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

Posted on 2023-01-08, 21:00

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Gmlb256 wrote on 2023-01-08, 20:11: Yes, it's a very good deal. Especially with that Roland SCB-55 daughterboard which is very hard to find. I was wondering about that - let's hope it all still works.

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

Posted on 2023-01-08, 20:05

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I have a chance of buying an AWE32 CT2760 in box with all original manuals and disks + a Roland SCB-55 WT card in original box with all manuals + 3 boxes of Soundfonts for €110. Think I should go for it ?

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-01-03, 21:55

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Wow, that's some nice stuff! That case is beautiful! Always nice to have a surprise like that when someone tells you they have an old computer. I find this funny actually... 90% of the time when someone tells me they have an old PC to give me, no matter how I try to get them to explain the age of …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-01-03, 21:52

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Much price u payed for that AWE32 (from my point of view ofc, for ebay it is ok price..), but prob is on the mid of the prices or even lesser... That Siemens is nice, but is even more nice when u find some machine in mint condition, and there is no crap even on the paint job, but that is rare to …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-01-03, 20:48

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I bought a AWE32 CT3980 for a relative low amount (€90) with 8MB of RAM + all original floppies + manual. https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/932740711122604053/1059935861417988126/20230103_214623.jpg The seller gave away an old Pentium 233 MMX for free as well along with the card. I expected …

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Re: HDD Clicker - HDD Sound Simulator

Posted on 2022-12-31, 13:41

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Jura Tastatura wrote on 2022-12-31, 09:44: and when i remember that people at the very start of this thread were worried it wouldn't be loud enough. 😁 does anyone actually use additional speaker with HDD Clicker? 😀 There's only two pins for the extra sound device and I couldn't find any …

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Re: HDD Clicker - HDD Sound Simulator

Posted on 2022-12-30, 19:12

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I finally got to install mine. It works great - 3D print clicked nicely together without needing screws too. Only "problem" I had was the fact that older PCs didn't use standard headers yet. Mine combined power LED with HDD LED which meant I had to splice the cable and check to see which cable was …

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Re: Gotek like Optical Driver Emulator - Is it possible?

Posted on 2022-12-19, 20:12

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Fixel just posted a preorder for the first batch. $319, and says limited quantity preorder and price will change. https://3do.dev/products/ide-emulator-batch1 If it did what it promises and is small enough to fit in a 2.5" bay, I'd DEFINITELY buy one. It would also be cool for the device to be able …

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Re: HDD Clicker - HDD Sound Simulator

Posted on 2022-11-04, 11:37

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I'm happy with LGR review, i appreciate his honest opinion. He is right that it is quite loud, especially with the enclosure on it (it functions a bit like a horn). On my 386 with CF card interface, i run it like that, i find it nice actually, i can hear it work from a distance. Even scandisk …

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Re: HDD Clicker - HDD Sound Simulator

Posted on 2022-11-04, 09:09

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For those who haven’t seen, Clint/LGR has done a video on this, too: https://youtu.be/IZKttBr2Y8g He was surprisingly critical of it. I know what he means but considering it's driven by the LED impulse of the hard drive, it's hardly going to be completely accurate. As is, since all my retro PCs run …

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Re: HDD Clicker - HDD Sound Simulator

Posted on 2022-11-04, 07:57

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Mine was sent last week but still hasn't arrived even though I live in Belgium. I really expected to get it before the weekend 😖. Fingers crossed.

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Re: Network gaming on MS DOS PCs - advice needed

Posted on 2022-10-13, 11:10

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For DOS I'd stick to the null modem cables... I'm a big fan of DOS networking using mTCP. But not for gaming. Why not? Conventional memory and lack of standardization. Even the really lightweight packet drivers used for mTCP use non-trivial amounts of RAM. Of course, you can load them high, but …

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Network gaming on MS DOS PCs - advice needed

Posted on 2022-10-13, 10:08

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I have two almost identical retro PCs (HP Vectra VL 5/75 Pentium 75 - first & second edition) which seem perfect for local multiplayer. A Pentium 75 should be ideal for some Deathmatch and other multiplayer games Now, I have experience with null modem cables (I used it back in the day to play …

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Re: DOSBox Game Launcher (DOSBox Frontend)

Posted on 2022-08-17, 15:36

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rcblanke wrote on 2022-08-16, 21:23: FYI with the latest release it's possible to use DBGL without a full Java installation - just download the minimal JRE and extract into your DBGL folder. This will be handy for my Windows setup - but from what I see the download is Windows only?

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Re: DOSBox Game Launcher (DOSBox Frontend)

Posted on 2022-08-16, 18:25

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Should work, though not all of DOSBox-X' experimental features can be configured in DBGL. Just let me know if you experience issues. Thanks for the info but I can't even get JAVA to install - keep getting errors about keys being unsafe and corrupted files. I'll give up for now and just manually …

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Re: DOSBox Game Launcher (DOSBox Frontend)

Posted on 2022-08-16, 12:59

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This may have already been asked but 91 pages is a bit too much to go through. I'm messing around with my Steam Deck and I'd like to install DBGL on there since it's by far the easiest to configure games with. The thing is, on Windows I use a fork that supports shaders and on Linux this seems to be …

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Re: Comparing CD with CD image (preferably in Windows 98)

Posted on 2022-06-11, 07:08

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Another suggestion is to burn at the lowest speed possible. I have done that forever and have old CDR from before 1999 that still read like I just did them after many years and many reads.. but you probably already figured that out ;p I actually don't burn CDs except for DOS. For DOS there's …

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Re: Comparing CD with CD image (preferably in Windows 98)

Posted on 2022-06-10, 23:05

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Get LG optical drives. Their laser is very reliable. Philips chassis (many brands use these back in the day), had very short laser life. Cheers, I have all kinds of brands including LG - the main problem I have isn't the laser but the motors. Either the motor that spins the disc or the tiny motor …

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Re: Comparing CD with CD image (preferably in Windows 98)

Posted on 2022-06-10, 21:58

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But isn't my way better: compare the checksum of the CD in the drive with the checksum of the CD image? If it encounters a reading error on the CD, I know the CD needs cleaning at least and if it doesn't, both checksums should be identical. Once you have read the image, how can you know what the …

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Re: Comparing CD with CD image (preferably in Windows 98)

Posted on 2022-06-10, 17:45

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It depends. Copy protected files with fake bad sectors might report a bad checksum even if they're actually fine Well that one is easy: if it installs fine & runs fine, then the copy protected files won't be an issue. Alcohol actually has built-in copy protection emulation so you have some leeway …

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