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

Posted on 2023-01-14, 21:16

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It looks like Friday 13th arrived late for me - I played around with my DIY mt32-pi rig and managed to choose 12V power profile by mistake on my bench power supply... So now I have new nice Rasbperry Pi 4 shaped paperweight. :D While it looks like Pi4 is still unobtanium I can get Pi3a+ with …

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Re: Converting modern video files to older formats

Posted on 2023-01-14, 21:04

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Decided to share my experience with same use case. In my case I did it for concert BluRay's playback on my P3-933 Win98 rig. For P3-933 I found out that xvid (MP4) is suitable if you want to go higher than SD res. KLite codec pack is indeed simplest to install. However Mplayer is another player to …

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Re: MP32L - Lite version of MP32 : Pi based MT32 synth

Posted on 2023-01-04, 18:56

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I have not yet found good quality screenshot of PCB in order to ID DAC chip on MP32L. Owners here, could you share this info. Product page is describing it as "High quality DAC" and that's all.

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

Posted on 2022-12-30, 14:48

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First shipment for my "Let's replace broken SB32 SIMM socket" project arrived - Blingy low profile Purple RAM. In order to test them I had to implement temporary fix. Even managed find matching tan colored nylon thread. lol Nice! That is definitely some blingy ram. I have a couple cards that have …

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Re: Replacing SB AWE32 RAM Sockets

Posted on 2022-12-30, 14:36

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Digging up old thread at tail end on 2022 to share my experience. I could not source earlier this year in EU angeled twin SIMM replacement sockets with metal tabs. So I opted for 2 separate vertical ones. Even that ended up costing way more than I'm fully happy with with shipping from US + taxes …

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Re: [Advice needed] Yamaha MU50 and "illegal data"

Posted on 2022-12-26, 17:17

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...well 3 years later I found workaround to fix for my problem. I bought recently one more midi module - Roland SC55K. Tested two daisy-chained configurations: 1. PCI card gameport out -> MU50 -> midi passthrough -> SC-55K = "illegal data" on MU50 screen and both modules INOP 2. PCI card gameport …

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Re: UNISOUND - Universal ISA PnP Sound Card Driver for DOS v0.80a

Posted on 2022-12-26, 17:06

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Fixed Wavetable volume not changing with /VF when SPDIF mode was enabled on Orpheus / TB Malibu cards. (Note: some games/apps messing with SB mixer registers 00h, 06h, 26h, might reset levels again) Happy to report that /VF switch in SPDIF mode is now indeed changing Orpheus I Wavetable vol as …

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Re: Gotek Floppy Emulator with FlashFloppy

Posted on 2022-12-26, 15:58

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Thought I share my experience as well. My aliexpress unit turned out to be AT32F415 version. Added/soldered header for convenient jumper usage. Flashing went smoothly although it looks like latest Artery ISP Programmer have changed layout and some wordings so Flashfloppy wiki screens are outdated. …

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

Posted on 2022-12-26, 09:05

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Decided to treat my Medion GF3 Ti 200 with some heatsink love. It looks like a lot of GF3 Ti 200-s from other vendors tend to have actually active cooling and memory heatsinks. I've heard that this Medion branded (MSI OEM) are from pre build PCs sold in Germany. I wonder what kind of case cooling …

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Re: Yamaha XG with S/PDIF out ?

Posted on 2022-12-21, 18:54

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Thanks Stretch! I really should start searching old forum threads first. Downloaded RayeR's ymf tool. Everything is working as advertised. This community is amazing!!

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Re: Yamaha XG with S/PDIF out ?

Posted on 2022-12-20, 20:56

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As long time "normal" AW744 II (P/N 55.18610.631) user with added PC_PCI interface I decided to acquire Pro version (P/N 55.18610.631) with Digital I/O. So few confirmations from real card holder. Basically confirming Kodi findings. TOSLINK module is indeed TX178S. Aliexpress current pricing starts …

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

Posted on 2022-12-13, 20:28

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First shipment for my "Let's replace broken SB32 SIMM socket" project arrived - Blingy low profile Purple RAM. In order to test them I had to implement temporary fix. Even managed find matching tan colored nylon thread. 🤣

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Thermal cameras and retro gear fun - sharing experience

Posted on 2022-12-11, 11:43

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Are thermal cameras/imagers useful tools in our hobby? Bought my first thermal camera UNI-T UTi 690A (also known as UTi120S UTi712S) recently and thought to share experience. I guess it especially useful tool for 1998 - 2002 time period where things got hotter and build in temp sensors for devices …

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Re: Orpheus Soundcard: a new DOS soundcard with SPDIF/OPL3/MPU support

Posted on 2022-12-10, 11:55

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Thanks guys for ideas and tool hints to tinker around. For now I have found for myself good default setup - with min-digital and SRS enabled. So all those golden Japanese audio grade capacitors are more like design element for my use case :D Only slightly annoying fact is that ma favorite FM player …

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Re: Orpheus Soundcard: a new DOS soundcard with SPDIF/OPL3/MPU support

Posted on 2022-12-08, 20:51

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640K!enough is there way to toggle SRS mute switch in DOS? When I'm unmuting SRS channel in Windows mixer I'm getting exactly the same noise on SPDIF as in DOS "analogue" mode. Could be solution for me. I found your old conversation in this thread. Great deal about 3DEN and 3DSO flags and …

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Re: Orpheus Soundcard: a new DOS soundcard with SPDIF/OPL3/MPU support

Posted on 2022-12-04, 21:24

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My new DAC and Sennhiser arrived this weekend. Few observation about Orpheus spidf out. Everything works flawlessly in Windows 98. Idle signal is completely silent. Booting under DOS 7.1 when I'm initializing card with orphinit ini parameter RoutingMode=min-digital card stays silent like under …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-12-04, 12:11

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My deep dive to retro digital rabbit hole continues - bought few accessories for my 2000-ish PC setup. That Topping DAC sports ESS sabre chip. I was positively surprised to see that ESS™ Technologies is still in business and going strong.

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Re: Orpheus Soundcard: a new DOS soundcard with SPDIF/OPL3/MPU support

Posted on 2022-11-30, 19:43

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Thank you 640K!enough for your detailed replay. I actually found out good suitable .ini setup for WT levels with ORPHINIT in WSS mode, but then yeah I realized that software(games) more often than not will reset everything as soon as I choose SB for output. Still thank you for your effort. I'm …

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Re: Orpheus Soundcard: a new DOS soundcard with SPDIF/OPL3/MPU support

Posted on 2022-11-29, 19:49

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Well my use case is special I guess - a lot of external midi modules daisy-chained via MIDI passthrough and external mixer. Bought recently few WT modules from Serdashop. Thought I could utilize Orpheus WT header as just another module in my "chain". Well I cant turn WT module off/vol down in sb …

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Re: UNISOUND - Universal ISA PnP Sound Card Driver for DOS v0.78b

Posted on 2022-11-28, 19:46

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JazeFox are you aware that with Orpheus I card FM/Synth/Wavetable volume switch /VFxx ignores(does not set Wavetable volume) both on digital and analogue outputs? To be honest even CrystalWare native mixer cwdmix.exe is behaving in the same way so it might be hardware limitation. Then again 640K! …

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