Re: Roland RA-50, RA-90 and RA-95 doubts about purchase or not

Posted on 2022-08-29, 15:53

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by arianon

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Mod worked great! Very happy with the outcome. One question I had was I saw in some of the images it looked like most boards had a socketed CM-32L ROM in the center of the board. In mine I had a soldered chip, not sure if it is any different? Picture attached.

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Re: Intel SE440BX-2 - Windows 95 USB Help

Posted on 2022-02-04, 21:54

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by arianon

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Thanks much! I'd never heard of that win 95d lite project. I found the files you mentioned Meatball at D:\other\updates\usb on the Windows 95 CD. The directory contained 3 executables, after installing them all it picked it up without issue.

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Re: Need Help Identifying Header on PCI Sound Card

Posted on 2022-02-04, 21:51

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RetroGamer4Ever - It sounds pretty good! I don't think it is as good as a stand alone Yamaha XG midi device, but I bought it to use while playing Final Fantasy VII in place of the software XG synthesizer that comes with the game. It has done a great job there. LS10999 - I must have gotten lucky, I …

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Intel SE440BX-2 - Windows 95 USB Help

Posted on 2022-02-04, 05:54

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by arianon

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I'm moving a Intel SE440BX-2 based machine over to Windows 95, and have run into an issue that when I installed Windows 95 OSR 2.5 the USB device is not detected. I've tried installing the motherboard drivers that came with the board on CD and also installed the Extended USB Support package (http:// …

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Re: Need Help Identifying Header on PCI Sound Card

Posted on 2022-02-04, 00:00

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by arianon

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Thanks for the advice! To be honest I'd be afraid of losing the plastic piece I pulled off, this way it's at least together in it's natural state.

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Re: Need Help Identifying Header on PCI Sound Card

Posted on 2022-02-02, 05:19

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by arianon

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Just wanted to post this here in case it helps someone else. I wasn't able to find any information this particular connector, so I'm just figuring that it was a propriety connector. I also wasn't able to find anything about the card's manufacturer PowerData. That being said Bitwrangler's suggestion …

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Re: Need Help Identifying Header on PCI Sound Card

Posted on 2022-01-28, 06:02

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by arianon

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Looking at this data sheet for the STAC9700T: https://www.datasheets360.com/pdf/-5749582026796894052 it appears that 3 of the pins that you can trace all the way through are connect to CD left, CD right and CD Ground. At last if I'm reading it correctly that is, if true that does make sense that it …

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Re: Need Help Identifying Header on PCI Sound Card

Posted on 2022-01-28, 05:51

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by arianon

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Here's a picture of the full card!

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Need Help Identifying Header on PCI Sound Card

Posted on 2022-01-28, 04:55

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by arianon

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I recently purchased in inexpensive Yamaha ymf744b-r PCI sound card on Ebay manufactured by PowerData because I wanted to test the XG midi capabilities of the card. It arrived and works great, but it only has a single header on the card which I can't identify. It looks similar to a Sony Optical …

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Re: Issue with Audician after Overdrive 486 dx4 100 Installation

Posted on 2021-08-16, 01:21

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by arianon

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Ah sorry should have been more specific, I was only disabling the cache on the Sierra games. Mech2 would be a slideshow with the cache disabled 😁

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Re: Issue with Audician after Overdrive 486 dx4 100 Installation

Posted on 2021-08-14, 17:29

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by arianon

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Just posting this in case it helps anyone else, after messing with IRQs and interrupts for some time (the recommendation after getting a WSS Initialization error in the readme), I went back to the drivers again and gave the Unisound driver a shot. With Unisound I had no more initialization errors …

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Re: Issue with Audician after Overdrive 486 dx4 100 Installation

Posted on 2021-08-12, 16:46

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by arianon

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After some additional troubleshooting I've narrowed the issue down to the Wavetable header/Dreamblaster. Without anything connected to it and all games using Soundblaster for midi playback there aren't any issues, but when I connect the Dreamblaster and change the MIDI settings to General Midi the …

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Re: Issue with Audician after Overdrive 486 dx4 100 Installation

Posted on 2021-08-11, 19:33

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by arianon

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I removed the installed files and installed the sound card drivers (as well as scrubbing autoexec.bat / config.sys) but am still having the same issue. I tested the Dreamblaster on another machine and it is working just fine. I'm worndering if it could be an issue with interrupts, but would …

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Issue with Audician after Overdrive 486 dx4 100 Installation

Posted on 2021-08-11, 01:06

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by arianon

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I recently upgraded a 486 dx/2 66 with a Overdrive 486 dx4 100, however, after installing it I started having issues with an Audician card. The specific issue seems to be with the wavetable header (Dreamblaster x2). When I open a game it is now non functional, or doesn't correctly play the …

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Re: Problem with Scratchy Audio in Loom

Posted on 2021-08-06, 20:32

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by arianon

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Thanks for the advice, it worked perfectly! Disabling the L2 external cache in the BIOS had no effect, but disabling the L1 cache with setmul fixed everything.

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Re: Problem with Scratchy Audio in Loom

Posted on 2021-08-06, 05:57

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by arianon

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I disabled the processor cache in the BIOS, I'll give the Setmul tool a try and report back!

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Problem with Scratchy Audio in Loom

Posted on 2021-08-06, 05:19

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by arianon

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I've been recently working on restoring a Gateway 2000 4dx2-66v, very similar to my family's first computer. I'm really hoping to introduce my son to some point and click adventure games and play through some of my favorites and decided to start with Loom. I'm trying to play the EGA version, and the …

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Re: CH/FCS/Sidewinder compatible DOS games?

Posted on 2021-08-06, 04:36

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by arianon

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Mechwarrior 2 has great support for the throttle and rudder.

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Re: Number Nine Revolution IV Question

Posted on 2017-06-01, 02:43

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by arianon

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Thanks very much! That explanation makes complete sense for the header. I've attached a couple pictures of my system, the card and then the strange bars I'm getting. They only show up on BIOS screens. The VGA BIOS is fine, and then DOS is great as well. I also included a screenshot showing Quest For …

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Number Nine Revolution IV Question

Posted on 2017-05-31, 14:53

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by arianon

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Hello all, brand new member. Working on building up at late 90s rig to play some games from that era. I recently purchased a Number Nine Revolution IV (AGP version) to go on a Intel 440 BX-2 motherboard but ran into some difficulties. When I tried to boot I would get the one long two short beeps …

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