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Re: Pentium PRO?

Posted on 2024-04-19, 07:09

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Pentium Pro and Socket 8 were short lived technologies that are pretty valuable to collectors and enthusiasts, keep them. As for whether buying a board for that CPU is worth it depends on what you mean to get out of it. It will give you a big E-Penis. It will be slower and more expensive than a …

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

Posted on 2024-04-18, 10:29

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

After getting my XT upgraded a bit more with the previously posted about VGA card, I toyed with it for a little bit. I've managed to get full color graphics and sound via the SB 2.0 that's in there. Now I'm just at a loss as to how I can get around to upgrading the BIOS/ROM. As it stands, I have a …

Re: ATI Radeon 8500 - Ghosting / image doubled

Posted on 2024-04-17, 14:13

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Interesting. Does your card have the Rage Theater chip? That IIRC is related to multi monitor output and could be working improperly unless initialized somehow..

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

Posted on 2024-04-17, 08:34

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

After getting my XT upgraded a bit more with the previously posted about VGA card, I toyed with it for a little bit. I've managed to get full color graphics and sound via the SB 2.0 that's in there. Now I'm just at a loss as to how I can get around to upgrading the BIOS/ROM. As it stands, I have a …

Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2024-04-17, 07:56

in Milliways

in Milliways

ROFL.. Fallout is such an amazing game..

Re: What hasn’t been done?

Posted on 2024-04-17, 07:52

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

darry wrote on 2024-04-17, 03:46: appiah4 wrote on 2024-04-15, 09:52: You covered the best bits 🙁 Is that Claudia Schiffer? Yes. *heart*

Re: BLASTERBOARD : A new SB 2.0-compatible ISA sound card

Posted on 2024-04-17, 06:22

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

It should almost definitely be ok t0 swap LS with F, but if the design requires F specifically LS may be too slow to get the job done.

Re: PicoGUS: ISA sound card emulator with Raspberry Pi Pico (Gravis Ultrasound, AdLib, MPU-401, Tandy, CMS)

Posted on 2024-04-17, 06:21

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Kekkula wrote on 2024-04-16, 18:21: Ok thanks for the reply. Here in Europe cards are hard to come by 😉 Order your 1.x PCBs from JLCPCB and your parts from LCSC, solder and enjoy..

Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2024-04-17, 06:19

in Milliways

in Milliways

It's an extremely low chance random encounter, like the aliens and the Used Car Salesman that has the very OP Christmas Story BB Gun. I had the aliens encounter but never got the Tardis one despite two playthroughs. Interesting. Just wait until you find the redshirts in Fallout 2. The Whats?

Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2024-04-16, 05:46

in Milliways

in Milliways

The amazon show gave me a reason to play through Fallout 1/2/NV, so I've been doing that as of recent. Luckily, there's a project called Community Edition nowadays which let me play it natively on my Apple Silicon Macbook. Screenshot 2024-04-14 at 9.49.45 PM.png What version of Fallout 1 has a …

Re: Falcosoft Soundfont Midi Player + Munt VSTi + BassMidi VSTi

Posted on 2024-04-15, 12:51

in Release Announcements

in Release Announcements

As every Midi enthusiast should know Nuked SC-55 has been released: https://github.com/nukeykt/Nuked-SC55 If someone is interested here is a dual instance Nuked SC-55 test video with everquest_theme that has serious polyphony problems with a single instance of SC-55. It's still not perfect but much …

Re: Falcosoft Soundfont Midi Player + Munt VSTi + BassMidi VSTi

Posted on 2024-04-15, 12:38

in Release Announcements

in Release Announcements

As every Midi enthusiast should know Nuked SC-55 has been released: https://github.com/nukeykt/Nuked-SC55 If someone is interested here is a dual instance Nuked SC-55 test video with everquest_theme that has serious polyphony problems with a single instance of SC-55. It's still not perfect but much …

Re: What hasn’t been done?

Posted on 2024-04-15, 09:52

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

You covered the best bits 🙁

Re: Unofficial Soundbanks for Dreamblaster X2 / X3M / X16

Posted on 2024-04-15, 09:50

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

It's true. The right strategy remains to be defined. However, spending more (+10€ on GS version) to contribute to your efforts seems justified to me. The +10€ on the GS version would support not me but Serdashop, Dream and Roland. ;) Actually the GS version wouldn't be any more legitimate to use …

Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2024-04-15, 09:44

in Milliways

in Milliways

My daughter and I finished Alba: A Wildlife Adventure over the course of a few weekends, and I must say it is an amazing game to play with your little ones if you want to introduce them to free roam adventure games.

Re: PicoGUS: ISA sound card emulator with Raspberry Pi Pico (Gravis Ultrasound, AdLib, MPU-401, Tandy, CMS)

Posted on 2024-04-15, 09:35

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

So here's something that's not possible on the PicoGUS 2.0 card, but is on the 1.x cards as well as the Femto: WiFi. Thanks to yyzkevin again, NE2000 emulation is working on the PicoGUS with a Pico-W. It'll still be a while before it's polished: it'll need support from pgusinit to set the SSID and …

Re: No CRT Emulation? Why!?

Posted on 2024-04-15, 09:23

in PC Emulation

in PC Emulation

It’d be interesting conceptually to do an actual simulation of the beam, glass and shadow mask. Not for any actual practical use or purpose, but just as a fun simulation to make, especially if you tried to go really far on the physics accuracy. Raytracing!! 😃 For such things, vector calculations …

Re: List of VLB IDE Controllers

Posted on 2024-04-15, 09:21

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Just wanted to say that I have been watching this thread with much fascination despite having a VLB IO controller in only one retro system..

Re: Orpheus II soundcard thread * LT board now available *

Posted on 2024-03-29, 05:45

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

I'll go out on a limb and say you are trying to use it as a SB16 instead of an SB Pro.. No, I wish it was that simple... I am selecting SB Pro from the menu... but the same is happening when I use the GUS, so the problem seems to be elsewhere (?) What is your SET BLASTER line in AUTOEXEC.BAT? If it …

Re: Orpheus II soundcard thread * LT board now available *

Posted on 2024-03-28, 05:37

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

I'll go out on a limb and say you are trying to use it as a SB16 instead of an SB Pro..

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