Re: MK8330 : new soundcard based on the CMI 8330 chipset

Posted on 2022-04-19, 07:01

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by FioGermi

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Have i been sleeping on something here? I use to pass on a lot of clone sound cards with these kind of uhh...knockoff? (Not knockoff, but you get what i mean) soundchips over the FM quality. But i gave a listen to some of those examples in the first post and wow! That FM sounds really good! Noise …

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Re: Digital game collection addiction

Posted on 2022-04-19, 05:26

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by FioGermi

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Steam apparently has a contingency plan for keeping access to the games you've bought. Should Valve go under. I remember reading that i believe.

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Corridor 7 digital sound

Posted on 2022-04-19, 05:16

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by FioGermi

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Could just be my floppy copy, but does anyone know what triggers Corridor 7 Alien Invasion to have garbled digital sound? Corridor 7 needs lots of conventional memory in order to access its full screen mode. I run MEMMAKER on all my fresh DOS installs and that seems to free up enough memory. However …

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Re: Is a Roland SC-55 Okay or do I need a MT-32 ?

Posted on 2022-04-19, 04:41

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by FioGermi

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Your ears will have to decide if its worth the nasty price they command on ebay. The price inflation of MT-32's (and others like Sound Canvases) has been quite ridiculous. It must be driven largely by retro gaming, since other sound modules not generally used for gaming (e.g. Roland XV-5080) have …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-04-18, 22:38

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by FioGermi

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A few days ago I bought Sony Trinitron PVM 2130QM. Sellers photo: https://i.imgur.com/GSNVXPP.jpg Has SCART input but no speakers. Will do more testing on retro consoles soon :D Someone locally in my city is trying to sell a PVM like that for $1000 something. Never understood the cult following …

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Re: Is a Roland SC-55 Okay or do I need a MT-32 ?

Posted on 2022-04-18, 22:30

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by FioGermi

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Honestly. I sold my SC-55 because it was just another thing taking up space on my desk that needed its own power cord and a bunch of wires out the back to the PC. Pretty sure you can get entire SC-55 sound-alikes on a wavetable module nowadays so i can't justify the need for a separate unit IMO. SC- …

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Re: Scratch on motherboard? How to keep it safe?

Posted on 2022-04-18, 18:24

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by FioGermi

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Could you take some pics of the board both front and back? Could you also include some pics of your CPU HSF, especially with a clear view of the mounting clip? Small green film tape? That doesn't sound like NIB to me, but I'd like to see a pic of this green tape stuff. It sounds awkwardly strange …

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Re: 4:3 vs. 5:4

Posted on 2022-04-18, 18:00

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by FioGermi

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You should be able to correct the aspect ratio on a 5:4 monitor with something like an OSSC right? NEC MultiSync LCD1970GX doesn't have the option to aspect correct to 4:5 or anything in the menu. Not that a tiny bit of stretch bothers me, was just curious.

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

Posted on 2022-04-18, 17:08

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by FioGermi

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I really appreciate the designs of these early ATX cases. Maybe moreso then AT cases. Sleeper build, anyone?

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Re: Scratch on motherboard? How to keep it safe?

Posted on 2022-04-18, 16:24

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by FioGermi

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I didn't see any other obvious defects with the board, except the little heatsink near the CPU HSF which seems to have bend heatsink legs (or whatever those are called, they are barely fins) but even though that indicates the board was handled roughly, this shouldn't really affect the boards …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-04-18, 01:50

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by FioGermi

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Whats the price range for Apple IIGS like these days? I have a small curiosity in owning one ever since i saw that LGR video on it years ago. I thought most Apples where getting a bit crazy.

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Re: 3dfx SLI vs nVidia SLI - Why doesn't nVidia do it like 3dfx?

Posted on 2022-04-17, 22:36

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by FioGermi

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Somewhere in another timeline...3DFX will be the ones saying: "RTX...its on!" and then horrendously overpricing GPUs.

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Re: Scratch on motherboard? How to keep it safe?

Posted on 2022-04-17, 22:08

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by FioGermi

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Could you take some pics of the board both front and back? Could you also include some pics of your CPU HSF, especially with a clear view of the mounting clip? Small green film tape? That doesn't sound like NIB to me, but I'd like to see a pic of this green tape stuff. It sounds awkwardly strange …

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Re: Limiting DirectX FPS in 3Dfx Voodoo3 3000

Posted on 2022-04-17, 21:40

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by FioGermi

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Outside of enabling Vsync or console commands? I don't think so. Check if Vsync is enabled. Honestly wish there was a tool like Rivatuner for older computers. Rivatuner is such a godsend for smoothing frametimes and setting frame rates to something consistent.

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Re: Degaussing floppies

Posted on 2022-04-17, 21:25

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by FioGermi

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Iv had the worst luck with floppy disks and drives. Sometimes they work one day, then die the next. Or die then decide to come back once or twice. Iv had drives die the minute i open them to clean the heads. Pretty sure at this point iv had drives die just from looking at them incorrectly. Tis why i …

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Re: Scratch on motherboard? How to keep it safe?

Posted on 2022-04-17, 20:17

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by FioGermi

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Could you take some pics of the board both front and back? Could you also include some pics of your CPU HSF, especially with a clear view of the mounting clip? Small green film tape? That doesn't sound like NIB to me, but I'd like to see a pic of this green tape stuff. It sounds awkwardly strange …

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Re: Recommended 2D/3D card for a 233MMX PC

Posted on 2022-04-17, 06:52

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by FioGermi

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A TNT PCI can't be found anywhere... and on ebay, and price is ridiculous (180-200$) I have found a S3 Savage 4 LT with 8MB Can it connect with the Voodoo 2? As it's 2d/3d card already You should be able to connect any secondary card you want to the Voodoo 2. The V2 shoooullllddd only kick in when …

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Re: Scratch on motherboard? How to keep it safe?

Posted on 2022-04-17, 06:20

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by FioGermi

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Could you take some pics of the board both front and back? Could you also include some pics of your CPU HSF, especially with a clear view of the mounting clip? Small green film tape? That doesn't sound like NIB to me, but I'd like to see a pic of this green tape stuff. It sounds awkwardly strange …

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Re: ESD and you

Posted on 2022-04-17, 04:51

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by FioGermi

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This is a really dumb question considering iv been building PCs for years now and you'd think i'd know this. But alas: So if you pet your fluffy cat and touched a stick of ram that was in a grounded, PSU plugged in PC. The tiny invisible shock would not damage said ram as it was connected to a …

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Re: ESD and you

Posted on 2022-04-17, 04:31

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by FioGermi

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This is a really stupid question considering iv been building PCs for years and you'd honestly really think i would know. But alas: So if you pet your fluffy cat and touched a stick of ram in a computer that was in a grounded PC. The tiny invisible shock would not damage said ram as it was connected …

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