Re: Star Trek Voyger Elite Force A3D Sound

Posted on 2021-07-31, 17:46

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by betamax80

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I do seem to recall the 2050 drivers are VERY buggy and were mainly an alpha for never-realised A3D 3.0 support. I did find 2048 stable but yes, the reversed stereo.... I seem to recall it was the "proper" drivers for the 4-speaker output of the SQ2500 thought. Voyager Elite Force... I do seem to …

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Re: My P3 Retro DOS PC

Posted on 2021-07-10, 18:26

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I see the seller still has stock 07/2021: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/284366749455?hash= … AQAAOSwsXFZNFY-

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Re: Necroware's GamePort to USB adapter for analogue and digital joysticks

Posted on 2021-07-10, 17:24

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by betamax80

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Actually I have a good use-case for this (including your DOS suggestion @Pierre32) - the early VIA EPIA 5000/800 boards have good DOS graphics + sound compatibility but do not have a gameport in hardware. This device would be the perfect accessory for these boards.

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Re: Release -New Aureal DOS Mixer Util-

Posted on 2021-07-10, 17:05

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Thankyou for your continued work on this @ZanQuance, hopefully I'll be reunited with my favourite retro system soon to try this out.

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Re: Which USB 2.0 cards for old motherboards

Posted on 2021-07-01, 14:22

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by betamax80

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I think that the issue for 486 systems is that that USB is a host-based -protocol, and always was. Any early USB 0.9 or 1.0 controllers are next-to-useless beyond being PS/2 port alternatives. This was the reason for the excitment and (percieved) supremacy of FireWire as it was supposed to use a …

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Re: Aureal Vortex 2 SQ2500

Posted on 2021-06-29, 15:54

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I own a SQ2500 as well (its in a machine I'm not currently using). One great thing about all Aureal cards is that they pair really well with an ISA card because the Low-level stuff is fairly non-disruptive (Phils computer lab has inf files that let it co-exist with an AWE64 for example). From what I …

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Re: Best video cards with DOS / Win 3.x / Win 9x support

Posted on 2021-06-12, 20:18

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by betamax80

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From what I understand (without having tested yet - I am still waiting on the card) the XL drivers are not directly compaitble with Rage Pro drivers. I accept the XL was always going to be integrated / cost reduced as it was essentially a low-end chip released at the time of the Rage128 which was …

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Re: Which USB 2.0 cards for old motherboards

Posted on 2021-06-05, 11:18

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by betamax80

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Do note that a number of the PCI USB 2.0 cards that have more than 2 ports (for example the very obtainable StarTech card with 5 external, 2 external) actually have a USB Hub chip on board - so the card is going to be 2 devices - a USB 2.0 controller and a USB Hub. This may have an impact on what …

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Re: ITX and Win98

Posted on 2021-05-09, 23:51

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The card needed is called the "EXT-PCI", it's a VIA-specific board and I have seen them going for ~£30 on the bay. For the SB-Pro compatible audio, you need to go for one of the really early EPIA boards with the VT8231 southbridge (they have Trident instead of S3 graphics - Apollo 1 chipset equiv). …

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Re: VIA EPIA-M mITX build attempt for retrogaming

Posted on 2021-05-07, 19:28

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by betamax80

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Ideally for Win9x / DOS era that original EPIA-5000 / 800 or EPIA-V 800 / 10000 are the strongest choices due to the aforementioned VT8231 chipset with the older audio chip (and actually the onboard Trident graphics are handy in Win9x / DOS too). They struggle a lot with Windows XP sadly. I found …

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Re: Aztech Waverider Pro 32-3D

Posted on 2021-05-04, 13:36

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Oh thats terriffic, I didn't know about that mirror.

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Re: Best video cards with DOS / Win 3.x / Win 9x support

Posted on 2021-05-03, 19:02

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Could I put a word in for the ATi Rage XL? It seems that a chinese manufacturer has brought up the remaining chips and is selling cards new for £10-£15. These are chopped-down Rage Pro's basically. I dont think there is any stated Win3.x compatibility but there should be good MS-DOS (VBE) …

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Re: Different Versions of Ensoniq AudioPCI

Posted on 2021-05-03, 17:57

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by betamax80

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I've got a card listed at the "Creative SoundBlaster Digital 4.1" on its way - from pictures this seems to be the listed CT4750 card with a CT5880CQN chip on it - apparently with a SigmaTel codec, and according to some sources with an EEPROM. I'm aware that this card does the SP/DIF output for sure, …

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Re: Different Versions of Ensoniq AudioPCI

Posted on 2021-05-03, 17:54

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If not covered I think the EMU10k1X cards would be those marketed as the "PCI512". These were sold for around £79 (then £49) I remember in the UK in the early 2000s, and they seem to be highly integrated / cost reduced SB Live! Value relatives. There are reports the the "full fat" SB Live! drivers …

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Re: Did PC-Chips ever release a high quality motherboard?

Posted on 2021-05-03, 14:50

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The TX-Pro II boards M571 were very solid performers (SiS 5598 chipset) for standard socket 7 (upto say a Cyrix MII 333 at max). I can testify that the SX-Pro M598 (SiS 530) was very ropey and not a well through-through board - while current 1 over-voltaged and I got a warranty replacement. https:// …

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Re: Aztech Waverider Pro 32-3D

Posted on 2021-05-03, 14:42

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Would anyone like to host the former Aztech FTP content? I downloaded it in 2017 thinking it might dissappear at some point - it did. It's around 1Gb in size.

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Re: Sound Blaster 16 Clones

Posted on 2021-05-01, 15:14

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I honestly feel the AWE32/64 were very special cards in their own right - especially since there was specific DOS game support for the expanded capabilities of these cards and the relative rarity of on-board waveblaster capabilities alongside FM (I know that the Aztech MM32-3D at least also had this …

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Re: USB WLAN adapter Windows 98?

Posted on 2021-05-01, 14:57

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by betamax80

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I can vouch for the TrendNET model. The problem is that as a 802.11G device none of the later authentication methods (WPA2 in particular) work with it. On my EPIA board I have revered to a Vonets VAP11N-300. This was recommended elsewhere on the forums. This is a wifi bridge with 802.11N-300 …

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Re: Which USB 2.0 cards for old motherboards

Posted on 2021-05-01, 14:49

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Honestly I'm struggling to find it now - I know that I installed it on my Athlon XP based system which is an ASrock board using a Mirage 1 chipset. I have also spied (and purchased) a card with an ALi chipset which might be useful. I guess what I'm saying is that when mixing and matching has been …

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Re: Why do some SB Audigy 2's seem to have the Game Port removed?

Posted on 2021-05-01, 14:34

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I'm not sure if it has already been mentioned - I believe only the Audigy 2 ZS had the option of a gameport bracket. I'm also aware that there is a modified driver which enables this gameport in Windows 98 (and MS-DOS support), but the 2 ZS only has WDM drivers usually. I'm not all that familiar but …

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