Re: Nuked-SC55, low-level Roland SC-55mkII emulator announcement

Posted on 2024-03-15, 14:41

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by AppleSauce

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Hi, guess folks over here might be interested on the project I've been working on, so I'm making thread about it. this is continuation of my early sc-55 emulation attempt I started in 2021. The basic idea was to emulate all main chips in proper way and use original SC-55 firmware as is (MAME …

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Re: To pnp or not to pnp

Posted on 2024-03-13, 15:06

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by AppleSauce

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Yep totally dependent on your setup really , for example I've got a DOS 6.22 pc with way too many cards and I have no way of getting my main sound blaster to work in games that use high dma unless its a jumpered model like the CT1740 (ct2230 wont cut it) that can brute force the other cards and …

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Re: CF card options for HDD replacement

Posted on 2024-02-24, 15:28

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by AppleSauce

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douglar wrote on 2024-02-24, 15:18: AppleSauce wrote on 2024-02-24, 10:27: It only seems to plug in one way. Ok, after getting a minute to look at the board, it does appear that it takes +5v to the right pins. What is that orange plastic on the adapter? Just some electrical tape.

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Re: CF card options for HDD replacement

Posted on 2024-02-24, 10:27

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by AppleSauce

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yeah no worries, my description wasn't the best , the connectors keyed so I dont think plugging it upside down is possible. I'd expect the 4 pin molex to be on the left when you are looking at the drive from the top rear. Your picture had it on the right. Edit -- Power goes to the pin 44 side Edit …

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Re: CF card options for HDD replacement

Posted on 2024-02-23, 21:51

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by AppleSauce

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It should be on its own channel , I think its the secondary master and there's nothing else connected to the cable. The motherboard is a MSI5148 so circa 1997. It wasn't just the retro pc though , I connected it up to my modern pc via a unitek hdd usb adapter Unitek_SATA_IDE_to_U_ …

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Re: CF card options for HDD replacement

Posted on 2024-02-23, 20:26

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by AppleSauce

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Problem is drive number 2 which is a msata to 44 pin wont work with the 44pin to 40 pin adapter. I connected the drive to a unitek usb transfer thing and it works fine and i did transfer the 95 install with the 44 pin connector but when I connect the 40 pin adapter it struggles to find the drive. …

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Re: CF card options for HDD replacement

Posted on 2024-02-23, 03:13

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by AppleSauce

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Hokay so the CF card works pretty great with DOS 6.22 and Win 3.1 and the speed is pretty decent. 20240222_211034.jpg 20240222_211031.jpg Problem is drive number 2 which is a msata to 44 pin wont work with the 44pin to 40 pin adapter. I connected the drive to a unitek usb transfer thing and it works …

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Re: Gravis M/Sound

Posted on 2024-02-21, 06:47

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by AppleSauce

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Indeed. Going by what these article describe, it looks like this company "Mountain Sound" had basically just produced an overpriced Covox Speech Thing clone. The "4 digital voices" was probably just in software, through a MOD player. Maybe they offered the promised Tandy sound compatibility through …

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Re: Tell about your country

Posted on 2024-02-21, 06:06

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by AppleSauce

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Canadian here. I'm always amused by the various Canadian stereotypes we endure, particularly from our southern American cousins. For the record, I'm never heard anyone pronounce it "a-boot". Miss Paul my Canadian teacher in high school pronounced it that way. Gave me a giggle every time she said …

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Re: Gravis M/Sound

Posted on 2024-02-20, 14:00

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by AppleSauce

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Found an update in issue 77 page 60. Filename avg3.png File size 102.74 KiB Views 225 views Looks like it was a scam.

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Gravis M/Sound

Posted on 2024-02-20, 12:35

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by AppleSauce

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I was reading Computer Gaming World Issue 68 Publication date 1990-02 Page 39 avg2.png And I noticed it mentioned a sound device from gravis called M/Sound seems to have 2 flavors : 1: Printer port device. 2: Internal Card. Does anyone know anything about this? Would be cool if someone did. The …

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Re: Voodoo 2 Artifacting?

Posted on 2024-02-14, 06:24

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by AppleSauce

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I'm using the fastvoodoo drivers for mismatched cards , I could try another one I guess , no idea if it might break sli support though. The Fast Voodoo drivers bump up the clocks on the card slightly which isn't particularly obvious unless you happen to spot it in the display settings. Have you …

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Re: Voodoo 2 Artifacting?

Posted on 2024-02-11, 13:47

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by AppleSauce

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I'm using the fastvoodoo drivers for mismatched cards , I could try another one I guess , no idea if it might break sli support though. The Fast Voodoo drivers bump up the clocks on the card slightly which isn't particularly obvious unless you happen to spot it in the display settings. Have you …

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Re: Voodoo 2 Artifacting?

Posted on 2024-02-11, 10:16

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by AppleSauce

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To me this sounds more like a software issue than a hardware issue with your cards. Have you tried reinstalling your current drivers or even trying different drivers? I'm using the fastvoodoo drivers for mismatched cards , I could try another one I guess , no idea if it might break sli support …

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Re: Voodoo 2 Artifacting?

Posted on 2024-02-11, 10:15

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by AppleSauce

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Random fits bad solder joint perfectly. Get a hair drier and heat both cards while playing the game, heat exasperates intermittent joint issues and will let you diagnose which card is the culprit. Bad news - it will deteriorate with time and there is nothing, other than fixing it by refreshing …

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Re: Voodoo 2 Artifacting?

Posted on 2024-02-08, 22:42

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by AppleSauce

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It very well could be. Is this the only game having this issue? Yeah I tested Diablo 2 , Unreal , System Shock 2 and they all worked fine. Then I went into the settings disabled sli ran heretic 2 and it crashed unless I picked the tutorial, I should have taken a picture of the error , it might have …

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Re: CF card options for HDD replacement

Posted on 2024-02-08, 09:50

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by AppleSauce

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Righto well I'm considering one of those generic CF cards and a StarTech CF card adapter. And maybe an MSata for the other OS installs.

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Re: Voodoo 2 Artifacting?

Posted on 2024-02-08, 08:47

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by AppleSauce

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

So something interesting happened , I turned off palleted textures and the problem went away , is this a clue of what's going on to anyone? Filename 20240208_194432.jpg File size 1.4 MiB Views 577 views

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Re: Voodoo 2 Artifacting?

Posted on 2024-02-07, 16:00

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by AppleSauce

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Gmlb256 wrote on 2024-02-07, 15:34: Adding heatsinks and/or any other cooling system to the FBI and TMU chips on the Voodoo2 cards helps as they tend to heat up a bit after some time. Apart from that, does any other game besides Quake II aren't affected? I'll try some other games to see if they …

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Re: Voodoo 2 Artifacting?

Posted on 2024-02-07, 15:59

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by AppleSauce

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chrismeyer6 wrote on 2024-02-07, 15:20: Have you tired it with only one card at a time to at least try and pin point which card is having the issue? I'd also recommend making sure the SLI cable is good and seating properly in each card. That's a good idea , ill have to do that for sure.

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