Re: Source for "clip in" motherboard standoffs used in old OEM (specifically Dell) cases?

Posted on 2022-08-13, 22:16

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by cyclone3d

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I imagine a cage nut with a washer on it to screw in regular standoffs or a stack of washers and a longer screw... Yeah I was just thinking that. If you google "M3 cage nut", "M3 clip nut" or "6-32 cage nut", "6-32 clip nut" etc then you get some promising results. Some other alternatives here - …

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Re: Best Sound card with OPL3 working in Win98 and WinXP/2K. Quiet output. WANTED!

Posted on 2022-08-13, 22:14

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by cyclone3d

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Yamaha ymf 7x4 PCI. (724, 744, or 754) Beware of remarked CMI or other cheap Chinesium based cards. OPL will work on these cards regardless of whether or not you motherboard supports. PC-PCI, DDMA or DSMA Output on a decently made card will be top notch. What motherboard do you have? Does it have PC …

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Re: Is it worth throwing away nostalgic stuff?

Posted on 2022-08-13, 22:09

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by cyclone3d

in Milliways

in Milliways

Yay, another troll thread by MUZ...

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Re: A good windows xp creative sound card on the cheap?

Posted on 2022-08-11, 23:16

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by cyclone3d

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in Marvin \ Sound

The Audigy 4 Pro should be the best Creative card for XP. https://www.trustedreviews.com/reviews/creative-audigy-4-pro The SNR is better than the 2 ZS but is it also goes for more and is harder to find, especially with the external box. The Audigy 2 SB0350 is the Audigy 2 ZS. If you need PCIe, you …

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Re: Would it ever be possible for DosBox to run as its own operating system?

Posted on 2022-08-09, 06:10

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by cyclone3d

in DOSBox General

in DOSBox General

Yeah, it would just be DOS then with maybe some sound card emulators thrown in.

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Re: Would it ever be possible for DosBox to run as its own operating system?

Posted on 2022-08-09, 00:55

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by cyclone3d

in DOSBox General

in DOSBox General

What would be the point anyway?

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Re: Pentium 5 that never came to be

Posted on 2022-08-08, 18:25

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by cyclone3d

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in Milliways

There was an early 2000’s Intel roadmap that used 686/786/886/986 monikers to refer to future Intel chips projected up to 10ghz by its end . Was an amusing place in history made moot by the stagnate and malaise era with parallelism and 64bit bloat taking the place of real progress . Do you even …

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Re: Possibility to write OPL3 sound driver for protected mode games

Posted on 2022-08-08, 03:10

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by cyclone3d

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

VCPI provides a ring0 protected interface, most DPMI hosts use it. If I can hook off VCPI and provide a ring3 DPMI, that might force doom into ring3 protected mode through DPMI. That's probably what win9x does. But... it is impractical lol Take a look at the DOSBox code. It supports passthrough to …

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Re: Possibility to write OPL3 sound driver for protected mode games

Posted on 2022-08-08, 03:08

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by cyclone3d

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in Marvin \ Sound

IIRC, the PCI YMF744 DOS drivers enable FM support even without EMM386, and it works with all games I've played on it, including Doom, Duke3D & Mortal Kombat. It only requires EMM386 to enable DMA (the DSDMA.EXE driver) for digital sounds, and that too works successfully with the above mentioned …

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Re: Windows 3.1 MIDI in VirtualBox

Posted on 2022-08-07, 18:37

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by cyclone3d

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in Windows

I personally won't touch VirtualBox because it is slow and super buggy. It also has major issues with XP so I can't imagine it would be any good with even older OSes. As for Windows 3.x, the built in MIDI mapper lets you use FM for MIDI. Here is a replacement FM MIDI implementation that you can …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-08-07, 03:08

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by cyclone3d

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

frankmonk wrote on 2022-08-05, 15:46: Got pretty lucky on ebay and got me a Roland MPU-401AT new in the box IMG_20220805_174356.jpg Nice! How much was it? I recently scored another boxed Music Quest PC MIDI card.

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Re: Dealing with energy consumption of old hardware

Posted on 2022-08-06, 18:20

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by cyclone3d

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The big issue with retro stuff running 24/7 is the near complete absence of power management. Also stuff like Asus motherboards from LGA775 era which outright refuse to undervolt in idle if CPU/FSB BIOS settings tweaked even slightly. That affects power draw very little. When a CPU is at idle is is …

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Re: Dealing with energy consumption of old hardware

Posted on 2022-08-06, 18:16

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by cyclone3d

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The consumption of old hardware has become less desirable, now that energy costs are increasing. I'm just curious how people are dealing with this or have any good solutions. I think we can all benefit from some good advice. Umm, how i deal with this? I simply have no build with P4 Extreme Edition, …

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Re: Market value for popular or rare classic computer hardware

Posted on 2022-08-06, 18:11

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by cyclone3d

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VCFED has a marketplace section and it runs without issue I tried for months to actually be able to do anything on VCFED. New members have to have every post moderated and then you have to have a certain number of posts before you can actually have a post show up within 3 months of trying to post …

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Re: Windows game recommendation?

Posted on 2022-08-03, 21:45

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by cyclone3d

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in Windows

You are killing RAM performance by only running a single stick. Add a second stick so you will be running in dual channel instead of single channel mode.

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Re: How China's invasion on Taiwan affects PC market

Posted on 2022-08-03, 00:31

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by cyclone3d

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As horrible as it sound .. the world could do with a few billion less humans to feed, now the hard choice is deciding which 2 billion go first. China sure does have a lot of Bluster and Hot air these days, they are all about saving face and making it seem like the CCP is in control ...just look at …

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Re: Market value for popular or rare classic computer hardware

Posted on 2022-08-03, 00:08

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by cyclone3d

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The -- usually means it is listed in the vintage computer / vintage computer parts area which means it is not returnable unless not as described. Basically no warranty unless the listing specifically says it is guaranteed to work.

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Re: Does modern printer works for retro computers?

Posted on 2022-08-03, 00:06

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by cyclone3d

in DOS

in DOS

Set up something to print to a network share and then have a newer computer monitor that shar for any files and when a file appears it prints and then delete the file. Universal print server to print from any OS to any printer.

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Re: Error compiling DOSBox under Visual Studio

Posted on 2022-08-02, 02:59

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by cyclone3d

in DOSBox Development

in DOSBox Development

Which version of Visual Studio?

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Re: DDR RAM heatsinks on SDR

Posted on 2022-07-31, 20:50

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by cyclone3d

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The only gen of ram that got warm was DDR3. All of the ramsinks we had were manufacturers trying to differentiate their brand. These GSkill DDR4 sticks are the most hilarious. I took the sinks off a stick last year and it was just taped on with 2-sided tape. DDR5 could be different though. I don't …

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