arguably best in the business (I would say miles better then CQM or Live! emulation), they also have bug free wavetable available and can …
Re: With all of great new ISA sound cards coming out (even with FPGA), what is theoratically stopping a PCIE implementat
Posted on 2021-01-04, 21:05
Almost every motherboard still has those signals somewhere, since the LPC bus is still a thing, and LPC is just a fancy serialized ISA bus. A few motherboards have LPC bus headers, others have solder points or test points with the LPC bus, and others would require soldering wires to a Super I/O …
Re: MT-32 wavetable daughterboard exist
Posted on 2020-12-31, 07:24
gdjacobs wrote on 2020-12-31, 06:08: Not completely, although it can be okay when titles stick to the default instruments. Which is unfortunately (for this use case) quite uncommon.
Re: E-Wave : an ESS based waveblaster card
Posted on 2020-12-30, 21:22
More wavetable cards, more better!
Re: The Final Lan Party (My New Windows Xp/7 rig) (Core i7 980x, GTX 480,DFI Lanparty UT X58-T3eH8,)
Posted on 2020-12-29, 21:50
And on the topic does XP ignore 8gb out of 12gb of ram then? Or does the 12gb of ram cause problems for XP? It's the same, like with 98 and multi core CPUs. XP just ignores anything above 4GB. I have dualboot XP/7 on my laptop with 12GB of RAM, and XP just see and can use only 4GB. There's no …
Re: The Final Lan Party (My New Windows Xp/7 rig) (Core i7 980x, GTX 480,DFI Lanparty UT X58-T3eH8,)
Posted on 2020-12-29, 20:08
RedCharles wrote on 2020-12-29, 19:40: How does XP run with the six cores. Does it ignore five of them? One core limitation is for 98, XP can use up to 32 cores.
Re: MT-32 wavetable daughterboard exist
Posted on 2020-12-28, 13:32
If you run his site through google translate, he's connecting an MT-32 & SC-55 off camera to the Aztech soundcard. Trust me, Paar really doesn't need to use Google translate on that site ;) Also, Clous wrote on that site, that you can connect MT-32 or SC-55 to sound card in that PC, not that he's …
Re: My First "Retro" Build Athlon 1000 Slot A
Posted on 2020-12-20, 23:03
I would also go for 98SE. XP is too much for that HW in my opinion, and as for Me... Well, if you don't have some nostalgic memories for it, I don't see any reason to go with it. As for place, where to find 98SE, if you're fine with just ISO image, you can find it on WinWorld. Use OEM CD, since it's …
Re: Socket 775 system revival story. Bonus: In-place upgrade of a 12-year old Vista install *PICS*
Posted on 2020-12-19, 21:19
AMD had to do something (PR rating), otherwise they wouldn't be able to compete with raw frequency of P4, even though that number didn't make Intel necessarily faster. Unfortunately, for most people, it always comes down to one simple number (GHz, MPix, GB of VRAM, etc.). I really can't blame AMD …
Re: Socket 775 system revival story. Bonus: In-place upgrade of a 12-year old Vista install *PICS*
Posted on 2020-12-17, 22:54
Sure, but QX9650 didn't come until November 2007, few months after Windows Vista release. Also, using 8GB RAM on XP (32-bit one) would be such a waste. I'll admit, that I also using Core 2 era CPU for XP, but that architecture definitely have enough grunt to run Vista/7 without any issues.
Re: Socket 775 system revival story. Bonus: In-place upgrade of a 12-year old Vista install *PICS*
Posted on 2020-12-17, 18:37
Why he would use "retro" system for modern games, when he already started, that he have multiple Win 10 machines?
Re: My first "retro" PC - overkill Win 98/XP build
Posted on 2020-12-16, 10:50
Yay, another update. This time a big one (at least from outside). I decided to repurposed the original case to some other PC and therefore I needed transplant parts to a new one. And rather then go to some more appropriate one I went even more mental, and put all the parts into modern case with …
Re: Command & Conquer / Red Alert Remastered source GPL'd
Posted on 2020-06-06, 14:32
Hopefully modding community will fix some bugs and add proper ultrawide support (currently game has black bar at the left side, while on the right side it renders the HUD for building, etc.) Released source code have nothing to do with rendering, so ultrawide support will for sure not come from …
Re: Command & Conquer / Red Alert Remastered source GPL'd
Posted on 2020-06-06, 07:40
There won't be anything more. It was announced from the get go, that they'll release source code for two main DLL libraries, for modding purposes. Full source code for remastered isn't even possible to be released, since the part of game with modern graphics is made under Petroglyphs proprietary and …
Re: What was your 90s nickname?
Posted on 2020-06-04, 20:00
Re: AGP and WinXP - Any Real Advantage?
Posted on 2020-06-03, 13:24
SPBHM wrote on 2020-06-03, 13:22: x800 released in 2004 was already native PCIE with a bridge chip to support AGP With X800, it was the other way around. X800 was AGP native, X700 was PCIe native.
Re: AGP and WinXP - Any Real Advantage?
Posted on 2020-06-02, 13:10
I would argue, that X850 maybe is way to much power for 98 (thought is that even thing, "way too much power"?), but it's definitely not enough power for XP in my eyes. To run late XP games comfortably, PCIe GPU is a must imho.
Re: Grand Theft Auto 1997 don't run in 3DFX mode in DOS
Posted on 2020-06-01, 07:43
A friend of mine couldn't get this game to work on his Voodoo 2, he had to run it with Voodoo 1. Skip to 7:50 to discussion about that: https://www.dosgameclub.com/grand-theft-auto/
Re: Has USA ever looked worse internationally ?
Posted on 2020-06-01, 07:28
Then you have the terrible and delayed response to coronavirus that led to 40 million people unemployed. Why do people believe this? We were doing stuff long before the WHO was saying covid was a problem. flights out of china were blocked when? in late January early feb? And what happens after that …
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