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Re: DreamBlaster S2 and the AWE32

Posted on Today, 00:55

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Again, you can't control the 2 MIDI outputs of the same card (wavetable and midi/joystick) separately. They are connected in parallel in the hardware. Whatever outputs on one will at the same time output on the other, and there is nothing that any software can do about it. To have 2 separate midi …

Re: Weird Radeon behavior, Win98SE, i815 chipset

Posted on Today, 00:47

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

FWIW here is what the corrupted image looks like.

Re: My lucky find and subsequent build.

Posted on Yesterday, 18:17

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

BH6 was always my favorite motherboard of the era. It was the one I used when I built my first computer back in the day. Still have it and works fine. Excellent find. You can even run Tualatin CPUs on it with a bit of hardware modding.

Re: DreamBlaster S2 and the AWE32

Posted on Yesterday, 18:01

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Shame there isn't an easy way to turn off the Dreamblaster music when you want MT-32 music. Is this done through the command line using a utility? If so then I guess I could make a batch file to do it. You can solve this by having 2 sound cards in the system, with the MPU-401 address set to …

Re: DreamBlaster S2 and the AWE32

Posted on Yesterday, 17:42

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Good writeup. Frankly, better than the combo MT-32 and wavetable, I prefer a MT32-Pi. It offers the best of both worlds at the press of a button: MT-32 emulation (with switchable ROMs) and soundfont synthesis through Fluidsynth, with switchable soundfonts. And depending on the soundfonts you load it …

Re: DreamBlaster S2 and the AWE32

Posted on Yesterday, 16:42

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

I use a SB32 (lower cost AWE32) with both the S2 and the X2. Since the SB32 doesn't have the wavetable connector, I use a Phil&Chill adapter and attach them to the external MIDI/joystick port. You use them with anything that can use a MPU-401 port. Many DOS games do, listed as either MPU-401, Roland …

Weird Radeon behavior, Win98SE, i815 chipset

Posted on Yesterday, 14:41

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

I am building a system based on the Intel Easton motherboard D815EEA https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/intel-d815eea-easton with a P3-1000B CPU (FSB 133), 384MB of PC133 RAM (1x256, 1x128) and a 128GB SSD connected through a SATA-IDE adapter. Win98SE installed fresh. All the Radeon cards I have …

Re: Intel 486 DX2 and AGP x2 graphic port

Posted on 2024-09-17, 20:22

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

BitWrangler wrote on 2024-09-17, 18:29: But after you've proved us wrong, do SATA for 286. I will aim even higher. SAS3 on 5150, anyone? 😜

Re: Storage options for Windows 98SE?

Posted on 2024-09-17, 18:19

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Left field option: don't use IDE. Use SCSI. Yes, you'll need a SCSI HBA (host bus adapter card) plus the cables plus drives plus terminators (if the drive doesn't have termination itself, though most do)... but no drive size limits. You can still find/buy all of the above for not too much money. I …

Re: Sticky rubber coatings: what to do?

Posted on 2024-09-13, 12:53

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Again "coating" is not really the right term here. These are thick rubber parts which have gone sticky. I was told in another place (discord) to use baby powder to recondition a surface like that, I will give it a try.

Re: Sticky rubber coatings: what to do?

Posted on 2024-09-13, 12:18

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

No, this is thick rubber, several millimeters. Not just a surface coating. It's actually part of the stick structure. But its surface has gone sticky.

Sticky rubber coatings: what to do?

Posted on 2024-09-13, 11:35

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

What's the best way to deal with stickiness of old rubber coatings on hardware? Specifically I have a Saitek joystick (X52) which is about 15 years old and its rubber coating has started to turn sticky and disgusting. I really like the joystick otherwise, and I'd like to bring it back to a "pleasant …

Re: PicoGUS: ISA sound card emulator with Raspberry Pi Pico (Gravis Ultrasound, AdLib, MPU-401, Tandy, CMS)

Posted on 2024-09-06, 00:33

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

I'm pretty sure the serial mouse emulation is not working correctly in this version of the firmware. At least it is not working on my system. In addition to the tests above, I have done the following: -disabled the on-board COM1 -set the PicoGUS in AdLib mode -set the emulated mouse to COM1; jumper …

Re: Roland RAP-10

Posted on 2024-09-05, 21:50

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

No unfortunately you can't. My RAP10 has never output anything but GM midi sound.

Re: MK1869 : new soundcard based on ESS 1869 and ES690 chips

Posted on 2024-09-02, 21:41

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

He said the USB connector would be used by addon cards plugged alongside this one in the connectors above the ISA fingers. Or possibly in the smaller connector located behind the USB port. Or both. 😀

Re: Sonic Buster 8: A highly SB2.0-compatible 8-bit ISA sound card with OPL3

Posted on 2024-09-02, 16:14

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Nom nom. 😜

Re: MK1869 : new soundcard based on ESS 1869 and ES690 chips

Posted on 2024-09-02, 16:03

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

(watching this space because one can never have too many retro sound cards)

Re: PicoGUS: ISA sound card emulator with Raspberry Pi Pico (Gravis Ultrasound, AdLib, MPU-401, Tandy, CMS)

Posted on 2024-09-01, 08:57

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

it is mentioned older version of ctmouse work better for slower hardware, maybe its worth trying the older versions I also tried ctmouse 1.9.1 from 2002, same problem. FWIW this is the motherboard I'm using as the base of this system: https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/pcpartner-txb820ds-35- …

Re: PicoGUS: ISA sound card emulator with Raspberry Pi Pico (Gravis Ultrasound, AdLib, MPU-401, Tandy, CMS)

Posted on 2024-09-01, 00:28

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Yes, ctmouse works fine with a serial mouse connected to COM1 or to COM2 (the onboard ports)

10 years

Posted on 2024-08-31, 18:59

in Milliways

in Milliways

I just noted today is my 10th anniversary since registering here. (I was in lurk mode a few years before that) 😀

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