Re: PCI Soundcards with wavetable synthesis in real DOS?

Posted on 2016-09-17, 12:28

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by synrgy87

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… SC-55! There's also the diamond monster wavetable synths witch pop up now and again on ebay, but when … , and they usually pop up in the US, witch means expensive shipping for anyone outside. There's one on … you come to the same price as a dreamblaster X1 witch sounds a lot better. Add 10-15 euro and …

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Re: What Piece of PC Hardware Have You Owned Longest

Posted on 2016-10-24, 18:53

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by kanecvr

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… my K6 had, as well as the 4GB HDD (witch I still have - sadly it developed bad blocks). … + PSU, the motherboard + CPU and a radeon 7500 (witch is where most of my money went) + a second … (about 100$ back then) on a PSU - a part witch brought no performance increase whatsoever. I really wish I kept the …

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Re: Phenom X6 AM3 info

Posted on 2016-10-25, 15:26

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by kanecvr

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… BIOS. There are exceptions tough. I have an X6 1055t witch I use in my living room PC. Frankly it's a bit … so I'd say it's more suited for modern games witch prefer more cores over clock rate. Oh yeah - … , unlike the FX 8xxx series witch only has 4, or the FX 6xxx series witch only have 3 - as such …

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Re: Phenom X6 AM3 info

Posted on 2016-10-25, 15:45

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by 386SX

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… BIOS. There are exceptions tough. I have an X6 1055t witch I use in my living room PC. Frankly it's a bit … so I'd say it's more suited for modern games witch prefer more cores over clock rate. Oh yeah - … , unlike the FX 8xxx series witch only has 4, or the FX 6xxx series witch only have 3 - as such …

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Re: Best WinXP Video Card

Posted on 2016-11-14, 17:02

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by kanecvr

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… costing about as much as a second hand R9 280X witch is a much faster card, so I can't recommend … 1920x1080 - playable, but there are the occasional frameskips witch you don't get on a 280x for example. Two … main PC so I replaced them with a 280x witch can't really keep up with the game at 1920x1080 …

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Re: Fellow Vogoners, tells us a little more about yourselves!

Posted on 2016-11-23, 17:54

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by kanecvr

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… and sit in a room filled with people, 99% of witch 4-6 years younger then me - but I made friends, we … clear purpose. For me it's been my (expensive) hobbies witch need lots of money to be fed. For the … a nice apartment on credit (mortgage in the US?) witch i will be paying for the next 22 years - …

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2017-01-04, 03:18

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by kanecvr

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… board under windows 10 anniversary eddition. I tested doom witch ran surprisingly well at 1080p / ultra / FXAA … couple of hours w/o issues - then tried WoW, witch also ran great, then tried world of tansk... crash … . Got 8122 pts in 3dmark 01 fire strike witch is a very good score, considering my 1070 …

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Re: What was the first PC you built yourself

Posted on 2017-01-18, 21:06

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by kanecvr

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… friend) - slightly nicer chinese case (Delux brand) witch was roomyer, much better looking, built better and came … 2, red alert, starcraft and heroes III, all witch did not run very well on the obsolete machine. … the overclocked 350MHz k6-2 with a 400MHz K6-3+ witch I ran at 550MHz (an now sits in the …

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Re: HUGE 1997*-2003 video card performance benchmark thread (Q3, Unreal, DK2, 3DM2k, 3DM2001)

Posted on 2017-01-24, 02:30

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by kanecvr

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… tested is a simple, crippled 64 bit radeon VE witch has only half of the full R100 chip activated. … would perform as well as a Radeon DDR (Radeon 7500) witch is about as fast as a 128bit Radeon 9250 - … are slightly faster then the radeon 7200 I tested - witch is not a bad card. Not brilliant, but not …

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Re: The K7 thread. CPUs, motherboards, performance and overclocking.

