Re: Please help identify Sound Card (maybe soundblaster pro dual opl2?)

Posted on 2023-06-28, 17:13

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by cyclone3d

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Grzyb wrote on 2023-06-28, 15:04: Indeed, looks like 2 x OPL2, therefore T2 T4 is for SB Pro2 (OPL3), T5 for Microchannel SB. I really hate all the conflicting info about the T setting out there. I had documented it at one point but don't have access to it right now.

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Re: Please help identify Sound Card (maybe soundblaster pro dual opl2?)

Posted on 2023-06-28, 14:31

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by cyclone3d

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I bet it works with the same set blaster settings as the CT1330A Current settings per your picture are: A220, I7, D1 Unsure of what the GS jumper is for. The SET BLASTER line in autoexec.bat should be: SET BLASTER=A220 I7 D1 T4 The T setting might need to be T5. I forget which one is correct.

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Re: Wanted - Recovery Diss for Sony Vaio PCG-R600HMPD - [PART RESOLVED]

Posted on 2023-06-28, 13:28

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by cyclone3d

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I might have the R505 discs. There is also the backup of the Sony Vaio ftp but the filenames are required for most things because they are just randomly named and not organized by model for the most part.

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Re: Ok Phil ridlle me this ;-)

Posted on 2023-06-28, 13:22

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by cyclone3d

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I understand where you are coming from. Certain people start talking like those that they are around, even if they are already adults. Still though, I don't have issues listening to people with accents unless they have a very heavy accent and are therefore really hard to understand.

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Re: Wanted - Recovery Diss for Sony Vaio PCG-R600HMPD

Posted on 2023-06-27, 13:44

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by cyclone3d

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For generic OEM XP, you should set up on a working machine, then run sysprep. Here is a pretty decent guide: https://petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000599

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Re: An AdLib-Compatible Card (1986) Older than AdLib (1987)

Posted on 2023-06-27, 00:57

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by cyclone3d

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This very card (or another copy of it) sold for an amazing $2,500 on eBay on June 23, 2023. I had seen it but apparently didn't put it in my watch list. Here are the pictures and a couple snips from the listing: Front.jpg back.jpg Screenshot 2023-06-26 194649.jpg Screenshot 2023-06-26 194907.jpg

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Re: STB BlackMagic 3D (210-0336-00x) Voodoo 2 12mb

Posted on 2023-06-27, 00:34

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by cyclone3d

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Post pics and I am sure somebody here can give you values.

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Re: Has anyone tried Wing Commander on a 386 SX-40?

Posted on 2023-06-21, 16:26

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by cyclone3d

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We had a 386sx-25 with cache and it ran WC1 fine. When I upgraded to a 386DX-40, some stuff ran too fast, including the game loading intro. There is a newer version made for Windows that won't have the speed issues. Not sure about the sound support though. See here for the different releases. …

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Re: PNY Quickchip 133 not working on my 486 motherboard

Posted on 2023-06-21, 16:25

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by cyclone3d

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You will probably need to try some different CPU jumper settings on the motherboard. Ones that look like they may work according to the documentation may not work with the AMD 5x86. Setting it to an Intel setting may help. Do you have the documentation for the motherboard?

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Re: Retro Laptop with Voodoo 2

Posted on 2023-06-20, 16:53

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by cyclone3d

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I doubt it would be 1 fps bottleneck, but it would probably introduce some lag enough to effect it. The voodoo 2 on the otherhand feels perfectly playable. I should try inserting a USB controller somtime in the expansion chassis to test transfer speeds. Transfer speeds should be fine as the adapter …

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Re: Ways to reduce the Noise of ISA Soundcards?

Posted on 2023-06-16, 20:29

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by cyclone3d

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Another thing that helps quite a lot is using a modern power supply that has magnitudes better voltage regulation and outputs way cleaner power than the horrid things of yesteryear.

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Re: Running Windows 98 on newer hardware w/o hypervisor

Posted on 2023-06-15, 04:20

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by cyclone3d

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Yes. I am learning that Pentium 4 CPUs were available with an x86 instruction set which is compatible with Win98. But they all used netburst. Which is not a good fit for i686 based software organization. As in, you know, wasting a much more advanced system on a simple i686 thread. I wanted to say …

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Re: Is there any progress on 3dfx emulation?

Posted on 2023-06-14, 14:00

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Right, so what about using a type of hal instead of full-on software emulation? If the system it is being run on is x86, then not everything should need to be emulated. If it is non-x86, then it would be compiled as such anyway and the full software emulation would need to be there.

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Re: Running Windows 98 on newer hardware w/o hypervisor

Posted on 2023-06-14, 13:55

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Hello. Well I decided I am going to run Windows 98 on a Pentium M target. Some Pentium IIIs are 1.0 thousand Khz. And Pentium M goes to over 2 GHz with bus speeds more than 400% that of Pentium III CopperMine's 133 MT/s bus. I want to play Virtua cop and someone on vogons mentions a native Nvidia …

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Re: Is there any progress on 3dfx emulation?

Posted on 2023-06-14, 13:13

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A question I've had many times is why does the CPU and GPU have to be emulated at all? It isn't like those functions have been dropped on modern processors. The only problem I see with directly using the hardware would be that you would have to change the way the speed is regulated for speed …

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Re: Is there any progress on 3dfx emulation?

Posted on 2023-06-14, 05:41

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I thought 3dfx (glide) emulation was already in Dosbox and worked fairly good? Looks like DosBox-pure and DosBox ECE support 3dfx emulation. Haven't really looked into that as I haven't really played with any of the forks. I also see mention of an alpha build of regular DosBox from 2017 with 3dfx …

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Re: Is there any progress on 3dfx emulation?

Posted on 2023-06-13, 21:12

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by cyclone3d

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After thinking about this more, it would probably be easiest to: 1.Have DosBox pass the calls to a Glide wrapper. No need to re-invent the wheel. 2. Add some multithreading capability to DosBox. Why have everything be on only a single thread? Why not split the load between different threads? Sure …

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Re: Is there any progress on 3dfx emulation?

Posted on 2023-06-13, 16:43

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There are good 3dfx wrappers for Windows games. I don't know if any of them are open sourced though. It really would be best to have hardware passthrough to d3d for stuff like DosBox instead of complete software emulation for 3d acceleration. Complete software emulation would absolutely tank …

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Re: Windows 7 on a Prescott P4, does it run ok?

Posted on 2023-06-11, 20:00

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by cyclone3d

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Sure it will "run" Windows 7, but it is going to be major suckage compared to anything even remotely recent. Years ago, I would have to work on P4 computers that were running Windows 7 and they made me want to do something similar to chewing on shards of glass because the people that had them for …

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Re: Windows 7 on a Prescott P4, does it run ok?

Posted on 2023-06-11, 17:45

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by cyclone3d

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Please .. just NO!

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