Is that podp5v83? I used to have that on my 486 AST early 90's. It was expensive but i had to have it and my god, after that Duke Nukem 3D was so fun to play deathmatch wih my brother who had Cyrix 5x86 100 MHz. Podp was so much faster that i could use much better resolution than he was. Arena …

Decided it was time I played with one of these;

When you said "Remove the Dallas chip" was that as in, take it out so it resets or take it out then start up the machine? If you haven't tried the latter, do it, if it works you'd just have to enter BIOS setup, loading defaults and pressing F10 then re-inserting the chip before pressing return. …

I'd pretty much quit this, but you guys are easy to get riled up. Some of what is written generally fails to counter facts and instead takes the long route around finding minor things that have nothing to do with anything - So I'm not even going to dignify it with a response and a couple of you have …

@Cloudschatze; Channel 1. It does nothing. Some devices are not flexible which makes me think they did it on purpose to encourage buying more Roland equipment. A bit like the JX-3P requiring that stupid PG-200 gizmo that stopped you using the MIDI port until you were done programming. @Mau1wurf1977; …

Not really, my setup is the best all-rounder. No offense, but if your friend couldn't get games to work with the GUS he's a moron. The GUS could run most games without any serious issues and if you want to talk games, what about Epic? Very GUS oriented. In short, my setup would get through the …

@carlostex; Indeed, as I said, what use would opinions be if they were all the same. For reference sake, I was using the SCC-1's MIDI OUT port to interface the MT-32 to the computer. I was using an SW1000XG to control it with Cakewalk when composing and patching myself though, either that or the …

I do, until they break. If it appears beyond repair I either try an extreme measure (like the oven trick with graphics cards) as there's nothing to lose or else salvage what I can and neglect it until it finds it's way to the trash can. Also, wuss 😜

I always agree to disagree... Because I disagree with people a lot. Sometimes I even disagree even when I don't ;) I pose you this challenge then, video yourself standing on the MT-32, put all of your weight on it, jump on it lightly and I shall do the same with my Yamaha and we'll see which is …

Roland gear is well made? I'm sorry as I can't phrase this without sounding like a dick, but I cannot take that statement seriously. Screw the games and their hack composers - they just took it in the ass from directors and executives or whoever formed the partnership with Roland, try writing your …

I started writing this before Sutekh94 wrote a reply, so it was in response to the posts above that one. The YMF chips are something I have no gripes with. Whereas those, other than the AWE64, are devices I wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole, though I wouldn't really waste money on another Gold …

This is a tricky one, I own more sound cards than most anything else, CPUs are the only thing outnumbering them here. As it's hard to choose, I'll choose one for each interface; ISA: The easiest one to pick, Gravis Ultrasound - any version, though I'm rockin' a "Classic" which recently got new …

Seems to be built out of similar stuff to my Gefen VGA to DVI box. I just wish YouTube would hurry up with it's 60fps support, I've been able to do it for years now and have a few things that benefit from it. Anybody want a demonstration?

Another update... Probably the last one and only added for the sake of documentation should somebody else ever run into this problem and turns the thread up in a Google search - Only one result seems to be around right now. As luck would have it the card in the 486 randomly started working, though I …

Update: After soldering the E1 jumper together the card claims to be in TEST MODE and can be configured. One reported EISA as it's base IO port and could not be easily convinced to change, the other did not report this but this is irrelevant. As soon as the jumper is removed the cards go back to how …

I have a 486SX-Class system (Has VLB - in case that's useful to know) that makes use of an ISA 3Com 3C509B... Or it did. The back story is that the card had a boot ROM which I had disabled with 3C5X9CFG due to never using it and the wait time annoying me. The utility worked for that, just as it did …

Yellow? Most of my stuff either looks like that or will eventually. http://www.smileys4me.com/getsmiley.php?show=1743 Anyway, I recently fixed this; http://s26.postimg.org/nyus2zir9/le_le_le_le_le_leo.jpg My LEO Databook. Made by FIC. Property of Balkanbank, Bulgaria - came with original hard drive …

Well, this is my "Hello World!" post for this forum as you don't have a "General Discussion" subforum and a "Say Hi" thread, not that that's a problem of course. This is where I hang around all day; http://s26.postimg.org/4xf3ce2ex/corner0.png http://s26.postimg.org/46md6m01l/corner1.png There's a …