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Re: SSC1 - SC-55 - MT32 - LAPC-I - what are the practical differences between these?

Posted on 2023-01-01, 01:30

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

I think there was a mpu 401 AT that sold for about 120 AUD CIB on ebay. There was one recently that sold in November, but it was for 10x that amount (~$1200 AUD). Getting one for only $120 AUD would be a amazing find these days. Yeah I was surprised that it went for that low , crazy good deal for …

Re: SSC1 - SC-55 - MT32 - LAPC-I - what are the practical differences between these?

Posted on 2022-12-31, 06:49

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

why not get an sc-55 an mt32 and a real mpu 401 and maybe one of the more desirable awe32s instead of just one collectors holy grail. Genuine external MPU-401 units aren't cheap either and somewhat hard to come by currently. At least an SCC-1 can double up as a MPU-401 interface with intelligent …

Re: SSC1 - SC-55 - MT32 - LAPC-I - what are the practical differences between these?

Posted on 2022-12-31, 01:48

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Ok, i will take an SCC-1. Can you help me to set this card? i really never seen one Honestly for the price of one scc1 or lapc-i you could probably buy a bunch of different sound cards and midi modules , why not get an sc-55 an mt32 and a real mpu 401 and maybe one of the more desirable awe32s …

Re: Post pics of your CRT monitors

Posted on 2022-12-29, 16:23

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Phillips CM8833 MK2 20221229_232750.jpg The one I bought was in another state since there were no local ones I knew of. Shipping monitors can be tricky and expensive but there are people who know how to to it. The price was decent , and I knew the seller from before , since they shipped me two other …

Re: Post, no boot issue. Ep. 2

Posted on 2022-12-29, 01:06

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yeah I really should , I saw some ide to usb adaptors on ebay a while back, I probably should get one of those. There's nothing mission critical on there , its just more it would be tedious to go through installing all the drivers and software again. true. Somethin Im figuring out, is the drivers …

Re: SSC1 - SC-55 - MT32 - LAPC-I - what are the practical differences between these?

Posted on 2022-12-29, 00:48

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

I have the sound blaster cards to match, and in any case a sb16 possibly costs a little, it doesn't need to have the opl3 because it would be replaced by the Roland right? opl2/opl3 are FM and have nothing at all to do with midi. MT32/SC55/LAPC1/SCC1 are midi devices. There is no overlap to FM with …

Re: Pentium II buid: 2 Vodoo 2 in SLI, recomended video card AGP.

Posted on 2022-12-28, 16:28

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

20220828_204134.jpg Is that a BTX case or am I just seeing things this way because you're in Australia and I'm in the US? :laughing: everything's upside-down here in didgeridoo land. No but seriously I'm pretty sure its atx? though its much newer than that hardware (circa mid to late 00s maybe?) I …

Re: Post, no boot issue. Ep. 2

Posted on 2022-12-28, 16:14

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yeah I might have to as well :/ I've got alot of stuff installed on me drive so I'm not super keen about it but if its the only option I guess I'll have to bite the bullet. backup the drive before doing the reinstall. everything I had on mine was either still on my main pc, or on my shelf in the …

Re: Pentium II buid: 2 Vodoo 2 in SLI, recomended video card AGP.

Posted on 2022-12-28, 16:05

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

You actually have to have some 3rd card to act as a video card because the Voodoo 2 cards are only 3D accelerators. They cannot be used for anything outside of 3D accelerated games. Any card with sufficient 2D capabilities to run your desktop and any non-accelerated games should be fine, so you can …

Re: Pentium II buid: 2 Vodoo 2 in SLI, recomended video card AGP.

Posted on 2022-12-28, 15:41

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Question is, what do you want the card to do? You can choose from about three options: - nothing more than look pretty and supply a 2D image for desktop (= whatever you want, go wild with weird stuff if you like) - offer higher performance and 32b colour support (= probably an nVidia TNT card - …

Re: Post, no boot issue. Ep. 2

Posted on 2022-12-27, 05:45

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hmm I've been planning on migrating from an abit bf6 to an asus p3b-f so ill keep tabs on this thread. I figured there would be some hiccups along the way so I havent gotten around to doing it yet , im guessing uninstalling the original chipset drivers beforehand and installing the correct chipset …

Re: Post, no boot issue. Ep. 2

Posted on 2022-12-25, 08:22

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hmm I've been planning on migrating from an abit bf6 to an asus p3b-f so ill keep tabs on this thread. I figured there would be some hiccups along the way so I havent gotten around to doing it yet , im guessing uninstalling the original chipset drivers beforehand and installing the correct chipset …

Re: Merry X-Mass 2022...

Posted on 2022-12-25, 06:01

in Milliways

in Milliways

33°C Here in Melbourne , Deffo feeling the heat as well , btw merry Christmas y'all.

Flashing S3 Bios?

Posted on 2022-12-25, 05:30

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

So I have a few S3 Trios that happen to suffer from the washed out black level bug : 20220924_141515.jpg 20221011_161025 (4).jpg I read it might be possible to mod the bios to get rid of the issue. How would I go about dumping the original bios chip and flashing the bios to a new chip , and what …

Re: Choose the sound card for the 3PCs: DX4 - P60 - P200

Posted on 2022-12-24, 03:58

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I don't know the pros and cons of awe, but it seems to me that it doesn't have an OPL3 so I'm not very good at DOS. Why do you recommend awe? and on which system? There are AWE32s that have an actual opl3 chip onboard but they tend to be somewhat more expensive. retro-pc-alkatresz-sound-blaster- …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-12-24, 03:45

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Filename 20221222_201821.jpg File size 1.35 MiB Views 1648 views Finally got a working amiga monitor , I'm not as big of a fan of the look of the cm8833 mk2 vs the 1081 or the 1084 series , but they seem pretty reliable and have functional replacement flybacks in case anything goes wrong.

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-12-20, 02:26

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

This ASUS P3B-F and 800mhz P3 came in recently , I'm planning on doing an upgrade for my second rig. Filename 20221219_220701.jpg File size 1.88 MiB Views 1745 views Filename 20221219_220652.jpg File size 1.86 MiB Views 1745 views

Re: Socket 7 board help

Posted on 2022-12-19, 06:11

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Currently, these motherboards often sell incompletely. When they were newer back then, they did come with cables for the additional "hardware" (USB if applicable, serial, parallel and PS/2 mouse) and the manual. Indeed. It is quite hard to find a S7 board listing with the serial and mouse ribbon …

Re: Weird graphical artifacts with virge

Posted on 2022-12-17, 03:36

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

After using the card again its now doing this , hopefully its not the monitor itself but it looks like it can't properly draw the image , it goes away after a while so maybe its the caps?

Re: Weird graphical artifacts with virge

Posted on 2022-12-10, 02:31

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Well guess what , I ended up removing the ram board bending some pins a bit more and reseating the board for a third time and now it works all of a sudden. I don't know if it was oxidisation or the pins not being quite aligned but at least it works now. Filename 20221209_210255.jpg File size 1.69 …

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