Re: PCI or PCI Express Sound Card for DOS Sound Blaster Sound Effects working on Intel Sandy Bridge Z68 or newer chipset

Posted on 2022-01-20, 23:28

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by NJRoadfan

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If you really need LPT access on a modern platform, there are still motherboards being made with LPT headers. Usually its on the low end side of things though.

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Re: Building a new (old) computer.

Posted on 2022-01-20, 02:34

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by NJRoadfan

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The date sticker screams Gateway 2000. Its likely the Animga board linked above.

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Re: PCI or PCI Express Sound Card for DOS Sound Blaster Sound Effects working on Intel Sandy Bridge Z68 or newer chipset

Posted on 2022-01-19, 01:55

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by NJRoadfan

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Both the PCI and PCIe specifications along with the companion bridge specifications cover legacy VGA devices and address decoding. It's definitely a special case that the bus was designed around.

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Re: Sound Blessed / Sound Cidblues (chinese PCIe SoundBlaster Live)

Posted on 2022-01-16, 00:39

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by NJRoadfan

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Creative still sells and supports a PCIe card that is based on the EMU10K chip. Depending on the market it's called the SoundBlaster Audigy 5 or Audigy Rx. Note: Creative also sells a SoundBlaster Audigy Fx which is a simple HDA based sound card. It's no better than onboard audio solutions.

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Re: PCIe devices on Windows 98 SE

Posted on 2022-01-03, 12:24

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by NJRoadfan

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Microsoft deprecated DirectDraw acceleration a very long time ago. The focus was accelerating 3D functions and using those functions as much as possible with compositing windows managers (DWM). When Vista and the WDDM video drivers appeared, 2D video performance TANKED because the WDDM 1.0 …

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Re: AGP to PCI adapters - any PCB designers here willing to make one?

Posted on 2021-12-16, 00:03

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by NJRoadfan

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Yeah, that's exactly why I was asking. AGP era hardware isn't going to last forever and the vast majority of AIW cards out there are AGP. The PCIe AIW cards aren't very common.

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Re: AGP to PCI adapters - any PCB designers here willing to make one?

Posted on 2021-12-15, 19:03

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by NJRoadfan

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Anyone with one of these adapters have an AGP ATI All-in-Wonder card? Curious if the card including video capture works on them. No real need for the 3D part to work properly.

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Re: Anybody has info on this monitor: Reuters CMV123NE?

Posted on 2021-12-03, 02:52

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by NJRoadfan

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RGB without sync is very strange I had old monitors that supported sync on green, combined sync and separate sync but never one with BNC that only had sync on green The settings otherwise look like a broadcast monitor that supported all known TTL standards. Normally a screen like that would be …

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Re: Anybody has info on this monitor: Reuters CMV123NE?

Posted on 2021-12-02, 18:33

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by NJRoadfan

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The pinout for the DB-9 in analog mode is in the NEC manual above. Wire up an adapter/cable and find out.

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Re: Anybody has info on this monitor: Reuters CMV123NE?

Posted on 2021-12-02, 14:37

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by NJRoadfan

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It's very possible this is based on the same chassis as the NEC Multisync or Multisync II monitors.

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Re: Looking for 4:3 DVI/HDMI Capture hardware

Posted on 2021-11-27, 01:06

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by NJRoadfan

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The Epiphan cards have a programmable EDID function in the drivers. You can tell your source whatever kind of monitor you have connected.

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Re: New 486 EISA + VLB build.

Posted on 2021-11-22, 22:16

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by NJRoadfan

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Sounds like some weird chipset limitation or the BIOS isn't properly updating the e820 memory tables. I know the SiS EISA chipset and AMIBIOS has no problems with RAM above 64MB.

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Re: VGA Capture Thread

Posted on 2021-11-16, 17:27

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by NJRoadfan

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XSplit should work with any DirectShow capture device, which the Datapath and Epiphan cards are. Technically you don't really need the OSSC if you have a Datapath card and are capturing from VGA sources (just use a DVI-I to VGA adapter). I would stick to 60Hz output though, makes life easier for …

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Re: Windows NT 4.0 running on real new hardware (Ryzen 3900x) [updated]

Posted on 2021-11-05, 11:23

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by NJRoadfan

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The UniATA driver should allow the onboard SATA ports to be used by NT4. PCIe's architecture is more hub and spoke vs. conventional PCI. There are a ton of PCI-to-PCI bridges visible in legacy OSes to deal with it. I wouldn't be surprised if the bus numbers have some relation to IOMMU grouping seen …

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Re: Windows NT 4.0 running on real new hardware (Ryzen 3900x)

Posted on 2021-10-28, 12:38

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by NJRoadfan

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I managed to get NT4 running on Core2 era hardware (PCIe video and SATA) with no problem. I followed the multiple step process to slipstream SP6a+post SP updates along with the UniATA driver onto CD. Having UniATA seems very important on AHCI only systems. The NT4 kernel is much better behaved on …

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Re: Optivision OPV9100 MPEG2 decoder for EISA bus

Posted on 2021-10-19, 22:43

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by NJRoadfan

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SGI used EISA in a few systems. https://techpubs.jurassic.nl/manuals/0650/dev … _html/ch18.html Looks like some custom glue logic to connect the Intel 82350DT EISA chipset to the CPU bus. There is a really REALLY amusing error in that link though.

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Re: New 486 EISA + VLB build.

Posted on 2021-10-19, 22:37

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by NJRoadfan

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The Adaptec board may not work properly with the HiNT Caesar chipset. One of the things that was cut out was properly bus mastering support which the 2740W uses. The older AHA-1740 would work with CFG file changes, check old usenet posts.

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Re: ASUS P5A and P5AB problems

Posted on 2021-10-01, 14:17

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by NJRoadfan

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My P5A refused to run a K6-2 550Mhz CPU for some reason. Meanwhile the P5A-B I had ran it just fine.

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Re: Recovering data from old DDS3 tapes; I have a tape drive, but usability questions

Posted on 2021-09-12, 19:53

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by NJRoadfan

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I've written DDS2 tapes using a plain old DDS drive and it worked fine. The header your dump shows is not TAR though, it was likely created with Arcada/Seagate/Whoever owns them today Backup Exec on Windows.

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Re: BIOS Wanted for A.I.R. 486EI EISA motherboard

Posted on 2021-09-04, 23:45

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by NJRoadfan

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That's likely the latest revision of the 486EI. Chips are dated 1994-95 for the most part. The real question is what revision/core BIOS did the unbranded AIR 486EI boards come with? Also checking ebay, there appears to be a DEC OEM motherboard with the SiS 406/411 and a Phoenix BIOS (also too old …

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