Re: MK1869 and MK1869 XTREME : new soundcards with ESS1869 and ES690 or Interwave chips

Posted on 2025-04-19, 05:42

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by keropi

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As of yesterday the 1st batch of MK1869 cards has been sold out, thank you everyone for your ongoing support~! 2nd batch preparations have begin

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Re: MK1869 and MK1869 XTREME : new soundcards with ESS1869 and ES690 or Interwave chips

Posted on 2025-04-18, 16:02

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by keropi

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Damn .. so no forcing it to use There cannot be implementation faults anyways, the chip interfaces to ISA one way and it either works or not. I wonder why this fails though, could it be something related to ess control port 600something? (Unisound reports it but cannot be changed)

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Re: MK1869 and MK1869 XTREME : new soundcards with ESS1869 and ES690 or Interwave chips

Posted on 2025-04-18, 13:26

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by keropi

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[...] PVI-486SP3 [...] that mobo sure is special, IIRC with Orpheus2 you need first to initialize interwave and then crystal for it to work properly launching with "IT S12" does nothing? tried also specifying address/irq/dma? also if you use unisound maybe it's the same issue with certain apogee …

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Re: Homemade MCB-1 for the LAPC-I.

Posted on 2025-04-18, 08:37

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by keropi

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I will retrieve my MCB-1 from storage and check it, will take some days though

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Re: MK1869 and MK1869 XTREME : new soundcards with ESS1869 and ES690 or Interwave chips

Posted on 2025-04-17, 16:08

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by keropi

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Weird, I have tried the game with various ESS chips from ES688 to ES1938 (Solo 1) and all behaved like that. Tried with various motherboard chipsets too, mainly SiS 471, Intel 430VX/HX and Intel 440BX. my 233mmx is a VIA MVP3 system... will try it again in case I do not remember correctly - there …

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Re: MK1869 and MK1869 XTREME : new soundcards with ESS1869 and ES690 or Interwave chips

Posted on 2025-04-17, 13:22

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by keropi

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Finally found another game for which ESS card is a inferior choice - Little Big Adventure 1. The game has SB and SB Pro drivers but those seem to be partially broken. If a speech starts it cuts off any currently playing sound effect and stereo effects (in the case of SB Pro mode) has weird stereo …

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Re: MK1869 and MK1869 XTREME : new soundcards with ESS1869 and ES690 or Interwave chips

Posted on 2025-04-16, 14:55

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by keropi

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CHA0SHACKER wrote on 2025-04-16, 13:54: @keropi any ETA on when the MK1869 Extreme will be ready? need to order the protos alongside the 2nd batch of MK1869 and pcmidis, we will do that either this weekend or the next ... so it will be a month or so extra before XTREME is actually available - it …

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Re: MK1869 and MK1869 XTREME : new soundcards with ESS1869 and ES690 or Interwave chips

Posted on 2025-04-16, 12:39

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by keropi

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Thank you all for the support, I hope the card will bring you countless hours of retro gaming joy 😀

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Re: MK1869 and MK1869 XTREME : new soundcards with ESS1869 and ES690 or Interwave chips

Posted on 2025-04-15, 17:00

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by keropi

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Heh, it's not exactly new info. I posted about it here almost five years ago, when I got my ESS 1868F. [...] ah I have read these posts ofcourse back when we were researching the ESS chips... but ofcourse forgotten about it LOL that info might sound trivial but having it here can save lots of …

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Re: MK1869 and MK1869 XTREME : new soundcards with ESS1869 and ES690 or Interwave chips

Posted on 2025-04-15, 16:03

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by keropi

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Phil just released a video review of the MK1869. He covers the card in great detail, though I do have small note regarding his experiences when using the native AudioDrive mode in Tomb Raider and Descent. As Phil correctly observed, digital audio becomes more filtered when using the AudioDrive mode …

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Re: 486DLC internal cache and Speedsys

Posted on 2025-04-14, 19:12

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by keropi

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RayeR wrote on 2025-04-14, 00:26: Here's the hotfix for 486DLC/SLC, so I finally got it benchmarked 😀 thanks for the patched version! great work! time to update it in my setups 😁

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Re: MK1869 and MK1869 XTREME : new soundcards with ESS1869 and ES690 or Interwave chips

Posted on 2025-04-14, 15:12

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by keropi

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apparently the packages to AU were blocked by the export center because of "included batteries" and they are being sent back this mess will be sorted out, still it is an added delay - someone in the post needs a slap or something :\ will update the affected people as things get more clear in the …

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Re: MK1869 and MK1869 XTREME : new soundcards with ESS1869 and ES690 or Interwave chips

Posted on 2025-04-14, 13:14

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by keropi

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The email that you had sent out never mentioned that I had to ask for a tracking number - the way that it is worded is that you'd send the tracking number after it has shipped. So what is going on here? It's been over two weeks since I paid. maybe AU demands now something more than CN22 - this is …

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Re: MK1869 and MK1869 XTREME : new soundcards with ESS1869 and ES690 or Interwave chips

Posted on 2025-04-13, 20:46

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by keropi

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Well these jacks only have this color ring and no colored body... Metal one is too different so good for midi jack 😁

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Re: MK1869 and MK1869 XTREME : new soundcards with ESS1869 and ES690 or Interwave chips

Posted on 2025-04-13, 19:40

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by keropi

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vutt wrote on 2025-04-13, 19:32: I see very heavy emphasis on black-yellow-gold look, but what in the God's name happened with jacks? Did you two have creative argument and decided meet in the middle? So both color coded and metal one in final design... 🤣 what? what is the issue exactly with the …

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

Posted on 2025-04-13, 06:01

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by keropi

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pete8475 wrote on 2025-04-12, 19:47: To the Amiga experts, I have no experience with Amiga hardware, is there anything I should do to prevent damage like removing old batteries or anything? the A2000 also has a varta battery - and you never know what the A1000 might have inside... better just open …

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Re: Looking for version 1.20 BIOS for the ECS WH386SX-D motherboard

Posted on 2025-04-12, 16:13

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by keropi

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time for a small bump just in case...

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Re: 386SX pin-compatible upgrades

Posted on 2025-04-12, 16:08

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by keropi

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doom fps are high detail with the status bar visible , if that is what you mean and I suspect this is where the L2 cache is showing off

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Re: 386SX pin-compatible upgrades

Posted on 2025-04-12, 14:28

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by keropi

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so this was a cacheless 386sx right? still good results! edit: I have also tested a SXLC2 upgrade , I did it on this mobo: https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/ecs-wh386sx-d-5-isa that came with a Cyrix 486slc and also 64k of cache, bios and mobo with proper L1/L2 support and I used an ISA CL-5434 …

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Re: 386SX pin-compatible upgrades

Posted on 2025-04-12, 12:12

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by keropi

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I have to revise all what I stated here before. I soldered in a tx486sxlc2 50 with 8kb cache. Results @ 60MHz: NU SI: 88,2 3Dbench: 37,2 Doom low: 31,3 fps Wolf3d: 67fps I have to admin that I am flashed a bit :) these are some pretty nice results! nice :D you state 60mhz, this is 30*2 right? what …

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