Re: Fan/cooler advice in an old case and socket 775 cpu?

Posted on 2021-02-25, 07:59

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Those Zalman coolers are good but I run a Noctua Noctua NH-U12F on my 775 c2d and it's even better. Afaik lack of TRIM support won't decrease SSD lifetime, but speed. I use a SSD on a Win98 machine and I've kept part of it empty to help mitigate that, and I don't worry about it that much because the …

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Re: Are there other S3 Trio64 V2 Drivers Available?

Posted on 2021-02-24, 13:43

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Also, the driver Win98 comes with is newer, being from 1999, is there any way I could extract that and use it under Win95? I've transplanted Ati Rage Pro WinME drivers to Win98, it was a matter of figuring out in which .cab file on the cd the files were, and then extracting the relevant .inf/vxd/ …

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Re: Keyboard Suggestion?

Posted on 2021-02-23, 19:16

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That's the one. I'll test for nkro when I get home. The lights can be turned off however I've also had them turn on again after restarting the computer. The build quality of the board itself is good, however my return key has slightly crooked text printed on. Also there are at least two versions, …

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Re: Keyboard Suggestion?

Posted on 2021-02-23, 19:12

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Sun Type 5 boards are things of absolute beauty, but awfully squishy to type on, with an alarming tendency to lose keycaps all over the place. Still, I treasure mine and am still looking for the matching optical mouse (for less than the price of a second mortgage). I sold my Type 5 boards and my …

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Re: Looking for a reference design schematic for a rare chip

Posted on 2021-02-23, 19:09

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Have you looked into existing boards that do the same thing? These devices exist and aren't as special as you seem to think they are. One of them might be using the same chip, maybe someone that owns one could provide you with more info. https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=73866&p=852664 …

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Re: Keyboard Suggestion?

Posted on 2021-02-23, 11:53

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by Oetker

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Have you tried the Action gaming keyboard? N-key rollover and ~25 eur. For anything but typing long texts I prefer it to my Unicomp, which, apart from the sublime key feel, is a shoddily constructed overpriced POS. Are you referring to this? Is the board actually N-key rollover? It only says "Anti …

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Re: Primary Master or Secondary Master as boot hdd.

Posted on 2021-02-23, 11:50

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by Oetker

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I believe that in theory primary/secondary IDE should be independent controllers, but who knows what might be going on with your setup. Unless you 1. managed to get a hd to boot without overlay software on the secondary channel and 2. managed to get the overlay software to work on the primary …

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Re: poor advice on fixing things!

Posted on 2021-02-23, 10:56

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Completely agreed, nowadays trying to find fixes for tech issues entails dredging through endless useless shit, just as you say, endlessly copy pasted generic advice that doesn't do anything. Or sometimes less-generic and promising (edit such and such registry entry) but false/outdated and still …

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Re: YMF724F card picks noise from... spinning optical discs?!

Posted on 2021-02-23, 10:40

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1) Apparently there's cd drivers with a non-functional audio connector Well, great... and I just happen to have one of those! The manual for my drive states that the "connector is not supported"! :face_palm: 2) there's WDM drivers for YMF744 (not sure how similar that is to 724) cards that let you …

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Re: Keyboard Suggestion?

Posted on 2021-02-23, 10:37

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You could try to find a beige Dell AT101W, it's got Alps switches, a Windows key, and is PS/2. Limited key rollover, though. I have the SGI Bigfoot, which is a granite-coloured version of the same board. Not bad, but Alps switches get very scratchy with age and I haven't found time/energy to …

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Re: YMF724F card picks noise from... spinning optical discs?!

Posted on 2021-02-23, 10:13

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If you disconnect the analog audio cable or mute the cd volume, does the spinning noise at least go away? Might be able to use digital cd audio playback with the right drivers. I'll try to disconnect the cable but I already can say that muting the CD audio or lowering the slider makes the noise go …

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Re: YMF724F card picks noise from... spinning optical discs?!

Posted on 2021-02-23, 09:03

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by Oetker

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If you disconnect the analog audio cable or mute the cd volume, does the spinning noise at least go away? Might be able to use digital cd audio playback with the right drivers.

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Re: Keyboard Suggestion?

Posted on 2021-02-23, 08:57

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by Oetker

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You could try to find a beige Dell AT101W, it's got Alps switches, a Windows key, and is PS/2. Limited key rollover, though. Have you tried the Action gaming keyboard? N-key rollover and ~25 eur. For anything but typing long texts I prefer it to my Unicomp, which, apart from the sublime key feel, is …

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Re: Reverse-Engineering the 3DFX VSA-100 Chipset

Posted on 2021-02-22, 16:00

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Note: I am not in any way implying that I will start work on this right now, but I just wanted to throw the thought out there. lol All those examples you've listed are either extremely simple (Covox) or use existing chips. As Doornkaat stated, someone has already used the same approach to build new …

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Re: Voodoo for DOS/W98SE gaming ?

Posted on 2021-02-21, 23:15

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Search the forum for threads on DOS game compatibility, the original Voodoo Graphics is the most compatible, 2/3 somewhat, 4 isn't. So you could go for 4+2, but a v1 would be better. http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=35721&start=20#p308023 (linked post is voodoo 3 info, thread's original …

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Re: What made you join VOGONS?

Posted on 2021-02-21, 19:51

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I don't know how I fell into the Sound Canvas rabbit hole, but researching that and then SB16 midi bugs kept making me end up at VOGONS. In the end I joined to ask a question about a sound card I bought.

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Re: Doom 3 kernel32.dll error

Posted on 2021-02-21, 11:22

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by Oetker

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Yes that function isn't supported on XP, although they could (probably) just as well have used a similar function that does work on xp (e.g. GetModuleFilename). See the last post here for something that might help Re: Ion Fury - A new Build Engine game

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Re: Phil’s latest video - Voltage Blaster

Posted on 2021-02-19, 14:41

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by Oetker

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What a great idea!

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Re: Gravis Ultrasound, Sound Blaster AWE32 and 16 emulation on Windows 10

Posted on 2021-02-19, 10:54

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DosBox emulates GUS, PC-em GUS and AWE32. What do you mean by SB16 emulation, noise and MIDI bugs?

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-02-19, 09:11

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by Oetker

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I just received SO-DIMM 2MB SGRAM expansion for my Dell Optiplex GXa. I paid 6 euros from electromyne Germany. I installed the memory into slot and it worked out of the box - 4 MB total of memory. Now the graphic card can do 1600x1200 at 16bit or 1024x768 at 32 bit. The problem is, the card output …

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