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

Posted on 2025-04-20, 15:01

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Shponglefan wrote on 2025-04-14, 12:45: Bought some new shelving to try to organize some of my PC builds / cases. […] Show full quote Bought some new shelving to try to organize some of my PC builds / cases. Filename Workbench mess.jpg File size 972.62 KiB Views 701 views File license Fair use/fair …

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

Posted on 2025-04-19, 21:55

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I jerry-rigged my own custom Sound Blaster Franken-drive! It's a mash-up of: The internals from a Sound Blaster X-Fi Drive The front panel and dial buttons from a Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Drive (de-badged using a magic eraser) A USB extension cord swapped in for the old FireWire connector All …

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Re: Adding Soundblaster Driver Load to Super Easy DOS .pif from Phil's Computer Lab?

Posted on 2025-04-18, 13:25

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I forgot to mention that in Phil's DOS launcher, those 3 lines will probably have to go under the ":EMC :XMC :CMC" portion AND the ":EM :XM :CM" portion of AUTOEXEC.BAT.

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Re: Adding Soundblaster Driver Load to Super Easy DOS .pif from Phil's Computer Lab?

Posted on 2025-04-18, 13:09

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If you already installed the Live! driver package, including the DOS Driver package, you're very close... All you need to do is go in "Program > Advanced..." of your PIF shortcut. Then, you need to add these lines in the AUTOEXEC.BAT part: IMG_5915.jpg Here, I am assuming the DOS drivers are getting …

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Re: PicoGUS: ISA sound card emulator with Raspberry Pi Pico (Gravis Ultrasound, AdLib, MPU-401, Tandy, CMS)

Posted on 2025-04-14, 18:20

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After much consideration, perusing this thread, and arguing with myself back and forth far longer than should've been necessary... The deed is done. I've decided to replace the AWE64 Value and Opti 82C920 in my DOS 6.22 build with the PicoGUS. The wide range of games I'm using on that system would …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2025-04-12, 02:57

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One morning, I woke up before my alarm and, instead of getting out of bed, I started browsing eBay listings. A seller had posted multiple graphics cards, all labeled "Vintage PCI Cards" at $99—likely placeholders awaiting updated names and prices. Among the bunch, I spotted what appeared to be a …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2025-04-09, 00:34

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One day, I woke up feeling like building a fast-ish VLB 486... So, I got an alright deal on eBay for that wonderful FIC 486-PVT with a DX2 66mhz, 128kb of cache, 4mb of RAM and an AT power supply. I already remove the OG Rayovac battery pack and made a connector for a 3xAA battery pack and fixed …

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Re: Monkey Island Ultimate Talkie - black screen on start in real DOS 6.22

Posted on 2025-04-08, 02:17

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it is known that the game has issues with mouse drivers (ctmouse is one of them) can you test without a mouse driver loaded and without a mouse connected? for my MVP3 and 386DX systems I have to use DRMOUSE.COM from DR-DOS to have the ultimate talkies not freeze (and I am glad it did because I …

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Re: MS-DOS : Sblive VS Terratec Aureon 5.1 PCI

Posted on 2025-04-04, 14:34

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kanyero wrote on 2025-04-04, 07:31: Understood, no Terratec for dos. Does Terratec Aureon 5.1 PCI have any advantage over live in win9x ? Thanks Maybe if you have it connected through optical output to a receiver... Which would require Live Drive or a daughterboard for the Live! card.

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Re: PicoGUS: ISA sound card emulator with Raspberry Pi Pico (Gravis Ultrasound, AdLib, MPU-401, Tandy, CMS)

Posted on 2025-04-03, 15:01

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Hi! I checked the settings, everything is correct. There is one thing, but maybe there is some kind of conflict? Because I use picogus as second sound card, but first awe64 at another port and dma and work well. I know some users that also used picogus like a second card with ESS and have this …

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Re: MS-DOS : Sblive VS Terratec Aureon 5.1 PCI

Posted on 2025-04-02, 13:02

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Isn't the Terratec Aureon SB 2.0 and SB pro compatible only? While you'd be getting SB16 + General Midi (+MT32) emulation with the Live. Seems like a pretty obvious one to me... Unless I am missing something?

