Re: Recommend me a Creative ISA card

Posted on 2016-02-24, 21:06

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Kodai, And I didn't mean to point any fingers. I'm the one who wanted a "Creative ISA card". I didn't give non-Creative cards enough of a chance in my decision process. And I believe you (along with Phil and others) were the ones who recommended the Audician 32 Plus. :) I just wanted to share my …

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Re: Recommend me a Creative ISA card

Posted on 2016-02-24, 17:32

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the Aztech seems to have a richer, fuller sound Seems your Aztech has no filters or has them switched off. This may give less authentic and worse sound in old games wich were designed for normal SB wich used filters. Similar situation may to be with Yamaha 71x cards. The oldest games I play are …

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Re: Recommend me a Creative ISA card

Posted on 2016-02-24, 17:27

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BloodyCactus wrote: clueless1 wrote: The OPL3 emulation is identical, don't get me wrong. the emulation might be identical, but its also not genuine OPL3... which makes a difference imo. Go to the bottom of the first page of this thread and take a close look at the photo I posted of the Aztech. …

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Re: Recommend me a Creative ISA card

Posted on 2016-02-24, 15:37

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gdjacobs-thanks! I'll give it a shot as soon as I can. All-I've included a photo of the card for anyone curious: 1223151223a.jpg All: Apologies for the necro post, but I wanted to leave this info for future generations that might read through it. There was a lot of wisdom in this thread about using …

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Re: Just how many (sound) cards do I want?

Posted on 2016-02-24, 00:14

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Go by the CT model number, not the card description. This? (don't have it any more. It died :-( ) https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/13450020/Finished%20P133%20Restore/Image05.jpg Yes, that's what I mean by CT number. A quick search of that number leads to this thread: http://www.vogons.org/ …

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Re: Upgrade from C2D E6300->Xeon 3070: Benchmarks!

Posted on 2016-02-24, 00:10

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I believe so, but it won't do any good if an Intel motherboard auto-detects the cpu has gives no option to change multipliers or FSB. 😉

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Re: Upgrade from C2D E6300->Xeon 3070: Benchmarks!

Posted on 2016-02-23, 23:20

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They are stable and well-built. About the only complaint that can be made is they usually have no overclocking features. But I usually don't care about that. The only time I do care is if I have a cpu that is known to overclock well. Like my C2D E2180 that goes straight from 2Ghz to 2.67Ghz by …

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Upgrade from C2D E6300->Xeon 3070: Benchmarks!

Posted on 2016-02-23, 19:37

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This is in my WinXP GOG.com gaming PC. Specs: Intel D946GZIS Core 2 Duo E6300 1.86Ghz Xeon 3070 (identical to Core 2 Duo E6700) 2.67Ghz 2x2GB DDR2800 GeForce 8800GTX PCI-e Turtle Beach Santa Cruz PCI Windows XP 32-bit http://www.cpu-world.com/Compare/126/Intel_Core_2_Duo_E6300_vs_Intel_Xeon_3070. …

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Re: Technology that fascinated you, but ultimately flopped

Posted on 2016-02-23, 16:37

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Wavetable synthesis, seriously. So, Sound Blaster AWE 32 and various wavetable daughter boards eventually brought wavetable sound to the masses, and then non-Creative cards like Diamond MonsterSound MX300 and Turtle Beach Montego Quadzilla followed Creative's example to feature wavetable connector. …

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Re: Just how many (sound) cards do I want?

Posted on 2016-02-22, 22:38

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A good single choice would be a Vibra16, the model with an OPL chip. Then get one of those dreamblaster X1 modules (think it's called that). With a Vibra, you loose treble and bass settings. Though you won't get that hanging note when using midi... This is probably the cheapest solution as of now …

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Re: Just how many (sound) cards do I want?

Posted on 2016-02-22, 21:27

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The Terratec seems rare. There is only one on Ebay and it is about US $110 shipped. Something to keep in mind unless you have another source to get one. Best of luck!

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Re: Just how many (sound) cards do I want?

Posted on 2016-02-22, 17:48

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You might also want to consider an Audician 32 Plus with a Dreamblaster S1 General MIDI daughterboard. The Audician is roughly the equivalent of a SB Pro and does not have the hanging note bug so will work well with the S1 daughterboard. From what I understand, it's a very quiet board too (unlike …

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Re: The Original Recipe and The Hot Rod

Posted on 2016-02-22, 02:41

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Really nice machines!! The Packard Bell looks like new, I like it very much Thanks. It wasn't in the best condition when I got it, but I did clean it up a bit. The optical drive was dead, so I replaced it. There were two HDDs in the case. One (1GB Seagate) was sliding around loose in there and was …

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Re: Audician 32 Plus pricing

Posted on 2016-02-21, 19:08

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Yeah, I ordered one. Ended up costing US $22.08 after the currency conversion.

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Re: Do you use an external sound mixer?

Posted on 2016-02-20, 21:31

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It sounds to me like your speakers have a defect You were partially right. After inserting and removing the headphone jack a few times, it cleared up the sound and stereo worked again. Regardless, I am still curious about external mixers as it can be a pain to adjust volumes between the headphones …

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The Original Recipe and The Hot Rod

Posted on 2016-02-20, 21:17

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I thought it about time I share some photos of my DOS machines now that I've been here a couple of months. ;) The Original Recipe: IMG_20160220_135141679.jpg Packard Bell Multimedia C110 Pentium 120, 48MB edo onboard Cirrus Logic graphics Packard Bell ISA modem/soundcard (Aztech/Crystal-based with …

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Re: Audician 32 Plus pricing

Posted on 2016-02-20, 13:16

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by clueless1

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What can I say, I love a good deal. It's not so much the $6 as it is the percentage of total cost that gets me. I suppose I will have to bite the bullet as they will eventually run out and become even more expensive. Thank you, Vogoners.

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Re: Do you use an external sound mixer?

Posted on 2016-02-20, 13:12

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Well, intentional or not, I'd consider it a design flaw. It doesn't look like they owe you anything; my recommendation is still to replace them with something that gives you stereo sound out of the headphone jack. Certainly the simplest solution in my mind. zerker, I appreciate your responses. To …

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Re: Phil's "Playing GOG.com games on your MS-DOS Gaming PC" Thread

Posted on 2016-02-20, 13:07

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As others have said, Wing Commander 3 can be burned to DVD and installed, but you can ALSO copy the entire DVD to HDD and run without the disc ;) Practically, it will need its own partition as it is about 1.8GB. Just set the savegame folder to the same directory and you're good to go (hopefully save …

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Re: CD Dos games that uses midi as music?

Posted on 2016-02-20, 12:54

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US Navy Fighters is a CD game that supports General MIDI

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