Re: Cobra Aw744L ll vs WF-192XG WaveForce pci cards

Posted on 2017-06-19, 07:44

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Unlike some other YMF724 cards, the Waveforce doesn't have the option to fit an SPDIF output. The Aopen card has an SPDIF out from the box. Some revisions of the Aopen might require you to solder a pin header for PC/PCI, though. I stand corrected. i was thinking of an A-trend 724 card i have at …

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Re: Cobra Aw744L ll vs WF-192XG WaveForce pci cards

Posted on 2017-06-19, 01:13

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the yamaha 744 chip on the Aopen card supports 4 channel surround sound in windows games where as the 724 on the waveforce has only stereo support. I know the waveforce has coaxial SPDIF digital out but i am uncertain if the aopen card has that. there may be other differences but those are the ones …

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Re: What could a PCI only mATX PIII board be good for?

Posted on 2017-05-29, 11:19

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there were several Geforce FX cards in pci, 5200s and 5500s. or something more out of the ordinary a powervr kyro

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Re: Question regarding ATX to AT adapter.

Posted on 2017-05-29, 10:14

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Wouldn't one with a -5V be ideal? I was under the impression that a decent amount of ISA cards use -5V. http://www.ebay.com/itm/ATX-20-PIN-to-AT-P8-P9-CONVERTER-WITH-5V-ON-OFF-SWITCH-DUMMY-LOAD-USA-MADE-/251025150787?hash=item3a7243d343:m:mWB2OPbZuFSqkmHj4SuUliA here is a good way to tell if you …

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Re: CVX-2 : covox adapter

Posted on 2017-05-25, 07:00

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Looking forward to this one! got my shipping notification today, unit #002

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Re: Ibm ps/2 model 30 286 harddisk options

Posted on 2017-05-23, 11:41

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I had one of these back in the day. The Australian delivered ones were manufactured locally at a place called Wangaratta about an hours drive from where i live. 10mhz intel 280, 1mb ram 20mb hdd I put an ess688 sound card in it that happened to have a genuine OPL3 chip on it. Such a good PC, always …

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Re: Crazy Idea - MT32 WaveBlaster Card

Posted on 2017-04-19, 00:54

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there is an alternative audio driver on the pi that sounds a lot better with its default analog out. by default its not enabled because it uses a lot of compute power from the graphics chip. see this thread https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic. … p?f=29&t=136445

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Re: Simmconn AWE64 Adapter

Posted on 2017-04-06, 06:42

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Locating the required chips is an issue as well. I had a look at the PALCE16V8H7JC/5 a while ago and it was discontinued and the current suggested part that supersedes it (about 4 supersessions deep) was a different sized chip and would need a board redesign some places claimed to have stock of the …

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Re: Newly made Gravis Ultrasound compatible cards ... what's the degree of interest?

Posted on 2017-03-22, 01:35

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Awesome news. Donation sent!

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Re: K6-iii with a twist.

Posted on 2017-02-09, 03:17

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A voodoo 3 and a k6-3+ were sold new in stores in the same year so that seems like a good fit to me older games played at higher screen resolutions So much this Im seeing a bunch of talk about bottlenecking video cards and etc lately. its always been a thing you upgrade your video card and then your …

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Re: Voodoo 3 2000 PCI on Pentium 233 MMX system

Posted on 2017-02-09, 00:20

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in about 1998 i bought a voodoo 3 2000 pci pretty much exactly like that specifically to go in my p200mmx machine, which was my main pc at the time. i had no AGP port and so it seemed the best option. it worked fantastic, i was playing halflife 1 at 1024x768, quake 2 was super smooth. UT99 and …

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Re: Crazy Idea - MT32 WaveBlaster Card

Posted on 2017-01-19, 23:14

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I have been pondering a project like this for a while but only as a GM wavetable option my thought was a board that goes from wavetable to pi gpio it could provide power to the pi over the gpio from the sound card, midi to its uart port and then redirect the audio out to the gpio pins on the pi and …

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Re: S3 Virge 325 + Pentium 133 + Socket 7 - 2 MB / 4 MB

Posted on 2017-01-09, 07:50

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i had (still have) an s3 virge back in the day, it had 2mb originally and i wanted to play tomb raider 2. with the 2mb it had half the textures missing. Half of Lara's legs were shaded white and etc That was probably at 512x384 res to keep the frame rate up. I got my local PC shop to source the …

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Re: Can Rapsberry pi emulate these component for MS-DOS and Windows 95?

Posted on 2016-11-28, 03:52

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The model 3 is 30% faster than the model 2 and 70% faster than the original Pi. Has anyone tried the model 3 with DOSBox? if you overclock the rpi3 a little to say 1400mhz and you compile dosbox for the rpi3 (enableing dynamic recompilation for arm and etc) force the resolution to 720x400 and set …

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Re: Rasperberry Pi, LattePanda and UpBoard (creditcard size computers) for retro gaming

Posted on 2016-11-07, 20:24

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A heavily overclocked raspberry pi 3 with a specially compiled dosbox running from the command line will get about 35fps in doom 1 timedemo 3 and will play descent but not with the most amazing frame rate. 640x480 the pi really struggles because you cant really make use of opengl or anything its all …

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Re: An AT psu from 1994 has a active pfc ?

Posted on 2016-11-05, 01:01

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(and so does my Oxford dictionary) while thats true in practice its the piece of the circuit that gives out first by virtue of it melting. if everything else in the circuit is less sensitive to the condition that made it blow then it will have saved everything electronics within a pc however is …

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Re: Worst cpus and worst computer builds

Posted on 2016-09-23, 06:56

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haha our first PC when i was a kid came with dos 4 an ibm ps/2 model 30 286 with 1mb of ram i actually quite liked the shell it came with, a touch memory hungry but less so than windows 3.1 or quickmenu

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Re: DOOM realtics

Posted on 2016-09-19, 08:30

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I always end up comparing to this database of results, https://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/misc/doombench.html this are the settings they use Get Doom version 1.9s and type in doom -timedemo demo3 If you have already installed Doom, please restore the default settings (Graphic Detail: High; Screen …

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Re: PCI-E soundcards with FM chip?

Posted on 2016-08-25, 02:06

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this one came up in a google, it claims sb16/sbpro and xp/2000 drivers http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA80M2VC3229 "- Software compatibility: compatible with Sound Blaster, Sound Blaster Pro and DirectSound. Operating Systems: Windows 2000, XP, Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Linux." …

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

Posted on 2016-08-24, 11:06

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I just received a dreamblaster S1 as well, same Belgium to Australia. marked as posted on the 3rd of this month (super fast to send it, excellent work by serdaco) it arrived on the 22nd. i opted the the shipping with the tracking and it still has not updated past "04/08/2016 01:33 Departure from …

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