Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-03-12, 23:33

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You ladies need to get on my level. http://m.ebay.com/itm/221057230823 Neat! Does that one support proper VGA (720x400/640x350/640x400 [not just the VESA modes], 4:3 aspect, 70Hz) on the 15-pin sub-D input? This is difficult to test, but maybe you already know... at first I was like "WHAT?" then i …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-03-12, 13:07

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luckybob wrote: You ladies need to get on my level. http://m.ebay.com/itm/221057230823 Neat! Does that one support proper VGA (720x400/640x350/640x400 [not just the VESA modes], 4:3 aspect, 70Hz) on the 15-pin sub-D input? This is difficult to test, but maybe you already know...

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Re: 486 Mobos: Can you install multiple VGA cards - like AGP/ PCI switching?

Posted on 2015-03-09, 23:19

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The jumper in question is J10, which is in a block assigned for "8/16-BIT BUS SELECT". However, the combination I'm using is not documented. I tried it on my VL/ EISA system but it doesn't work like a PCI/ ISA system - the ISA Trident card refuses to boot. Moreover, the J6 jumper works on both …

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Re: 486 Mobos: Can you install multiple VGA cards - like AGP/ PCI switching?

Posted on 2015-03-08, 23:28

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Nice find! Which ISA card is it? Could you upload a photo? It's a Trident card, loathed by many, but it has its uses! Besides the aforementioned jumper, it has another jumper that forces the card to use 8bit or 16bit ISA bus widths. So, with a PCI VGA card and appropriate CPU, I can build the …

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Re: 486 Mobos: Can you install multiple VGA cards - like AGP/ PCI switching?

Posted on 2015-03-07, 21:19

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Nice find! Which ISA card is it? Could you upload a photo?

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

Posted on 2015-03-06, 08:56

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Until now, I didn't know that the Amiga 500+ model has a clock battery by default: Phew! That was close...

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Re: Issue with sound on Quake in DOS Mode.

Posted on 2015-03-04, 21:43

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Vortex2 drivers can't set the BLASTER variable properly. They produce something like this: SET BLASTER = A240 I5 D3 T4 (notice the superfluous spaces before and after the equal sign) when it really should look like this: SET BLASTER=A240 I5 D3 T4 Adjust the line in autoexec.bat, reboot and it should …

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Re: Are 486 computers easier to work with than 386 machines?

Posted on 2015-03-02, 21:01

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I've never really had any experience with either but now I have a 386 computer and I'm in what some have kindly called "Disk Geometry Hell". Not only that but I'm finding out that disks written on a 1.2mb 5.25" drive wont work on a 320k drive unless the diskette has been formatted in the 320k drive …

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Re: [Build Log] ABIT KT7A-RAID Based System

Posted on 2015-03-01, 20:38

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I have a KT7A-RAID with a GUS PnP. No problems here. This doesn't say much however, since I use it mainly for watching scene demos, which rarely utilise IRQs or DMA. I had to disable the "Delay Transaction" feature in BIOS, otherwise the GUS wouldn't reliably initialise with IWINIT. This seems to be …

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Re: Trustworthy buyer?

Posted on 2015-02-24, 21:24

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^^ Dude. No country restrictions. No third party shipping. Sweden.

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Re: What Super Socket 7 mobo's are available that are ATX?

Posted on 2015-02-21, 19:29

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Great note. Just for completeness sake, what about non SS7? Where there many boards in ATX form? Early S7 ATX boards started to appear with i430HX chipsets (e.g. Asus P/I-XP55T2P4), they became more common with the i430TX (e.g. Asus TX-97XE, TXP4X). Their AT equivalents sold better because by then …

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Re: [build log] My attempt at building the "ultimate" 440BX machine.

Posted on 2015-02-21, 18:10

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Nice recapping job, looks awesome! Where did you buy the caps? I have a hard time finding any polymers that aren't SMD :confused: Got them from Mouser, they have a large selection of both electrolytic and polymer caps (and basically anything electronics-related ;)) One annoying thing though is that …

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Re: Gravis Ultrasound - Hardware Mixing Game List

Posted on 2015-02-21, 10:40

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Maybe we should divide the list into tracker and MIDI sections. The difference in sound quality between GUS and software mixing is very noticeable with tracker music, while in MIDI games the GUS is just another synth "flavour", even when the game loads custom patches. In the latter case it's just a …

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Re: [build log] My attempt at building the "ultimate" 440BX machine.

Posted on 2015-02-21, 10:24

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I hear ya - Abit really had problems with bad caps it seems. Have to agree as well, I lost my Abit KT7A for the same reason (the board went up in smoke, literally :dead: ). Abit boards are kinda notorious for this. However, my old rev. 1.0 Abit KT7A-RAID doesn't have any capacitor trouble for some …

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Re: Gravis Ultrasound - Hardware Mixing Game List

Posted on 2015-02-20, 23:43

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^^ Agreed. Considering the limitations (after all, the basic GUS just has 256K RAM), I doubt there is any game with MIDI and hardware mixing for digital sound effects. With tracker music it's a bit easier, you have more control over the card's resources.

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Re: Newly made Gravis Ultrasound compatible cards ... what's the degree of interest?

Posted on 2015-02-20, 10:04

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please , let's not turn this GUS-clone thread into a GUS-vs-AWE situation... it just clutters and derails an interesting project. :) Don't blame me, blame the AWE fanboys who try to make this into GUS-vs-AWE. You were the one who made this into GUS vs AWE, just three posts after shock__ expressed …

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Re: Newly made Gravis Ultrasound compatible cards ... what's the degree of interest?

Posted on 2015-02-20, 00:38

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For that matter, has anyone ever compiled a complete list of titles with music/sound-effects natively composed with, or intended for, the GUS? (e.g., Star Control 2, Archon II, several Epic games, etc.) Well, our latest attempt was this thread . I don't think there are many commercial games with …

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Re: Newly made Gravis Ultrasound compatible cards ... what's the degree of interest?

Posted on 2015-02-19, 13:08

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As stated ... the PCA761AW would be a nice reference design ... GUS PnP compatible, can be made GUS classic compatible by adding RAM and adding up to 4 Banks of 4MB (each) of extra memory for soundfonts shouldn't be too hard. And I have physical access to such a card. Agreed, if you want to keep …

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Re: Cx486DLC ISA only mobo VGA suggestions + Audiotrix pro

Posted on 2015-02-19, 10:23

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A Windows accelerator card like a later Cirrus Logic or S3 might help somewhat (e.g.: dragging windows around with visible content), but I agree with others that you might ask too much from your machine. No matter how fast the video card (and good ones are not easy to get for the ISA bus), there …

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Re: Turbo switch functionality on high end 486 & early Pentium 1 systems

Posted on 2015-02-15, 23:51

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I've got an Asus PVI-486SP3 board and there is an issue similar to the one the OP posted, only reversed : The turbo switch works with write-back CPUs, but not with write-through ones. Also, when I disable the L1-cache, the L2-cache gets disabled as well (i don't know if this is normal, a …

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