Re: Unofficial Soundbanks for Dreamblaster X2/X3M

Posted on 2019-11-05, 06:47

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by appiah4

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Hello, since Dreamblaster has recently released an update for the official Buran bank, think i have to come out with an update too! So here's the finished version of the Roland GM bank. Now with all variations and drumsets! :evil: All I want are coversions for: Masterpiece 8MB Creative/E-MU XG (as …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-11-05, 06:34

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by appiah4

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I thought I stopped buying sound cards, but here it was, a Terratec ISA card.. So I grabbed it for a lowball offer: Terratec Gold 16-96.jpg It obviously needs repairs; the bracket needs to be replaced, it lacks one of the audio jacks and one of the headers is messed up but these are not stuff I …

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Re: No-name ES688F card: Time to ditch it?

Posted on 2019-11-04, 11:36

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by appiah4

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For some reason I can't view your linked images, if you can attach them I may be of help - I've had and used a lot of ES688 cards, they are some of my favorites.

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Re: Socket A: Nvidia vs Via - battle of the platforms!

Posted on 2019-11-04, 07:12

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by appiah4

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RetroPC_King wrote: appiah4: i know about Universal AGP on KT333 for Socket A, but from my chipsets what do you like? Among what you listed I would certainly go with KT600 because nForce's drivers and RAM compatibility has never been anything but a pain in the ass for me..

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Re: Where to get cheap reliable Windows 10 Key?

Posted on 2019-11-03, 23:26

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It is indeed a retail license.. I was using it with an offline account but made a microsoft account just to link the license with and I guess I should now be able to theoretically activate it on a new pc once I remove it from the old one? This shit is just so dumb and irritating...

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Where to get cheap reliable Windows 10 Key?

Posted on 2019-11-03, 21:05

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by appiah4

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I upgraded to a Ryzen PC, and found that my previous Windows 10 license is not transferrable to a new motherboard. :dead: I want to buy a new Windows 10 license, Pro or Pro N - but I guess I could just install Server 2016 Essentials and experiment with that. The question is, what is a good place to …

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Re: Socket A: Nvidia vs Via - battle of the platforms!

Posted on 2019-11-03, 20:00

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by appiah4

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I like the KT333 for Socket A. Why? Universal AGP.

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Re: Graphics card for Pentium Pro build

Posted on 2019-11-03, 19:57

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by appiah4

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Edit: Just tried GLQuake with command line option "-nomtex". The stuttering is gone, even with gl_flashblend=0, and without any apparent quality loss. FPS drops from ~120 to ~80, though. I could live with that. Do you know if there is a similar switch for Quake 2 or 3 (not that I had issues with …

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Re: Graphics card for Pentium Pro build

Posted on 2019-11-02, 04:58

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by appiah4

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One cannot know what they don't know; I, therefore, will test at least one or two more drivers with the Radeon 7000. Maybe I've already discovered the most optimal driver, maybe I haven't. Start out by testing the latest, if it isn't slower, you can try something in the middle to see if there are …

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Re: What to do when Windows 7 support ends in a few weeks time?

Posted on 2019-11-01, 14:45

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Scali wrote: appiah4 wrote: Why can't we all just use Linux please? Because choice is good? Oh no wait, that was the argument to use linux. Touche.

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Re: What to do when Windows 7 support ends in a few weeks time?

Posted on 2019-11-01, 13:19

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Why can't we all just use Linux please?

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Re: Sound Blaster 16 Clones

Posted on 2019-11-01, 08:50

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by appiah4

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I too have some MA5ASOUND cards. As far as I know the cards are not all just straight up MA5ASOUND.. For example, this ALS007 card is actually an MA5ASOUND 007: https://i.postimg.cc/sg2Qbq8x/ASound-MA5-ASOUND-007.jpg This ALS100+ card however is MA5ASOUND GOLD https://i.postimg.cc/9XZ38wv2/ASound- …

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Re: Need help on the Voodoo 3 3000

Posted on 2019-11-01, 06:51

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by appiah4

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I've done a similar repair job in the past: Trash to Treasure side project: Voodoo 3 3000 Restoration I replaced C94 with a 0.1uF 16V 0603 and it worked perfectly. C95 is a 10uF 16V SMD Electrolytic as labelled on the part. Both are fairly common.

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

Posted on 2019-11-01, 06:39

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by appiah4

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I spent a while figuring out the jumpers of my new ALI PCI486 board, the CPU jumpers are now all traced out and most of the functions are now known of them. Now to figure out exactly what they must be set for various CPUs. Cyrix support seems to be the main thing, they have several pins on them …

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

Posted on 2019-11-01, 06:38

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by appiah4

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Does this actually work? I thought the media was different in some way, instead of just having less tracks like a DD 5.25 diskette. The media have different coercivity, but in case of 3.5" disks, not much... DD = 600-665 Oe HD = 720-750 Oe Back in the era, when DD diskettes were cheaper, some …

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Re: What to do when Windows 7 support ends in a few weeks time?

Posted on 2019-11-01, 06:35

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schmatzler wrote: Also, if you don't want your attachments to automatically get embedded into e-mails you have to open up the terminal and hack something in. ... WTH? How can you guys even settle for this kind of shit?

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Re: What to do when Windows 7 support ends in a few weeks time?

Posted on 2019-10-31, 11:04

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I wish the Windows GUI froze with Windows 2000. There are some great desktop environments for Linux these days, by the way. Anyway, the GUI is the least of Windows 10's problems AFAIC. I have a Windows 10N installation at home I can't even update beyond ver. 1810, the update fails and rolls itself …

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Re: Athlon XP build suggestions

Posted on 2019-10-30, 20:37

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by appiah4

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Early AthlonXP (1800+ to 2200+) for me is a Radeon 8500 affair. Late AthlonXP (2500+ to 3200+) is Radeon 9700/9800 for sure.

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Re: Graphics card for Pentium Pro build

Posted on 2019-10-30, 14:11

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by appiah4

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If you want to see my adventure with testing PCI graphics cards and settling on the Radeon 7000, Your system is beefy enough to bypass driver bottlenecks. Which isn't the case here. Final legacy driver is also horrible idea for pre-Pentium II processor. I never said it was the ideal hardware or …

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Re: FYI: Steam drops XP/Vista in 2019

Posted on 2019-10-30, 14:09

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by appiah4

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Not very likely. EU Courts: Consumer is always right. US Courts: Fuck the consumer. Unless it's a big enough class action suit that has caused enough of a ruckuss to make us have to look like we give a shit.

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