Re: ESS ES1868F giveaway

Posted on 2021-04-08, 13:59

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So I have given away the Yamaha 3D sound card (which is in fact YMF719-S, not ES1868F) and the Edison Gold 16 Plus. Also I noticed the UTD76C Union is a ES1869F (48 kHz), not a ES1868F (44.1 kHz); four cards remain.

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ESS ES1868F giveaway

Posted on 2021-04-07, 10:14

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I have six low end ES1868F cards that I no longer need and I'm giving them away (as a whole, or separately). - KWX-SND21-W (2x) - Compaq Spare 247428-001 - Edison Gold 16 Plus - UTD76C Union SD-ES18XX - Yamaha 3D sound card If anyone is interested, let me know in a PM.

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Re: Looking for someone with an Abit KT7A-raid

Posted on 2021-03-24, 19:43

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The value on my board for this crystal is : TQ14.318B. Presumably 14.318 MHz ? By the way, check the resistor value (in ohms) of your caps. I found out that even caps that look completely fine can have gone bad. You will read a small value or even 0 if the cap has shorted.

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Re: Require a 4:3 VGA and SVGA display solution

Posted on 2021-03-20, 10:36

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darry wrote on 2021-03-10, 05:17: The bad news : there is frameskip at anything above 60Hz . I've had the same issue with a ASUS 4K monitor. I believe there are 4K monitors that can work above 60 Hz but they are pricey.

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Re: Abit KT7A (KT133A/VIA686B), Athlon XP Mobile 2500+

Posted on 2021-03-04, 07:17

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Thanks shamino, it is indeed a great option. Now I'd like to report on my (mis)adventures with two similar boards, the QDI KinetiZ 7E (KT133A based) and QDI KinetiZ 7B (KT133 based). The first issue is apparent when installing the CPU cooler, contrary to the Abit KT7A socket which as a north to …

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Re: Require a 4:3 VGA and SVGA display solution

Posted on 2021-03-03, 13:46

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Another advantage of the OSSC is that you can set it to sample the VGA input as 640x400. This fixes the issue that all LCDs sample VGA as 720x400 and you end up with duplicated pixels when 320x200 games are played: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=775155#p775155 The OSSC also offers a line …

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Re: WP32 McCake : MT32 compatible waveblaster board

Posted on 2021-02-16, 08:52

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awesome!

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Re: E-Wave : an ESS based waveblaster card

Posted on 2021-02-16, 08:50

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Nice 😀

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-01-28, 10:47

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Brand new Logitech Pilot Wheel mouse with original packaging! What a find 😀

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Re: Best WinXP Video Card

Posted on 2021-01-23, 14:03

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I may be wrong, but it seems people started complaining to nVIDIA back in 2014 or earlier about the limited RGB range issue. It's possible they released a fix in 2015 or 2016 which would have made its way into the 368.81 driver. Another possibility is as you mention that the monitor's EDID is a …

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Re: Best WinXP Video Card

Posted on 2021-01-23, 13:10

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Thanks for the input, but are you certain that the full RGB (0-255) option was in Windows XP ? When I first set up this machine, I remember trying several drivers before settling for my current one (347.xx) as the latest XP driver gave me a black screen on this monitor over HDMI. I actually worked …

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Re: Widescreen monitors and 4:3 aspect ratio compatibility thread

Posted on 2020-12-31, 09:11

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Interested to know how well the 300A handles 4:3 modes! The firmware appears to be available here: https://www.extron.fr/product/rgbhdmi300a (an account is required)

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Re: The quest for the perfect retro laptop: a saga

Posted on 2020-12-20, 16:41

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The headache with getting networking going on those Win98 vintage machines is to setup an SMBv1 share + working NetBIOS for the sake of interoperability. I don’t really savor it. For the record, here's my smb.conf. It works fine with Windows 98. [global] map to guest = bad user min protocol = NT1 …

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Re: Gigabyte 6bxc with PCI SATA HBA

Posted on 2020-12-12, 09:58

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I remember that of the two SIL3114 cards I bought, one was not working at all. The working one had to have its BIOS reflashed with version 5.5.00. It worked fine, also I suppose if you set up a sufficiently large area of the SSD aside (like 10%) TRIM is probably less needed. My main concern with …

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Re: SoundBlaster 16 CT1740 DSP 4.05?

Posted on 2020-12-08, 22:11

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That's an excellent advice. I just tried it and now the noise is very low. It also almost does not pick CPU/system activity which is great 😀

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Re: SoundBlaster 16 CT1740 DSP 4.05?

Posted on 2020-12-08, 21:54

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I have both the CT1750 and CT2290 (which is very similar to the CT2230, reviewed here /viewtopic.php?f=46&t=49896 ) They are very similar except the CT2290 has a line out on which I found very little noise, and best for powered speakers. OTOH my CT1750 is noisy and picks CPU/system activity. From my …

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Re: General Problems with analog VGA on TFTs and Converters

Posted on 2020-12-08, 20:28

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I suppose that by oversampling by, let's say 4x a monitor could in theory distinguish between the pixel edges, count them and switch between 640 and 720 pixels (as long as you have a straight line of non-black pixels.) Presumably something similar happens when you press the Auto-config button to …

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Re: General Problems with analog VGA on TFTs and Converters

Posted on 2020-12-07, 19:15

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I totally agree with you Locutus that CRTs are the best for DOS gaming. Nonetheless CRTs are difficult to find and not always practical. In these situations the OSSC plus a monitor that has a 4:3 option and is 70 Hz capable on the HDMI input is a decent alternative: - no quantization error (with …

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Re: Abit KT7A (KT133A/VIA686B)

Posted on 2020-12-06, 21:35

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Just to report that the replacement of the FDS8959A was successful! This KT7A is back to working again 😀

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Re: My Sound Blaster 16 CT2230 Review

Posted on 2020-12-06, 20:12

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I have tested it in DOOM and Duke3D. Keep in mind though that I'm using an Athlon XP at 1666 MHz, so that might influence testing by decreasing the CPU load (I understand the "type 2" bug is CPU dependant).

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