Re: Cannot get BTC pre-IDE (?) 34-pin CD-ROM drive to work in 386

Posted on 2024-01-01, 12:11

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by matze79

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

My mechanics are partially broken (Tray open), but here is a closeup of the Circuit Board. It contains OTI012 Interface Chip. OTI011 is inside some NEC Drives, maybe NEC Driver will work then.

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Re: Cannot get BTC pre-IDE (?) 34-pin CD-ROM drive to work in 386

Posted on 2024-01-01, 11:59

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by matze79

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Sony Driver 1.73A doesnt work. Dolphin CD-ROM Driver doesnt work.

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Re: Cannot get BTC pre-IDE (?) 34-pin CD-ROM drive to work in 386

Posted on 2024-01-01, 11:27

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by matze79

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have those Controller with CD-ROM Drive, Any ideas if this is Sony Compatible Drive or Panasonic ? Also missing Driver Disk.

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Re: Tandy 3 Voice Sound - SN76489 ISA Soundcard Project

Posted on 2024-01-01, 11:09

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by matze79

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in Marvin \ Sound

Hi, had some talk with dreamblaster latley and if all works well it will be added sometime during 2024 in his store. i just kindly stub him some time. Happy New Year 2024!

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Re: Lesser known Win9x MIDI Softsynths

Posted on 2023-12-31, 14:27

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by matze79

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in Marvin \ Sound

Here is Crystal Softsynth included: ftp://ftp.dosreloaded.de/Soundkarten/Crystal/crystal_audio%20cs4239/ it works also with other Soundcards ;-) is there a mirror of this dead ftp site? or a list of the files in the directory? i have another crystal softsynth, but it only works with a crystal …

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Re: Best OS for dual 233 mmx.

Posted on 2023-12-14, 22:51

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by matze79

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With 512Mb RAM Windows 2000 would be the best choice. If you want to run some games. Windows NT 4 is faster but the lack of directx support is a real problem. Unless you only play OpenGL or glide titles.

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Re: Pentium CPU Game Changer that Helped Build the Internet and USA.

Posted on 2023-12-06, 21:51

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by matze79

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in Marvin \ System Specs

Another Funfact is that almost any Pentium 75Mhz also runs 100Mhz at 66Mhz FSB.

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Re: Found a GXM-530D motherboard with GXm-266GP cpu and 128mb RAM. Cant find any info, worth keeping??

Posted on 2023-11-29, 22:16

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by matze79

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

any progress ? 😀

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Re: My 3DMark01 Mega Thread

Posted on 2023-11-16, 21:14

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by matze79

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P3 650 Slot1 @ 670Mhz 512Mb Reg ECC RAM Radeon 9800 Pro Actually i play Auquanox on it, in FullHD p3.jpeg Actually it has to be shown around 18k score with proper cpu anyway its interesting combination Yeah i switched the CPU for fastet 100Mhz Coppermine. Now its running 1,1Ghz and 7853 3Dmark …

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Re: Games with Adlib as an option for sound effects

Posted on 2023-11-05, 19:42

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by matze79

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in DOS

Tubular Worlds plays Adlib SoundFX and Music! (1994 / Dongleware)

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Re: What?? Both VLB and PCI slots on a 486 mobo?

Posted on 2023-09-29, 19:39

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by matze79

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

ISA stinks. Unless you're building a very slow system (like a 286 or a low MHz 386 SX), which will necessarily be always stuck with low demanding software and games, if you're going to build a PC that can potentially run software and games of better quality, even if 'at the moment' you only plan to …

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Re: What?? Both VLB and PCI slots on a 486 mobo?

Posted on 2023-09-28, 21:06

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by matze79

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

hm depends on what you play. 320x200 @256 Colors needs only around ~ 2Mbyte/s throughput for fluid playing. i played Terminator Futureshock with GD5424 ISA Card just fine on AM5x86 133Mhz without L2 Cache.

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Re: My 3DMark01 Mega Thread

Posted on 2023-09-28, 20:28

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by matze79

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P3 650 Slot1 @ 670Mhz 512Mb Reg ECC RAM Radeon 9800 Pro Actually i play Auquanox on it, in FullHD Filename p3.jpeg File size 688.26 KiB Views 1779 views

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Re: Tiny Vortex86-based DOS gaming PC - weeCee

Posted on 2023-09-21, 21:27

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by matze79

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in Marvin \ System Specs

Some of those have not so ok fm sound https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5YcICPfSNiY CS4235 has buggy fm. Crystal Audio Chips.. any fans?

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Re: Which memory manager is better? Memmaker, QEMM or 386max.

Posted on 2023-09-19, 04:41

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by matze79

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in Marvin \ Software

EMS can be enabled with EMSMAGIC if needed. Interesting... UMBPCI+EMSMAGIC. I wonder if anyone ever tried this before. It seems to target NTVDM usage but can also be used for real DOS... From the manual it seems it can allocate EMS page frame (64K) in conventional memory and can be loaded/unloaded …

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Re: A graphics that can max out P3

Posted on 2023-09-18, 19:59

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by matze79

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in Marvin \ Video

Hey everyone, Recently I've got a nice P3 machine. It has one flaw, the motherboard is PCI only - no AGP slot. It has a nice case and the board is mATX, which makes swapping the board more difficult as there are not that many options. The CPU is 800MHz and possibly something I'll swap with a more …

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Re: ALI Chipset vs AGP Card - K6-2 Commate S7AX

Posted on 2023-08-17, 20:39

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by matze79

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in Marvin \ Video

L2 Cache was also defective on my Board. But Videocard problems still remained after Repair. So i gave up on ALI Alladin and replaced it with HOT591P. The BGA Fix didnt last long too.

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Re: ATI Radeon 7500 PCI not working

Posted on 2023-08-17, 06:44

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by matze79

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in Marvin \ Video

How do you know that the ICs are salvaged ? they could be also old stock. Accusing someone for fraud without proof isnt acceptable. The M7-P is still a Radeon 7500, even if its mobile usually they send driver cd up road with this sort of cards. As TO told this is private seller, and therefore you …

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Re: 6€ MCE2VGA replacement - CGA/EGA/HGC capture with logic analyzer

Posted on 2023-08-16, 07:21

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by matze79

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Any Progress on this ?

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Re: Best Graphic Cards for a 486DX4-133 System

Posted on 2023-08-15, 20:14

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by matze79

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

I'd go for any PCI video card made between 1994-1997 for a 486 The best balance between price/performance will include chips from S3, Cirrus, Trident. those with cash to (literally) burn can go for the ATi, Tseng, Matrox, Hercules and the very 1st gen nVidia chips in that time gap. ATI Rage is dirt …

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