Cif cream is my go-to cleaner for them filthy beige boxes . :) WOW. I would have grabbed that dirty old thing too, I wouldn't be able to resist it either. Awesome work on that case. In that post you talked about using scouring pads, is that the metal ones or the green plastic-fiber ones like this: …

keenerb wrote: I just spent about 20 minutes cleaning up a really nasty Tandy machine with Shout and a magic eraser. That came out great!

the most annoying issue with an Audigy 2 ZS under windows 98 is getting the drivers installed, the install CD doesn't detect the card and when you try to installed them manually it comes up as "creative audio processor" Hmm that's not what I found. I've captured the entire installation process. You …

Perfect video for you: What is the best sound card for Windows 98 Super Socket 7? As much as I love the Vortex 2, the games that have awesome A3D sound usually don't run that well on the SS7 machine. But it's a great sound card regardless. If I had to recommend another card it would be the Audigy 2 …

What do you use to clean scuffed, marked, dirty beige boxes? There are a few that could probably use some retr0bright, but most just need a little cleaning to get the dirt and grime off. I've had some bad experiences with using alcohol on one of my newer black-colored cases. It got the dirt off, but …

just wanted to add in case anyone's interested - this looks like a windows based app to do the same thing. again, would be cooler if it was in DOS, but beggars can't be choosers: http://fm801.kewl.org/app/about/

Awesome suggestions xjas - gave both a download and will try - thank you! Also, I found this video of a guy doing something pretty much what I want - although it would be even cooler if it was in DOS: https://youtu.be/tczvrrAQ2kw?t=98 Had to replay like 5 times and pause at just the right moment to …

(acetone) - you can get straight acetone at paint/hardware stores 😀

And they "dare say it's the most user friendly interface" lol That's another cool option though! Luckily they opensourced it at some point- maybe there's a way to get some of the core functionality without the tracker part, and add MIDI support for keyboards. https://github.com/ijsf/at2 specifcially …

Thanks Jepael - that is an awesome app that looks like it will work perfectly. Looking into SBTimbre, I found this page http://www.oplx.com/opl2.htm which is full of trackers/editors A lot of them are not really what I'm looking for but the nostalgia factor was too much to resist spending time in …

Hello, I've got a few machines - mostly Socket 7 / Pentium MMX's, some of them have ISA SoundBlaster Pro cards. I'm interested in finding a DOS Synth application that would let me take advantage of the OPL-2 chip, to plug a MIDI keyboard into the machine and get realtime FM Synth playback. Not …