Re: soundblaster awe 32

Posted on 2022-05-16, 17:28

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by Datadrainer

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in Marvin \ Sound

prince of persia does not want to run dont know why ,but wil try again ,i also tried wolfenstein3d wont run wil try to find some other games to test ,i also played some pinball sounds good but no so good with godds There is several version of Prince of Persia, the latest ones have a setup utility. …

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Re: soundblaster awe 32

Posted on 2022-05-16, 15:00

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by Datadrainer

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i think iam going to sell it and buy another card Keep that sound card for a computer that is better suited for it. I agree. Your AWE32 is a CT3900. Meaning it have an OPL3 chip and is non-PnP. Can be quite useful on a 80486-Pentium build PC. About the volume being low, it is hard for me to make an …

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Re: soundblaster awe 32

Posted on 2022-05-15, 19:28

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by Datadrainer

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iam trying to install the unisound driver but dont know how That's quite simple. You just need to download the file from on the page linked from my previous post. Then extract it to a floppy disk. You should get two files UNISOUND.COM and UNISOUND.TXT. Create the folder C:\UNISOUND and copy the two …

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Re: soundblaster awe 32

Posted on 2022-05-15, 19:12

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by Datadrainer

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@scroeffie. Firstly. I don't see the point to use a Sound Blaster AWE32 on a 80286 based computer. But as it is your choice, I respect it. You must know there is two different versions of the Sound Blaster AWE32. One that need to have its resources configured by a piece of software and one that have …

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Re: Matrox Millenium G400 not working

Posted on 2022-03-18, 13:35

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by Datadrainer

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Great. I like when a problem is solved 😀 For information, some Vectra VE & VL had Matrox G400 and G450. G200 were mainly used on-board. Never seen one as a card. But as I said there was many variations...

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Re: Matrox Millenium G400 not working

Posted on 2022-03-18, 10:05

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by Datadrainer

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in Marvin \ Video

Before concluding the card is dead or its firmware is corrupted, please clean up the AGP port. Can be bad contact due to dust or corrosion. Then try again. If the video card is vanilla (manufactured by HP) and I think so. The BIOS is a custom HP one and it is recognized by the BIOS of the MB. The …

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Re: HP Vectra Specs Needed

Posted on 2022-03-18, 09:51

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by Datadrainer

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hi and welcome, What specs are you looking for? For what I can tell: I think the sound card is a vanilla Aztech Sound Card common in late 16-bit HP Vectra PCs. The G400 is an old hardware, so it has its place here in Marvin. It's a Vectra 6 desktop, so I suppose the video card is not embedded. But …

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Re: Pixelated DOS system fonts in an old Toshiba laptop

Posted on 2022-03-03, 16:15

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by Datadrainer

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In the first picture, I see a stretched image. On the second picture I see a normal non-deformed MS-DOS screen. I suppose it have black bars all around. On both characters are pixelated, which is normal for 80 columns mode. As DISPLAY.SYS initialize the LCD screen I think it will use all the pixels …

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Re: Retro gaming on LCD

Posted on 2022-03-01, 10:18

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by Datadrainer

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Thank you for your feedback @marcin512 :) The possible video issues I was thinking of were also latency and no video output for some combination of resolutions/refresh rates. Indeed background noise is often a problem with audio, but also video signals. What doesn't help is that a computer is a big …

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Re: Promise EIDEMAX manual request

Posted on 2022-03-01, 08:58

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by Datadrainer

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

@douglar Thanks a lot!!! All the information is in there. Very nice of you 😀

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Re: Retro gaming on LCD

Posted on 2022-02-28, 11:30

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by Datadrainer

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Hi marcin512, Welcome on Vogons.org. Your solution is quite nice despite requiring a lot a wires (audio and video switchers included) :p As the main problem with most old video games is they are using graphic modes that cannot match the 4:3 screen ratio without stretching on LCD panels. The best …

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Re: Floppy disk labels remake/preservation

Posted on 2022-02-15, 12:53

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by Datadrainer

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

That is not only true for games, but for all software in generals. For most people old productivity software are meaningless, but they are part of history, the same way games are and they deserve to be archived properly too. It is possible to find here and there disk images with a scan or shot of …

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Re: any Vectra fans slinking about?

Posted on 2022-02-14, 12:22

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by Datadrainer

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'm fond of HP PCs post merging with Compaq . They are nice little machines, I have a small collection (~15) of my own (Vectra & Kayak), all improved, working perfectly and with packages almost complete. Just some system floppies I hadn't archived on time and are not working anymore.... However, …

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Re: HP Vectra RS/20 - resurection - ESDI help

Posted on 2022-02-13, 20:01

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by Datadrainer

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Well done! That is nice to see first gen HP PC still maintained and working. I have restored some Vectra myself (but from 486 DX2 to Pentium III, I use them regularly and all are still working absolutely fine). HP motherboards are well designed so it is "relatively" easy to find a faulty component. …

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Re: QWave : QS1000 based waveblaster module

Posted on 2022-02-07, 19:32

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by Datadrainer

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in Marvin \ Sound

Sounds interesting (no play on words). The QS1000 have a sound of its own, personally I like it 😀 Any news about the Crystal Blaster C2? I'm waiting impatiently for it.

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Re: [Commodore PC40-III] Won't start - Help requested

Posted on 2022-02-07, 10:32

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by Datadrainer

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Which Dallas chip did you use, can you clear the CMOS? I'm assuming you've tried unplugging all the drives again? Also, I'm not clear from a quick look through the service manual whether the floppy interface is IBM style (twist in cable to select drive) or Shugart style (drive select jumper on the …

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Re: [Commodore PC40-III] Won't start - Help requested

Posted on 2022-02-06, 20:11

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by Datadrainer

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

In case the CMOS data were corrupted I tried to clear the DS12887A by wiring the GND to RCLR bar for a few seconds. But nothing have change in the boot sequence. I still got the error code 00 08. I have redone the soldering of the socket and tested some traces, all seems fine. Originally the job was …

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[Commodore PC40-III] Won't start - Help requested

Posted on 2022-02-06, 15:11

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by Datadrainer

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hello, I'm trying to restore a Commodore PC40-III left in a storage for more than 10 years. I put it away because it already had this problem I had not clue. That is what happens ~10 years ago: The computer was working fine until the DALLAS chip failed. So I had to replace it, I put a socket in …

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Re: Gotek like Optical Driver Emulator - Is it possible?

Posted on 2022-01-31, 09:07

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by Datadrainer

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Regarding Windows compatibility, I know from experience that Windows 95 can use 16-bit (DOS) CD-ROM drivers, and from reading the 98 Resource Kit it sounds like that does too. I'm reading the 98RK on a TechNet CD from May 2000, so I hope that if that was no longer the case it'd be updated. I don't …

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Re: Gotek like Optical Driver Emulator - Is it possible?

Posted on 2022-01-30, 10:00

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by Datadrainer

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Because I was seeing something more like a CD audio player than a full ODE with support for ATA and ATAPI extensions. This way bus speed is not a problem because it would work with ATA-1 (PIO 0). The goal is really to just play audio tracks, not data tracks. You send the instructions to play and it …

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