Posted on 2017-02-17, 21:42

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by kanecvr

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… of my cash on a radeon 7500 (radeon DDR) witch I was extremely happy with until I got a hold … Athlon CPUs, including the barton core (one of witch I managed to kill when installing the cooler). … Since I have a couple of working Abit AN7 boards witch are much better in general, I can't be bothered to …

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2017-05-21, 17:06

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by kanecvr

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… that sport both PCI-E and AGP (one of witch being crippled) but this is the first AM2 … chips. It runs the Nforce 3 250 chipset, witch means it has win98 support (gigabyte site lists some … win98 drivers). The board came with a 4000+ installed witch made me think it was a regular 939 board - until …

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So... I picked up a simple unassuming beige AT computer and it turned out to be this....

Posted on 2020-07-13, 15:57

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by Socket3

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… The HDD was a 6 GB Quantum Fireball drive witch is unfortunately riddled with bad sectors. Odd that such … giving it another inspection, I found a label witch listed a hardware configuration: WhatsApp Image 2020-07-13 … of your average romanian in the 90's. Witch is why there was a strong second hand …

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Re: So... I picked up and simple unassuming beige AT computer and it turned out to be this....

Posted on 2020-07-13, 16:30

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by darry

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… The HDD was a 6 GB Quantum Fireball drive witch is unfortunately riddled with bad sectors. Odd that such … giving it another inspection, I found a label witch listed a hardware configuration: WhatsApp Image 2020-07-13 … of your average romanian in the 90's. Witch is why there was a strong second hand …

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Re: So... I picked up and simple unassuming beige AT computer and it turned out to be this....

Posted on 2020-07-13, 16:34

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by Socket3

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… The HDD was a 6 GB Quantum Fireball drive witch is unfortunately riddled with bad sectors. Odd that such … giving it another inspection, I found a label witch listed a hardware configuration: WhatsApp Image 2020-07-13 … of your average romanian in the 90's. Witch is why there was a strong second hand …

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D-Fend Profiles and stuff

Posted on 2006-08-12, 11:46

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by ErikGG

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… build your own configuration without the hassle of knowing witch settings to add or not.) - Multiple DosBox version … support (Wizard knows witch one is the best and will use that one … Just Select your options you wish to adjust on witch profiles and go for it. By the end …

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Re: Intel vs AMD? Or should I say Intel and AMD?

Posted on 2011-07-06, 10:34

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by cdoublejj

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… have a 32nm out yet i think that bulldozer witch isn't looking so hot by the sounds of it. … 45nm if they ever touch it again. Speaking of witch I'm still wanting a 9550 or better for my … 776 machine, speaking of witch intel needs another long term high compatibility platform like …

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AWE32 detection issues

Posted on 2014-07-07, 09:02

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by Thomas Olivaux

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Hello there, I built a 486 VLB in witch I would love to install a good old Sound Blaster … (or any other I/O adress). I then installed a SB16 Value, witch works just fine, so I thought "my SB32 is dead". I … recentely bought an AWE32 PnP (CT3990) witch was supposed ok, and it give me the exact …

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

Posted on 2015-05-13, 13:28

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by kanecvr

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… the sound card - great for some older games witch have MIDI music but Speaker SFX (like Golden … the 233 MMX chip) 5 motherboards (two of witch ASUS intel chipset boards, but each had little annoying … quirks witch made me reconsider) 3 cases (first one was …

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

Posted on 2015-05-28, 11:59

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by kanecvr

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… it - Doom 3, Quake 4, Black and White 2 (witch for some reason keeps crashing on 64 bit OSes) etc … + PCI-E VIA Chipset Biostar P4M900-M4 board) witch does have some theoretical win9x support but it would … + Win3.11 * All it needs now is a voodoo1 witch I can't seem to find anyware. It's a little to …

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Re: CRT vs LCD?

Posted on 2015-06-23, 08:58

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by kanecvr

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… so I have to use the old HDMI to DVI trick witch looks PERFECT. I also tried a Thunderbolt -> DVI adapter, … use small CRT monitors for good image quality ( witch in my opinion are a pain in the neck … Then I traded the LCD for the 21" Eizo, witch despite great image quality, was so tiring I switched back …

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