Re: NEC PC-9821An: My crazy Japanese Socket 5 machine

Posted on 2023-01-16, 14:22

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by MrSmiley381

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This thing sounds like a minefield of headaches to maintain. Glad you were able to avoid failing caps and burning out the motherboard. How wide of a range of games are you able to play on it?

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Re: AdLib GOLD clone is now a reality

Posted on 2022-12-08, 14:50

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by MrSmiley381

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Still super excited for this. Keropi and I have been communicating back and forth after my purchase since I was going to be out of town, then not out of town, so on and so forth, so hopefully the rest of this holiday season can calm down and I can get back to maintaining my vintage PC's. Just to …

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Re: Oddity with Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS VxD Drivers (No Surround Sound)

Posted on 2022-11-17, 13:52

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by MrSmiley381

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So, I don't think you're going to like this response too much; when I was doing copious amounts of debugging with my Audigy 2 ZS and Diablo II the only way I could enable surround sound in-game was to use WDM drivers. The option was entirely grayed out otherwise. Maybe the VxD drivers don't allow …

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Re: My PC-9801 BA2/U7 build 486/66 FM Sound MIDI

Posted on 2022-08-05, 14:16

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by MrSmiley381

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Oh man! I love seeing Japanese PC's on here. We don't get enough of 'em. Please keep us posted on any updates/troubleshooting/experiments you do with this. What games are you planning to run on this beast?

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Re: AdLib GOLD clone is now a reality

Posted on 2022-05-23, 02:29

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by MrSmiley381

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Hot damn! This is awesome. Might make a dedicated Dune PC just for this.

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Re: GBS8200 Video Converter for CGA/EGA on VGA monitor

Posted on 2022-03-30, 12:48

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by MrSmiley381

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Based on what I've read on various forums I suspect that the GBS-8200, with or without GBS-Control, has really poor support for actual CGA/EGA graphics (320x200). Without GBS control, it treats all analog input as 480i. GBS-Control doesn't look like it was tested much with 320x200 because I haven't …

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Re: NV1 questions

Posted on 2022-03-21, 12:42

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by MrSmiley381

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From what I've heard the rendering perspective in Virtua Fighter Remix is a little funky in the PC version. I also hear most of the games look worse with NV1 rendering and that it really only shines in very low power PC's where they can't reliably use software rendering. That being said, let none of …

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

Posted on 2020-03-29, 01:21

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by MrSmiley381

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I took some time to test my Amiga 1200 some more. The RGB/audio cable I ordered as well as the aftermarket PSU arrived in the last couple of weeks so I gave those a spin while playing Lemmings for the first time ever. After about half an hour I can say I see the appeal in Lemmings. The nuke button …

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Re: Need someone to record music from various (will pay) - AppleIIe, Amiga, old Mac, PC (Speaker, SB1.5), FM-7, MSX, etc

Posted on 2020-03-27, 11:16

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by MrSmiley381

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If the game doesn't have any odd speed-sensitive issues, I have an MSX Turbo-R from which I can record. I have a flash cart for it which might make things a bit easier. Only other caveat is that the system supposedly needs a couple of resistor and trace mods to have the best possible audio quality …

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Re: Aztech Sound Galaxy cards

Posted on 2020-03-22, 03:44

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by MrSmiley381

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Gonna throw my hat in the Aztech arena since this thread has already risen from the ashes. Recently acquired some variant of a Sound Galaxy card, labeled as a I38-MMSD802. It appears to be a Sound Galaxy NX Stereo Pro Extra, if TULARC is to be believed. The card works fine as a Sound Blaster Pro …

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Re: MSI's LGA1151 Motherboard Takes Us Back to 1992 With PCI Slots

Posted on 2020-03-16, 11:05

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by MrSmiley381

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So this board has two onboard ethernet ports, onboard video, and enough slots to make anybody happy. Is there a use case where you could build a couple of VM's and pass hardware to them directly? One ethernet port, a PCI Voodoo card, and a PCI sound card is enough to play Diablo II in its best …

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Re: Aztech Sound Galaxy cards

Posted on 2020-03-16, 01:56

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by MrSmiley381

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Gonna throw my hat in the Aztech arena since this thread has already risen from the ashes. Recently acquired some variant of a Sound Galaxy card, labeled as a I38-MMSD802. It appears to be a Sound Galaxy NX Stereo Pro Extra, if TULARC is to be believed. The card works fine as a Sound Blaster Pro 2.0 …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-03-11, 11:23

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by MrSmiley381

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Good guess, in fact it seems to be made to allow using full-size PCI cards, however since I'm not gonna use any with this motherboard, I ordered a regulat heatsink with fan on top, because I trust them more (used them since many years ago) and also because when I tested the board, I noticed the …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-03-09, 11:05

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by MrSmiley381

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Congrats with the 1200. By the way. It is called Workbench and not Windows. Take a look at the picture I posted. On the left is this sheet that says, "Best of Amiga" and on the right side of that sheet is a spot advertising, "Commodore Windows" which I saw when I loaded the machine the few times I …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-03-07, 01:58

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by MrSmiley381

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Sweet haul. Can you look and see what model your PSU says it's for on the bottom? I dug my amiga 1200 out after 20+ years only to discover I had an A600 labeled PSU. I never noticed this the entire time I owned the machine, I'm wondering if this was the way they were sold, after all I bought my …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-03-07, 01:49

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by MrSmiley381

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Amiga 1200 arrived! Pretty good given the seller feedback was 0 and the listing mentioned that it was powered but not otherwise tested. Pleasantly surprised to have received a mouse and more manuals than expected. Also some personal files on the floppy disks if the labels are to be believed. Aside …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-03-04, 11:52

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by MrSmiley381

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The Amiga came today.. just waiting on my power supply, video cable, and external floppy adapter to convert to an external Gotek for the boot drive. :) Not gonna lie, I really dig the dust cover. Is it a thick plastic or some sort of faux/real leather? I also finally won an auction for an Amiga …

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

Posted on 2020-02-27, 13:28

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by MrSmiley381

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As for me, I have begun looking into the HST-WB installer package for Amiga. Using AmigaOS 3.1.4 as the package supports that. It should give me boot-menu, arcade game launcher (or what it is called) and some other neat stuff. Basically. It is a bunch of installer scripts and software, that will …

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

Posted on 2020-02-19, 11:44

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by MrSmiley381

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I learned about the recent release of Koryuu, a composite video to component video transcoder. Since I already have to do some repairs on my RetroTINK-2X (loose USB power connector) and the recommended setup for that involves component transcoding anyway, I ordered a Koryuu and gave it a shot. Ran …

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

Posted on 2020-02-11, 21:09

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by MrSmiley381

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Today I am realizing I need a serial mouse for my DOS computer and then also realizing how annoying it would be to have multiple peripheral sets for multiple computers. Time for KVM research! Let me save you some time! The Belkin Omniview Pro will translate PS/2 input to serial. If you use a USB …

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