So the card has arrived now and I'm really happy with it. I am running it through my main PC via audio-out to line-in, but I'm not hearing any noise whatsoever interestingly enough. I don't know, maybe at higher volumes or something it might cause problems, or maybe I've just got tinnitus I'm …

Oh thanks for letting me know. I guess I'll have to see how much I notice it/it bothers me.

Finally I snagged a ALS100 non plus last night out of curiosity. Also not able to find any matching pictures of that exact card online. In general though just the ALS100 non plus sees to have become a rare card. I waited months to see one pop up, and checking sold listings maybe 1-2 have sold all …

AH! I'm so excited! After looking for around a decade this point (granted, not very thoroughly, just when I remembered to check ebay) I have finally found and just bought the sound card of my first PC: an Avance Logic ALS100 (nonplus)! God it's been hard to find between all the ALS+ and Plus+ and …

Speaking of OPL3 I don't think I'll ever get MIDI sounding the way my brain thinks it should without finding an ALS100 (nonplus) like I had growing up. I remember seeing tons of them when I checked a couple of years ago, but I can't seem to find anything lately.

It's no Model M (or so a cursory googling of the product number told me) but I picked myself up a neat IBM KB-7993 keyboard today. It feels great, and only cost $20. Previously I was using some old mushy-keyed Windows XP media thing keyboard I found while I looked for something better, and this is …

Oh I had no idea Descent 2 could utilise one. Hmm, would it work with a Voodoo 2? Or a Banshee? (Apparently it does work with Voodoo 2, that might be what I go after) These responses definitely opened my eyes though, so thank you!

So I know the answer to a question of worth is fairly subjective generally, but the problem is I entirely missed that section of technology when it was current at the time and didn't really have the ability to care about hardware acceleration until it became a standard thing. Currently I've got a …

IDE to USB!? I've never heard of that before. I'd need something like that because unfortunately my motherboard lacks USB headers as far as I can see. And ah, hm. I didn't know you could share a directory just by doing that, as far as I found my choices were to set up an FTP server or a webserver. …

Dang, I just didn't want to wipe all the stuff I'd taken so long FTPing onto its HDD heh. Guess it's time for partitions!

Hey sorry to barge into this thread with this but I figured it'd be better to ask here than make a whole new thread. Anyway, my old PC came with Windows 98 SE installed on it, but I decided I wanted to pave over it and set it all up from scratch the way I wanted and all. But when I tried to do so it …

So I was considering audio output options for my retro PC, and was considering getting a male-to-female 3.5mm extension thing so I could easily connect my headphones to it without having to keep reaching behind the computer. But then I saw lots of male-to-male cables for sale and it got me wondering …

Heya. So, for years I've been wanting to build a PC similar to what I'd had in the mid 90s but never quite had the money to really make the dream a reality, until now. I took a peek at local listings on ebay on a whim recently and to my utter surprise found someone selling a Pentium MMX 200, with …