Re: How much should I actually be paying for a first generation Sound Blaster?

Posted on Yesterday, 19:16

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by the3dfxdude

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That's old news jo22 and much time has passed. Anyone selling a gal for the 1350b is just copying the current code off the net and doing the same.

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Re: What makes (or made) WinME so horrible?

Posted on Yesterday, 19:07

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by the3dfxdude

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In my country, OEM versions were freely sold without hardware, with the only downside being that Microsoft refused to provide support. So it was an unpleasant surprise that OEM versions of Windows could suddenly be dongled. That's really weird, but I guess entirely possible. In the states, it was …

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Re: What makes (or made) WinME so horrible?

Posted on Yesterday, 17:47

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by the3dfxdude

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If correctly installed, by starting Me's SETUP in WIN9X folder via DOS bootable disk, it's not that bad. It will ask for Windows 3.x or 9x original media for verification, then proceed to create a fresh and clean Win Me installation. But who cared about this in practice? 😞 Nobody did real upgrades …

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Re: How much should I actually be paying for a first generation Sound Blaster?

Posted on Yesterday, 17:31

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by the3dfxdude

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Yeah don't buy a "kit" with the gal chip for the 1350b as they are overcharging. Those looking for the gal probably should just buy a gal directly from a supplier and find someone to program it if you don't have a programmer. It ought be as little as $2.

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Re: How much should I actually be paying for a first generation Sound Blaster?

Posted on 2023-06-07, 15:24

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by the3dfxdude

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Anyway, there's gonna be at least a 3 year period where 8088/SB 1.0 was a common config, before the windows bug bit ppl en masse. I would agree if you said Turbo 8088. 10mhz. Even better would have been 12mhz 286. People really were ditching 4.77mhz by that point. But yeah, most of the games …

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Re: I'm really struggling with windows 98

Posted on 2023-06-06, 19:54

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by the3dfxdude

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The km400, nforce2 and geforce 6800 are all basically end of '03 going into '04 hardware. If drivers were made, they could be half-baked. You are basically on the very end of what could have had win98 support before it was just discontinued and left for broken. So now you are hunting for specific …

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Re: VLB Video Cards for DOS Gaming?

Posted on 2023-06-05, 18:06

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by the3dfxdude

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Cover the window on the video eprom. Might check if the rom is backed up while you are at it.

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Re: Need help identifying this CGA card please!!

Posted on 2023-06-03, 22:45

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by the3dfxdude

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Personally, I would get a schematic of a CGA card like IBM's, and identify the obvious key components and check for sync and color signals. You could do this without a picture of a card, and probably can figure out what the ICs in question are even though they are blank! But if you would like, here …

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Re: Need help identifying this CGA card please!!

Posted on 2023-06-02, 00:59

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by the3dfxdude

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It looks like a Twinhead CT-6020AN but with a different silkscreen. I guess it's a pretty common board layout, that may have been sold by many companies all from the same Taiwan manufacturer. It uses alot of standard logic. What components are bad?

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Re: Windows 95 - memory leaks? Memory issues

Posted on 2023-05-30, 18:19

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by the3dfxdude

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That could be very interesting, and perhaps it might solve a WIN95 issue that I have. I won't be able to get back to those computers until next Sunday, but I can describe the problem. I have 2 other hard drives which have WIN95 images, originally from my old workplace. Recently I went through …

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Re: Windows 95 - memory leaks? Memory issues

Posted on 2023-05-28, 17:17

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by the3dfxdude

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If you summarized what you said as Windows 95 on it's retail release day could not run the chipsets that came after (except maybe slower), I would agree with you. Your one example is plug & play, that was a current evolving technology. The plug & play BIOS was not available for manufacturers until …

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Re: Windows 95 - memory leaks? Memory issues

Posted on 2023-05-27, 01:55

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by the3dfxdude

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Guys, I can understand your nostalgic feelings for Windows 95. I pretty much responded to the point that Win95 was intended for 386/486 the same as Win3.1 saying it was based on the same code. I don't agree with that, and I wouldn't recommend anyone to use it that way. In fact most reviewers at the …

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Re: Windows 95 - memory leaks? Memory issues

Posted on 2023-05-26, 20:52

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by the3dfxdude

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That's why I've used Windows 95 on 386/486 era hardware only. My gut feelings always told me that Windows 95 emerged from Windows 3.1x and that it is very dated. PCI, AGP, ACPI, USB etc. - those are all alien technologies to Windows 95. For the initial release version yes. But later Microsoft …

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Re: The Joy of MMX

Posted on 2023-05-26, 18:04

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by the3dfxdude

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They probably killed Tillamook as soon as a P2 core was mobile ready. PII core was never really mobile ready due to power consumption, that's why PMMX existed alongside it Strange, I remember using a P2 on a thinkpad. But they weren't necessarily good for battery life! But it's quite typical that …

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Re: The Joy of MMX

Posted on 2023-05-26, 14:04

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by the3dfxdude

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tillamook is interesting but did people actually use them in desktop systems back in the day? compared to K6-2/III it seems like a pretty irrelevant upgrade option. a tillamook 300 potentially matching pii 233 doesn't sound exciting to me because by 1999 the pii 233 was budget range itself and SS7 …

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Re: I got defeated by a case

Posted on 2023-05-25, 15:19

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by the3dfxdude

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So I do wonder about the quality of the motherboard screw mounts, as I have not seen square ones myself. Do they move when you wiggle them? And with them being squarish, I'd check all of them if they with their screws their metal seem to come close in contact to any solder pads on either side, where …

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Re: I got defeated by a case

Posted on 2023-05-24, 22:51

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by the3dfxdude

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So when you say you keep it on the "back plane", do mean you keep the board mounted to a removable tray that is part of the case? Do you really mean "random beep codes"? Or that you just don't recognize it? If it's reproducible, then it's not really random. EMI is a thing. What is the motherboard, …

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Re: This 286 is $3.86!

Posted on 2023-05-23, 20:54

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by the3dfxdude

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I'd like to have a 286 for a $3.86, to put in a motherboard. But the motherboard would probably cost me an ARM, and with inflation, my own leg.

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Re: Best Linux or Windows OS for a Pentium III??

Posted on 2023-05-23, 20:45

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by the3dfxdude

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Sorry, my confusement. I only use Fedora/CentOS and was looking around at different distro’s, considering Arch but seeing they only have 64bit with a community port. Then I moved on to Slack and found the 32bit iso. I have 320MB in that computer. I did not see any errors unpacking initrd, but …

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Re: Radeon X300SE and Linux: web browser question

Posted on 2023-05-23, 18:47

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by the3dfxdude

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Don’t they maybe blacklist cards based on the driver used? There are different open source drivers depending on the card generation…I have no experience with them since a long time so I can’t help much more. Look at the second post on https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/chromium-dev/c/ …

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