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Re: What is your unconscious motive for retro hardware ?

Posted on 2021-04-13, 07:25

in Milliways

in Milliways

I was bored and I wanted to play single player games I was either familiar with or never finished, but on actual hardware and on an OS that I was comfortable with. I'm so glad I fell down the rabbit hole of retro PC parts or otherwise I don't think I'd have played any of the gems that I've …

Re: ORPHINIT: New Init Software For The Orpheus Sound Card

Posted on 2021-04-13, 00:13

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Thanks guys!

Re: S3 ViRGE deep dive

Posted on 2021-04-12, 05:06

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

I had a great time using my Virge DX (Diamond Stealth 3D 2000 Pro) in terminal velocity s3d edition which produced a reasonable framerate with some of the settings effects turned down. Much more enjoyable than software graphics. I didn't bother using it in any other game but maybe this article has …

Re: Recommended Gameport -> Midi cables? Joystick passthru? Quality?

Posted on 2021-04-12, 04:57

in MT-32 General

in MT-32 General

To add to this topic, just the other day I received my Orpheus sound card (PCMIDI option) which comes with a 3.5mm jack that handles the midi output. They ship the card with a 3.5mm plug -> 6pin din midi plug which connected just fine to the Roland UM-One. Works great too. I am not certain but I …

Re: ORPHINIT: New Init Software For The Orpheus Sound Card

Posted on 2021-04-12, 04:38

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Hi there Firstly thanks for creating the driver. It works great with no hassle and the volume mixer gives me no problem. My question is, where should I place a line in my config.sys or autoexec.bat when I want to start the sound card on boot? I had it at the top of my autoexec.bat but it seemed to …

Re: Recommended Gameport -> Midi cables? Joystick passthru? Quality?

Posted on 2021-04-12, 02:19

in MT-32 General

in MT-32 General

To add to this topic, just the other day I received my Orpheus sound card (PCMIDI option) which comes with a 3.5mm jack that handles the midi output. They ship the card with a 3.5mm plug -> 6pin din midi plug which connected just fine to the Roland UM-One. Works great too. I am not certain but I …

Re: USB 1.1 Front Panel for 440BX Based System - Options?

Posted on 2021-03-31, 02:19

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

NEC based USB 2.0 PCI cards in W98se 👍 I've thought about front mounted USB ports but I have just bought extension cables that run from the back and lay on top of the cases.

Re: Is it worth it to build a 486 66 or 133 machine using VLB vs SOcket 7 with level 1 and 2 disabled?

Posted on 2021-03-26, 07:41

in DOS

in DOS

Vote 1 to lock thread [1]

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-03-20, 11:00

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

kolderman wrote on 2021-03-17, 06:16: A new thing with some old things. strategy guides 👌

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

Posted on 2021-03-18, 01:47

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The last few nights I've been wrestling with trying to get an Intel D845 motherboard / Pentium 4 2.4ghz / Geforce 4 / Vortex 2 system up and running to build a fairly fast W98 PC but the main focus is DOS gaming at high resolutions in software render. Build games, Descent in high res, Quake, …

Re: Is it worth it to build a 486 66 or 133 machine using VLB vs SOcket 7 with level 1 and 2 disabled?

Posted on 2021-03-16, 02:29

in DOS

in DOS

sounds like you've decided you'll end up with both a VLB Socket 3 system and a socket 7 system. great work team we're done here

Re: An ISA Soundcard to pair with ESS1868f

Posted on 2021-03-10, 12:54

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Did you try muting the Line In and the wavetable header of the ESS card? At the moment, I have this 1868F connected to a Roland SC-155 and have never heard those "MIDI ticks" on it. it only clicks while using the gameport. when i was using the dreamblaster x2 i didn't hear anything. so i think it's …

An ISA Soundcard to pair with ESS1868f

Posted on 2021-03-10, 07:39

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Hi all My 486 system currently has an ESS1868f which I think is a pretty darn cool card. I like the FM quality and its SB Pro compatibility/quality. There's only one problem with my specific card: I can "hear" the midi out messages in the left channel. It's faint, but it's noticable. Ticky ticky …

Re: Recommended Gameport -> Midi cables? Joystick passthru? Quality?

Posted on 2021-03-10, 01:50

in MT-32 General

in MT-32 General

The cable from Ukraine came late last week - it is a decent construction and works great so far with the roland um-one mk2. I didn't even need the coupler I bought, the connections were fine from the gameport midi cable to the roland um-one. I'm using Munt with virtualmidisynth / coolsoft midi …

Re: Socket A: Nvidia vs Via - battle of the platforms!

Posted on 2021-03-09, 07:45

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

these are cool results. I have 2 nforce boards and never bothered with the onboard audio. does it sound good and is it useful tho? i understand this thread isnt for those tests but would be interesting. dual channel memory performance increase on nforce2 was a novelty i welcomed with open arms. …

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

Posted on 2021-03-05, 02:33

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

My Socket 3 system is finally finished. Biostar MB-8433UUD-A 16MB 72-pin EDO 6.4GB HDD Creative 48x CDROM GoTek floppy Dallas RTC Battery Mod ✔ "Upgraded" SiS 6326 VGA to Diamond Stealth Pro 2000 VGA ✔ Swapped the SB16 Value (Vibra & YMF) for my ESS1868f ✔ Upgraded the 100MHz IBM (Cyrix) to a 5x86 …

Re: Modern graphics on a 486

Posted on 2021-03-04, 07:27

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'm still skeptical, I can't find evidence of anyone using a 486 or POD with a card that has a full MPEG-2 decoder, actually installing drivers successfully and playing DVDs, maybe I'm the only one who's ever wanted to do that LOL. Hi! Hello. Sorry, I know I'm late, but I got to play DVD smoothly …

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

Posted on 2021-03-02, 06:27

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

My gameport to midi cable arrived in the mail so I finally set up MUNT and coolsoft midi mapper on my Win10 machine. I was using the normal munt app and I am amazed at how cool this is. I had some problems trying to get some games that expect LAPC-I to work so next I will try the Falcosoft midi with …

Re: What made you join VOGONS?

Posted on 2021-03-02, 03:12

in Milliways

in Milliways

was looking for advice on repairing a video card that i've still not repaired. one day my tnt2 ultra will live again!

Re: My 1999 (re)Build

Posted on 2021-02-27, 11:53

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

framebuffer wrote on 2021-02-26, 20:40: The snowboarding game is Supreme Snowboarding (or Boarder Zone) sweet thanks

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