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Re: Sound Blaster Live 5.1 SB0100 requires 64 MB of RAM?

Posted on 2022-03-28, 19:46

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

I wasn't aware of that specific limitation but you're basically trying to put a PCI sound card from 2000 into a very DOS/Win3.x/early Win95 build. I highly doubt Win95 would actually have a lower requirement, you're just making the time gap even bigger, with probably even less chance for proper …

Re: Looking for a suitable Sound Blaster card as well as a network card for my 233 MHz MMX PC

Posted on 2022-03-26, 20:03

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Aww man, an AWE32 is perfect for a Pentium MMX build. As all Creative cards they have their quirks and issues (mainly MIDI in the case of the AWE32), but apart from that it's the ideal, arguably best card of that era. I have a CT3900 myself in a P233 MMX build and don't have the issues you're …

Re: MIDI output for old laptop

Posted on 2022-03-24, 21:51

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Found that one about the RA devices in the meantime, interesting read: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=74580 So, you can turn a RA-50 into a MT-32 with a hardware mod, or SoftMPU. But that's the only RA device that would work. TIL. I also realize I haven't really touched on modern …

Re: MIDI output for old laptop

Posted on 2022-03-24, 21:22

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Ouch man, as said by Cuttoon, that's quite a rabbit hole you're diving into. Here's a good and actually pretty exhaustive (edit: brain fart) overview of the pre-2000 game midi jungle: https://www.retrobee.net/blog/midi-module-buying-guide-for-retro-gaming If you want your games to sound like the …

Re: Unable to Identify old game, Sidescroller Jump'n'Shoot

Posted on 2022-03-24, 20:25

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Kinda a long shot but Metal Mutant could somewhat fit the bill? https://www.mobygames.com/game/metal-mutant/screenshots I know first hand how my own memories as a kid were warped over time and how...defeated I've felt when I found some games I've been looking for for ages and had amazing memories of …

Re: MIF-IPC-B/MPU-401 woes

Posted on 2022-03-24, 12:07

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Can someone please answer this for me - should the PC behave normally when only the MIF-IPC/-A/-B is connected, without the MPU-401? I don't see why it wouldn't. From what I can tell these cards are extremely basic anyway. When they run fine you completely forget they exist. No need for specific …

Re: MIF-IPC-B/MPU-401 woes

Posted on 2022-03-24, 07:26

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Looks like I'd need to spring for the GQ-4X to program a 2732 without difficulty. What have you used yours for? Dumping/testing/upgrading bios on many devices, mainly MIDI expanders and motherboards.... and also programming an XT-IDE chip to put as optional bios on a network card (mind was blown …

Re: MIF-IPC-B/MPU-401 woes

Posted on 2022-03-22, 14:09

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I highly doubted I really needed a programmer for a long time...finally went ahead and it's been so useful! It probably ended being one of my wisest investment in this hobby 😁 went with one of those TL866II+ kits off eBay and it's been awesome

Re: MIF-IPC-B/MPU-401 woes

Posted on 2022-03-22, 08:02

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Definitely check the cable! I have had similar issues, purchased a straight DB25 and it was fine. Maybe more info there: MPU-401 and MIF-IPC-B question

Re: Promise PCI Sata and Win98SE

Posted on 2022-03-19, 21:01

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Thanks for the confirmation, that was my understanding and why I chose 120GB SSD's as OS drives. So I should be good to go :) I also have a Sil3114 card and a another VIA based one. The VIA is shit, the Sil3114 was mostly ok, except my older builds would freeze when booting win98, when installation …

Re: ARGUS Project thread (aka GUSsel Crowe) - it's not dead (yet)

Posted on 2022-03-18, 20:44

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

If others keep telling people what their time, effort and products are worth or should sell for, sooner or later, you won't find anyone willing to take on such projects, or share the resulting goodies. The way it should work is that they name their price, and you decide whether it is reasonable to …

Re: Promise PCI Sata and Win98SE

Posted on 2022-03-16, 11:29

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

For any future visitor ending up here, I went ahead and re-partitioned the SSD with Windows ME's FDISK, reformatted, reinstalled and all is well it seems. No more scandisk complaints. I am still unclear about Win98's internal limits. I've read about some rloew's patches for drives bigger than 137GiB …

Promise PCI Sata and Win98SE

Posted on 2022-03-14, 10:45

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hi there, quite a common topic, I've done quite a lot of reading but I'm just not sure anymore and prefer asking again. I have a Promise S150 TX4 PCI card on a Win98SE PC. Using a 120GB SSD for the OS, and and additional 500GB HDD. I have partitioned and formatted the drives on a modern PC with …

Re: Soundcard capabilities benchmark or tool, and ASOUND ALS100 based card questions

Posted on 2022-03-10, 20:03

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Boohyaka, thank you for the info on that card. Glad it was useful to you! Funny timing, as I'm working on a build with random loose stuff I had in drawers and I wanted to give this card a new go. I honestly forgot about this topic I created and have no idea why I never got around to testing this …

Re: P3B-F stopped working...need help

Posted on 2022-03-03, 19:05

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Finally had the time to do it and guess who's back, alive and kicking? Good ol' P3B-F! Just solder a small bridge with e.g. a resistor leg over the broken trace as shown here: https://www.vogons.org/download/file.php?id=131578&mode=view Man, thank you SO much. I'm still not over the fact you …

Re: P3B-F stopped working...need help

Posted on 2022-03-02, 18:55

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

rasz_pl wrote on 2022-03-02, 05:12: further, the trace has same width behind the via. Find what is being powered. I have no idea how to tell, it disappears under the ISA slot Filename trace.jpg File size 437.73 KiB Views 787 views

Re: P3B-F stopped working...need help

Posted on 2022-03-01, 21:25

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yes. Use the diode through hole on the right side of the picture as a solder point. Find a through hole or good sized pad on the other side of the broken trace for the other side of the wire. Right, that should work and be easy enough shouldn't it? Would a strand of Kynar wire be too fine for the …

Re: P3B-F stopped working...need help

Posted on 2022-02-28, 21:27

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Not in a long time, many months, probably more than a year. I was running a FX5950 at FSB133 so AGP 89MHz. Could that be the reason? Overclocking putting too much strain? edit: I've been running at FSB133 for years on a variety of graphic cards, but the FX5950 has been the one I used for the last …

Re: P3B-F stopped working...need help

Posted on 2022-02-28, 18:49

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hi! Just got a P3B-F in the mail which had the exact same problem. There was a broken trace near the BIOS eeprom in my case (see photo). After fixing that trace the board was working again. The green led near the AGP slot should definitely be off until the board is fully powered on. The big …

Re: P3B-F stopped working...need help

Posted on 2022-02-28, 09:18

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Just tested and confirmed @mkarcher: - Both the original Tualatin+Slotket I was originally using on the P3B-F + a spare Slot1 PIII-600 I had laying around work fine on my spare Gigabyte 6BXS - Both don't work on the P3B-F, and without CPU doesn't work either

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