Re: What's a good game to test a Sidewinder Force Feedback Pro Joystick?

Posted on 2022-06-01, 22:47

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by lavadrop

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Interstate '76. One of the car weapons is a machine gun. Also when you get damaged, the stick deviates to the side and simulates the bump of the flat tire

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-05-28, 01:02

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by lavadrop

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Found these for about 25 USD. AMD Athlon XP 1800+ (Palomino) Asus A7S333 with I/O panel and extra USB port card (Asus original), manuals, motherboard diagram sticker, SiS 745 driver CD (cracked at the center, unfortunately). 128 mb PC2100 DIMM I’m finding it difficult hunting for a good modern PSU …

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Re: Sound Blaster Live! for Macintosh.

Posted on 2022-05-26, 16:42

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by lavadrop

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Are windows inf files just plain text files?

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Re: Sound Blaster Live! for Macintosh.

Posted on 2022-05-25, 20:46

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by lavadrop

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Thank you. I assumed that but I haven't found such mod.

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Sound Blaster Live! for Macintosh.

Posted on 2022-05-24, 16:31

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by lavadrop

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Does anyone know if this card is usable in Windows (Win9x)?

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Re: Yamaha YMF-719 issues

Posted on 2022-05-17, 03:43

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by lavadrop

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I just confirmed my YMF71x card’s IDE interface is either damaged or defective. It has been superseded as an MPU interface only while my SB32 does the PCM and IDE. CTCU still reports there is a DMA conflict between OPL3SA ISA and OPL3ISA card. 😄 Oh well. Fortunately the SB32 cost 7 dollars in a lot …

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Re: Yamaha YMF-719 issues

Posted on 2022-05-16, 19:14

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by lavadrop

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Yeah, I figured it out too when I read the readme and read the mention of the mitsumi driver and an example. However, it refuses to read any data cds. I have SACDROM.SYS > VIDECDD.SYS then autoexec loads SHSUCDX. This way, I got VIDECDD to detect there is a CD device on the tertiary IDE address and …

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Re: VOGONS Driver Library

Posted on 2022-05-16, 18:59

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by lavadrop

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Hey, I found someone is mirroring the german Diamond Multimedia support website off their synology NAS at: http://edv-janssen.synology.me/diamond/ The date on the about page is 14.02.97 18:12 Might be a treasure trove for some.

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Re: Yamaha YMF-719 issues

Posted on 2022-05-16, 02:39

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by lavadrop

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Well, with your drivers the card works fine, except that those sliders on your mixer don’t do anything but apart from that it’s perfect. I thought the SACDROM was just an initialization driver, not the actual CD driver.

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Re: Yamaha YMF-719 issues

Posted on 2022-05-15, 17:49

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by lavadrop

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Well, the SETUPSA mixer "sliders" produce change but it has other shortcomings; I get glitchy PCM audio in Ultima 8 and DOOM will not play PCM+MIDI, only MIDI. Tyrian 2000 will play both PCM+MIDI. Right now I can see in that the WSS Mixer section the MASTER VOL sliders go from 0 to 15 and do in fact …

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Re: Yamaha YMF-719 issues

Posted on 2022-05-14, 23:44

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by lavadrop

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Thanks for the info on the CD driver. I meant that your configurator tests (the ones I specified) do not cause any change to the output volume.

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Re: Yamaha YMF-719 issues

Posted on 2022-05-14, 22:15

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by lavadrop

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Thanks for your drivers. I'll try another CD-ROM driver since my motherboard is too old for PNP and VIDECDD does not detect the other IDE Base Addresses. P.S. What do the other volume sliders do, like FM+MPU40 or SBMIXER DAC? I moved them and there was no change in volume. Cheers!

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Re: Yamaha YMF-719 issues

Posted on 2022-05-14, 20:04

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by lavadrop

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Oh never mind, I just read your readme where you mention your card is hardwired for 170,15.

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Re: Yamaha YMF-719 issues

Posted on 2022-05-14, 19:13

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by lavadrop

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Thank you, now it’s almost perfect. Where is the UI to enable/control the IDE interface? SETUPSA exposed 4 hardware address/irq combinations but I can’t find anything on your configurator.

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Re: Yamaha YMF-719 issues

Posted on 2022-05-14, 18:35

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by lavadrop

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I apologize, I must be blind, yes the JP1 JP2 pins are both jumpered in the 1-2 position. Is that the position to activate the amplifier? Is the position 2-3 to bring the output to line-level?

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Re: Yamaha YMF-719 issues

Posted on 2022-05-14, 07:32

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by lavadrop

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There aren't any jumpers on the card, unless you mean if I have modified the card? That would also be a negative.

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Re: Yamaha YMF-719 issues

Posted on 2022-05-13, 18:24

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by lavadrop

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I apologize for necroing this thread, but I have the same problem BraveToaster describes: master volume is super loud, I have it set to -22 just for it to not blow my ears/speaker. Mine is a SM718 Rev 2.00 with a YAMAHA YMF719E-S chip.

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Help understanding XDVD2

Posted on 2022-05-06, 23:44

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by lavadrop

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After having some issues with my motherboard and battery, I'm ready to set it up. So I read a bit about device drivers and learned a bit about XDVD2 and SHSUCDX. However I've hit a roadblock: after loading config.sys, XDVD says: No PCI BIOS to use! No drive to use; XDVD2 not loaded. Does this mean …

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Re: Help troubleshooting 486 motherboard that won't post

Posted on 2022-05-05, 17:52

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by lavadrop

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Thanks for that, now I know how to find polarity with a multimeter. 😁 Somehow, now the battery pack is working with the CMOS. Just have to figure out where to put it inside the case, away from the components.

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Re: Help finding new RAM for a 486 system.

Posted on 2022-05-04, 22:35

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by lavadrop

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

You are right, I haven't any experience with BIOS shadowing and it's enabled on my board. That explains why the system reports 3,712 kb RAM only. Thank you.

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