Re: SOLVED: Sound Blaster Pro 2 (CT1600) -- redbook audio not working

Posted on 2016-10-25, 14:48

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by Chaniyth

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Just a quick update : The reason why the floppy disks were not working correctly and why formatting was giving bad sectors was due to a motherboard incompatibility issue with my S3 Trio64 based VLB graphics card which I never realized was happening. Motherboard is an ASUS PVI-486SP3 with latest …

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Re: Sound Blaster Pro 2 (CT1600) -- redbook audio not working

Posted on 2016-10-21, 23:51

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by Chaniyth

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Played around the mixer? Make sure CD is not muted. Yep that did it, lmao, thanks Phil! It seems that by default the CD is muted on these cards. I could only half-arsed install the disks because something is up with my floppy drive so I had to "hack-it" and install via a mix of running the …

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SOLVED: Sound Blaster Pro 2 (CT1600) -- redbook audio not working

Posted on 2016-10-21, 23:21

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by Chaniyth

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Greetings, So I've been tinkering with a Sound Blaster Pro 2 (CT1600) for the past few days and I'm really enjoying it, however i'm having an issue with it pushing CD audio (redbook) through the sound card. I have a CD connector wire going from the back of the CD drive connected to the connector on …

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Re: New Windows 98 Build

Posted on 2016-05-07, 04:43

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by Chaniyth

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Asus P3B-F 1.04 Motherboard I would go with a 1Ghz P3, to take better advantage of that 9700pro :) and just because I can up the ram to 128meg. The manual of the Asus P3B-F shows that you can change the multiplier (with dip switches, DSW) from 2.0 to 8.0, so a 1Ghz might not be possible but max. a …

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Re: Question about Windows 2000 Pro SP4

Posted on 2016-04-29, 14:20

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by Chaniyth

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Are there any downsides to running Windows 2000 Server instead of Professional? Gaming/multimedia issues? Remote Desktop is useful to have and isn't available in Professional. Windows 2000 Server I think tends to have more services running by default so could impact the performance of games/ …

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Re: Question about Windows 2000 Pro SP4

Posted on 2016-04-28, 16:56

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by Chaniyth

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Thanks. 😀

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Question about Windows 2000 Pro SP4

Posted on 2016-04-28, 02:01

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by Chaniyth

in Milliways

in Milliways

Are there any further updates/fixes/security patches for Windows 2000 Pro SP4 after SP4 was released? I'd like to keep it updated as much as possible and I don't think the Automated Updates works anymore. Thanks in advance. 😎

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Re: ISA and PCI sound card same pc - is it possible?

Posted on 2016-04-27, 19:24

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by Chaniyth

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I think I got it working. Thanks for the help and suggestions. Seems that bass seems to have dissapeared though with this method. Also not getting any soundblaster pcm in dos games using the dos window in win98se. Any ideas?

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ISA and PCI sound card same pc - is it possible?

Posted on 2016-04-27, 17:50

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by Chaniyth

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

This is in regards to my Pentium III build. Ok so the SB Live! Sb16 emulation is pretty bad. I have a real sb16 isa card to use. Soooo is it possible to have both a real sb16 and sb live! together in the same pc? Sb live i wanna use for windows 98se and sb16 i wanna use for dos games. If so how do I …

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Re: Pentium III build -- which Windows and which soundcard

Posted on 2016-04-25, 02:35

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by Chaniyth

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Alright the Pentium III build is done... for now. ;) Penitum III 700Mhz Coppermine Slot-1 ASUS P3B-F v1.04 with final released BIOS 256MB PC-100 RAM (might install 512MB later but I doubt that will be needed) ATI Radeon 9700 Pro 128MB (AGP) Promise ATA-133 card 3Com EtherLink XL 10/100 TX NIC Sound …

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Re: Pentium III build -- which Windows and which soundcard

