Re: VOGONS Driver Library

Posted on 2020-12-04, 04:58

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by SquallStrife

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Hi all, I appreciate that more people take the time contribute drivers to the archive! I really really don't want to come across like an asshole, but please use meaningful names when uploading, and use the correct category. One of the biggest things that separates us from landfill sites like …

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Re: Orpheus Soundcard: a new DOS soundcard with SPDIF/OPL3/MPU support

Posted on 2020-12-03, 23:55

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Pierre32 wrote on 2020-12-03, 11:45: As for being on Blerbs, that could be a time availability thing, as there is far less production & editing required for the vlog style vids. They still get tons of views. This x1000

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Re: Orpheus Soundcard: a new DOS soundcard with SPDIF/OPL3/MPU support

Posted on 2020-12-03, 03:30

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by SquallStrife

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBNmt9Tz6VY Nice work, lads! 😁

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Re: Retro confessions. What are yours?

Posted on 2020-11-18, 00:37

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I dunno if I'd really consider most of these gripes/moans "confessions". So I'll go. I confess that when I moved from a house to a small apartment, I took no less than SIX functioning PowerMac G5's to the garbage dump's e-waste section. I tried selling them, I tried giving them away, and gave up out …

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Re: iPad Windows Alternative ?

Posted on 2020-11-17, 07:12

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by SquallStrife

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Ah yes this thread. The smugness on both sides of the conflict are endlessly amusing. Keep up the good work. You know who you are. ;) I will say this: A Dell XPS laptop issued to me by my employer in 2017 has developed quirks in the trackpad and keyboard. My girlfriend's 2018 Acer laptop has …

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Re: Is there such a thing as a usb-to-serial mouse converter?

Posted on 2020-10-13, 06:05

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by SquallStrife

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Pretty much yeah.

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Re: Is there such a thing as a usb-to-serial mouse converter?

Posted on 2020-10-13, 03:13

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by SquallStrife

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videogamer555 wrote on 2020-10-12, 21:08: (PCB factories do NOT make these at cheap prices for small quantities). You're right, $7 is pretty expensive for a production run of five 4-layer PCBs. Surely out of my reach.

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Re: 8-bit guy gets ultra-rare NOS IBM (prototype?) from Computer Reset then proceeds to obliterate it

Posted on 2020-10-02, 06:03

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by SquallStrife

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I wrote a lengthy post on his Patreon explaining what might have caused his continuity probe to appear "dead short" (though if you look closely, the meter says 15 ohms), he mentions this in the follow-up video. tl;dr My educated guess is it's either the primary of a transformer, or the degaussing …

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Re: FTP server for Vogonsdrivers.com

Posted on 2020-10-02, 04:26

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by SquallStrife

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If you must have a complete copy, a snapshot from June is available from archive.org: https://archive.org/details/vogons-drivers-snapshot-20200627 Thanks, that's actually fairly helpful. I mean it's not as elegant of a solution, but it will do. Do you know the "View Contents" trick? That at least …

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Re: 8-bit guy gets ultra-rare NOS IBM (prototype?) from Computer Reset then proceeds to obliterate it

Posted on 2020-10-02, 04:18

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by SquallStrife

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How he values the IBM has a resemblance of someone who simply doesn't value (old) PCs, which is something I have seen others write on forums like for instance vintagecomputing, where there are more people who are much more interested in computers which are not PCs. He's definitely a Commodore guy …

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Re: FTP server for Vogonsdrivers.com

Posted on 2020-10-01, 23:38

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by SquallStrife

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This has been asked before, and basically, it would cost me too much. If one person gets FTP access, everyone gets FTP access. If everyone has FTP access, some/many of those people will start mirroring the site, all the bandwidth is consumed, the site goes down, then nobody can access it. Earlier in …

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Re: New sound card project: AWE64 Legacy

Posted on 2020-09-13, 23:33

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by SquallStrife

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truemaster wrote on 2020-09-13, 08:00: the way i see the opl chip on this awe64 legacy board it will sound just like it did on sb16. problem is is cqm isolated muted if you like on all situations? When you initialise the card with UNISOUND, you move CQM to another port, or disable it entirely.

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Re: Fake 486 Processor?

Posted on 2020-09-10, 06:04

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by SquallStrife

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From that CPU Shack article : This particular chip was made in April 2007. Intel announced it would be discontinued by the end of 2007 so this is truly one of the last (Intel) 486s ever made. It is a SX911 &E5V2X version which is an SL Enhance (&E) 5 Volt Mobile (2X) processor. The 2X means that the …

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Re: Today is Windows 95's 25th Birthday. Share your memories.

Posted on 2020-09-04, 00:10

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by SquallStrife

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My first experience with Windows 95 was in the form of the second beta. My dad brought home a CD with some Microsoft product betas, and Win95 was one of them. It had the cool boot splash screen, with the colour-cycling > > > > triangles at the bottom, rather than the narrow bar of the final version. …

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Re: New sound card project: AWE64 Legacy

Posted on 2020-09-02, 16:23

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by SquallStrife

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The Tyan board has a 430HX chipset, no ACPI. (Need a TX for that, I think?)

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Re: New sound card project: AWE64 Legacy

Posted on 2020-09-02, 09:29

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by SquallStrife

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And, btw, the BIOS listing will only list PCI devices IRQs. (Non-PnP) ISA IRQs are H/W based, BIOS knows nothing about them (exception: those devices which are configured in BIOS, which is possible only in modern BIOSes - and usually includes the already mentioned COM and LPT ports). Aware of this. …

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Re: New sound card project: AWE64 Legacy

Posted on 2020-09-02, 07:41

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by SquallStrife

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Turns out yep, IRQ shenanigans. Disabled serial ports, moved HardMPU to IRQ3 using DIP switches on the back, works perfectly:

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Re: Vogons Driver Library Downloads throwing a 503 error

Posted on 2020-09-01, 11:58

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by SquallStrife

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I'm trialling some anti-abuse mechanisms, based on IP and some other client fingerprinting stuff. I've shortened the timeout and increased the number of downloads threshold. If you still can't download files, DM me your IP and I'll suss it out. Happened to me too. Pretty sure it's a quota thing, …

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Re: New sound card project: AWE64 Legacy

Posted on 2020-09-01, 05:18

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by SquallStrife

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Not that I could see: Also tried disabling caches to no avail 🙁 Could my computer just be too fast? It's an MMX 233.

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Re: New sound card project: AWE64 Legacy

Posted on 2020-08-31, 06:03

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by SquallStrife

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No, didn't spend too much time fiddling with Gateway to make it work. I'll add it to my list of things to try offline.

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