Re: What Videocard or Soundcard you want to see remade?

Posted on 2016-01-08, 13:35

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It'd be neat to see a modern graphics card with complete backwards compatibility with D3D 5-7 and Glide, or a modern sound card with fully working EAX and A3D 2.0 implementations. An existing piece that I'd want reproduced would be Roland LAPC-I.

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Re: Reverse stereo on Sound Blaster Pro & compatibles

Posted on 2016-01-03, 13:27

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If I recall correctly, SB Pro 1 had reversed stereo and it was fixed with SB Pro 2, but many 'compatibles' remained reversed. And then there's the software which might be reversing things to compensate.

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Re: List the CPUs you owned when they were new

Posted on 2016-01-02, 15:13

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clueless1 wrote: firage, your avatar looks like Jumpman, a game I played on Apple II and my brother had on Atari 8-bit. That's right! Apogee had a shareware remake out for DOS called Jumpman Lives. Platformer royalty, he never gets enough credit. 🤣

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Re: List the CPUs you owned when they were new

Posted on 2016-01-02, 14:44

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1992 Am386DX-40 (family's first computer) 1997 Pentium MMX 200 MHz (first computer I paid for myself) 2003 Athlon XP-M 2400+ (first computer I built) 2008 Core 2 Quad Q6600 2013 Core i5 4670K Looks like I have no problem getting 5 years out of my main desktop CPU, which is a little more than usual. …

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Re: would you pay for this?

Posted on 2016-01-02, 09:14

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I think this thing of de-yellow'ing stuff, applies and speaks to those indeviduals, who are afraid of chemicals, are all into this "Three hugging organic we love the earth" stuff, who just happens to be right out scared of the word "chemical" it self. You know... Anyway... Salt can be considered a …

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Re: would you pay for this?

Posted on 2016-01-02, 05:30

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Yeah, I reckon doing it locally is the only way it could work.

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Re: would you pay for this?

Posted on 2016-01-02, 02:25

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I could see maybe $30 per item being reasonable, but that is including shipping. Doubt it's going to make much sense cost wise.

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Re: The Grand OPL3 Comparison Run!

Posted on 2016-01-01, 16:04

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Perhaps the coolest part about SoundStorm was its digital 5.1 output via real-time Dolby encoding. You could bypass the crappy analog stages and go straight to a home theater receiver. Nothing else did that at the time.

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Re: Heads Up: Roland Sound Canvas VA VSTi Plugin!

Posted on 2015-12-29, 06:05

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Could be configuration issues, but for me these samples don't quite sound close enough to make me perfectly happy. Sound Canvases haven't really been super rare finds out there yet - pretty sure $125 should still get you a real unit today, many going for half that at times. In any case it is indeed …

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Re: Heads Up: Roland Sound Canvas VA VSTi Plugin!

Posted on 2015-12-27, 16:25

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This is fantastic news. Steep for now, though. It'll have to come down in price eventually, or come included with other stuff.

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Re: Your PSU fan is too loud or is going bad...

Posted on 2015-12-22, 23:35

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I'd change the fan if it was the only problem with the unit, but the fan has never yet been the first thing to go wonky on me. Unless they were crappy when new, then they got switched out right away. Splicing wires is easy enough. Soldering the old fan's wires to the new fan's spots is nice and …

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Re: Tube amp on a motherboard...

Posted on 2015-12-21, 09:44

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I think the point with tubes is how they distort the sound, adding a warming effect.

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Re: Tube amp on a motherboard...

Posted on 2015-12-21, 09:05

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Hehe, I remember when this board came out. Doubt it makes any sense, but it must sound a little unique and looks pretty sweet in any case, huge caps and all. 😀

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Re: Crackling sound in some games with Aureal Vortex 2

Posted on 2015-12-19, 18:22

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I'd start by testing it in different PCI slots. Sound cards sharing resources with stuff like ATA controllers and video cards will cause audio artifacts. But I just wouldn't trust in Aureal cards for EAX. I prefer earlier drivers, ver 2041.

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Re: Upgrade P3 or not?

Posted on 2015-12-18, 21:38

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It went from P233MMX to PII-450 and then from the first PIII to ~PIII-800 in no time at all. Past ~1GHz they were kind of concurrent with P4 already.

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Re: Music Quest MQX-32 ISA MIDI PC card...MPU-401 Compatible?

Posted on 2015-12-17, 15:23

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Dude... Bringing up old threads is considered bad manners here, and this discussion is over 5 years old. VOGONS is not a marketplace either, offers to buy or sell aren't allowed. Vintage Computer and Amibay are a couple good trading sites, better look for it there.

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Re: Upgrade P3 or not?

Posted on 2015-12-17, 14:54

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You could definitely pair the GF3 with a faster P3 and see a nice improvement in games from 2000-2001.

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Re: Some advice about hardware mixers

Posted on 2015-12-15, 19:14

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I have one of these things and they're handy, but kind of fell out of my daily use because of the effect on sound quality. I might try the battery power idea.

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Re: About Ready to Launch...

Posted on 2015-12-14, 21:01

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BaronSFel001 wrote: Where do you seen an ACPI option? I could not find one. 'ACPI Function' at the top of the Power Management Setup menu, if the manual can be trusted.

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Re: About Ready to Launch...

Posted on 2015-12-14, 18:39

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Haven't had this problem. What's the graphics card you're running it with? Suppose it could still be a specific IRQ one of your components is super protective of. If you didn't do it yet, one of the first things I'd try is toggling the PnP OS setting as suggested already. Edit: Read the manual for …

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