Re: ISA Floppy Controller when MB has Floppy Controller already

Posted on 2021-02-03, 16:51

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Sphere478 wrote on 2021-02-03, 15:20: I’ve run a io card like that before on a mobo that already had one. I don’t recall any issues. It just seemed to work fine. Did you have to load any additioanl drivers? And how did you set up the drive types on the additional controller?

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Re: PCMCIA Sound Cards

Posted on 2021-01-29, 05:49

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Cloudschatze wrote on 2021-01-28, 19:23: Bondi wrote on 2021-01-26, 06:23: I've put together this chart with all information about all known PCMCIA (16 bit) sound cards and game port cards. The Media Vision PCMCIA sound card also provides MPU-401 (UART-mode) compatibility in DOS, for what it's …

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Re: PCMCIA Sound Cards

Posted on 2021-01-28, 11:01

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mt777 wrote on 2021-01-27, 21:00: Nice list but next time please save as png (to avoid lossy jpg) and maybe with bigger zoom. Pdf of higher resolution is above.

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Re: PCMCIA Sound Cards

Posted on 2021-01-26, 16:47

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melo wrote on 2021-01-26, 12:06: Great job! Thanks! I probably should add the New Media Sound/SCSI ( it was renamed to Toast'n Jam) card as well, although it's identical to Wavjammer in the sound portion. Here is the picture of the renamed/reworked one. Filename toast n jam.jpg File size 50.86 KiB …

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Re: PCMCIA Sound Cards

Posted on 2021-01-26, 06:23

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I've put together this chart with all information about all known PCMCIA (16 bit) sound cards and game port cards. This is the first draft, so feel free to comment and suggest changes. Question marks mean that either there is no info or it's unclear whether the function exists. Editable version is …

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Re: PCMCIA Sound Cards

Posted on 2021-01-25, 20:19

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Hallo, after a lot of research I finally got a PCMCIA Newmedia Sound/SCSI2, the problem is that I don't have the cables for it. Is there a possibility to build one? I'm mostly interested to have the audio features working. Here is what the cable look like http://nwserveur.no-ip.org/win3xorg/devices …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-01-25, 19:39

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Recent acquisitions: exp.jpg I was hoping that Game/MIDI card would work in WinXP. But unfortunately it works there only as game port. Same for W2K. https://web.archive.org/web/20061112124324/http://www.expnet.com/know.nsf/4a72af1670331daa882564df006cc929/823232251a20683185256afc005fd843? …

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Re: ESFM details

Posted on 2021-01-22, 09:11

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ESFM Enhanced works even on my ES1688 based PCMCIA sound card. Tried it in HMM2 and it sounds exactly like the sample above. That's really cool to learn about such features. Did not really expect any surprises form such a boring hardware as ES sound chip. There have to be more games that support the …

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Re: 16Bit Color Dos Games

Posted on 2021-01-22, 08:13

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GTA actually has a 24-bit graphics mode. Quite a bit more demanding that 8bit btw, it's also the standard color scheme under Windows I believe. Yeah, that's right. It's just confusingly called High Color mode (which usually refers to 16 bit) IMG_2747.JPG Here's what the readme says. 24 Bit Version …

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Re: 16Bit Color Dos Games

Posted on 2021-01-22, 05:47

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I think GTA had 16-bit graphics mode.

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Re: ESFM details

Posted on 2021-01-18, 11:27

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I'm also interested to know other games with ESFM support for more comparisons! Some late-era DOS games which use the Miles Sound System have "ESS Technology ES688 FM Audio" as a music setup option. I know that WarCraft 2 as well as Heroes of Might and Magic 2 support this, but there are probably …

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Re: Thinkpad 7xx series restore 2 for 1

Posted on 2021-01-17, 14:58

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Good luck with your future upgrades! I have the same dock and it's coupled mainly with TP 760LD and sometimes with 360CE. Mine has a sound card in it. And the main reason for that is the possibility of installing a MIDI daughteboard. Not sure why you need a second HD, but you can still have a sound …

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Re: 8-Bit Guy video's are becoming a chore!

Posted on 2021-01-14, 09:00

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One great (or rather terrible) example: https://youtu.be/kjcmPVpyvJ4 He's just speaking English as if it was Dutch. English and Dutch share the same alphabet but vowels and consonants are just pronounced differently . I'm native Dutch speaker but I've lived in Australia for the past 15 years. When …

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Re: 8-Bit Guy video's are becoming a chore!

Posted on 2021-01-08, 13:33

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I like Russians, especially when they speak English. At least their accent isn't as horrible as those Dutch people. Beating a dead horse with a dead bird that Dutch accent although they are straight to the point like most Russians imo. Added Jan and Adrian to my subscription list then I stumbled on …

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

Posted on 2021-01-07, 20:29

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i feel you man, i was doing some cleaning in my appartment and look what happend to my Thinkpad 760ED after 1 year in storage: https://i.ibb.co/pRpBdwq/IMG-20210105-0648044.jpg https://i.ibb.co/fHJ587w/IMG-20210105-0648286.jpg it smells like some type of glue and now its shorted (no power/no lights …

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Re: What are you eating/drinking? (the vogons food thread)

Posted on 2020-12-21, 08:19

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Did you know, guys, that LGR had a food channel? 😁 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCz9uUFDhsPYii-ZihoKsbPg

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Re: Star Wars Dark Forces - no sound

Posted on 2020-12-18, 17:09

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Avenger wrote on 2020-12-18, 16:18: Cyberdyne wrote on 2020-12-18, 12:46: See that your game files are not write protected. Can you add more clarification please? Just check if the files have "Read only" attribute, and if they do - just clear it. Once I could not change sound settings because of …

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

Posted on 2020-12-10, 10:20

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brief history :D 771px-Windowses.jpg With me its the opposite. The more I use the older Windows 9x versions, the more I hate the actual version. Hah? Windows 3.11 = Great!! Windows 95 = Good Windows 98 = Very good Windows 2000 = Awesome Windows Me = Garbage Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8 = Sh*t Windows 10 …

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

Posted on 2020-12-10, 10:07

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I mostly test different sound cards and softsynth MIDI software on the W98 machine. And it's not that it's unstable. But if something does not work, it's easier to do a clean install, rather that figure out what causes the issue. And in reverse I have a 5-6 y.o. Win XP install that works absolutely …

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

Posted on 2020-12-10, 09:20

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What I despise the most is that when you mess up a driver installation or need to rollback something it's difficult to know how much garbage is being left behind that will come and bite you later on. DOS in comparison is so much lighter and easier to troubleshoot, just add or remove stuff from …

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