Re: Win9x drivers for Thrustmaster FCS MkII Joystick?

Posted on 2019-04-18, 02:40

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by cyclone3d

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Pretty sure it works fine with a Saitek X35/X36 HOTAS setup. Should work fine with a Saitek X45 HOTAS setup as well. I had the X35 / X35 setup... gave it to my brother when I got the X45 setup. Then I decided I liked the X35 / X36 setup better and traded him. The version I have has both gameport and …

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Re: YMF744 on HP T5720 Thinclient Dos Setup Questions

Posted on 2019-04-17, 14:23

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by cyclone3d

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The really soft sound with a lot of background noise is what I was getting before I installed the caps so I don't really need pics after all. Be sure to give an update once you get the caps installed. I think you will like it a lot once that is done. And you are very welcome.

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Re: Audigy 2 drivers on Live! and Audigy 1 including OEM - guide

Posted on 2019-04-17, 04:40

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by cyclone3d

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Get the Audigy 2 ZS CD from here: http://vogonsdrivers.com/getfile.php?fileid=510&menustate=43,36 Then copy the whole thing to a folder on the computer you want to install the card on. You will need to first burn a CD or extract the files in the ISO to a thumb drive or whatever in order to get it on …

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Re: YMF744 on HP T5720 Thinclient Dos Setup Questions

Posted on 2019-04-17, 01:30

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by cyclone3d

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Are you using the PCI riser with the thinclient or just plugging straight into the PCI slot on the motherboard? If using the riser card, see here for the fix: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=62&t=62652#p717239 Also, if using the riser without the capacitors I am surprised that you are getting …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-04-16, 14:23

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by cyclone3d

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The Joystick DB15 to MIDI adapters? Bought one a long time ago and it has a DB15 port that allows me to hook up my joystick to my computer whilst playing MT-32 games on my Socket 7 (this was before I bought an MPU-401 clone card) and I still have the cable for testing the sound card's GamePort for …

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Re: PCI slot cooler idea.

Posted on 2019-04-16, 02:31

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by cyclone3d

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Putting a spinning magnet millimeters from electrical components seems like a bad idea. I had two PCI cards malfunction after being mounted next to one of these PCI fans (Akasa brand). I'm not sure that was the cause of the problem, but it made me suspicious of them, and I never used them again. …

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Re: Bringing CT3670 AWE32 back to life?

Posted on 2019-04-15, 20:56

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by cyclone3d

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Have you tried cleaning the edge connector with a pencil eraser? Could be that there is just too much oxidation or other contaminants for it to get a good connection.

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

Posted on 2019-04-15, 19:38

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by cyclone3d

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Wow! But these are still just beta boards so no big deal. Things happen. Not like it is going to affect the functionality in any way.

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Re: Choosing a primary GPU within DOS

Posted on 2019-04-15, 19:37

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by cyclone3d

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You could always modify the cards or the motherboard and have some switches mounted on the case or on on a slot cover that would allow you to disable power going to the cards you do not want to use. For that matter, you could even use a rotary switch from a data switch. You would have to make sure …

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Re: Gameports and joysticks

Posted on 2019-04-15, 04:58

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by cyclone3d

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You need to find a known working gamepad or joystick and make sure the gameports on your cards are working. You really shoudn't even have to reboot when adding a joystick or gamepad. My bet is either a driver issue or both of the controllers are bad. Microsoft Sidewinder Precision Pro driver: …

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Re: PCie-to PCI, PCI to ISA, # of slots multipliers - bridges, risers, backplanes, research, especially for DOS, WIP.

Posted on 2019-04-14, 21:33

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by cyclone3d

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If you really want full ISA support with a newer motherboard, you can always use on of those USB to ISA adapters. Pretty sure they were mentioned somewhere earlier in this thread. There is even DOSBOX code to make them work with DOSBOX. As far as using them in DOS through Windows 98, I am not sure …

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Re: Can you fix my Super Socket 7 ?

Posted on 2019-04-13, 21:39

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by cyclone3d

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FPM SIMM is only going to work at 66Mhz. You will need a PC100 DIMM for 100Mhz FSB unless there is a setting to run the RAM at 66Mhz and the FSB at 100Mhz at the same time.

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Re: Underperforming? Quadro FX 2000 windows 98

Posted on 2019-04-13, 04:57

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by cyclone3d

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Well, for one, the newer versions of the unofficial SP3 for Win98 are pretty much trash from personal experience. Just install standard 98SE and use the Microsoft update CD... available here: http://www.vogonsdrivers.com/getfile.php?fileid=873&menustate= And if you want USB storage support, install …

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Re: Can you fix my Super Socket 7 MB ?

Posted on 2019-04-13, 04:51

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by cyclone3d

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Are all the other parts known working? Any yeah.. the 503+ is really finicky about what RAM it likes.

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Re: PCI slot cooler idea.

Posted on 2019-04-13, 04:49

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by cyclone3d

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Well, for one, just hooking up a fan to draw power from a PCI slot would most likely introduce a whole lot of noise to the PCI bus. You would need to have something with some filtering capacitors on it to make sure it doesn't screw with other stuff in the system. Plus if it shorts out.. which I have …

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Re: Sound Blaster Pro 1.0 vs. 2.0

Posted on 2019-04-13, 03:14

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by cyclone3d

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The only games that will sound different in regards to the OPL on the 1.0 vs 2.0 are the ones that were specifically written to take advantage of the dual OPL2 chips.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-04-13, 02:25

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by cyclone3d

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Twins. Baby ATX , Super Socket 7's FIC VA-503+’s with AMD K6 CPU’s. These should work great for over locking an AMD k5-3+-450mhz to 550mhz. Maybe even try for 600Mhz or a bit higher. For the 6x multipler, set the jumpers to 2x. I think those boards should also have a few settings that are above …

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Re: Slow AVI with DX4-100 in Windows 3.11

Posted on 2019-04-12, 19:37

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by cyclone3d

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What happens if you set up a Smartdrive cache for the CD-ROM drive? What PIO mode is the IDE controller set to in the BIOS? What does Windows say it is running at in the device manager? Is the IDE controller sharing an IRQ with the video card or sound card? It sound to me more like a data transfer …

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Re: Shadow RAM proper usage in BIOS

Posted on 2019-04-12, 19:30

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by cyclone3d

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The purpose of shadowing is to copy the hardware BIOS/Firmware to faster system RAM. With some hardware this can make stuff work faster, but it also means that you can't use those ranges for UMBs. If you really want to shadow those ranges, you may have to manually exclude them from being used by …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-04-12, 16:52

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by cyclone3d

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Twins. Baby ATX , Super Socket 7's FIC VA-503+’s with AMD K6 CPU’s. These should work great for over locking an AMD k5-3+-450mhz to 550mhz. Maybe even try for 600Mhz or a bit higher. For the 6x multipler, set the jumpers to 2x. I think those boards should also have a few settings that are above …

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