Re: Midi Art GS1000R Synthesizer?

Posted on 2016-06-07, 14:54

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that GM82C650 chip is a beast. cdrom interface, gameport interface, ram+rom simultaneous interface, 20bit dac. GM + GS support inbuilt. interesting, its ROM data is can be set to either 8bit or 12bit.. no 16bit rom samples... wonder if this chip was ever used on a soundcard, as it has it all you …

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

Posted on 2016-06-07, 00:48

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

got a usb floppy disk that can do DD+HD 3.5" disks so I can image my Magnetic Scrolls collection disks... I took images, and I copied the files off.. now I get to see if I can install it into dosbox and test it out... archiving disks ugh...

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Re: reading txt files

Posted on 2016-06-06, 12:05

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list.com aka t.com 😉 by vernon buerg. get it. use it. love it.

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Re: Bought these games today

Posted on 2016-06-03, 20:31

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Picked this up; the magnetic windows version of the games. I have/had all other versions. This one is complete (unwrapped cassette tape etc). just need to find a 3.5" drive to transfer the disks off... This will go nice alongside my Legend Entertainment collection box. http://i.imgur.com/1yKaE3sh. …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-06-02, 01:29

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Put out a low bid on this and won it! Not sure what I'll use it for, but is wel documented so that's a plus! Must figure out how to supply power to it. http://i.imgur.com/Gwsa6F2l.jpg aah. pca-6144v. power comes from the 4 pin connector in top right of card. top right connector is for +5 +12, the …

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Re: Difference between fast and slow graphics card in DOS

Posted on 2016-06-02, 01:20

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if you take ISA cards, the speed difference comes from say three things mainly, the speed of the graphic ram, the speed of the ramdac and the chipset. back in the isa days the chipset really didn't do a whole lot, it basically routed ram out the ramdac and muxed the clocks for resolution timings, …

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Re: The Ultimate Oldschool PC Font Pack (or: Very Old Glyphs On New Systems)

Posted on 2016-06-01, 18:55

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yeah, got iCEColour from day one. would be nice to have blink to be complete, but since I render to opengl textures, I'd neen a complete alternate one for the blink'd screen on/off. pain. just going to skip blink I think.

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Re: The Ultimate Oldschool PC Font Pack (or: Very Old Glyphs On New Systems)

Posted on 2016-05-31, 20:16

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Knocked out an ANSI viewer, looks pretty sweet. I am loving these fonts... but only at very set font sizes, as noted scaling these using TTF methods if your not on that sweet spot eg 16pt or something they are a mess for ANSI (since ansi use all the filled blocks and such). text might be ok on most …

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Re: Classic games in Text mode. Anyone like it like I do?

Posted on 2016-05-31, 16:55

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in DOS

reenigne wrote: Then there were the text adventures like Jacaranda Jim and Humbug. Graham Cluley wrote both of those, its a shame he didnt write more interactive fiction. They were good games.

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Re: The Ultimate Oldschool PC Font Pack (or: Very Old Glyphs On New Systems)

Posted on 2016-05-30, 16:12

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ooh snap. this font pack is awesome. I am making a retro disk magazine, and this will make ansi in opengl look normal! Cool- which disk mag is that? (and who's your ANSI artist?) ;) I am a huge disk mag junkie, wrote a few in my time too :P writing a new engine, basically it will look a bit like …

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Re: Thoughts on using this 486 single-board computer I bought?

Posted on 2016-05-29, 23:00

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by BloodyCactus

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

thanks. op's board should happily run then on two sticks of ram.

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Re: Couple newbie questions about MT-32

Posted on 2016-05-29, 22:58

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I was not aware of this. Furthermore, it appears that the UART can only be adjusted by changing the CPU core clock on the Pi 3. Thumbs down! if you remap the original uart back on the pi3 using the dts/dtb files (dtoverlay= etc), its back to how it was on the pi1/pi2 so all is not lost (unless you …

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Re: What is with the prices on retro cards lately? (not a sale/appreasal post)

Posted on 2016-05-29, 17:04

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by BloodyCactus

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

where I live, people throw good stuff out in the dumps thinking old computers have no value. its sad. seeing old crts thrown into the dump 🙁 its either worthless or worth a fortune to them. nothing in between.

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Re: Couple newbie questions about MT-32

Posted on 2016-05-29, 16:59

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I don't know how the Raspberry integrated UART works, but at least USB-Serial adapters with FTDI chipset can be set to all kinds of exotic baud rates directly, so 31250 should be no problem. with pi/pi1/pi2, you can use its uart on gpio BUT you have to set some config parameters that init the chip …

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Re: Thoughts on using this 486 single-board computer I bought?

Posted on 2016-05-29, 12:41

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

considering mine is IntelDX4WB, Id' say no, its not the SLC variant, and it works perfectly fine with 2 banks. bank requirements are driven by the chipset, not the cpu. Mine is a VIA VT82C496G. Reading the datashseet for the OP's opti 82c392 (the southbridge), it says * up to 64mb max dram * 256 or …

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Re: Thoughts on using this 486 single-board computer I bought?

Posted on 2016-05-29, 01:10

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by BloodyCactus

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

my 486 SBC works fine with just a pair 30pin simm sticks, you dont necessarily need 4 sticks.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-05-29, 01:01

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by BloodyCactus

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

ms mouse + splitter! works fine in doom + ultima 6 + win311...

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Re: The Ultimate Oldschool PC Font Pack (or: Very Old Glyphs On New Systems)

Posted on 2016-05-29, 00:57

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by BloodyCactus

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ooh snap. this font pack is awesome. I am making a retro disk magazine, and this will make ansi in opengl look normal!

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Re: Any thoughts on XGI Volari Z7?

Posted on 2016-05-27, 18:19

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by BloodyCactus

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

is it a 3.3v or 5v pci card? I see its keyed for both. I wonder if older 5v systems cant handle it as well, being a dual 3.3/5v card.

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Re: No MIDI music from my CT3670

Posted on 2016-05-27, 17:05

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Basically I can't get MIDI music to play through the speakers, no matter what port I use, 320 or 330 this implies you have a midi device attached to the joystick port. The EMU8000 uses port 620 etc. MIDI uses uses port 330 if no midi device (roland sound canvas, yamaha mu, etc) no sound. pretty …

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