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Re: Gaming on my Intel Atom

Posted on 2023-02-23, 20:28

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

I also have a Atom ITX Board, and it performs absymal with 8400GS. Even textmode scrolling is weird slow. Matrox G550 PCI also doesnt work well. Onboard Graphics is 4-5x times faster in VESA Framebuffer Console. Intel DP410T Mainboard. With initial Release a PCI Graphic Card does not even work. It …

Re: 3Dfx Voodoo 2 PCB SLI Bridge / SLI Cable

Posted on 2023-02-21, 21:41

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Looks great! Nice work!

Re: Savage 4 or TNT2 M64 Vanta?

Posted on 2023-02-18, 10:50

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

If you play a lot of Unreal based Games, the S3 may have better texture quality and is native supported with s3 metal. Otherwise, the TNT has better Drivers.

Re: Board supporting up to 1333 but runs 1600 Mhz DDR3?

Posted on 2023-02-16, 09:05

in Milliways

in Milliways

RAM Support depends on CPU installed as RAM Controller is integrated into CPU.

Re: OPL2LPT

Posted on 2023-02-15, 06:53

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

No. But instead games can be patched to use 3bc instead of 378h

Re: Booting DOS inside LAN Boot Rom.... Maybe ROM-DOS.

Posted on 2023-02-14, 22:28

in Milliways

in Milliways

*necro bump* Here is the wanted file, 3 years later. does rayers romos work on 8088 ? there is no limit to 62k, you can just use romboard and map 128k also.

Re: PicoGUS: Gravis Ultrasound emulator on an ISA card with Raspberry Pi Pico

Posted on 2023-02-13, 20:32

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Yeah Adlib isnt really hard to find, neither is tandy. You always could upload pcb data to jlc and build one

Re: PicoGUS: Gravis Ultrasound emulator on an ISA card with Raspberry Pi Pico

Posted on 2023-02-13, 08:26

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Can it play multiple cards simultaneously? GUS And Sn76489 or OPL2 ? Will it also play Tandy DAC? Does it emulate PC Speaker too ? Lot of Tandy games use speaker as additional channel

Re: How to repair VRAM connection fx5900xt.

Posted on 2023-02-08, 21:55

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Oh well don`t bake your hardware in a oven. Thats not a proper fix, and may also harm you as it will poison your oven..

Re: How to add small HD or CF to 386 with fixed types only ?

Posted on 2023-02-08, 21:51

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

You can use SSTOR to Setup your disk. It will set BIOS CHS in CMOS RAM. I use it on NCR PC 286 which only supports a few "Fixed" types. https://www.minuszerodegrees.net/software/Sto … s/speedstor.htm

Re: UNISOUND - Universal ISA PnP Sound Card Driver for DOS v0.80a

Posted on 2023-02-07, 21:30

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Hi, with current version of Unisound Terratec Base-1 does not longer initialze. (0.80, 0.77 doesnt work) with Version 0.65 it works just fine. Something is broken here. https://www.philscomputerlab.com/terratec-promedia-base-1.html Old Version attached, in case something has the same Problem. It …

Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2023-02-01, 22:44

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Did some organizing of my 'current projects' shelves as I figure out what I'm going to tackle next. Thinking of working on that Packard Bell Legend I system, especially since I know my IBM Blue Lightning 486 upgrade processor works in it. Might be fun to turn it into an upgraded system. Bend a …

Re: HDD Clicker - HDD Sound Simulator

Posted on 2023-01-25, 09:55

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

https://www.heise.de/select/ct/2023/2/2231812573403919777 Dreamblasters HDD Clicker Version made it to CT Magazin!

Re: AspringNobody's ATMega328 Based MIDI Module

Posted on 2023-01-21, 09:25

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

It looks great! I would not stop efforts on wavetable... its fully ok. Yeah i personally also don't like a crowd of many external boxes 😀

Re: Media Player Legacy (Windows 11 22H2) can't play MIDI files?

Posted on 2023-01-17, 18:53

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Maybe it kicked out the midi synthesis driver ?

Re: Passive AGP cards for a retro-build...what do you think about these?

Posted on 2023-01-14, 00:16

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

vesa ? unaccelerated ?

Re: Passive AGP cards for a retro-build...what do you think about these?

Posted on 2023-01-12, 22:18

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

This is how it looks like. Oh oh, i would not place a passive Ti 200 inside. Except you plan to drill some holes for Air Intake. Is this nforce2 shuttle ? i have the same machine i think. With Mobile Athlon 1800+ (200Mhz FSB) installed (45W), HD3450 AGP Active cooled, and SSD. I ran passive GeForce …

Re: SATA2PATA adapters experience

Posted on 2023-01-10, 15:23

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The Converter is used in gambling machines / arcade equipment and also industrial machines. It works even in my 286-10 with SATA Dom .

Re: SATA2PATA adapters experience

Posted on 2023-01-08, 20:13

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hi, no problem. i just need to open up my pentium mmx. here some picture: Filename photo_2020-11-24_23-18-25.jpg File size 158.45 KiB Views 1400 views i just need some time to do it!

Re: SATA2PATA adapters experience

Posted on 2023-01-08, 14:45

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I've once tried double-bridging a SATA DOM on my PC-Chips M748MR board flashed with an Award BIOS from another board. It didn't go well, even with the original (32 GB limited) AMI BIOS. The adapter is a red PCB bi-directional AliExpress special with the D0F bridge, and the DOM is a 4 GB Apacer ( …

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