Battery replacement for old 386 PC

Posted on 2012-11-23, 21:54

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by sirlemonhead

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hi everyone, I took my old 386 out of the attic at the start of the year to give it a good cleaning and to put it back together. Unfortunately the battery leaked so I had to remove it. The motherboard got some battery fluid leaked on it. It looked like this: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/30279551/ …

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Re: Humour Thread: Outrageously priced retro gear for sale online

Posted on 2012-11-17, 12:32

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by sirlemonhead

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in Milliways

The card is out of stock so that's how a lot of sellers stop people making purchases (by changing the price to some crazy inflated value). When they get more stock in they just amend the price. I think it allows the seller to avoid having to pay the fees to relist the item.

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Re: Disable sound canvas emulation on sb live! ?

Posted on 2012-11-11, 15:20

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by sirlemonhead

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yeah I have one of those cheap Yamaha YMF cards that I'll put into the machine sometime today. Have one in my Pentium 1 machine and it works great 😀

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Re: Disable sound canvas emulation on sb live! ?

Posted on 2012-11-10, 11:12

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by sirlemonhead

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Ah thanks for that...what a pain. I have a spare ISA soundcard I think i'll put in there and use for DOS only 😀 hopefully that'd work without too much resource management nightmares.. I'm still relearning all this stuff I used to know years ago 😀

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Disable sound canvas emulation on sb live! ?

Posted on 2012-11-09, 22:37

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by sirlemonhead

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hi everyone, I've set up my pentium 2 pc with a soundblaster live! card which is working great in DOS (this is the card I used to use with this pc back when it was my current gaming rig) I've recently got an external Roland SC-55 and want to use this with the pc. I've got a gameport to midi adapter …

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Re: Repairing plastic power switch retaining tabs

Posted on 2012-09-07, 10:55

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by sirlemonhead

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Thanks guys, quite a few things to consider 😀 Doesn't look like I can get Amazing Goop over here in Ireland, and I don't know what the alternative to that would be... I guess i'll give the PVC pipe glue a shot 😀

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Repairing plastic power switch retaining tabs

Posted on 2012-09-06, 13:57

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by sirlemonhead

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hi, I have an old Gateway machine that has a plastic block screwed inside the front of the case. It houses the power and HDD access LEDs as well as the power switch for the machine. I was taking apart the pc recently and the little plastic clips that hold the LEDs and switch in place broke off. I …

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Re: YM719 Help - Sound from only one speaker?

Posted on 2012-08-29, 22:17

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by sirlemonhead

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yeah realised that myself since..set it to line out and it'll sound great (and no noise!)

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Re: YM719 Help - Sound from only one speaker?

Posted on 2012-08-29, 22:17

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by sirlemonhead

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yeah realised that myself since..set it to line out and it'll sound great (and no noise!)

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2012-08-28, 23:11

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by sirlemonhead

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Got myself two YM719 soundcards thanks to recommendations from this forum 😀 Had been struggling two get two PCI soundcards working reliably on an old Pentium 75mhz pc so these soundcards are a godsend. Just waiting on a Roland SC-55 to go with it 😀

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Re: YM719 Help - Sound from only one speaker?

Posted on 2012-08-27, 18:30

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by sirlemonhead

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Mine is really noisy too, and exiting the application didn't fix it. I had to go into the "3D" menu in SETUPSA and drop the volume and the bass and treble levels all to 0 to get rid of the noise.

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Re: Aliens vs. Predator Gold

Posted on 2012-08-12, 15:27

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by sirlemonhead

in Windows

in Windows

Looks like the enhancement to AVP Gold linked by the OP has recently been updated. With it, I can now play the game perfectly on my laptop running Windows 7 64-bit. Has anyone had any luck converting the audio tracks on their original disc into ogg files to get the game's music to play? The …

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Re: MT-32 and Sb16 - no midi on MT-32 games

Posted on 2012-05-23, 18:34

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by sirlemonhead

in DOS

in DOS

Thanks 5u3, it's working now! I reverted the mpu401 port to 330 via the hardware jumper, then made sure I specified 330 for the port number in diagnose.exe rather than letting it auto detect. Monkey1 and 2 working great now! 😀

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Re: MT-32 and Sb16 - no midi on MT-32 games

Posted on 2012-05-23, 17:22

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by sirlemonhead

in DOS

in DOS

Oh wow, i'll double check that and see if I can get it going! thanks!

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Re: MT-32 and Sb16 - no midi on MT-32 games

Posted on 2012-05-23, 14:45

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by sirlemonhead

in DOS

in DOS

Ah damnit, i'll have to get an MPU-401 then.. I've never been that bothered with the Sierra stuff! Thanks 😀

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Re: MT-32 and Sb16 - no midi on MT-32 games

Posted on 2012-05-23, 14:36

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by sirlemonhead

in DOS

in DOS

Hi, I thought the intelligent mode was only required for Sierra games? so i'm totally out of luck as-is with regards to getting Lucasarts games working?

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MT-32 and Sb16 - no midi on MT-32 games

Posted on 2012-05-23, 09:18

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by sirlemonhead

in DOS

in DOS

Hi everyone, I have an old 386 pc with an SB16 in it, and I've recently bought an MT-32 which i'm hooking up to the soundcard using a gameport to midi connector. I'm having trouble getting the MT-32 to work with MT-32 specific games, on dos 6.22 The soundcard itself has all the drivers installed and …

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Re: How is Blood performance in Winxp compared to Win2k?

Posted on 2004-09-09, 21:58

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by sirlemonhead

in VDMSound General

in VDMSound General

I have XP Pro, and It runs ok at 320x240 with low enough quality sound enabled. It's not as smooth as I remember it from the dos/win98 days. Using a higher resolution kills the performance for me, though I can probably edge the sound quality up more without it lagging too much. I can't imagine the …

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Re: Petition for Blood source code release - help make the game playable

Posted on 2004-09-06, 18:42

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by sirlemonhead

in VDMSound General

in VDMSound General

If this fails, then I guess I could write them a letter 😀

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Petition for Blood source code release - help make the game playable

Posted on 2004-09-06, 15:27

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by sirlemonhead

in VDMSound General

in VDMSound General

Sorry if this comes across as spamming... I've started an online petition to attempt to get Atari to release the source code for Blood. With the source code, the game can be ported to newer operating systems, meaning all our problems getting the game to run properly will be gone. The game would be …

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