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Re: Using an AWE Upgrade (Goldfinch) to emulate an MPU-401 with a non-Creative sound card

Posted on 2016-04-15, 02:50

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Just out of curiosity... what if you were to actually use the Goldfinch with a "dummy" soundblaster installed in a spare slot? The way I use my Goldfinch card is to run it through the line-in on my CT2940, so the Goldfinch certainly doesn't care which card it is physically connected to. I wonder if …

Re: First computers you've used

Posted on 2016-04-14, 04:39

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'm 30 but my siblings were 12-16 years older than me, so I grew up with some pretty interesting old systems available. I'm not sure which one I played first, but it may have been the Atari 8bit computer my Aunt and Uncle had. It was the later ST-like style so it was most likely a 65xe or 130xe. I …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-04-14, 00:57

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

This isn't exactly retro hardware, but I just picked up a big pile of useful newer parts and it contained an M-Audio Audiophile 2496 PCI card which has a midi interface on it. The card is in excellent condition and has the original box and all accessories. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx? …

Re: AWE32 Upgrade CT1920 Goldfinch... need some help and clarification.

Posted on 2016-04-13, 19:21

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Try 'masterpiece.sf2' here: http://rkhive.com/banks.html Sounds nice I think, but does take a while to load with the Goldfinch. Not sure what you mean regarding the FM issue - it ain't on port 330. That's the MPU-401, and you probs don't have anything attached to that. You can tell the Goldfinch to …

Re: AWE32 Upgrade CT1920 Goldfinch... need some help and clarification.

Posted on 2016-04-13, 04:36

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have an Orchid Righteous too, and I adore the sound of the switching relays as well. As far as the loss of clarity goes, yeah it's par for the course with Voodoo 1's and 2's. The Righteous is actually one of the cleaner of the Voodoo's because of the relays. It's a tad worse on bog standard …

Re: Found new hardware

Posted on 2016-04-13, 03:19

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Wow, what a strange board layout!

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-04-13, 01:25

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

*Awesome story about a Midway/Quantum3D arcade computer (on p. 574)* This is so cool. Please tell me you're going to keep it as a system and not part out the Voodoo's. If it were mine, I'd also be making a HDD image pretty quickly. Thanks for sharing story and pictures! No way will I be parting …

Re: AWE32 Upgrade CT1920 Goldfinch... need some help and clarification.

Posted on 2016-04-12, 21:37

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

This is not related to this subject exactly, but after getting Windows 98SE installed on this system, I decided to finally set up and test the Orchid Righteous 3D Voodoo Graphics card that was intended for this system (before I realized that it required Win9x). It seems to be working just fine in …

Re: AWE32 Upgrade CT1920 Goldfinch... need some help and clarification.

Posted on 2016-04-12, 19:24

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Woohoo! I've got 98SE on my "DOS" rig and I've loaded the AWE32 Upgrade software and it works great! It detects 28MB of memory and I can load the Chorium RevA sound font without issue (other than the 30 second wait). Its amazing how much different these fonts can make things sound. Really cool stuff …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-04-12, 12:45

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

It's a kickass card, the onboard amp is a killer, you can control the mixer from the command line, the FM is thick and bassy and they are all-round good cards. The SB compatibility is pretty good too. You can also control the volume in Windows with key combinations without opening a mixer. Be …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-04-12, 04:12

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

This was an impulse buy for sure. I based my decision solely on my memories of running the sound setup programs for old DOS games, and I always remember seeing Pro Audio Spectrum listed... s-l1600.jpg Got it "as is" for $19.95 shipped... seemed okay for a less common card such as this, but I …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-04-11, 01:35

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Haha... which thread? I just found it on eBay. 😮

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-04-11, 01:25

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Well, in honor of the 1,000,000 views, I present: Filename s-l1600.jpg File size 206.96 KiB Views 5934 views Network cards, SB Live, G200, G400, ATi... blah blah... wuh? AWE64 Gold and a Voodoo 3 3000 AGP? ... $20?!? *buy now* ... *giggle* ... *cry* ... I think I have a problem... 😵

Re: Fastest Half-Height AGP 4X/8X Video Card for Win98 SE?

Posted on 2016-04-11, 01:04

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'd be concerned about the 200W power supply if its low quality. There are plenty of units that wattage that would handle that system just fine (as long as you don't go too crazy with the GPU or other components), but there are also others that can't. Its not so much the wattage as it is the …

Re: AWE32 Upgrade CT1920 Goldfinch... need some help and clarification.

Posted on 2016-04-10, 11:33

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Thanks for the clarification! That helps so much! I'll probably just bite the bullet and install 9x on this system on a second drive. It can certainly handled it. At the moment this will still be primarily used for later DOS games, so which version of Windows is likely to have the least headaches? …

AWE32 Upgrade CT1920 Goldfinch... need some help and clarification.

Posted on 2016-04-09, 22:20

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

EDIT: Just to update, the card is working fine with this memory in Windows 98SE. I bought a couple of CT1920 AWE32 upgrade cards brand new on eBay recently and built a connector to get it to pass music through my CT2940 (with Yamaha OPL). When I run AWEDIAG it plays music just fine when it gets to …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-04-09, 17:36

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Don't get me wrong, I like this board (somehow! It is only because of nostalgia, back then this board was all I had to choose from after the Pentium 200MMX) but if there were bad boards back then, these (M810, K7SEM) were. I think it was the end of 2001 and I needed a new motherboard, and a Duron …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-04-09, 02:30

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Quantum3D Graphite 2016-04-06 005 (1440x1920).jpg Wow, would you mind sharing that beautiful background Q3D image with us? That is actually a screen shot from Arctic Thunder. It has several logos that show between gameplay clips. It may be just an image file that could be copied out of the game …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-04-09, 01:16

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Woohoo... just had another score today. This time, LOCALLY! I went to a PC repair shop that's been in business 20 minutes from me for decades, that I didn't even know existed. It is full of HEAPS of stuff, 6 feet tall... towers, retail boxes of old hardware, bins full of parts... its wonderful. …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-04-07, 17:23

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

So, I got my $120 (shipped) Quantum 3D Graphite system in the mail yesterday and its actually smaller than I thought it'd be. Its very clean inside and out, though there are a lot of scratches on the casing and no side\top panel (which is probably common). To my surprise, the system turned on …

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