Re: Identify vintage Creative speakers

Posted on 2024-10-09, 00:12

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by wbahnassi

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Got me a pair. Man they sound just like I recall. They are not close to any modern setup. But Adlib music sounds so original through them, especially those Adlib drums. I used to have them connected to a regular Sound Blaster, but now I connected them to an SBPro, and they also sound 😙👌 For …

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Re: Real ET3000 8 simultaneous fonts effects on attribute controller?

Posted on 2024-10-08, 23:59

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Hi, just got to running the exe. Its results match what it says on the screen. The line that says it should be blinking is indeed blinking. I've attached the photos. I noticed that the font looks normal on my machine, whereas yours is much wider. Is this expected?

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Re: Help with an ST-7A Turbo LCD Display

Posted on 2024-10-08, 23:54

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by wbahnassi

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Depends on the motherboard. Majority of Pentium motherboards dropped the turbo switch. If the motherboard still features a turbo switch connector then it should work. I have such a mobo, but it requires that you do the toggle when the PC is off, otherwise it could hang. Other Pentium motherboards …

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Re: Help with an ST-7A Turbo LCD Display

Posted on 2024-10-08, 19:51

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by wbahnassi

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My pleasure. Great to see you got it right. HI and LO are good. I personally put the CPU's standard speed for turbo mode, and a value measured from SysInfo on deturbo mode (typically 1/3 of the full speed).

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Re: MT-32 and certain games

Posted on 2024-10-08, 14:24

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by wbahnassi

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Note it is best to power off/power on the MT-32 when jumping between different games. Some games leave the MT-32 to its default instruments and other program some to their own. Power-cycling the MT-32 ensures it's in the state every game expects it to be when run.

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Re: Help with an ST-7A Turbo LCD Display

Posted on 2024-10-08, 14:16

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by wbahnassi

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Connect the turbo switch cable fron the chassis to the Front 20-21 (Turbo switch) header on the motherboard. Since it's made of three lines, you will need to see which two of the three are shorted when the turbo button is in the pressed in state. Those two lines connect to the turbo switch header. …

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Re: Sound Blaster 1.0 CT1320C box and stuff

Posted on 2024-10-08, 10:10

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by wbahnassi

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The reproduction board doesn't seem to have any indicator that it is reproduction. I fear such material could lend to fake eBay sales.. so no, I'm not helping this. Sorry.

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Re: MS-DOS 6.22 on a 2024 modern PC in with Ryzen 5 7600 and Geforce 4060 Ti

Posted on 2024-10-08, 08:42

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Nvidia cards dropped support for many modes a very long time ago. You won't be able to run any CGA/EGA game, not even VGA games like Gods. Only basic VGA. And the card doesn't give the monitor the correct aspect ratio, so on a 16:9 monitor you will get a stretched image. I would use a cheap Ati Rage …

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Re: Real ET3000 8 simultaneous fonts effects on attribute controller?

Posted on 2024-10-06, 13:30

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I don't have the Pascal toolchain, but I'd be happy to try out a compiled Exe for you on the real machine if you need to cross check anything.

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Re: Everex EV-673 - VGA output problems

Posted on 2024-10-06, 11:26

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Typically only 4 switches are used to select the initial boot display mode. The card has 4 more switches, those must control other settings like "type of monitor(s) connected", and your settings might be leading the card to think you have a multi-sync monitor, which is supposed to accept both 15 and …

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Re: Real ET3000 8 simultaneous fonts effects on attribute controller?

Posted on 2024-10-06, 11:06

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No blinking in that test. All text is static.

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Re: Real ET3000 8 simultaneous fonts effects on attribute controller?

Posted on 2024-10-06, 08:29

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Hi, I have one and ran VDIAG.EXE on it a few days ago. The screen capture in the first post matches what I saw at the multi-font test. It was gray text on black background.

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Re: Optical mouse pad pattern

Posted on 2024-10-02, 22:31

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Amazing how old is this technology. And to appreciate it more, it had to work with the very little power it could get from a COM port, whereas the popular optical mice that came much later were on PS2, which already has 5V and allows somewhat higher amp draw to properly power a bright LED and the …

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Re: Games that specifically need a 486 (not faster/not slower) to run properly

Posted on 2024-10-02, 22:16

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Alone in the dark 1,2 and 3 aren't playable on fast machines. The double-tap action for running malfunctions until you slow down the machine. Probably related to the topic too, The Terminator 2029 and Terminator Rampage simply refuse to run on anything but 286, 386 and 486.

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Re: MT-32 and certain games

Posted on 2024-10-01, 14:23

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Dude just run SoftMPU with the /DELAYSYSEX option. You should be good to go.

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Re: Optical mouse pad pattern

Posted on 2024-09-30, 08:58

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by wbahnassi

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Wow, I assume the mouse for this pad has sensors both on the tip side and the end side, and the mouse has to span the two pattern regions to function correctly.

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Re: Optical mouse pad pattern

Posted on 2024-09-29, 15:06

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And here is a better quality print with lamination. I tried printing on a glossy paper. The print was perfect and very clean, yet the mouse totally refused to operate on it. So I printed the pattern again on plain paper and laminated it. It works beautifuly. Now.. who needs some optical mouse pads? …

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Optical mouse pad pattern

Posted on 2024-09-29, 13:10

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Hi guys, sharing my findings on old skool optical mice. Got my hands on one optical mouse GVC Litemouse in box, with its software.. but missing the mouse pad. Bummer, but I really wanted to get the mouse working. Thanks to LGR and TechTangent's videos on the topic, I got to the idea of making the …

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Re: Looking for a MSDOS software to clean floppy drive heads

Posted on 2024-09-28, 21:28

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by wbahnassi

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Oh, it's a dangerous method. There is high risk that the cleaning media gets caught on the heads, pulling them out by the force of the spindle motor, effectively either ripping them out or breaking their springs' tension. The probability of this disaster happening grows with how much cleaning …

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Re: Looking for a MSDOS software to clean floppy drive heads

Posted on 2024-09-28, 20:37

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by wbahnassi

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ImageDisk by Dave Dunfield also has a nice disk cleaner routine, regardless of my opinion of this method of cleaning 😁

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