Re: Pentium 60/66 VLB board identification help needed...

Posted on 2016-11-01, 17:30

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I bet your board has a Turbo switch. I never saw any Socket 4 Board without one. But it's likely that your problem isn't related to the Turbo switch, though. Regarding the BIOS: Most BIOSes of the OPTi Premium / Cobra chipset are interchangable. One can take a BIOS of a different board and try. …

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Re: Pentium 60/66 VLB board identification help needed...

Posted on 2016-11-01, 13:56

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- Do you have the jumpers set to 1 WS for the VLB? - The board should have options for the source of the clocks. External or internal via dividers. I recommend to set the clocks for the PCI / VESA Bus to external, it will use one of the 33MHz crystals to generate the clocks. - There should be also a …

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Re: Pentium 60/66 VLB board identification help needed...

Posted on 2016-11-01, 13:45

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If you have any questions regarding stability, performance tweaking, feel free to ask. I had one of these OPTi Cobra chipset boards in 1995 and now again one NOS board from AT&T. These boards are fun and run stable when configured correctly. But the video performance lags behind the competition. …

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Re: My Wavetable Sample Thread

Posted on 2016-10-28, 10:02

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Hi, I'm referring to the one with 2 ROM chips. These cards were made for several bog trade companies like Trust or Typhoon. On the Trust website it says 1MB ROM in the specs and this sounds reasonable to me: http://www.trust.com/de/product/09245-sound-e … luxe-wave-32-3d Best regards Fabain

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Re: My Wavetable Sample Thread

Posted on 2016-10-27, 20:35

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One correction: The OPTi card with QDSP wavetable has 1MB ROM. Keep up the good work, highly appreciated!

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Re: Project: Turning ICS WaveFront sound cards into MIDI Powerhouses for DOS games [Turtle Beach Maui, Tropez & Tropez+]

Posted on 2016-10-27, 09:51

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I didn't get the timeout error before but maybe because I had a Korg AudioGallery hooked up and tested the MPU before. I could test with some 1MB 80ns chips. It may help to evaluate if the speed is really causing you the error.

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Re: SBPro1 CT1330A owners, care to help figuring things out?

Posted on 2016-10-26, 20:04

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I have the final revision of this card. If needed, I would perform any test you want. I'm talking about this beauty here: http://www.amoretro.de/wp-content/uploads/cre … _sound_card.jpg

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Re: Project: Turning ICS WaveFront sound cards into MIDI Powerhouses for DOS games [Turtle Beach Maui, Tropez & Tropez+]

Posted on 2016-10-26, 18:53

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I doubt that your modules are defective. Maybe you have the opportunity to test the modules in a SB32/AWE32 card (The DOS based DIAG tool tests the cards DRAM). I just ran MAUIDIAG on one of my Mauis: After loading the DIAGMAUI.MOT firmware the program performed the tests and displayed no errors. …

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Re: Which Vesa Local Bus graphics card?

Posted on 2016-10-21, 23:13

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Okay, the best VLB ATI card was the 3D Pro Turbo (2, 4, 6 or 8 MB SGRAM). Did Matrox ever have a card with 8 MB SGRAM what was VLB? The card does not exist. And again, there is no "best" card. "Best" is what fits your needs most. For some, the ARK1000 based cards are the BEST because they are the …

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Re: MS-DOS era processors

Posted on 2016-10-21, 07:58

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"The usual story is..." - Well, what if "the story" isn't true? Read the VESA specs and tell the story again! I think you need to make a distinction between the CPU speed and the FSB (front side bus) speed. The glitch is mentioned on the wikipedia, As bus speeds of 486 systems increased, VLB …

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Re: MS-DOS era processors

Posted on 2016-10-21, 07:39

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The article states that the VLB was P5 compatible, not P6, so if you fixed the timing glitch the best CPU would be VLB was itself basically just an extension of the 486 processor and memory bus. It was "natively" compatible with 486 CPUs - later CPUs needed to have a "translator" in the chipset. …

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Re: MS-DOS era processors

Posted on 2016-10-21, 00:13

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"The usual story is..." - Well, what if "the story" isn't true? Read the VESA specs and tell the story again! The specification ending at 40MHz doesn't imply that 50MHz won't run! Of course it does hurt stability and therefore wasn't recommended for the casual user. But in fact there are graphics …

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Re: Which Vesa Local Bus graphics card?

Posted on 2016-10-20, 22:32

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There is no ultimate graphics card as there is no ultimate sound card as there is no ultimate CPU, ... I guess you got the pattern :D There are quite some very good all around cards, from budget cards to high end solutions and some cards with special features that are not suited for the more general …

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Re: MS-DOS era processors

Posted on 2016-10-20, 22:05

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The Vesa Local Bus did not work with P5/P6 processors, so the Intel IntelDX4WB-100 is the best purely DOSy CPU. That is not the whole story, dnewhous. There are Socket 4 and Socket 5 boards (both for Pentium) with VLB. Also NexGen made a VLB board. And there were even 386 boards with VLB. You see …

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Re: Soundblaster 16 PCI Waveblaster?

Posted on 2016-10-18, 20:53

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^^ I second that. There is no Creative PCI sound card with the Waveblaster header.

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Re: Should I buy this 486 motherboard?

Posted on 2016-10-18, 20:39

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There's a high risk it won't support 586 cpus. As a matter of fact I'm not even sure that chipset supports WB cache... To make sure it does, look for UMC or SiS chipset board from larger OEMs. Regarding the chipset: This board uses the well known OPTi 895 chipset, for my taste the best chipset for …

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Re: Project: Turning ICS WaveFront sound cards into MIDI Powerhouses for DOS games [Turtle Beach Maui, Tropez & Tropez+]

Posted on 2016-10-14, 21:01

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For me, 95 is much more convenient to use. If the stuff doesn't work I will stick to 3.1 of course. Just don't know where to "buy" the time to build the system right now.. do you?

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Re: Gallant SC-6600 rev 2.0

Posted on 2016-10-14, 14:36

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If your drivers don't work, try the drivers for the "Terratec Maestro 16" card - it has a similar chipset and should be driver compatible. You find the drivers here: http://terratec.ultron.info/Audio/Maestro/16/Driver/

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Re: Gallant SC-6600 rev 2.0

Posted on 2016-10-14, 11:16

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Does it initialize on the 286 machine? Some programs have code that require a 386 machine and won't initialize. If it works I'd say it IS a valid option as it gives you the most important standards: AdlIb and SoundBlaster. It also has a dedicated FM chip (1:1 Yamaha OPL3 copy) (take a look at the …

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Re: sbpnp32 vs sbawe32

Posted on 2016-10-12, 23:00

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It's way too early to say anything about the possible quality of the soundbanks converted to the ICS WaveFront format (.WFB file). We are still in the stage of understanding how the format works because conversions von A to B with the AWAVE Studio program is not enough, instruments are missing or …

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