Re: Widescreen monitors and 4:3 aspect ratio compatibility thread

Posted on 2020-12-31, 09:11

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Interested to know how well the 300A handles 4:3 modes! The firmware appears to be available here: https://www.extron.fr/product/rgbhdmi300a (an account is required)

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Re: The quest for the perfect retro laptop: a saga

Posted on 2020-12-20, 16:41

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The headache with getting networking going on those Win98 vintage machines is to setup an SMBv1 share + working NetBIOS for the sake of interoperability. I don’t really savor it. For the record, here's my smb.conf. It works fine with Windows 98. [global] map to guest = bad user min protocol = NT1 …

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Re: Gigabyte 6bxc with PCI SATA HBA

Posted on 2020-12-12, 09:58

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I remember that of the two SIL3114 cards I bought, one was not working at all. The working one had to have its BIOS reflashed with version 5.5.00. It worked fine, also I suppose if you set up a sufficiently large area of the SSD aside (like 10%) TRIM is probably less needed. My main concern with …

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Re: SoundBlaster 16 CT1740 DSP 4.05?

Posted on 2020-12-08, 22:11

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That's an excellent advice. I just tried it and now the noise is very low. It also almost does not pick CPU/system activity which is great 😀

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Re: SoundBlaster 16 CT1740 DSP 4.05?

Posted on 2020-12-08, 21:54

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I have both the CT1750 and CT2290 (which is very similar to the CT2230, reviewed here /viewtopic.php?f=46&t=49896 ) They are very similar except the CT2290 has a line out on which I found very little noise, and best for powered speakers. OTOH my CT1750 is noisy and picks CPU/system activity. From my …

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Re: General Problems with analog VGA on TFTs and Converters

Posted on 2020-12-08, 20:28

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I suppose that by oversampling by, let's say 4x a monitor could in theory distinguish between the pixel edges, count them and switch between 640 and 720 pixels (as long as you have a straight line of non-black pixels.) Presumably something similar happens when you press the Auto-config button to …

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Re: General Problems with analog VGA on TFTs and Converters

Posted on 2020-12-07, 19:15

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I totally agree with you Locutus that CRTs are the best for DOS gaming. Nonetheless CRTs are difficult to find and not always practical. In these situations the OSSC plus a monitor that has a 4:3 option and is 70 Hz capable on the HDMI input is a decent alternative: - no quantization error (with …

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Re: Abit KT7A (KT133A/VIA686B)

Posted on 2020-12-06, 21:35

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in Marvin \ System Specs

Just to report that the replacement of the FDS8959A was successful! This KT7A is back to working again 😀

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Re: My Sound Blaster 16 CT2230 Review

Posted on 2020-12-06, 20:12

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have tested it in DOOM and Duke3D. Keep in mind though that I'm using an Athlon XP at 1666 MHz, so that might influence testing by decreasing the CPU load (I understand the "type 2" bug is CPU dependant).

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Re: My Sound Blaster 16 CT2230 Review

Posted on 2020-12-06, 19:30

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

That's correct, my second CT2290 doesn't have the ASP/CSP chip. It otherwise seems to perform the same 😀

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Re: Does the SB16 CT2290 have the hanging note bug or not?

Posted on 2020-12-06, 18:50

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The 2290 is a great card - I've never noticed it hang the MIDI. Watch out for the CT2291 (or maybe 95?) which looks identical apart from a smaller, low power OPl3 - this card has the hanging note bug. I now have two CT2290 and did not experience the hanging note bug, even though it is supposed to …

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Re: My Sound Blaster 16 CT2230 Review

Posted on 2020-12-06, 18:05

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Thanks for the review. I have received a similar card, the CT2290 and found it to be excellent; - line out with extremely low noise, even with volume at maximum - does not pick out the electric noise from the CPU activity unlike my CT1750 - CT1741 DSP 4.13 without hanging note bug, functional …

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Re: New NE2000-compatible ISA network card

Posted on 2020-12-04, 11:52

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Awesome work! I'm also amazed the BOM is so small

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Re: General Problems with analog VGA on TFTs and Converters

Posted on 2020-12-04, 08:00

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If input lag concerns you the most, I'm using an AOC G2590PX which goes up to 144 Hz (120 Hz on the HDMI input) and has two 4:3 and one 1:1 option. Unfortunately it is 1080p so you won't get the perfect scaling a 1920x1200 LCD would provide for 320x200 games. However I recall darry tested the 252B9 …

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Re: mSATA to IDE Trouble

Posted on 2020-12-04, 07:56

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I just received the RENKFORCE mSATA and SATA IDE adapters and can confirm they use the 88SA8052. The mSATA one is identical to Ableconn, apart from the branding.

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Re: Windows 98 SE vs Windows XP input lag

Posted on 2020-11-21, 15:37

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Wow you were correct! I would never have thought of that even though in retrospect it was logical. Thanks 😀

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Windows 98 SE vs Windows XP input lag

Posted on 2020-11-21, 12:49

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So I was trying Unreal 1 for the first time yesterday. My system is an Athlon XP with 768 MB RAM and Voodoo 3 2000 PCI + FX 5900 XT AGP. The optical Logitech mouse is connected over PS/2. The display is a iiyama 17" CRT. It dual boots Windows 98 SE (Direct X 6.0a, VIA 4in1 4.43, unofficial USB 3.6e …

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Re: The Secret of Monkey Island CD version - no audio

Posted on 2020-11-21, 11:50

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TBH I have tried the MT-32 and in my subjective opinion sounds less good than the two alternatives (Adlib and CD audio) ; using a DreamBlaster X2 with BURAN 1.0. Not the DreamBlaster X2's fault however (it sounds great in many other games such as DOOM).

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Re: The Secret of Monkey Island CD version - no audio

Posted on 2020-11-18, 15:14

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by cde

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I had a similar issue which was solved by switching to DOS 6.22's MSCDEX plus VIDE-CDD (instead of the equivalent from FreeDOS).

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Re: Outputting 720x400@70Hz with the ATi R300 DVI output in DOS

Posted on 2020-11-15, 13:59

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Indeed, I don't recommend you modify your monitor's EDID, that's kindof risky and most likely would not be possible. Instead, the DVI cable hack replaces the I2C signal you get from your monitor with the own from the soldered flash. In this way, you can have a HDMI-DVI extender like pictured below …

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