Re: What game are you playing now?
Posted on Yesterday, 09:57
Monkey Island is like getting laid for the first time. Monkey Island 2 is like attending your first swinger party.
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on Yesterday, 07:27
Never saw a cr2032 leak. Like, ever. Aside from looking ugly that seems like a reasonable mod to me.. Very very old ones can. They can become nasty https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=36424&start=280. I got rid of them on all my Roland devices. One had started leaking but hadn't done any damage …
Re: Amiga - better graphics because of worse monitors?
Posted on Yesterday, 07:07
Apple II(/gs) was a great big wedgie that had expansion slots. The only thing that really held commodore amiga back from a more upgradable design around Zorro-II or nubus, was corporate inertia and a lack of vision. Apple II was not a follow up to a (mostly) unexpandable home computer like A500 …
Re: PicoGUS: ISA sound card emulator with Raspberry Pi Pico (Gravis Ultrasound, AdLib, MPU-401, Tandy, CMS)
Posted on Yesterday, 07:05
I have a bit of an odd question: Is the PicoGUS compatible with Linux? Especially some older versions from, like from 25 years ago. I know that there was quite extensive support for the GUS back then, including MIDI and patch loading, etc. I don't think there is a compiled binary of pgusinit for …
Re: FastDoom. A new Doom port for DOS, optimized to be as fast as possible for 386/486 personal computers!
Posted on Yesterday, 07:02
2D elements also have half height resolution, so text is pretty much unreadable (unless someone creates a WAD with optimized fonts for this mode) Miniwi is the smallest readable font I know. I use it to run Debian consoles on low-res monitors and it's totally readable. https://github.com/a780201/ …
Re: Amiga - better graphics because of worse monitors?
Posted on Yesterday, 05:40
Amiga 1200's formfactor absolutely fucked it over. It shared design philosophy with the Amiga 500, which was in public perception a computer you would buy and use as is except for a memory upgrade. The sidecar hard drive expansions and sophisticated accelerators, to 99% of the owners, were not an …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on Yesterday, 05:35
My Yamaha MU80 arrived today. Not happy with the eBay seller. They cut the metal leg holding the old battery to the PCB then wrapped some electrical tape around it. They then soldered some wires to the PCB and a CR2032 battery holder (wrong vertical one) and used electrical tape to hold that …
Re: PicoGUS: ISA sound card emulator with Raspberry Pi Pico (Gravis Ultrasound, AdLib, MPU-401, Tandy, CMS)
Posted on 2024-05-30, 12:23
I have a bit of an odd question: Is the PicoGUS compatible with Linux? Especially some older versions from, like from 25 years ago. I know that there was quite extensive support for the GUS back then, including MIDI and patch loading, etc. I don't think there is a compiled binary of pgusinit for …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2024-05-30, 07:08
I had an mITX Ezra 800MHz board and in my experience a 450MHz P3 is actually significantly faster than the Ezra 800 in everything but simple integer math. Ezra 800 is about as slow as a PII-333 in Quake for example - its FPU is exceptionally slow. Overall, I'd say it is probably around a PII350-400 …
Re: PicoGUS: ISA sound card emulator with Raspberry Pi Pico (Gravis Ultrasound, AdLib, MPU-401, Tandy, CMS)
Posted on 2024-05-30, 06:59
Thanks a lot @Shreddoc, it looks like building a 1.2 card will be a lot of new expense and I'm not sure how much I really need the USB device capabilities, so I'll just build a second 1.1 with the PCB and components I already have..
Re: PicoGUS: ISA sound card emulator with Raspberry Pi Pico (Gravis Ultrasound, AdLib, MPU-401, Tandy, CMS)
Posted on 2024-05-28, 12:56
Hey @polp, will there ever be a v1.x revision that lets you use USB peripherals without needing external power? I have the parts to build a second 1.x and I am holding off just in case this is a possibility..
Re: Pentium Pro Socket 8 CPU Cooler
Posted on 2024-05-28, 12:54
It was posted here: Re: Pentium PRO?
Re: Pentium Pro Socket 8 CPU Cooler
Posted on 2024-05-28, 08:49
I wouldn't stress in the slightest about the hs not covering the whole area over the die. Personally, an old party trick at lans was pulling the hsf off my oc'd celeron while it was running q3. At the time athlons would have burned spectacularly, but the celery didn't care all that much. It would …
Re: MK8330 : new soundcard based on the CMI 8330 chipset
Posted on 2024-05-28, 05:38
Is the audio on the CMI8330 reversed in general? Because I compared the MK8330 to an AWE64 and got completely inverse results. I'm using the same audio cables, mixer and speakers for both, so the result of the audio chain is the same. AWE64 Duke 3D (SB Pro): reversed Duke 3D (SB16): normal Doom: …
Re: Pentium Pro Socket 8 CPU Cooler
Posted on 2024-05-28, 05:36
Imperator wrote on 2024-05-27, 19:51: @appiah4 - Any news regarding the cooler you've bought? I also need the same thing for my Pentium Pro 200 . Thanks To be honest I forgot about this completely, the coolers, board and CPUs are in storage and I will try to get back around to this at some point.. …
Re: Making choices for a (super) socket 7 for DOS - Win98SE. Only 3 cards can be installed!
Posted on 2024-05-27, 13:00
2x Diamond Monster 3D II (Voodoo2 optional SLI) TT Maestro 32/96 + NEC XR385 With the onboard Solo-1 handling OPL3 and the onboard SiS520 handling 2D you are all set. Enticing. But which card handles SB16? Did I mention I have an old CMI 8330? (perfect aio specs but sound is ... suboptimal) the …
Re: Making choices for a (super) socket 7 for DOS - Win98SE. Only 3 cards can be installed!
Posted on 2024-05-27, 12:46
2x Diamond Monster 3D II (Voodoo2 optional SLI) TT Maestro 32/96 + NEC XR385 With the onboard Solo-1 handling OPL3 and the onboard SiS520 handling 2D you are all set. The SLI setup can handle Glide, the Maestro can do Sound Canvas GS/GM. The NEC XR385 is redundant and I would replace it with a …
Re: Falcosoft Soundfont Midi Player + Munt VSTi + BassMidi VSTi
Posted on 2024-05-27, 10:21
I love how 75% of the conversation here is between Falcosoft and Roland User 😀 I do not 'love' this situation in all cases but I accept the fact that life is not a bed of roses :) I kind of don't envy your position but I am quite thankful for having you active here.. So if that means something, …
Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.
Posted on 2024-05-27, 07:01
It is, as far asI can tell, a Tekram CaptureTV M230. How this design ended up becoming ATI AIW is a mystery I am very curious about. ATI bought Tekram? They bought this deaign? Ah! Nice! I also found the connection between the names Jianbang and Tekram but couldn't find anything definitive to …
Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.
Posted on 2024-05-26, 05:32
It is, as far asI can tell, a Tekram CaptureTV M230. How this design ended up becoming ATI AIW is a mystery I am very curious about. ATI bought Tekram? They bought this deaign?
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