Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2025-04-09, 00:34

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by Linoleum

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

One day, I woke up feeling like building a fast-ish VLB 486... So, I got an alright deal on eBay for that wonderful FIC 486-PVT with a DX2 66mhz, 128kb of cache, 4mb of RAM and an AT power supply. I already remove the OG Rayovac battery pack and made a connector for a 3xAA battery pack and fixed …

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Re: Monkey Island Ultimate Talkie - black screen on start in real DOS 6.22

Posted on 2025-04-08, 02:17

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by Linoleum

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it is known that the game has issues with mouse drivers (ctmouse is one of them) can you test without a mouse driver loaded and without a mouse connected? for my MVP3 and 386DX systems I have to use DRMOUSE.COM from DR-DOS to have the ultimate talkies not freeze (and I am glad it did because I …

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Re: MS-DOS : Sblive VS Terratec Aureon 5.1 PCI

Posted on 2025-04-04, 14:34

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by Linoleum

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in Marvin \ Sound

kanyero wrote on 2025-04-04, 07:31: Understood, no Terratec for dos. Does Terratec Aureon 5.1 PCI have any advantage over live in win9x ? Thanks Maybe if you have it connected through optical output to a receiver... Which would require Live Drive or a daughterboard for the Live! card.

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Re: PicoGUS: ISA sound card emulator with Raspberry Pi Pico (Gravis Ultrasound, AdLib, MPU-401, Tandy, CMS)

Posted on 2025-04-03, 15:01

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by Linoleum

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in Marvin \ Sound

Hi! I checked the settings, everything is correct. There is one thing, but maybe there is some kind of conflict? Because I use picogus as second sound card, but first awe64 at another port and dma and work well. I know some users that also used picogus like a second card with ESS and have this …

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Re: MS-DOS : Sblive VS Terratec Aureon 5.1 PCI

Posted on 2025-04-02, 13:02

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by Linoleum

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Isn't the Terratec Aureon SB 2.0 and SB pro compatible only? While you'd be getting SB16 + General Midi (+MT32) emulation with the Live. Seems like a pretty obvious one to me... Unless I am missing something?

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2025-04-02, 12:32

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by Linoleum

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Finally got my hands on a nice, clean, working and not ancient looking 5.25 floppy drive… However, I was hoping it would be more floppy-sounding… It’s almost dead silent! What brand floppy drive is that? It almost looks like a Teac but it's not. And the Teac sound is legendary I think....... It's a …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2025-04-01, 15:19

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by Linoleum

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Finally got my hands on a nice, clean, working and not ancient looking 5.25 floppy drive… However, I was hoping it would be more floppy-sounding… It’s almost dead silent!

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Re: PicoGUS: ISA sound card emulator with Raspberry Pi Pico (Gravis Ultrasound, AdLib, MPU-401, Tandy, CMS)

Posted on 2025-03-31, 00:10

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by Linoleum

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@Distemper - if possible, report on jumper settings used (there should be 3 jumpers for IRQ and DMA). - Did you try updating/refreshing the firmware? See: https://youtu.be/z4NYW5GQ3vc?t=316 - Also, when you say you get a "card not in the flashing mode" error message, is it when you try changing the …

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Re: PicoGUS: ISA sound card emulator with Raspberry Pi Pico (Gravis Ultrasound, AdLib, MPU-401, Tandy, CMS)

Posted on 2025-03-30, 15:10

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by Linoleum

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in Marvin \ Sound

pgusinit detects and shows resources just fine, and I got FX sounds in all the games. But I got absolutely no General MIDI, MPU-401 or Ultra Gus music in any games :( Just a basic verification: Is there an e.g. ULTRADIR=C:\ULTRASND variable set and pointing to the gus software directory containing …

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Re: Guide: Installing Windows 9x and DOS drivers on Audigy cards (version 3.1)

Posted on 2025-03-30, 14:43

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by Linoleum

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I followed your awesome guide and set up an Audigy 2 ZS, but I'm having problems with pure DOS mode. Fun fact, I also swapped a Live! for an Audigy 2 ZS on my Windows 98 machine few days ago... Luckily, it works perfectly on my side. Few observations and/or ideas: Autoexec is missing "DOS=HIGH,UMB" …

