Re: What are my 486 upgrade options?

Posted on 2019-03-26, 08:24

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There are both 168 pin and 169 pin overdrive 486 cpus; one has ODP in the model no the other has ODPR (or vice versa, I forget) so be careful buying. ODP = separate upgrade socket ODPR = Replaces Original CPU (if you remember R = Replace it should be easy) However, If I am correct alot of ODP also …

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

Posted on 2019-03-26, 08:18

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Could the delay sysex messages function help with my buffer overflow issue as well? I do not think so. Your buffer problem is not SysEx related at all. You could get buffer full error while processing simple channel messages. Ah, I see. That's very strange though; a roland GM/GS device having …

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

Posted on 2019-03-26, 04:09

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Could the delay sysex messages function help with my buffer overflow issue as well?

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Re: What are my 486 upgrade options?

Posted on 2019-03-26, 04:07

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There are both 168 pin and 169 pin overdrive 486 cpus; one has ODP in the model no the other has ODPR (or vice versa, I forget) so be careful buying.

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Re: Vibra 16S Issues

Posted on 2019-03-25, 14:44

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by appiah4

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Have you tried running sbcheck from within windows?

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Re: What are my 486 upgrade options?

Posted on 2019-03-25, 13:24

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Anonymous Coward wrote: Anything on the bottom? IF it works at 100, then it's a 100. If it doesn't, it's a 75. Yeah, the markings on the bottom are: Copy code to clipboard 1 24452210CB 2 A4 3 21

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

Posted on 2019-03-25, 13:19

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Is there any reason to use ceramic fiml caps resistors instead of metal film ones on the Snark Barker and Adlib cards?

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Re: What are my 486 upgrade options?

Posted on 2019-03-25, 09:34

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Relevant question, I have this 486DX4 Overdrive chip that lacks a label plaque - how can I tell whether it's a 75 or a 100?

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Re: What are my 486 upgrade options?

Posted on 2019-03-24, 22:56

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You can use a DX4 overdrive chip (Either the 75Mhz or 100MHz) and it will run as a DX-4 75MHz on your board.

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

Posted on 2019-03-24, 22:44

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I tested a Diamond Monster3D Voodoo 1 I had bought as faulty. It was lacking some SMD capacitors so I soldered them back on. It also had some bent legs on the chip that were making contact so I carefully separated them. The card now exhibits strange behaviour. It intermittently works, but more often …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2019-03-24, 19:50

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Back to playing Dawn of War 2 multiplayer.. I guess this counts as retrogaming these days?

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

Posted on 2019-03-24, 11:52

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dreamblaster wrote: what a great project, i will pm you about the brackets (I am investigating bracket suppliers) Wow if we can get a production run of these it would be awesome!

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Re: Crystal Audio Chips.. any fans?

Posted on 2019-03-23, 06:19

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leileilol wrote: CS4232's okay, CS4231A is terrible In what way?

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Re: Can anyone identify this PAS?

Posted on 2019-03-22, 14:34

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@appiah4: Did you get it? I watched that auction as well. Went for 53 EUR, which is IMHO a pretty decent price. At some point between 30 and 40 I just let it go.. I dont know how much the fair value would be to be honest so maybe that was actually still cheap but it felt too expensive nonetheless.. …

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Re: Crystal Audio Chips.. any fans?

Posted on 2019-03-22, 13:29

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I have several CS423X ISA cards (as well as a lot of CS46XX PCI ones) and I simply love their warm and soft FM synthesis implementation. ESS I laud for their near genuine ESFM clone but one has to commend Crystal for going out and doing their own thing and making it sound different yet still good. …

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Re: Ultimate AMD K6-3-500mhz.

Posted on 2019-03-22, 08:15

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Very nice PC. I hope I also get lucky and stumble across a cheap K6-2+ or K6-3 some day, the 64MB cacheable RAM barrier on my 430TX/K6-2_400/Win98 PC really bugs me 😒

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Re: Crystal Audio Chips.. any fans?

Posted on 2019-03-22, 05:02

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by appiah4

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I have several CS423X ISA cards (as well as a lot of CS46XX PCI ones) and I simply love their warm and soft FM synthesis implementation. ESS I laud for their near genuine ESFM clone but one has to commend Crystal for going out and doing their own thing and making it sound different yet still good.

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Re: cpuid of rebranded cyrix cpus

Posted on 2019-03-22, 04:55

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by appiah4

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Good question, also curious 😀

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Re: HIS X1950 Pro issues

Posted on 2019-03-22, 04:48

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X1950 is pretty tame when it comes to AGP compatibility or so I found. You can check my K8 system’s configuration, driver version and 3DMark01 run results here: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=33459&start=700#p724957 When someone says K7 and lockup my instinctual suspicion is a weak 5V …

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

Posted on 2019-03-22, 04:40

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I swear, FSM has EVERYTHING 🤣

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