Re: Depression is a bitch, yet this is what I have been working on....

Posted on 2019-11-22, 06:21

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Anonymous Coward wrote: Whatever you do, don't take the pills. As a teenager I was mis-diagnosed with ADHD and was given Strattera. Those few months I was taking the pills were not a good time. Understanding the condition and exerting yourself works better in the long term.

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Re: Depression is a bitch, yet this is what I have been working on....

Posted on 2019-11-22, 06:07

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I am a bit confused here. Why not just buy an Amiga500++ board. One of them reproduction ones. All you need is the custom chips them self. As they are not produced anymore. That way you can solder and build a brand spanking new a500 Plus machine. Why would I need another A500? I've already got two. …

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Re: Depression is a bitch, yet this is what I have been working on....

Posted on 2019-11-21, 23:34

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I am a bit confused here. Why not just buy an Amiga500++ board. One of them reproduction ones. All you need is the custom chips them self. As they are not produced anymore. That way you can solder and build a brand spanking new a500 Plus machine. Why would I need another A500? I've already got two. …

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Re: Depression is a bitch, yet this is what I have been working on....

Posted on 2019-11-21, 22:07

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I want to build an Amiga from scratch, that is reproduce chip functionality out of various common PLDs. Well.... It will look like this here below.... https://cdn.arstechnica.net/journals/microsoft.media/lorrainechips.jpg Integration, more complex PLDs. It might look like one of those wire wrap …

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Re: Depression is a bitch, yet this is what I have been working on....

Posted on 2019-11-21, 21:15

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I upgraded my A500 Agnus to allow NTCS/PAL switching (my machine is NTSC originally) as well as allow 1MB Chip RAM, and I modified trapdoor pins to make trapdoor memory become Chip RAM. I now have 1MB Chip RAM. I don't plan on any more changes to that machine, instead I want to build an Amiga from …

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Re: Final questions on my 90’s pc

Posted on 2019-11-20, 03:53

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EMU10K eww... Why? It is a perfectly fine sound card. Sure Audigy 2 is better, but nothing really wrong with a Live! Output is mixed at 48KHz, and aliased sampling rate conversion from 44.1KHz to 48KHz sounds really squeaky and rough. Listening to CD-quality music through it makes ears bleed. Linux …

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Re: Final questions on my 90’s pc

Posted on 2019-11-20, 02:48

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EMU10K eww...

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Re: What would Windows 9X do with a Blu-Ray drive?

Posted on 2019-11-20, 02:44

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"What would Windows 9X do with x?"

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Re: How to go about putting thermal paste on ceramic Pentiums?

Posted on 2019-11-20, 01:55

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Careful with Arctic Silver and the like, they stain many surfaces. Not sure if they stain ceramic but they might. I'd use pure white silicone thermal compound. With old CPU's like before P3, you can definitely get away with just using white silicone thermal compound, which I know for fact cleans up …

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Re: Picked up a retired Dell Latitude C640 at work

Posted on 2019-11-20, 01:48

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I feel for you, I also suffer the same problem. "that looks cool, it's totally useless even for me but be a shame for it to be scrapped" Laptops at least don't take up much space. On 2 of mine I've installed Win98 FE and Vista. So on the very rare occasions I want to mess around with these OS's I …

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Picked up a retired Dell Latitude C640 at work

Posted on 2019-11-19, 06:16

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I take old crap and bring it home. Sometimes I don't know what to do with it. At work we throw away a lot of obsolete machines, but once in a while I'll grab something that I find remotely interesting. This time I grabbed a Latitude C640, just 'cause it reminded me of the models that came before it …

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Re: Help me set up SB32/AWE32 card

Posted on 2017-03-21, 04:31

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You might try turning of GM emulation and try using stock AWE32, see if that works any better. Games like Duke 3D have built in support for the AWE too. Games with built-in AWE32 support work as expected (like through the default address 620 or whatever), I thought I mentioned that above. They just …

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Re: Help me set up SB32/AWE32 card

Posted on 2017-03-20, 03:31

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Maybe I misunderstood something but I seem to have read that MPU-401 emulation compatibility will vary depending on what DOS extender is used with protected mode game. Could someone elaborate what I would have to do to get General MIDI working with likes of Doom or Blood? Currently if set up for …

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Re: SC-55 soundfont for AWE32 in SBK format

Posted on 2017-03-20, 01:00

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I've been looking for one myself. The most decent version 1 soundfont (*.sbk) that I found was a file called "Finegm.sbk". However, the version 2 soundfont called "SCC1T2.sf2" is probably the closest in terms of the sample quality of a real SC-55 (within the limitations of file size and memory …

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Re: Are GeForce 256 DDR cards that rare?

Posted on 2017-03-19, 23:16

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In 2004, still on shoestring budget of a HS junior I was piecing together my 2nd gaming rig. For my money, which was close to zero I was looking at getting a dual-GPU Voodoo 5 5500, GeForce 2 or 3... Both of those ran about $30-40 on eBay. GeForce 3 was already last-gen and Voodoo 5 5500 although …

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Re: Help me choose a video card from a pile

Posted on 2017-03-19, 05:02

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I'm getting brief palette problems in Wolfenstein 3D with S3 Trio64V+. Specifically on the menu screens on fade in/out effect. Did anyone else notice this with S3 cards? [EDIT] I noticed palette problems on fade effects in DOS version of Civ 1 as well with S3 Trio64V+. Hmm.

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SC-55 soundfont for AWE32 in SBK format

Posted on 2017-03-19, 04:59

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I Googled around a bit to see if anyone ever produced a working (and decent) SC-55 approximation soundfont for Creative AWE32 in SBK format for DOS/Win3.x My search turned up soundfonts in SF2 format, but not in SBK. If anyone ever got an SBK file like that, please let me know. Thanks! PS My AWE32 …

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Re: Help me set up SB32/AWE32 card

Posted on 2017-03-19, 04:52

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Took me a while to report back. You were very convincing that I should have Win3.x installed before the driver installation so I had to take the time to find my set of original 3.11 floppies. With that out of the way I have followed your very clear and helpful instructions and got my AWE32 set up in …

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Re: Best OS9 and earlier exclusive games?

Posted on 2017-03-18, 02:36

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collector wrote: Note that necroposting is frowned on here. Looks like I have a secret admirer who's really not my type. 😐 ...Is this what being stalked feels like?

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Re: Best OS9 and earlier exclusive games?

Posted on 2017-03-18, 00:41

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The entire catalog of Pangea Software: http://pangeasoft.net/ Games like CroMag Rally (Mario Kart type thing), Bugdom, Nanosaur (meh IMO, and was mentioned above), etc. A lot of that was ported to OS X and iOS later. Here's one that was always stupid fun: Reckless Drivin' http://www.jonasechterhoff. …

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