CMS upgrade on an ATI VGA stereo FX board

Posted on 2023-06-10, 13:34

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by Xanxi

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Hi there. I have this card here which i believe empty sockets at U20 and U21 are for CMS chips upgrade. https://www.vgamuseum.info/images/pirx/ati/032_ati_05a_vgastereo_fx.jpg I have bought these CMS chips. https://i.ibb.co/s1Bq9f5/IMG-9337.jpg Could someone tell me which one i should plug in which …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-06-02, 15:59

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by Xanxi

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hi. Just bought this card, waiting delivery. Is it any good for vintage msdos gaming ?

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Re: Trackstar: Apple II clone on ISA card - new website up

Posted on 2023-05-28, 18:46

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in Milliways

There were two of them on eBay less than 2 months ago. They generally come from the USA.

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Re: Trackstar: Apple II clone on ISA card - new website up

Posted on 2023-05-28, 12:57

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in Milliways

Thanks for this. I’m about to finally use the Trackstar board I received 10 years ago from the USA. I needed for that to have my Amiga 2000 up and running with a PC bridgeboard (indeed I have no dos pc but only my big box Amiga 4000 and 2000 with bridgeboards and Isa cards - I can’t use the …

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Re: Orpheus II soundcard thread

Posted on 2023-04-15, 22:44

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by Xanxi

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in Marvin \ Sound

I have a particular ISA sound card that is extremely noisy. Adding a ground loop isolator to the speaker out cable silenced the noise completely. Yes, in my case the ground loop noise was between the output of the Roland MT32 and the line in of the soundcard, as i understood after i have tried all …

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Re: MK8330 : new soundcard based on the CMI 8330 chipset

Posted on 2023-04-15, 21:55

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by Xanxi

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Hi Keropi. Indeed, i have now Al Qadim working fine with a simple joystick instead of the Gravis GamePad Pro which might need a setup software i don't have. The Wolf3D issue seems unrelated to the soundcard as you have found. Enjoying Al Qadim now!

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Re: MK8330 : new soundcard based on the CMI 8330 chipset

Posted on 2023-04-10, 21:21

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by Xanxi

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in Marvin \ Sound

I guess the port 201h is used also with other soundcards? If yes, gameport is ok on my setup with Creative CT4170 at least. Wasn't there an old problem of unsifficient power to the gameport with the old CMI8330 cards, but i think this issue has been fixed with the MK8330?

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Re: MK8330 : new soundcard based on the CMI 8330 chipset

Posted on 2023-04-09, 20:41

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by Xanxi

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Hi there. Anyone here using a joystick or joypad on the gameport of the MK8330? I have tried a Gravis GamePad Pro and a Joy Leader 3 joystick from Guillemot and they prevent Al Quadim Genie's Curse from launching or seem to cause the music in Wolfenstein 3D to slow down a lot in the menu. With the …

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Re: Which sound blaster are worth to use? Please advise?

Posted on 2023-04-06, 13:00

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by Xanxi

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

I use CT4170 from time to time. It is a CQM card. I happen to like the sound of CQM but not everyone will agree. I find this board amongst the most compatible all around, with a very clean output. Not what you want if you are after OPL.

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Re: Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes (Serrated Scalpel) music issue in dos

Posted on 2023-04-06, 12:30

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in DOS

This game seems very finicky about the sound setup. I have tried to setup the game with several soundcards and MT32, including Vibra16 CQM, MK8330 and Audician32. No way to have music with the Vibra16 or Vibra16+MT32 but sound works, no way to have anything with Audician32, MT32 only works with …

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Re: MK8330 : new soundcard based on the CMI 8330 chipset

Posted on 2023-04-03, 22:35

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by Xanxi

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Hi there. Anyone here using a joystick or joypad on the gameport of the MK8330? I have tried a Gravis GamePad Pro and a Joy Leader 3 joystick from Guillemot and they prevent Al Quadim Genie's Curse from launching or seem to cause the music in Wolfenstein 3D to slow down a lot in the menu. With the …

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Re: Question regarding Memory on pcchips m577

Posted on 2023-04-02, 20:51

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by Xanxi

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Late to reply but i was unfortunate enough to have this cheap mobo in my rig in 1999. I could only max out the RAM (not in 1999 because it was darn expensive at the time) to 3*128 MB with single sided PC100 or PC133. If one was double sided, then only one other single sided would work. There were no …

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Re: Yamaha Audician 32 Plus external MIDI device in DOS not working

Posted on 2023-04-01, 06:41

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by Xanxi

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

The Audician 32Plus definitely works in msdos with MIDI stuff out of the gameport, I have used it with mt32 and sc55. No intelligent mode of course. As for using both the gameport and the wave blaster header at the same time I don’t know.

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Re: Orpheus II soundcard thread

Posted on 2023-03-17, 21:42

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by Xanxi

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in Marvin \ Sound

Very nice, i love those stickers!

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Re: Yamaha Audician 32 Plus card

Posted on 2023-03-11, 21:59

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by Xanxi

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Hi. Seems the Audician should use IRQ2/9 with SOFTMPU according to the documentation, but i don't know myself how to do that without breaking SB compatibility (IRQ5/7). This board uses the same IRQ for FM and MPU so it seems.

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Re: Newly made 4MB 30pin SIMMs

Posted on 2023-02-19, 22:11

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by Xanxi

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Awesome answer from mkarcher! Now i have to found a good source for affordable 4MB SIMMs with 8 or 9 chips preferably at 60 ns.

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Re: Newly made 4MB 30pin SIMMs

Posted on 2023-02-19, 14:53

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by Xanxi

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hi. Would anyone know why a board would like only 30 pin SIMMs with 9 chips and won't work with 30 pin SIMMs with 3 or 2 chips?

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Re: Strange high CPU load when playing mp3 on ISA sound card

Posted on 2023-02-13, 12:38

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by Xanxi

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Did you try another player than Winamp? I remember back in the time that i expercienced same thing with my Windows 95 K6-2 rig of 1999 with the Winamp of the time and an ISA SB16. That's why i moved to PCI sound card and it solved my problem.

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Re: Noisy PSU fan replacement.

Posted on 2023-02-10, 21:36

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by Xanxi

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Buy a matching Noctua fan, they come in a complete package with a lot of choice of connectors and even a simple solderless way to reuse the previous fan connector. Not to mention they are very silent and reliable. I can only regret they don't come in smaller size than 4 cm.

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Re: Orpheus II soundcard thread

Posted on 2023-02-05, 20:51

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by Xanxi

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in Marvin \ Sound

Good news today! About the Orpheus 2 LT, the order link gives a 404 error, you might want to fix it.

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