Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2016-09-22, 00:30

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by kanecvr

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Finally got around to testing my SC-55 - I got a proper MIDI cable today (surprised at how long it took me to find one), connected it to the YMF724 on my K6-3 build and fired it up in DOS - awesome sauce! Now it's time for bed 😀

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Re: Worst cpus and worst computer builds

Posted on 2016-09-22, 00:15

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by kanecvr

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Some socket 478 celerons - those things sucked big time. A friend of mine had a 2.2Ghz cellery with 128kb of cache that felt a lot slower then my (then) XP 1800+. It was also a pain in the neck trying to get one of those setups to run decently when I had to install windows on one. To make it worse, …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-09-21, 23:58

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by kanecvr

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I generally have no interest in AGP video cards w/o win98 drivers, so when I was looking for 7xxx cards, I settled for a pair of XFX 7950GT EE. Payed 20$ for them and they run great. I'm not running them passive tough - a 120mm fan blows in between both cards, otherwise they go over 80c. http://i. …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-09-21, 16:02

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by kanecvr

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I generally have no interest in AGP video cards w/o win98 drivers, so when I was looking for 7xxx cards, I settled for a pair of XFX 7950GT EE. Payed 20$ for them and they run great. I'm not running them passive tough - a 120mm fan blows in between both cards, otherwise they go over 80c. http://i. …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2016-09-21, 15:39

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by kanecvr

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Got me an SB1040 X-Fi Xtreme PCI-E. Not really retro, but I needed a dedicated sound card for my main rig since it kept BSODing. F#(%ing windows 10. The on board realtek card's win10 drivers kept causing a "attempted switch from dpc" BSOD. Removing realtek software means loosing the equalizer …

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Re: Advice on choosing PCI soundcard for SS7 Build

Posted on 2016-09-21, 15:26

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by kanecvr

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That is a nice build OP. Similar to my own: http://i.imgur.com/AmQa8jEh.jpg http://i.imgur.com/enFOVgyh.jpg I use a K6-3+ CPU OCd to 550Mhz, 256MB of ram, and an Aopen AX59-PRO mainboard. Until recently I used a Riva TNT2 PRO, but since I started playing at 1600x1200 I switched to my Leadtek Geforce …

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Re: Advice on choosing PCI soundcard for SS7 Build

Posted on 2016-09-21, 00:43

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by kanecvr

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An often overlooked feature of the Aureal cards is the ability to choose what synth to use in a DOS Box/Window. It supports A3D 2.0 and might not be used to fullest extent but he already has it. This is the perfect PCI card to run DOS games without booting into pure DOS. Yamaha software synth, …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-09-20, 19:16

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by kanecvr

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I have an eye out on this LCD monitor: http://www.ebay.de/itm/NEC-MultiSync-LCD2190UXp-black-21-Monitor-1600x1200-Hohenverstellbar-Pivot-/141539047742 But have no idea if it's any good for retro usage :confused: I like 4:3 ratio and 1600x1200 resolution. If anything it would be good for MAME - with …

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Re: Advice on choosing PCI soundcard for SS7 Build

Posted on 2016-09-20, 15:43

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by kanecvr

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- Creative PCI128 / ESS Ensoniq AudioPCI (ES1371 / ES1373) - great dos support, good midi sinth, comes with 2, 4 and 8mb patches. Midi synth also works in dos, and has general midi support. Also quite cheap and easy to find. - Yamaha DS/XG (YMF724 / YMF744) - Great windows soundcard - great midi …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-09-20, 15:26

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by kanecvr

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There is no mention of speed in my reply. So I'm not sure where it came from ;) Sorry... It is just the way I read "Can't say much about Cirrus Logic PCI cards." you know... Sometimes one sentence are just being misread or misunderstood. For that I am sorry, and nothing personal on my behalf. The …

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Re: Replacing capacitor on KT600 board

Posted on 2016-09-19, 18:26

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by kanecvr

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Some motherboards use lead-free solder. That can be a pain in the ass to remove. Try to mix in some leaded solder.

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Re: In search of Dr Riptide sound setup?

Posted on 2016-09-19, 01:44

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by kanecvr

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..... I'm not having any luck getting sound to work with my GUS. If I load SBDOS, sound works, the game stops taking any keyboard input. In windows it won't detect my YMF724, even if I add the blaster argument in autoexec or before running the game 🙁 W/O SBDOS it just plays on PC Speaker.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-09-19, 01:16

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by kanecvr

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That Abit was one of the best i865 based Socket 478 P4 mobos i own along with my ASUS P4P800-E Deluxe and my Gigabyte GA-8IPE1000-G ... the P4P800 boards are extremly unreliable due to cheap-ass CPU power circuitry (some late boards don't have this problem - particularly the later SE versions) The …

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Re: i486 DX2 66 vs Am486 DX2 66 and the winner is...

Posted on 2016-09-19, 01:00

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by kanecvr

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Well from the benchmarks it looks like I don't have to feel discouraged that I own an AMD Am486DX2-66. :D Everyone's a winner IMO. If you got an Intel you get that warm and fuzzy feeling of being a tiny bit in front, and if you AMD you can relax and know that you're not missing out on anything. …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-09-18, 23:59

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by kanecvr

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Dude that Abit AI7 has me drooling... I've been looking for one of those babies for a while with no luck... The Asus p4c800 isn't bad either (if it doesn't decide to stop working for no reason like the P4P800 boards do).

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Re: Graphical issues with open GL on a Geforce 256

Posted on 2016-09-18, 23:52

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by kanecvr

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I tried 12.41WHQL and 12.90 (I didn't found the whql version of this one) and I have still the same issues :/ try reinstalling direct x 8.1 - i had the same issue with my creative 3d blaster annihilator. It only went away with a clean windows 98 reinstall. What happened is I installed DX9c for …

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In search of Dr Riptide sound setup?

Posted on 2016-09-18, 21:16

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by kanecvr

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Hi guys. I recently found a FDD image I took of the original In search of Dr Riptide game and installed it on one of my machines - the problem is I can only seem to get PC Speaker sound going - what gives? I can't find a setup program for sound either on the disk or in the installed game folder - …

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Re: Graphical issues with open GL on a Geforce 256

Posted on 2016-09-18, 18:17

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by kanecvr

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Deksor wrote: I tried regular Nvidia drivers, however I didn't tried the latest for that card. Well this is really a shame ... It's definitely a driver issue. Try older or newer nvidia drivers.

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Re: 486DLC Project

Posted on 2016-09-18, 15:29

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by kanecvr

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It seems like a problem with the DMA controller. Make sure your bios settings are correct. Try "load optimized bios defaults" or something like that. If it still won't work, try decreasing DMA clock in bios . if it's 1/1 or 1/2, set it to 1/3, 1/4 or lower. Try this with all bios multipliers if …

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Re: VLB with 386DX-40 ?

Posted on 2016-09-18, 13:06

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by kanecvr

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Hi, did anyone tested the VLB mainboards supporting (also) the 386DX-40 with some fast VLB graphic cards? how much did it benefit from it? Wasn't VLB technology fixed for 486 only cpu or the 386 just works without any performance differences? Thank I've been playing around with this thing: http:// …

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