I put the finishing touches on my silent, non-period-correct retro gaming PC, and have added it to my sig. It's a mini-ITX VIA C7 @ 1.2 GHz (roughly equivalent to a P3 750) with a PCI slot multiplier allowing me to fit both a Radeon 9200SE 128MB (or Voodoo3 2000) and a Yamaha YMF744. It's dual- …

It's a 386SX-16 with 387 FPU and 4 MB of RAM. Since it runs, I ordered some parts for it: a 512MB disk-on-module, Dos 6 on 5.25" floppies, and an ESS-1869 soundcard. Looking forward to discovering just how pathetic this little cacheless, 16-bit-bus 386 really is. :lol: Those CPU and RAM specs are …

My Acu-MOS AVGA2 card arrived, so I was able to test my Dolch 386-P.A.C. It boots! But it doesn't find the hard drive, even when I enter the parameters for it. :depressed: The motherboard battery (a Dallas unit) is quite dead, but it has an external battery header, so I can hook up a few AA …

Oh, as a quick comparison, I found these recordings of Dune's OPL2 and OPL3 soundtracks... If you think these two FM synths are the same... :lol: I don't know if this was a Vogons member or not... whomever you are, you are beautiful for preserving this FM greatness! Here's the song "Morning" on OPL2 …

Hah, someone has asked this question before. I'm smart. :lol: http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=18412 I have a small list of songs that I enjoy hearing on wavetable MIDI cards. E1M1 isn't a technically challenging song for a MIDI card, but it's a known quantity and can make initial comparisons …

Right, but in the case of an FM synth card, the driver, or sound library, or game code itself, has to program one of the available synth channels to some preset approximating a GM instrument... (I dabble in FM synthesis and have a couple of OPL / OPM / OPN emulation plugins for my DAW ^_^ ) So with …

The classic CANYON.MID comes to mind, at least for GM-compatible cards. Just curious: what about FM synth cards? IMO the best FM synth music was produced by the PC directly controlling the FM synth chip's registers (think Tyrian2000's jukebox mode) versus running a MIDI player in Windows, for …

Yes, definitely overclock it! ^_^ The advantage of the early Celerons (besides their lower cost) was that without all those extra transistors (L2 cache), they could overclock quite well! My favorite gaming machine was my Celeron 667 that I overclocked to 950 MHz via my motherboard's frontside bus. …