Re: Quick Question : About Socket 7 Boards with SDRAM bank(s) and FSB...

Posted on 2011-05-01, 04:35

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by SquallStrife

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*SDRAM appeared much earlier then the other 2 standards, the oldest board with SDRAM slots was an i430 VX board! I have a PC Partner VX board with 2 SDRAM slots, but none of the sticks I have seem to work. Should PC100 or PC133 sticks work in such a board? (I have a suspicion it might he a voltage …

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Re: don't have many retro rigs, what should i do?

Posted on 2011-04-29, 05:10

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by SquallStrife

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since i am a 3dfx hater, i never looked into glide games. after all, ID games are not glide exclusive. i also hate creative soundcards, with the 33cm awe32 being the only exception due to its length. Mah daddy was a 3dfx hater, an his daddy was a 3dfx hater... :P Seriously though, despite whatever …

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Re: Sound Blaster 16 Clones

Posted on 2011-04-27, 09:23

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by SquallStrife

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Well, I don't remember. But technically it would be nonsense. Since any daughterboard only outputs analog left and right. And for the soundcard to convert that back to S/PDIF... very unlikely. Yeah, that makes sense. I was just making sure! ;) It's a nice enough sounding card if you turn off the …

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Re: Sound Blaster 16 Clones

Posted on 2011-04-27, 03:42

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by SquallStrife

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Bumping this thread because it's mainly about the CMI8330: Gerwin, are you able to get sound from a CMI-mounted wavetable DB via the CMI's SPDIF out?

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Re: PORT*ABLE Sound Plus drivers needed

Posted on 2011-04-24, 00:30

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by SquallStrife

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I didn't say it was, I said it might be a clone, like Disney Sound Source and friends. But doing some reading, it seems like it can do 16 bit audio and AdLib, so it's clearly more advanced than the aforementioned devices. Given this, it sounds fairly interesting, let us know how you get on.

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Re: Sound Card Recordings

Posted on 2011-04-23, 23:34

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by SquallStrife

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Just found this neat site, containing a neat OPL3 emulator Java applet. http://opl3.cozendey.com/

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Re: PORT*ABLE Sound Plus drivers needed

Posted on 2011-04-23, 23:20

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by SquallStrife

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I wonder if this is just a Covox Speech Thing clone? In which case, attached driver will give some SB compatibility in DOS.

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Re: Presario CDS 520

Posted on 2011-04-21, 03:47

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by SquallStrife

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Try the ESSCFG utility in this zip, I think it's SB Pro compatible.

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Re: 3D Accelerators Compared

Posted on 2011-04-20, 22:16

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by SquallStrife

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swaaye wrote: What I didn't realize until recently is that there are two Rage 128 chips. There's the original "Rage 128" and there's the "Rage 128 Pro" refresh. I wonder which one my ex-Dell "Rage 128 Ultra" is?

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Re: Yamaha S-YXG50 and DB50XG

Posted on 2011-04-20, 21:15

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by SquallStrife

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Well, I managed to get a CMI8330 to attach my XR385 to. Wow what a combination! This card actually sounds really good! 😁

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Re: DVD hardware decoder cards

Posted on 2011-04-19, 22:37

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by SquallStrife

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I still have my Encore 5x kit, with the DXR2 and a 5X DVD drive. I remember that back then it was great to have one of this kits. I believe Space Jam DVD came bundled . And you did NOT go into a killing rampage? If you haven't already, you will when you check out the immaculately preserved Space …

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Re: Quick question about underclocking a Pentium 2

Posted on 2011-04-19, 01:58

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by SquallStrife

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Malik wrote: Speaking of the 400MHz, what is the difference between a PII 400 and PIII 400? SSE

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Re: CD - Sound Card connector wire colours and pins...

Posted on 2011-04-19, 01:06

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by SquallStrife

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AFAIK there's nothing special about the digital audio cable, it's just two wires. You could knock one up in a minute if you felt like butchering an old case's LED/reset button headers.

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Re: CD - Sound Card connector wire colours and pins...

Posted on 2011-04-18, 09:10

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by SquallStrife

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Can the board (sound card or motherboard) be harmed if the wires are connected the other way round? If the pinout is LGGR, then all you'll get is reversed channels. If the pinout is LGRG or RGLG, it'll probably just be silent. It's just line level audio, if you get the pins mixed up it just won't …

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Re: Hanging note problems with SB16 and DBs

Posted on 2011-04-18, 05:41

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by SquallStrife

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😁

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Re: Roland score! Now for a few questions

Posted on 2011-04-18, 04:02

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by SquallStrife

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Haha yesh, ANYTHING sounds better than PC Honker. Even when the poor thing can be coaxed into this kind of thing:

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Re: 3D Accelerators Compared

Posted on 2011-04-18, 03:50

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by SquallStrife

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We like Tualatins too, don't we?

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Re: Roland score! Now for a few questions

Posted on 2011-04-18, 02:40

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by SquallStrife

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Mau1wurf1977 wrote: GM games, kinda sound all the same, but The Heart of China, or Space Quest 4, boy, they sound totally unique. Same goes for Wing Commander / Strike Commander. Massive +1 to that. Before I got an MT-32, I thought the Amiga was the best way to hear Sierra games... How wrong I was …

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Re: 3D Accelerators Compared

Posted on 2011-04-18, 02:37

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by SquallStrife

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batracio wrote: GeForces & Radeons, GeForces & Radeons everywhere. Terribly sorry buddy, but as awesome as I am, I just can't benchmark a card I don't own!! 🙁

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Re: 3D Accelerators Compared

Posted on 2011-04-18, 00:24

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by SquallStrife

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My GeForce 256 and GeForce 3 Ti200 are both dead... :depressed: So here are my results: http://lin.squallstrife.net/images/graph.png http://lin.squallstrife.net/images/data.png 9200 and 9200 SE tested with Catalyst 6.11 9550, 9700 Pro, 9800XT tested with Catalyst 9.3 FX5200, FX5600 tested with …

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