Re: The bracket thieves

Posted on 2021-06-03, 21:59

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by darry

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Unfortunatelly, I don't know what happened, but could not connect to the linked page: That site is not https , if you are using Chrome and accessing a site (such as Vogons) over https, you will find that Chrome will sometimes (not always) silently refuse to open an HTTP (non HTTPS) link that you …

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Re: Unknown brand AT Taiwan Cases - an attempt to gather information

Posted on 2021-06-03, 20:10

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I guess either there's not a lot more information to be obtained or that the cases aren't that interesting to most people, a shame in either case, I think they look stunning I find it interesting, but have nothing to contribute . Theoretically, someone who worked on sourcing inventory in a build to …

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Re: Monitors for MS-DOS gaming and certain size

Posted on 2021-06-03, 18:31

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by darry

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in Marvin \ Video

This thread, among others, discusses monitor suitability for DOS use . I use a Philips 252B9 with an OSSC connected to a Voodoo 3's VGA port for most DOS stuff. I also use a Geforce FX5900 for VESA supporting late DOS games when the Voodoo 3's becomes a bottleneck . This setup is, IMHO, about as …

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Re: Best most modern motherboard for Windows XP?

Posted on 2021-06-03, 05:23

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by darry

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

As alluded to by cyclone3d, is 2GHz a hard limit you want set or do you expect to not be able to go beyond that for whatever reason ? If you are will to use third party patches (potentially of dubious legality), you can go much further than 2GHz . See This https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=61 …

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Re: PIII Tualatin and other upgrades - Win98 Gaming PC

Posted on 2021-06-03, 04:40

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by darry

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in Marvin \ System Specs

UPDATE! Good News and Bad News. Bad News First: The Asus V7700 GeForce2 Pro 64 didn't do much of anything. In fact, the specific Asus drivers are crap. So bad in fact that they wouldn't let me use 4x AGP when installed\configured. The NVidia Detonator drivers get me back to where I was, but I'm not …

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Re: PIII Tualatin and other upgrades - Win98 Gaming PC

Posted on 2021-06-03, 04:36

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by darry

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in Marvin \ System Specs

Oh man I wish I had access to a plug and play tualatin board, even just for testing CPUs. Got a 1.1A that I don't know if it works, and there's a mighty tempting 1.2 on offer locally. Less locally there's a guy with a poorly described bunch of slotket stuff, but IDK if he will ship and whether …

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Re: Best most modern motherboard for Windows XP?

Posted on 2021-06-03, 04:22

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by darry

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

As alluded to by cyclone3d, is 2GHz a hard limit you want set or do you expect to not be able to go beyond that for whatever reason ? If you are will to use third party patches (potentially of dubious legality), you can go much further than 2GHz . See This https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=61 …

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Re: MS-DOS 5.0 Complete Reference Manual Availability?

Posted on 2021-06-03, 04:05

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by darry

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Hi, I have been searching for the complete reference manual of MS-DOS 5.0. I saw one in Internet Archive, but it's not complete. Please PM me if you have any information on where I can get this. Thank you. Is this what you are looking for ? cover.jpg spine.jpg document_number.jpg This came bundled …

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PSA about using the very affordable (used), but IMHO very good DMX 6Fire USB external sound card under Windows 10 x64 .

Posted on 2021-06-02, 21:07

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in Marvin \ Sound

The bad : - Drivers are here (Clicking link will not work in most modern browsers Chrome if viewing vogons through https as link is http rather than https. In order to access, one must copy link address and paste into new browser tab/window) http://terratec.ultron.info/Audio/DMX_6fire_USB/Updates/ …

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Re: Sarien 0.7.0 - no sound?

Posted on 2021-06-02, 18:19

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by darry

in DOSBox Games/Apps

in DOSBox Games/Apps

Sometimes, when you are looking for a Sarien encounter, nothing else will do . ;) More seriously, that code base was classified "Status: Alpha" when it was merged into ScummVM something like 15 years ago (and has likely since greatly improved since then), so I so I doubt you will find many people …

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Re: Does "distribute" mean 'selling' in software EULA legalese of the 90s?

