Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-10-30, 06:55

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by appiah4

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Found a seller with a damaged 486 laptop, selling it for parts. I asked to buy the CPU so he took it out of the socket for me. The result: 486 DX33 Bent Pins.JPG I'll buy it nonetheless, the DX33 is lacking in my collection. What is the safest way to fix this? Align a ruler and push the pins up …

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Re: Buran X3M : General MIDI Space Race

Posted on 2018-10-29, 20:33

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by appiah4

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Had the time to listen to my recordings some more and it seems I killed the middle way too much, so here is a smoother equalizer curve. I tried to add some preamp but that did not work out because as much as I would like to boost the final volume that makes distortion and clipping in the bass is …

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

Posted on 2018-10-29, 05:07

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by appiah4

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

bjwil1991 wrote: Took out the VooDoo2 card that I have and I found a capacitor with a ding on top of it. […] Show full quote Took out the VooDoo2 card that I have and I found a capacitor with a ding on top of it. The marking says: 10 16S 9G1 Does that mean the cap is 16V 10uF or am I wrong? Yeah …

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Re: Best Low-Price (today) AGP GPU from mid '98 to very early '99.

Posted on 2018-10-28, 22:43

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by appiah4

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I have an Asus AGP-V3800M from 1999 which seems to be cheap card on ebay. All the good cards that I have unfortunately seem to be from 2000. There are several versions of the 3800M (which is the TNT2 family) - the most common one is the (TF) which is an M64i but there are also Pro and Ti variants …

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Re: Buran X3M : General MIDI Space Race

Posted on 2018-10-28, 22:02

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by appiah4

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I've been playing around with the presets; 63 for Chorus and Reverb make it sound the most like a Sound Canvas module (which incidentally also defaults to 50% chorus and reverb..), I'm also experimenting with the other Chorus and Reverb types. I don't get how the equalizer is supposed to work though …

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Re: Best Low-Price (today) AGP GPU from mid '98 to very early '99.

Posted on 2018-10-28, 05:20

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by appiah4

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athlon-power wrote: I know, but the fan stickers have the nVidia logo, is what I meant. They don't have the manufacturer name, like the MSI logo or EVGA logo. This means nothing.

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Re: Best Low-Price (today) AGP GPU from mid '98 to very early '99.

Posted on 2018-10-27, 22:46

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by appiah4

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On that budget i would go for a geforce2 MX, works great. You might be searching a bit longer but a Geforce2 GTS would also be possible and a great match (i like a bit of overkill, free AA in old games). TNT2 m64 is pretty slow (about the same speed as a TNT1 card), i would at least go for a '' …

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Re: Recommendations for DOS Sound Cards?

Posted on 2018-10-27, 22:35

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by appiah4

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Just grab any ESS ES688/1688/1868/1869/1898 card and enjoy a simple, problem free solution that has IDE, working bug-free wavetable/MPU-401, 100% SB Pro compatibility, ESS Audiodrive support in many games for better than SB sound, and sweet sweet ESFM OPL3 music.

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Re: Sound Blaster AWE64 Gold vs Value; also is soundfont RAM expansion worth it?

Posted on 2018-10-27, 22:32

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by appiah4

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I don't think there is any difference in sound output quality between Value and Gold, and I think CT3670 uses the same components (except 0 RAM), so it should be fine as well. The AWE64 Gold has a better s/n ratio over the Value; 90db vs "better than 80db" on the Value Is this proven? Because it …

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Re: Best Low-Price (today) AGP GPU from mid '98 to very early '99.

Posted on 2018-10-27, 22:27

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by appiah4

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If you really want a card that was released in that the 98-99 period, the TNT2 M64 can't be beat for price to performance. It can be had for next to nothing. Among the 1999 cards, the fastest cards you can find for <$20 would likely be a Matrox G400 AGP and S3 Savage4. The GeForce DDR and TNT2 Pro/ …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-10-27, 22:14

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by appiah4

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Made agreements on the purchases of a i486 DX33 (one of the few i486 chips I lacked), a GF4 Ti 4600 (Already had the 4200 but that twin-fan Leadtek looks mean and it was dirt cheap..), and an ISA ALS007 + OPL3 (clone) sound card (ISA sound card see, ISA sound card buy :( ).. All in all they will …

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Re: Weird graphical issues... is my hardware going bad?

Posted on 2018-10-27, 07:26

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by appiah4

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Well.. the issue sounds more like a RAM problem so unless you are willing to invest the time and money to replace all ram modules and the low filter smd capacitors in case one has a microscopic fracture etc that card is very hard to fix.. Can you post high quality photos of both sides of the card …

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Re: What should I be doing to get the best sound out of my dosbox gaming?

Posted on 2018-10-26, 06:29

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by appiah4

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Sound Blaster vs Adlib shouldn't matter as they are both OPL2, but Sound Blaster Pro as an option adds stereo sound and Sound Blaster 16 as an option adds 16-bit digital audio. Also DOSBox's OPL3 Emulation is good but not perfect, I would look into patching it with NukedOPL. As for MIDI, you don't …

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Re: What do you guys do for missing drive bay covers?

Posted on 2018-10-26, 04:04

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by appiah4

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Buy plasticard, cut to shape, paint, glue with hot silicon.

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Re: 3dfx Voodoo Brands

Posted on 2018-10-26, 04:02

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by appiah4

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Oh.. In that case no it is not required, I do not use one to blow on my SLI directly (two Voodoo 2s in SLI work cooler as they handle 80% of the pixel load of a single Voodoo 2 configuration per card barring cpu bottlenecks.. With a K6-2 bottleneck that number is closer to 50-60%) but I suppose it …

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Re: 3dfx Voodoo Brands

Posted on 2018-10-25, 23:53

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by appiah4

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Thank you guys for the explanation; I appreciate it! I think I will go with a Diamond Monster II then, if I can find one for a reasonable price. :) One last question though; is the use of a fan required with my K-6/266? Any Voodoo 2 will do, don't target a brand specifically. A fanon your K6-2/266 …

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Re: Buran X3M : General MIDI Space Race

Posted on 2018-10-25, 23:39

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by appiah4

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Monkey Island in MIDI (Ultimate Talkie) sounds fine. Here are some recordings for your :cool: Doom E1M1 At Doom's Gate: https://soundcloud.com/user-470084971/doom-e1m1-at-dooms-gate-3 Monkey Island (Ultimate Talkie) Intro: https://soundcloud.com/user-470084971/monkey-island-ultimate-talkie-main- …

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

Posted on 2018-10-25, 22:34

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by appiah4

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Tried and tested out my Terrible Fire TF-530 accelerator card these last few days. And found that I need to get a kickstart socket relocator in order to have my cloanto dual-kickstart rom switcher installed. It is quite tall, and a few millimeters are in the way of the CPU relocator. I can install …

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Re: 3dfx Voodoo Brands

Posted on 2018-10-25, 22:24

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by appiah4

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The reason that I'm leaning towards the Voodoo 1 is that I heard that the Voodoo 2 tends to overheat You've heard wrong. Voodoo 1 & 2 cards by no means run cool but they don't 'overheat' unless you pair them with very fast processors such as 1GHz+ parts. I have a V2 SLI system in my K6-2 400 PC and …

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Re: Video card memory upgrade compatibility.

Posted on 2018-10-25, 22:22

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by appiah4

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Looks like I can't move them between those 2 cards at least. It seems the top card has 70-80ns chips and bottom one has 50ns ram. 50ns chips should work on the slower card but not vice versa. As an aside, it's strange that 80ns chips actually work on the other card as dionb noted, they are probably …

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