Re: What speaker setup are you using on your vintage machine?

Posted on 2019-11-18, 06:34

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i have a set of Creative T40 but tbh i think they're crap and i dont really use them often. they are cheap and get very distorted at anything over medium volume. the plastic housing is thin and light and doesnt make them sound good either. they look nice though. i listen to pretty much everything …

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Re: New sound card project: AWE64 Legacy

Posted on 2019-11-13, 11:25

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by foil_fresh

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VERY nice. how will you plan on doing sales? i am very keen 😀

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Re: How do you cool your retro rig?

Posted on 2019-11-11, 07:30

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by foil_fresh

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i have a thermaltake TR2-M1 (or earlier model, it's got a black fan not clear acrylic) that has a terribly loud 80mm fan and rusted screws. anyone know any reccommended fans that i could just slot on top to keep the same heatsink? sure it's not he best, it's aluminium... but the copper based coolers …

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Re: advice for Retro Rigs

Posted on 2019-11-08, 07:51

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Hey guys, I am still not decided on a good, decently fast and safe storage option... you never know when an ide controller is going to die, and whne it's dying, you may not have crc checking and you will find out that your data is corrupting too late. make sure you never keep anything mission- …

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Re: advice for Retro Rigs

Posted on 2019-11-08, 06:43

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by foil_fresh

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CF vs HDD is a religious debate. IMO, it's not retro if it doesn't have a hard disk, but either gets the job done, and even I'll admit that when you're listening to bearings fail and watching Scandisk count clusters going bad, flash does have some kind of appeal. CF came out in 1994 and i'm sure it …

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Re: AW744L II - YMF744 - AOpen Cobra Sound Card - Install SB-Link Header

Posted on 2019-11-04, 07:51

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by foil_fresh

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hi i am trying to use a website to select some resistors to buy for modding a spare aw744l fromt this website: https://au.mouser.com/Passive-Components/Resistors/SMD-Resistors-Chip-Resistors/_/N-7h7yu?keyword=10K-OHM&No=275 now i can see a loooooot of 10k ohm resistors and the options to narrow it …

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Re: Does the maximum Windows 98SE HDD size apply to partitions?

Posted on 2019-10-25, 02:46

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by foil_fresh

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SaxxonPike wrote: I have used an external USB drive with Win98 without issues well over 128GB. My current setup uses a Pi and an SMBv1 share. I think it’s strictly a limitation with the onboard HDD controllers and BIOS at the time. do you recall if you filled up over 128gb?

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Re: Does the maximum Windows 98SE HDD size apply to partitions?

Posted on 2019-10-24, 15:00

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by foil_fresh

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im keeping the ntfs partition for xp only so it never gets detected in win98 thus not an issue for me, just worried about the 7x32gb aspect. edit: i will add that this is a usb 3.0 drive connecting via an NEC PCI USB 2.0 card, using NUSB 3.6 and the NEC drivers for the card. The disk driver is a …

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Re: Does the maximum Windows 98SE HDD size apply to partitions?

Posted on 2019-10-24, 00:26

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by foil_fresh

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what about external usb drives using the nusb stack? i've got a 500gb external hdd which has 7 x 32gb FAT32 partitions and one big NTFS partition. will i have problems after the 4th partition where the size gets over the limit? i haven't noticed anything strange (yet) and i've swapped this drive …

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Re: Yamaha PCI & AWE64 ISA, Pentium 166mmx Socket 7

Posted on 2019-10-21, 01:20

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by foil_fresh

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thanks for the links bud. Tried out a few more games with varied results: i managed to find the right version of GLquake / opengl.dll, opengl seems to run faster whereas glide loses about 10fps. seems to be about 50/40fps for standard opengl (or direct3d? im not sure. i renamed opengl.dll and this …

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Re: Pentium Power - My 'common' P166 machine

Posted on 2019-10-16, 06:56

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by foil_fresh

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well thats a shame - what do you plan on doing now? still want an MMX system?

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Re: Yamaha PCI & AWE64 ISA, Pentium 166mmx Socket 7

Posted on 2019-10-16, 05:30

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by foil_fresh

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@chinny lol i've had thoughts about voodoo 4mb/voodoo 2 12mb but i'd like to perservere with using the banshee. i mean it's technically a better card than a voodoo 1 (i think?) so it should be fine to run these early Glide games... right? i am a little thrown off from my limited experiences: * …

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Re: NForce2 and DOS Sound question

Posted on 2019-10-15, 07:39

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by foil_fresh

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I was in your position when I was trying to get an SB Live card working - found out the same things that prevented DOS audio from being viable on the pc. I have a soltek board with nforce 2 and after coming to grips, i decided it would be best used as a win98 only machine. Got 2 sticks of 256mb …

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AWE64 Value CT4520 startup error - Vendor ID? Checksum?

Posted on 2019-10-15, 06:05

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Hi I have an error popping up on boot into Dos 7 (win98 dos mode) after ctcm/pnp initialises - the card still works just fine but this is new and i'm a little concerned. Here is what shows up on boot: Creative Plug and Play Configuration Manager (v1.08) Copyright (C) Creative Technology Ltd., 1995- …

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Re: List of motherboards with SB-link (PC/PCI) header

Posted on 2019-10-14, 06:33

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by foil_fresh

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I don't know what is it but it can not be SB-Link. No doubt. nF4 never supported PCI Legacy DMA in any format. If i remember correctly, none of the nforces supported PCI Legacy DMA at all, even the older nforce 1/2 chipsets for Athlon XP something about NMI not working properly on the nforce …

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Yamaha PCI & AWE64 ISA, Pentium 166mmx Socket 7

Posted on 2019-10-14, 06:17

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by foil_fresh

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This build started with me wanting to play a few dos games in DosBox - XCOM/TFTD, Monkey Island, Descent and a few other titles I've never played like Sam and Max and Theme Park. I dont remember what tipped me over the edge, but I do remember distinctly hating on the Adlib/Soundblaster in DosBox, …

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Re: How many Retro PCs do you have in your house?

Posted on 2019-10-14, 05:27

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by foil_fresh

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Does the screensaver not work in 98SE? I would think it would be compatible between 9x. I've got 9x screensavers that still work in Windows 10. i think it specifically stated that the OS version was wrong, and i believe it was the installer. maybe i can lift the .scr files from the directory if …

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Re: List of Real Mode games that utilize MT-32/GM (for AWE emulation)

Posted on 2019-10-14, 02:15

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by foil_fresh

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Stunts ahh!!! i never thought to try this out. stunts has great fm music... cant wait to see if the mt32 is as cool as i can imagine :D i'll try: Sam N Max Monkey Island 1 and 2 Return of the Phantom Xcom/Xcom TFTD I remember Jurassic Park (1993 Ocean) worked with the MT-32 set (because neither my …

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Re: List of Real Mode games that utilize MT-32/GM (for AWE emulation)

Posted on 2019-10-08, 13:45

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by foil_fresh

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monkey island 1 and 2 worked edit: actually cant remember if it sounded proper or not, but i do recall using mt32 on a full playthrough of monkey island on an SB Live sounding really good, cant see how it would be much different.

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2019-10-03, 07:39

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First SOF is Good. The rest are rather mediocre though. i never played SoF but have fond memories of the SoF2 multiplayer demo from 02 or whenever it was. i plan to play both of the campaigns soon. im doing MOHAA atm, its holding up better than i expected. i played it on an athlon xp 1800+ with …

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