Re: Choice of sound card in a 486DX2

Posted on 2025-06-12, 20:11

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I still own the card, and I tested it like 2 weeks ago – that's when I had my first ever impression of it. Like I said, the card is giving me some issues under Windows 95 when using its built-in wavetable. When listening to .mid files, it sounds worse than the Adlib interpretation it has. All the …

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Re: Review: Sound Blaster PCI 128 (CT4810)

Posted on 2025-06-06, 13:07

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oh, thanks for the heads up. i'll have to dig out my aureal vortex 2 in that case. dont know how it will be like to compare it to the CDDAudio feature of the PCI128 The Vortex 2's drivers add an option that lets you choose the MIDI output device for DOS windows. So you can choose the MPU401 on a SB …

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Re: Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 + Drive IR

Posted on 2025-06-06, 12:32

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You said Live Drive IR so the pcb is marked with model SB0010? I'm running that version on my Live 5.1 SB0100 as they were bundled together. Maybe try out the Live 5.1 WDM driver on Vogons Drivers and see if that helps at all? AFAIK there were two Live drive interfaces. One was used with the Live …

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Re: Does anyone own a MISTer FPGA and how is it?

Posted on 2025-05-30, 13:48

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in Console & Arcade Emulation

The only thing a lack of framebuffer does is that it _forces_ you to race the beam as the only viable strategy, but even with a framebuffer, you can most definitely race the beam, if you wanted to -- just write to video memory at 'inconvenient' times. I'm quite sure there is some PC demo doing it …

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Re: Does anyone own a MISTer FPGA and how is it?

Posted on 2025-05-30, 11:45

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I think this is over-exagerating. Sure display drivers are complicated, but this is because they do a lot of stuff (they _include_ multiple compilers!). However, you do not have to use the advanced stuff, and most definitely not to emulate a era 2D game. The basic presentation layer, I cannot say …

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Re: Does anyone own a MISTer FPGA and how is it?

Posted on 2025-05-29, 22:21

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Why all this ? You do not require "triple buffering" at all if you treat the PC like the 1980s machine it is and just race the beam, like a FPGA without buffering is going to do. Depending on what arcade machine you want to emulate, the PC is going to be able to do it without breaking a sweat, so …

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Re: socket 754 mainboards with sis 760 chipset

Posted on 2025-05-27, 22:03

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Ok that is valid info. My main usage is going to be 80 per win 98es gaming but it is not out the table that I will ge deeper into dos gaming at some point. Having a board that is good with does audio would be a big advantage. I think I will pull the trigger soon for a ASUS K8V-X mainboard. It costs …

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Re: socket 754 mainboards with sis 760 chipset

Posted on 2025-05-27, 16:34

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In the W98 DOS mode, audio also works with nForce (3 250 at least), but only as an SB16 emulation with SB Live! and Audigy. With VIA chipsets, of course, the possibilities are more diverse. I can't recall the exact Nforce chipset I tried, nor the specifics but I didn't have all of the full working …

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Re: socket 754 mainboards with sis 760 chipset

Posted on 2025-05-27, 12:18

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Thank you for the information. Yes, this makes sense. Having lots of power is tempting, but I had not thought for a second about the potential drawbacks such a system might bring. I was just "blinded" by the outlook of the power. But after a second thought, I would be way better off with a Socket …

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Re: socket 754 mainboards with sis 760 chipset

Posted on 2025-05-26, 17:40

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Sorry for hijacking the thread, but I’m in a similar position as you, OP. At first, I wanted to rebuild an old family PC, but this led nowhere, so I started to look into Core 2 systems. Phil from Phil's Computer Lab just made an interesting video about a G41 system. It was about Windows 98SE and …

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Re: Gotek like Optical Driver Emulator - Is it possible?

Posted on 2025-05-26, 15:19

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While not yet an ODE, there is mention of it in possible future updates. SD2IDE is now available for pre-order from Phenommod. $139.99 https://store.phenommod.com/?product=sd2ide More options are always great, but does this have the available IO to add analog CDDA support? It looks like the board …

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Re: socket 754 mainboards with sis 760 chipset

Posted on 2025-05-25, 13:31

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Thanks a lot for your objections. I have to agree. A LGA 775 system would be more flexible. still works with older stuff (2002/2003 ish) and will also offer great performance for the games later in the xp series. In case I can power up my Win98SE system to usefulness for 2001 and early 2002 games, …

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Re: socket 754 mainboards with sis 760 chipset

Posted on 2025-05-25, 00:21

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I see. Thanks for the info. The board seems not to be used very often. So i wonder if I can get some feedback about it. The more common socket 745 boards worth checking out would be the ones with the via and nforce chipsets right? Are your goals just XP, or do you also want to run 98? The need for …

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Re: Win-11 computers with PCI Slots

Posted on 2025-05-24, 14:45

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I dont use Chrome or anything using chromium on pc due to how scummy Chrome is with their two faced add pushing practises. Only people complaining about MS security were the clowns thinking anything made by MS will ever be secure. Also bitlocker is pointless out side of corporate use and simply not …

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Re: Final Fantasy VII and VIII definitive MIDI thread

Posted on 2025-05-22, 23:43

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Apologies for necro-ing this thread, but I have some questions that some with greater insight into these games might be able to help me with. Without getting too into the nitty gritty of sound fonts sbks dls etc which I "sort of" understand, can anyone tell me whether or not I will be getting the …

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Re: Win-11 computers with PCI Slots

Posted on 2025-05-22, 20:21

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If you are using the PC as a daily driver, you really should have TPM. The upcoming method of cookies in Chrome and Edge uses the TPM module to prevent stolen session cookies from being used on other PCs. This locks the cookie to only be valid on the PC they were issued to. TPM is also used by …

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Re: Does anyone own a MISTer FPGA and how is it?

Posted on 2025-05-22, 13:15

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The FPGA vs software emulation debate will never end, both are improving by the day, both aren't perfect. The next closest thing I've come across to the MiSTer is GroovyMAME with a 15kHz modded ATi card (Radeon HD7470 in my case) and an old 21" CRT TV modded for RGB input. GroovyMAME has an average …

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Re: Does anyone own a MISTer FPGA and how is it?

Posted on 2025-05-22, 05:23

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What systems are you talking about? Most arcade games for example run at weird rates such as 55 or 57hz. Typically emulators deal with this via interpolation, but that is basically just a bandaid. An FPGA machine would have to do the same for modern displays too as they can't sync to it. Some stuff …

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Re: Yamaha S-YXG50 SoftSynth in the DOS window within Windows 98SE (not working)

Posted on 2025-05-20, 22:15

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The Vortex 2 cards are the only thing I'm aware of that lets you select the Windows MIDI output device to use from a native DOS window.

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Re: SoundBlaster 16 PnP and AWE32 DMA conflicts

Posted on 2025-05-17, 20:41

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Running in DOS. There is a VLB video card present only and nothing else, but the motherboard has onboard controllers for IDE, COM, LPT, and GAME ports. Wait... you just said the motherboard has an onboard gameport? Does it also have onboard sound? Make sure that's disabled in the BIOS under …

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