Re: PCMCIA Sound Cards

Posted on 2020-11-07, 14:07

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MAZter , lolo799 , thank you. I'll check both games and post later on. I've found a good text about Sound Blaster, and I think it explains how the sound in Alone in the dark works. I wonder what other games use this method. ... There are three methods a Sound Blaster card uses to play back digital …

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Re: PCMCIA Sound Cards

Posted on 2020-11-06, 18:05

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I've been experimenting with ES1688 based Panasonic KXL-D20 card to see if it's capable of playing digital (PCM) samples in DOS. This is a feature of Ablib sound card that is used rarely and not well known. Although there are some games and software that use this possibility. Just to be clear it's …

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Re: Roland MT32 - Direct Connection to Serial / COM1 SoftMPU

Posted on 2020-11-04, 10:06

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Do you, guys, think I can make a 8-pin mini-DIN to DE-9 cable, like above, myself? Are there any electronic components inside, or it's just directly connected? There is the official pinout of this cable hosa dbk-130.jpg It's a piece of cake, unless it has anything else except wires inside. EDIT : …

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

Posted on 2020-11-02, 16:58

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Does watching a retro conmputer video count as retro activity? Just discovered a great YT channel named Adrian's Digital Basement. I believe it's well known and so on, but I never watched it before. The content is excellent, very informative and deep, narration is perfect - not a single redundant …

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Re: The quest for the perfect retro laptop: a saga

Posted on 2020-10-26, 14:17

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I used to be afraid of that, but since I acquired a hotair station I feel like I can fix almost everything. For the GPU I only need a stencil and the solder paste to recreate the balls under the chip. :D This reminded me some russian cars, that require the owner to be a car mechanic. Otherwise you …

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Re: The quest for the perfect retro laptop: a saga

Posted on 2020-10-25, 16:24

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Posted at the same time, I see. :) Well, it didn't work for me, as I said. :( Ah, right on time! :) So it did not work... Thank you for the info, I'll go for the entire chip replacement. A21m has either ATI® Rage™ Mobility M / AGP 2X / 4MB or ATI Rage Mobility M1 / AGP 2X / 8MB . A21p has ATI® Rage …

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Re: The quest for the perfect retro laptop: a saga

Posted on 2020-10-25, 15:45

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I have a A21p that occasionally shows BOD symptoms, but after resting for a month or two boots fine again. It's on it's way to death anyways. So I'm thinking of possible repair. What do you think about this fixing method with a 2 kOhm resistor (described here https://thinkwiki.de/BoD)? Is this a …

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Re: PCMCIA Sound Cards

Posted on 2020-10-21, 20:07

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There was also I/O Magic Tempo card (and it's clone Media Magic card) that had direct support in certain DOS games https://www.mobygames.com/attribute/sheet/attributeId,569/p,2/. Frankly I don't really see why these cards were actually released. They require pentium processors, at least the games …

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Re: PCMCIA Sound Cards

Posted on 2020-10-21, 18:18

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Well, Eiger at least sold also the clone of IBM Audio Adapter. Posted it here https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=752785#p752785 As for the Media Vision card, we discussed it over PM already, maybe it was never released, but it's definitely the same card. Here is the picture, you can't confuse …

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Re: PCMCIA Sound Cards

Posted on 2020-10-20, 13:21

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Found an old review from 1997 about a number of PCMCIA sound cars. Not much new information, but might be curious anyway. Also the author confirms my suspicion that Media Vision card was also sold as Eiger Labs card. So overall Eiger sold three different cards under their brand. http://www.newtale. …

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Re: Need Help to Install Driver for I/O Data PCJOY PCMCIA Gameport

Posted on 2020-10-01, 07:55

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My Gravis gamepad worked with PCJOY2 in DOS on IBM TP 360c. AFAIR it did not even require SS and CS. What laptop are you trying it on?

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Re: PCMCIA Sound Cards

Posted on 2020-09-30, 05:05

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Did digital sound (direct support of WJ card) work with wavjammr.sys? I think I have the older drivers as well. I could get only Adlib sound with all the drivers that I tried, but no direct suport of WJ(digital sound).

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Re: PCMCIA Sound Cards

Posted on 2020-09-29, 13:50

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I have Thinkpad 370C and configured now: SCP55 Wavjammer (IBM) Digital PCSOUND I have problems with Wavjammer. Older driver (loaded only via Wavjammr.sys) works fine. Newer driver (nmcutil.exe and wavjammr.exe) cant initialize the card because nmcutil always set IBM switch automatically. Strange …

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Re: PCMCIA boot support on PC laptops

Posted on 2020-09-26, 19:37

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Many of IBM Thinkpads have this feature. The following models that I own or used to own can boot from PCMCIA card: 330C, 360C, 755CD, 560. And it's also no driver free access to PCMCIA card if you don't boot from it. Which is strange given that BIOS can detect it. I think someone on this forum had a …

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Re: Retro Hardware Collecting rants

Posted on 2020-09-25, 10:11

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I haven't tried the free trial. As I understood it's not really free, but just a postponed payment. You leave your payment details and they charge you in a week.

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Re: Retro Hardware Collecting rants

Posted on 2020-09-25, 09:10

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Guys, does anyone have a paid account at worthpoint.com? Need to check one single price, but they charge USD 22 per month. I'd probably paid a quarter of that, but not the whole price for just one lookup. Could someone help?

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Re: Newly made PCMCIA sound card

Posted on 2020-09-22, 18:43

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I'm not asking waht the state of the project is 😀 Just stumbled upon a device which I think might be of use for this project. It's for sale on Avito (russian classified ADs site) under the name of Pcmcia Test Adaptor Sycard PCCextend 100. Filename pcmciaextend.jpg File size 272.14 KiB Views 1989 …

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

Posted on 2020-09-22, 17:35

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I was trying to get online with a 486 notebook + W98 using this Etherent XIrcom CEM33. For sme reason it did not work. But the funny thing is that whem I plugged in this 25 y.o. card to my Tinkpad X60s with WinXP - worked right away, without any drivers or so, and I could get online. :) It's just a …

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Re: PCMCIA Sound Cards

Posted on 2020-09-18, 13:50

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MAZter wrote on 2020-09-18, 13:32: Did you check this page? http://www.win3x.org/win3board/viewtopic.php? … 259&language=en Thanks for the link, but unfortunately it does not contain the DOS drivers.

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Re: PCMCIA Sound Cards

Posted on 2020-09-18, 12:50

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lolo799 wrote on 2020-09-15, 09:03: It may be worth the effort to contact the Ratoc customer service asking for the 5571 DOS and Win3.x drivers. Got a respond from Ratoc. Unfortunately they don't have the drivers. The guy on the other end was very responsive and indeed was trying to find the …

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