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Christmas closing in, wich parts should I get?

Posted on 2010-11-15, 19:04

… ESS 1868 AudioDrive ISA System 2: Siemens Nixdorf Xpert (not sure wich model) Intel Pentium II 400 MHz 256 MB SDRAM ATi … quality. That's about everything, thanks in advance. I'm also pondering wich

Re: Christmas closing in, wich parts should I get?

Posted on 2010-11-16, 12:29

by Svenne

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

… 16-bit stereo sound, right? EDIT: I'm still not certain wich voodoo card I should get. I'm leaning towards the v3, but …

Re: Christmas closing in, wich parts should I get?

Posted on 2010-11-17, 00:57

by 5u3

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Svenne wrote: I'm still not certain wich voodoo card I should get. I'm leaning towards the v3, but I don't know how good compatibility is. Will NFS II SE work on it? I'm quite sure NFS 3 and later does. NFS 2 SE still works on Voodoo 5, so it should be fine on a Voodoo 3.

drivers are on vogons but wich one ?? help

Posted on 2019-07-21, 13:13

by scroeffie

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

looking for drivers for a soundblaster 16 ct2600 ,windows 3.11/dos 6.22 matrox 590-05 rev b ,windows 3.11/dos 6.22 so many drivers but wich one are for me ? its a soundblaster pro i think noy 16 ?? https://winworldpc.com/product/sound-blaster- … und-blaster-pro

Re: Wich agp videocard?

Posted on 2020-06-14, 19:41

by Mentalbass

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

flupke11 wrote on 2020-06-14, 19:12: Anything around a Geforce 3 should do. What resolution do you plan on playing on? I think 🤔 800x600 or 1024x768 would do. So i can put an geforce 3 in there? Wich memsize would do?

Re: Christmas closing in, wich parts should I get?

Posted on 2010-11-15, 19:09

by TheLazy1

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I would grab a Voodoo3; it has nice 2D quality, cheap, available, and should (IIRC) perform as well as 2 Voodoo2s in SLI. I'll leave sound to more knowledgeable people but I'm happy with my Yamaha OPL3-SAx and clone MIDI daughterboard. 😀

Re: Christmas closing in, wich parts should I get?

Posted on 2010-11-15, 19:09

by gerwin

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Why would the crystal chipset sound bad? which chip number is it, CS4236? These chips have potentially the best signal to noise ratio compared to any competation from that time.

Re: Christmas closing in, wich parts should I get?

Posted on 2010-11-15, 19:39

by Svenne

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

@TheLazy1: Well, the v3 would definitly be faster since I'm opting for a single v2. However, how good is compatibility with older games? @gerwin: I don't really know. I posted a screenshot of the device manager.

Re: Christmas closing in, wich parts should I get?

Posted on 2010-11-15, 20:45

by Old Thrashbarg

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Why would the crystal chipset sound bad? These chips have potentially the best signal to noise ratio compared to any competation from that time. It's only as good as the implementation on the motherboard, though. I've had a few different systems with a CS4236 onboard, and some of 'em were OK, but …

Re: Christmas closing in, wich parts should I get?

Posted on 2010-11-15, 20:49

by Svenne

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Okay, what soundcard should I get?

Re: Christmas closing in, wich parts should I get?

Posted on 2010-11-15, 20:56

by gerwin

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Svenne wrote: Okay, what soundcard should I get? Tell us then, does it matter to you to have good Midi and or FM in pure Dos, or not really? What kind of Midi synth do you prefer?

Re: Christmas closing in, wich parts should I get?

Posted on 2010-11-15, 21:09

by Svenne

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

General MIDI support would be appreciated, it allows for much better music than SB/Adlib. I don't really know much about soundcards, though.

Re: Christmas closing in, wich parts should I get?

Posted on 2010-11-15, 21:30

by swaaye

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I think probably simplest route for SB+FM+GMIDI is an ESS 18xx ISA card with a DB header. The DB header actually works properly on these cards and they also have excellent OPL3 and SBPro compatibility. Info http://web.archive.org/web/20000301065841/http://www.esstech.com/product/ISAAudio/isaaudio. …

Re: Christmas closing in, wich parts should I get?

Posted on 2010-11-15, 21:44

by Svenne

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'd prefer a single-slot setup, and installing drivers isn't a problem.

Re: Christmas closing in, wich parts should I get?

Posted on 2010-11-15, 21:46

by swaaye

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

That's an advantage of using a MIDI daughterboard. And the ESS cards seem to be about as compatible with games as a real Sound Blaster Pro card. You can attach a DB like a Yamaha DB50XG/DB60XG or Roland SCD-10/SCD-15. A lot of the ESS ISA cards are rather slim and won't fit the usual daughtercards. …

Re: Christmas closing in, wich parts should I get?

Posted on 2010-11-15, 22:15

by TheLazy1

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

You can custom make a cable to use daughterboards on small or low profile cards, just be 1000% sure everything lines up and it will work fine. Mounting it on the other hand...

Re: Christmas closing in, wich parts should I get?

Posted on 2010-11-16, 01:16

by Ace

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

One sound card I REALLY like is the OPTi 82C929A. It's SoundBlaster Pro compatible(actually works BETTER than a real SoundBlaster Pro 2.0 as for whatever reason, I got that sound card to work with the SoundBlaster sound option in the floppy disk edition of X-Wing, but for some reason that I just …

Re: Christmas closing in, wich parts should I get?

Posted on 2010-11-16, 02:18

by swaaye

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

It all depends on how much effort you want to go through. The AWE cards have ROMs with one of the worst patch sets you'll ever hear. 😀 They aren't bad cards though but their soundfont capability with DOS games is quite limited (only within Windows).

Re: Christmas closing in, wich parts should I get?

Posted on 2010-11-16, 02:24

by TheLazy1

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

+1 That it's pretty terrible, a 2MB sound font is much better but still far from perfect. 2MB Is all I can test, all my SIMMs are MIA and I'm just playing with the card for shits n' giggles. 😀 [edit] NINJA!

Re: Christmas closing in, wich parts should I get?

Posted on 2010-11-16, 02:31

by Ace

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

You do know there's a soundfont out there(2MB in size) that replicates the Roland SC-55? I tried running a modified version of said soundfont(a mix of the AWE64's default General MIDI soundfont and the SC-55 soundfont), and from what I was able to tell, it sounded just like the SC-55. The one …

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