Re: A noob and XT-CF Lite woes

Posted on 2021-02-26, 10:33

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by keropi

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I've had great success with the transcent 133x ones - newer ones that are indeed way faster have issues with older systems - they either take too long to "drop their speed" or plainly do not support slow connections from what I have read and thus you can get all kinds of errors... Try with a DOS …

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Re: A noob and XT-CF Lite woes

Posted on 2021-02-26, 10:18

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by keropi

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

what kind of CF cards are these? judging from the size they are not the 400x 333x super fast kind that can be problematic in old systems... weird!

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Re: A noob and XT-CF Lite woes

Posted on 2021-02-26, 10:06

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by keropi

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

have you tried running fdisk /mbr on the problematic CF cards?

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Re: Who could repair a Yamaha DB50XG daughterboard ?

Posted on 2021-02-24, 15:42

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by keropi

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Yeah send it to Tiido for fixing skyfoxpp

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-02-24, 08:49

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by keropi

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

[...] In any case, I picked up a Zoltrix Audio Performer / (Audio Excel Pro 16 ? - according to the readme in the driver) which is a Sound Blaster Pro 1.0 clone but with the ability to use a waveblaster type card from the looks of it. [...] another great find! also LOL : every "important" chip on …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-02-24, 00:17

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by keropi

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

^ oh wow , 6x CT1330A - you don't see the dual-opl2 PROs that often and now we see six of them 🤣

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Re: GET OFF MY LAWN (the YouTube channel)

Posted on 2021-02-22, 16:47

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by keropi

in Release Announcements

in Release Announcements

hey nice channel! keep up the good work!

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Re: Volo's Gamepad to PS/2 Adapter. Device discussion (official thread) (02.02.2021 production update)

Posted on 2021-02-21, 21:00

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by keropi

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

wtf!!! hope all works out in the end!

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Re: Custom made, 50ns, FPM, Simm 30, memory modules with parity.

Posted on 2021-02-21, 16:42

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by keropi

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

these look nice! Will you sell any? interested as well

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Re: New solutions to the ATX -5V problem

Posted on 2021-02-21, 14:21

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by keropi

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

maybe some network stuff use -12v I am not even sure as well what is the prize of these? can you add it?

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Re: New solutions to the ATX -5V problem

Posted on 2021-02-21, 13:56

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by keropi

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

this looks very nice , how do you generate the -5v ?

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

Posted on 2021-02-20, 13:40

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by keropi

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

[...]as much as it's no real answer for why they went for all that remarking work[...] Because someone sometime asked for later revision chips and new datecodes and the chinese suppliers started rebadging with these details thinking the chips are more valuable/desirable when in reality noone …

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Re: ORPHINIT: New Init Software For The Orpheus Sound Card

Posted on 2021-02-19, 18:28

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by keropi

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

640K!enough wrote on 2021-02-19, 15:17: [...] Just to be sure, can you post the FF0.INI that you used? I have downloaded Orphinit from the Orpheus website and edited ORPHEUS.INI , the only change in the ORPHEUS.INI is from "CtrlBase=538" to "CtrlBase=FF0" , nothing else...

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Re: ORPHINIT: New Init Software For The Orpheus Sound Card

Posted on 2021-02-19, 10:21

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by keropi

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

I can confirm that 0.53b works with WSS software , tested with Turrican2 and it's fine using FF0 I get this: does this help at all?

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Re: ORPHINIT: New Init Software For The Orpheus Sound Card

Posted on 2021-02-18, 17:31

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by keropi

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

I will do those tests tomorrow when I get back to the office where the Olivetti system is 😀

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

Posted on 2021-02-18, 13:59

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by keropi

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

I received my package today, thanks Shock__ I will wait for someone to potentially post a mouser basket before I order stuff to solder the cards, my spare time is very limited nowdays :\

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Re: ORPHINIT: New Init Software For The Orpheus Sound Card

Posted on 2021-02-18, 11:27

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by keropi

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

I have an Olivetti M4 464S system, 486/66 with VLB, UMC chipset and that "winbios" from AMI. Indeed with Orphinit 0.52b I get a freeze and 120 cards detected on some weird port: https://i.imgur.com/YPzYobD.jpg but 0.53b posted above worked fine for me and I get fm/pcm with xatax/keen4/dynablaster ( …

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Re: Amstrad MegaPC - Hopeful Resto Build

Posted on 2021-02-18, 10:33

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by keropi

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

you can swap the ps2 headers without issues so you can try if the keyboard will work when connected to the mouse connector could be a wire issue

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Re: Lands of Lore (CD version) General MIDI port changer

Posted on 2021-02-18, 06:42

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by keropi

in DOS

in DOS

Nice, thanks for sharing Carlos!

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Re: Project: Mini functional Windows 3.1 standard mode/ svga 256 color/ 32bit fat.

Posted on 2021-02-17, 14:00

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by keropi

in Milliways

in Milliways

I have never heard of LZ-DOS before - I've been using for years the "DOS" I extracted from 98SE and did not have any weird FAT32 issues so far I will try to search it and learn more

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