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

Posted on 2019-09-09, 02:34

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Intel486dx33 wrote: Fixed my Macintosh color classic with NEW logic board more ram and a NEW larger hard-drive. Fresh install of Mac OS System 7.5.3 Works great now. Display is like NEW. Is there anyone here who sees old Macs of this generation and *doesn't* associate them with high-school?

Re: Music Quest MPU clone cards, anyone interested in them?

Posted on 2019-09-08, 20:00

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

@Keropi: a suggestion I made before that I still think is useful....if the address (300/330) was selectable at the top of the card using a DIP switch would make it much easier to have this exist alongside another card with onboard MIDI like an AWE32. Many games don't allow this to be changed and are …

Re: Browsing the past with Wayback Machine

Posted on 2019-09-08, 19:09

in Milliways

in Milliways

Yeah the file archiving is pretty awesome. I use it heavily for drivers/bios from companies that no longer exist. I need to check out some of dem demos as well 😁

Re: The Star Wars Build

Posted on 2019-09-08, 09:27

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

The vortex should not conflict with the ISA card if you don't install DOS drivers for it. I would give it a try at least. And the AWE doesn't really give you anything over the yamaha IMO...most games with AWE support likely have GM support as well. Unless you are really keen on loading special …

Re: The Star Wars Build

Posted on 2019-09-08, 08:50

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

You're not swapping out sound cards to play different games I hope? Windows should do a good job of assigning IRQs to the devices anyway. And the AWE64 does very good midi out, not sure where this lackluster idea comes from.

Re: is this AGP 8x or 4x GF 4200

Posted on 2019-09-08, 04:50

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Weird. I have never had any issues with AGP, despite having a P5A ss7, 2 x s370 systems, and one each of s462 and s478. Cards are all AGP and range from s3 virge GX to savage4 to v3 3000 to v5 5500 to fx5950u. I fully expected I would one day but nope. Don't ask me about trying to get a SBLive/ …

Re: Too many old hard drives

Posted on 2019-09-07, 23:34

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

> IBM drives are in demand Back in my day they were called the IBM DeathStar and not in demand at all.

Re: Too many old hard drives

Posted on 2019-09-07, 22:52

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I spent too much hunting down 120gb pata drives without the foresight to realize 120gb ssds would one day cost next to nothing 😁

Re: 5.25" bay Speaker System

Posted on 2019-09-07, 20:37

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

BinaryDemon wrote: Nice thread. It made me so a little searching, it’s cool to see that a black version is still easy to find: https://www.newegg.com/black-cyber-acoustics- … N82E16836150072 Hehe. It's probably easier to buy it then than a desktop form-factor PC case you might want to put it in.

Re: 5.25" bay Speaker System

Posted on 2019-09-07, 11:06

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Errius wrote: How does it connect to the sound card? There was another photo with a minijack cable...I am guessing it somehow gets outside the case and plugin into the normal line-out of the card. There was also a photo of a molex cable which is where I assume it gets its power.

Re: 5.25" bay Speaker System

Posted on 2019-09-07, 10:49

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Thanks I fixed it to 5.25. Why were they used? I mean, having the sound come from under the desk or what...the butt ugly bunny ear speakers on many 90s computers were terrible but at least the sound came from the right direction.

5.25" bay Speaker System

Posted on 2019-09-07, 10:37

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

I saw this on a certain auction website....a NOS speaker system that fits in a 5.25" drive bay!! Has anyone ever seen/heard of something like this before? The weird stuff that came out in the 90s amazes me. Edit: updated to correct bay size.

Re: Running DOS on modern hardware is impossible

Posted on 2019-09-07, 10:20

in DOS

in DOS

> I even have sound in majority of games What soundcard?

Re: digital pcm signal, use soundcard or receiver dac ?

Posted on 2019-09-07, 02:00

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Spdif all the way. Analogue output is horribly noisy on early soundcards, plus they depend on capacitors which are degrading over time. I use a high quality external headphone DAC for most of my retro PCs and it's superb.

Re: Running DOS on modern hardware is impossible

Posted on 2019-09-07, 01:27

in DOS

in DOS

DOS will boot on almost anything with an x86 processor. Even modern video cards will support a surprising amount of standard VESA modes. The hard part is getting sound... but even then, every motherboard has a PC speaker. And until a few years ago, a parallel port - can you still get brand new …

Re: digital pcm signal, use soundcard or receiver dac ?

Posted on 2019-09-06, 23:48

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Oh God yes. That's not the problem - the problem is the Holy Grail, something that outputs opl3, digital sound and bug free midi over spdif on an ISA sound card preferably without PnP.

Browsing the past with Wayback Machine

Posted on 2019-09-06, 20:23

in Milliways

in Milliways

Do you ever browse PC/gaming websites from the late 90s using the Wayback Machine (https://archive.org/web/)? I find something amazing opening a bunch of links from say late 1998 and pretending as if I was there at that time reading about the "new" Voodoo2 and how awesome it is going to be. Try …

Re: Some of my "hoard" :)

Posted on 2019-09-06, 19:24

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

someone here has one I've been looking for for a long time :) You mean a specific OEM PC or just by internal components? Once I've completed the collection I'm going to build a room in my basement specifically suited for them to be set up and used. I'll also extensively thin my collection at that …

Re: Some of my "hoard" :)

Posted on 2019-09-06, 18:41

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

How did you collect so many? How many retro pcs do you have running?

Re: Roland SCC-1 as external sound module?

Posted on 2019-09-06, 09:43

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Out of interest did all of Roland's midi cards support intelligent MPU401 on the external port? Or just the dedicated interface cards?

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