Re: HardMPU, anyone?
Posted on 2017-03-21, 18:29
Ooooh. I just saw this thread. Very interesting and I may be interested in one of these boards.. or in making one of these boards.
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2017-03-21, 18:21
I have had MS-Dos 5 running on it, and switched it to 6.22. Then I played Lotus, Dyna, Wolf3d and finally played a couple of levels of Doom. I have totally forgot that I need a Dx2-80 in order to make the most demanding parts of Doom run 100% fluid. Dx2-66 can do, I just need to upgrade this …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2017-03-21, 06:04
Tried in vain to get my ASUS P5A up and running. Bought it on eBay a few years ago and it would never POST. Thought it may be some setting or something else as the seller claimed it worked.. got a refund when it didn't. CPU fan spins, chipset gets warm, CPU gets warm... but no beep codes or video at …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2017-03-20, 23:17
Well, I now have a Diamond Monster Voodoo 1 4MB card on the way. Nobody else bid on it so I got it for $5.00 + shipping. Wasn't listed as a 3dfx card. Not sure what I am going to use it for.. probably save it for another retro machine as I already have the V5-5500 that I bought new back in the day …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2017-03-20, 21:20
I've been busy building up my sound card collection as well as video capturing hardware in preparation for a web page project I have planned.
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2017-03-20, 19:21
Found somebody selling an Awe64 Value CT4520 with the CT1950 24MB upgrade card and a Yamaha SW60XG. No, I didn't pay a crazy price either. I wonder how an Awe64 Gold! with the 24MB card will compare to a CT3670 (SB 32 with AWE64 chipset) with 28MB. :-D Edit: Got shipping confirmation. And the …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2017-03-20, 14:33
Well, I now have a Diamond Monster Voodoo 1 4MB card on the way. Nobody else bid on it so I got it for $5.00 + shipping. Wasn't listed as a 3dfx card. Not sure what I am going to use it for.. probably save it for another retro machine as I already have the V5-5500 that I bought new back in the day …
Re: DB9 Serial to DIN-5 MIDI OUT Pinout?
Posted on 2017-03-20, 01:36
If only SOFTMPU supported Parallel that would be sweet. Not sure how hard or possible it would be to add that functionality. That would only require the hardware to be made (for example a microcontroller programmed to take in bytes from parallel port according to handshake signals and send them out …
Re: DB9 Serial to DIN-5 MIDI OUT Pinout?
Posted on 2017-03-19, 19:37
Ok, you might be able to use a MAC serial to midi box and SOFTMPU to get it working. A Midiman mini macman might work. If only SOFTMPU supported Parallel that would be sweet. Not sure how hard or possible it would be to add that functionality.
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2017-03-19, 19:18
Ok, so have a few more things on the way for my project. 1. Midiman Mini Macman - 1x1 serial midi for MAC. Going to see if it will work on a PC with SOFTMPU. Just have to make or get a MAC to PC serial cable. 2. Atlona AT-HD500 PC/VGA to HDMI Scaler - to scale DOS resolutions so I can capture in …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2017-03-18, 13:49
Just found an Avermedia C127 on eBay. Yay for VGA/component and HDMI video capture for cheap. $45 shipped. Make sure it comes with a driver CD, apparently AVerMedia pulled all the old drivers. They will provide them when you contact them though. Yep, already found that out. I found a page that has …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2017-03-18, 06:21
Just found an Avermedia C127 on eBay. Yay for VGA/component and HDMI video capture for cheap. $45 shipped.
Antex Z1/Z1e ?
Posted on 2017-03-18, 00:56
Anybody here ever use or even better yet own an Antex Z1e? I was looking at some other Antex cards and noticed that the Z1/Z1e has OPL support of some kind. I would be interested in getting one of these old cards. I haven't even been able to find a picture of it. Edit: It also has a 2MB wavetable …
Re: Ultimate MIDI Emulator Project
Posted on 2017-03-17, 17:12
This looks really cool and I am going to test it (with a standard Laptop)! I looked on Ebay for a game-port-->MIDI adapter. Maybe I searched for the wrong keywords, but the only one I was able to find was this one: http://www.ebay.de/itm/281957225946 I hope it is the right one and it should also …
Re: need manual or jumper layout for PA-2013 2.0 board
Posted on 2017-03-16, 03:05
Try here. Looks like every single PA-2013 manual is available ftp://ftp.fic.com.tw/motherboard/manual/socket7/pa-2013/ Edit: Not seeing a specific manual for the 2.1 (PCB 2.0) version of the motherboard. From what I could find, even people who bought the board new back in the day had trouble with …
Re: Isa sound card question
Posted on 2017-03-15, 18:55
yeah I'm pretty sure the Dell card is the same as the standard Montego / Montego II. I had a Montego II Quadzilla back in the day and I have a couple of Dell ones now and the cards look the same as I remember (minus the extra bracket the Quadzilla gave me). I got one of my Dell cards because the …
Re: The New Creative Labs Sound Blaster Drivers Collection. (Updated 6th Jan. 2014)
Posted on 2017-03-15, 18:02
Thanks a lot for this set! I believe that they are not compiled anywhere in the packages I've looked in the forum. It would be great if someone showed up with the ENG version though... Once again, thanks a lot! Ricardo You're welcome. I have been doing quite a bit of digging and downloading whole …
Re: DB9 Serial to DIN-5 MIDI OUT Pinout?
Posted on 2017-03-15, 15:04
You could always use a super expensive PCMCIA to PCI slot adapter and then get a PCI card with a MIDI port on it. https://sewelldirect.com/pcmcia-to-pci-1-slot http://www.ebay.com/itm/Magma-1-Slot-Half-Length-PCI-Enclosure-CardBus-Interface-Cable-Power-Supply-2-/112280537550?hash=item1a247109ce:g: …
Re: Sound card to use for FX with Roland external units...
Posted on 2017-03-14, 20:29
AWE32 (SB32) CT3670. It is basically an AWE64 with simm slots. So unless you already have the AWE64 upgraded, then the CT3670 is going to be a better card. You can max it out with 28MB of RAM (2x16MB) sticks from eBay for about $22. I would get a Yamaha YMF724/744/754 PCI card to go along with it …
Re: Isa sound card question
Posted on 2017-03-14, 16:21
Don't forget about the Aureal SQ2500; it's basically the reference design, although it came out after the MX300. thanks for the addition. I'll try to remember to include that next time I talk about Vortex. There is also the Dell Turtle Beach Vortex2 card. Both the Vortex1 and Vortex2 cards from …
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