Re: Testing Generic 3.5 "Staples" Floppy Disks?

Posted on 2021-03-25, 14:34

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by darry

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Seriously, by the early 2000s, most floppies being sold new were crap . If you want quality floppies, try to get some that were produced in the media's heyday . This is true but the problem is even these quality disks will be around 25 years old. You want some that have spent all this time stored …

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Re: Market value for popular or rare classic computer hardware

Posted on 2021-03-25, 05:04

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Yep, no charge for relisting anymore. Interesting. I hope that practice keeps up when I, if ever, sell my stash. Has anyone been selling complete systems with rare retro hardware? I haven't seen any decked out retro systems, e.g. with like an AMD K5-200, Voodoo1/2+TNT PCI, ADLib Gold or whatever. …

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Re: Testing Generic 3.5 "Staples" Floppy Disks?

Posted on 2021-03-24, 22:42

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by darry

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Do not put staples through your floppies. Seriously, by the early 2000s, most floppies being sold new were crap . If you want quality floppies, try to get some that were produced in the media's heyday .

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Re: Best and worst sound cards you have ever owned?

Posted on 2021-03-24, 09:45

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See this thread for some useful info and tools on the subject --> https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=62&t=55181 That test is nice, but it passes on ESS cards. Which is probably a testament on how good their proprietary ESFM is at emulating OPL3. That said, there are audible differences (though …

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Re: Dos Game Stutter in Real Mode DOS

Posted on 2021-03-24, 09:17

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Long shot . Are you using using a USB keyboard on one machine but not on the other ? EDIT: Another idea--> Are any power management features active in thr BIOS of the problematic machine ?

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Re: Best and worst sound cards you have ever owned?

Posted on 2021-03-24, 08:58

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Best: Zoltrix Audio Plus 6400 3D PnP V.5 (AV310) Very integrated CMI8830/A chipset that is SBPro, SB16 and WSS compatible, and has a 100% genuine OPL3 FM Synth Is there any evidence that CMI8830 has a 100% OPL3 clone? As in datasheets or a detailed analysis. I've listened to some recordings online …

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Re: USB Floppy

Posted on 2021-03-24, 08:55

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Depending on your budget, you may want to consider a Kryoflux USB adapter along with a "real" 34-pin floppy drive . You would need to setup a workflow to convert to or from the native Kryoflux low level image format after reading (to make an img file) or before writing (so your source img file can …

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Re: Fastest socket 7 build on a 430tx chipset

Posted on 2021-03-23, 19:40

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With and without usb 2.0 card. Is there a specific usb card that I should buy? NEC based ones are the ones that I have heard the best things about . It is also not the first time that I read about USB 2.0 cards being installed causing a slowdown in an older machine . EDIT: Try disabling the card in …

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Re: Serial port with PS2 adapter.

Posted on 2021-03-23, 04:50

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Oh and sorry for repeatedly nagging about the multi-meter. I re-read your original post properly and realized you own one but lent it to somebody . I somehow missed that initially .

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2021-03-23, 04:43

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I recently bought a retro-ish Cakewalk SPS-25 ( rebranded Roland/Edirol UA-25 with modified device ID). It works fine for S/PDIF I/O , but has weird noise issues with its unbalance out and headphone out. Its balanced in and out work fine . Since I want a decent audio interface that has at least one …

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Re: VGA Capture Thread

Posted on 2021-03-23, 04:29

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Are there any decent guides out there for OSSC advanced timing tweaks for DB15/RGBHV? No but video timings for PC graphics modes are pretty standardized. Look up modelines. The default sampling profiles for 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768 are all bang on out of the box. Both the 400p sampler modes are …

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Re: Serial port with PS2 adapter.

Posted on 2021-03-22, 23:27

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Hi all im having issues trying to get PS2 mouse to work on serial port using an adapter. I am using the M5I9 motherboard, and from what I've gathered there are 2 versions of the serial port header. so im wondering without using multimeter (currently borrowed it out and dont have access to get it …

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Re: Serial port with PS2 adapter.

Posted on 2021-03-22, 18:34

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Hi all im having issues trying to get PS2 mouse to work on serial port using an adapter. I am using the M5I9 motherboard, and from what I've gathered there are 2 versions of the serial port header. so im wondering without using multimeter (currently borrowed it out and dont have access to get it …

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Re: Which PCI Graphics Card For Socket 7 430tx/hx Builds?

Posted on 2021-03-22, 17:43

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honestly, I was wondering if a radeon 9000 is faster than a 7500 at all . Benchmarks seem kind of tied at best. TBH, I did not look at comparative benchmarks . A Radeon 8500 is faster than either a 7500 or a 9000 (the 9000 is a cut-down 8500). The 8500 and 9000 have a DirectX 8 feature set , …

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Re: DOS not showing calculation sheet

Posted on 2021-03-22, 17:10

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vDosPlus also includes printing abilities, AFAICT .

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Re: DOS not showing calculation sheet

Posted on 2021-03-22, 15:23

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Hello, I apologize if I'm in the wrong area to ask this but I'm at whit's end... I have a client that uses DOSBox... and to make a long, filled-with-gaps-story short, he uses it to calculate "beam sizes" (his words). He was recently setup on a new PC and the DOS config files and everything else …

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Re: Which PCI Graphics Card For Socket 7 430tx/hx Builds?

Posted on 2021-03-22, 15:09

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I have a 7500 now. https://www.gpuzoo.com/Compare/ATI_Radeon_7500__vs__ATI_Radeon_9000/ Think it’s worth it? Personally, I would not fork 100 Euros to MAYBE get a slight performance increase in a machine that will almost certainly be limited by the CPU to a point that will make the difference …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2021-03-22, 14:46

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I got a Cakewalk SPS-25 (rebranded Roland UA-25 with slightly different device ID) from between 2004ish to 2008ish to to work under Windows 10 using Vista x64 drivers for the UA-25 (anything newer did not work) . I hope that qualifies as retro . Nice find and Good work ! Spent my weekend fighting …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2021-03-22, 01:58

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I got a Cakewalk SPS-25 (rebranded Roland UA-25 with slightly different device ID) from between 2004ish to 2008ish to to work under Windows 10 using Vista x64 drivers for the UA-25 (anything newer did not work) . I hope that qualifies as retro .

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Re: Not so crazy idea : using a Raspberry Pi 4 with jackd , Zita A2J bridge and jack_mixer to make a software S/PDIF mix

Posted on 2021-03-22, 01:28

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I've been busy this weekend . I've acquired a new in box Cakewalk SPS-25 (looks like a rebranded Roland UA-25 with a slightly different USB device ID) in order to more easily run more tests. Official drivers for this require a a Cakewalk account and Cakewalk is no longer letting people create one . …

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