Re: Games that you remember the most from 1990's thru mid 2000's

Posted on Today, 07:48

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by dionb

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Ultima VI Wing Commander (I and later III) Civilization Colonization Elite Plus Battle Isle Master of Magic Battle Isle III Civ II Worms GTA Unreal Tournament Definitely wasted half my youth on 4x games. At one point even started doing CivNet on a LAN, but getting people together for the length of …

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Re: Need help finding drivers

Posted on Yesterday, 23:25

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by dionb

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Iirc that's a relabeled Digital 'Tulip' chip. One easy way to find out: stick it in a computer and boot with a Linux LiveCD/USB. Something like Knoppix would probably autodetect it. When you know what it is, look for the appropriate drivers

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on Yesterday, 21:47

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by dionb

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Bought on local flea market. Mediavision Jazz 16 with original speakers. Reveal SC500 sound card (I think its a uncommon soundcard). Everything in near mint condition. Nice stuff. Reveal is a pretty shifty brand, particularly in the way they try to hide which chipset they use. This is probably the …

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

Posted on Yesterday, 21:39

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by dionb

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Apart from some sound card stuff documented elsewhere, I got around to upgrading my i840 system to 2GB of RDRAM (4x 512MB). RDRAM keeps surprising me. Normally on a dual-channel setup I'd try to ensure that both channels have the exact same loadout, so in this case one RIMM from the old set and one …

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Re: Packard bell c110 Multimedia Not working correctly

Posted on Yesterday, 21:36

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by dionb

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PB drivers? PB just uses generic hardware. The motherboard is an Intel NV430VX with either S3 Trio64 or S3 Virge onboard. They should be natively supported in pretty much any OS you throw at them. Apart from that there may be interesting sound hardware in there, but that's usually just Aztech stuff, …

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Re: Aztech soundcards alongside a second sound card...HELP

Posted on Yesterday, 21:25

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by dionb

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Right, tested with the MMSN847 and I have NOT been able to reproduce this issue with the 3rd gen AZT2316R on it. AZT2316R, set to: A220 I5 D1 T4 P330 U2 via config.exe (defaulting to W530 F388 as well) So long as I chose resources which were not directly used by the AZT2316R (or taken by some other …

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Re: Packard bell c110 Multimedia Not working correctly

Posted on Yesterday, 13:38

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by dionb

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Second that. Putting CD and HDD on separate cables is best practice, both to avoid this kind of compatibility and to maximize performance.

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Re: Aztech soundcards alongside a second sound card...HELP

Posted on Yesterday, 13:29

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by dionb

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Maybe it's related to WSS support? That was my first thought too, but DMA for WSS and SB is shared. Documentation on Aztech cards is notoriously poor, but there are Linux ALSA drivers and there's something interesting there: https://gitlab.cs.hs-rm.de/CaroloCup/ti-linux/-/commit/ …

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Re: Nvidia Gforce 4 MX PCI on socket 7 system (233 MMX)

Posted on Yesterday, 11:59

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by dionb

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dank0 wrote on Yesterday, 11:45: how about Voodoo Banshee ? A good choice. Performance is less than a Voodoo 3, but DOS VESA support is equally good and it's a good match with a Pentium MMX. Only problem is that PCI Banshees are rare, most are AGP.

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Re: Nvidia Gforce 4 MX PCI on socket 7 system (233 MMX)

Posted on Yesterday, 07:59

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by dionb

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I don't have AGP board. My MoBo is Asus TX97-LE (Only PCI and ISA) What will be decent VGA for DOS and Win98? Voodoo3? ATI? I want to play Blade Runner on win98. nVidia, 3dfx and S3 generally have best DOS compatibility. Win98 performance is best on nVidia (or 3dfx depending on title) If you can …

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Re: Aztech soundcards alongside a second sound card...HELP

Posted on Yesterday, 07:25

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by dionb

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Do note I was using 4th gen PnP Aztech cards, not the 3rd gen ones you and OP have. It's possible they are doing something else. Didn't have time to dig up one of my 3rd gen cards to test I'm afraid, was too exhausted after continuing well beyond bedtime.

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Re: Boards with NiCad batteries (sad times)

Posted on Yesterday, 07:16

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by dionb

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The damage certainly looks repairable - mainly because the motherboard designer was smart enough not to put thin inaccessible stuff around the battery. First thing would be to clean up the corrosive mess still there. If you can still see blue-green, it's still eating away at your board. The opinions …

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Re: Aztech soundcards alongside a second sound card...HELP

Posted on 2021-07-26, 23:18

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by dionb

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Have at last been able to get my AWE64 to work alongside my Aztech MMSN855 (AZT2320, 4th gen PnP). Both are PnP so happily used Unisound to configure them and both worked fine separately, but once I added them together the AWE64 completely failed, despite none of the resources overlapping. In …

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Re: Help me, trying to understand the history of 486 3volt to 5volt socket upgrade kits

Posted on 2021-07-26, 22:53

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[...] awesome, thanks for the explanation , very clear now. Yea my board hat no jumpers visible for 33mhz so im stuck at 25mhz. One thing i would like to know is this: "If you have some other interposer with a different CPU and/or no jumper to set multiplier, you are just stuck with whatever is on …

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Re: Let's destroy the 440BX myth :-)

Posted on 2021-07-26, 20:52

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by dionb

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BitWrangler wrote on 2021-07-26, 20:45: So you're saying that BX are downright slutty with what PCI cards they accept??? 🤣 Not quite, only mature ones - but can really fill their bandwidth. (PCI 2.1 and 5V only) The i8xx on the other hand... yeah baby 😜

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Re: Help me, trying to understand the history of 486 3volt to 5volt socket upgrade kits

Posted on 2021-07-26, 20:33

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still i don´t get it, what would be the difference with my ps/1 if i use a socket adapter that has x4 and x3 jumpers and if i use a socket adapter that has no jumpers at all You need to distinguish between what the CPU does and what the motherboard does. The motherboard determines the bus clock …

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Re: Let's destroy the 440BX myth :-)

Posted on 2021-07-26, 20:19

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by dionb

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but that's mainly because, let's face it, most other chipsets of the time were really, really, really bad (*cough* VIA Apollo Pro 133 *cough*) - they were slow, had terrible compatibility issues (including memory compatibility, peripheral compatibility) and as for stability... well, let's not even …

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Re: Help me, trying to understand the history of 486 3volt to 5volt socket upgrade kits

Posted on 2021-07-26, 17:54

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by dionb

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Am5x86 already had the multiplier pin, the upgrade modules just implemented a jumper to select it. That was relevant as quite a few older 486 boards (prime candidates for an upgrade like this) had fixed bus speeds, up to and including 50MHz, so a fixed 4x multiplier would have been very problematic …

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Re: Misterious ENMIC motherboard

Posted on 2021-07-26, 14:28

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by dionb

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hey there Its been a while since than, but anyways i want to change things up now couse the board itself just steals space and if dont put it to good use, its just in the way. So right now i have 3 questions, buuuut i cant ask the last one. i'll explain shortly So the first and most obvious one, …

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Re: Let's destroy the 440BX myth :-)

Posted on 2021-07-26, 12:42

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BX was an all in chipset, but those 800 series crap were crippled because of impeeding P4 or well that RDRAM fiasko. And yes I even had a Athlon XP machine with a DMA functional ISA slot. can not remember the model, but something from Asus. Those RDRAM 800-series chipsets were actually pretty good …

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