Re: Seeking clarification on hardware requirements for setting up MT-32

Posted on 2020-04-26, 07:08

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kolderman wrote on 2020-04-26, 05:29: Buy a hardMPU or musicQuest clone from some good people here. Not necessary if you have 386DX or faster hardware capable of running SoftMPU.

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Re: ATI Rage LT PRO AGP 2x woes

Posted on 2020-04-26, 06:51

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Yep, that seemed to work immediately, thanks! This iGPU is actually a very decent performer, about 25fps on the texture quality setting set to the 2nd-rightmost option. I have a 4MB Rage Pro and yes I need to lower texture quality a notch for better gameplay. Using 8-bit textures does not seem to …

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DOS Benchmarks (Judging relative CPU performance, particularly with cache disabled)

Posted on 2020-04-26, 06:49

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There are several DOS benchmarks that display relative performance to other CPUs, such as SpeedSys, NSSI and Norton SysInfo. They tend to show varying results for non-Intel CPUs, and go particularly weird when you start manipulating L1/L2 caches or instructions. Is there, in your experience, a DOS …

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

Posted on 2020-04-25, 20:43

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I upgraded my Budget 1997 Build from a Cyrix 6x86MX-PR233 to a Pentium MMX-200 after finding out how cheap the MMX-200 got in late 1997, putting it basically in the same ballpark as the fastest 6x86MX (the PR200) and K6 (233MHz) available at the time. If I built this PC at the time I would have gone …

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

Posted on 2020-04-25, 19:46

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Hell yeah the Rage 128 Pro is a kickass card. I wish you could test the Rage 128 (non-Pro) and regular TNT. The TNT2 M64 is a secret retrogaming hero too.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-04-25, 19:45

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Another Artex post.. FML..

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Re: ATI Rage LT PRO AGP 2x woes

Posted on 2020-04-25, 05:51

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Set desktop color depth to 16-bit and it will work. Known driver bug.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-04-24, 21:57

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I don't need more Socket 7 stuff but when I saw an AT board with an ATX connetors, for 7 bucks I said OK, why not. I aldo got a Pentium 200 on for 7 bucks too so the whole lot cost me just about 15, not bad. All are tested to work. I know the board is an Atrend ATC-5030, not a bad board? https://i. …

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Re: I'm new here, from South Africa, ask me anything

Posted on 2020-04-24, 21:39

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Oj0 wrote on 2020-04-24, 18:43: appiah4 wrote on 2020-04-23, 17:14: One of us! One of us! You’re South African or a non Facebook user? I actively avoid Facebook.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-04-24, 18:10

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I also happen to have one of these cards (Zoltrix Audio Plus 6400 3D PnP V.5 AV310 - quite a mouthful indeed), but I never thought much of it because its OPL3 Synth is considered to be particularly subpar . I should certainly try it out sometime! I take that back, the CMI FM Synth is PRETTY cloes …

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Re: Chances of this chip being 100% original?

Posted on 2020-04-24, 15:34

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Sorry my bad 😁

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Re: Chances of this chip being 100% original?

Posted on 2020-04-24, 14:37

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all yamaha chips I got from china were remarked ^^ I bought a lot of GAL chips from china once, and since it was leftover stock apparently still in the original packaging the image was exactly what I got :) a lot of the yamaha chips from europe are the same remarked ones as from china, I guess they …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-04-24, 12:28

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derSammler wrote on 2020-04-24, 11:42: appiah4 wrote on 2020-04-24, 10:02: No, there was no Retrocengo contribution it is 100% local made here in Turkey. Even the name suggests this is a clone of Thorsten Schubert's "D520 HDMI Converter". No, the name is derived fromt he A520 RF modulator. It's …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-04-24, 10:02

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That upscaler sir.... That is fantastic. Is Retrocengo perhaps involved in some way? I am really looking forward to hearing more about it. How well does it perform and what might the end price be, if it goes on sale somewere? No, there was no Retrocengo contribution it is 100% local made here in …

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Re: Retro OSes for retro computers

Posted on 2020-04-24, 07:50

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kolderman wrote on 2020-04-24, 07:43: MATE is Gnome2. It is not. It is a fork of Gnome 2 and that does not make them the same thing.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-04-24, 07:48

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Well, neither of these are 'retro' hardware but they are for retro computers. First is an HDMI Upscaler for my Amiga 500; this is a limited run project we collaborated on with the Turkish Commodore/Amiga scene, and the end result is simply fantastic. I will post photos and videos of it in action …

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Re: Chances of this chip being 100% original?

Posted on 2020-04-24, 05:54

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Try rubbing it with a cotton swab drenched in isopropyl alcohol, if you get black paint coming off it's 100% fake.

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Re: Slot A thunderbirds

Posted on 2020-04-23, 21:27

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I came into this topic, and read it all, and was preparing to post "Oh, I also have a Thunderbird 700", but then I checked my inventory and I actually have a Pluto 800, for better or worse.. https://i.postimg.cc/6QP35k5t/AMD-Athlon-800-B.jpg I plan to put together a Win98/2K dual boot system some …

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

Posted on 2020-04-23, 21:20

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Today I've spent hours trying to get SLI running with two Voodoo II's and it just doesn't work. First I had just two of them: A Creative CT6670 and a PowerColor. Both of them work fine individually, but in SLI mode my screen just turns itself off and the computer locks up. On the PowerColor I …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-04-23, 20:10

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it's probably easier and cheaper to find a coppermine board ^^ but yeah I'm not that hyped about dual tualatins either, because that would require me to get two of them... Well, if you aren't after -S variants, things like the P3-1200 aren't that terribly rare, I have two. I just don't think I'll …

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