I didn’t really think many games would take advantage of the extra instruments being outside the standard but with most games supposedly written on a SC55 I would understand if they were tempted especially later games, glad to hear it’s not the case. The xeen post that was interesting, not an issue …

Hi all, question for the Roland SC55 gurus. Does anyone know if games used the upgrades found in the SC55 Mk2 or will it sound exactly the same? Main games are Doom, Hexen, Raptor, Halloween Harry but if anyone knows of games that do take advantage that would also be interesting Thanks

I remember at first I always hesitated telling attractive girls in the pub I was a techie so they wouldn’t write me off as an IT nerd. That very quickly changed to not wanting to tell them as their next sentence usually was “I’ve got this problem with my computer…” The secret was only semi fix it, …

Re the voodoo 2 cooling issue (something I’ve just found out about myself) bit of digging round I found out that back in the day a company called 3dfxcool got good reviews for their solution http://www.angelfire.com/ct2/Jarhead/third.htm has a pic of their Voodoo1 cooler. The voodoo 2 version was …

That was lucky I misunderstood as well! Felt the card and it was warm but not so much you couldn’t keep your hand on it. That said none of us are as young as we used to be so ordered a couple of fans, 1 I’ll direct onto the face of the card and 1 from the side. That should keep the old girl cool, …

Saw your Deskpro, still got 1 or 2 of them myself back in Oz also with the idea of turning it into a multimedia box next to the TV. Think mine's lower spec though. I know it only uses SD RAM. “The twins” are a pair of Evo 510’s you can see them in the Pics of your computing area thread. I think P4 …

Just to offer some closure, finally installed the Voodoo2 card in my currant P4 Win98 box and checked out few of the games that were already installed. Have to admit don’t notice any difference in Diablo 2 but NFS 3 and 4 is darn nice! Everything seems so clearer! Running 800x600 with everything on …

From what I have read the creative CQM can’t compete with a true YMF262 probably not an issue for later games but I like the idea of getting a pretty close to perfect sound solution out of 1 card for dos, so the mpu-401 emulation is out. SB32 has the cut down Vibra EMU so no Treble, Bass Gain. …

4.13 bugger! if thats the case I dont want to use internal or external if its just going to play hung notes at me :( Reason I'm interested is it has the real Yamaha OPL3. Plus I want to hear what games sound like with the EMU8000 which is why I'm not looking at SB32's It'll only be the games that …

I know the value cards are missing the daughterboard header but do they support external devices attached to the game/midi port? On a related subject can anyone confirm what DSP version the AWE 32 Value CT3910 has? Anything bad about this card I should know before getting it? Thanks

Hang on your already building a 1999 machine! how many period PC's you going to build? Jealous you have a duel processor box, i really want one but nothing I use supports it. (accept the os)

Just finished reading redhill. That brings back memories! My first job was in a store in rural Australia roughly the same size as Ballarat. Sadly I was out front on the shop floor rather than out back which defined the business really. 1 side of the workshop was for photocopiers, faxes, cash …

While I admit midi can’t compare with music in later games (I was blown away by mechanical man in C&C, a song with speech!) there is something special about midi I would have said it’s the nostalgia off all those hours listening to it but I remember enjoying it even back then. Decent, Terminal …

Ok thanks for all that everyone After reading more research I’m leaning towards the Gforce 4 / Voodoo 2 config suggested by Old Thrashbarg. Mostly because I’m guessing NFS would benefit from the Gforces’ better handling of 32 bit colour? That raises a question however, how do you usually tell games …

2 Compaq DC510 P4 2.4Ghz 720MB Ram each, 1 with Win98/2k and CD-RW. The other is my main PC with XP and a 2nd HDD crammed into the area the PCI cards are sposed to go! everything else stock. I'm currently living short temish in the UK so most stuff is hand me downs from various companies. both PC's, …

Arg I forgot the sound cards! I’m thinking of a SB Live 5.1 as I seem to remember NFS supported Dolby and would like to give that a try. SB Live also emulates SB16 in Dos which I gather is the best sound card for dos? Midi is new territory for me I assumed I needed to get anther sound card but it …

Just getting back into gaming as have been living overseas for a few years so had to keep my positions to a minimum. This has also meant my gaming interest finished roughly around the same time (2006) and after years of having to “make do” on laptops I’m keen to get back into it :happy: I read the …