Re: Biostar MB-8433UUD-A
Posted on Yesterday, 16:29
BIOS attached as promised.
Re: Biostar MB-8433UUD-A
Posted on Yesterday, 13:30
This is my board. It is a v2 with a 9622/9623 week dated chipset. Working fine with a Cx 5x86 for now, but I am still in the process of building the system so it's not really 'tested'. It has a 04/10/1996 dated BIOS which may be of use to others here so I will dump and post it later tonight.
Re: What game are you playing now?
Posted on Yesterday, 12:48
A game being challenging and a game wasting my time are two different things. Limited save states can make sense in some game types and executions but in my experience they are terrible in 90% of the cases. They are mostly the relic of a time when save space was a constraint.
Re: Crystal Audio Chips.. any fans?
Posted on 2021-04-14, 13:35
Ok so while digging around on my hard drive I found out that I actually already DID put my effort where my mouth was and recorded these quite some time ago. They were recorded back when I did not yet have an external audio card so there is some ground loop related (I think) background interference, …
Re: What game are you playing now?
Posted on 2021-04-14, 11:24
I've found Underground 2 to be vastly more enjoyable to Underground, which is a fairly unpopular opinion I think, but still..
Re: Crystal Audio Chips.. any fans?
Posted on 2021-04-14, 09:20
Ok, now that my 5x86 motherboard and CPU are confirmed working, I can actually go ahead with my uber 486 build. That means I can put my effort where my mouth is. Although I expect it will be eventually replaced, I'll set the system up with this sound card and make some recordings. Let me know what …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2021-04-13, 20:30
I like to live dangerously so I thought I would test a few things at once: 1. Biostar MB-8433UUD-A Rev 2.0 motherboard that would not POST due to a dead Dallas RTC, from which I desoldered the said RTC, soldered in a socket and socketed a DS12C887+ with a 2013 date code. 2. Untested IBM 5x86-100 (at …
Re: Why is Amiga so popular with retro community ?
Posted on 2021-04-13, 20:26
On my A500 I have an ACA500Plus which has an AUX CF card port that can automount FAT32 cards as IDE drives. It's as simple as 1-2-3 really. ACA500Plus is an amazing accelerator..
Re: Crystal Audio Chips.. any fans?
Posted on 2021-04-13, 14:00
Yeah, but no one seems to have done it despite the claims that one is inferior (which is not my experience..) I only have a CS4289 paired with a CS4232 (the famous Zoltrix card), and I find the FM output harsh and objectionable. Not as bad as CQM, mind you. I never noticed any of the FM clicking …
Re: Why is Amiga so popular with retro community ?
Posted on 2021-04-13, 11:32
Getting a brand new C64 or Amiga in this day and age is as simple as buying a MiSTer.
Re: Crystal Audio Chips.. any fans?
Posted on 2021-04-13, 07:51
Also, is there solid proof that this chip's OPL3 is worse than CS4236 anywhere? I hear this parrotted over and over but to me it sounds pretty identical to CS4236? I think Crystal just integrated this into the CS4235, fucked it up then fixed it in CS4236.. Surely there's a way of running through …
Re: Why is Amiga so popular with retro community ?
Posted on 2021-04-12, 15:23
HDD Upgrades were pretty common in Europe, even. I guess you're from western Europe - in my country Amigas with HDD were extremely rare. No, I live on the fringes of Europe but the HDDs featured in magazines, some of my rich friends had it and everyone sort of knew that they were out there, …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2021-04-12, 15:20
I set up a RetroPie on a spare Pi 3B+ I had and my wife and daughter ecstatically played Rad Racer (NES) and Ms Pac-Man (NES) all afternoon long. 😀
Re: What game are you playing now?
Posted on 2021-04-12, 11:08
antrad wrote on 2021-04-10, 01:43: Playing Heart Of Darkness from 1998. What an incredible surprise. I wouldn't even know about it if I wasn't browsing through abandonware few years ago. That is an Eric Chahi game right?
Re: ESS AudioDrive (ES1868) - a surprisingly good ISA sound card
Posted on 2021-04-12, 09:37
Hi everyone I am late to this thread but I also own ISA and PCI versions of ESS 1868 and 1869 AudioDrive cards. Btw has anyone tried this ESFM SoundFont? https://dropbox.com/s/s7muqffctbty4ju/ESFM.SF2?dl=1 It's a 703 MB file though made by some Japanese guy, I use it in Virtual MIDI Synth. There …
Re: Crystal Audio Chips.. any fans?
Posted on 2021-04-12, 09:36
4231 has no internal FM at all - maybe the info assumes an external FM chip (so as to have a cs4231+fm "full" WSS compatible card) AFAIK internal FM started with the broken implementation in the CS4235 chip, it was fixed in CS4236 and carried over to CS4237 and CS4238 - beyond these I have no …
Re: Why is Amiga so popular with retro community ?
Posted on 2021-04-12, 09:32
The idea of actually upgrading an Amiga was completely alien to me despite having used one for 5 years between 1989-1993. Upgradability was the one thing that really hurt the Amiga. It resulted in a vast majority of systems being baseline, which became a target for software. By the early 90s, Amiga …
Re: E-Wave : an ESS based waveblaster card
Posted on 2021-04-08, 09:30
dreamblaster shed some light on the status of the E-Wave in another thread. Posting here for the benefit of people who aren't stalkers. i expect next revision of e-wave to be ready in about 4 weeks. if it is all ok, then first batch would be soon after My wallet is (not) ready! Not sure if I want …
Re: PCem v17
Posted on 2021-04-07, 11:49
My main issue with PCem is how LONG it takes to set up hard drives..
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2021-04-05, 07:53
Voodoo prices have been mad on evilbay since forever. But it's not just voodoos, it's everything retro that scalpers get their ugly hands on : consoles, TVs, monitors, games, hardware. A classic is to label it 'rare' when it's not ansdput an outrageous price on it. Like voodoo cards. I guess ı can …
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