Re: Planning to Build a New Computer - Want Some Advice

Posted on 2013-04-22, 21:42

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As long as they have the proper BIOS every AM3+ board will support those CPUs. You should ask your seller about that, often mainboard manufacturers put stickers on the packaging to indicate the BIOS version. If lots of people are having trouble than it might the board itself... I personally use a GA …

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Re: Creative Labs X-Fi + SoundFont + W7 64bit + DOSBox + General Midi Games

Posted on 2013-04-22, 21:37

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Me? TMIDI Player, was discussed here a few months ago...

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Re: Planning to Build a New Computer - Want Some Advice

Posted on 2013-04-22, 21:33

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If it's mainly about that... yeah, it is. I don't see any aftermarket cooler on his list though. The stock cooler is going to suck big time with an eight-"core" CPU. And with AMD you'll want the possibility of overclocking in any case to make performance bearable. There's a good reason for all FX …

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Re: Creative Labs X-Fi + SoundFont + W7 64bit + DOSBox + General Midi Games

Posted on 2013-04-22, 21:26

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That being said, you should hear the afore-mentioned HUMAN1GM.MID synthed with my ¥Weeds¥ General MIDI SoundFont v3.0 :) Hey, I recently tested out your soundfont with BASSMIDI. Really nice. I even made a recording of it here which showcases its strong parts quite well imo: http://www.youtube.com/ …

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Re: Planning to Build a New Computer - Want Some Advice

Posted on 2013-04-22, 21:16

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Don't go with AMD. Seriously. Even Phenom II, which at least has real cores beats Bulldozer per clock. If you want AMD get a Phenom II X4/X6 for cheap which will beat any FX by far for gaming. Aside from that I would rather stick with Asus or Gigabyte for Motherboards, but that's more of a personal …

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Properly switching between maps on SC-88

Posted on 2013-04-18, 21:14

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So to switch the whole unit to SC-55 map one needs to press ALL and SC-55 MAP, but in the manual it says that the switch back to SC-88 map is performed by pressing SELECT+SC-55 MAP together so that the button blinks. Can someone enlighten me on what the exact difference between that and simply …

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Re: Mouse evolution

Posted on 2013-04-18, 00:28

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VileRancour wrote: d1stortion wrote: the emulated USB mouse in Win98 DOS window feels weird compared to regular desktop operation. It's like if the vertical and horizontal axes had different sensivity. I guess it depends on what you're running there... could it be text-mode constraints? RTS games.

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Re: 3DFX Voodoo 3 3500 Non-TV Version

Posted on 2013-04-17, 17:54

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Like it says on Falconfly, the regular V3 drivers work fine with the 3500 TV and are in fact recommended on that site. This card is probably just identical save for the outputs and TV feature, so no reason to believe that it wouldn't work. The 3500 is ~8% faster at best, most of the times less than …

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Re: Mouse evolution

Posted on 2013-04-17, 16:41

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And that's exactly what I don't want. I don't have a need for DPI change on the fly, so I set it to a fixed value in order to prohibit accidental changes. The only way to do this is of course with their driver.

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Re: Mouse evolution

Posted on 2013-04-17, 13:33

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Interesting topic. Likely, the switch from PS/2 to USB brought higher polling rates by default for way more precision; that could only be acheived with manual tweaking on PS/2 mouses and perhaps not every one of those supported that. Also, I think the software part evolved even more than the …

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Re: PCI sound cards and Chipsets from various manufacturers...

Posted on 2013-04-17, 11:01

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LSS10999 wrote: Looks like you're right that using HWInfo32 to see if a board has ISA support is not accurate... for some reasons some current AMD boards (800/900 series chipset) do show ISA Support Present when checking with HWInfo32 Look up Low Pin Count.

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15 consoles in one

Posted on 2013-04-17, 03:37

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9AY_xQre9M The only thing that it lacks is the option to use original controllers...

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Re: Computer Chronicles: i486

Posted on 2013-04-16, 18:15

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Fuck'n'shit 9,000 for a portable 486?? WTF?? Who's gonna by that when you can get an iphone with 1000x the power.

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Preservation measures/tips for (vintage) electronics

Posted on 2013-04-13, 01:15

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Generally speaking, what is to consider when aiming for longevity of electronics? Things like not letting any liquids or stuff like that near them is kind of obvious. This topic shall be more about things that are not necessarily apparent, but can be potentially helpful to occasionally reduce some …

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Re: The downfall of Firefox

Posted on 2013-04-12, 00:54

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Yeah they always keep coming up with new bugs concerning Flash so don't think that everything will be great on FF20. I used the 3.5 series or whatever it was called for the longest time and finally decided to upgade to the new version numbers mess about ~1.5 years ago and nothing has improved. That …

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Re: Midi to USB Adapters

Posted on 2013-04-11, 16:02

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Wow... those cheap MIDI cables are far worse than I thought. Mine fails completely to interface with Windows XP. It just gets detected as an "USB Audio Device" and that's it, no Yamaha MIDI USB drivers or anything to choose from, just some game port stuff. On 7 it works but seems to have problems …

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Re: Roland MT-32 or SC-55?

Posted on 2013-04-10, 23:42

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DOSBox doesn't do anything but pass the MIDI data on to the synth, so in theory it should all sound the same as with a real computer. Strangely enough there were reports on this forum that what you hear with the emulator sounds different than on an authentic machine.

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Re: The downfall of Firefox

Posted on 2013-04-10, 19:16

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Seems legit.

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Re: Roland MT-32 or SC-55?

Posted on 2013-04-10, 17:19

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On the subject of "correct" Roland hardware to play certain games. I found this site with a lot of recordings: http://www.wavetable.nl/?cat=8 For some reason with first-gen Roland GS hardware (SC-55, SCC-1) in DN3D Stalker the drums at the end just cut out. Now one could say it's due to polyphony …

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Re: Power supply question.

Posted on 2013-04-10, 06:24

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If you're going to install just a Voodoo 3 or something like that you probably won't have any problems at all with the 250W part, PIIIs don't consume a lot of power as well. But if you suddenly decide that you want a Ti 4800 or something like that I think such a "weak" modern PSU can definitely mean …

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