Re: Cloning the AdLib Gold Surround Sound Module

Posted on 2020-11-06, 12:24

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Imo, if a person with high skill and specialist equipment, spends (I guess??) several hours making each card by hand, then Fair Market Value for the Labour alone must be quite a high cost. Add in research, plans, parts, shipping, and administration time/costs, you're surely at minimum 200 Euro …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-10-28, 13:32

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I have since replaced the battery on the motherboard, and have soldered a header on to the empty fan spot. I also found out that having a PCI GPU automatically disables the onboard ATI-264GT, which is always a bonus. The question is, should I use the integrated Yamaha YMF-701 or my YMF-719 ISA card …

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Re: Retro Hardware Collecting rants

Posted on 2020-10-28, 11:46

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What the duck kind of world do we live in where a base A1200 is worth $500-1000? This is not about A1200's in particular, because I know nothing about them, but it's the same world where "X/Y/Z Model old car" will fetch tens/hundreds of thousands of dollars due to age-related rarity and retro- …

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Re: Retro Hardware Collecting rants

Posted on 2020-10-27, 22:16

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Paypal seems to be a business on the decline, inevitable when going from ebay-forces-everyone-in-the-world-to-use-it (a status they've enjoyed for a long time now) to "just one of many". Their upcoming intention to become a cryptocurrency merchant next year is a clear signal that they're desperately …

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Re: Which PCI Sound card is least terrible in DOS (shortlist)

Posted on 2020-10-25, 07:24

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Hard to beat the Yamaha YMF7x4's imo, as a low priced jack of all trades. Maybe the cheapest way to get real Yamaha FM? + you get XG MIDI in Windows which is fun to play with. Won't be 100% compatibility across the board in DOS, but that's where ISA cards come in.

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Re: Help... unkown ISA sound card...

Posted on 2020-10-22, 23:41

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Or UNISOUND maybe, for DOS drivers.

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Re: Hardest adventure game you've ever played (DOS/Early WIndows)

Posted on 2020-10-22, 23:06

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Barely any adventure games make sense to me. I mean, carry out a complex process, to end up with the rat, which you put in the soup, to get the cook fired, so you can get offered the job, so you can get some pay in advance, so you can then use that money to move on.... I must have been living a …

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Re: MS Sidewinder 3D Pro joystick - does anyone have good information about it?

Posted on 2020-10-22, 04:49

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Using archive.org you can still access the sites linked in the forum posts. http://web.archive.org/web/20040604094424/http://www.cc.utah.edu/~dlg7/sidewinder/repair.html http://web.archive.org/web/20071001112320/http://home.comcast.net/~dyrgcmn/OddEnds/SW3D.html Thanks a lot, those pages have …

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MS Sidewinder 3D Pro joystick - does anyone have good information about it?

Posted on 2020-10-22, 02:53

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Further to my topic looking for good DOS joystick options for Tie Fighter: As the initial step on that path, I've first obtained an MS Sidewinder 3D Pro joystick to test out. It's just arrived on my doorstep and now I intend to open it up, give it a full clean up, and attend to anything else inside …

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Re: About Roland Virtual Sound Canvas 3

Posted on 2020-10-22, 00:39

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Great progress, thanks.

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Re: Questions about bootable floppies on old PC's

Posted on 2020-10-20, 01:14

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Just wanted to add this link into the thread, direct to specific info about the "sp12877" update. http://cwcyrix.nsupdate.info/ftp-archives/ftp.compaq.com/pub/softpaq/sp12501-13000/sp12877.txt SOFTPAQ NUMBER: SP12877 PART NUMBER: 270899-401 FILE NAME: N/A TITLE: ROMPaq for Deskpro 4000 (586V ROM) …

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Re: what will you do when your last hardware fails?

Posted on 2020-10-16, 18:31

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Cycle-accurate 'emulation' in FPGA hardware gets around all the above emulation-is-inaccurate concerns. I know some fairly hardcore private games rooms whose owners are enthusiastically shifting machines over to it, over the past year or two. Afaik they're (i.e the MiSTer project) not too far away …

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Re: what will you do when your last hardware fails?

Posted on 2020-10-15, 23:52

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MiSTer or similar, hardware FPGA-based 'emulation'. Cycle-accurate translation of old systems into new silicon.

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Re: Hardest adventure game you've ever played (DOS/Early WIndows)

Posted on 2020-10-15, 23:25

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Yes while not always the hardest as such, the Sierra games certainly came with their share of little frustrations, and could be downright devious at times! Filename questophile.png File size 186.62 KiB Views 1484 views

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Re: What are *the ultimate* in joystick/controller luxury, specifically for DOS Tie Fighter?

Posted on 2020-10-15, 21:53

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^^Hahaha, now we're talking! Thanks a lot guys, great suggestions and info. I think I'll start with either a Thrustmaster FCS stick, or a Microsoft Sidewinder 3D Pro. Tie Fighter is a bit of an anomaly in that I don't play flight sim games in general, so I probably can't (for example) justify buying …

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Re: Iconic Sound Blaster CT numbers

Posted on 2020-10-14, 16:23

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I don't get the fuss, it's not like they're rare Dunno man, in my little remote country I've seen in-person one GUS in 30 years of being a PC enthusiast, and currently on ebay there are three in the entire world on sale. That's quite rare to me. They were a niche item in a niche market, they …

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Re: What is this "Wipeout HD" shown extensively in a Youtube Video about the Pentium II???

Posted on 2020-10-14, 01:06

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Oh ok. I just didn't get how a game from another system would be shown in quite a bit of the video. But that's cool. Creative license and all that. Had me wondering for a minute, what is this incredible-looking old Pentium II game I've missed out on!!! 😁 Carry on...

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What is this "Wipeout HD" shown extensively in a Youtube Video about the Pentium II???

Posted on 2020-10-13, 22:14

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhVzBj8A5WY In this video, we see a lot of footage of a "Wipeout HD". What is this, a PC game??? Can't find any info on Google, except for a Playstation 3 game of that name. Trying to reconcile what I'm watching here.... I mean if it's not a PC game related to the …

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Re: Info on the Diamond Monster Sound MX300

Posted on 2020-10-13, 21:44

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Doesn't gold connectors on a card merely dictate galvanic corrosion (when used with normal cables), unless you specifically use cables which also have gold connectors? In that sense, gold connectors on a card could either be a blessing or a curse.

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What are *the ultimate* in joystick/controller luxury, specifically for DOS Tie Fighter?

Posted on 2020-10-13, 10:16

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Torn about whether this is a software or hardware topic, but ultimately it's about the game Tie Fighter, and how to get the most out of it, so I mades my choice.. I'm starting to replay Tie Fighter (DOS Collector's CD version) in MS-DOS on real hardware - reliving possibly my favourite game …

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