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Re: eBay sellers can effortlessly delete their negative feedback

Posted on 2024-02-23, 23:17

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I received a reply from eBay, however, I cannot determine if it is from a real person or some form of AI. One of the responses I received back from the customer support included the phrases, "I believe you are wonderful buyer and as human being" and "eBay is pleasured to have you". They're either …

Re: VGA Capture Thread

Posted on 2024-02-22, 06:43

I got a RT4K as well and it's incredible how well it's able to do resolution switching. Still it's not perfect but the dev is committed to actively pushing firmware updates that resolve these issues. I've been testing it on various old PCs and the results are pretty amazing. I'm traveling right now …

Re: Tell about your country

Posted on 2024-02-21, 15:56

in Milliways
I speak for the Swedish. Ask me anything. I will answer truly. Fascinated by mooses. Do you see them often? I hear they're a danger to drivers. Moose? Once I drove through south Sweden a moose walked out of the wood onto the road. It moved slowely across it, but it did not care about traffic at all …

Re: Connecting X-Fi to Audigy BreakOut Box

Posted on 2024-02-21, 04:10

I'm looking for an awesome X-FI sound card to connect to the Audigy 2 Breakout Box, SB0250. It seems like X-FI Titanium SB0880 will not connect as the SB0250 needs the standard 40pin IDE connect and the SB0880 doesn't have it. However, X-Fi XtremeMusic, SB0450 can connect to SB0250. Are there any …

Re: Best IPS (if any) monitor for retrogaming

Posted on 2024-02-21, 00:42

I assume you are talking about the frame rate conversion the panel does ? I honestly dont see it as an issue, I have yet to have any issues with DOS games on the panel and it has seen many hundreds of different DOS games at this point. I guess if I had a bigger budget I could find a better panel …

Re: Best IPS (if any) monitor for retrogaming

Posted on 2024-02-21, 00:22

I have the same Philips 252B9 :D Indeed, I also noticed that it does have a forced 4:3 mode. For the VGA input side, that is definitely super useful. Comparing these two displays, there are a few things that make me feel annoyed about the Philips display, and prefer Asus PA248QV more (when using it …

Re: Ram Expansion for S3 Virge PCI Card

Posted on 2024-02-20, 23:38

BitWrangler wrote on 2024-02-20, 23:20: IDK why but my brain goes, "You need bare minimum 4MB for DX5, 8MB for DX6, 16MB for DX7 ... " Unless one is at least a bit of a masochist, DX5 or higher on a Virge is not fun, no matter which chip variant, clock speed or amount of video RAM one has.

Re: Best IPS (if any) monitor for retrogaming

Posted on 2024-02-20, 21:55

As part of developing https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=92512 , I have acquired the following test displays in my lab: Fujitsu-Siemens P19-1 YEGA519530 (March 2003) 1280x1024 TFT LCD Sony SDM-X73 (May 2004) 1280x1024 TFT LCD Dell 2007FPB (March 2006) 1600x1200 TFT LCD Dell 2007WFP (March …

Re: Ram Expansion for S3 Virge PCI Card

Posted on 2024-02-20, 19:44

The Virge 325 handles overclocking quite well. The standard 50MHz chip/memory clock can be tuned up to 75-80MHz on a lot of '325s. This would likely yield enough memory bandwidth to run the modes non-interlaced that are specified as "interlaced only" in the data sheet. You would need a modified …

Re: Ram Expansion for S3 Virge PCI Card

Posted on 2024-02-20, 18:52

EDIT: This could have been a limitation of my specific card at the time, linked to either clock speed or RAM speed. EDIT2: According to my understanding of https://www.vogonsdrivers.com/getfile.php?fileid=326 , this limitation is documented in the datasheet . IL means interlaced, AFAIU. Screenshot_ …

Re: Review: Sound Blaster PCI 128 (CT4810)

Posted on 2024-02-18, 20:55

I tried opening the ECW files using Total Commander's built-in viewer. There's a text header at the top of each file, and here's what it says: 2MB ECW ECLW Copyright © 1999, Creative Technology Ltd. 2 MB Waveset ver 3 2MEG_R_3.ECW 4MB ECW ECLW Copyright © 1999, Creative Technology Ltd. 4 MB Waveset …

Re: Review: Sound Blaster PCI 128 (CT4810)

Posted on 2024-02-18, 13:46

Another update regarding digital CD audio over the ATA interface in pure DOS. In games like Tomb Raider, which both stream data and play CD audio from the disc, distortions do occasionally appear. Also, I did try attaching the CD-ROM on the secondary channel as the only device, and the distortions …

Re: 720 x 400 graphics

Posted on 2024-02-18, 13:12

@clb You are quite right about Microsoft using mode 6ah. They even explicitly say so. - Super VGA VESA Mode 6Ah Some Super VGA adapters support higher monitor-refresh rates at 800x600 resolution with a special VESA mode. If both your video adapter and monitor support a higher refresh rate and if you …

Re: CleanWave32 distortion fix

Posted on 2024-02-18, 06:42

I have a Diamond Monster MIDI with the SAM9733 chip... I have noticed these unfortunate cracking noises/distortion happening particularly on loud notes. The difference is this board has a Dream GMS963200-B chip which is as I understand the Roland GS format 32 Mbit ROM and not the CleanWave32. Even …

Re: Win98SE DriveSpace in DOS mode?

Posted on 2024-02-17, 23:15

I can't help for Drivespace as I have not used it since the mid 90s and hope to never have to. For Also, somebody online recently showed me that I can get Windows to clean install without removing the installed programs by deleting the contents of the Windows folder but not its subfolders before …

Re: Review: Sound Blaster PCI 128 (CT4810)

Posted on 2024-02-16, 15:26

Nice find! I wonder if that option exists in Live or even Audigy DOS drivers and whether it works any better or worse. I checked the Audigy DOS drivers, but unfortunately, the .INI file included there doesn't contain any of the parameters that are used by Audio PCI cards. In fact, the Audigy's .INI …

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