Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

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Won this rare in existence board. A Super micro P54VL-PCI Socket 5 board. Screenshot_20201129-211042.png Nice. I am not a VLB amateur myself, but I can appreciate the rarity of a PCI/VLB combo board with socket 5 . Supermicro had only been in business for a few months when this was produced . I …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

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I found a Sega Power Base Converter for 10 CAN$ at a local pawn shop!!! Now I have to find my Sega Master System games . How many other additions to the Genesis do you have? Can you create a full abomination? LOL, abomination is indeed the right word to describe a fully accessorized Genesis. I have …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on Yesterday, 22:42

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by darry

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I found a Sega Power Base Converter for 10 CAN$ at a local pawn shop!!! Now I have to find my Sega Master System games .

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Re: Technically impressive FM synth music

Posted on Yesterday, 16:27

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by darry

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hyperrmachine wrote on Yesterday, 13:55: The demo songs of the AdLib Gold are pretty impressive. Here's my favorite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5HCwY8odxc It is nice, but not OPL3 only. The percussions are PCM, AFAICT .

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Re: DOS 6.22 and Windows 98 SE Multi Install

Posted on Yesterday, 03:33

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by darry

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Then should I just install freedos and windows or just windows with 7.1 built in. People say there are some issues with 7.1 compatibility. I use Windows 98 SE's DOS 7.1 exclusively for DOS and have never had an issue with applications/games even when Windows 98 SE was current (not with Windows 95's …

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Re: PC Chips M912 ver:1.7 green pcb black isa [ UPDATE IMPORTANT!]

Posted on Yesterday, 03:11

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by darry

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Can I ask if you ever got the bios flashed and if so what tool did you use to do it? I've been banging my head off a wall trying to upgrade my M912 with real cache. Installed 1MB (only cost me £20) but it just hangs at post. If I change the jumpers to only use 1 bank it works fine at 512kb. Oddly …

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Re: DOS 6.22 and Windows 98 SE Multi Install

Posted on Yesterday, 02:54

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by darry

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DOS 6.22 cannot create partitions larger than 2 GB. You can install Windows on this, and then create additional data partitions, but it's not ideal. Then should I just install freedos and windows or just windows with 7.1 built in. People say there are some issues with 7.1 compatibility. I use …

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Re: Retro confessions. What are yours?

Posted on Yesterday, 02:14

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by darry

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More retro confessions: I know I have mentioned this but, am I the only one who thinks Guybrush in the first Monkey Island game actually looks handsome? Looks more on drugs to me! One does not exclude the other . IMHO, he does look rather baked in the picture . To be honest, he doesn't look ugly, …

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Re: DOS 6.22 and Windows 98 SE Multi Install

Posted on Yesterday, 01:54

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by darry

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If you don't mind me asking, why do you want to have DOS 6.22 ? Is there anything you plan to run that you know for a fact will not run under Windows 98 SE's DOS 7.1 ? Except Windows 3.x, I do not know of anything that runs under DOS 6.22 , but not under DOS 7.1 (EDIT except maybe some low level …

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Re: New Waveblaster card : Reptile Paradise - Yucatan FX

Posted on Yesterday, 00:39

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by darry

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People must understand that Yucatan or Cancun FX were not made to be a Roland clone. They were made for enthusiasts, not professionals. So some sounds may be differently equalized. More bassier than original Roland. There may be also some other changes. I just say that this card is excellent for …

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Re: New Waveblaster card : Reptile Paradise - Yucatan FX

Posted on 2020-11-28, 21:50

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by darry

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There is a pretty good third party Sound Canvas soundbank for X2. That said YucatanFX sounds close enough to be casually indistinguishable from a real SC for me. I can be quite close, except with some files where an instrument or two can sound off . This excerpt from my favorite Duke Nukem 3D piece …

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Re: New Waveblaster card : Reptile Paradise - Yucatan FX

Posted on 2020-11-28, 14:08

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by darry

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This comes just as I'm about to gift me something nice for the holidays, but I'm still a bit undecided whether it will be a X2 or a Yucatan FX. I aim for the closest experience to a SCB-55 but I find the prices for the actual thing a bit steep these days. I've listened all the demos of Yucatan FX I …

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Re: running second.exe demo headless w/o v-sync

Posted on 2020-11-27, 22:28

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by darry

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I was all happy to install that samsung 23" as it could auto-switch from 16:9 and 4:3 mode profile hence seemed an interesting upgrade for my shared side-modern-computer(16:9) / vintage-computers(4:3). The dream was short lived when I realized that this screen would auto shut off after some times …

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Re: How to retrieve the content of an old backup made of 4 rar files

Posted on 2020-11-27, 19:45

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by darry

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Errius wrote on 2020-11-27, 19:27: In the old days you would run echo d | debug CC12345A to see the first few bytes of the file. What's the modern equivalent of this? A hex editor . I like XVI . It works in Windows SE, Windows 10 and any thing in between, I imagine . It may work in Windows 95 or …

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Re: Internet Archive

Posted on 2020-11-27, 16:35

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by darry

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Sorry to burst someone's bubble but the programs on this site should be considered abandonware and should not have support from Dosbox forums as per the rules. I am of the opinion that the only linking to the Internet Archive that should be allowed is to website archived data that was public before …

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Re: ATX PSU with -5v

Posted on 2020-11-27, 10:25

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by darry

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Anyone got any hot leads on one of these, preferably as cheap as possible? Or a way to mod an ATX PSU with the missing pin to supplying -5v? (Soldering is fine by me) And yes I do need the -5v, for a GUS Max 2.1 If you do not mind me asking, how did you come to the conclusion that a GUS MAX 2.1 …

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Re: Pci cards that get detected in device manager,but drivers won't install

Posted on 2020-11-26, 21:26

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by darry

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Yes,what i mean is that no matter if i install the drivers with a installer or manually,the card still doesn't gets recognized,it just shows up in device manager as a "pci multimedia device"with the yellow exclamation mark. As i said i tried different computers,different motherboards the only …

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Re: Pci cards that get detected in device manager,but drivers won't install

Posted on 2020-11-26, 20:36

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by darry

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have a couple of pci video and sound cards,which get detected in device manager ,but when i install the drivers nothing happens,they just keep showing up in device manger with the yellow exclamation mark (i tried different driver versions),i checked them there is no visible damage,no broken …

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Re: Speaker hum - power supply

Posted on 2020-11-26, 20:27

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by darry

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I've narrowed down my speaker hum to my XP machine. If I disconnect the power cable to the XP machine, the speaker hum goes away. That PC is connected to the receiver through three 3.5mm to RCA cables. Merely touching the computer case with the 3.5 mm jack will cause background hum in my speakers. …

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Re: hdd replacment - sd card, cf card or scsi

Posted on 2020-11-26, 02:11

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by darry

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My controller uses an FC1307A and having the first partition as FAT-16 is fine, maybe this is down to it being the A I have Windows 98SE installed on the first partition and WXP + W2003 on the NTFS partitions https://www.vogons.org/download/file.php?id=96945 That could definitely be the case. My …

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