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Re: InerAct (3dfx) Hammerhead FX force feedback question

Posted on 2025-03-30, 13:23

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by Linoleum

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Everything is working great except the force feedback, trying to tick the box to enable it just un-ticks itself. I have good batteries. Does it perhaps require USB along with batteries? I do not have the original gameport to usb adapter. I tried the adapter that came with an older logitech wingman …

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Re: Guide: Installing Windows 9x and DOS drivers on Audigy cards (version 3.1)

Posted on 2025-03-30, 13:19

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by Linoleum

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in Marvin \ Sound

I followed your awesome guide and set up an Audigy 2 ZS, but I'm having problems with pure DOS mode. Fun fact, I also swapped a Live! for an Audigy 2 ZS on my Windows 98 machine few days ago... Luckily, it works perfectly on my side. Few observations and/or ideas: Autoexec is missing "DOS=HIGH,UMB" …

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Re: Pentium-S 100 MHz - Generic Mystery PC

Posted on 2025-03-30, 12:48

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1) What OS do you guys think would be best for this thing? My vote goes to DOS 6.22 and Win 3.11... I too have a P100 and it's my favorite "sound cards hosting machine" (PicoGUS + AWE64 + MT32pi). It is the perfect speed for late DOS games to. 2) What is your experience with the hardware in this …

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Re: Need Help with Trident TVGA8900CL Video Card - No Video Signal

Posted on 2025-03-28, 17:06

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I got my hands on an oscilloscope (Fnirsi DSO 152)... I might need some time to fully understand how to get my readings right, but I trust I'll get there... However, I noticed that my card has pins numbered this way: ...,5,4,3,2,1 ...,17,16,15,14 Instead of the newer standard: 1,3,5,7,9,... 2,4,6,8, …

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Re: Sound Blaster Live!

Posted on 2025-03-28, 15:14

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by Linoleum

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Or is there something I forgot to do. I plugged the card in and then installed drivers. There's not anything I need to do in BIOS? Depends if you are using the SB16 emulator or not... I had to "reserve" an IRQ in the BIOS for the emulated SB16. I also disabled the onboard gameport just to be sure. …

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Re: Sound Blaster Live!

Posted on 2025-03-28, 15:13

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by Linoleum

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Did Sound Blaster Live! card still require that audio cable between it and CD/DVD drive on Windows ME? I have enabled digital audio on the CD drive settings. I tried CD version of The Secret of Monkey Island where music is as audio tracks on the CD. It worked fine with the onboard audio on Asus P2B …

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Re: PicoGUS: ISA sound card emulator with Raspberry Pi Pico (Gravis Ultrasound, AdLib, MPU-401, Tandy, CMS)

Posted on 2025-03-26, 16:46

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by Linoleum

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I stick to GUS mode for Windows 3.1... Works flawlessly.

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Re: soundblater live sb060 vs ct4830

Posted on 2025-03-26, 16:39

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by Linoleum

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If you want a hassle-free setup and the best compatibility for Windows 98 SE gaming, the CT4830 is a better choice Any SB Live version works with this driver package and guide: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=74361 However, SB0060 is from the 3rd generation of Live cards while CT4830 is from …

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Re: Leisure Suit Larry 1 VGA crashes...

Posted on 2025-03-26, 03:23

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by Linoleum

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henris42 wrote on 2025-03-26, 03:07: OK, so yours again say couldn't initialize music hardware This is probably a little thing. I'm a professional Linux developer myself, no idea on how this DOS/Sierra stuff works. Aahh sorry!! I am really rooting for you man…

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Re: Leisure Suit Larry 1 VGA crashes...

Posted on 2025-03-26, 03:00

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by Linoleum

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henris42 wrote on 2025-03-26, 02:54: its 9784. mtblast.drv is 3688. I have 3670 for MTblast.drv... Give it a try: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gLLQs84F2sSs … ?usp=drive_link

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