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2025-04-02, 12:32

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Finally got my hands on a nice, clean, working and not ancient looking 5.25 floppy drive… However, I was hoping it would be more floppy-sounding… It’s almost dead silent! What brand floppy drive is that? It almost looks like a Teac but it's not. And the Teac sound is legendary I think....... It's a …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2025-04-01, 15:19

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Finally got my hands on a nice, clean, working and not ancient looking 5.25 floppy drive… However, I was hoping it would be more floppy-sounding… It’s almost dead silent!

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Re: PicoGUS: ISA sound card emulator with Raspberry Pi Pico (Gravis Ultrasound, AdLib, MPU-401, Tandy, CMS)

Posted on 2025-03-31, 00:10

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@Distemper - if possible, report on jumper settings used (there should be 3 jumpers for IRQ and DMA). - Did you try updating/refreshing the firmware? See: https://youtu.be/z4NYW5GQ3vc?t=316 - Also, when you say you get a "card not in the flashing mode" error message, is it when you try changing the …

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Re: PicoGUS: ISA sound card emulator with Raspberry Pi Pico (Gravis Ultrasound, AdLib, MPU-401, Tandy, CMS)

Posted on 2025-03-30, 15:10

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pgusinit detects and shows resources just fine, and I got FX sounds in all the games. But I got absolutely no General MIDI, MPU-401 or Ultra Gus music in any games :( Just a basic verification: Is there an e.g. ULTRADIR=C:\ULTRASND variable set and pointing to the gus software directory containing …

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Re: Guide: Installing Windows 9x and DOS drivers on Audigy cards (version 3.1)

Posted on 2025-03-30, 14:43

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I followed your awesome guide and set up an Audigy 2 ZS, but I'm having problems with pure DOS mode. Fun fact, I also swapped a Live! for an Audigy 2 ZS on my Windows 98 machine few days ago... Luckily, it works perfectly on my side. Few observations and/or ideas: Autoexec is missing "DOS=HIGH,UMB" …

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Re: InerAct (3dfx) Hammerhead FX force feedback question

Posted on 2025-03-30, 13:23

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Everything is working great except the force feedback, trying to tick the box to enable it just un-ticks itself. I have good batteries. Does it perhaps require USB along with batteries? I do not have the original gameport to usb adapter. I tried the adapter that came with an older logitech wingman …

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Re: Guide: Installing Windows 9x and DOS drivers on Audigy cards (version 3.1)

Posted on 2025-03-30, 13:19

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by Linoleum

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I followed your awesome guide and set up an Audigy 2 ZS, but I'm having problems with pure DOS mode. Fun fact, I also swapped a Live! for an Audigy 2 ZS on my Windows 98 machine few days ago... Luckily, it works perfectly on my side. Few observations and/or ideas: Autoexec is missing "DOS=HIGH,UMB" …

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Re: Pentium-S 100 MHz - Generic Mystery PC

Posted on 2025-03-30, 12:48

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1) What OS do you guys think would be best for this thing? My vote goes to DOS 6.22 and Win 3.11... I too have a P100 and it's my favorite "sound cards hosting machine" (PicoGUS + AWE64 + MT32pi). It is the perfect speed for late DOS games to. 2) What is your experience with the hardware in this …

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Re: Need Help with Trident TVGA8900CL Video Card - No Video Signal

Posted on 2025-03-28, 17:06

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I got my hands on an oscilloscope (Fnirsi DSO 152)... I might need some time to fully understand how to get my readings right, but I trust I'll get there... However, I noticed that my card has pins numbered this way: ...,5,4,3,2,1 ...,17,16,15,14 Instead of the newer standard: 1,3,5,7,9,... 2,4,6,8, …

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