Re: ABIT TX5 PS2 Problem.

Posted on 2011-01-02, 22:59

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I have this board and has a 2x4 row PS2 pinout. I would like some help regarding how to connect the PS2 port in the MOBO. I tried again some combinations but no luck. How many pins does the header have? 4? 5? 6? 8? Recently had a similiar problem with my VL/I-486SV2GX4 but figured it out after a …

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Re: Modern motherboard with ISA slot

Posted on 2011-01-02, 22:55

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Oh yes, I remember seeing that while browsing through that site for making a Genesis flash cartridge and converting an NES into a VS. System arcade board(awesome site)! Thing is, I have absolutely no idea where to get those damn AdLib cards for cheap. I saw one on eBay go for around $100US, and …

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Re: New Member and new 486 Build

Posted on 2011-01-02, 16:24

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Welcome aboard 😀 That case is really neat, I have a very similar one for my oldest DOS machine. Also pretty cool you stuck with a 8x CD-Rom ... sadly all the old ones I had left, died already forcing me to use "unauthentic" 40x drives.

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Re: What does an Ad Lib sound card sound like?

Posted on 2011-01-02, 16:08

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It's pretty much what the mole said :) Can't do much wrong there anyways, considering the original AdLib is just an OPL2 + corresponding Amp stuck on the ISA bus (technically it's so easy, one can even drive the card on an LPT port ... external power supply required tho). Any card with a YM3812 or …

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Re: Innovation SSI 2001 re-engineering and/or conclusions

Posted on 2011-01-02, 14:03

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Well, I would prefer using a software emulation engine as modern SID replacement. Current implementation such as in JSIDPlay2 have made a considerable progress in comparison to earlier emulations. You can even choose on the fly what filter characteristic your emulated 6581 should use. ( http:// …

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Re: Modern motherboard with ISA slot

Posted on 2011-01-02, 08:22

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I know one thing these boards could potentially be good for: emulating arcade games with a YM3812 or YMF262 using any SoundBlaster with a discrete YM3812 or YMF262 or a sound card from a competing manufacturer with a discrete YM3812 or YMF262. Old versions of MAME(pre v0.60) have support for sound …

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Re: Innovation SSI 2001 re-engineering and/or conclusions

Posted on 2011-01-02, 05:36

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A similar process was done on vintage-computing.com. They created an 8 bit IDE controller from scratch! Well, this isn't exactly what I'd call from scratch ;) Just like how doing a page in a coloring book isn't exactly drawing a picture. How about mixing this design into the card? SID chips are …

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Re: Modern motherboard with ISA slot

Posted on 2011-01-01, 16:03

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Makes you wonder how the ISA slot is actually implemented, considering there are industrial grade PCI to ISA solutions, which are supposed to work ... yet all appear to be quite hack-ish. Otherwise, there's always the PICMG standard/formfactor or however you wanna call it. Apart from that ... what …

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Re: carmageddon -hires slow framerate

Posted on 2011-01-01, 08:22

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Personally I found the best solution for Carmageddon is GliDOS + vdmsound Runs nicely at a full framerate, gives you texture filtering and custom resolutions, already worked fine on my former desktop (AMD64-3500+ and GF6600GT), while the hires version under DOSBox was still crawling. Still has a few …

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Re: Innovation SSI 2001 re-engineering and/or conclusions

Posted on 2011-01-01, 08:00

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Penya's card is the one with the "incomplete" ISA connector and an amplifier based upon the original C64 scheme. Also before I forget ... if anyone wants to see just another reason why the card never took off ... take a look at "Computer Gaming World Issue 63" which has a review (including a preview …

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Innovation SSI 2001 re-engineering and/or conclusions

Posted on 2011-01-01, 07:47

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So let's start the year with something that might possibly be interesting for a few of you guys, as written in my introduction post. I've recently found someone who is in possession of above card and might even trade/donate/sell the card to me. Considering the card seems to have virtually ceased to …

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Re: More accurate MUNT (MT32 emulation) patch

Posted on 2010-12-31, 22:48

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Awesome 😀 Also seems to unbreak the Theme for Stunts/4D Sports Racing. Still sounds a bit off (sadly can't compare it to an original MT32) but otherwise this sounds really great compared to earlier builds of MUNT

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Re: Windows 2000, what can it be used for?

Posted on 2010-12-30, 14:52

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Still used Win2K til roughly 18 months ago. Still worked as good as Windows XP back then, even tho software devs were stopping to support it ... unless you're planning to play recent games on the PC you're gonna use, both 2k and XP are pretty much on par, even tho 2k has a slightly longer boot up …

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Re: Getting rid of physical floppies ... how about hardware emulators?

Posted on 2010-12-28, 16:36

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Using images should be the way to go yeah, that's what I already do. It's just annoying as hell that each time I try to write back floppies, half of them are broken. Last time I wanted to run memtest86+ the 4th time I wrote in on floppy it finally worked. To be honest, it puzzles me quite a bit why …

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Getting rid of physical floppies ... how about hardware emulators?

Posted on 2010-12-28, 07:37

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So let's be honest here, as much as floppies are part of the retro charme, just as much do they suck (by now). While loud and slow drives, along with the joy of spending hors with swapping physical medias, can be beared with, those can be quite a pain, as they slowly but certainly seem to reach …

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Re: Since I couldn't find a place to introduce ... I'll just "show off" for now

Posted on 2010-12-26, 20:45

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Nice, classic baby AT tower btw. what's that Power Mac/Mac Pto wannabe case next to it? That's pretty much a Mac Pro wannabe tower, yeah ... just in black and actually quite horrible to work with, as it's manufactured just cheap. It's the home of my former desktop which has been degraded into a dvd …

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Re: Since I couldn't find a place to introduce ... I'll just "show off" for now

Posted on 2010-12-26, 10:34

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New case for SYS1: here Nice, classic baby AT tower btw. what's that Power Mac/Mac Pto wannabe case next to it? That's pretty much a Mac Pro wannabe tower, yeah ... just in black and actually quite horrible to work with, as it's manufactured just cheap. It's the home of my former desktop which has …

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Re: Since I couldn't find a place to introduce ... I'll just "show off" for now

Posted on 2010-12-25, 23:59

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New case for SYS1: here

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Re: Since I couldn't find a place to introduce ... I'll just "show off" for now

Posted on 2010-12-24, 02:38

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:D I have some Amigas too. Not had'em when they were THE computer to have, but they are here now and I use them from time to time, when I get bored of WinUAE. A500 stock, will have some surgery to extend her to 1 Mb. A1200, 8 Mb ram expansion, 1 Gb CF card via CF-IDE adapter. And from various Atari …

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Re: Since I couldn't find a place to introduce ... I'll just "show off" for now

Posted on 2010-12-23, 03:03

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Mainboard: OEM clone of the Intel VS440FX without onboard sound (this one actually is ATX already) And that board isn't an "OEM clone", it's an Intel-made-for-Gateway version of the VS440FX. Intel designed and manufactured motherboards for years for various big-box OEMs. Most notably Gateway, …

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