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

Posted on Today, 13:24

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by canthearu

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Received my XT motherboard with 8087 co-processor Dug through the 100's of expansion cards and found a compatible 8-bit VGA display and compatible 16-bit I/O card. Only took 3 graphics cards and 2 I/O cards. Ended up grabbing a Trident 8800CS and a UMC based 16-bit I/O card. Powered it up and it …

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Re: BLASTERBOARD : A new SB 2.0-compatible ISA sound card

Posted on Yesterday, 00:23

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by canthearu

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

LABS wrote on 2020-02-23, 12:57: New batch of PCBs finally arrived! Slightly updated design now. Pre-ordered kits will start shipping on Wednesday. BB-REVC.jpg Damnit, you had to go and make the card all sexy-like 😀 Now I sorta desire another one.

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Re: Building an Athlon XP Configuration on this days. This is what I got.

Posted on 2020-02-23, 02:48

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by canthearu

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Its a very nice Althon XP motherboard to have a 12V VRM system. This board is good for windows 98 or Windows XP, but you will get no DOS compatibility with it. Don't bother trying, it won't work! But for a 2003/2004 install, you would normally be looking at running windows XP anyway!

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Re: GeForce 7800 GTX on AM4 board under Windows 10

Posted on 2020-02-20, 12:13

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by canthearu

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in Marvin \ Video

Thanks for all the replies. I'm going to install an Athlon 3000G for this system and it's going to be connected to the internet, so Windows 7 is not an option. I know that some old games run pretty poor using recent DX12 cards, so that's why I got this idea of using an old card. Well, I might …

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Re: GeForce 7800 GTX on AM4 board under Windows 10

Posted on 2020-02-19, 01:05

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by canthearu

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in Marvin \ Video

Geforce 7800 GTX is good up to windows XP. For whinedows 10, I'd get something a little more grunty. You can get the 7800 GTX working on whinedows 10, but it isn't a very good experience. You should just get a much more modern card, then with DX9 games they should be fine. The ones that don't run, …

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Re: Article "The Sound Blaster Story" History of Creative Labs & Interview with its founder/CEO

Posted on 2020-02-18, 04:23

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by canthearu

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Yeah, but I didn't know about them, and it was too late by the time I did. I had gotten my mediocre card and was happy with it.

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Re: Article "The Sound Blaster Story" History of Creative Labs & Interview with its founder/CEO

Posted on 2020-02-18, 00:07

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by canthearu

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

For me, the decision to go with Sb-live at the time was easy. SB-live value - $120 AU Diamond Multimedia MX300 - $225 AU Also, availability and name recognition played a huge role.

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Re: Any ISA sound card sound as good as the Gravis Ultrasound ?

Posted on 2020-02-17, 23:41

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by canthearu

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in Marvin \ Sound

The only way I'm getting a Gravis Ultrasound is probably though ebay. Looking at the ebay prices for for these cards .... big NO on that. With listings averaging around $400, its not happening.

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

Posted on 2020-02-17, 01:25

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by canthearu

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

For now tantalum cap blowed into my face, and burned a hole in the carpet... It seems I will never learn to check them for shorts prior to applying voltage... I have a 386 mobo that powered up fine about 10 times and then both 12V and -12V caps failed - the 12V blew up and after that identified as …

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Re: Any ISA sound card sound as good as the Gravis Ultrasound ?

Posted on 2020-02-16, 01:09

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by canthearu

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

If you are just after a good version of the SB2.0, get a blasterboard! BLASTERBOARD : A new SB 2.0-compatible ISA sound card Uses a small microcontroller to emulate the SB2.0 and a real OPL2. Then has an actual high quality output section to mix the sound together so it isn't a noiseblaster!

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

Posted on 2020-02-16, 00:18

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by canthearu

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Tried out a CMI3738 sound board I found kicking around my storage. I think I originally bought it cheap 20 years ago. At the time, I was disgusted with it because it wasn't amplified output, so plugging in a headphone resulted in terrible output. So this time, I used my headphone amplifier to give …

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Re: Bunch of GFX cards, anything particularly worthy of interest?

Posted on 2020-02-14, 06:41

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by canthearu

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

What do you want from the card? There are reasons to have almost all the cards in the list. S3 Trio 3D/2x - Good DOS compatibility, low power and heat. SiS6326 - Seem more likely to have TV out in a PCI format, that might be needed. Matrox G400 - Great VGA output quality, Roughtly TNT2 performance …

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Re: Some guys opinion about DOSBox

Posted on 2020-02-13, 11:12

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by canthearu

in Milliways

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Bruninho wrote on 2020-02-13, 10:04: Dosbox-x does have a gui to edit the config file. Cool, will have to look at that.

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Re: Some guys opinion about DOSBox

Posted on 2020-02-13, 08:16

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by canthearu

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in Milliways

I would prefer just a settings dialog to change things like emulated SB settings, emulated system speed, keyboard and joystick bindings, MPU-401 passthrough and other system settings. The ability to load and save profiles in a GUI as well would be good. Trying to autoconfigure based on filename/hash …

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Re: Converting an SB-AWE-64 into an AWE-64-Gold ?

Posted on 2020-02-12, 23:51

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by canthearu

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Install a SIMMCONN to add more memory and use a 3.5mm to RCA cable. Then an AWE64 Value will be pretty much exactly the same as an AWE64 Gold. RCA connectors on the back of the soundcard are pure audiophile wank. Exception audio quality is routinely delivered via 3.5mm audio jacks, and the AWE64 …

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Re: Best video cards for Athlon XP 2000+

Posted on 2020-02-12, 08:50

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by canthearu

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Personally, on anything below a 2000+ I go with a Radoen 8500/9100. For 2500+ and beyond, the 9700/9800 are no brainers. With Socket 754 I go with an X800 or an X1950. I don't like nVidia much if you couldn't tell. :D I have a lot of Nvidia cards for some reason. :-) Although, I'd totally get …

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Re: Best video cards for Athlon XP 2000+

Posted on 2020-02-12, 07:39

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by canthearu

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Another good card, the one I use on my Athlon 2000+, is the Geforce 4 - 4200ti.

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Re: 9x Era PC Setup Help

Posted on 2020-02-11, 13:22

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by canthearu

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yep, your motherboard chipset must support the ability to remap low numbered I/O ports to PCI devices, so the PCI card can listen to the required sound blaster ports (0x22x, 0x388, 0x330). Then it must also have the NMI wired up correctly so it could emulate an ISA DMA transfer like old sound cards …

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Re: 9x Era PC Setup Help

Posted on 2020-02-11, 12:26

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by canthearu

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

1) You can give reinstalling windows a try ... it might work, it might not. Windows 9x is finicky. 2) You need to change it in the SB emulation device under Device Management under windows. The DOS driver should follow that. I'll try to pull out a DOS system and test this.

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Re: 9x Era PC Setup Help

Posted on 2020-02-11, 12:04

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by canthearu

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

1) Have you tried a clean windows 9x install, then installing the vxd drivers. Unless you have the original driver CD for the 5.1 card, you may need to try a few different driver CDs. Just be careful using an SB live based card with the 686B south bridge. There is a buggy interaction between the 2 …

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