Retro PC MIDI to modern PC

Posted on 2024-02-01, 15:51

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Hi everyone, I'm trying to find out what options I have to listen to MIDI from my retro PC builds. I have a P100 with AWE64 card and another build with PII 266 and a Terratec Base 1. An MT-32 or SC is out of my budget range so can I send MIDI directly from my gameport to my modern PC, and then play …

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Re: Getting ESS Audiodrive 1868F to work (Windows 95)

Posted on 2024-01-31, 12:28

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The card is detected and resources were set by pnp bios just right. That's good so far. The card has no amplifier so the output volume might be low. But ther should be at least something. According to the datasheet, line-out is the 3.5mm port in the middle. I also would inspect the pcb. There might …

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Getting ESS Audiodrive 1868F to work (Windows 95)

Posted on 2024-01-26, 12:48

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Hi everyone, Tearing my hair out trying to get this ISA card to work at all. It's in a EP-61LXA-M motherboard. BIOS detects it (see screenshot, actually it shows up twice, I don't know why). It's installed in Windows 95 with no errors. But I can't get any sound. I've tried the phils computer lab …

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Re: Faulty LGA 1156 board

Posted on 2023-11-20, 10:50

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paradigital wrote on 2023-11-20, 10:20: Could also potentially be a dry solder joint on the board somewhere? Heat cycles might make the problem better/worse depending on where the joint rests? Yes, good point. Where to start fixing that though? Unless I re-solder all joints. I know some people bake …

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Faulty LGA 1156 board

Posted on 2023-11-20, 09:36

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Hi everyone, I have an ASRock H55M_GE board for my Windows XP build. It's acting quite strange though. I have used two different (known to be good) PSU's, but the system will randomly restart and sometimes not then boot up at all. Sometimes i'll get the BIOS screen, sometimes not. Then also …

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Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on 2023-07-31, 09:41

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Hi everyone, I was quite lucky to get the pictured PC for free. I wasn't planning on creating a physical build but the opportunity arose and it's been quite a satisfying project. I've replaced the PSU with a modern unit + given it a deep clean and re-done thermal paste etc. I added a GPU and sound …

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Windows XP Emulation/Virtual machine

Posted on 2023-07-31, 07:23

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Hi everyone, Just trying to find info in the forums around creating a WXP virtual machine for retro gaming. I see there is lots of information to create a basic VM, but i'm wondering what options I have for XP era gaming. As PCem only really allows hardware up to the late 90's and i'm not sure if …

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Re: Windows XP Build - Floppy drive options

Posted on 2023-07-05, 11:13

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Thanks all. I have an external USB FDD so I will go with this option. 👍

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Windows XP Build - Floppy drive options

Posted on 2023-07-05, 07:47

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Hi everyone, I'm planning my first XP build. I have this board which I got for free and is a fairly modern board for XP. From around 2010. I'm wondering if I need to add a floppy drive (or Gotek drive) to my build though. I had one in my old XP PC and it was mainly needed for adding drivers and …

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Re: PC build hardware reference information

Posted on 2023-06-19, 09:51

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Just FYI for anyone. This is basically the kind of thing I was looking for. Would be nice it was more detailed and went into the 2000's but a good start. https://www.dosdays.co.uk/topics/typical_pc_per_year.php

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Re: Adding mouse port to my build

Posted on 2023-06-19, 09:10

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Thanks to everyone in this post. With all your help i've managed to add a PS/2 port which works!!! It was a long road but I got there. I was playing some Dune to celebrate. I've added some new skills along the way. I used continuity on the multimeter to get the pinout on the PS/2 extension cable. …

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Re: Gigabyte GA586-TX2 PS/2 Mouse Header (label J2) pinout

Posted on 2023-06-19, 08:50

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Thank you for this. Made my life so much easier. It seems the pinout for my GA586-ATS board is the same.

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Re: Windows XP - DDR3 memory channels

Posted on 2023-06-16, 12:25

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Thank you. I will stay with 2 x 2GB sticks then for dual channel.

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Windows XP - DDR3 memory channels

Posted on 2023-06-16, 08:53

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Hi everyone, For my XP build I have a Intel® Desktop Board DP43BF which has 4 DDR3 slots with 2 memory channels. https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/43606/intel-desktop-board-dp43bf.html It can handle up to 1333 mhz so I presume it's best to buy the fastest speed for a gaming setup? …

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Re: Adding mouse port to my build

Posted on 2023-06-15, 15:45

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Thank you so much. This was incredibly useful. I've managed to match up which colour wire now is which. Just the small matter of finding out which pin is which on the header. My MB manual has no pinout info... Can I presume here that the red will be + power and the black ground? To be safe, it's …

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Re: Adding mouse port to my build

Posted on 2023-06-15, 09:38

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Can I presume here that the red will be + power and the black ground? Then it will just be a case of finding the 2 data wires from the remaining 4?

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Re: Can you identify this PC?

Posted on 2023-06-14, 10:06

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Thanks! Yes, it seems that maybe they only introduced stickers for their 386 models. So maybe it was a 286.

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Re: Adding mouse port to my build

Posted on 2023-06-13, 14:43

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OK, so maybe this? https://www.amazon.de/-/en/PremiumCord-Extens … ps%2C124&sr=8-1 and then i'll cut off the male end and I should be left with some amount of wires.

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Re: How do I set up a CDrom in MSDOS 6.22?

Posted on 2023-06-13, 09:46

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Just to clarify here as i'm also having problems getting mine to work. Does the drive need to be a plain CD-ROM drive from the era? I am trying with a more modern DVD drive but it's still connected over IDE...

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PCEM - Adding new BIOS ROM

Posted on 2023-06-13, 09:07

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Hi everyone, I'm a PCem newbie. I have the standard list of BIOS ROMS in my setup. But i'm wondering if it's possible to add additional BIOS ROMS that I find. Specifically from The Retro Web? https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/tandon-corporati-model-189370-199720#downloads Is it just a case that …

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