Re: Got my first box of oldschool parts!

Posted on 2010-09-02, 03:24

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by Mau1wurf1977

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Thanks for the input! The project is mostly for DOS games and also testing various slowdown utilities... I am getting also a lot of various soundboard and I am planning on doing some audio recording and just general experimenting... Ultimately I do lean a bit more towards DosBox, but I still want to …

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Got my first box of oldschool parts!

Posted on 2010-09-02, 02:44

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by Mau1wurf1977

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A big box came today! Will likely start playing with the VIA based uATX mainboard as it has a ISA slot. Hoping that slowdown utility works with this chipset... The seller did have a 440BX board, but he couldn't get it working. I got another one coming though, also with more cpus and ram. Here are …

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Re: ATI -- the Brand is dead, long live the Legend

Posted on 2010-09-02, 01:57

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by Mau1wurf1977

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From what I heard the changes from HD5000 will likely be minimal. A little less power consumption and a little lower temperatures but performance gains won't be a huge step up. It'll be kind of like the update from HD2000 to HD3000. Rumours say it will be targeted against Nvidias 460 cards... The …

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Re: ATI -- the Brand is dead, long live the Legend

Posted on 2010-09-01, 13:16

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by Mau1wurf1977

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New AMD Radeon HD 6000 cards out next month! A complete refresh is coming from top to bottom!

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Re: ATI -- the Brand is dead, long live the Legend

Posted on 2010-08-31, 13:02

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by Mau1wurf1977

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Well AMD has bought ATI ages ago. But they kept the ATI brand name alive... So nothing much should change. They will just be called AMD Radeon...

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Re: ATI -- the Brand is dead, long live the Legend

Posted on 2010-08-31, 12:31

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by Mau1wurf1977

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I had a Radeon 9800! I got it for around 320 Euros and it was such a good card. That card and Farcry... Bliss

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Re: Another one of the oddities - This time, System Bus Speed & Certain Dos Games

Posted on 2010-08-31, 09:28

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by Mau1wurf1977

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Just to be 100% sure, you might want to upgrade the BIOS again and see if the issue returns? Maybe it was some setting that got changed that actually solved the issue. Any chance that bios came with a changelog giving you a hint as what might cause the lockups?

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Re: Another one of the oddities - This time, System Bus Speed & Certain Dos Games

Posted on 2010-08-31, 09:05

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by Mau1wurf1977

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Man I had TEAC CD drives back in the day! You might already know this, but TEAC had DOS level drivers that allowed you to set the speed of the drive. This even worked for 8x and 12x drives AFAIK. There was a parameter which you had to add in the config sys driver line and you could "turn it" into a …

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Re: Sound cards - from best to worst

Posted on 2010-08-31, 05:24

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by Mau1wurf1977

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I'm starting a site that compares various wavetable devices. But a good addition would be to compare also the different OPL compatible devices of course. http://www.wavetable.nl Very cool site! I just started reading the information provided and it's very good! Wow this thread is very large and …

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Re: Roland SCC-1A : how rare are they?

Posted on 2010-08-30, 20:46

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by Mau1wurf1977

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Isn't the SCC-1 also a midi port? Meaning you could use it as a very "feature rich" MPU401 card... EDIT: That CM-500 we talked about earlier, went for US$ 400...

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Re: I love this thread!

Posted on 2010-08-30, 11:26

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by Mau1wurf1977

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Great post!

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Re: Roland SCC-1A : how rare are they?

Posted on 2010-08-30, 07:03

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by Mau1wurf1977

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Hey it's possible... Every synth does sound different :-D I heard a few General Midi recordings on Quest Studio and although General Midi is a standard, every synth sounded different... Now it's possible that this is because of many people doing the recordings on different machines with different …

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Re: Roland SCC-1A : how rare are they?

Posted on 2010-08-30, 06:51

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by Mau1wurf1977

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Thanks a lot for the info. Is the following correct - SCC-1 = SC-55 SCC-1A (or B) = SC-55 MKII When I use the symbol = (equals sign), I mean the phrase "technically and audibly equivalent". Thanks. Well according to the wikipedia article, YES! And the difference between 1A and B seems to be just a …

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Re: Roland SCC-1A : how rare are they?

Posted on 2010-08-30, 06:41

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by Mau1wurf1977

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According to wikipedia the MK 2 has more voice, more tones and a higher resolution output... Which one is better? Well that really depends on your definition of better... Every synth sounds different. That's just how it is. Ideally we would need to know which synth was used to create the score of …

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Re: Roland SCC-1A : how rare are they?

Posted on 2010-08-30, 05:12

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by Mau1wurf1977

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Hehe :-D Yea ebay is very very pricey for most of these items... That SC-7 could very well go for a small price. There are a lot of midi modules that have the same functionality. E.g MT-100 is a second generation MT32 with midi sequencer. Or there are Sound Canvas versions without display (CM-300 or …

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Re: Roland SCC-1A : how rare are they?

Posted on 2010-08-30, 03:26

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by Mau1wurf1977

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Nice 😁

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Re: Roland SCC-1A : how rare are they?

Posted on 2010-08-30, 03:18

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by Mau1wurf1977

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Hehe posting this will surely drive the price up 😁

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Re: Roland SCC-1A : how rare are they?

Posted on 2010-08-30, 02:07

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by Mau1wurf1977

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External SC-55 and SC-55 MK 2 are much much easier to find... You only need 1 midi card I believe, as you can use the "midi through" port

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Re: Roland SCC-1A : how rare are they?

Posted on 2010-08-30, 01:16

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by Mau1wurf1977

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Do you have an external Sound Canvas already? Or maybe a Sound Canvas wavetable card would be easier to find (also much cheaper shipping usually under 10 bucks as a letter)...

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Re: Roland SCC-1A : how rare are they?

Posted on 2010-08-30, 00:52

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Yes these MPU boxes make me sick :sealed: I even contacted a few sellers, they don't care... But yea it makes sense, internal ISA cars are gone and lost forever, only the external breakout box remains... I have 2 MPU401 ISA cards and a first generation MT-32 stashed away at my parents home in …

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