Re: Welcome to the updated VOGONS

Posted on 2020-05-16, 17:25

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Is there no signature image height limit? There should be, really.. Some signatures have absurdly large or tall images. Check out bloodem 's signature for example, it's jarring.. Is there any real reason to not disable signature display? Yes, because it actually does contain a lot of very useful …

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Re: Tube Time: Announcing The Snark Barker, a 100% Compatible SB 1.0 Replica!

Posted on 2020-05-16, 10:53

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End of Day 5: https://i.postimg.cc/kXkmq9PS/Tubetime-Snark-Barker-Day-05.jpg Only major mistake so far: Sodering the DIP-40 socket the wrong way around *facepalm*.. I socketed the IC the right way though. Last parcel with remaining components arrived today. Opening it to find out that I forgot to …

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Re: Other hobbies?

Posted on 2020-05-15, 21:45

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My two other main hobbies are painting wargaming miniatures (Warhamer 40,000 mostly) and Lego. And now, some images.. https://image.bolterandchainsword.com/uploads/gallery/album_8363/gallery_60983_8363_1819925.jpg https://image.bolterandchainsword.com/uploads/gallery/album_8363/gallery_60983_8363_ …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2020-05-15, 21:30

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Taking a short break from Ultima V, which I am truly savoring! Instead, tonight I played: Pool of Radiance (PC) This is one I had for my C64 back when I was a kid. I didn't get far into it myself, but a friend of mine became obsessed with it and he spent several months of weekends at my house …

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Re: Welcome to the updated VOGONS

Posted on 2020-05-15, 21:27

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Is there no signature image height limit? There should be, really.. Some signatures have absurdly large or tall images. Check out bloodem 's signature for example, it's jarring..

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

Posted on 2020-05-15, 20:52

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Soldering. So much soldering. If there is such a thing as solder high, then I have it. More likely, I poisoned myself with the fumes..

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Re: Sound Blaster: From IRQ7 to IRQ5, when and why?

Posted on 2020-05-15, 13:19

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Just guessing, but maybe the rise of Windows, which allowed printing in the background. With the sound card on IRQ 7, playing any sound would have frozen the system while a print job was running. But again, just guessing. Makes sense to me, however. Can't the LPT: and Sound Blaster share an IRQ …

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Re: Playing GOG games on real Retro DOS PC

Posted on 2020-05-15, 13:18

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I have, on several occasions, asked GOG to offer original game media (disks, cds, etc.) for games they sell as extra downloads. Nothing came of it. Feel free to knock on that door, though.

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Sound Blaster: From IRQ7 to IRQ5, when and why?

Posted on 2020-05-15, 13:04

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I remember that my first PC had a Sound Blaster Pro, which I later upgraded to a Sound Blaster 16 as part of a CD-ROM multimedia upgrade kit. If I remember correctly, my Sound Blaster Pro came preconfigured as IRQ7 but my Sound Blaster 16 came preconfigured as IRQ5. It would appear, from research, …

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Re: Sealed / Boxed (Never Opened) XGI Volari Duo V8 Ultra

Posted on 2020-05-15, 12:51

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I remember being on the Hype Train for this back in the day. Oh man, what a horrible clusterfuck it ended up being. I'd still want one for my collection though. I hope you also grabbed that Dremel, by the way.

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

Posted on 2020-05-15, 12:42

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That's cool.. All my motherboards are in large boxes stacked against each other and somewhat uncomfortably tightly I might add, I will look into ordering a bunch of cardboards that will comfortably fit a single ATX motherboard each. I wonder if there is a standard size for this? The boxes I'm using …

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Re: What music are you listening to?

Posted on 2020-05-15, 05:15

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Bruninho wrote on 2020-05-14, 12:46: Plus in this quarantine is easy to grow up a mullet. No beauty shops are open... hahahahahaha Mullet is beauty.

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2020-05-15, 05:14

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Ultima V: Warriors of Destiny (PC) Having completed Ultima IV recently, I have decided to play the only Ultima (except VIII, IX and the World of Ultima games) with which I have zero experience. I was immediately impressed with the writing, both in the manual and in the introduction. I was also …

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Re: AMD K6 3DMARK, aiming for stars.

Posted on 2020-05-15, 05:10

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from HWbot https://d1ebmxcfh8bf9c.cloudfront.net/u4702/image_id_1257775.jpeg I don't get it! How do you guys get such high scores? This is better than my Celeron 800MHZ with NVIDIA Ti4200 = 3469 pts. I also saw someone else getting more than 12000 with a P3 which I think my score should be closer …

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Re: Tube Time: Announcing The Snark Barker, a 100% Compatible SB 1.0 Replica!

Posted on 2020-05-15, 05:02

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Note: I hope TubeTimeUS doesn't mind me sharing any of this but please let me know if it is a problem. No problem! Cool, thank you :) In other news, another day of soldering done and I only have the sockets and connectors left to solder to the board. I will add a photo to this post soon :) https:// …

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

Posted on 2020-05-15, 04:59

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Sorting out some old motherboards and organizing. https://imgur.com/N2AfV6f.jpg That's cool.. All my motherboards are in large boxes stacked against each other and somewhat uncomfortably tightly I might add, I will look into ordering a bunch of cardboards that will comfortably fit a single ATX …

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Re: Best video cards with DOS / Win 3.x / Win 9x support

Posted on 2020-05-14, 06:58

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PCI Riva 128, PCI Riva TNT or PCI Intel i740 are what you want. PCI Matrox Millennium I and II also have working feature connectors, but they may not fulfill all your criteria (Millennium I is better in terms of DOS compatibility IME). If you can find them for <$40 a PCI Voodoo Banshee or a PCI …

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Re: New sound card project: AWE64 Legacy

Posted on 2020-05-13, 17:24

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An FPGA is not an emulator. (Nor is it genuine hardware but I digress..)

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Re: Tube Time: Announcing The Snark Barker, a 100% Compatible SB 1.0 Replica!

Posted on 2020-05-13, 11:18

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I've reached out to Eric via email one more time for information on bypassing the potentiometer, and he has kindly responded. He's really a great guy. Anyway, apparently, this is how to set it up for around 85% volume rotation: Pot Bypass.png And the resistor divider formula is Vo = Vi * Rl / (Rl + …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-05-13, 06:53

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I managed to pick up last couple of weeks' orders today. Some of them are in fairly miserable but repairable condition (Rush has bent legs and pcb damage, AWE64 has corrosion, 486SX has bent pins, and the S3 has a mangled bracket and a missing nut - as a sidenote, please help me out with this …

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