First post, by ratfink
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- Oldbie
So here's my latest PC, bit of a waste of time in terms of games but it's been fun getting it to work:
Abit BP6
dual Celeron 500's
768mb pc133
GF2 GTS, with 44-something drivers
mirosound pcm20 [yes! it works! just hates my 386 board, but works fine here, except the radio application doesn't run nicely and seems to mess up the driver. is an improvement though cos when i first installed it, it seemed to uninstall the card and then complain there wasn't one...lots of trial and error with this...]. The midi has very nice piano and strings, not so good on wind I think, and it's a bit spartan-sounding on eletronic stuff like the doom theme. I'm assuming this is the opl4 that's playing the midi and appears as "synth" in the volume control panel.
running NT4 SP6.
The midi works and I get the usual windows sounds, not tried quake 1/2/3 yet, that's about the only games I will use here I think. Nice smooth sound, quite a surprise when I thought it was dead 😜.
I tried to run the hard drive on the highpoint controller but nt4 wouldn't play ball [have tried 2000 before on this and that works fine]. Now I've tried nt4 after a break of many years... it's so unfriendly I'm hooked. Must have got soft because it used to seem normal.
No friendly device manager! 🤣.
