Re: Voodoo 1 showing 0mb tmu memory

Posted on 2022-01-02, 02:16

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Check the traces, caps, resistors to the memory, could also be that damage to the TMU has sent voltage to the wrong place and killed some of the memory ICs. Best bet would be to replace one or two of the ones you suspect are fried and see if it detects more memory. You may just have to do a process …

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Re: Is there any reason to try and salvage this SCSI card?

Posted on 2022-01-01, 16:38

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Yes ! It has BIOS v 1.34 which supports greater than 8Gb hd's (so full size support for a 9GB or 18Gb scsi HD): https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=82734&p=988790&hilit=bios%20bio%2034#p988790 Worth saving the bios chip then and perhaps sending it to someone who can dump the BIOS for others …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-01-01, 16:31

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My opinion: A. For LA synthesis you need two devices. A Roland MT32 first generation because some games run 100% correctly only with this device and a Roland CM32L or CM64 or Lapc-i because of the extra sound effects that you have on some games. So, you cover all games with LA synthesis support. B. …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-01-01, 16:10

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Ulticom (DGM&S) ISA V35, 530 Pretty interesting card, I wonder if it's usable as an accelerator card. Took quite a bit of googling to figure out that this little card is for SS7 telephone signal processing, I can find identical cards based around you card but using different ICs in the U8 socket, …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-01-01, 14:08

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It's possible but this becomes very complicated. With a single synthesizer you can simply feed the output into the line-in of your sound card and have it mix there and arrive together at your speakers. But if you want several modules then you have to manage how to split the MIDI signal to each …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-01-01, 13:31

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The major difference comes from the following revisions (excluding firmware versions): MT-32 SC-55 SC-55MK2 SC-88 The MT-32 is pre-General Midi so games which support it will only sound correct on this model. All of the later Sound Canvas models (SC prefix) are General Midi compatible but have a …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-01-01, 11:50

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I have a small collection of MIDI synthesizers where I've tried to include most of the major revisions from Roland and some from Yamaha. For the SC-55 I have a SC-55ST and SC-55MK2. I had thought that the 55ST covered the original "55" model but I was mistaken. The SC-55ST is actually an SC-55MK2. …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-01-01, 10:25

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They are separate machines thankfully, the Win9x machine I limited to PCI only and I dont use it for DOS stuff, the XG50 is a daughter card which attaches via the Midi port of the SoundBlaster 16, not sure if the MX300 midi port would work with the XG50 .. I haven't tried it yet as I dont know if …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-01-01, 00:34

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sb16 PCI has eqally terrible FM to a MX300 and arguably worst compatibility using DDMA and doesn't have a wavetable header. MX300 is a way better card than a sb16 pci on the contrary which is basically trash. Pairing a XG PCI with a MX300 PCI probably gives the best overall compatibility in a PCI …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-12-31, 23:53

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Received some goodies this week... Looking at getting a MX300 myself with the Spdif breakout card and a 2mb wavetable board for it, still deciding if the wavetable board is worth the cost. Edit - Decided to add my name to the list for an Orpheus I + PCMIDI and Dreamblaster X2GS, been looking for …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-12-31, 13:25

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Received some goodies this week... PXL_20211231_123721003.jpg PXL_20211231_123712006.jpg PXL_20211231_123747777.jpg Looking at getting a MX300 myself with the Spdif breakout card and a 2mb wavetable board for it, still deciding if the wavetable board is worth the cost. Edit - Decided to add my name …

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Re: Huge number of K6-2E+/570ACZ CPUs for sale on eBay

Posted on 2021-12-31, 03:27

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yes it does, no one has EVER been able to demonstrate otherwise - and it has been tried Depends on the drive and how it records data to the platters, unless you are willing to do several passes then 100% protection simply doesnt exist. The "military" wipe is generally a 7-pass overwrite with random …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2021-12-31, 01:16

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The 17" CRT arrived to day and it works perfectly but I've noticed some minor flaking of the antiglare coating, I cant fault the seller for this as its difficult to even see it unless you have the right light angle. But now I know its there I cant unsee it, does anyone have some advice in how to …

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Re: Huge number of K6-2E+/570ACZ CPUs for sale on eBay

Posted on 2021-12-30, 22:06

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even a military wipe doesn’t guarantee 100% protection from recovery. yes it does, no one has EVER been able to demonstrate otherwise - and it has been tried Depends on the drive and how it records data to the platters, unless you are willing to do several passes then 100% protection simply doesnt …

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Re: Huge number of K6-2E+/570ACZ CPUs for sale on eBay

Posted on 2021-12-30, 21:41

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It is truly a sad situation when a company has a policy to only junk old IT equipment and not even consider there is a better use for it. I am glad to say that company I work for is willing to let me take old equipment as long as the hard drive or SSD is removed. I actually agree with junking Hdds …

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Re: Huge number of K6-2E+/570ACZ CPUs for sale on eBay

Posted on 2021-12-30, 20:19

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It is truly a sad situation when a company has a policy to only junk old IT equipment and not even consider there is a better use for it. I am glad to say that company I work for is willing to let me take old equipment as long as the hard drive or SSD is removed. I actually agree with junking Hdds …

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Re: Huge number of K6-2E+/570ACZ CPUs for sale on eBay

Posted on 2021-12-30, 12:06

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I was going though our Crit-A storage the other day at work and came across all sorts of computer gold. Evergreen CPU's, Alpha DS20 CPU's, IBM AT's and 5153 monitors still unopened, tons of ATI ISA video cards, etc. At some point I have to go through and scrap it, but I'll save what I can. This …

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Re: Minecraft on pentium 1

Posted on 2021-12-30, 08:57

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"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think if they should." -Iam Malcom I think this quote sums this up perfectly XD Another dude on discord did it on a pentium 90😂 Dare you to try a 486..you know you want to, that challenge gauntlet needs to be picked …

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Re: Quadro 4 700 doesn't work with Windows 98 SE

Posted on 2021-12-30, 08:10

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Grab a basic bitch PCI video card and install 98 using that, install all the chipset drivers and such get the system update etc then put the quadro in (Dont remove the PCI gpu) and install the drivers for it while using the PCI videocard as the display, once drivers are installed for the quadro .. …

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Re: Minecraft on pentium 1

Posted on 2021-12-30, 08:05

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"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think if they should." -Iam Malcom I think this quote sums this up perfectly 🤣

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