Re: Isa sound card that can play back higher quality audio?

Posted on 2020-10-04, 19:49

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by emosun

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The SB16 ASP chip can help in decompression under Windows 9x.. https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=62&t=60488 It looks interesting but if there's no way to integrate it with a video stream then it's not too much help. The thread doesn't seem to indicate what methods are used to create the files …

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Re: Isa sound card that can play back higher quality audio?

Posted on 2020-10-04, 19:08

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by emosun

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I don't suppose that machine has any PCI slots, does it? Unfortunately it only has isa Also, Sound Blaster cards support ADPCM decompression in hardware. Unfortunately, such support is limited to 8-bit mono audio at 12kHz, 13kHz tops. But it might stil provide a marginal improvement in audio …

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Isa sound card that can play back higher quality audio?

Posted on 2020-10-04, 18:41

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by emosun

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Currently am playing with a 486 machine and encoding videos to play back on it. the machine plays videos just fine and plays them as expected without issue , however , the audio card seems to be the biggest bottleneck. The videos being encoded are cinepak and the only audio codec option to go along …

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Re: Ontrack disk manager overwrites drive

Posted on 2020-10-01, 00:38

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by emosun

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What are the specs of the system AND the drive you are wanting to use Ontrack on? Did you set up the drive parameters in the BIOS according to what Ontrack expects? i dont know what the specs of the drive are its an 8gb dom. And ontrack doesn't seem to specify needing to set any parameters. it's …

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Re: Ontrack disk manager overwrites drive

Posted on 2020-09-30, 20:27

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Ok man I guess I can help you. I have used these kind of disk utilities in the past, but I always just install windows 98 with a OEM 98se cd rom boot disk. Thats what you need. The kind of Ontrack thing I used was a ontrack kill disk utility that was a drive wiper and it was like kill disk, the …

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Re: Ontrack disk manager overwrites drive

Posted on 2020-09-30, 20:19

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The only probable scenario I can think of is that the hdd had already windows installed while in another pc and now you want to put it on a pc for which it is too large and needs ontrack. Well in this case you'll need to reinstall everything, somehow. yes thats the situation so the 98 install won't …

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Re: Ontrack disk manager overwrites drive

Posted on 2020-09-30, 18:36

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by emosun

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Ontrack needs to modify the MBR and write some of its data to the drive so it can get loaded to memory at boot time, that's why you're supposed to format the drive AFTER Ontrack is active and is doing the translation to access the full capacity of the disk. ok but how do i know if it worked? its …

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Ontrack disk manager overwrites drive

Posted on 2020-09-30, 18:18

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Ontrack disk manager overwrites the drive I select and formats it , but it removes the windows installation...... So now what? the drive doesnt have windows , the machine can't even install windows without cd rom support. I'm confused how this is all supposed to work.

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Re: Adding usb to an isa machine

Posted on 2020-08-02, 22:38

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Warlord wrote on 2020-08-02, 20:47: Why not just get a wireless ac....... i'll be honest i think even burning a cd would be preferable over that i'll just mark the tread as solved thanks any guys

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Re: Adding usb to an isa machine

Posted on 2020-08-02, 20:32

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I don't even use USB on my modern machines. Once you have networking setup you really don't need physical media of any kind after the initial OS install (and maybe not even then) usb is actually far easier for me as I only need a usb drive , but with networking I have to have not only a compatible …

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Adding usb to an isa machine [solved]

Posted on 2020-08-01, 20:52

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by emosun

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I tried to think of many different methods but I seem to be coming up empty handed. It would seem that if you have an isa machine there really isnt any way to add usb connectivity. the board i have has 3 isa slots , short of only a single empty 8 bit board made by a company that is out of stock and …

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Re: 3D games run slow. Slower than my old voodoo 1 and geforce 2 gts of the time.

Posted on 2020-07-30, 20:18

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You have to essentially make a new game that would run on such a weird config. A game that's code can run on a 233mmx but visuals could run on a 9250. nobody did such a thing gee you don't say. almost as if we started off talking about driver overhead obviously a 9250 and a 233 have no real use …

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Re: 3D games run slow. Slower than my old voodoo 1 and geforce 2 gts of the time.

Posted on 2020-07-30, 19:30

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The Serpent Rider wrote on 2020-07-30, 19:20: It does. Late Radeon PCI cards have horrible performance in games which otherwise run fine on PMMX233, but with Voodoo. Yeah but the voodoo is glide and the radeon isnt. Beleive it or not ps1 disks dont work well in an xbox 360 either

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Re: 3D games run slow. Slower than my old voodoo 1 and geforce 2 gts of the time.

Posted on 2020-07-30, 19:16

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by emosun

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You contradict yourself. So it only runs gpu demos and 3d screensavers from the time period which require basically no cpu usage and all gpu. IF a D3D game existed that looked beautiful , but had almost no cpu load and could be run on a 233mhz cpu then it'd work great. lol. No it does run a few …

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Re: 3D games run slow. Slower than my old voodoo 1 and geforce 2 gts of the time.

Posted on 2020-07-30, 18:39

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by emosun

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3. Never use newer cards on a Pentium MMX platform - newer drivers are optimized for newer CPUs, so performance will be terrible. I would have to disagree only a bit on this , as I run a radeon 256mb 9250 pci on a pentium 233mmx machine that I have around. And it actually runs fine , there …

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possible to add an isa graphics card?

Posted on 2020-07-30, 18:25

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Starting off this is the board http://www.uktsupport.co.uk/pb/mb/450.htm The board is inside an AIO machine. The machine currently uses 32mb of ram and a 75mhz overdrive cpu and runs 98 seemingly just fine. (i lightened 98 a lot) The challenge that I presented myself (for fun , not for any …

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Re: Best isa gpu?

Posted on 2020-07-30, 17:50

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ok so an update , I found in my storage unit a machine with another regular ISA cl-5429.... pretty awesome it saves me having to buy one i didnt even know i had one! 🤣. I'm gonna start a new thread about getting it to work as now it's really a different issue.

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Re: Best isa gpu?

Posted on 2020-07-30, 16:21

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the machine is isa only and this is within/for windows ui , where you can have as many gpus as desired Why don't you try to do what you're doing with the onboard "GPU", first? I'm pretty sure despite being onboard, the VGA and primary IDE adapter on that board are VLB. As others have pointed out, …

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Re: Best isa gpu?

Posted on 2020-07-30, 15:04

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also heres the information on the board if you need it or are interested , the board has 3 isa risers http://www.uktsupport.co.uk/pb/mb/450.htm

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Re: Best isa gpu?

Posted on 2020-07-30, 14:58

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Grzyb wrote on 2020-07-30, 14:05: Somehow I can't believe in two ISA VGAs working together. But feel free to prove me wrong... it'll actually be the onboard gpu and an isa gpu , the onboard gpu is a cl-5429 , but i have no idea interally if its just isa or vlb

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