Posted on 2016-04-23, 03:29

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by Chaniyth

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

For such a machine I would definitely stick with Windows 98 SE because it comes with MS-DOS 7.1 and lets you play both types of games. Because the machine has an ISA slot you have a wide range of choices. For PCI my go to card is the Vortex 2. You could run that as well an ISA, disable the ISA card …

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Re: Pentium III build -- which Windows and which soundcard

Posted on 2016-04-23, 03:20

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by Chaniyth

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Thanks Kane for your suggestions. Well, Win XP is Windows NT 5.1 so technically ALL games and apps that work in XP should work in Win2k Pro also but not all do due to installers checking the OS version which IMHO is ridiculous and more than likely that was due to pressure from Microsoft on 3rd party …

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Pentium III build -- which Windows and which soundcard

Posted on 2016-04-23, 00:09

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by Chaniyth

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Since i've finally finished my retro Intel DX4-100 486 build for DOS and Win 3.11 gaming, i've decided to build me a Pentium III build for SVGA mode DOS games and Windows games. So i'm at a crossroads of sorts when it comes to which OS I should go with; Windows 98SE, Windows 2000 Pro SP4 or Windows …

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Re: Please tell me this guy is trolling.

Posted on 2015-11-12, 17:34

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by Chaniyth

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Found a video about hardware and PC gaming evolution, so went happily to watch, but I started to find strange some mistakes. This guy is saying that Wolfenstein 3D needs a beefy cpu (like a pentium), that Voodoo2 is capable of 2D and that Pentium4 is one of the original pentiums! He must be …

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Re: help getting mouse working with 486 + wfw3.11

Posted on 2015-11-10, 03:13

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by Chaniyth

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Stop being a spazoid and breathe. Goosfraba, Goosfraba. :lol: Anyways making multiple posts about it won't help and neither will making accusations that others don't want to help or that they want to gloat about getting it to work and not help you. That's non-sense logic. Anyway, are you sure the …

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Re: WFW 3.11 won't exit to DOS. Any suggestions?

Posted on 2015-11-07, 03:38

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by Chaniyth

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Mine used to do that. I eventually figured out the problem, it was the latest (last) SB16 drivers released by creative labs (still available from their website), so I uninstalled those and installed the drivers from the original floppies that came with my SB16 (I purchased the SB16 new back in the …

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Re: New to retro PC's, 486DX4 build

Posted on 2015-11-06, 13:23

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by Chaniyth

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Welcome to VOGONS! Since the board has fake cache L2 your 486dx4-100MHz will not perform very well. Eventually you'll probably want a better board so the CPU has maximum performance. I recommend getting an Asus PVI-486SP3 rev. 1.8 which has PCI, VLB, ISA and a flashable BIOS or if you want VLB/ISA …

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Re: What's the best CRT monitor for DOS gaming?

Posted on 2015-11-06, 03:47

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by Chaniyth

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

avx, EXACTLY! You really hit the nail on the head with your post(s), I love CRT tv's and monitors SD content look amazing on them (if its high-end parts) I own 2 Sony Trinitron CRT televisions, 1 is a 36" in the living room and a 25" in the man cave, both are used for SuperVHS vcr's, DVD players and …

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Re: What's the best CRT monitor for DOS gaming?

Posted on 2015-11-06, 03:00

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by Chaniyth

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

PeterLI wrote: I really liked the compressed image of the IBM PS/2 CRTs. I had a 8513 until yesterday: great for gaming IMO. 😀 I remember those. IBM PS/2 CRT'a always had a unique physical look. They unfortunately have fallen victim to the whole retro craze and generally sell for ridiculous prices …

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Re: What's the best CRT monitor for DOS gaming?

Posted on 2015-11-06, 02:53

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by Chaniyth

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Just for perspective's sake, those two samples (on the right side) are *way* more blurry and smeary than what was ever considered "proper" or desirable for VGA; jwt27 indicates that the monitor was .39mm, which is a positively huge dot pitch - I certainly don't remember anyone deliberately seeking …

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