Posted on 2021-06-02, 17:39

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Full disclosure : I am not a lawyer, so this is just my opinion. My personal opinion on that EULA (of which I have complete copy as I have a licensed copy of the game purchased from GOG) is that it is confusingly written and possibly self contradicting . The sentence "The distributor of any New …

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Re: Going to try getting digital audio (S/PDIF) out of an SC-88VL and maybe an SC-55

Posted on 2021-06-01, 17:45

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by darry

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in Marvin \ Sound

The problem is the way data is output, Japanese love to use right justified formats, where you must capture all the bits or you are missing the MSBs and nothing supports formats other than RJ16 pretty much. Only with Philips I2S or Left Justified format do the LSBs get dropped, so you can support …

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Re: Going to try getting digital audio (S/PDIF) out of an SC-88VL and maybe an SC-55

Posted on 2021-06-01, 04:16

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in Marvin \ Sound

At least it works again ~ I have used DIT4096/4192 successfully. But there's need to do format coversion since nothing supports the 18bit output and that's what the extra parts are doing on the links. Direct connections should still work, just without proper fromat conversion you'll have garbage …

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Re: Going to try getting digital audio (S/PDIF) out of an SC-88VL and maybe an SC-55

Posted on 2021-05-31, 05:30

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in Marvin \ Sound

Sorry if I have not posted pictures of damage yet. I have been able to run a bodge wire between a via and the BCLK pin on the DAC chip, which restored analogue audio. I soldered the wire to the proper pin on the DAC and, shamefully, as I did not see myself as being able to solder to the via, I just …

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Re: Wanting to buy an old Sound Blaster and I'm messed up but the models

Posted on 2021-05-30, 04:41

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If you are using Linux and recording audio rather than playing games under Windows or even DOS, why do you even want a Sound Blaster specifically ? There are plenty of old, well supported (under Linux) professional grade PCI cards to be found for very low prices . They will have better SNR, lower …

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Re: Digital cameras

Posted on 2021-05-30, 01:31

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Oh yes, Canon! That reminds me of alternate firmwares.. Some digital cameras can load them via SD (or install them, even). There's quite a little community, here! Such an alternate firmware adds a lot of extras, some of which are not related to cameras/images at all. Long story short, they turn an …

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Re: Going to try getting digital audio (S/PDIF) out of an SC-88VL and maybe an SC-55

Posted on 2021-05-29, 05:42

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in Marvin \ Sound

That is unfortunate... The fix should be easy though and it will help to use thinnest possible wires to prevent things like this from happening (I have been using wires found in 80 conductor IDE cables but there are thinner things out there too that would be even better to use). If all else fails I …

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Re: Digital cameras

Posted on 2021-05-29, 05:24

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I tried to find good used cameras and they sucked, locally but the best one I could find was Samsung S3 which cost me $25 and did well on this macro with anti-shake on and high res (around 3000x2000). Is there very reasonable, as in cheap, cellphone that do well with this and cheap, I like large …

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Re: Going to try getting digital audio (S/PDIF) out of an SC-88VL and maybe an SC-55

Posted on 2021-05-29, 04:41

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by darry

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Well, sucks to be me . I soldered a wire to a chip pin to tap 5v and was able to solder one of my 4-channel level shifters . After that I managed to lift the pad at point C32 and cut the trace that leads to the DAC . I am pretty sure I have found some vias where the signal is present but, at this …

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Re: Is it possible to activate retail copies of Windows XP home is 2021?

Posted on 2021-05-29, 01:51

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by darry

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Some retailers had activator scripts in their recovery partitions. Last time I could remember seeing one for a Dell laptop some years ago. I'm not sure if they exist somewhere on the internet and if so... it's possible for someone to try one on a non-retail version of windows Xp. Not sure if it'll …

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